Microsoft's Shane Kim On Fable 2, Why Marvel MMO Was Canceled And More

TnS - 667 days 9 hours ago

Sorry. :)

Very good interview, in my opinion.

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ThaGeNeCySt - 667 days 8 hours ago

I'm not so sure if Alan Wake was confirmed for 2008... when they asked if it was a 2008 game, he said "not necessarily" :(

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Kleptic - 666 days 21 hours ago

wow...'not necessarily' is now confirmation of a game for this year?...

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ThaGeNeCySt - 667 days 8 hours ago

the release date hasn't really been confirmed or denied by Silicon Knights or Microsoft... so at this point who knows? I think it's better to either release the game BEFORE GTA IV or some time during the summer when GTA IV's success pushes more consoles to consumers and can potentially have a lot more buyers for the title. But... if it does release May 6th, then RIP Too Human lol

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wageslave - 667 days 4 hours ago

I think we're learning something about the culture inside MS. They recognize that small dev houses do better outside larger organizations. This is just fine.

The development model for videogames is moving to model the dev. model for films very closely, and that business smarts and managment methods are on the East coast, they might be picking up some ideas.

Further, MGS is instead, doing deals with 3rd parties to cherry-pick the best projects. MGS can and does make deals when good things arise in the industry, BioWare and MassEffect are a great example.

All the worry about Bungie and BioWare joining other firms is for not. MS is -- at its core, always been about partnership, enabling 3rd parties and being dynamic.

Building up a big development teams in house that work on projects that *dont* require continuity is illogical. And, I think MS knows this. The teams that do games are assembled on a per-project basis for the most part, the senior leadership, senior creative teams and senior technical people are what builds the project.

MS bringing in more "senior managment people" i think further reflects this knowledge.

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wageslave - 667 days 4 hours ago

Here's a good page of STFU:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

There is *all kinds* of great games for Xbox 360. That list BTW, doesnt have the sports games (you know, some people pick up a basketball, hockey, golf or football game every now and then...))

The Xbox 360 owners is already the biggest per-year game purchaser of the generation. How many games do you think people need every year?

The year is stacked with so many choices, everyone (PS3 *AND* Xbox 360 owner) is going to have to NOT purchase some games they might like to play.

Your notion of lack of games is empty, shallow FUD. Take it >>

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Hockey11 - 666 days 22 hours ago

LOL 90% of those games are multi or not coming out this year. And Haze is down there even though it is not coming to the 360. So yea the 360's lineup is pretty dry. Try to prove me wrong.

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Hockey11 - 666 days 22 hours ago

Its coming to the pc too

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wageslave - 667 days 4 hours ago

There is no impression that 2007 wont be a great year.

FFS, Lost Odyssey isnt even released yet. I'm still working through the 2007 games I already own, and there are many many must-have games for 2008.

Thi sis just off-handed talk. Xbox 360 will again be the premier console, and yes, I know that MGS4 & FF are big names. Im more than willing to forgo another FF and MGS for the opportunity to play the games available on Xbox 360 in 2008.

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robbo918 - 667 days 4 hours ago

You said "X360 will again be the premier console". Fanboy worlds aside when was it the premier console? It had no competition its first year and Wii is beating both PS3 and X360 so at this stage if one was named premier it would be Wii. For you to pretend that because you are willing to forgo FF and MGS to play the X360 doesn't mean anyone else will. Usually your posts are pretty good even if I don't often agree but this one is lame IMO. I do agree with the part that M$ has a pretty good 2008 lineup.

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witchking - 667 days 3 hours ago

There are undoubtedly a ton of games coming out for the 360 in 2008. But 1, many of them are multiplatform and 2, many of them are no-names.

Fable 2 and Splinter Cell are two that carry some franchise recognition and will garner a level of excitement. But that simply can't compare with the Halo 3 phenom from 2007.

Now, another one of these could become the next BioShock or Mass Effect and simply sweep everyone up in their greatness (maybe Too Human, for instance) but so far that's not happening, and so it is leaving the door open for Sony to press its own advantage in 2008. And that's not just an MGS4 statement. I don't think we'll see FFXIII until 2009, but the PS3 is getting a lot of play out of KZ2 (not sure why, the first one sucked) and LittleBigPlanet. The kind of energy that BioShock produced for 360 in 2007 seems to be swinging to these titles for the PS3 in 2008.

And let's not forget, even with the amazing year that the 360 had in 2007, even with the release of Halo 3, and the staggering number of sales for games like GH3, COD4, BioShock and Mass Effect on the 360... even with all the "there are no games for the PS3"... the PS3 still outsold the 360 worldwide in 2007.

So while I think the 360 will still have an overall sales lead over the PS3 at the end of 2008, I think Sony may come close to halving that 7m unit lead that MSFT currently enjoys.

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Hockey11 - 666 days 22 hours ago

Ive seriously never tried any BK game because I didn't have a n64. What do they play like and what do you basically do?

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Lagbox plzfixme - 666 days 23 hours ago

yar

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Jason 360 - 666 days 23 hours ago

What do they have in commen? answer: you have lost somthing from each of them this gen. :) have a nice day.

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Hockey11 - 666 days 22 hours ago

What did we lose from UBI? And who cares, Sony didn't try and stop them so they obviously didn't care so why should we. Sony isn't M$ and doesn't pay 50 mill for just exclusive content.

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Kleptic - 666 days 21 hours ago

he is probably referring to Splinter Cell: conviction...a title from the 'other' stealth action series...as long as the PS3 had day 1 access to the king of this type of game, there isn't a PS3 owner alive the least concerned...

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