I think it's worth mentioning that nobody at XGS is doing licensed IP, only Bethesda is, I feel like studios inside of XGS rather work on their own IP, like Double Fine for example who always instantly shoot down working on Banjo because they'd preferred to do their own stuff, 14 studios inside of XGS and none are working on licensed IP, 7 studios inside of Bethesda and two are working on licensed IP with a 3rd slightly rumoured.
Not sure if Matt Booty is against licensed IP or not either but who knows.
I do question now if Indiana Jones makes more financial sense than Wolfenstein 3, Lol. Spider-Man is the biggest Marvel IP by far so I wouldn't expect Indiana Jones to be on similar terms but that sheet is about X-Men which is a lesser IP than Spider-Man even but the terms for X-Men are heavily in favour of Disney, Lol.
Bethesda would have made the Indiana Jones contract when they were 3rd party, between the license to Disney and the digital cut that Xbox/PS take, Bethesda could have been agreeing to give up a large chunk of their revenue...Indiana Jones projections are 10m+ as well but I honestly doubt it would have sold that even as a fully multiplatform title.
I'd not even be surprised if Blade despite being the less popular IP sells more than Indiana Jones which would be funny given the fact that I assume Blade has much better terms than Indiana Jones does as Indiana Jones is the far bigger IP overall. Makes sense as to why Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers financially bombed Crystal Dynamics and Eidos so hard now, those Disney licenses are expensive, Lol.
Todd must have really wanted to do an Indiana Jones, I suppose, Lol. Arkane might get away with a decent contract considering Blade is a B-Tier IP (in terms of popularity) and Arkane is based in France so their employee costs will be lower than a place like California plus they aren't as big of a studio as most other AAA studios.
Now I wonder though what terms Microsoft has to sign to get Indiana Jones and Blade on Game Pass, Lmao. Also if Spider-Man or X-Men don't sell over 6m then Disney has the right to cancel the agreement with Sony and demand Sony pay them a breakup fee, I wonder what that is for Microsoft now, is it a sales target or is it a Game Pass target or is it both?
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 19 December 2023
