Jez Corden writes: "One big question still hangs over the big Bethesda acquisition. Will all of those games go Xbox platform exclusive? Let's examine the three major possible scenarios, and see if we can draw some kind of conclusion."
Industry insider Dusk Golem reveals that there is no Resident Evil 1 Remake in the works. Instead, Capcom are reportedly in active development of Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica.
RE Zero would be better to do first over RE1 because they can tie the story into RE1 more.
The original RE Remake was weird because Rebecca never mentioned anything about what happened in Zero and it felt so disjointed because Zero was developed during the Remake and they clearly didn't share any notes with one another.
Love survival horror? Love physical editions of games? Limited Run Games have got your back as they reveal a physical collection for Clock Tower: Rewind on Xbox, Switch, PlayStation and PC.
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
By “save them” you mean make more profit for Microsoft. Xbox will still be a dying hardware platform.
You could add the naming scheme for the consoles, it just confuses customers. I know they wanted to avoid traditional numbering bc it would always be lower than their competitor, but this whole 360 then One then Series thing is confusing af. Imagine a Soccer Mom trying to figure this stuff out. I still mistakenly call the Series X the One from time to time on accident.
Don't forget about the Xbox One, Xbox One X and Xbox Series X! Good luck to Soccer moms around the world.
They did that on purpose to confuse and direct attention away from the generational numbering.
MS doesn’t like reminding people that they joined the industry after others had already been involved in gaming.
For instance, they called the xbox “360” to combat PlayStation “3” because they wanted to seem like “more” than “3”, so instead of xbox 2, they opted for xbox 360. Also this had the additional benefit of selling consoles to uninformed parents who might purchase a “360” instead of a “3” by mistake, or because they thought 360 was more than 3. Kind of a disingenuous move.
They have been continuing with their confusing naming patterns for pretty much the same reasons. Frankly, it fits with who and what they are as a brand.
I can understand their reasoning, but whoever came up with that naming scheme should be fired, bad naming schemes have killed consoles (I'm pretty sure it was the major reason for the downfall of the WiiU). They should have had unqiue names like Nintendo and Sega have had for their consoles, far less confusing for the consumer.
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
I didn't like either person, both people damaged their respective brands and produced worse outcomes, but Phil did save the Xbox brand from being retired by Microsoft. Although in hindsight, he should have just let it die, rather than languish in limbo like it is now.
Phil Spencer was also on the team back when 360 was around, alongside Shane Kim, Peter Moore etc. I think the damage that did the most harm was the Don Mattrick "Always Online" console (ahead of its time basically). They handed Sony and Nintendo a free-pass when that was revealed. It went downhill from there. Then the corporate machine went into full swing to try and recover. They have to a degree as a games company for the masses, and less so for the core gamer. Outside USA, the Xbox brand does not sell as well as Japanese based consoles (citation needed).
Want a decision maker. The always online and TV plans was a disaster yes, but they caught up by announcing 1st party games that gamers actually kept the hype going.. until this moron took over and introduced the PC day one release.. e all know where that ended..
I dont think they were ever a respectable brand, not since the beginning, when their goal was never to be involved and share in the gaming space. I think the OG xbox was an exception because MS as a brand was still getting its foot in and so the people behind that were people of the gaming industry.
The 360 was the brand in its prime though, everything went downhill towards the end of that generation. Its staple games like Halo, Forza and Gears are what kept the console relevant and afloat for so long.
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
2 of the 4 games they did already sold really well. So it's definitely going down. Idk about halo or forza but I feel those studios they've bought in the last 5 years, their coming
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
76, Elders Scrolls online, Zenimax New IP Death loop and Ghost wire timed games will be on PS5.
New AAA's going forward will be on MS machine and services. Why? Because MS made 15b$ back during the period of the acquisition able to buy them twice. Other platforms and services (besides steam) won't be needed.
The only game that I think could come to other platforms is Starfield. I can actually see that being timed exclusive for a year on Xbox. The game is said to be far along and I'm sure a PS platform was in the works at the time. It would be pretty pointless just to dump the PS version just because MS owns them.
E6 and Indiana Jones etc are gonna be on Xbox platforms though.
Minecraft is a big money maker and very popular Microsoft would be stupid to limit it to one platform. It's also still too early and I doubt Microsoft has a plan hammered out on how to run Zenimax yet. They would have to keep previous services going or else they could face pitchforks and torches from the gamers. As for the games being timed exclusives before the Zenimax purchase. They would have to keep it timed Sony made contracts with Bethesda on the games and probably paid cash to make those games exclusive. For Microsoft to wreck that they would have to buy out that said timed contract or find a loop hole to put the game on another platform or make amends to the contract. Like what Namco did with Tales of Vesperia that was an XB360 exclusive that also saw the PS3 Namco found a loophole. I would want Microsoft to keep the Zenimax studios as a separate entity that way different titles come out and the studios are not locked to a certain title like 343 for Halo and The Coalition to Gears. Right now as it sits it's just a wait and see what Microsoft will do when they have a plan hammered out on what to do with Zenimax again it's still to early. You can guess all you want and Microsoft could do a 360 and drop a bomb that will piss people off and fans of the games and that is the last thing they want to do.
Any other platform MS puts their first party games on, MS will want and probably require Xbox Live integration into. I don't see Sony allowing that.
No way they will go multiplatform. Nothing obsidian and ninja theory have released since being bought or announced has gone or has been said to be going to PS4 or PS5...so i don't know why Bethesda is a special case. They are just keeping it vague so they don't seem too anti consumer.
it is clear to anyone that MS sunk 7.5bn into Zenimax to get these games exclusively on MS platforms.