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goopy20 said:

sales2099 said:

Xbox changed their stance apparently...most game reveals we saw don’t have a Xbox One version. Your narrative is a bust, the cross gen initiative just applies to Halo and the smaller stuff like Grounded and Psychonauts, Tell Me Why, etc. Big games aren’t affected. Not even Everwild has a Xbox One version anymore. 

Game Pass needs a mix of A-AAA. Games from Ori, Grounded, to Hellblade 2 and Avowed. AAA games drive the service like Gears 5 and Forza Horizon 4 before. A-AA is to pad out the year and keep people invested in interesting experiences. If you respond and tell me Avowed and Fable aren’t going to be AAA then that’s straight up trolling. Even Hellblade 2 and SoD3 is supposed to be AAA. 

I keep saying it here, but you telling me some games are a ways away just tells me Xbox is done with game droughts. They have enough studios to ensure that doesn’t happen. Don’t spread false rumors, Fable is confirmed to not be a MMO. 

Yeah, they sure did. But don't you find that odd after all the stuff Phil's been saying about not leaving anyone behind? To me it feels like they put a strategy in motion but after the May event, they realized it wasn't such a great idea after all and now they're backpedaling.

I respect that you're a loyal Xbox fan but even you have to admit that MS had a lot to prove after the disastrous May event. Would their cross gen strategy really not hold Halo back, would they show amazing new next gen AAA ip's, would the Initiative show their mind blowing AAAA title? All we got is confirmation that "Optimized for Series X" means nothing - besides a bump in framerate and resolution - even when their flag ship title was supposedly natively designed for Series X. They also showed that they have nothing truly next gen planned for the near future. That's why they had to resort to cgi smoke and mirrors and there's no way to take the Hell Blade 2 footage serious anymore. Like Runa said, it's the same empty promises we've been hearing since 2013 and MS has a spectacular history of under delivering. As always, we'll just have to wait and see with Fable and Avowed, but I hope you at least understand where all the skepticism is coming from.

I'm seriously curious what you think about 343 pulling a Destiny on us with the Halo franchise, though. As a big Halo fan myself, its bad enough that its a current gen game, but what's even worse is that they're not planning on making another Halo game for the coming decade...  After seeing what they're doing to Halo, I don't want MS to go anyway near developers like WB or buy any other studios, until we know for sure that they won't just use them for GAAS and GP fillers. 

It’s not a backpedal if the games literally fall outside the 1-2 year window. Usually it’s the launch period/year 1 where late adopters don’t want to feel abandoned. Year 2 is fair game. 

I had my criticisms but I’m overall very excited. Playground and Obsidian know their stuff so I don’t need to see mandatory gameplay to know Xbox being the WRPG king next gen. I mean Horizon showed in engine and that was Sony’s big finale. Yet people dismiss Forzas trailer....huh. Sure as hell impressed me. I’ll keep saying it this shows there will be no droughts and Xbox has healthy variety of IPs. That’s something to be excited about.

It’s weird saying you a big Halo fan yet also be so anti Xbox. It’s like you a double agent or something lol. To be honest I would be happy with Halo Infinite taking the Destiny route so long as the core game is amazing and worth it. If it’s not, and updates don’t catch on, then the same thing will happen like Destiny 1. They cut it short and make a sequel. We’ll see. 

Thank you for telling me the next narrative. I wasn’t sure what it would be after “Xbox games all CG no gameplay” dies out once we get gameplay. “GP forced filler and GaaS for all Xbox studios”. Beautiful narrative. Totally not toxic at all.