It is rough, but think of it this way. You really are just missing Demon Souls right now. There is big stuff on the Horizon, but with all the delays it won’t really start hurting until the fall, when hopefully we can all get consoles.
Shadow Hearts please!
Yes. But ArchangelMike wants to know if it’s a Game Pass exclusive not an Xbox/PC exclusive.
I don't know why people are downvoting this. You are absolutely correct. The 7.5 billion dollar acquisition was all about giving XBOX some highly desirable exclusives so they could better compete with PlayStation and Nintendo. Putting Game Pass on PlayStation would basically just be handing this exclusivity back over to Sony.
I understand they would still make money from the subscription, but at that point they would simply be operating like a big publisher, like Activi...
I really love the description to this article.
Nothing like checking out those new, fresh Xbox titles like aLaN wAkE and QuAnTuM bReAk.
I hope Microsoft pays you to sound this pathetic.
I always upvote someone who boycotts EA. If there is one thing I would love to see is Sony fans and Microsoft fans coming together to never buy EA games again.
This is actually the hilarious part. I have never seen people take so much pride in not getting anything new, Like Ninja theory, Obsidian and Bethesda were going to exclude Xbox. Microsoft has spent 7.5 billion dollars to add literally nothing to its own catalog.
Don't get me wrong, it's good business to take away from the competition, but it doesn't make any sense for their fanboys to get all excited about it. They are so bored of playing Ori (the only game t...
I mean, all PlayStation has to do is allow Game Pass onto their system right? That's why Phil phrased it that way. Once that happens, Phil can stop making consoles and Microsoft can do what it feels it is entitled to do as a tech giant. Collect royalties while everyone else does all the work.
Obsidian went from making some of the best indie rpgs of all time as an independent studio to making Grounded, a survival sandbox Rust clone, as a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Can't wait to see Todd Howard give us another Destiny style looter-shooter.
Exciting times are ahead.
Well yeah. If Sony had bought Bethesda the games would actually improve. I guess you probably missed this because you haven't played on PlayStation but there is a quality threshold for first party titles and Bethesda is definitely below that with its releases. If I'm not mistaken, the worst title to release from a technical standpoint was Days Gone, and even that was light years ahead of Fallout 4 in terms of bugginess. I am actually hoping that Microsoft will have a similar effect, b...
@343_Guilty_Spark What's good for business now won't be in the future if we let monopolies and large trusts dictate how the industry produces games. That's the entire point I have been trying to make. Of course Microsoft is going to pay a ton of money to third party developers to put their product up for free on Game Pass right now. It needs to corner the market and it has the resources available to do so.
Once Game Pass becomes the only platform out there, they...
I actually don't mind the acquisition all that much. Just about any publisher can make better decisions than Bethesda has the last few years so I see it as a plus for Bethesda developers. What bothers me is that they are using their new toy to force people to adopt GamePass. I want console exclusives not GamePass exclusives.
What on earth about this model makes you think this is good for third party developers? If Game Pass succeeds it basically turns the market into one gigantic customer. If Microsoft doesn’t like what you are selling you won’t succeed. I don’t really see this medium improving as an art form when Philip Spencer is the only opinion that matters.
It’s what Microsoft always does. If you can’t build a nice user friendly GUI, just copy Apple OS. If you can’t compete with Skype, buy them.
This is trillion dollar company that has made every single penny by copying the competition’s homework.
If anything, I’ve noticed cinematic games reducing cut scene length in recent years. A lot of games will have npcs give you extra dialogue over a radio or something like that while you fight.
I can’t argue with you about the current value. At the end of the day people should go out and get the games they want for as cheap as they can.
Even if you can elect to buy the games, most people won’t. If Microsoft conquers the industry with this service, future devs will have no choice but adapt their method of game design to the new model. How do you make money as a third party developer if Microsoft takes away a huge chunk of your sales. I’m willing to bet they won’t ...
I don’t want lots of cheap/free games. Look
At how many of those are out there already.
I want to pay for good games.
GamePass is only going to remain a good value in the short term. It’s not a sustainable business model, even for a mega corporation like Microsoft. You simply can’t expect them to make expensive triple AAA titles every single month and only charge a cheap monthly subscription for them. Games like Red Dead Redemption and the Last of Us only...
Yeah. Square always has had trouble
Making those names work for an English audience. Just look at the Kingdom Hearts subtitles.
As long as the game is good though, I can shrug that kind of thing off.