yeah, if they do that, that means throwing white flag in the console making business and becoming a third party. If that’s the case I’ll be sad since I have so many games tied to the ecosystem
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The Xbox ecosystem already exists outside of the console though. MS have already taken those first steps. People can be “Xbox gamers” without buying an Xbox console, right now, today.
Who knows though? It might never happen. The Series X & S could be very successful & MS could continue in the console making business. They have lately set themselves up in such a way that they could also move in another direction. Time will tell.
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If MS does get out of console making I will stop supporting them
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If Game Pass was on Sony or Nintendo platforms it would be via streaming, not running natively.
Microsoft will want to maintain all of the ecosystem benefits, micro transactions etc. Its the only way for it to work.
This benefits Microsoft but would be bad for Sony.
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Can we please focus on the topic of Xbox Game Studios?
From the first post:
We want this thread to actually be about the studios. Job listings, hires, concept art from new hires, rumours, all that stuff should go here.
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Sega has a treasure trove of dormant IP’s that Xbox could put teams on and since they seem to license their stuff out anyway like with SOR4. Panzer Dragoon : I’d love to see MS team up with Groundling Inc and have Fytatsugi direct. Doesn’t even need a reboot, make it a direct sequel to Orta!
Jet Set Radio : They could get with Team Reptile and Hideki Naganuma on soundtrack again.
Golden Axe : Team up with Lizard Cube ( Streets of Rage 4) and make it a side scrooling beat em up again unlike the last failed revival they tried
People entertain the idea because they see Netflix on fire sticks
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With all the talk about Disney expanding their video game offerings by partnering with more people and Xbox talking about needing more E rated content, why isn’t Xbox games studios working on Pixar titles being discussed?
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There have been a couple of insiders that have said that microsoft is encouraging their newly acquired team, and their longer standin first party studios to have smaller incubation teams to make new things.
The first result of that was grounded from a small team at obsidian, which studio do you guys think will unveil a project by a small team next?
I dont know why but I have a suspicion that turn 10 is working on something, currently they have more employees than they have ever had before, with ~150 people on linkedIn, probably a little less than 200 in reality, irrc before forza motorsport 7 came out they had ~100 total employees. On the other hand they are working on more things currently, supporting playground from the tech side on both the forza horizon series and on fable, on top of developing forza motorsport.
What do you guys think?
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imo the studios that xbox has arent a good fit for the sorts of games that make sense for pixar properties.
On the disney IP front I did wonder if microsoft might be able to sweeten the deal when licensing IP to disney by offerering to let disney+ users stream the games produced using the licensed IP from within the disney+ app. This benifits everyone, it lets microsoft get tons of ‘exclusive’ games, even if they are also streamed to the disney+ app via xcloud, and disney gets features within its app that differentiate it from the competition. How neat would it be for the star wars section of Disney + to include star wars games that you can stream to your tv too? That would be awesome and make sense for all parties involved.
The other benefit for microsoft is that it acts as a trial for perspective game pass ultimate customers, if they like streaming the games over disney+ maybe they would consider gpu!
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What about Mojang taking a page out of TTs book and doing Minecraft adventures in those universes.
Also interesting out of the box idea on unlocking more content, I like it.
That’s definitely the best way to go to keep the content coming to Gamepass. Having a variety of AAA/AA and more experimental stuff (and content in general) is the way to keep people subscribed.
In terms of the bigger studios, I think definitely Rare may have a little something on the side alongside Everwild and I have a feeling the Coalition might as well. Granted we’ve not got Infinite out yet but i would love to see 343 come out with a maybe smaller scope Halo experience that maybe experiements with a few new things, similar to ODST perhaps (Would have loved a Hivebusters style expansion that focus’ on Blue Team for example).
It sounds like Turn 10’s “other thing” may well be them helping out on Fable but i suppose you never know what else a small team there could be working on. I imagine having small teams able to work on things maybe outside of the expected franchise is a good way to keep staff feeling creative and able to try and experiement with new things.
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Wouldn’t it be kind of cool for MS to make a clone Ring Fit Adventures game where your a odst running around a Halo ring exercising along the way and fighting Elites, Grunts, Brutes and the like. I’m half joking but If they made it I would play it.
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Game Pass is NOT going on PlayStation or Switch nor should it. That would be a stupid dumb ass decision by Microsoft.
Microsoft must have all the ZeniMax games be exclusive to Xbox/PC regardless of the cost simply because if you want to get more people subscribed to Game Pass/Ultimate, you need great to excellent exclusive games and content.
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Id argue that it is worse for Sony and Nintendo than it is Microsoft. How is it any different that making it available via a TV app?
Streaming to Switch will definitely happen someday…
TV app has nothing to do with the PlayStation or Switch platforms though. If you’re putting Game Pass on a competing platform, you’re helping that platform more than your own because you’re eliminating the need for your own platform.
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If Game Pass is on Playstation or Switch it will be through streaming. Again, no different than playing on a TV app.
In one of the interviews last year Phil Spencer did say they would be open to discussions of having GP on PS and Switch, as long as they accept a full Xbox ecosystem on there.
As a huge, huge fan of Xbox as the console I really don’t want to see this happen though. So I guess I hope Sony and Nintendo will never agree. I just can’t see it as beneficial to the Xbox as a console and I really DO want to see a next gen Xbox happening again eventually.
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