The head of Xbox Marketing, Aaron Greenberg, may have just snuffed out rumors that Xbox may be allowing the trade-in of digital titles.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
I hope Microsoft considers this awesome idea. One thing I wish about digital, is the ability to sell or trade games. Please make it happen!
My X1 has mostly digital installed but 10% is not enough
I think 30% would be fair price
Just typical Xbox well do it if we have to. Like literally forced to. High digital prices being lowered?! If ever, GWG, Microsoft only do stuff when they are forced into it. 10% back for GTA5 of all games.. Get out. 20-30% is the sweet spot it's not a full refund by any stretch and it's not absolutely peanuts. Nice middle ground and enough to go buy an indie ;) much prefer it when a company is proactive tho and can think up their own incentives rather than putting ideas out there waiting for them to be shot down before proceeding, it's like Xbox one launch all over again, we're gonna do this... Uproar, OK now we're gonna do this. Sheep/Baaa.
What would be cool but very unlikely is if we had an "auction" page where we post the game at the price we want. Then when someone buys it, instead of getting money we would get store credit which would make us buy more stuff from the store. Kind of a win win win. Idk just thinking
Nobody will miss it at those rates...
10% sell back is atrocious. Basically $60 Digital game gets you a pathetic $6. Six Dollars?!..what you gonna do with that? Buy 1 character for Killer Instinct, buy a Movie? ..1 Month Xbox Live Membership??
Terrible deal for gamer's had MS pursued this /