How come Age of Empires 4 isnt coming to Xbox One if Phill cares about Xbox?

[DonFerrari]

only777 said:

Zkuq said:
Now how well do you think Age of Empires might do compared to that? It'd be strange, to say the least, if it sold more, or even close to that amount. Thus, no wonder if it's not coming to Xbox One. It might be pretty easy to recoup the development costs, but why bother if it's just not worth the effort? 

I'm not having a go at you here, but I think this statament is how Microsoft see it and this is why Microsoft are losing so much at this point.

Sony (and increasingly Nintendo these days) are all for building the libary of games for the machine.  They seem to be willing to have a game on the system so long as it will at least break even.

This way adds niche games to the overal libary, and having lots of these niche games helps to create the image that there are games avaiable for all types of gamers.

Microsofts approach to sticking to larger, higher profit titles; limits the amount of different games on the machine, and in turn drives customers to rival machines who offer a spectrum of titles from AAA to indie budget games.

If one machine offers all the Multiplat AAA games (and a few exclusives) and another offers all the same AAA games plus many smaller word of mouth games; then the choice is a no brainer.

Considering Shu saying that basically only 4 in 10 games they release break even (and 2 pay for all the rest), I would say Sony releases even games that "could break even" or "not totally flop" if it brings good PR to the company. Sure it will be small scale and all, but they take even more risk than Nintendo.

Unless we think Nintendo didn't though they would hit good sales on Splatton and made it a risk as Book of spells