Yeah same I'm eager to see what they've been up to. Also, given TC have been talking to TI makes me think their game is third person (not a foregone conclusion tho). But if that's the case, I like Xbox's approach to taking on a genre/type of game their direct competitor excels at. The approach being building a studio from scratch and hiring the most top tier talent in the industry who have experience making those types of games.
I'm just highly skeptical a successful series like Persona would make less money being ported to Switch, PC, and Xbox. Localization has already been done and paid for on PS3/PS4 and the porting process is much easier due to similar architecture with PC, and Xbox. Sure, smaller brands or niche games I can see them making less money overall going multi platform but not games with bigger brand names and critical and commercial success as well. Xbox also has gotten more incentives with Game Pass/xCloud that could help subsidize the porting costs.
I take it as direct payment to third parties in advance for the purpose of exclusivity (total or conditional). Many of these other programs aren't set up that way.
A console maker giving a third party publisher other financial contributions, such as taking less of a cut, giving higher status on store fronts etc for the purpose of exclusivity is still a money hat. Money changed hands to get something.
For the sake of argument, hey, maybe if Persona is only released on PlayStation, then Sega's cut of the sales for every single copy is a fair amount higher.
Under that logic, almost every single game is money hatted.
No, but almost every game has exclusive content, exclusive ad deals, exclusive bundle deals, exclusive placement deals, exclusive preorder deals, special financing deals, special rates, etc.
If Sony is giving Sega extra incentive in keeping the franchise exclusive to their platform then it makes sense. If not, then Sega is limiting the growth of the brand and fanbase and not maximizing the amount of revenue each game could generate. Didn't Sega say recently during a quarters report about them taking a more multiplatform approach in the future?
Any kind of financial incentive a console maker gives a publisher to a keep a game off of other services forever or a limited time is a money hat.
Yeah, lets not be so aggressive over a friendly debate about a nonsense term.
I didn't think I was being aggressive but I will edit my post as that wasn't my intent.
don't believe them , square said the same and they still make Exclusives and didn't port alot of their games
Yea I really think TC is developing Perfect Dark which I hope is TRUE!
Sony had shares in square and probably was giving them extra incentive in keeping games exclusive in the past. You see Square ported all the PS Final Fantasies to Xbox and Switch now.
Gears needs to finish out it's 2nd trilogy with one more game. Might as well get it out the way.
This is actually a pretty dope idea. But I'd rather third person.
Yea Gears needs a damn break and they need to work on a new IP...
Would love a more survival horror-esque reboot of the series. I think that's where it works best, like certain parts of the first game.
That seems logical but they've released 2 gears games in what(?) 3 years? It wouldn't hurt to let it breathe until mid gen. Truthfully I don't even want that, I just want to know who is making PD officially on the record. It does seem like a project that MS would want to keep in-house.
Josh Sawyer said he doesnt want to make a pillars 3 in the same style as the first two until he knows why the second one sold poorly
3rd person shooter based on the ODST would be perfect.I vaguely remember Bonnie Ross (head of 343i) saying that they'll explore more options once Halo: Infinite releases. I think it was in an interview like the IGN one, but I could be wrong. Either way, this wouldn't be the first time that they said this. It's something that we learned during the Halo Megablocks leak and there was also a Halo Community Feedbrack program survey, which actually asked what genres Halo should explore. It was one of the first surveys they did and it made me join the HCF program, because I thought they would expand on it.
Also, I'd totally play something like this:
