I'm just curious is all. A Strand game is a genre, but cloud-based is purely mechanical. It's almost like a new platform, if Kojima specifically intends to leverage the unique capabilities of the cloud in ways nobody else ever has.
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I'm just curious is all. A Strand game is a genre, but cloud-based is purely mechanical. It's almost like a new platform, if Kojima specifically intends to leverage the unique capabilities of the cloud in ways nobody else ever has.
Idk cause Death Stranding was ground breaking. I wonder if it's a game that's really unique to be cloud based, or just an incremental step with a few specific features that warrants the game be cloud only.
People continue to drag on Grubb for the XBL things and I am not sure I get it - I think it quite believable that an internal source informed of a long term plan to drop XBL, even if that contrasted with a short term XBL increase.
Grubb stood by his guns regarding Hellblade 2, even when the Reddit leak (that was being confirmed by each and every preceding event) led most to believe otherwise. Grubb has earned the benefit of the doubt at the very least.
I also don't get the wishing it was a multiple systems belief. It is clear Kojima wants access to the cloud for this title, and he is going with the best platform for that. In that sense, Xbox possesses the largest possible audience - Xbox Game Pass dwarfs PS Now subscribers, and its console | PC | Mobile infrastructure is essentially unrivaled in the industry.
Because the deal isn't close yet, when he first talked about this in April he said the deal was going through the lawyers, apparently it's still in this stage before being fully done.
Didn't Xbox update xCloud so that you can use the DualShock 4? I'm sure they'll add DualSense support. Plus it's most likely going to be on PC as well, so you can use it there if you have a good rig.
Me personally, I'll buy that streaming stick for this.
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I get that and I mean no disrespect to Grubb. I edited my post to remove that. I did not realize my post would get that type of immediate reaction and I am sorry.
On the subject of the cloud, couldn't he just license Azure for any system? Isn't Sony using Azure for their cloud gaming in the future?
As I've said already, I will play it wherever it lands. If its on game pass, even better, I will play it there.
The Abandoned truthers are driving me nuts lol. That thread was good fun but the vibes were off from Day 1... people still on the Abandoned hype train have their heads in the clouds (ironic?)
The article says "if and when the deal closes". It's not a done deal yet apparently.
Oh duh. My fault for not reading the article before asking.
Fair enough - No need to apologize! And you are correct, I believe. Playstation did agree to partner with Microsoft on the use of Azure to power their cloud streaming activities.
But it is rather apparent that Playstation is relatively quite behind Xbox in that regard. PS Now is treated as a second class service within Playstation's own portfolio, and cloud even less so. I do think a Kojima cloud project could be an injection of life into their offerings, but he may wish to partner with a platform that has a wider cloud customer base.
I still think we will see an exclusive Kojima title for PS5 - perhaps that is the aforementioned rumored big title.
It could be great to see what happens, when Kojima is unleashed from constraints of console capabilities into near unlimited power of the cloud solutions and its many services (especially when some big tech picking up the bill). Designing new experiences and play without limits.
I don't blame some people for having fun with it, but I agree with you, others are probably going a little too far with the conspiracy.
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Why people are getting emotional over... someone teasing leaks ?
If you don't like it, ignore him on Twitter and don't enter threads talking about it ? How can it be so personal for some people ? I'll never understand.
Jason Schreier, Imran Khan and Jeff Grubb basically all do the exact same thing. They're all excellent reporters who have inside knowledge and are reputable journalists. Just because you don't like what a journalist has to say, doesn't make them any less valid at their job.
Jeff Grub tweeted an article that he wrote.
Can you please explain/expand on this? I feel like you keep repeating that you want a multiplatform game built around Dual Sense, but there is only one platform that supports dual sense, so how do you propose that would work?
Jason does investigative work that deals with broader issues that who is making what or what's going to be at the xbox conference or not. Jason revealed The Last of Us Remake as part of his story about happenings at Sony Studios and issues some teams were facing.
He didn't tweet out Naughty Dog is making The Last of Us Part 2 as soon as he found out. Not saying that is exactly what Jeff Grubb does, but it sure seems that way to me.
Whatever the bar is that journalists have, to give studios the opportunity to announce and show games the way they want to, Jeff Grub certainly has a different threshold.
I actually don't believe that Game development needs to be as much of a secret as it is, but I also don't think it's the media's job to divulge every project they know of.
If you don't like teases on the video game industry from reputable sources, I think you might be on the wrong website.
Dumb question time:
If Kojima's next game is on Xbox, if a game is Series X/S exclusive, I can still play it on the Xbox One X right? The Xbox names are confusing.
If Kojima's next game is on Xbox, if a game is Series X/S exclusive, I can still play it on the Xbox One X right? The Xbox names are confusing.
No offense taken, but if we're keeping score at home he had Project Omen (Redfall), Typhoon (Contraband), and correctly predicted what was and wasn't going to be at E3 for Xbox. He literally had the Sea of Thieves and Pirates of the Caribbean cross over lol.
No, unless it's via streaming. You're basically asking if you can play a PS5 exclusive on a PS4 Pro.
It couldn't be more clear you don't know much about Jeff Grubb if you honestly think he leaks everything he knows just for clout. He holds a lot of his knowledge close to his chest, often withholds information to not take anything away from the dev, but is a reporter all the same who does his job well.
It's funny how a lot of threads based on reporter information turn into an anti-reporter rhetoric when people don't like the information they're reporting..
Pollution! Make all clouds connected into one big cloud of smog
Because it involves Xbox instead of PlayStation. Oh no I might have to play in a different ecosystem. The horror!
If the Abandoned thing isn't related to Kojima, then I don't feel bad for them at all. They will get destroyed by Kojima fans for something I think is deliberate teasing, but they also raised the awareness of their project.
If a game is Series X/S exclusive, that means it's exclusive to Series X/S consoles (see Flight Sim, or The Medium for example). Like how if a game is PS5 exclusive, it's exclusive to PS5 consoles (see Demon's Souls and Returnal for example). XBOX One doesn't factor into games that are exclusively coming out for Series X/S consoles.
Regardless this game isn't "confirmed" to be exclusive to Series X/S, as much as it is seemingly "confirmed" to work with Xcloud infrastructure in some way, which is not exclusive to XBOX One or XBOX Series X/S.
I admit my initial wording isn't correct in the "built around it" but I think it can still work.
Like how Control UE, Call of Duty, NBA 2K21, Hades will use the haptics and adaptive triggers. He could very much still do this in a multiplatform game I imagine, but have it work without it for any user that doesn't have a dualsense or turns those features off on PS5.
You are correct. He does have a good track record. I do not mean to hold one example over him at all and again, am sorry for that my initial post came across skeptical.
Games like MS flight simulator are good examples of what the cloud can enable for gaming. That game simply isn't possible on a single device.
People have been begging for 1 vs 100 to come back. Just in that (relatively) small game something entirely unique was created. What can other projects and minds come up with? It's so unexplored!
I get annoyed with the constant rumor mongering that seems to come from a lot of these supposed "insiders". And no, this isn't exclusive to Xbox given the recent Blue Box and Switch Pro rumors.
I'd ignore people like him, but it permeates into every corner of gaming journalism and social media.
I still can't get over the people that said we needed to ban them as a source lmao.
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Grubb took no time at all becoming the most obnoxious journo in gaming. Teases are getting old, you really shouldn't care about your clout or building hype for game companies. Either be candid about what you know or keep your yap shut.
All three of them are professional gaming journalists, al three clearly have sources, and all three have had no problem teasing things out in the past.
It always makes me chuckle when this place gets it's Two Minutes Hate on for "insiders".
Lol at the Grubb hate. Btw he wrote an article about it with more details, this is not just some random twitter tease.
He literally wrote an article about this going into detail about what he knows, the hell are you talking about?
Saying Kim Swift is going to help Kojima make an Xbox exclusive cloud game isn't a tease. It is the candid reporting you are asking for.
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