Xbox one vs Nintendo 64?

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lostintheodyssey said:

Towards the end of last generation there were plenty of reports of Microsoft buying up and creating new studios what are they going to be doing with all the new staff if not making new game ips?

What did Microsoft do with Rare? Made shovelware.
What about Grounding Inc? Made a bad sequel. Who's to say they changed?

Nintendo gets a lot of flack for not expanding their 1st party lineup very much but they do create plenty of new ip's just off the top of my head some new ips for the wii were wii sports, xenoblade, pandora's tower, dynamic slash, the last story (nintendo owns the ip) etc.  The problem is most people don't buy the games and then they complain that nintendo just release mario, metroid, and zelda.

The Last Story and Pandora's Tower are not developed by Nintendo. XenoBlade and Wii Sports are awesome, but when was the last time Nintendo made a new character like Kirby or Samus? Most of Nintendo's bigger mascots appeared during the NES/SNES era's and since then (except for a few RPG's and Nintendo published games) there have been few new mascots.

You leave out before Naughty Dog released TLou they made 3 Uncharted games so in year 7 of the ps3 they finally released something new.  Before that they developed 4 crash bandicoot games for the ps1.  After spending the entire ps2, psp and ps3 generation focused on killzone Guerilla Games is finally making something new for ps4.  The same goes with Santa Monica after spending the entire ps2, psp and ps3 generation making God of War they are finally making something new.

Uncharted 1 released in 2007 (year 1 for PS3). So after 6 years of making Uncharted's they made a new IP. What did Bungie do after 6 years? They left Microsoft because they were done with Halo. What did Epic do after 7 years? They gave over Gears of War to Microsoft to move on. What else on 360 was a major IP?

Sure Santa Monica & Guerilla games took 2 gens to make a new IP, but at least they did it. 343 doesn't develop anything but Halo, Lionhead is the same with Fable and so is Rare with Kinect Sports.

So the trend seems to be that whatever new ip's sony introduce at the beginning of the gen are the same titles that we will see for most or the entire generation from those developers.  So we are going to see The Order 1-3, Drive Club 1-3, TLou Remaster and 2, Uncharted 4-6 etc based on their previous history.

NOW YOU GET IT! The 360 launched with a good variety of exclusive IP's (Perfect Dark, Kameo, PGR, Amped, Dead or Alive, Full Auto, Chromehounds, Prey, Dead Rising, N3, etc). Every single IP that released within 360's first year either went bust, or multiplatform. Then 360 launched a bunch of "timed exclusives" like Lost Planet and Elder Scrolls, so what does that say about XB1's 3rs party exclusives currently? Titanfall is already following a similar path to Mass Effect where 2 & 3 will be multiplatform.

Based off trends we can expect at least 1 AAA new IP every year for the PS4. Be it Demon Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, Heavy Rain, The Last of Us or InFamous. None of these new IP's were known when PS3 released. Plus we can also expect PS4's lineup to get better and better where XB1 gets worse and worse.

This is why I told you that you can only assume Microsoft will do the same thing they did before at best. You can't assume they are going to change. Like XB1 the 360 started off with a good list of games and now look at it.

GT7 is definitely going to happen since GT is their billion dollar ip and millions will be buy it when it's released myself included.  Yes Sony does a good job of creating new Ips and they may be the best at it but they aren't way above the other companies in this regard.
History says otherwise. When was the last time Microsoft developed a new IP (not Kinect related)? I'll tell you when, it was 8 years ago with Viva Pinyata. Microsoft stopped making new IP's only 2 short years after the 360 released.

P.S. Just wanted to point out a funny trend. I bought all my PS consoles because of GT, and I bought my only XB console (the 360) because of Forza.