Oh Gamepass is definitely going up in the next 2-3 years once they get enough content and people invested. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't go up to $20-30 a month.
That guy makes the same troll in every thread and nobody notices because they're too busy clutching their pearls.
And this is why Xbox is buying studios and will continue to do so. Third-party GamePass deals for AAA games will dry up and the prices will rise dramatically. Right now, they're using AAA third-party games to increase the value of the service, but I suspect in the future, it will just be the Xbox first-party titles, titles from second-party studios that Xbox publishes, and smaller games (indies and AA-fare like Plague Tale, No Man's Sky, etc.).
Was doing research for an article on console free-to-play and I stumbled on this childish FTP on Xbox that has some VP elements up front and got so excited but ended up being shallow and unfulfilling, though still cute.( Achievement piñata game though. They flowed out real nice.) Called Island Saver I think. Totally stole some pieces from VP but put them together wrong.
eh I shout out what I want and it's not my fault their management sucks and couldn't line those games up with a console release
They're going to buy 5 more of your favourite studios cos you said they suck.
We are not talking about the defacto situation of a monopoly, because in an monopoly an entire industry is controlled by only one entity. This isn't happening anywhere so far when it comes to entertainment, but Disney owning Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and Fox is close enough. Them not having Jurassic Park and Fast and the Furious is essentially irrelevant because they are by far the largest player in the industry and that power position allows them to just grow and grow further while slowly buying out other mega corps.
I like those things too. I don't value them more than people's jobs and a healthy industry.
Ah yes I think I've heard of that, think it was published by a bank actually lol.
It is, again, pure fantasy to think buying publishers won't result in massive job losses. Even if every single developer is kept, thousands of people are employed at these companies outside of direct game development. Those teams will be slaughtered, that's how corporate consolidation works.
- Bleedinge Edge started development in 2014 and has nothing to do with Microsoft, Ninja Theory wanted to release it, it was one of their conditions to sell.
All the studios they bought appear to be not in that great a financial situation. They are also trying to open up as many ways to get games to people as possible, with streaming potentially being able to bring console quality gaming to much more people in a sector of an industry that has mainly stagnated in terms of numbers of customers with ever increasing costs. Xcloud and game pass have more chance of bringing back AA games and the studios that were lost when HD gaming became a thing, then the current generation financial model does.
No, it's not.
MS doesn't own Zenimax yet.
You are ignoring thousands of people when you just talk about developers.
Did they not say that everyone at zenimax will be kept on? I seem to remember them saying that bethesda will still act as its own publisher ,so all the publishing/administrative jobs will remain.
That's what they always say. MS doesn't need two publishing teams, two marketing teams, separate finance teams, and on and on it goes.
Bolded are first party games. Microsoft published/funded them. They just came from external developers.
And they could have been bought by someone who needs every part of the company.
