Phantom Dust remaster launches May 16 for free!

[Nuvendil]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Nuvendil said:

I think they also took note of the growing discontent with how much previously announced stuff was disappearing: Scalebound canceled, Fable Legends canceled, Spark being DOA, I think they just didn't want to add to that and this was a way to in a very technical way still bring Phantom Dust and avoid mentioning cancelation again.  Cause we didn't know the Phantom Dust coming to Xbone was THIS one until what?  A couple weeks before launch?  It was a smoke screen.  

Microsoft can only create a smokescreen with their fanboys. People focused on games will always know Microsofts greatest flaw....which is making exclusives. Great everything else though. Again, that just goes without saying. I am actually going to make a post about something I love about them right now.

I wouldn't say *everything* else is great.  Their wester third party relationships are strong, their Japanese third party relationships are barely present outside the handful of obvious ones.  Also, the 360 gained it's massive appeal because of  MS's efforts to diversify and shore up its exclusive offerings early on.  It began to decline after MS stopped doing that.  

And the smoke screen worked pretty well.  They kept promising PD and then just did so less frequently until everything quieted down and then released this so they can move on.  Most people won't even realize what happened until a while later.  Your forum goers will but that's a small group.  They did this as a measure to stop the bleeding though, the Xbox brand's perceived value has been in decline for a while due to MS's own tactics and mistakes, they couldn't afford to publicly cancel ANOTHER game after just canceling Scalebound.  It's not that PD is a big seller, it's the symbolic loss that's concerning.