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@BRT15 I’m pretty sure that the people who left was from the Horizon team. So it shouldn’t have any affect on Fable.

@BlackMayge Not everyone is a fan of the subscriptions model for games. I for one still buy all my games even first party Xbox stuff; and refuse to sub to gamepass. I just like the feeling of "owning" my games and not being forced to play stuff within a timeframe.

@BlackMayge Xbox has nothing to offer that couldn’t be played on other platforms which is what people are complaining about. Xbox get a butt load of games, and all of those games are fantastic, but I can play them on my PC or PS5.

@Shaun2018098 Yes. I already know this. This is absolute basic comic book history. Nothing you're saying is new information.

@Would_you_kindly Well... Duh. But you're not gonna say "I wish marvel would buy back the rights." It not ultimately their decision, or wallet. It's Disney that would be buying back the right for marvel.

@GamingFan4Lyf I wish Disney would buy the rights back as well...

But Spider-Man is so ingrained in Sony's identity as a company especially their movie studio. That Disney would probably have to buy Sony entirely to get Spider-Man fully back.

@Would_you_kindly I don't think forcing people to pay for Live Gold if they just want to play online in games that aren't FTP is very pro consumer either, but here we are.

@Would_you_kindly "PlayStation success hasn't prompted Xbox to improve that subscription-based service"

Well yeah, Live Gold is basically a legacy service at this point that they are basically forcing everyone away from. So you're talking about a very tiny subset of people at this point... Especially when consider that Live is not required for F2P online games anymore which makes up the bulk of the major multiplayer games (Fortnite, Warzone, Overwatch, Destiny, Halo...etc), and anyone with common sense or like straight better value would have grab gamepass for like a $1.

@UltimateOtaku91 While Diablo 5 and Overwatch 3 are massive games. I have a feeling that the majority of those games player base is on PC… So those games leaving PlayStation isn’t near as bad. Where as CoD fan base is literally only on consoles.

@Would_you_kindly “ps plus essential is actually better than xbox live gold”

TBH I forgot that Xbox Live gold was even a thing still. I doubt there are very few people left who has gold and haven’t upgraded to game pass. Which is probably what people are comparing Sony’s subscription service to.

@NEStalgia Technically, Embracer group isn’t a publisher… They’re a holding company just like Take-Two. They own companies that publish games, but they themselves don’t publish anything.

But Amazon also published Lost Ark which was their first big break in the game industry, so it seemed they realized that they are better off publishing instead of developing. Due to every game they tried to develop have end up a flop.

@Would_you_kindly I don't personally think gamepass is losing them money, but it definitely isn't making enough for them drop everything else and go complete 100% in on gamepass.

@Shinaxis When did I say that a huge conglomerate buying out another huge game conglomerate to become the 2nd largest gaming company worldwide wasn't a big deal...?

@Would_you_kindly That definitely ain't happening unless they go 3rd party. Services like Xbox live is the only thing making any real money.

The fact that the FTC and the EU are even listening to anything Sony say show how much leverage they have. The buyout would have probably already gone through if Sony wasnt over here having a fit.

@Shinaxis Cause you don't make life time contacts. We don't know where the gaming industry will be in 10, 15, 20 years. In 10 years Microsoft may just drop out of the gaming industry altogether and spin off xbox... They may just move to being a 3rd party publisher at any time.

The world may not even be around in 10 years...

@Would_you_kindly While Starfield is a high profile game. Sony has way too much leverage in the game industry now. They have compete domaince over industry with the PS4 which they still hold with the PS5. That leverage would get them the exclusivity.

TBH Sony could buy up exclusivity for every major game and no one could say no. Their console sales and sale of games on their platform show that games will still sell really good regardless of an Xbox version or not, so why not get that extra money from Sony.

This is why Xbox are doing massive buyout. They are passed the point of being able to compete a lifestyle brand on equal footing. No one is gonna buy an Xbox even if they dropped 20 AAA 10/10 games a year.

I mean... It not like Sony showed anything really either. They just announced release dates for PC games. Sure Death Stranding 2 was officially announced, but tbh I consider Kojima separate from Sony.

@Would_you_kindly Do we have proof that Starfield and Redfield was going to be multiplatform? Before the Xbox buyout everything was pointing at Sony buy out Starfield exclusive especially after scoring both Deathloop and Ghostwire. Which is what cause Microsoft to jump and buy Zenimax straight out...

@IronMan30 Maybe if you and more people should have complained… If y’all did, we wouldn’t be in the situation. But nah, games sales continued to climb even with the price hike.

@UltimateOtaku91 I doubt we'll see Xbox spending any further money on TV/Movies after the whole Xbox One generation, and they've already tried making TV/Movie content before with Xbox Entertainment Studios.

@TheAshCohen09 Roundhouse is basically made up of employees from Human Head Studios... So Rune, Brink, The Quit Man, and original Prey...

If the numbers are down from last year during the same time period. It not surprising... No one is getting stimulus checks anymore; the price of living have massively increased; people are able to go back outside and on vacation, so they aren't spending time in front of the TV anymore which means they have to buy gas... The price of that have also massively increased. I'm personally now having spending $5.50 a gallon to put gas in my v8 mustang... Most of my income is going towards that and not gaming.

@Chaudy No. ATT spin-off both WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc into one company, Warner Bros. Discovery. Before that it was WarnerMedia that own the IPs. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is the game publisher who handles making licensed games of WarnerMedia/Warner Bros. Discovery owned IPs

EDIT: If Microsoft wanted to continue makes DC, Harry Potter games... etc After say buying Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. They would have to license them out from Warner Bros. Discovery. Just like Sony is licensing out Spider-Man from Disney.

This probably why no one have bought those studio even after multiple reports of them being for sale. The studio are completely worthless without the IP, and licensing the IP would probably cost an arm and a leg.

@Chaudy All of those are licensed IPs (Besides mortal Kombat) Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment does not own the rights to them. Their parent company Warner Bros. Discovery owns them. If Microsoft bought Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment they would have to get the licenses for any DC, Harry Potter, Lord of Rings... etc properties. Warner Bro. Interactive Entertainment is basically worthless since they don't own any actual IPs.

@Chaudy Warner Bro have literally nothing to offer. All of their studios work on nothing but license IPs besides NetherRealm and mortal Kombat...

@dsar9012 Sony also own Sony San Diego, but here we are with MLB the Show on Xbox and Switch. Sony doesn't own Spider-Man, they're only borrowing the license from Disney, and if Disney wanted Spider-Man on Xbox... They would have to put it on the platform or potential lose the license.

@Skedaddle Meh... Playstation can keep God of War, that an internally owned IP. Spider-Man on the other hand needs to go multiplatform just like MLB.

@armondo36 All companies have a long list of canceling games... Xbox just seems to have a bad habit of airing their dirty laundry.

@Tsushima Maybe. But there nothing EA can do... Respawn is their star child at the moment, and basically have the ability to do whatever they want.

@pip_muzz MS never really understood or respected the talent that they owned with Bungie. They just wanted the Halo IP, and someone to pumped them out. I used to call Bungie the Naughty dog of Xbox. Sadly, no other studio has been able to hold that title since they left.

I always wonder how different the Xbox One generation would have been if Bungie had stayed with Microsoft, and created Destiny only for Xbox.

@Would_you_kindly Don't forget about people on PC. As RDR was never released on PC originally.

@Thrussted There's nothing to understand. It just another indie driven by it fanbase.

It definitely looks like the extra couple years of development was put to good use.

@eagletrippin I'm guessing he cracking down more due to spending almost using 200 Billion in acquisitions and exclusives. Before all of these acquisitions, Xbox just didn't have the man power to deliver more gameplay and less CGI. Now that they have the man power... It would look bad for business to keep showing CGI.

@uptownsoul " I still can't believe xbox will have no exclusives in the entirety of 2022"

Which is untrue. They have Pentiment which is an exclusive first party title. You can't just disregard Pentiment because it isn't a big AAA game. They still have an exclusive, no matter if AAA or indie. An exclusive is an exclusive. If they wanted to just speak about AAA game. Then they shouldn't have made a statement like that, and then try to haphazardly fix it in their next comment

Plese no real-world car prices... Plese no real-world car prices... Plese no real-world car prices...

@uptownsoul But my originally comment was that UltimateOtaku91 who was discrediting games like Pentiment as exclusive because it wasn't AAA. So in their eyes ALL exclusives needed to be AAA to be worth talking about

@Stocksy That would be great, but it not something I absolutely need. Right now I just pumped to finally play P3P on something other than my psp.

@uptownsoul Uh... Most of the platform holders agree with that statement. Microsoft makes a lot of smaller title release Pentiment is a prefect example of that. We wouldn't get games like Grounded, Battletoads (2020), Recore...etc. Yes platform holders do want a big AAA release that sell systems, but not every exclusive has to be a big AAA release

@UltimateOtaku91 An exclusive is an exclusive. It doesn't matter if it a system seller or not. To be honest, I rather have Pentiment than another Last of Us.

It great that Microsoft is actually trying and releasing different things instead of just releasing the same super cinematic third person games like Sony. The Obsidian Entertainment so far has been Microsoft best purchase.

@UltimateOtaku91 Xbox is getting some exclusives... Pentiment is scheduled for November

@NEStalgia No. The One S was only like 7-10% faster than the Base Xbox One... that a only like maybe 5-9 FPS in absolutely GPU bound situations due to the slightly faster GPU clocks and more ESRAM bandwidth. The PS4 is like still like 30-40% faster.

@NEStalgia X1S and base Xbox One is basically the same. LMAO. The X1S isn't that much faster where a developer couldn't just also target the base Xbox One. Both systems are still considerably weaker than a PS4.

Ubisoft Montreal should have handled the remake originally. They're the original developers of the game. Why hand something this important to studio who only ever originally mobile game and just dance ports.

@Bleachedsmiles Nah. That just doesn't feel right. Taking a British IP and handing it to an American Studio.

@Bleachedsmiles "Fable should have been given to obsidian or someone with rpg experience really."

While Obsidian would have been a good choice... They would have also been a terrible choice. They aren't British, and a lot of that Fable comes charm from British humor and what not. Which is probably why the IP was probably passed to Playground. Who would be a good British developer for the IP?

@awp69 And even then those aren't actual exclusives will see PC releases.

@themightyant So there was really no reason for you tell me what you had in your system.

Steam Survey is no place to boost about specs. That what reddit is for. Lmao. So no, it not gonna be skewed heavily towards hard-core gamers.

"If the majority of gamers DID have fast drives don't you think developers would have tapped into that by now? They are the ones most hamstrung by this and the ones that want to move forward the most, but they can't yet because the larger market doesn't have the hardware yet. It's not rocket science."

The larger market being consoles, not budget PCs. How games are designed and developed are hamstrung by consoles due to console players being the biggest spenders.

Like I said, AAA gaming on PC is niche. Gone are the 80, 90, and early 2000 where PC games actually pushed the hardware. Big budget game development is dead on PC. Any developer known for pushing hardware are either console developers, closed, or shadows of their former self. Now it nothing but indies and MMO.

The only time developers taps into that hardware is when there a new generation of console that support it, or a stronger sku.

The extremely fast storage space in PC will only now be used cause of a console base API.

@Richnj I'm not talking about the current set of games on the market. I'm talking future games. Also developers aren't obligated to consider the variables of people using HDD. Developers can set whatever target they want. If they want the game to only run on intel... they can do that. That is literally why they put of spec sheets for games.

Plus they didn't take in that consideration when they started pushing out DX12 only games knowing full well 10 series cards had poor support for the API.

@themightyant First, considering the fact that I've seen you on this site, and it sister site tells me. You're not primarily a PC gamer, and have other platforms. So if a game doesn't play "right" to you. You'll just play the game on another platform. So it not super surprising you still have HDD in your PC.

Second, Steam hardware survey is a stupid tool to gage anything. It doesn't take in account people who turned down the survey or the thousands of "gaming" PC in internet Cafe that had steam installed.

But yes, having the newest hardware is niche, but playing the latest AAA gaming on PC is niche as well. Most people are play F2P, indies, and games that can run on $100 laptops from Walmart. So of course the overwhelming majority of Steam players are gonna have low end hardware. You only need a 1060 to play Steam top 10 games.

There is probably a massive overlap of gamer with the latest hardware playing the latest games.