I think you're onto something. It's not unusual that Phil has mentioned publicly that they lost the generation at the Xbox One era and lamented that people built their digital libraries at that time and are unlikely to swap consoles. That's just the excuse, because we can return back to the 360 and PS3 era where Sony was a year behind and full of mistakes and look at the recovery thereafter. Microsoft did nothing the entire Xbox One generation to promote a recovery, there's no...
Xbox has not had a soul since the reveal of the Xbox One. All Phil Spencer managed to do was recover goodwill that Mattrick and his team left on the execution wall, but in ten years I can applaud nothing he has done other than backwards compatibility and legacy gaming, and I can't point to what the identity or "soul" of Xbox is under him. All I can see is his corporate appetite to buy up and tarnish the industry for maximum return, and his push to make Xbox unnecessary as a cons...
@The_Hooligan Hah, all we can do is try, and hope that somehow we find the right combination of words in the English language to help educate someone, futile as it may be. Yup, hard to argue with people who think if you sell a burger for $10 you've made $10 profit as if the burger materialised out of mid-air and didn't cost a cent to produce.
It's inevitable bud, Microsoft is going to release their games on all platforms, and collect revenue from ownership of the IP. They're priming the situation now with Sea of Thieves. The most we'll see is a "first on Game Pass" in my opinion, until eventually all games will end up on PlayStation and even Nintendo if the Switch 2 can handle it.
If you don't know your facts, Tacoboto, maybe don't stand up to the podium. Deviation Games closing is a story from MONTHS ago:
https://www.ign.com/article...
All this article is, is some little clarity on what they were working on.
Lay offs happen. Games fail. Shutdowns happen. They...
You absolute illiterate twit. I never stated God of War is a new IP or counts as a new IP. I said it's effectively a new game given how vastly different it is from its predecessors, it should be applauded creatively as a new idea. It's not just "another God of War."
I also defined in Grade 1 English the difference between a new IP and new game and proved that Sony is doing BOTH. I have long since clarified my position.
If you are too int...
This is the Microsoft defense force. They can't spin the current bad press in any coherent way, so all they can do is normalise the idea of studio shutdowns so that what Microsoft is doing seems completely normal as opposed to shambolic and a direct effect of bad decisions for the gaming industry. But hey, it's a cute attempt indeed.
Wake me up when Sony axes Housemarque after Returnal.
Then we'll talk.
To put things as simply as possible for you, Sony is still investing in both new IP and new games. Therefore Pete's conclusion, which I was responding to, is factually incorrect.
If you now wish to discuss Insomniac, it was made clear after the first game that they are building a Marvel gameverse.
Dropping a game completely after phenomenal success is stupid for business if your entire fanbase wants more of it and care is taken to make quality, passio...
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Ninja Theory will be joining you soon. May as well go independent or team up with someone else.
Okay, I'm talking to a moron or a troll so let me dumb it down to get on your level of conversation.
Pete's initial comment implied that Sony are not investing in new IP AND new ideas. He mentioned two things here, new intellectual property and new ideas.
New IP - new intellectual property, fresh new title that has not existed before anywhere else
New game - brand new title like Hogwarts Legacy, Marvel's Spider-Man irrespective of whe...
Don't forget that your shit game is disappointing too.
Wow, people like you do exist.
Okay, so with that logic Hogwarts Legacy is not a new IP or new game. It doesn't count because Harry Potter has been around for years and the IP exists. Sony shouldn't waste time with these brand new games of high quality because they don't count as new projects.
Don't be disingenuous and play semantics with the usage of new IP to detract from quality NEW games. You know full well what I meant in my comment. ...
xD!
Where is our esteemed Obscure in Microsoft's hour of need?
Probably advising Phil how to spin this!
Skuletor, God of War reinvented the entire game from its predecessors and was a bold risk for an established franchise. It could have backfired. It absolutely counts.
The other two, I'm not going to respond to stupidity or strawman comments.
Thanks, so it will take 40 years to recoup the Activision and Bethesda acquisition costs....before you take into account all the costs to actually run the service, pay developers and publishers for putting their games on it, maintain licensing, advertise the service, invest in the service to grow its appeal, maintain and develop the service, oh and actually pay all the costs of running the developers they acquired unless they consolidate and axe the studios, but that wouldn't happen right...
Um, dude, Spider-Man was a brand new game from Sony in 2018. Wolverine is a brand new game. Ghost of Tsushima, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, God of War 2018...Naughty Dog is working on a new IP as we speak, as is Media Molecule.
What the hell are you talking about, Sony is still creating new IPs???
I did exactly this, with A Plague Tale: Requiem which is one of my favourite games of last year and despite having bought the first game. That is Game Pass for you. Now I have A Plague Tale: Requiem sitting on my Steam wishlist so that I can buy it on discount and support the developers in some small way.
Ninja Theory is definitely going down after Hellblade 2. They historically have never made games that ship millions and are thus not in MS' future plans.
Did I really need to add a /s to my comment...
@Michiel1989 Um, yes Sony does? What's your point? They're a large corporate business and not our best pals. Take Days Gone. It sold five or so million copies, but it took six years to make and had mixed critical reception and Sony wasn't confident that a sequel was worth the investment. I EXPECT decisions like this in business. But you also have to respect that Sony funds and supports games like Days Gone and Dreams or Death Stranding or Ghosts of Tsushima or Helldivers 2 in this...