Call of Duty: Warzone is Activision's most successful post-launch content for a Call of Duty game, with more than 50 million downloads in a month.
God of War creator David Jaffe is fascinated with the Xbox Games Showcase and has special advice for PlayStation as well.
Jaffe is spot on, PS has been a shambles recently, why they wasted the time and money on that God awful looking Concord amd $Fairgame is beyond me but thats this new Sony, remasters remakes and GAAS is their goal moving forward, meanwhile MS just delivered a stunner of a showcase with massive variety and SP greatness, something I EXPECT from Sony..
I mean, we do have to factor than MS spent 60+ BILLION dollars to be able to have a showcase like that.
We also need to factor that regardless of how great the show was, a large % of those games including COD and DOOM are coming out on PS5 day and date.
Still kind of incredible to think they are giving all those games day one on GP, if they do not increase yearly it is an incredible value.
'MS spent 60+ BILLION dollars to be able to have a showcase like that.'
Yep, this is key. It was a solid showcase no questioning that, but Sony can no longer show off any Bethesda or Activision games ever again at any of their SOP/Showcases, this is a big slice of the industry MS just bought up and slapped their logo on. This isn't excusing Sony from a sub-par SoP, but it's to add context, they should still and hopefully need to do better next time.
Most of the games shown off at the showcase are coming to playstation and will obviously generate much more revenue than on xbox consoles, this whole doomerism surrounding playstation is ridiculous following just one good showcase from MS in like, what, several years, more? PS5 first half of the year so far has blown Xbox out of the water with Rebirth, Ronin, Steller Blade and the super popular Helldivers 2. PS5 will continue to sell strongly, not sure about Series especially after the ridiculous price point of the new SKU.
Woah $60 billion if they tossed in another $40 Billion they could have just bought SONY
lol, this was an interesting exchange
Jericho:
Aren't all these games going multiplatform?
David Jaffe:
Not all but many and even if they all are, the point is actually stronger: IMO, you put out great games and charge people 70 bucks/SINGLE game or 15 bucks for HUNDREDS of games (including the ones they showed) then GAMEPASS is going to soar.
-It was M$ best show in a long time, seemed like more games I want to play, instead of all the "we love everyone" talk, Indies, filler etc, while lacking actual AAA gameplay= No, Just show us great games, not concepts, and they did just that. B+ imo, would've been an A if they had more hard release dates, add another Gears level reveal and it would've been an A+.
@rpGSama LOL all the games that made a big splash were xbox exclusives and theyre not going to PS5 ..
I guess you could say he is spot on if you cant critically think for yourself.
First of all there is an audience for live service and multiplayer...everyone kept saying how Sony doesnt cater to that audience unlike MS with games like Halo and now they release multiplayer titles and everyone is bitching.
Secondly Concord looks like a typical hero shooter fps title and in that regard it doesnt look like crap and Fairgame has not been shown but if it is anything like payday I would say there is an audience for that as well. If Sony can launch another 2 succesful live service games like helldivers 2 then I can understand that push. It would also compete in a very competitive landscape but Helldivers2 managed it. We shall see with the other two.
And lastly ...yeah thats it...those are their only live service games and multiplayer focused titles they got in the works...everything else is single player oriented so nothing has changed...not to mention none of their major 1st party are really focusing on live service...once again NOTHING has changed.
As a bonus...pretty much everything people are really excited about from the showcase is releasing on playstation as well. And the games that may not release at launch will likely release later on. Perfect Dark, Fable and Avowed are the only really interesting titles they have and 2 of them have unknown release dates and have not been shown in a way where we can confidently say how they will play.
Until Sony has an actual showcase Id say it is best to mind yourself with loose speech.
@crows90
Sony went over board with the sht though. Also bot everyone was saying it. I was thinking good. We don't need that sht.
That new sony(Jim ryan) was likely fired cause they weren't feeling it either.
Jaffe has had a hard on for Sony for quite some time let's be honest.
Also far as Sony remastering, remaking, pretty sure Xbox did and would be doing the same thing if they actually had something from the Xbox one Era worth it.
Sony's certainly beating them to the punch on selling upgrades to and remaking games from a generation still getting new games.
Gosh I hope the Zero Dawn Remake is a fake rumor.
Sony explicitly said they aren’t doing vertical slice showcases anymore; they will show the game 6 months from release, when it is in a beta stage, and that’s it.
So, you were wrong to expect that from Sony; Sony expects you to trust them now.
This is because every preview delays a game’s release 6-12 months, each. And when games take 5-6 years of a console’s lifespan to develop, they can’t afford delays.
Every generation PS always has the best AAA 1st,2nd & 3rd party exclusive games, in that regard I know PS has something great cooking in the kitchen for the near future but after the 2024 XB great E3 style showcase it's really time for PS to stop being so secretive & show PS owners what they are looking forward to when it comes to first-party exclusives. I've seen many disappointing XB showcases but this year for the first time in a long time XB brought it to the table. After 2018 E3 Sony just doesn't reveal their first party offerings like they used to & hopefully Sony/PS starts to listen to the feedback & bring PS owners a great showcase.
It's been an odd couple of years. I do hope we see it pick up next year, sooner or later. 4 years and there simply just haven't really been much games that make most want to upgrade their ps4 to the 5.
Well PS already has lots of cards up it's sleeve it's just waiting for the right time to play them. Yes the first party development there have been lots of problems. MS has at least shown something that was decent for them which they really had to. I hope to see something that's not last generation remakes from Sony too.
Game wise Sony has been good this year with console exclusives FF7,Granblue Fantasy, Stellar Blade, Helldivers 2 and Rise of Ronin. With few other games coming up. We just feel uncertain of Sony's future plans but we'll see.
I don't think it's that unclear. The 1st party studios they have that they didn't recently acquire will just do what they're best at.
This is what we need!! Real competition is how the best games are made!! Plenty of money for everyone if you stop trying to milk the industry with Gaas and micro transactions and just make good products!!
All that being said this is Microsoft we’re talking about. The time will come when they put that magic ‘touch’ on these games and fuck them over severely.
he and the days gone dev are exactly the same. always commenting on what sony needs to do.
its ridiculous. focus on your oen projects ha
Sony has sold almost 6x as many consoles as the second place console, no matter what they’re doing the right thing.
Sales don’t lie, Microsoft can spend 100 Billion $$$ on some great content but it doesn’t make a difference, they already said they’re thinking of exiting the console business and going multiplat.
Sony will be just fine, their showcase wasn’t the best but we know they’re working on things behind the scenes and they’ll wait til the right time to show us what they’ve got.
I like how Jaffe said the showcase was great but still acknowledged they had to deliver
Jaffe created some amazing games, but let's be honest he's batshit crazy and I would never take his advice when it comes to running a business. PS has plenty of 3rd party (exclusives) to carry them on to their next 1st party games.
The games that all the studios are working on are all relatively far along for most studios I assume so it's pointless to change course for them regardless. Nothing to worry about.
Sony said they aren’t doing big showcases anymore. They are gonna try just delivering games instead.
Xbox needs to show something, but Sony has cultivated trust.
Phil Spencer confirms that more Xbox games will be available on new platforms during a new interview after Xbox Showcase.
That last article where everyone is having a baby over a showcase is ridiculous because the Xbox showcase was really a multiplat showcase...
@Eonjay
I think people are just happy that they gave us something to be excited about. It being multiplatform stuff makes it even easier to rejoice as everyone gets to enjoy it. This show was really what Summerfest should have been, just with less of an xbox focus obviously.
These shows are fun to watch because we get to be excited about new games.
With that said, I imagine Perfect Dark, South of Midnight and perhaps state of decay 1-3 would be possible candidates for ps5. Doom might also be a given. They didn't really try to hammer home its exclusivity.
@MrBaskerville
Totally agree. I did enjoy SGF though unlike the majority. My personal taste is more eclectic than most. I found stuff at each show to enjoy.
Eon
Come on man, yes it’s multi but as a PS5 and switch owner i enjoyed the show yesterday far more than i did with State of Play.
Most announcements came from nowhere to me, and MGS was a massive surprise to finally see some gameplay.
I’m excited to play some of the games on PS5 one day!
Like i said earlier credit where credit is due.
@Eon
That’s something i have to get used to. I have to see it more like when Ubisoft does their showcase vs Days of Play or Nintendo Direct.
I wished some of these games stayed exclusive. Make it seem like my Series X was a more worthwhile purchase. I use it more for backwards compatibility now so it’s not entirely bad.
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Elder Scrolls 6 for PS5, please. Also I'd like the Forza franchise, I owned all four of the OG motorsport titles and FM4 is still one of, if not my favourite racing game ever.
NO. This can’t be true. The Xbox influencers on X/Twitter & YouTube who got angry at Phil Spencer then forgave him, guaranteed no other Microsoft games would come to PS5.
@ColtEastwood
@DestinLegarie
@SnapBlastPlay
@MrMattyPlays
@RyanMcCaffrey
@VenomUK
I have seen that colteastwood on x. If you look ul embarrassment in the dictionary a picture of him as a example would be there.
I think people deservidly give obscure a bashing on here. But Colteastwood makes Obscure look like a PS5 cultist haha.
Why forget Sunset Overdrive?
Also there are older titles like Dead Rising 3 and Ryse Son of Rome.
Single-player Bethesda games usually gets better over time with future patches and DLCs
Satya Nadella wants that PlayStation's money, Phil Spinster now is as relevant as MySpace
Phil Spencer (February 15th 2024):
"Looking forward so 4 games no promise beyond that, so if you're on those other platforms and you see these four games coming please don't take it as some signal that everything is coming, it's not."
Phill Spencer (June 9th 2024)
'Our commitment to our Xbox customers is you're going to get the opportunity to buy or subscribe to the game, we're going to support the game on other screens. And you are going to see more of our games on more platforms and we just see that as benefit that the franchises we're building and we see that from players and the players love to be able to play'
I won't be buying any Xbox games anyway, Not going to subsidize their vision of changing gaming industry into streaming everything via a netflix subscription and they are the only choice. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It's us or no one" You can't complain after they have taken over either.
Especially when they "give" it to Xbox users and expect playstation users to pay full price for it. Like second class citizens.
Ironmike
He will be missed, if he wasn't going to be missed Microsoft wouldn't be putting the games on PlayStation.
Make up your mind xbox guys, do you want to brag about Sea of Thieves success on PlayStation or do you want to cry about all your games going to PlayStation?
So, the benefit of having an Xbox is the option of a subscription service that's more like a buffet and not a deluxe plate. By staying loyal to Xbox means day 1 "free" games of your choice. Xbox is a service.
If rumors are true Xbox is going the 3DO route, Xbox is basically a PC. I mean, since PlayStation caved and started using off the shelf parts to "make it easier on developers", which is a croc as were how far into this console generation and the only devs to really support PS5, kind of, is Insomniac, San Diego, and Santa Monica and we've seen nothing from other devs. PS4 was supposed to be easier so PS5 would be even easier, right? But what've we really seen from Sony first party when it comes to PS5 games? Nothing, they're all still possible on PS4. Xbox? Same thing. Hi-Fi Rush was possible on at least Xbox One X (another lie from Xbox with No one gets left behind). Wow
The original comment still stands, as long as they withold one or two series of games on xbox. Most could come but that still wouldn't mean that you could expect every game to arrive.
I suspect they want people to speculate, because then you don't know whether you should wait for a ps5 port or buy an xbox. Every game is Schroedingers exclusive.
The interpretation of his first comment is not to expect more than these 4 games. The interpretation of the second comment is not to expect any game to be exclusive to Xbox.
His communication is all over the place. The fact that we can't decipher what he means is what people are complaing about. He should simply say, games are coming to PlayStation but we don't have a set policy that applies to all titles. Sometimes less is more.
You can go back further to last year’s Kinda Funny interview with Phil. Microsoft has been slowly getting the Xbox user base ready for this. It’s like the parable about putting a frog into a pot of water and slowly turning up the heat. We will be at boiling when Halo comes to PlayStation.
thats what i mean when i say hes a big bullshitter, girl doesnt rly know what hes talking about.
@purple lol that was a nice 720 doughnut, spin around for a month only to turn his back after the heat died down a bit
There’s this small part of me which wants to think that the reason for Sony being so calm lately, especially after Microsoft’s showcase, is because they know this themselves, and they could know more than what’s being said publicly.
But, Lego Horizon is on the Switch. Why is Nintendo the only comfortable one here. They're not even on PC
Stupid take. The Lego game has been made by a Lego studio with advice on the IP from guerilla games. So part of the negotiations/requirements to make it happen will clearly have been done kind of multiplatform release.
That Lego game definitely exists to get kids to want to buy the proper Horizon games on PS5/PS4 (plus the multiplayer game). It's basically a giant advertisement. And kids love the Switch.
nintendo is comfortable because their first party games sell in the tens of millions.
Sony gives them the PS5's development kit so they know exactly which studios are making games for their consoles, or at least they can make an estimate based on the number of kits requested.
People just loves to talk but in a couple of days this showcase will be already forgotten, and by the way 90% of the stuff shown is multiplatform.
If they wanted xbox cash they would allow gamepass on PlayStation 5
Or just let microsoft buy sony as they could without any issues to there bottom line.
@hof
Are you still in your pre 2010 bubble?
Microsoft is a trillion dollar company without playstation sony would have gone bankrupt years ago that is just facts.
Microsoft q1 2024 made 23.3 billion
https://www.theverge.com/20...
sony all of last year without buying a entire company remember q1 2024 for mircosoft as in spring so sony all 12months made 85 billion.
https://www.macrotrends.net...
Microsoft after buying various companies including acrtivison made 212 billion for 2023
https://www.macrotrends.net...
Sony has not made any big purchases were Microsoft continues to do so in the ai space and gaming space even in the military.
So yes microsoft could easily buy sony and not bat a eye.
Their bottom line is irrelevant a Japanese company like Sony is not going to sell out to an American one so you can go ahead and let that little dream die. Kind of ridiculous to make comment such as yours in an article about the fact more xbox games are coming to other consoles, so who is it that's really hurting for cash here? It's rhetorical you don't have to answer, everyone already knows the answer.
@romulus23
Hurting for cash? blinder on maximum
There doing this to make more cash like the court leak that showed ms wanted gamepass on PlayStation to expand its customer base its all about making more cash.
Right now they are losing out on the full pie by having it on the playstation store but if they buy sony then ms get's 100% of the sale.
Also a japan company not being owned by america? LOL you really do not know what happened after the 40's do you
Or want happened to Toshiba recently
If they toss a bag of billions at sony japan they will accept it
It seems the idea is to have other platforms(PS and PC) offset the cost of game pass.
Xbox users get the games on game pass while others pay full price.
Gamepass seems to be Xbox's idea of "exclusive".
These guys are so inconsistent with their messaging. It's difficult to know exactly what they want to do with their games. I've stopped caring. I just focus on the games.
This. When I saw day one on gamepass for every game I asked myself how will they make money? Answer: release on PS5 and get your sales from there and if lucky leople will sub on PC and XBOX. To ensure consistent subscriptions, space out the games. Either way MS has well and truly effed itself and Phil is a snake standing there pretending they all exclusives.
It doesn't make any sense. I'll readily admit that Lego Horizon on the Switch is messed up.
I see it this way. Gamers are upset for Xbox for going multiplatform, PlayStation has been looking at PC, The Show ended up on Xbox and Switch and neither Xbox nor Nintendo stood up for the industry to say "look, that's not how we do business here. That's up to Sony and we respect that because we see it the same way." And maybe Spencer was that desperate for something quality with a reputation to dig himself out of the hole he got himself into. So there's all this stress and strain but, nobody, not gamers nor publishers noticed little ol Nintendo sitting in the shaded and shadowed corner, like Nintendo didn't seem like much of a threat so everyone saw it as the safe fallback to seem unbiased or like they had blinders. But, Sonys releasing on PC with two games on the Switch now and Xbox is going more and more multiplatform every day. But again, why on the Switch and not on Xbox? Why bother going one way? Because Nintendo agreed to a Zelda movie deal? I think everyone's underestimated what Nintendo is really up to. Nintendo is the ONLY console manufacturer who is solely on Nintendo hardware and has always been so. Nintendo Switch is closing in on the PlayStation 2 hardware overall sales and Nintendo is that close and if they can keep the Switch around long enough, will claim lifetime sales and then announce the Switch 2.
Ya gotta admit that a console that has really limited games where the story is always the same with very few IPs is doing that well..... Why? And now, it's neutral ground for PlayStation and Xbox? What sense does that make? Is PlayStation sore over the fact of Activision? Phil Spencer basically lied under oath (not that an oath actually means anything these days, especially for a business man that someone's found a way to justify the lie and his integrity by saying it was an ignorant omission or something like that, it's Washington State, what more would you expect) but, it's odd. Nintendo is sitting nice and comfy..... It's suspicious
Zelda on 3DO, Mario on PC... you are just too young to remember. Probably too young to remember Nintendo ports to Nvidia Shield TV too.
Also, you dont think that means Diablo, Call of Duty 6, Doom, Elder Scrolls Online, the stuff that's already usually on the hardware?
Hold up! What happened to "xbox doesn't have any good games argument"? I'm all for more games going to other platforms. Microsoft had a great showcase of games yesterday. Even the hardest sony fans had to admit it. Good job Phil.
Well the thing is.....they hardly had any. For 10+ years the whole of the Xbox one gen they failed to bring great games. So they bought a bunch of publishers that had established franchises and now they have great IP's.
I disagree. Microsoft has always had good games in my opinion. It's all a matter of opinion. Yes, they did buy some studios but so have sony. Who cares. I just want good games on my console regardless of where they come from.
Well what happened is they bought other studios that had the good games. As long as MS doesn't get too involved with those games they should turn out good.
Basically they bought their way to successful IP. You give me the same amount of money and even I can own these devs and say I make good games.
But the funny thing is you say what happened...someone tells you and then you say you disagree. Very dishonest of you
I disagreed about them not having great games. Of course they bought studios just like Sony has bought studios. It's been happening throughout the industry for a long time now. It's not that big of a deal to me. Devs need publishers and vice versa. These huge AAA games are very expensive to make nowadays. You guys can't be mad at Microsoft because they didn't force anyone into those purchases. Let's not forget sony has used their money to do similar things. They bought columbia pictures and made some big purchases too. Yea, I know it's not gaming but they don't get a pass because it's basically the same thing just a different industry.
I mean they did have to buy up multiple publishers with some of the top games out there on consoles. Throw in a good 4 to 6 studios as well and bam. Far as saying Ms has no good games. The game show showed the future. It's still slim pickins as of right now what's playable.
Ms purchased two publishers with extremely good selling ips. Stop the bs dog.
Funny on X. Last night lots of Xbox fans where rejoicing about the amazing showcase. Some of the same ones that where rejoicing are now angry at Phill for saying this. I completely understand why though.
So many have not realized xbox is just the new sega but these "fans" were not around for the days after dreamcast.
I remember 2001 and 2002. There are many similarities the only difference is XBOX is drawing it out and not being direct about it. Sega pulled off the plaster and immediately took the plunge. And today Sega is thriving.
@hof
For real?
Sega has shutdown there entire arcade centers in japan only made profit from recent sonic ip and has had bad games launches back to back.
There gambling rooms have kept there light's on
https://techraptor.net/gami...
46 billion yen every quater is only 292 million with game budgets/staff they are not thriving but surviving.
There sales drop 70% in 2020 also
https://www.tweaktown.com/n...
Thanks Phil for putting even more game on Playstation. I'll support you and buy them on Playstation lol cheers
it was a shock but some clung to the copium that it was only going to be 4 games.........c'mon now, the trajectory was clear to those reading the room. MS can make more moola putting their games everywhere like sony potentially could but sony's priority is the hardware and its customers in contrast to xbox who don't mind putting their priorities elsewhere.
We'll see. I think he's referring to Doom Dark Ages, Elder Scrolls Online, Call of Duty 6. Doubt it's Forza, Halo, Fable, Gears of War or anything that's gonna still move some Xbox hardware. Once Xbox moves those, Xbox fans will ditch Xbox so they can't go THAT far
I follow a guy called Tom Warren I believe his name is on X. Now I always take rumours with a heavy dose of salt especially when it comes to X. However, He has revealed a lot of stuff in the few months I have paid attention to him. I think he was the first or one of the first to leak that Microsoft was bringing a few first party titles to Playstation and even revealed the 4 games hours before the xbox business update.
Pretty much revealed Gears was being revealed at the showcase (he did say gears 6 though) as well as doom and fable a day or so before the showcase.
He has said over the last few weeks about this Project Latitude. A internal code of IP's Microsoft are releasing on other platforms. Recently he has said Age of Empires 2 Definitive is targeted to release on PS5 in early 2025. Age of matholgy at some point and apparently Halo CE Remaster to release on ps5. As well as previously saying Gears of war (didn't say if it's the nearly announced E-Day or a collection of the older titles are in consideration.
Again I take these rumours with plenty of salt. But he seems reliable
Either way I will take Gears. Im actually hoping it will be a collection of the first three games, I can wait for Emergence Day.
I'd take Gears 1and 2, Halo Reach, Banjo Kazooie, and any other old Rare game they feel like throwing around.
i thought it was four and no more
know phil suddenly wants to bring every xbox exclusive to playstation
So let’s say those four surprisingly made them a few dollars. Is it unreasonable to go back to the drawing board afterwards and bring more games over?
95% of games are on both consoles. A few more aren't gonna really matter. These are business decisions. Nothing more. Sony is slowly doing similar things. Some gamers won't like it but it's the way the industry is headed.
Just because they are doing multiplat, that doesn’t mean all games. I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of the games showed were delayed or not multiplat at all.
only one game I wont mind playing,and that is one of the gears of war. The rest I have no interest in.
Imagine being able to go on nintendo eshop, download fable 1 but the enhanced 360 version, fable 2 lol that would be dope, fable on the go hell yeah
If it is about making money then MS should put the games on as many platforms as possible as it is clear the Xbox base is too small and Gamepass is not growing at the pace they anticipated, so getting your games in more gamers hands is a good thing to me. MS should stop dancing around this and just rip the band-aid off.
I don’t think Perfect Dark will come to PlayStation and if it does it’ll be a year wait at least. Even Xbox understands the necessity to have some must play exclusives on their platform. Whether it’s Elder Scrolls, Gears, or Perfect Dark, timed exclusives in the least bit I’m betting one or more will remain exclusive.
You don't drop 80 billion+ on a bunch of studios and games just to wall them off on your own console that is not selling as well. If Microsoft wants to make the big money they would be better off focusing on the SOFTware part of their business.
100% agree with you. People on here used the same argument but the other way around when they bought Bethesda and Activision. They ain't going to spend $80billion on these publishers just to put them on all platforms.
It's true that Microsoft probably hoped that getting these big publishers would lead to 100+ million gamepass subs each month. Since that ain't happed they need them other platforms.
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