Game News 2.0

I'm pretty sure we won't get any credible confirmation of that because it's simply not believable. Game making is a business, so they need to sell and worry about numbers. Making, let's say, games for impact like South of Midnight won't have any impact if no one wants to play it.

Focusing on awards and prestige doesn't mean total sale flops - when no one wants to play a game they won't buy it and they won't play it on gamepass either, so what's the point?

Well, they failed and now the experiment is over. Hopefully, next time someone tells them that they don't need to worry about sales they will remember santa's not real either.

Microsoft subsidiaries owns plenty of successful gaming IPs like Halo, Fallout, Doom, Elder Scrolls etc so they are pretty deep in the business of making and selling their own games.

XBox has an awful lot of 18 cert dark, dystopian, cheerless muck. Mostly FPS. Targeted at males who liked Halo back in the day.

Edit posted too early .. but you get the idea. It's a USA 2050 simulator. 😁

TBH then don't take me seriously and I won't take you either, if you're so willing to dismiss my opinions as based on some culture war or ??? instead of being my genuine opinions as a perfectly average and subjective gamer.

It's just that when the average subjective gamer is ignored, studios close down and layoffs happens. Because we are the ones who actually spend money on the products this industry makes, not the gaming analysts and journalists.

Me, you, everyone here I guess. People who spend 60-80 euros on a new game and call it good value entertainment.

As Jason pointed out Microsoft isn't just one company and Xbox isn't just one platform where they all pull together.

Hardware, games, game pass, cloud etc are all different pillars, and when game pass makes money from call of duty, the "games pillar" misses out on millions of sales.

Then the CEO says Games isn't profitable and we need to cut roles.

For it to work it all needs to be just Xbox. Big tent pole games bring people to the platform, smaller interesting games keep them there.

When companies go all in on their biggest selling games and stop innovation in risky new IP, they add massive risk. A shift in the industry from racing to FPS leaves them vulnerable if all you make is racing games.

You're making some assumptions about what games I play. As for what I tolerate, I don't have any issue with games existing, but I do have issues with big budget games that flop and take down the studios with them.

There is no one size fits all, but there is size A that fits 90% and size B that fits 0.1%. Making big budget games for the size B gamers is something that should not happen.

Here's the trailer

Will be very interesting to see the price point. Everyone hoping it's 80 euro while you can imagine the industry money men creaming at the thought of it going to 100.

I have a feeling it will be 80 for standard but have a 100+ version with early access and other bollox.

Question is.... At what price point of standard version would people on here be like "I'm out".