"This means Xbox, ID@Xbox, Bing Ads and the Windows and Devices, Windows Experience, Windows Phone, Consumer Security and Surface MVPs will be moved to new and so far publicly unspecified programs."
This is actually a pretty big deal, if I'm reading it correctly. The MVP program seems to relate to marketing programs issued by Microsoft. This can explain the MVP program better than I can.
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Savage.
Shanghai was just a demo?
http://www.engadget.com/201...
Get my facts straight?
A concept?
http://www.engadget.com/201...
Doesn't sound like a concept to me.
I was talking about Microsoft Studios. Not anything else.
It only takes one look at Microsoft Studios wiki to see what I'm talking about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
I just went back and checked the archived Fable Legends articles. Xbox fans were definitely excited for this title.
"Do you all know how many games get cancelled due to companies not liking where they are going?"
From Microsoft Studios? Seems like everything except for Halo, Gears and Forza. Even Rare's last project was cancelled.
Shanghai was being made by the people who are making Gears 4, now called the Coalition, the were called Black Tusk then, before that they were Microsoft Vancouver.
Gears Of War 4 will be their first release.
They were a big enough of a deal to showcase at events.
This is the 3rd game Microsoft has shown off at events and then cancelled this generation. Shanghai, Phantom Dust and now Fable Legends.
That is concerning.
I guess they decided to consolidate "the fat" instead of trimming it.
Also, Project Spark going completely offline at the same time is quite the coincidence.
I want more details on the consolidation, they could be just working on Hololens, like pretty much every other development team at Microsoft studios.
"This means Xbox, ID@Xbox, Bing Ads and the Windows and Devices, Windows Experience, Windows Phone, Consumer Security and Surface MVPs will be moved to new and so far publicly unspecified programs."
I have no idea what the bulk of this article even means. I don't understand exactly what the MVP program is. If anyone could help that would be great.
Before anyone goes on a "you don't need 1st party" parade.
Phil Spencer said this.
http://www.polygon.com/2015...
There has been little to positive investment involving this, only cancellations and closures and like I said above most of their studios are working on Hololens, not Xbox.
@Alexious
The consumer version of Hololens has been delayed indefinitely.
http://news.softpedia.com/n...
Even if they leave they will be replaced, like they replaced Sega.
This is a fantastic article.
"with Project Knoxville canned, the only original IP the company is putting its first-party weight behind is Rare's Sea of Thieves"
They have no real interest in investing in 1st party studios on Xbox, they never have, aside from Kinect at the time. As of right now, most of the developers they own are working on Hololens and the consumer version of Hololens has been delayed indefinitely. That says something.
This is what they're referencing.
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
Do you guys not click links and read the them?
From the games industry link.
"and Xbox, an entertainment hardware platform for consumers, seems at odds with a company increasingly focused on software and services for businesses. There have been rumours of talks with other industry giants aimed at selling or spinning off Xbox, though they ultimately came to naught, leaving Xbox as an unusual, out of place division within a pivoting Microsoft."
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In the last 2 weeks they have sent all their Xbox games to Windows 10, cut 8 studios and cancelled a title close to release, all while being incredibly vague and you don't think the possibility of them selling or radically changing the division is valid?
There is always competition.
Even if they left they would be replaced, like they replaced Sega.