Microsoft Acquires Havoc

[Zekkyou]

sasquatchmontana said:

Zekkyou said:

sasquatchmontana said:

Another massive first party acquisition. Looks like Xbox 1 multiplats will have vastly superior animation, destruction, cloth and water physics.

AMD's on lock now.

I think it's pretty unlikely that MS are going to be locking out anyone in the console space from using Havoc. As others have mentioned, these companies don't live in isolated bubbles. Even when they're competing against each other, they're still more than happy to work together if it will make them money (which Havoc will).

Well i'm not suggesting MS will prevent other developers from using vanilla Havoc, I am however suggesting Xbox One (and possibly W10) will have an extra Havoc option of offloading to the cloud. Now they're in the middleware, own the middleware, they can change the middleware and make it a default option. There's little reason why Call of Duty could not go full CRACKDOWN 3 and offer a NEW MARKETABLE DESTRUCTION MODE when it's a mouseclick away....and that suits MS because it makes XB1 CoD look better and furthers mmmmm PENETRATION of their Cloud endeavours.

I can't really see that happening. Developers have shown a pretty clear desire to avoid core variations between the PS4 and X1 versions of their games (with some even activity targeting parity), and i can't see that changing soon. Maybe some would opt in if MS threw enough money at it, but i doubt it would really accomplish much.

I suppose we'll have to wait and see ^^