XBox Thread

the july event forfirst party game reveals is still happening in july dumbass

its for everything xbox that includes the OG box

An event that no one will care about after the PS5 event.

Apparently it's a Perfect Dark reboot.

>Xbox Game Studios reveal still scheduled for July.
This is supposed to be the E3 replacement right?

It was inferior to the Duke or S controller in pretty much every way.
Shittier D-Pad, cheaper build quality, instead of having a comfy grip like previous iterations you have a huge fucking bulking piece of plastic shit battery holder in the way of you fingers, gamepad only works wireless, doesn't matter if you actually connect it unless you specifically purchase the wired only 360 PC pad, even worse quality analogs meaning they deteriorate faster and for some reason they decided to put extra tiny torx screws to fuck you over when trying to change or clean the controller.
So how is that any better compared to older controllers? Or you just can't admit you have toddler hands and never used a proper D-Pad in your life?

Yep

Dead Rising shouldn't be serious

Do you think the studios they acquired will work on older Xbox IPs?
Would you be fine if Double Fine were given permission to do Banjo?

They're still hiring people. I doubt we'll see anything soon.

Id rather see them do Conker.

Yep, Capcom Japan shut down every single proposal for it.
The problem is they also rejected every single new IP proposal and just wanted vancouver to be a DR factory.
It's really no wonder the branch fell apart after that.

I agree but they should try new things every now and again

also its more about Capcom closing the studio that worked on it which means one lesser 3rd party studio for xbox

this user put it better than I did

that studio was something good for xbox and if they had been allowed to do more than just dead rising they might have turned out a good new ip xbox exclusive

>The Medium - a Microsoft next gen exclusive will feature instant transitions from one world to another without any loading screens.

bullshit.

Wasnt 3 serious? People seemed to like that one.

The proto-Destiny pitch seemed cool as well as the TPS with giant alien plants in brazil .
For anyone curious about DR4 and DR5's development, it's a pretty hilarious ride and insight into the incompetent AAA.
youtube.com/watch?v=6glExmQadfY

the four big failures of Xbox.

The first is letting Bungie go AND not financing Destiny despite having first right of refusal. They should have just let them do their thing under Microsoft's umbrella.

The second is not locking down Bioware when they had a three game deal for Mass Effect. Not only did they let EA buy them, they gave away the rights to the other two games in the franchise.

The third is not locking down Sunset Overdrive and by extension Insomniac. Now Insomniac is a first party Sony studio AND Sunset Overdrive is a Sony IP. Great job.

The fourth is Dead Rising. They should've locked down the IP after financing the first game, instead the second came to Playstation as well, then they financed the third, only to have the fourth come to all platforms again.

There might already be a fifth, because they have sold the rights to Alan Wake to Remedy and there were rumors that they might be in talks with Sony. Imagine that, an Alan Wake 2 exclusively on PS5. These are the sort of things that you just can't let happen. It's a bad look if you fail to finance sequels that are wanted - and they then end up potentially with your competitor.

>Bioshock and Mass Effect could have been MS exclusives
>Sunset Overdrive is now a Sony game
>Alan Wake could have been a MS exclusive and part of a bigger franchise
Why does it feel like MS could strike gold at every corner but they fail to do so?
At least Forza is better than ever.

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Weren't The Initiative made to be Microsoft's answer to Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica given they recruit the same kind of people?
I doubt Perfect Dark would be a good fit for the cinematic HBO audience

I find it funny that both Bungie and Bioware immediately went down the shitter in almost the same way after leaving MS

M$ is just a hopeless company. They meddled and fucked with DR too, even though most of the blame was on the studio heads (And Capcom Japan not having better communication).
Hopefully Philly realizes how much is on the line this gen, because nobody fucking wants another gen of Sony being uncontested.

Nobody cares about xbox at this point

They shouldn't have given up on the xbox one like they did, it killed the brand.

this is an extreme long shot but they should acquire ready at dawn. I can't believe ready at dawn isnt owned by sony after all the games theyve made for them I always assumed they were in sonys first party but theyre not

their most recent ps4 game was the order 1886 which a lot of people shat on and ultimately didnt care about on PS4 I think it sold well enough but they were definitely expecting bigger applause and probably a franchise

>The second is not locking down Bioware when they had a three game deal for Mass Effect. Not only did they let EA buy them, they gave away the rights to the other two games in the franchise.

Microsoft did try to get Bioware but failed because Bioware wants to go with EA.
And nobody wants Alan Wake 2, it just Remedy version of Scalebound.

They have no body high enough up that actually likes games to realize what future hits are in the making. And what studios are worth keeping.
They just run Xbox like the Windows and all the other failing divisions.

Still, Remedy would have been a good acquisition or at least continuing to partner with them would have been good for Xbox exclusives

Now Remedy is basically independent but they have a publishing/funding deal with Epic

>Windows
>failing division
Lol

I always find it funny because the franchise nobody care suddenly because biggest franchise ever once it leave Microsoft.

Seriously, stop pretending these are mega hit titles.

yea they need people whose entire job is to facilitate second and third party exclusive partnerships with dev studios

OG xbox and 360 had a bunch of them even a surprising number from japan the xbox one had next to none

Gimme da echs-bawks

>their most recent ps4 game was the order 1886
Jesus that was years ago. How is it possible for a studio to do nothing for years and not hit bankruptcy?

Remedy is public company, buying them will cost like 3 times of insomniac, and none of their game except Max Payne is big hit, but Max Payne is already a Rockstar IP.

>I always find it funny because the franchise nobody care suddenly because biggest franchise ever once it leave Microsoft
what franchise?

Microsoft's game division now is very different from what it was in 2013.

Yeah man Windows is so successful, but they just felt like implementing an entire POSIX compatibility layer and new BASH-like terminal for the fuck of it.
It's definitely not because the ever-increasing interest in linux and ever-decreasing trust in Windows is a massive threat or anything.

At least make coherent sentences before throwing shit esl-chan

after the order they made one more multiplat game and 4 oculus rift games

they havent made a console game since 2015 theire last 4 projects were VR oculus rift exclusives

Microsoft should buy them if theyre not working on anything for playstation which it seems they arent

>How is it possible for a studio to do nothing for years and not hit bankruptcy?
contract work.
it's how middle of the road studios say afloat and fund their future games until they land a publisher.

Alan Wake, Sunset Overdrive.
If people do care these games, why would Microsoft let it go? the sales don't lie.

people liked sunset overdrive I never heard how much it sold which always made me think it didnt sell well

even still microsoft should have realized they had a catch with insomniac who until that point had made only playstation games people were shocked they were making an xbox exclusive

Alan Wake was unironically ahead of its time.
Imagine if it had come out during the rise of pretentious walking sims.
Even though i enjoyed it minus the lacking late-game.

Why Insomniac worked with Micorosft was because Microsoft allow let them own Sunset Overdrive IP, so they never have chance to lock that game since beginning.

That was the intent but since the team is made up of a lot of ex Sony devs, I'm sure they wanted to not do a cinematic adventure game for once.

Because they have potential. The first Assassin's Creed was very shallow but it turned into a multi million dollar franchise. There's tons of improvement that could be made for both of those titles.