Matt Booty when asked if Halo Infinite will go to Playstation: 'We go where the players are"

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You also have a software business which releases games for other platforms - rival platforms. How will that change?

 

Matt Booty: That decision comes down to 'what is the player expectation'? How do we deliver what fans and players are expecting? We're not going to go in and dictate a certain game go and target a certain platform. It's where can we find those players. So, today we saw Microsoft Flight Simulator, there's a huge process we go through to decide what gets in the show and you can imagine we start with more than we end up with...

 

...You had Fable and you took it out?

 

Matt Booty: [laughs] We decided it would be a good statement to have Flight Simulator in there because it's a game with deep connections to Microsoft's roots - the first game we ever published - it makes a statement. But you could say it's a PC thing, the folks who get into them often buy specialised joysticks, throttles, multi-monitor setups. They're some of the most passionate about building rigs. But at the same time, we're also going to bring that game to Xbox consoles. Why? Because people want to play it on Xbox and we'll figure out a way to make it work. So, platforms, even competing ones, comes down to us following the players and seeing where they want that content.

 

So you're saying if there's enough Halo fans who own a PlayStation...

 

Matt Booty: Well, I can't speak for Sony but I can point to the work we've done on Minecraft. We've kept it at pace so Minecraft on Xbox and PlayStation - neither lags behind the other. Our relationship with Sony as it relates to Minecraft is very healthy, it's fantastic. Nintendo is quite literally just across the street from us in Redmond and Minecraft has done great on Switch.

 

 

My time's up, but one final thing on Scarlett. Fans like the choice of being able to play games digitally and physically and want to know if they will still be able to do choose - will Scarlett offer that?

 

 

Matt Booty: Yes, Scarlett will have an optical disc drive. I still have films at home on physical media - not many, but a few of my favourites. We know people have an attachment to buying games on disc, to building a collection.

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-10-the-big-xbox-interview-scarlett-cross-gen-halo-infinite-and-the-lack-of-fable

 

Another Phil Spencer running amok @ ms

 

Good luck Dynamite, you're gonna need it heading into next gen  

 

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Good. Would like to see MS using the Minecraft approach for all their games going forward. 

[JonDnD 2,608]

Why are they releasing a new console again?

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

Just now, JONBpc said:

Why are they releasing a new console again?

You're not reading what he's saying, Bodycount is creating inferences that aren't there.

 

What a shock. 

[JonDnD 2,608]

He shouldn't have said anything at all, except NO. These cucks trying to be everyones friend except to the xbox fans . Fuck MS

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he's straight up telling you they would if Sony would allow them to.

 

How can you defend this company? They're trying to con gamers out of another $500 on an exclusive-less box and they damn well know they'd sell out to the competition in a heartbeat. they're done, consumer trust is at 0 as it should be.

 

If you want to throw out $500 on a gamble with these loser execs, be my guest. I'm going Playstation.

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

1 minute ago, Bodycount N said:

he's straight up telling you they would if Sony would allow them to.

 

How can you defend this company? They're trying to con gamers out of another $500 on an exclusive-less box and they damn well know they'd sell out to the competition in a heartbeat. they're done, consumer trust is at 0 as it should be.

 

If you want to throw out $500 on a gamble with these loser execs, be my guest. I'm going Playstation.

No he's not, he's beating around the bush giving a convoluted non-answer. 

[JonDnD 2,608]

4 minutes ago, Bodycount N said:

he's straight up telling you they would if Sony would allow them to.

 

How can you defend this company? They're trying to con gamers out of another $500 on an exclusive-less box and they damn well know they'd sell out to the competition in a heartbeat. they're done, consumer trust is at 0 as it should be.

 

If you want to throw out $500 on a gamble with these loser execs, be my guest. I'm going Playstation.

Not having exclusives isn't even the problem. People don't care if its shared with PC. The issue is these idiots keep saying PLAY YOUR GAMES WHEREVER YOU WANT and play along with questions like this tard was asked.

 

Share your games with Pc. That's cool. Tease that you want Sony and Nintendo in bed with you . So now, people will think this, they wont buy Scarlet. Now scarlet will have no exclusives or 3rd party.

 

What are they thinking?

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8 minutes ago, JONBpc said:

He shouldn't have said anything at all, except NO. These cucks trying to be everyones friend except to the xbox fans . Fuck MS

This. It should be automatic.

[JonDnD 2,608]

9 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said:

You're not reading what he's saying, Bodycount is creating inferences that aren't there.

 

What a shock. 

Why play into it? The correct answer would have been NO, next question.

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

1 minute ago, JONBpc said:

Why play into it? The correct answer would have been NO, next question.

He gave a pretty simple answer in more words. 

 

 That decision comes down to 'what is the player expectation'? How do we deliver what fans and players are expecting?

 

Was there an expectation of Minecraft to go to PS4? Yes, Hellblade to Switch? Yes, Halo to PlayStation, no. 

 

 

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Yeah, they're effectively CREATING demand for people to want Halo on other platforms.

 

Which, obviously, costs gamers nothing to make such a demand.

[JonDnD 2,608]

The simple answer would have been NO. There are millions of bodycounts out there that took this as MS will make Halo on PS

[lynux3 2,052]

Who would have thought Xbox would be like it is after Xbox 360.

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

1 minute ago, JONBpc said:

The simple answer would have been NO. There are millions of bodycounts out there that took this as MS will make Halo on PS

No there's not, there's some outlying idiots who can't see the forest for the trees.

[JonDnD 2,608]

Just now, DynamiteCop! said:

No there's not, there's some outlying idiots who can't see the forest for the trees.

Have you looked at game forums? There is a lot of idiots.

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

Just now, JONBpc said:

Have you looked at game forums? There is a lot of idiots.

Game forums are a not only tiny minority of people who buy consoles, a tiny minority of that minority freak out, and they're continuing to diminish by the day. 

 

Why do you think I was so confident about that Switch and PlayStation shit from Aza and the Sheep evaporating? Because they're letting fanaticism and hyperbole rule their thoughts instead of rationality. 

 

The path forward is xCloud, PC and Xbox, that's it. All within the confines of Microsoft's ecosystem, their network, their hardware, their API, all within their control.  

[JonDnD 2,608]

2 minutes ago, lynux3 said:

Who would have thought Xbox would be like it is after Xbox 360.

I think the next xbox will be better for gamers and MS. Halo is not going to go to PS. But they shouldn't dance around those questions and play into shit. They need to be clear.

 

All those studios they bought that had games in production on other platforms?? They should have snatched that shit away. This is ours now bitch!

 

PLAY EVERYWHERE!! That should be buy this MS game and play it on your Xbox, PC and mobile device!

 

Phil needs to stop focusing on phrases like WE WANT GAMERS TO " " and focus on WE WANT XBOX FANS TO " "

 

Stop trying to be the nice guy when Big Dick Sony will fuck ya girl

 

Remij is right, Phil needs to quit being a bitch and borrow Sweenys big fat money dick and swing that shit around.

 

They put a Billie Ellish song in the Gears SnapChat filter reveal FFS

 

 

[JonDnD 2,608]

Just now, DynamiteCop! said:

Game forums are a not only tiny minority of people who buy consoles, a tiny minority of that minority freak out, and they're continuing to diminish by the day. 

 

Why do you think I was so confident about that Switch and PlayStation shit from Aza and the Sheep evaporating? Because they're letting fanaticism and hyperbole rule their thoughts instead of rationality. 

 

The path forward is xCloud, PC and Xbox, that's it. All within the confines of Microsoft's ecosystem, their network, their hardware, their API, all within their control.  

They aren't clear with that. They need to make it , BUY XBOX, BUY OUR GAMES, play them on OUR platforms and you mobile devices.

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

1 minute ago, JONBpc said:

They aren't clear with that. They need to make it , BUY XBOX, BUY OUR GAMES, play them on OUR platforms and you mobile devices.

What's clear or not is a matter of perspective, I suggest you change yours.