We know that we will see more footage of Microsoft’s heaviest hitter, Halo 5: Guardians, hopefully in the form of some campaign gameplay. However, let’s not forget that Microsoft is more than just a one trick pony. Some expected titles have been previously announced, while others are sure to surprise.
By putting Black Ops 6 on Game Pass, Microsoft plans to gauge its growth, pricing, and monetization changes, at the cost of less game sales.
If they have follow up games that are bangers, then this strategy will work. But if it’s Call of Duty followed another dead period then it won’t last.
When the game does not hit 1 Billion in revenue in under two weeks they will wonder why and the next thing you know; Season Updates will no longer be free.
subscribers go up, execs celebrate win, get bonus, price goes up, subscribers go down,
execs dont care, got their bonus,
If it works CEOs and shareholders get a payday and if it doesn't even more studios get closed by MS so CEOs and shareholders get a payday.
It will sell on PC & PS but as long as COD is for rent on Gamepass it will not sell well on the XB platform. Most folks such as myself that like COD just for the campaign would rather rent it for that month instead of paying $70 plus tax for the game.
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)
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
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
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.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Its all subjective. But what I think will happen is MS is gonna do much better than last year. Simply because they're said to have gameplay for its titles. Last year was good for a reel but they were light on gameplay.
I'm personally looking forward to Crackdown, Scalebound, Quantum Break (Gameplay), Rare, and new Ips and MS new studios taking the stage.
If MS can just give me a good game show that have a focus on new games, show gameplay of the games that were announced then I'm happy. Just impress, games, games, games.
If you have the most interesting games..you win E3. at least from my point of view.
Right now, MS are looking the strongest for E3. Between what we know ( Halo 5 , forza 6, scale bound etc.) and what we dont know, but we know will be shown ( Rare's new game(s) MS other internal teams etc). They are looking real strong for E3. The comments sections on N4G will be pretty flame heavy this year, I reckon.
Brace yourselves....
If MS can show off Crackdown and if cloud computing can work as they advertised and marketed then that would be a win and a huge game changer in gaming development.
Not only that but then the look of games that were fully made with DX12. If they can show off the full capabilities of their new API with actual gameplay then that is also a win.
Then of course MS needs to show off some compelling games that everyone is excited for. The known ones are of course Halo and Gears, but we need to see some new games in action like Scalebound, QB, Twisted Pixel's game, Battletoads and Rare's new game not to mention whatever their other studios are working on for Xbox One.
I agree with Moldiver, MS is looking the strongest and not only is it because of their development innovations (if they work) but their strong line up of future games.