Conina said:
goopy20 said:
MS doesn't have full blown exclusives to show off early because they're probably not even in development.
How do you know that? Why is that probable? And why do you think Sony has more of them in development?
MS's focus going into next gen is building GP subscribers, and not pushing Series X sales and making games for it...
Microsoft is a big company. They don't have to focus on a single path, but can pursue several goals.
I'm sure they will have some cryptic cgi trailers with some logo's but I don't think they will show gameplay footage of a true next gen Gears for example.
So what's the difference to Sony which often announces games early with cryptic cgi trailers and some logo's but without showing gameplay footage for years?
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I don't think they have them in development yet because they don't need, or expect, the Series X to sell big numbers. If they're not projecting a big install base of Series X consoles, financially it wouldn't make sense to target those kind of specs. Instead it's much more viable for MS that the masses can play them on GP, which will be mostly X1 and pc gamers with low spec pc's (at least compared to the Series X's hardare) and then have upscaled versions for Series X and high-end pc. We will get those games eventually when RTX2080 like performance becomes mainstream on pc, but that might take a while depending on the prices of Nvidia and AMD new gpu's.
Why Sony will have them is because they do expect to sell 100m next gen consoles, as that will be their main focus. As soon as Sony launches a new console, almost all of their 1st party studios switch to the new console. Just look at 2014, except for LBP3, all of Sony's 1st party games were ps4 exclusives. I mean it's pretty obvious that SM, ND, GG, Insomniac have all been working on next gen titles ever since their last game came out. Doesn't mean they will be launch titles, but they would've at least been working on them for years now. Therefore, it's save to say that they will have some gameplay footage they can show early on, just like they did with UC4, Bloodborne, the Order 1886 and HZD.
Last edited by goopy20 - on 01 March 2020