(New Feature) Here's a look at the new Search page on Xbox
— Idle Sloth💙💛 (@IdleSloth84_) February 16, 2023
This includes a sleek new color profile, gallery-style results, visible filter categories navigable with RB/LB, the option to ‘search on YouTube’ within the Movies & TV tab, and more pic.twitter.com/HKGRtqp3ej
Xbox Series X|S now supports Google Home.
— Klobrille (@klobrille) February 15, 2023
You can use the Google Home app to command your Xbox like you do for other Smart Home devices via touch remote control.https://t.co/Q8VWxPVy1u pic.twitter.com/GhF7HoK6ai
Angelus said:
5 AAA games in 5 years is a lot for 2 studios |
5 AAA games by March 2028 seems like alot at first, but you have to remember several things:
1. The total Crystal + Eidos employee count is nearly 900 devs.
2. The Initiative is co-developing on one of those 5 games, Perfect Dark, and the two of them have been working on it together for nearly 1.5 years already.
3. Playground games is co-developing on another of those 5 games, Fable, and considering the Playground RPG team is around 200 devs, I'd guess only around 50-100 of Eidos' ~600 devs is on Fable. The game has also been in development since 2017 and should be releasing in early 2024 I'd imagine. That leaves around 250 devs each or more to be working on the next Deus Ex and their next IP already, giving them 5 years to finish them before the end of the March 2028 window.
I'd say Fable is Holiday 24, Avowed will be early 2024...Although there were rumours from Jez that they've increased the scope of it, Lol.
If Tomb Raider is further along in development than everyone thinks then maybe that'll be Holiday 24 as well.
Amazon coming on fairly late though, Square probably funded the first half and then Amazon the next half.
What exactly does Embracer do? Lol.
shikamaru317 said:
Yeah, these people act like these 3rd party devs are giving their games to Xbox to put onto Gamepass for free, or that Xbox gives the devs only a chump-change payment. That very clearly isn't the case. For instance we heard that Xbox's Gamepass payment for Guardians of the Galaxy was between $5-10m, and that wasn't even a day one Gamepass deal, that came to Gamepass 4 months after release, and considering that Guardians of the Galaxy had fallen as low as $20 per copy at that point, it means that Xbox effectively paid Square Enix for 250-500k lost sales as a result of being on Gamepass. And of course some will have taken advantage of the Gamepass discount to buy copies of the game as well. I can safely guarantee you that these larger day one Gamepass deal payments are well over the $5-10m for Guardians of the Galaxy, which came 4 months after release. Day one Gamepass deals on big games like Atomic Heart, Wo Long, Back 4 Blood, Sniper Elite 5, and Outriders likely all had payments of $30m or more associated with them, $30m is enough to compensate for around 428k lost sales at a $70 price tag as a result of being on Gamepass. |
That's way too much IMO. Those games are either new IPs or in case of Sniper Elite not necessarily mainstream. The publishers couldn't expect those games to sell 428k units at full price on a single console so I see no reason that MS dishes out that much money. Btw. $30m is almost enough to completely fund those games and in turn make them full Xbox exclusive.
Hogwart's Legacy gained another 4k TA users today, moving it above Undertale and Dark Souls 2. For those curious how it is stacking up against other RPG's/action RPG's, here is where it falls in the ranking currently, less than a week after it's official release date:
(Bolded games were or are currently on Gamepass, or were on Games with Gold in the past and will have a non-sales player boost as a result. Some of these also may have been artificially boosted with F2P weekends, but too much work to look those up)
Sword and Fairy: Together Forever will arrive with @XboxGamePass on July 6, 2023, and will support Xbox Play Anywhere, allowing you to bring all your saves and achievements with you across Xbox and Windows PC. Learn more: https://t.co/kch2kO9JqH
— Xbox Wire (@XboxWire) February 16, 2023
Barozi said:
That's way too much IMO. Those games are either new IPs or in case of Sniper Elite not necessarily mainstream. The publishers couldn't expect those games to sell 428k units at full price on a single console so I see no reason that MS dishes out that much money. Btw. $30m is almost enough to completely fund those games and in turn make them full Xbox exclusive. |
You could be right, $30m may be a bit too high of an estimate, but if GOTG was $5-10m 4 months after release, I'd guess at least $15-20m for some of these bigger day one Gamepass games. Sniper Elite is also bigger than you think, the first 8 games in the series sold a combined 20m copies (Sniper Elite 1-4 and Zombie Army 1-4, so the 20m figure was before Sniper Elite 5), which averages out to 2.5m sales per game in the series, but the later games sold more than the earlier games did. I sure hope that Xbox compensated them well for Sniper Elite 5, as the day one Gamepass majorly hurt it's Xbox sales, in the UK 92% of it's first week retail copies were on PS4/PS5, compared to just 8% on Xbox One and Xbox Series X. A normal game sells about twice that many retail copies on Xbox in the UK, so day one Gamepass effectively halved it's launch sales on Xbox.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 16 February 2023
| shikamaru317 said: Hogwart's Legacy gained another 4k TA users today, moving it above Undertale and Dark Souls 2. For those curious how it is stacking up against other RPG's/action RPG's, here is where it falls in the ranking currently, less than a week after it's official release date: (Bolded games were or are currently on Gamepass, or were on Games with Gold in the past and will have a non-sales player boost as a result. Some of these also may have been artificially boosted with F2P weekends, but too much work to look those up)
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Destiny 2 turned F2P from what I remember so it's not really comparable.
Cyberpunk has a free trial
Warframe is F2P
Borderlands 3 definitely was part of the Free Play Days
The Division 2 too
Neverwinter is F2P
Trove is F2P
Dauntless is F2P
Lost Odyssey and Too Human were made avaiable for free for a few weeks
Basically Hogwarts Legacy isn't really comparable (yet) to the rest as 90% of games on that list have an inflated player count.
Ubisoft - If E3 happens, we will be there and we will have a lot of things to show." https://t.co/fabcVDRhmz
— Wario64 (@Wario64) February 16, 2023
I sure hope they have alot to announce. Their current release schedule is looking pretty barren as we have no release window games beyond Assassin's Creed Mirage, Skull & Bones, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, The Crew Motorfest, and Trackmania console ports, and all of those are scheduled for 2023. We know nothing about their 2024 release schedule currently, as Beyond Good and Evil 2, Assassin's Creed Codename Red, Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe, Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake, Tom Clancy's The Division: Heartland, XDefiant, and Ubisoft Massive's Star Wars game are all currently without release windows.
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