There has been zero confirmation of this rumor, Microsoft made a joke of it. Elop is also rumored not to be a front runner, he just applied and got interviewed. The people in charge of picking the CEO, especially Gates, wants to keep it.
But lets keep parroting it. SMH
MS funded Gears from the ground up, funded Mass Effect from the ground up, Alan Wake too.
These games wouldn't exist in their current form with MS's money.
The money they gave to EA, and 2K covers the development cost of the project too. Then what is left over is pocketed. MS's investment helps insures the financial success of a project.
When Sony was doing the same thing, people said nothing, it was good business. But with MS,...
But why is such a big deal if they employer the developers and fund the projects.
When Sony had the third party exclusive advantage, it was a good business move, MS does it and people act like it is ruining the industry
People are gonna bash Spencer but he has a point. Just look at Gears, Alan Wake and Mass Effect
Same thing happen with the new chip in the Xbox 360S. Microsoft gimped the new chip to perform at the same level as with older model Xbox 360.
Same thing will happen here, with Sony too. They can't have the market fragment like that. It would be pointless too.
New chips will be cheaper to produce, have better yields, and hopefully more savings passed on to consumers
Why are people mad at MS. It is in the terms of service that this stuff is not allowed.
It is like complaining about getting a ticket in a school zone because you didn't know it was a school zone. It is not MS/the cops fault you aren't paying attention.
EA have Mass Effect 2 one full year on the Xbox 360. So did 2k with BioShock. Destiny was supposed to be timed exclusive for an entire year in their original contract. So 6-9 months is really optimistic.
Secondly what about Splinter Cell Conviction which never came to the PS3.
Seems to me the going by history. This game won't be coming to the PS4 for a solid year.
How many do people have to be told that it is not the CEO's decision whether or not they can drop the Xbox division.
Another game people will scream that Killzone looks better than..............and will sell better than Killzone because, you know, it will be way more fun
Old IW/Respawn had 5 design leads, with West being on top as the project lead. After West left last summer, Todd Alderman and Zied Rieke also left the company too around the same time.
But if you read their forums. It seems like they all left on good terms, none of them left for other studios, but none of them sound like they will ever return.
Something seems a bit off about all the love Sony is getting from Bungie.
Destiny One was timed exclusive for Xbone, MS partly owns Bungie, but the two companies act like the other one barely exist now. Strange
Sony fanboys really think that after pubs forcing MS hand that Sony will stand up for them and tell Pubs to back off. lololol.
I can't wait for May 21st to arrive. Because this shit is getting ridiculous
If this was a PS4 exclusive, people would cheer Sony's commitment to the core
But with Microsoft, it is a sign they are abandoning the core. SMH
Fanboys better get ready, looks like E3 is gonna be pretty rough
Remember the beginning of this generation. When MS line up was waaaay better than Sony's.
OH yeah, everyone forgets because it doesn't fit with the "MS doesn't invest in the core" rhetoric that fanboys love to scream
Bioware got bought, SK embezzled money from them, Alan Wake went through development hell, Splinter Cell got scratched and reworked. And the second waze of studio closures in 2009 was done as a company cut to save money beca...
It is going to be hilarious when E3 comes around and MS has more core exclusives to show off than Sony.
But Sony fanboys already got the "always on" rhetoric to fall back on
Why the fuck do they need 600 people to make a COD game. SMH
Every major publisher cares. Dude is gonna get money thrown at him when he is ready to return
In the same time period (since E3), they have also lost 2 out of their 4 design leads (including their multiplayer design lead), the Lead Software engineer, and the best multiplayer map designer Alex Roycewicz (google his name to see list of maps he created, pretty much all the great ones).
Respawn is limping to the finish line with this game
Maybe it is for the Brack Friday Bunduru