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Microsoft's software output?

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hershel_layton on 19 May 2016
barneystinson69 said:
Risthel said:
Am i the only one who have this impression? Recently I'm reading how many games Microsoft is adding to their backwards compatibility (which is nice), but they're having a poor 2016 so far regarding new titles: - Fable Legends: cancelled, Lionhead closed; - Project Spark: closed; - Phantom Dust: cancelled (not official but come on, you still believe it exists?); - Scalebound: delayed to 2017 - Recore: delayed (again, not official, but I think it's safe to say it). And maybe I'm forgetting something. The only game that came out is Quantum Break, which didn't actually set the world on fire. Not to say that their support for Windows 10 games is pretty bad, but this is another story. Microsoft's management of their first party software output has never been good to begin with this gen, but it's really becoming awful. It's almost like they are slowing giving up and that they don't care so much anymore. Even Phil Spencer stopped tweeting about his daily routine (or maybe the videogame media stopped making news for every tweet he's writing). I'm not expecting anything big at Microsoft E3 this year honestly, only games already announced and some sort of hardware revision. What do you think about it?

What is there to do? Phil Spencer only became head 2 years ago, that isn't much time for any reform. Any new games coming out would likely take a couple years longer to become a reality. Realistically, they need to just focus their efforts on their next-gen console, as its clear the XB1 has been a lemon for them. Hoping for the best, but we'll just have to wait and see.

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Goatseye on 19 May 2016

Nothing to worry about. BC is handled by a team of engineers, not 1st party studios.
So far this year Quantum Break has been amazing mixed with a plethora of 3rd party games that still count as... games. Not other platform holder has had 2 AAA games launch this half of the year.
No reason for "concerns"



Aquamarine on 19 May 2016

Phil Spencer is trying to push out all the failed Don Mattrick games as soon as possible so he can reform Microsoft Studios his way.

And unfortunately that means cancellations, studio closures, and sending games out to die.



ArchangelMadzz on 19 May 2016
LudicrousSpeed said:
Companies go through periods like this. Sony had it last year, Nintendo has stretches with not much on the WiiU.

They've had Quantum Break, Ori, Cobalt, and a new Killer Instinct already this year. Still got lots of big games coming this year.

I'm happy MS is doing a fan service like backwards compatibility that doesn't require you to pay to stream your already owned games over the Internet, or rebuy them digitally in order to be able to play them. Not to mention, how much effort do you really thing it takes for people to make this happen? I would imagine there is literally 0 affect on game development.

E3 is only a few weeks away.

Really? At this point last year MS released..? And this year so far they've had QB?

 

At this point last year Sony released Bloodborne, The Order and MLB. 

 

But we'll see how both end up at the end of the year with E3 coming up as you said, may be some crazy stuff going down.



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COKTOE on 19 May 2016

I think it's probably just a lull, but a lackluster E3 would raise my eyebrows a little bit.



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Teeqoz on 19 May 2016
Goatseye said:
Nothing to worry about. BC is handled by a team of engineers, not 1st party studios.
So far this year Quantum Break has been amazing mixed with a plethora of 3rd party games that still count as... games. Not other platform holder has had 2 AAA games launch this half of the year.
No reason for "concerns"

Uhm.... are you sure about that?



Fei-Hung on 19 May 2016
Goatseye said:
Nothing to worry about. BC is handled by a team of engineers, not 1st party studios.
So far this year Quantum Break has been amazing mixed with a plethora of 3rd party games that still count as... games. Not other platform holder has had 2 AAA games launch this half of the year.
No reason for "concerns"

Last year Sony had The Order, Bloodborne and MLB. 

 

This year Sony has had Street Fighter V, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted 4, MLB and Gravity Rush Remastered. 

 

Having said that, I'm not really concerned. MS usually release their games at the end of the year. 



HokageTenshi on 19 May 2016

this is the feature X1 defeated PS4 you know...



walsufnir on 19 May 2016

A good way for a decend thread:

- Start with "Am I the only one?"
- Leave out facts (other games like Sea of Thieves announced)
- Make false assumptions
- Guess things to support your narrative ("Recore: delayed (again, not official, but I think it's safe to say it")



Barkley on 19 May 2016

MS doesn't have the greatest game output but for Xbox fans I think it's probably fine. They'll get the games they care about such as gears, Halo and Forza and they probably don't give a damn about titles such as Persona 5, Ratchet and Clank, Gravity Rush 2 etc.

The people who prefer Xbox have a different taste in games and will get what they want even if it's no where near the quantity of PlayStation.