At this point, its a wonder as to whether or not Spencer and co are going to lie that they've opened up an in-house Japanese development studio, like they did at E3 2014 with that MS Osaka Studio announcement.
It's better than nothing..
Sunset Overdrive didn't hit other platforms (i.e. PS4) because Sony refused to fund development for the game unless they owned the IP. Also, the game never landed on PC because Insomniac develops primarily for consoles. Their previous IP "Fuse" never landed on PC either.
When you factor in the date in which it was released (right around holiday season stacked against several AAA sequels), Sunset Overdrive performed satisfactory. Especially as a new IP.
He'd make for a great Harvey Dent in the DCEU.
Captain Obvious.
Exactly. RE7 is a good horror game but it's not a genuine RE title. It's essentially an amalgamation of Capcom's favorite first-person horror games. The derived elements from it's predecessors such as P.T./Silent Hills, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Outlast, Amnesia, Alien Isolation, etc. are clearly evident throughout.
Yet, people will claim that RE7 (which is practically a spin-off) is true to from, just because the game has scary moments and takes place primarily in...
Just keep Sakamoto far, far away from it. Other M was a bust.
Ask Level-5 if they ever worked with MS again after they killed off True Fantasy Live Online.
LMFAO at Xbox division not having enough financial backing from MS. We're talking about a company who not too long ago purchased Mojang for a whopping 4billion (pocket change to MS) and shells out millions to 3rd party devs for timed exclusives like Rise of the Tomb Raider and (presumably) Dead Rising 4.
Yet, the team working on the Phantom Dust reboot single-handedly got put out of business because they were denied additional funding for development for the game from M...
Good likelihood that this is the case. Judging off Fable Legends, the talk of Crackdown 3 having trouble development and now Scalebound. The common denominator is that Win10 was announced/implemented way later in the game's development.
The entire XB1/Win10 crossplay integration system feels like an entire afterthought, which is causing development cycles more harm than good. Almost makes you fearful for State of Decay 2.
You couldn't have said it any better. Unfortunately your comment won't go over too well with the many people because Spencer's looked up to as an apostle (in the gaming community) who can do no wrong.
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2017, Xbox off to a rocky start.
I predict an announcement of Phil stepping down as head of the Xbox division pretty soon.
It's BS. MS is simply damage controlling in part due to the handful of studios they had killed off earlier this year, along with their new ips and projects in development. Such as Fable Legends from Lionhead and Knoxville from Press Play.
I also find it ironic how Phil Spencer and company keep touting that the XB1 has the best lineup of exclusives. When in actuality, their lineup this Gen has probably been their weakest compared to their previous gens.
Amen. The guys a clown but constantly manages to get pass after pass from the gaming community. Yet, the same people were ready to rip Don Mattrick a new one for every misstep that MS took under his watch.
@MichaelLito79
Phil Spencer is garbage. Do people so quickly forget how the Lionhead, Twisted Pixel, Press Play, etc. situations went South under his watch (just a few months back). All gone, as well as the new Ips they were developing for MS. Stop letting Phil's fake smile blind your judgment of performance.
Spencer is two-faced and speaks out both sides of his mouth. One minute he's going on about how he despises fanboys and the console wars. The next, he's ta...
@eldyraen
By that logic, all Ratchet and Clank titles are 3rd party. ReCore is 1st party. 1st party published makes it a 1st party title by default. SFV is a 3rd party title. Besides, MS just didn't publish only the game. They fully funded its development and wrote the story (Joseph Staten is a MS employee).
Complain about Microsoft doing timed exclusivity throughout the 7th Gen (i.e. GTAIV and COD) but completely co-sign the notion of Sony doing the exact same thing in the 8th Gen.
At the end of the day, it's all just business. However, there's no deny the blatant double standard in the situation.
Morgana Yu it is then.
You can't be serious. LO is Microsoft's ip, not Sakaguchi's. The game originally started development at MS' Japanese in-house studio, (along with Blue Dragon and Infinite Undisocovery) shortly after Phantom Dust was complete. Then development switched over to third party (Feelplus for LO and Artoon for BD) when MS decided they were shutting their studio down, rather canning the projects they had in early development completely.
Mistwalker/Sakaguchi was pretty much hi...
Sega's far from in touch with their fan base and community. They didn't seem all that embracing back when they issued DMCA on the Streets of Rage remake. Not to mention them pulling Shining Force III videos from Youtube and having user accounts banned. As well as ignoring fan requests on brining both franchises back from the dead.
Thinks back to Jeff Gertsmann receiving death threats for scoring Twilight Princess an 8.8/10.