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EspadaGrim on 06 February 2024
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Ryuu96 said:
EspadaGrim said:

I feel sorry for some of the smaller Xbox studios that were promised freedom and security, there are Bethesda titles that bombed/underperformed even when multiplat and available everywhere. Will Tim and Amy close studios when they crunch their numbers and come to the conclusion that some aren't raking in enough cash?

Maybe they can tell em to pivot to GaaS cause we saw how successful that was for RedFall, Youngblood and the world beloved Suicide Squad.

Where's this coming from? Lol. They still have freedom and "security" and they could have easily bombed exclusive to Xbox too? If a title bombs multiplatform, it's hardly going to be a success exclusive to one platform now is it? Lol. They could have "crunched the numbers" and determined these studios aren't bringing in enough cash at any point.

If anything, Pentiment, Grounded, etc. Will be better for them multiplatform, nobody is buying a console for those small titles, but they may buy them if they're already in the ecosystem and Game Pass still exists elsewhere. And I guarantee that most studios would be happy about being fully multiplatform, Lol. Studios are sold by a single owner, most developers want their games to be enjoyed by as many gamers as possible.

I never cared about the smaller titles going multiplatform you can go back to my history of posting to see my perspective on games like Sea of Thieves, Grounded and Hi-Fi going to other consoles, we were sold for years on how Gamepass is what allowed those small games to exist in the first place and how good it would be because it would allow them to be played by millions of subs, its not like Grounded, Pentiment or Hi-Fi are breaking the bank in terms of budget in the first place.

Those studios knew the what the deal was when they got purchased back in 2018 that they were bought for the sake helping Xbox compete and you compete by having exclusives that would make you stand out from the competition. Xbox are giving up just as those XGS studios are starting to bear fruit 6 years later, and only into your third Bethesda AAA exclusive.

If it's purely about extracting as much revenue as they can then say goodbye to any hope of those CoD support studios getting released from the CoD mines.