Crackdown 3 Should Have Been Announced Later, Microsoft States

[Errorist76]

smroadkill15 said:

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

Please... they just exposed how bad their first party development time table is. There's no need for bullshit lines. That game was expected in 2016 which means the development timetable was around four years more posisjbly more. horizon zero dawn took five years and crackdown is nowhere on that game or breath of the wilds level. You're closing in on five years Microsoft. This isn't about learning how to keep your mouth shut microsoft. This is about learning how to develop on a world class level.

 

if they didn't announce crackdown in 2014 people would've expected that they weren't going to have much sooner.

Crackdown 3 is a very ambitious game on the multiplayer side. No other game has every released something like it. Of course I believe MS should have waited to announce it much sooner but comparing it to Horizon isn't really a fair comparison. Both are very different games. MS knows if they fuck up with the multiplayer they will be eating their words for years. It can't be, "good enough". It has to work like they advertised. 

It won't work as advertised. That '10 times more power' argument was nothing but a marketing stretch. It simply won't work with our everyday's internet. This statement by MS actually seems kinda hypocrite now...The reason Crackdown 3 was presented that early was only for PR reasons anyway..,they needed something to show off "The Cloud" to somehow counter the obvious lower power their console had. It's the same principle they tried with HoloLens to counter VR, showing off some highly touched up videos which didn't have much to do with reality. Like that ominous C3 MP trailer with that massive destruction. Smoke and mirrors.

Crackdown 3 imho was pulled back because everybody kept complaining about how it looks and because it would have thrown a bad light on the X1X at release.