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Xbox Game Studios |OT4| When everyone plays, we all win
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MS doesn't NEED to sell you hardware in order to make money off of you. The need to sell Hardware is a costly barrier between them and the gamers they want to reach.
Imagine how much more software and services they would sell if they could potentially sell to every gamer needing to first convince them to buy a Scarlet.
There's no way this scenario would net them less money. Not only would their margins be higher, but their volumes would be too!
This co-ordination being pushed by Booty inspires a lot of confidence in their future output. I don't think we will be seeing large gaps in quality between Xbox exclusives going forward.
What excites me the most is what this means for a studio like inXile or Undead Labs (for example, being a lowest denominator in many minds and discussions) when they have access to Ninja's motion tech, or 343/Coalition's engineering expertise.
Happy he stayed on board through the acquisition. I wondered if those rumors of Obsidian adding employees and splitting to a 2nd full team (as Klobrille mentioned) meant Josh was basically running his own thing.
I can imagine the Forza guys asking everyone who is going to need car tech to a room of silence lol.
Yep. I think office cross collaboration is huge even if it's just engineers working on best practices for things like UE4, Xbox Live integration, Azure use, etc. It should hopefully promote games to really set a quality standard like you mentioned.
To be fair, everyone will likely be picking the brains of the Forza engine team in regards to ray tracing because I have a feeling they're going to be leading the way with RT implementation.
Yeah was just kidding. Bought Forza 7 in the latest sale and oh my god it looks great! Can't wait to see a next gen Forza.
I'm really eager to hear the future plans of the Global Publishing team and what they'll offer for the upcoming years. They could definitely "fill in the gaps" and offer that excitement for new IPs, traditional sequels to existing IPs and rebooting IPs. This gen wasn't the best example for them with most of their titles underperforming critically or commercially, but there are definitely some stand-out titles like Ori and Killer Instinct which despite its launch reception managed to get up to 10 million players across pc and Xbox.
Heh, almost forgot about CShell. Seems like development on that has been slow going, although we may see some stuff with that this year with a potentially new Surface device and whenever Surface Hub 2 finally comes.
Haha dual stick driving ftw. Maybe the advice will go the other way.
Good to see AoE there. But yeah then Microsoft Solitaire, Microsoft Flight Simulator haha.
I would be willing to be that The Initative's game will have cars in some form or another. No idea why, I just feel like it will. Although, they may be flying cars.
I think all the studio brass are meeting in Redmond either for a briefing on Scarlett or E3 - or both.
What I do wonder though... is it that easy for them to do???
do we know if any of the original XGS have shared tech n the pass?? Rare/343i/Coalition/Turn10 ect...
Matt Booty gathering all the heads for the 13 studios to share technology ideas etc. made me imagine this:
Am I right in thinking Turn 10 used the Water tech from Sea of Thieves
I believe it was Playground that used the water tech first in FH3
definitely both, i imagine it'll be a pretty comprehensive overview of the 12 months, with E3 being the main focus, remember Phil mentioning the other day about sitting down and seeing what's ready to show for E3 and what they can show off at a later date.
If Microsoft is like every other corporation its most likely a meeting to figure when to schedule the next meeting.
Indeed they'll all be getting together and they'll say the right things, about how they'll share this and that and work together etc, and they'll enjoy the team building sessions and the corporate entertainment. But then they'll all get back to their desks next Monday morning and forget any of it ever happened and carry on as usual.
Matt Booty: Gentlemen, we have brought all of you here to unveil our latest piece of advanced technology, that we all hope you'll take complete advantage of: The Kinect 3!
Joe Neate and Craig Duncan shout and cry tears of pure joy and excitement.
The rest of the studio heads: ... Seriously?
Matt: Nah, just kidding, more details on project Scarlet
Joe and Craig: Oh... Yeah, of course. Kinect, psh, who would ever like that piece of junk, amirite?... :(
Joe Neate and Craig Duncan shout and cry tears of pure joy and excitement.
The rest of the studio heads: ... Seriously?
Matt: Nah, just kidding, more details on project Scarlet
Joe and Craig: Oh... Yeah, of course. Kinect, psh, who would ever like that piece of junk, amirite?... :(
Half of the team lives across the country, or on different continents. I doubt they'd fly them all over there for a glorified PowerPoint presentation.
Age of Empires
I shall destroy your kingdom brick by brick and stone by stone
My dream is MechAssault with destructible environments.
Mercenaries!!!!!!!
Oh, you probably mean MS IP. Gears could use that tech very well, especially in campaign and horde modes. Halo could benefit, and Obsidian might find some neat uses for it. Mechassault, Forza: Twisted Paradise, and Crimson Skies would suit it nicely.
This is a very good reason why Nintendo wouldn't want it on Switch as it would take attention from their ecosystem. It's not just the games but the community.
Of course they could always come out with their own Xcloud handheld instead of hoping and praying for Nintendo to let them onto the Switch but people here saying they shouldn't.
Otogi with all the powers and fighting the levels could be demolished quickly
Otogi.
Blast Corps sequel.
Midtown Madness sequel and use it for car destruction,
Yeah, but I'd also buy a Switch and probably buy their software. So both MS and Nintendo would get more out of me.
Yes, that would be amazing! Regardless of the tech, I just want a new MechAssault. I have such fond memories if it from the earliest XBL days. I picked it up with the whole Xbox Live Gold Communicator bundle kit, it was my first game on Live and blew my mind.
Or they can just wait for your to buy a Switch without the need of Xbox anything on it and keep it exactly the same right now. They don't need Xcloud to sell their system.
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