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hudsoniscool said:
JayWood2010 said:

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Phil Spencer -  "One thing I'm taking a little different approach on Xbox than some of the previous leaders is I'm really into investing into franchises that we own.  Its not so much the business side of it but the long term.  I look at what Nintendo has built over the years and such a great stable of franchises and they're able to do so much  because their fans love these unique nintendo franchises that are exlcusive. And I want to get to this same place"


I think it sounds like sequel or sequels to xbox games. But besides halo, forza, gears and fable there arnt any big xbox franchises from first party. Most of the ones xbox fans are clambering for like banjo, conker, and others just arnt big series. Unless they rejuvenate some of these old franchises in a big way I think ms should develop new ip's. Maybe lionhead or lxp should take over black tusks game that got put on hold. Also we need some good rpg's. shooters, and racers are covered. We just need other types from first party.

Killer Instinct is pretty big in the fighting game community.

Also, MS doesn't need a big series per se which would take up a lot of resources and time.

Diversity from now on should be the word. The biggest selling IPs are shooters and racing unless you're Nintendo.

A well balanced line up will weigh on gamers decision on a one stop shop machine. And you can't have all your IPs be a big hit.



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Phil Spencer definitely sounds like he is going to be connecting xbox to the microsoft ecosystem. He said on multiple occasions how he wants people to be able to play games on multiple devices. He looks at Xbox as a way to play them on tv, but he wants you to be able to play on PC, phones, tablets, etc in the future. This is what he wants in xbox live.

Im pretty sure in the coming years we are going to see Xbox tied in with Windows 10 through Xbox Live. And im ok with that.

Xbox will be, Xbox One (Two or whatever), Windows 10, Windows Phones, etc

PS will be PS4, PSV, Sony TV's, maybe PC as well, etc

I think this is where gaming is headed in.  




       

Being able to play Xbox games on Windows Phone or Windows PCs would be ideal for me. I've become less interested in home consoles in the last few years, so being able to play the same game across any Windows device of my choosing would be great.



hudsoniscool said:
JayWood2010 said:

 


I think it sounds like sequel or sequels to xbox games. But besides halo, forza, gears and fable there arnt any big xbox franchises from first party. Most of the ones xbox fans are clambering for like banjo, conker, and others just arnt big series. Unless they rejuvenate some of these old franchises in a big way I think ms should develop new ip's. Maybe lionhead or lxp should take over black tusks game that got put on hold. Also we need some good rpg's. shooters, and racers are covered. We just need other types from first party.


He talked about New Ip as well, but he mentioned old franchises specifically.  This is hinting at stuff like old Rare games and some of their older franchises.  He mentioned in specific that he is working on some of these games but would not specify which ones,  Halo Wars 2, Alan Wake 2, Mech Assault, Conker 3, Blinx, Fusion Frenzy, Banjo, Kameo 2, High Heat Baseball, Otogi, KOTOR and Shenmue 3

He did pretty much rule out KOTOR, Shenmue, and Baseball though.  




       

RavenXtra said:
Being able to play Xbox games on Windows Phone or Windows PCs would be ideal for me. I've become less interested in home consoles in the last few years, so being able to play the same game across any Windows device of my choosing would be great.


Well it looks like that is happening.  Maybe even as little as next year with Windows 10 coming to Xbox One.  Itll be interesting to see how it works but he mentioned expanding.

He said "I thought the Windows 10 announce was good.  And I've said, but we haven't really talked about it yet, but PC is very important to me, and i think incredibly important to this company.  People need to go check out the Windows 10 preview now. We took PC gaming very serious on Windows a while ago.  I'll say we with Xbox was kind of distributed of what we were thinking about when we were launching Xbox.  I'm really committed to us getting back to supporting both Xbox to what we ever have and also PC.  And I know some of our great xbox gamers are also on PC and I want to give them the best experience across all platforms."




       

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JayWood2010 said:
hudsoniscool said:
JayWood2010 said:

 


I think it sounds like sequel or sequels to xbox games. But besides halo, forza, gears and fable there arnt any big xbox franchises from first party. Most of the ones xbox fans are clambering for like banjo, conker, and others just arnt big series. Unless they rejuvenate some of these old franchises in a big way I think ms should develop new ip's. Maybe lionhead or lxp should take over black tusks game that got put on hold. Also we need some good rpg's. shooters, and racers are covered. We just need other types from first party.


He talked about New Ip as well, but he mentioned old franchises specifically.  This is hinting at stuff like old Rare games and some of their older franchises.  He mentioned in specific that he is working on some of these games but would not specify which ones,  Halo Wars 2, Alan Wake 2, Mech Assault, Conker 3, Blinx, Fusion Frenzy, Banjo, Kameo 2, High Heat Baseball, Otogi, KOTOR and Shenmue 3

He did pretty much rule out KOTOR, Shenmue, and Baseball though.  

That's good I guess mix of old franchises and new. Also I feel like what he said about kotor is just to throw us off. I think we're getting it or a differnt Star Wars game from bioware. Of course that could just be hopes and dreams from me.

What I hope for is that studios like lionhead, and rare reviving there franchises and new studios like lxp be allowed to make a new ip. I'd love to see what stories and universes someone like joe staten could come up with.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

hudsoniscool said:
JayWood2010 said:
hudsoniscool said:

That's good I guess mix of old franchises and new. Also I feel like what he said about kotor is just to throw us off. I think we're getting it or a differnt Star Wars game from bioware. Of course that could just be hopes and dreams from me.

What I hope for is that studios like lionhead, and rare reviving there franchises and new studios like lxp be allowed to make a new ip. I'd love to see what stories and universes someone like joe staten could come up with.


Lionhead is pretty much confirmed to be working on a new Ip by this point.  Phil doesnt know what Rare is working on yet, but based off comments that he has made in that interview and in the past is that they will be working on a new ip as well.   That isnt to say a rare franchise isnt returning as they may pull another Killer Instinct move by letting another developer work on a game.  Rare also mentioned two teams, so likely two games are being worked on at Rare




       

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Shadow of mordor, FH2, and china should be in the next sales week right. If so I'm gunna say x1 200k. 70k in china so only needs 130k from the rest. Seams very possible.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

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