@VoidPunk then unless you got some insider news you're wrong, since no employee from Avowed was fired. The director left to Netflix a month ago and that was it.
@VoidPunk "This is why sales matter to those who keep saying that they don’t. Giving your garbage away for free doesn’t keep the lights on. Avowed got people-a lot of people-fired." Are you mistaking avowed for everwild (which is not even confirmed)?
@InterceptorAlpha I don't think they meant that emulating Xbox 360/One/Series is impossible. I think that they mean that making a Pc function entirely like an Xbox running games (like Xbox one and series does with 360), with online and everything else is impractical. In my last comment I also forgot to say that with the launch of an Xbox pc, there won't be subscribers of the first game pass tier required to play online games. Also as it'll inevitable sell much less than Xbox Series, it'll also lose millions of ultimate subscribers, not mentioning that lots of the games will skip Xbox store. It's indeed a curious move if they go that way.
If this is referring to a home console and not a handheld, then Xbox next "console" is gonna be an Xbox PC and it's not gonna be subsidized, which means it's gonna cost much higher than an equivalent console and much higher than an equivalent normal PC, in times where the prices tend to go higher than they are today. I don't want to be pessimistic but if that's the case, it's dead on arrival and would be much better to just throw in the towel and launch an Xbox app for PC that can run old Xbox library (killing "play anywhere" in the process, since there will be only one plataform).
1 - this is not a major game, it's an AA short Rpg that was multiplat in the first entry. It's becoming clearer that many Xbox games won't come to other plataforms (since they don't want to kill the console), it's gonna be case by case. 2 - lol at the "why would I turn on my xbox then?"comments. Are you sincerely going to buy a game on another plataform if it's being offered day one on game pass? 3 - there's zero chance the Pc will have the Xbox digital library. First because there'll be at least one or two more console generations. And second because there is a major licensing issue due to it being a different plataform, with a different store (Xbox store is not windows store), not to mention the backward compatibility and emulation problems. It's different from steam with the same store and the same hardware (Pc), just using a different format. They already did what they could: Cloud + play anywhere and that's it. 4 - this is the most logical strategy. If they're putting their games on another plataform is to sell and make money, and the best time is the launching period. An Xbox game being relesead after 3,6 or a year after on PS would either sell much less and hurt the brand/sales the same way.
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Re: Xbox Layoffs Begin As Phil Spencer Shares Internal Microsoft Gaming Update
@VoidPunk then unless you got some insider news you're wrong, since no employee from Avowed was fired. The director left to Netflix a month ago and that was it.
Re: Xbox Layoffs Begin As Phil Spencer Shares Internal Microsoft Gaming Update
@VoidPunk "This is why sales matter to those who keep saying that they don’t. Giving your garbage away for free doesn’t keep the lights on. Avowed got people-a lot of people-fired."
Are you mistaking avowed for everwild (which is not even confirmed)?
Re: Xbox Emphasises That Its Next-Gen Devices 'Aren't Locked To A Single Store'
@InterceptorAlpha I don't think they meant that emulating Xbox 360/One/Series is impossible. I think that they mean that making a Pc function entirely like an Xbox running games (like Xbox one and series does with 360), with online and everything else is impractical.
In my last comment I also forgot to say that with the launch of an Xbox pc, there won't be subscribers of the first game pass tier required to play online games. Also as it'll inevitable sell much less than Xbox Series, it'll also lose millions of ultimate subscribers, not mentioning that lots of the games will skip Xbox store. It's indeed a curious move if they go that way.
Re: Xbox Emphasises That Its Next-Gen Devices 'Aren't Locked To A Single Store'
If this is referring to a home console and not a handheld, then Xbox next "console" is gonna be an Xbox PC and it's not gonna be subsidized, which means it's gonna cost much higher than an equivalent console and much higher than an equivalent normal PC, in times where the prices tend to go higher than they are today. I don't want to be pessimistic but if that's the case, it's dead on arrival and would be much better to just throw in the towel and launch an Xbox app for PC that can run old Xbox library (killing "play anywhere" in the process, since there will be only one plataform).
Re: Yes, The Outer Worlds 2 Is Another Xbox-Developed Game Heading To PS5
1 - this is not a major game, it's an AA short Rpg that was multiplat in the first entry. It's becoming clearer that many Xbox games won't come to other plataforms (since they don't want to kill the console), it's gonna be case by case.
2 - lol at the "why would I turn on my xbox then?"comments. Are you sincerely going to buy a game on another plataform if it's being offered day one on game pass?
3 - there's zero chance the Pc will have the Xbox digital library. First because there'll be at least one or two more console generations. And second because there is a major licensing issue due to it being a different plataform, with a different store (Xbox store is not windows store), not to mention the backward compatibility and emulation problems. It's different from steam with the same store and the same hardware (Pc), just using a different format. They already did what they could: Cloud + play anywhere and that's it.
4 - this is the most logical strategy. If they're putting their games on another plataform is to sell and make money, and the best time is the launching period. An Xbox game being relesead after 3,6 or a year after on PS would either sell much less and hurt the brand/sales the same way.