The Medium is gonna be a big surprise. Bloober is really delivering it this time. I kinda really enjoyed both Observer (can't wait for the "remastered") and Blair Witch (I consider it as some indie-cult-like as Amnesia or Outlast).
You asked why people are handwaving the lacking first-party support at launch. It's because there are massive games launching with these consoles giving Xbox players more than enough to play.
People still want something as a show piece on their console. That was supposed to be halo.
We already see games targeting 1440p at 60fps on the PS5. All we know thus far is that Microsoft is targeting 4K at that frame rate.
There's still the X020-like Inside Xbox show for announcements (not the official X020 tho). Expect the show to happen 2-3 weeks before console launch
Launch window is a four to six month period in a generation. Microsoft messed launch, but with 23 studios, some multi game, they will be more than fine.
Yeah for sure the studios they've acquired the last few years hopefully mean we won't go thru first party droughts like this again. I'm hopeful at least.
Yup.
Yeah. Hopefully all this pays off in a monster 2022-25 for first party Xbox. All signs point to that, but as a burned Rare fan from 2009-2018, I will not get ahead of myself yet.
When the Switch launched we didn't know which games would be releasing! LOL. It launched with pretty much one game - BotW. And it did fine its first year but really kicked into overdrive the second year.
This, plus some ppl are still hung up on resolution. Interesting, lol.
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"It launched with pretty much one game (BotW)" You mean the game many regard as one of the greatest video games in history? lol come on you are making my point here. That is what you call a system seller. And its a beloved franchise that transcends hardcore gamers. If Microsoft at least launched with Halo they wouldn't be getting anywhere near as much flack. There is just no way to compare Switch and Xbox. Also, isn't the announce and drop same day situation Nintendo is doing something that only started recently? I don't remember this being something they were doing when the Switch launched. I'm pretty sure we had an idea of some of the games coming to the console down the line.
gremlinz is always on about saying things incorrectly. It's an art at this point. Ask him about his native 4k beliefs if you want a good laugh. Please don't
I hate to break the bad news. But every system sells out on launch. That is not a good talking point. Maybe in 6 months from now you can look at sales. But saying this really is inconclusive.
We had a full list of launch titles and launch window titles a month before Switch launch. From Nintendo, Switch launched with BotW, 1-2 Switch and Snipperclips, with Mario Kart coming a month later. Every month after that Nintendo had a first-party game scheduled. They were very prepared for their launch, game-wise, compared to this.
They might still. There isn't some arbitrary deadline that they have to adhere to.
What is the reason for announcing games from 2022 or beyond if you have games releasing sooner that you haven't announced?
Every single GPU that has had processing and bandwidth advantage has performed better. Wont be different next gen.
Demon's Souls.
I think the lesson to be learned is the first-party launch lineups don't really matter when you have awesome hardware, awesome services, and awesome third party games.
Those games run at 0p 0 fps on Xbox. Not a great comparison.
I don't know but it happens alllll the time. For example, how many games have been announced and have released since Cyberpunk was announced? Plenty of games have short announcement-to-release timeframes. The Forza games typically announce and release on the same year. Bethesda seem to favour it as well.
Agreed. The hardware sets the foundation for the generation, and MS have nailed it on that front.
