| Raven722 said: Oh okay, I understand you now. I agree with you. Microsoft is not abandoning the 360 but it is in their best interest to begin moving forward. Sony isn't going to wait for them and it's pretty obvious at this point that Microsoft cannot afford to give up any ground. This last generation was already the longest in quite a while if not the longest console generation ever. The 360 has already been supported for 8 years now. Most consoles are all but dead after 5 or 6 years. I would think that even if Microsoft only supports it for another year that they have already done their part for the console. Even the support Sony shows for their consoles is on the verge of drying up after that long and they're known for supporting their consoles a long time. Even if Microsoft walked away from the 360 tomorrow and just left continued support for its online features, I would not blame them at all. A studio takes a while to get running though. Setting up facilities, acquiring equipment, getting the people, creating the ideas, and then actually going through the motions of greenlighting projects and making them happen. Studios that already exist have a difficult time getting a game out in two years. More than a few just began recruitment a year or two ago and some will not even be making games for the XOne or just for it. They may also be making purely PC games as well as mobile games. We also don't know how many teams those studios have. We know that Lionhead has two teams and Rare has about three teams but other than that it seems as though all of their other studios are single-team so most of them will likely only be producing one game every few years depending on the size of the game. Another thing to consider is the very fact that these are brand new studios. They are untested. I'm certain some of them will have industry veterans but they still need to show what they've got. You can have 100 individual studios but if only 10 of them are making games worth anything then what's the point? As far as Black Tusk goes, I really don't understand the hype behind it. It's a new studio that hasn't released a single game yet but so many Xbox fans are damn near jerking off to whatever their next game is. A game that we know pretty much nothing about. Not even a name. An unproven studio with a mystery game is worth the hype it's been getting? Is it simply because MS said they want their game to rival Halo in popularity? |
@Bolded: I totally agree that these are untested studios. They will have to carve out their success but at least MS is stocking them with veterans to help ease the transistion from startup to dependable.
As for Black Tusk, the hype is because MS stated that they built this studio with the goal of them being on the level of 343. So MS has brought in a lot of veterans, gave the studio large sums of money to kick out a AAA (doesn't mean good just how much invested) game. So people who are interested in the X1 is looking to see how AAA will the games be. It matters not if they are untested, the people who are part of the studio have pretty good track records of top teir games on their resume. Doesn't mean they cannot make a dude just means that chances are high they come out with something people will enjoy.
