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The Xbox Platform Most Certainly Has Games Now

Gamerheadquarters; "After the acquisition of Bethesda it really can’t ever be said again that Xbox has no games. That narrative of lacking in the first party department is officially over as there has been quite a staggering growth for the Microsoft gaming division."

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porkChop1385d ago

They have a *ton* of top tier studios. They have a ton of beloved, historical franchises. They have a new incredible in-house engine with id Tech. They have a very powerful and feature-rich console. You don't have to like Xbox, but you can't deny that they're in a really, really good position. The industry needed this. When all 3 manufacturers are providing healthy competition it brings out the best in each. All gamers will benefit from this.

Jin_Sakai1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

Xbox finally have more games that’s for sure but being as talented as Sony’s first party studios is another story. They’re in a league of their own.

If Microsoft keeps ES6 exclusive to Xbox that will be huge. That’s a game people will talk about for ages.

porkChop1385d ago

I agree, PlayStation's first party are some of the best in the industry. Xbox isn't there yet, but hopefully they take the time to grow and mature their teams.

bouzebbal1385d ago

Games won't be exclusives to them only.. Because Bethesda will remain self publishing.
As I said earlier, Bethesda image is really bad atm, they need to step their QA game up

dcbronco1385d ago

You are some delusional people. Name the Sony first party game that sold 30 million copies. Sony wishes they had Bethesda. Zenimax. This is the level of ignorance that has Sony financing Microsoft now. You can cause it to increase or you can cause Microsoft to buy more and cut you off. Grow up.

Jin_Sakai1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

@dcbronco

“You are some delusional people. Name the Sony first party game that sold 30 million copies. Sony wishes they had Bethesda. Zenimax.”

“Name the Sony first party game that sold 30 million copies.“

Why are you comparing Sony exclusives to a multi platform game that sold 30 million? Not really a fair comparison.

Regardless Skyrim was a great game and I’m sure ES6 will be amazing.

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BillyG0AT1384d ago

I can see MS keeping Starfield as an exclusive but I reckon they would let ES6 be multi-plat to get some of that initial investment back. Either way, it's fun times ahead for gamers. I think we will see some massive changes as this console generation progresses.

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Indigon1385d ago

It could be great if they bring AAA big title games but it could be less great if they concentrate on shorter Gamepass fillers. The future will tell. I'm very much in a wait and see position.

sampsonon1384d ago

You mean MS is one step closer to turning gaming into a service full of half made games and MT's. They want "12" new games per year, as Phil said, which means less time and money creating them. But don't worry, they will patch it over the next couple yrs. I won't even start on Phil's comment that Single player games aren't viable and isn't in MS's future plans. Yes i know, they have a few coming but that's not their goal because it cost more money, usually, and it's harder to justify MT's.

MS Gamespass will have quantity over quality. And i understand it has some great older games. I am not talking about right now because it's in its infancy. I am talking 10 yrs from now when Sony sees success, even though the investment is low, by Gamespass they will follow suit.
Bye bye AAA large budget games like God Of War.

Could be wrong though....... "Eye roll"

NeoGamer2321384d ago (Edited 1384d ago )

Again, as usual there is not a single fact to backup your argument.

2017 - First year of GamePass.... No really good first party games
2018 - Second year of GamePass... Release Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, Forza Horizon 4 - Overall quality and quantity improving
2019 - Third year of GamePass... Releases Crackdown 3, Gears 5, The Outer Worlds - Overall quality is improving, quantity the same
2020 - Fourth year of GamePass... Releases Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Minecraft Dungeons, Bleeding Edge, Gears Tactics, Flight Simulator, Wasteland 3, and Grounded preview.... Overall quality and quantity improving

Look at the facts. They have not turned all their games into services and they have not reduced quality for quantity.

Also with 23 studios, each studio currently has about 2 years to make games. Many of these studios have multiple teams which probably puts a 3 years cycle onto their games.

sampsonon1384d ago (Edited 1384d ago )

@NeoGamer232:
Craig?
Sea of Thieves AA Game with lots of glitches(Kraken without a body) one of the highlights. META (67
State of Decay GLITCHED. META (66
FH4, enough said, same old game again and again.
Those games are an improvement? yikes! Making my point for me.
Crackdown 3? You really want to help me eh? META (63
Gears 5? ok. META (85
The Outer worlds is a AA game. META (85
Ori =A GAME (META 90..... AT LEAST THEY HAVE ONE IN THE 90's.
MC=A GAME (need i say more?
Bleeding Edge? Garbage = AA GAME (Meta 66
GT = A GAME (meta 80? wow! almost there.
FS? BORING, we there yet?
WL3=A GAME (84
Grounded hahaha. thanks, that is an improvement from the 1st year of GP? Interesting.

So it looks like a whole bunch of average games that are A and AA and a couple in the 80's Also A and AA with one in the 90's.
All that in 4 yrs?
Thanks for proving my point.

I won't bother posting PS4 games because it will be embarrassing.

Chriswheeler221384d ago

They are in a great position for success. Let's hope the studios make games I actually want to play.

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Immagaiden1385d ago

Since when did Xbox have no games? You don’t remain a major contender in the industry without having a wide variety of software on your platform to sustain your brand

King_Noctis1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

According to some people, MS games don’t exist.

Shadowsteal1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

Halo, Forza, Gears since 2006.

When's the last time Microsoft released a game as amazing as Uncharted 4, Spider-Man, Horizon, The Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, and the list keeps going.

Forgettable shit like Grounded, Bleeding Edge, and Sea of Thieves isn't going to cut it.

Even when they do have the opportunity to bring something gamechanging they cancel it. Like canceling Scalebound, Fable: Legends, and the New IP The Coalition was working on before Gears of War 4.

All Microsoft can prove so far is that they can buy Studios. Sony has been pushing boundaries, cultivating creativity, and nurturing talent for at least a decade now.

King_Noctis1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

Ori Will of the Wisp? MS Flight Simulator? Wasteland 3? Quantum Break? Sunset Overdrive?

You can’t act like Gear, Halo, and Forza are the only good games that they have. Also, you can’t and shouldn’t keep looking back to the past, MS was dumpster fire back then. Now it is a whole different ball game for them.

NEXUS-61385d ago

King :

Flight Sim is on OLD series,
Ori was just funded and can be found on SWITCH,
Wasteland 3 - on PS4 & PC,
Sunset Overdrive is an Insomniac ip,
Quantom Break - do they own that or Remedy?

Point being they've now paid (at least what we know) $9.5 Billion dollars for Minecraft, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, DOOM and a few ips that never reached their potential.

I don't know about you - that isn't too impressive when put up against Sony's output over the same time frame.

King_Noctis1384d ago

"Flight Sim is on OLD series"

Yet you listed Uncharted 4 and God of War. Those aren't new series. MS could also have easily made Ori and Wasteland exclusive to their platform, but they didn't.

It also doesn't matter who own Sunset Overdrive, MS IS the publisher. And MS owns Quantum Break.

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Immagaiden1385d ago

@ King

Seems ridiculous to say such a large entity doesn’t exist.

@ Shadow

I’m not talking about Xbox as a publisher I’m talking about the Xbox platforms in general.

When’s the last time people only bought a console just to play solely first party titles? Exclusives are very important no doubt, but not everybody only buys a console just to play a handful of titles published by that specific hardware manufacturer.

Look as a primarily PlayStation gamer I’m not defending Microsoft’s pitiful first party lineup here. They should be ashamed for their output. But the Xbox brand didn’t get to where it is now being the 3rd longest lasting gaming hardware brand because people only wanted to play Microsoft published titles. Millions of people buy Xbox to play a wide variety of titles from a wide array of publishers.

Obviously PlayStation offers more games that’s an undeniable fact. But to act like Xbox literally has no titles at all and is somehow able to sustain itself on some antimatter is absurd.

There’s an obvious reason Xbox outsold GameCube & Xbox One outsold Wii U. Yeah PS2, PS3, PS4, & soon PS5 outsold every Xbox system they competed with, but those Xbox systems still sold millions of units because it offered software that many are interested in. Yeah a lot of it is multiplatform, thus meaning you can play those games on other platforms, but they still sustained the Xbox brand to the point that it’s still a major player in the hardware industry.

Shadowsteal1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

"Xbox has no games" is referencing their lack of compelling exclusives. Essentially making the point, why get an Xbox when you can play the same games AND a dozen+ blockbuster exclusives.

Hopefully that trend changes this generation. With the Zenimax/Bethesda acquisition I have high hopes. Microsoft is invested in gaming for the long term which will only inspire all the platform holders.

Immagaiden1385d ago

I understand that what that reference to “no games” means. It was stupid when people said PS3 had no games early in its life and it’s even more ridiculous now to say XO has no games to play.

Again, who pays hundreds of dollars to get a console to limit themselves to only play exclusives?

You and I can go back and forth on why people would get an Xbox for whatever reason, but at the end of the day the fact remains that millions of people still have bought an Xbox console and millions play games on it.

You don’t become, and more importantly remain, a major player in an industry where many other hardware manufacturers have failed by not having content that would entice a large enough demographic to justify investing billions to further cement yourself within said industry.

masterfox1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

old games to be more precise, like in every console. :D

Ghostbob1385d ago

Really where are they because I am not playing any new IP or exclusive from Xbox but will be in a few years or more if they don't F up Bethesda!

Damrock1385d ago (Edited 1385d ago )

I'd honestly love to see Halo Infinite using the Id Tech 7 engine.

Also wouldn't say no to a mix of Halo / Doom gameplay for the new Halo, That would be pretty epic.

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The Elder Scrolls 6 Shouldn’t Ignore a Huge Chunk of the Map Like Skyrim Did

Skyrim might be a modern day classic with a famously huge open world, but it still neglected to put any content on one huge part of its map.

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jznrpg1d 7h ago

Get rid of the stupid sprint button and bring back athletics and acrobatics

mkis0071d 3h ago

I hate the perk system. I feel so weak at the start.

Daeloki1d 1h ago

That's the point of 99,99999% of rpgs

mkis0071d ago (Edited 1d ago )

But then Why play once I'm perked up? I want some horizontal progression. I feel like im playing just to get stronger. Once I'm as strong as possible what is there left?

Ratchet and Clank weapons are a perfect example of the best kind of progression.

FPS_D3TH14h ago

Why play when you’re perked up? Brother there is no limit to leveling and perking in Skyrim. You’re not even really making much sense if you’re arguing about RPGs to be honest.

Daeloki27m ago

"But then Why play once I'm perked up?"

Wait I thought your problem with perks was feeling weak at the start? But to answer your question, using Skyrim as an example, by the time I've leveled up to the point of feeling powerful, I still have tons of quests and sidequests to deal with, and enemies tend to scale with your level, so it's not a matter of being overpowered either. Honestly it just sounds like you're complaining for the sake of complaining.

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jznrpg21h ago

So you want the 8-10 second sprint button so you get tired but you can kill god sand dragons. I can run for 20 minutes easily and I’m old. It makes no sense. You always start out weak in RPGs.

OtterX13h ago

Nah, that had me swimming laps in lakes and ponds trying to level up. Like A LOT. I never want to have to do that again.

Inverno11h ago

I know it's a dumb reason but i really can't play Skyrim because of the lack of speed and acrobat. The sprint button and jumping restrictions killed it for me.

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Rebel_Scum1d 3h ago

Yeah nah stuff extra ocean content.

Michiel19891d 2h ago

yeah no, in 99% of cases underwater combat is just bad/worse than regular combat, I'm good without it.

Michiel198920h ago

even in mario bros 3 it was awful

anast9h ago

Mario Bros water levels are what immediately think about when talking about underwater combat.

anast22h ago

It will be developed by AI so there will be stuff all over the map. I'm not sure it will be fun, but there will be stuff.

TheCaptainKuchiki15h ago

Skyrim gotta be one of the most overrated games ever

Michiel198913h ago

nah it was really good and that after 13 years people still play and create mods for it is a testament to that.

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Avowed To Also Feature "Darker, Scarier" Places And A Lot Of "Tonal Variety"

Directors Carrie Patel and Gabriel Paramo confirmed that Avowed will also feature "darker, scarier" areas instead of only colorful places.

TheNamelessOne8d ago

Easily my most anticipated game of the year.

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Avowed Dev Once Again Asked About Skyrim Comparison, Points to The Outer Worlds

IGN : Fallout New Vegas, Grounded, and Pentiment developer Obsidian has responded to a question about the ongoing comparisons between its next game, Avowed, and The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim by pointing to another of its previous games: The Outer Worlds.