Since Xbox isn't getting Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town I guess this will have to do lol.
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Since Xbox isn't getting Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town I guess this will have to do lol.
Damn Marvelous & Xbox, Mineral Town needed more promotional pushes really.
WB's gonna be a corpse by the time it's up for grabs 💀 still a ton of valuable IP though
None of these smaller Japanese games are hitting game pass lately, which limits their visibility and overall sales. As you said in the other thread, seems like they stopped after Danganronpa.
Maybe saving for TGS? Hard copium here lol.
for sure, the disparity between la liga and premier leaguer or even serie A is insane, basically only those three have money to spend, the rest, even sevilla, struggle to buy any player for more than 20m. i could go on about barcelona's spending but like you said not relevant to this topic 😂
There's no way anyone is buying WB Games without the IPs. Maybe they sell off WB entirely.
I'm hesitant on what to expect from TGS Gamepass lineups.
They should be exciting and capitalize on JP games for the Japanese market as well as worldwide but Xbox has only just recently gotten more into saving some of these announcements for that particular venue. I'm hoping there's more along the lines of last year's Scarlet Nexus and AI Somnium Files in effort and surprise.
MLB The Show, huh? That's surprising and impressive. Is it normal to see that game doing so well or is this partially attributable to Game Pass? That's kinda awesome, I always thought it would get overshadowed by other games. Good to see it's holding its own. Interestingly, the only PlayStation 1st party game on this list, meanwhile Minecraft is the only Xbox 1st party game on the list. Nintendo has 3 of its properties represented on the list.
ABK alone is on here 4 times XD - and Activision/COD, Blizzard, and King are all represented haha.
lol these are on every store. Windows store was a nightmare for these for a very long time. I actually think the problem is far better on Xbox than on Switch or PlayStation. That said, it's not illegal to make a "parody" of all of these, right? Wonder how murky the legal ground is to actually reject these games, actually XD
It's definitely a cool game. A lot of people have mixed feelings on it, but there were a few times when I got up into the upper atmosphere for whatever reason and was speeding around at full bore where it was just a really great feeling. That one level with the asteroids, though..
Batman Arkham Asylum is like, the dark souls of today's AAA games. They have so many talented devs.
I'd get them with or without any IPs in a sec but this industry cares more about silly movie IPs than talent.
My bet on Embracer or NetEase to get them even without IPs.
The rumored price was rumored to be ~$4B.
I think at the very least the deal needs to include exclusive rights to use WB IPs in video games in perpetuity. Although, I'm not sure how much Microsoft will like not fully owning the IPs. Might be why it fell through the first time?
Not necessarily. Remember how the Xbox store was refreshed in August of 2020? The earliest leaks of that happened when a codename was accidentally revealed to insiders in May or something. And then we got a few pictures in June. And it was out to people in public testing 2 months later. They had been working on it for years, by that point.
There's no reason to think we should hear anything about it until it's damn near ready to ship out. Especially if it's being led by Windows team (kinda hope it's not, though).
And streaming and stuff, but that's probably a huge hurdle for a company like WB that is also exploring streaming from a different angle. The overlap between games and video are blurring rapidly. How do the rights shake out that way?
I'd take anything at this point. Even games I already own like Tales of Arise. Anything to spice up the service, you feel?
My dream will always be all of Falcom games but that's a dream for now.
Well, there's Persona 5 which I'm super excited to experience for the first time on Xbox but that's in October.
Gotta buy Soul Hackers 2 this month because I don't see it hitting Game Pass anytime soon.
I feel for whoever takes those marketing spots at Japan, there's barely anything jp left on GP and nothing joins.. drop after drop after drop. JP guys liked GP a lot, what a waste.. nothing new tho, sad how it got to this point yet again.
Do you still remember May 2021? It was the last time they did it with jrpgs.
Meanwhile stadia and luna are rocking those falcom games, yup.. zero excuses.
I'm increasingly convinced Xbox just doesn't have what it takes to be a global brand, even with Phil. They just always fumble outside the Anglosphere.
I don't think it means that Xbox won't have their own VR console in the future I just think there isn't that high of a demand for one at the moment. There are a lot of great groundbreaking VR games such as Resident Evil and Half Life Alyx and others but even though they are great they still don't sell as much compared to the PC/Console market.
I do think that if VR continues to become more successful Xbox will eventually have their own VR console but it probably won't be until next gen. Since it would be awesome to see what Microsoft and Bethesda could do with VR games.
I agree I think right now Microsoft should focus on traditional gaming and then once they have games and they are coming out on a regular basis then I could see Microsoft look towards VR as an option for the future. Since it's hard to imagine that if the VR market keeps growing that there won't be an Xbox VR down the line.
I don't think that VR is struggling to be mainstream and that it is a niche peripheral/product but VR could definitely be much better. I think VR needs more games like Half Life: Alyx, Elite Dangerous, Resident Evil 4, and more that push the boundary of VR before it becomes more mainstream. And it will be interesting to see what happens with VR this generation since if it is successful then it is possible Microsoft could look to VR as an option for the next console generation.
It was way better with Peter Moore, like a billion times better. Like it was properly a great place for jp fans.
When he left.. it started the jp downhill.
Spencer hasn't proven anything in regards to jp games, a 5 minutes section at ''E3'' after years on the job, sure ain't it.
I wouldn't mind if GP gets games I own already like FUGA & Tales of Arise if it's accompanied by a few other JP games I don't have on Xbox like Disgaea games and Ys. Hell even if the GP lineup is all stuff I own at least it would make JP users excited for the service with games from local publishers/developers.
It'll be quite the uphill battle again, the consistency with JP/Asian games just isn't there at all.
I could see Microsoft look into getting Netherealm or Travelers Tales.
imo MS should invest more on their iteration/support infrastructure or overall Portfolio business model rather than looking for big acquisition again.
If they do well they can drastically transform Activision portfolio, same for Blizzard, same for King same for Zenimax.
They need to have coherence & consistency in the overall portfolio, E-Rated, Teens, Mature content, Then the genres etc...
If they do well they can drastically transform Activision portfolio, same for Blizzard, same for King same for Zenimax.
They need to have coherence & consistency in the overall portfolio, E-Rated, Teens, Mature content, Then the genres etc...
Play anywhere continues to be such an amazing feature. Every time I can hop between PC/console/cloud with one save it feels like the future.
Zazlav: Cut Batgirl from the Batgame and put Batfleck in there.
Dev: But sir, the story is Batman is de--
Zaz: Did I fucking stutter?
They would be a hard sell without them but on the other hand getting more studios would greatly help Microsoft with development of dormant franchises as well as new IP.
Yeah I wished they were able to fix that, it's not great for Gamepass to only offer western/indy stuff only for large amounts of time. There is Persona and Wo Long but outside of those there's not much else there for fans of Japanese/Asian games outside of what's already there. Fighters in particular are lacking in the service.
The show was the 9th best selling game in NA last year. In 2020 it was number 18. So still really good numbers but obviously going multiplat and GP helped it climb the charts. I expect this year it'll be even bigger since it's on Switch
Smart delivery, play anywhere, unlimited cloud saves etc. Just fantastic and forward thinking. OS team nailed the core things that people take for granted since day 1.
Agree, and add on to it the handful of those remasters that already exist / are announced but skipped / are skipping Xbox, Like Star Ocean: First Departure R, the Mana remakes and the upcoming port of Valkyrie Profile Lenneth.
Also I'd say equally important are the spiritual successors to those kind of classic series that some new indie studios are making like Monark and others I'm sure I'm forgetting. More JRPG comfort food, in every flavor.
Exactly. Rocksteady and Nether realm are great but without IP? There has to be a steep discount that I don't think WB wants to make.
I keep saying they need to copy Sony on this, or at least how they were. President in Europe and Presidents in Asia/Japan that literally focus on driving engagement in those markets while also signing Gamepass deals and funding exclusives. You can grow a service like this without appealing to every market in someway. Netflix does this. Whatever they're doing now isn't working.
Seems like a good idea, hope all the hiring they are doing there are to address these things.
That raises a good question, who actually works on Windows Xbox stuff? I'd hope by now they'd have figured out that having the Windows team involved makes things worse. That does seem to be a consistent thing, with whatever fresh hell Windows is trying to push not being made for gaming.
Fr though, would be kind of cool if we had an Xbox of Japan with its own president like Nintendo of America
I tend to agree. What makes it funny is they are supposedly trying to reach billions of people yet can't even support traditional gaming markets.
Think it's most notable in their translations. Jez Corden brings it up but even from what I've read I've seen that they don't really try and mostly use machine based translation. A funny example I can think of is Halo Infinite in Spanish would say "User left the fireteam" but the left was the direction left, not the action to leave. 😂
And that's Spanish…. I cannot imagine other languages and their over-reliance on machine based translations.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear the first time. I know 1st party doesn't release every month but people won't keep/be interested in a subscription if there isn't big 1st party releases in addition to
The most buzz for Game Pass games always seems to be when first party releases. It's also when we all get interested in how many subs there are to the service. The same thing doesn't happen when Far Cry gets put on it. Sorry if I wasn't clear before I was just simply trying to say that first party is the wow factor for Game Pass and it's what drives subs more so than third party.
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The post I quoted is saying they "stopped" after Danganronpa 2. That was only two months ago. Idk what else you are talking about but that's all I'm responding to
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I believe so as well, achieving consistency and good quality/healthy studios should be a priority.
Xbox is growing rapidly and they need do a QoL upgrade in suport for the studios, leadership and marketing.
Microsoft typically doesn't report specific numbers at a specific level for any of their products. It's mostly high-level numbers i.e subscription numbers, revenue and growth of overall product/service.
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