TMC: Microsoft's Chief of Interactive Entertainment Business, Aaaron Greenberg, updates us with 360's Life To Date numbers. Major Nelson's numbers get corrected.
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
So whos ahead now?
See NPD wasnt all bad after all, at least we would have a little idea where we all are even if its only in the US.
I think I have seen about 7 different sales numbers this week.
Oh and yes and sorry.
i'm 10 of those!
jk, i've only had rrod once. it was my fault though, i smoked in front of it and treated it poorly.
Knew it was only a matter of time before MS "fixed" Nelson's comment.
Though I thought they'd have done it sooner.
So much for the "400,000" lead I was being led to believe existed.
Well, so much for that. The gap is at 4 million going into the holidays with Kinect inbound. The 360 will probably be ahead by about 5 million by years end.
That glimmer of hope for the PS3 didn`t last long.
There's no way of knowing how many people are actually playing it. How many of those are rrod? How many are "upgrades?" How many are ultimate editions? Same thing for the PS3 - don't give a damn. In fact, the only people who should care are dev companies because they need to know the user base for each console. Ever imagine that there might be less 360 users out there than PS3 users accounting for everything. Devs are the only people who should care, and be pissed off about inflated numbers.