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roborad on 08 October 2014

Xbox one would own the holidays if that white halo mcc bundle launched here in the states.



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starcraft on 08 October 2014

Picked up Shadow of Mordor yesterday (PS4 for the extra content). Only just got an hour or two in, but seems good to start with!



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Angelus on 08 October 2014

I have a feeling the reason MS hasn't announced a MCC bundle already is because they wanna give Sunset Overdrive a chance to shine and make sure people wanting to buy an X1 around that time are likely to pick up that bundle and support this new IP they've invested in with Insomniac, so that if they're happy and the game does well they can retain it's Xbox exclusivity for any possible sequels. They know Halo will sell, bundled or no, people will go out and buy the system to play it



Seece on 08 October 2014
Angelus said:
I have a feeling the reason MS hasn't announced a MCC bundle already is because they wanna give Sunset Overdrive a chance to shine and make sure people wanting to buy an X1 around that time are likely to pick up that bundle and support this new IP they've invested in with Insomniac, so that if they're happy and the game does well they can retain it's Xbox exclusivity for any possible sequels. They know Halo will sell, bundled or no, people will go out and buy the system to play it


Hmm, but the gap between them released is like 2 weeks?



 

Seece on 08 October 2014
shikamaru317 said:
Seece said:
Angelus said:
I have a feeling the reason MS hasn't announced a MCC bundle already is because they wanna give Sunset Overdrive a chance to shine and make sure people wanting to buy an X1 around that time are likely to pick up that bundle and support this new IP they've invested in with Insomniac, so that if they're happy and the game does well they can retain it's Xbox exclusivity for any possible sequels. They know Halo will sell, bundled or no, people will go out and buy the system to play it

Hmm, but the gap between them released is like 2 weeks?

Yeah, they'll probably announce the Halo bundle like a week before Sunset Overdrive releases and hope that people won't cancel their Sunset Overdrive bundle preorders and switch to the Halo bundle. They could wait until like the day after Sunset Overdrive releases, though that seems like they'll be pushing it to me, not to mention the fact that they'd have to get the Halo bundles shipped out to retailers early, which means the Halo bundle's existence could get leaked before SO releases anyway. 

Or release in December, be a good thing to have in a month that relies on the xmas boost alone.



 

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starcraft on 08 October 2014
Seece said:
shikamaru317 said:
Seece said:

Hmm, but the gap between them released is like 2 weeks?

Yeah, they'll probably announce the Halo bundle like a week before Sunset Overdrive releases and hope that people won't cancel their Sunset Overdrive bundle preorders and switch to the Halo bundle. They could wait until like the day after Sunset Overdrive releases, though that seems like they'll be pushing it to me, not to mention the fact that they'd have to get the Halo bundles shipped out to retailers early, which means the Halo bundle's existence could get leaked before SO releases anyway. 

Or release in December, be a good thing to have in a month that relies on the xmas boost alone.

At least it is a good spot to be in - too many good games to market



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crissindahouse on 08 October 2014
Seece said:
Angelus said:
Why do people on this site ask for permabans only to come back like 3 months or later? I mean if you wanna be gone, stay gone. If you wanna just take a little break from posting, do that. If you ask for a permaban, well then you better damn well consider what you're asking for and know that perma means permanent.

Attention. When I left the site for a year I didn't ask for a ban and said I'd never be back (so I can talk against those that do). But yeah, there are a couple of users that really milked it, only to have a brand new alias about 3 days later.

Probably right in most cases. Some people just need to see people asking for a comeback or whatever for their ego. Like "I need to get the feeling that I'm so important and leaving the site is the best way to achieve that". It's like in real life where some do some weird stuff every single day just so that people talk about them because otherwise they have the feeling that they are just like everyone else and nothing special.



TiagoCosta on 08 October 2014

Really liked to hear the podcast, I'm hoping for some platformer revival being banjo/conker my top choices. I believe the console needs it, I personally do... I'm still quite a sonic fan boy, but I would be happy with more games on the genre.

Aside from that, I disliked how he dismissed shenmue... And even mistwalker. I want my shenmue III and LO2.



Jaywood2010 on 08 October 2014
TiagoCosta said:
Really liked to hear the podcast, I'm hoping for some platformer revival being banjo/conker my top choices. I believe the console needs it, I personally do... I'm still quite a sonic fan boy, but I would be happy with more games on the genre.

Aside from that, I disliked how he dismissed shenmue... And even mistwalker. I want my shenmue III and LO2.


Well Mistwalker he didnt outright dismiss it but yeah he didnt give encouraging words for it as he seemed to kind of scoot by that question.  Shenmue is understandable though, same goes to KOTOR.  Those arent microsoft owned franchises.  Theyre just associated with Xbox because the support they had on XBOX




       

TiagoCosta on 08 October 2014
JayWood2010 said:
TiagoCosta said:
Really liked to hear the podcast, I'm hoping for some platformer revival being banjo/conker my top choices. I believe the console needs it, I personally do... I'm still quite a sonic fan boy, but I would be happy with more games on the genre.

Aside from that, I disliked how he dismissed shenmue... And even mistwalker. I want my shenmue III and LO2.


Well Mistwalker he didnt outright dismiss it but yeah he didnt give encouraging words for it as he seemed to kind of scoot by that question.  Shenmue is understandable though, same goes to KOTOR.  Those arent microsoft owned franchises.  Theyre just associated with Xbox because the support they had on XBOX


I get the point, I understand why he thinks that way and I do like his vision on the first party importance. 

 

Still third party exclusives games helped shaping what the Xbox brand is today, at least that's what I think, I played both shenmues on my dreamcast (I don't even associate it with the x brand at all lol) but I would love to see MS giving it another shot. KOTOR is different, I clearly associate it with the Xbox.

i just pointed out what I didn't like, the rest was totally great to hear. The man is great, gotta love him.