The Witness for Xbox One Announced

Jonathan Blow and Thekla Inc. are aiming to bring The Witness to the Xbox One later this year.

[MasterCornholio]

I knew it would arrive sooner or later.

:)

Fantastic game and I highly recommend it.

Enjoy Xbox fans.

Edit:

"Blow and his team at Thekla Inc. are aiming for a September 13, 2016"

In case anyone missed it.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Why the downvotes?

[NukaCola]

I wish this came to Vita. It's a perfect choice fit.

BTW, this game ia awesome. If you like a wicked challenge that changes the way you look at the world in a game, then this is you

[leoms]

I'm as shocked as you are

[game4funz]

Mainly because this title was used in list wars. Ps players not happy.

[Eonjay]

This was completely expected. Enjoy

[Majister-Ludi]

Respectfully disagree anything in this game can be found in a simple puzzle book except it's easier just to turn the page then having to walk around to do the puzzles.

[lelo2play]

Will it sell? Hype is completely gone by now... most people are probably going to wait till it's dirt cheap, specially if they put the game at full price.

[MasterCornholio]

Depends if Xbox fans like puzzle games.

@Colb

I'm glad that you enjoy those types of Japanese games but did you ever try JRPGS before? I highly recommend looking into JRPGs like Persona 5 for example.

Although not JRPG Scalebound looks interesting for Xbox One and PC gamers. Platinum is making it so it should be good. Same goes for Nier Automata which I'm pretty sure is coming to Xbox One as well..

Edit:

Orly?

Thought you were being serious for a moment. Without the /S I have trouble detecting sarcasm.

[TheColbertinator]

No we prefer "shoujo otome visual novel" games

[coolbeans]

"Same goes for Nier Automata which I'm pretty sure is coming to Xbox One as well."

I don't think that's the case. The future for that one suggests console exclusivity too (PS4/PC).

[rdgneoz3]

If Nier Automata goes to xbox, then Scalebound would go to PS4. Both of which won't likely happen, as both are made by separate divisions of Platinum and are exclusives.

[TheColbertinator]

I was joking

[Errorist76]

No idea who's alternate accounts downvoted you, but you're spot on rdgneoz3.

[Redgehammer]

From the creator of Braid, I am in.

[game4funz]

I do hope Nier comes to xbox. Like Scalebound there is probably a deal behind it all.

[DeeBeers]

I'm going to wait until its free. and then download it and never play it.

[its_JEFF]

@lelo2play you bring up a really good point, I think the space between it's release and now isn't that long. Not long enough to completely kill all the hype. They won't have to do that much marketing and advertising, any longer and I think it would have been a detriment to the game.

Edit: People will buy this game. Tomb Raider on the other hand, may be another story. A lot of fans felt betrayed that TR actually went exclusive, let alone for a year. The series has been multiplatform for a long time now and for it just go exclusive threw some for a loop. I really didn't care if it was an exclusive or not, I didn't have time to play it at the time, but I felt bad for the fans who wanted to. Inside was exclusive for about a month, the hype is still there. The point is, that length of absence makes a difference. So TR is $40 or $20? Cause I just checked and that thing is $60 on gamestop.com. If you know of a place that has it for $40, pass along the link that's a great price for that game.

[ShowanW]

Looks like Jonathan Blow finally caved and decided to release on Xbox...

I guess this is the only way to recoup some of the money lost on all those pirated PC copies... LOL

[MasterCornholio]

He sold plenty of copies on PS4 though. I guess he just wanted to increase his income after the deal expired with Sony.

[freshslicepizza]

The timed console exclusive deal likely ended

[rainslacker]

Wasn't it not too long after the release of the game that he said he was going to look into the possibility of releasing it on Xbox One? Seemed to make it seem it's limited release was due to the small team, although it probably is some deal brokered with Sony for exclusive console rights.

Yep, he caved back on Jan 30th.

https://twitter.com/Jonatha...

[freshslicepizza]

small team or not it doesn't take 9 months to port a game like this to the xbox one

[rainslacker]

Never said it did. OP said that he caved and finally decided to port it. However, he said he was looking into that back at the beginning of the year.

[callahan09]

Love this game. It's my game of the year still, although Dark Souls 3 is a close second.

[MasterCornholio]

I agree that it's a great game.

:)

But it does make you feel stupid sometimes.

[Christopher]

I had totally forgotten about this game. It was too expensive for what it offered at release for me. I'll have to see if it's dropped in price.

Congrats to gamers for more games going more places.

[MasterCornholio]

Pretty sure the price will drop for it. Maybe shortly after its launch on Xbox.

[KiwiViper85]

Absolutely, I will also like to trade Abzu in return for RotTR. Deal?

[Perjoss]

Cool game!

[MasterCornholio]

That it is. Love how beautiful it is.

:)

[mark_parch]

it didn't look that good to me but ps4 owners speak highly of it so might give it a go

[MasterCornholio]

If you like puzzle games you will probably enjoy it.

However 40$ is a bit steep for some people.

I bought the game at that price and I personally believe that it's worth it.

@Kiwi

You haven't played the game so you clearly don't understand why they priced it st 40$.

[KiwiViper85]

$40????? Is that the launch price?

I assumed a $15 price tag.

[rainslacker]

It's not a graphical masterpiece, and trailers can look dreadfully dull due to the way the game is designed, but the game itself is quite good if you're into puzzles and thinking things through. It's quite a lot of content you get with the game, and while some puzzles do repeat in ways at times, there is quite a lot of variety, and it keeps things interesting throughout.

Wouldn't hurt to wait for a price drop, but starting in October, gamers plates are going to be pretty full with other games, and I think many may forget about this title....although may show up super cheap on a sale one day.

Encourage you to play it some time. $40 if you're into puzzle games, or just when you happen across it some day in the future.

[Majister-Ludi]

It's the same type of of puzzle over and over just with slight variations. The game is grossly overpriced. If you're into spending 40 dollars on a digital puzzle book that you will play once more power to you.

[vega275]

No thank you. Blow can keep this with the ps4.

@ Mastercornholio

If blow had such bad dealing with MS as he's expressed. Why would he want to deal with them now? What did he fully read his contract now?

http://n4g.com/news/1484081...

#dealwithit no more like #Idonthavetosupporthisgame

[MasterCornholio]

Whether you like it or not it's coming to Xbox.

#dealwithit

[XXanderXX]

Why , don't you like games and having the ability to play more games.

@vega275 he is no different than the large dude at Valve , Cause ultimately they are stepping stones & vice versa

[vega275]

I dont have a problem with more games to play. Jonathan blow made it know he didn't like MS because he didnt fully read the contract he signed with MS last gen. So why do business with MS now?

Thats why I'm saying keep it with the ps4.

[Christopher]

"I don't like it, which means it should not come to my console of choice because I don't think others will like it either."

*scratches head in confusion*

[ziggurcat]

great addition to the xbox library - it's a wonderful puzzle game.

[MasterCornholio]

Agreed 100%

Fantastic game if you like puzzles.

[King_Lothric]

Not like the type of game the Xbox Community likes but who knows

[Kiwi66]

Odd then that there are puzzle games already on xbox one that xbox gamers play so guess they do like that type of game along with action/adventure, racing,strategy,sims,shooters etc

[EpicSandwich]

Did you travel the globe and ask over 20 million people? I hate idiotic comments like this.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I don't own an Xbox One and I'm sort of tired of these strange comments regarding install bases that do not purchase specific genres I haven't really seen much evidence of this with the exception of jrpgs and even those have been shown to still sell to some degree on Xbox.

Do you know how many people made the argument last generation that Japanese RPGs sold better on PlayStation 3 then 360? Yet titles like Lost Odyssey moved 800,000 units yet the best selling Japanese RPG on the PlayStation 3 that isn't a Final Fantasy game sold about 1 million units ( Ni No Kuni ) so that's not really that much more than Lost Odyssey. So yes they did so better but not to the huge degree that some people have been exaggerating.

I haven't really seen enough evidence to really say the entire install base it leans more towards a specific genre than the other...

I remember people even saying games like Quantum break would have done better on PlayStation 4 and I just don't really see the evidence to support that claim I believe titles like Quantum break didn't so well simply because they were not good games.

It's this strange exaggeration that a specific type of title would moved huge millions of units on a specific platform yet disregarding quality. The reality is the Order 1886 didn't move huge units....

If we are to believe this strange theory, why is it titles like until dawn and the Order 1886 not moving Uncharted numbers? Those titles didn't sell any better than Ryse or Quantum Break which leads me to believe that I actually don't believe either of the install bases lean towards one genre or the other as I don't see the evidence of such a thing.

Both platforms have titles that have done poorly of genres that people assumed tend to do better on a specific platform.

ie Valkyria Chronicles moved 300,000 units on PlayStation 3, while Lost Odyssey moved 800,000 units on 360.

Uncharted 4 Move millions of units while Quantum break didn't move that much .

The issue is how do we know it is specifically the installed base when we know both platforms bad the claim that honor as they do well and do poorly at some point? Could it not be that Quantum break is just a bad game regardless of where it's made? Could it not be that titles like MAG we're never going to get warm reception regardless of platform?

At the end of the day we could scream if it was on whatever respective platform all day until we're blue in the face , but the reality is each platform has failures of the genre that were even trying to claim those platforms do the best in....

[SharnOfTheDEAD]

Tbh worst £30 I ever spent. I hated this game, if you love puzzles go for it but it should have been a tenner and nothing more

[TeamLeaptrade]

Glad to see this game get on the Xbox One as well. I might have to check it out.

[Relientk77]

I still have to play this game