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CaptainHenry9161232d ago

The biggest question is will this be a Xbox/Windows 10 exclusive? Let's see if Microsoft learn anything to be more competitive

CrimsonWing691232d ago (Edited 1232d ago )

If Microsoft is smart they’d make it exclusive. This could be their competition to Uncharted. Even if it isn’t third person it still could be a great exclusive that can entice people to purchase their platform or just get it on PC.

Sonic-and-Crash1232d ago (Edited 1232d ago )

if it isnt 3rd person then it will for sure fail against Uncharted ......FPS is the easy and cheaply way to do an SP game ......Also even with Bethesda behind the Indiana IP needs tons of work to even match Uncharted as U4 and tomb Raider have already exploited most of the ideas

CaptainHenry9161232d ago

I thought Sony was done with Uncharted? Naughty Dog is definitely done with it.

blacktiger1232d ago

wrong if MS dumb then exclusive otherwise they need to make money!

CrimsonWing691232d ago

@blacktiger

Quick question:

Why do exclusives exist in the first place?

Army_of_Darkness1231d ago

Bethesda's uncharted, except with bugs and glitches I bet. Probably just an inferior version of uncharted.

SmokinAces1231d ago

"This could be their competition to Uncharted."

Might want to lower that expectation way way down starting now.

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AngelicIceDiamond1232d ago

Indiana Jones from Bethesda? I dunno how good the game might be I can see it being cheesy. I'd say multiplat this game probably won't do much for MS as an exclusive. They need something bigger.

Kavorklestein1232d ago

From Machine Games. Wolfenstein.
Published by Bethesda but I can see it being good if done right.

Rambokind1232d ago

The developer is pretty good, so there's reason to be optimistic.

Workshyskiver1232d ago

Doubt it, Its a licensed game already in development and Microsoft don't own Bethesda yet. I wouldn't expect Bethesda Studios games to be exclusive till 2023 earliest. Timed sure, but completely exclusive I doubt it.

poppatron1232d ago

When do you think this’ll be out?

A teaser for a game we’ve never heard of being shown for the first time today...

2023 is my bet

Sharky2311232d ago (Edited 1232d ago )

I hope it’s on all platforms. Also I hope it’s a great game!!

REDGUM1232d ago

I can't see that a company these days would go exclusive with releases, especially from a bigger developer like these guys.
They'd be shooting themselves in the foot with potential sales.
I understand this is now more so controlled be MS but selling games these days needs to be done on mass scale not just one platform.

I can/could see the game as a timed exclusive. That'd make more sense, disappointing for me, a ps5 player, but makes sense from a business perspective. Exclusive only just seems like it could cone back to bite them in the end.

Then again, what would I know, I'm don't run a multi million dollar company.

S2Killinit1232d ago

Pretty sure it is. Not sure if sonething like this will be very exciting but if they are teasing it before even showing anything, its probably a big deal internally at least.

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NewYork2141231d ago

This game had to have been started before the talks with Microsoft if they are already announcing it. I wonder if Lucasfilm games has any say in it. Big IP to lockdown to a system. And doubt they went in knowing xbox was going to buy up the studio, especially if it will be on gamepass. Unless they are getting kick back.

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NeoGamer2321232d ago

Nice. An Indiana Jones game being developed by the same development studio that works on Wolfenstein!

This is exciting! (Although, as usual no gameplay)

Atticus_finch1232d ago

People keep talking about Bethesda making exclusives for xbox but the reality is that to make back your 7billion Ms has no choice but to make those games Multiplats. They won't be making their money when most people on xbox will choose to rent those games.

SyntheticForm1232d ago

You think they need to allow their games on PlayStation to recoup the billions they spent?

Lol.

waverider1232d ago

Of course. When their consoles are selling less and less then the competition. When gamers dont need to pay full price to play big budget games.... When they have pay hundreds and hundreds of millions to all 23 or 24 studios to make games, to pay the salaries of all that work on that studios...

SyntheticForm1232d ago

You really think that they have no other avenues to recoup that money?

-siiiiiggghh-

Sayai jin1232d ago

Synthetic, just let people believe what the will. They have already said they have other avenues to recoup that money, if they choose to directly do that.

sinspirit1232d ago (Edited 1232d ago )

Maybe don't talk before assuming that recouping is that easy. A 60 usd game can sell 10 million and make 600 million usd, before tax, shipping, development costs, marketing costs, percentage cuts to certain parties, etcetera. Even without all those costs, it will take well over a decade for them to recoup the costs of what they spent. For you guys, recouping costs isn't the same as simply making money elsewhere, lol. The point of an investment is for the return.. from the investment. Even being multiplatform it will take a very long time to recoup costs, but cutting out PS4 and PS5 who sell half the copies of these games? Not gonna happen. Timed exclusive is the closest you'll get.

DragonWarrior191232d ago

If you think gamepass will make up the difference, I hope you are aware the service itself is a money pit and isn't making MS any money.

SmokinAces1231d ago

They'll need to allow their games on as many platforms as possible.

Rainbowcookie1231d ago

I think they will keep it exclusive, that is how you sell consoles. If they don't xbox might fail. If I were them I would wait 2 years and see before considering doing a multiplatform, if the installbase is good keep it exclusive, of not selling on more platforms rakes in the cash to buy more companies etc.

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AngelicIceDiamond1232d ago (Edited 1232d ago )

"When their consoles are selling less and less then the competition."

Both consoles are selling well so I don't know what u mean. Your statement is fill with Irony. You claim MS is "selling less and less" but yet need to not make those games exclusive because of the acquisition. All we here from Sony fanboys is MS needs to have big AAA games. Something I definitely agree with. But they shouldn't because of a price tag they need to make up so which none is it? Do they need the games or not? MS needs to make up the price for all of it's acquisitions.

CBaoth1231d ago

Already though the PS5 has outsold the Xbox SX by 2 million while both are supply constrained. This is as close as MS is gonna get. That's the problem. Sony learned via the PS3 you only get one shot to make a good first impression. It took them all gen to crawl out of the basement. With Halo, MS blew it. They've got all the money but not enough IPs to pull a PS3. I'm perfectly fine if Bethesda's catalogue becomes exclusive to MS' ecosystem. Like you said they need AAA exclusives. The problem is the 3 biggest hitters won't come till 2023 (ES, FO, Doom) when the current gen will be long decided. Then you got Nintendo in 2023 with Switch Too, which makes a comeback of sorts unlikely.

However it's not all doom and gloom. If MS continues Xbox into next gen, the developmental cycle will favor them. Most of these recent acquisitions will have released one big IP this gen and will be ready to have something available in the next launch window. MS needs to come out swinging; maybe something like cut the MP out of Halo and make it F2P to anyone who owns an Xbox or subbing GP through PC and mobile. Homogenize GP this gen so it's exactly the same service to everyone using it (XB, PC, or mobile). New UI, new gamepad, new console, streaming tech more matured plus 2-3 AAA exclusives at launch will provide a more serious competition with the next offering.

BLAKHOODe1232d ago

That's ideal, but it's really pick 'n choose. A marquee franchise like Indiana Jones could be Microsoft's "Spider-Man". A system seller. There are lesser games that they could release multi-plat to recoup their $7b.

JackBNimble1232d ago

I'm sure MS plan is more of a long term plan.
Besides that if Bethesda's games are xbox exclusives and people want them then that's how xbox starts selling more consoles.

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Knightofelemia1232d ago

Hope it has better writing then Crystal Skull and there be no Shia Labeouf in the game.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken3d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty3d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken2d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty2d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken2d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

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@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken2d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie2d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit3d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export3d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2033d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai5d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard4d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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