JRPGfan said:
Biggerboat1 said: I wonder what XB1's meta-metacritic score is....? As in what's the average of all 1st party developed & published games... It surely has to be near the bottom of the list of all mainstream consoles released ever... It's a shame as elsewhere in their gaming division, they're doing a lot of things right! Hopefully the newly acquired studios won't be infected with the same apparent Microsoft curse... |
Crackdown 3 took them 5-6years to develope, so there really isnt a excuse here.
However from what I remember hearing, MS is looking to be the netflix of gameing...... ei. pump out constant content = short cycles for game developement (for gamepass). You cant make master peice 90+ metascore reviewed games in 2-3 years, which seems to be what MS is aiming for.
I dont have any hope that things will improve much next gen either. MS current way of doing things (even if games score in the 60's) is makeing them alot of money from xbox.
They will likely continue doing so in future, just with more studios there will be more games. MS is going for quantity > quality.
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The only issue I see there is that Netflix produces quantity AND quality - not across the board, but they have lots of really well-made shows.
Sea of Thieves for instance - that game can't have been cheap to make, wouldn't it have been worth it to spend an extra 20% budget - so lets say 6-9 months development, to build out the content a bit... I'm sure that it would have resulted in > 20% sales though admittedly that is just me going with my gut.
And the Gears & Halo games haven't been bad (& I'm guessing not cheap to develop), just not up to platform marquee standard.
I think that they can be successful in the way that you describe but that it wouldn't take that much extra investment to to elevate some of their games to 'Amazing' and really make a lot of gamers question whether Playstation is worth the extra cost to game...