Nothing but great news really ,even if we won't see results anytime soon. One thing is for sure, MS finally realizes things need to change.
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Microsoft hiring for new Xbox team in Santa Monica to “hire & grow internal talent to build studios”
- Thread starter Rychu
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I read your post wrong naughty dog is in santa Monica however SSM is not
I have not! I looked it up and it looks really cool! Will try to play it this weekend, thanks!
They hired Darrell Gallagher onto the Xbox Studio Leadership team recently (March?) and said they would share what he's doing at Xbox "at E3". If you look at Darrell Gallagher's LinkedIn, his previous job was Activision in Santa Monica. So I would say very likely.
This times a million. Too many people on this forum don't know what they missed. A new 1v100 type of game would dominate and demolish HQ. Microsoft had a brilliant idea and then shelved it and let a new entrant come and take over without struggle.
I don't think it will be pulled down, it seems like the studio is supposed to be officially announced at E3 from things we've heard.
SSM moved to LA when they moved to a new building. Their old place was run by Allan Becker who is now in Tokyo in Shinagawa running Japan Studio so let's see what magic he has kept to his chest for all these years. I want to see that fruit come to fruition that Shu has teased.
They have the funds to just pay Cory balrog and his team quadruple whatever Sony is giving them, and just hire talent like that
Cant believe ms would make such a big deal and go after the best talent around before announcing games. /s
Cant wait to see what it leads to
Cant wait to see what it leads to
Firstly... are we up to quadruple A games now?
Secondly... this is one studio?, because it kind of reads like more than one studio.
Secondly... this is one studio?, because it kind of reads like more than one studio.
Read the job listing. It says they're working on a new AAA IP/franchise.
I know you're joking but it has some truth to it. While it would be nice to have new MS IPs with strong stories, I just hope they don't follow the "cinematic" experience crowd with 25 minute long cutscenes after every 5 minutes of gameplay. I'm hoping they focus on innovating in terms of gameplay while providing compelling stories that don't overshadow gameplay as a bonus.
So MP game without post launch support. As that is what GaaS means,
That would be great!
Do you feel like the cutscenes in Quantum Break (a narrative driven Microsoft game) overshadowed gameplay?
Overshadowed? No, they brought the momentum to a screeching halt though.
Imagine, if you will, that time continues and that some time in the future, promising games are revealed. And at that unknown moment in time, will you think "this would have been really promising if it was 2012, instead of [date]"? Probably not.
Last year, they wanted their own horizon zd, this year they wanted their own GoW. Better look at sony release calendar for next year closely, MS! :P
phil had to report to a guy who did see the point of the gaming division so the guy didnt give me much budget and room to do much.
Phil now reports right to the ceo and now has all that
Microsoft presents:
A Xbox Santa Monica Production..
Celestial Of Combat....featuring Mars
Good to see Nintendo and Sony push MS. Competition is good, it's win win for us guys. Can't see why anybody would want MS to fail. Fingers crossed they deliver.
I know it doesn't fit your narrative so I apologize in advance, but the Horizon bit was written by a recruitment agency and not MS.
I think they're talking about the Fable leak from Eurogamer that said a big part of the Fable reboot was Horizon: Zero Dawn's success.
Well, Phil really going after 1st party studios. If you can't buy the franchise and publisher than build it. Building from the ground up is a long and costly affair but at least the studio won't be a different corporate culture other than MS. I wonder when if the Xbox brand will still be a hardware supplier by the time this studio starts outputting something worth releasing?? Don't expect Xbox two to have many good 1st party games at launch
The dream (not realistic but the dream) would be to split Turn10, 343 Industries, The Coalition and Rare into two studios and allow them to work on two games at once (one per studio).
Acquire Playground Games (both studios because they are full of talent).
Have this new Santa Monica new IP studio.
That would be a total of 7 new studios if they did that. They don't have the budget for that but it would be cool if that happened.