I would be so hyped if it was some kind of singleplayer title. But it's not. Still curious, that image is very cool.
Hooefully the long term vision is a pivot away from their live service double down. A couple of games is fine, but having everyone working on live service titles seems misguided all things considered.
Might subscribe for a month to play Senua. Haven't subscribed since Forza 8 and Starfield last year.
That's the thing he mentioned about not being a creep at all.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Maybe they'll reveal plans for last half of 2024 and maybe even first half of 2025? Nah, sounds utopian.
They could have attempted to use the game to drown out all the negative attention after the shutdowns.
Acquisiont might also have been more expensive than expected. Not sure how it works, but that year of legal battles can't have been cheap?
Very possible that they allready planned it, but they obviously can't announce it until the game has been out for a while.
I think they have changed plans a lot. Current MS wouldn't have greenlit Senua 2 and games like Pentiment and avowed. Wonder whether we'll get Outer Worlds 2 or if it will be reworked into a more succesful franchise.
Only issue is that if that happened, people would just make new IP's instead. New Ip's can easily thrive, it's just a more risky.
But in time every big game will be either Marvel or Star Wars, so wouldn't matter anyway. Joking ofcourse. Partly.
Would have been a perfect launch title. I think it will do well enough because it's probably good, but can't imagine it will make enough money to justify what must be a gargantuan budget by now. Feels like they expected it to be God Of War, but in reality it's a fairly niche title due to it being a primarily narrative driven experience with a heavy subject.
I have a feeling Austin was gearing up to work on the rumoured Dishonored 3, so kinda assume it's cancelled tbh. Lyon is busy with blade after all. We do know that Austin was going to do a singleplayer game next.
Downvote, so he didn't hint it? He very much did exactly that: https://twitter.com/rafcola...
Or does it suck? I dunno, I'm excited.
Colantonio recently hinted that they were doing something in the vein of Deus Ex. Maybe they could hire some Austin folk.
Zenimax allready put them in a tight spot by demanding them to do a multiplayer title. So it's not unlikely, considering how bad the game performed. They didn't stand a chance. MS had the money to save them and to correct Zenimax' mistakes.
But who knows, Dishonored 3 could have been Austins next project, so might be cancelled.
Xbox is a division that they discussed shutting down but doubled down on after Gamepass was pitched.
It needs to make money at some point. Big money.
Feels like the Embracer situation, only MS isn't publicly announcing it. Maybe not as dire, but feels like they are making big changes.
G-Police is nice. But might be among the hardest games I've ever played.