Community Writer Daniel Sims: Microsoft's Games for Windows platform is in shambles, but there are a handful of things they can do to salvage this debacle and even gain a couple advantages on the PC.
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
Why even comment on this when Microsoft doesn't even make games?
oddly enough Kinect would have been a great way to manage that... as in they need casual games to help them sell games. GFWL isn't going to beat Steam and other download services.
Microsoft Games Studios doesn't make games?
Steam is wiping the floor with Microsoft's GFWL. Steam had the headstart but with all the R&D done for the Xbox why is Microsoft not porting as much of that system over to make a streamlined gaming service? Why not release either a gaming version of Windows 7 or have an inbuilt gaming system, a bit of a step on from the Windows Media Centre application that switches your PC into a gaming mode with a browser and a few other apps but have essentially a stripepd down OS like the XBOX thats turns off uneeded processes and concentrates purely on gaming. Combine that with the current Marketplace - which to be fair has some good deals on there like BioShock 2 for £7.49 and they could really take on Steam. Not that I have anything against Steam, its running now on my PC before I dive into Black Ops but competition is good.