Take one look at the 2010 lineup for the high-definition consoles and one trend becomes - shooters are big. This holiday season, Halo: Reach, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Medal of Honor are set to dominate retail, while games like MAG and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 were big hitters at the beginning of the year.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Well, it is true. Not that that's particularly a bad thing-- I don't find the genre that bad if the games are good. They have Gears & Halo as their top games and they are great games. Sony has just as many shooters with MAG, Killzone, Resistance, and Socom. But the key here is diversity in exclusives, in which case MS lacks. MS doesn't necessarily take the risks with their titles. It'd be nice to see them take some bold steps instead of relying on what they know works. And truth be told, shooters work. Especially games like Gears and Halo with a majority of American gamers. MS really knows how to appeal to that crowd. No matter how fed up people may be with how many shooters are here this gen the genre still juices out AAA titles.
Considering the fact that the American market favors the 360 and the shooter genre, it's no surprise that MS's most successful games are shooters. I think that they even said they are working on another exclusive shooter after Halo. If the game is good, then sure, more power to them, but it'd be nice to see them put hard work in other genres.
shooters like halo and call of duty sell well into millions so might explain why microsoft are looking into another first person shooter
Well I think we all know that. Microsoft system weren't exactly known for their variety of games.They don't even really have any platformers.
If they sell like hot cakes then obviously they are going to pump them out, even half of the top selling games on the PS3 are shooters for feck sake.
It's like opening up a hairdressers and only doing Jerry Curls...
You will be out of business in a month.
Sony continues to puff hot air. Sometimes these game companies are as bad as their fanboys.