MS aiming for a first party game release every 3 months

[madmaltese★ 2,558]

Matt Booty, head of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios, has said that his team is aiming to release a first-party Xbox game about every three months.

 

https://au.ign.com/articles/2019/06/11/microsoft-aiming-for-a-first-party-xbox-game-about-every-three-months-e3-2019

 

It sounds great in theory but this was one of the fears I had previously mentioned when they swooped so many devs and started focusing so much on Gamepass. To push a subscription model you need a constant stream of content. Big AAA titles take 3-5 years to develop easy. I don't see MS dedicating many of their studios to major major games. I feel they will focus on numerous smaller titles to constantly encourage ppl to keep their sub, as opposed to signing up on big releases for a month or 2 then cancelling. 

[Guest]

This is why i don't like the gamepass model. It encourages quantity over quality. Not to mention GaaS games. 

Edited June 11, 2019 by Guest

[JonDnD 2,622]

2 minutes ago, モンキー said:

This is why i don't like the gamepass model. It encourages quantity over quality. Not to mention GaaS games. 

MS barely had quality so hopefully quantity works. They have a bunch of studios. Im good with this. We don't need big AAA cinematic games all the time.

[madmaltese★ 2,558]

2 minutes ago, JONBpc said:

MS barely had quality so hopefully quantity works. They have a bunch of studios. Im good with this. We don't need big AAA cinematic games all the time.

All the time? How about ever? Their next one is gonna be Halo. Did we even get a single one from them this gen? Definitely not Gears 5 since they aren't showing a spec of campaign footage.

[JonDnD 2,622]

Gears 5 most certainly will be one of them . I like that ms has gamey games . If both consoles just had tlou of style games ecwryije would get burnt out .

 

Look at days gone . People are sick of playing the same shit 

[madmaltese★ 2,558]

There is like one or two major cinematic games a year. Last year was God of War and that's pretty much it from all first parties. 

Days Gone is not cinematic in the least. It's pure open world like every other open world and it sold gang busters so obviously ppl aren't sick of open worlds yet.

There will not be a major AAA cinematic game this year till Death Stranding. 

They are like the least prevalent genre. Open worlds arguably the most and service games (like Sea of Thieves) right behind. MS isn't making anything unique, they are following the trends. Bleeding Edge is just trying to be Overwatch. SoT was just trying to be a major GaaS like Destiny/Division etc. 

'Gamey games' are the standard. Everything is MP and always online now. Big AAA cinematic titles are what is rare.  No one but a few Sony first party

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

This doesn't impede their AAA studios from their 3-5 year releases, it simply guarantees a steady stream of in between games.

[JonDnD 2,622]

22 minutes ago, madmaltese said:

There is like one or two major cinematic games a year. Last year was God of War and that's pretty much it from all first parties. 

Days Gone is not cinematic in the least. It's pure open world like every other open world and it sold gang busters so obviously ppl aren't sick of open worlds yet.

There will not be a major AAA cinematic game this year till Death Stranding. 

They are like the least prevalent genre. Open worlds arguably the most and service games (like Sea of Thieves) right behind. MS isn't making anything unique, they are following the trends. Bleeding Edge is just trying to be Overwatch. SoT was just trying to be a major GaaS like Destiny/Division etc. 

'Gamey games' are the standard. Everything is MP and always online now. Big AAA cinematic titles are what is rare.  No one but a few Sony first party

Edge is not like overwatch and sot is. It like destiny lmao.  And lmao Sony games are samey , not gamey .

 

Yeah we know Sony fans will buy that shit up , even if it's a massive turd flop

[lostfool 680]

53 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said:

This doesn't impede their AAA studios from their 3-5 year releases, it simply guarantees a steady stream of in between games.

LMAO.  More like 3-5 a decade.  MS is trash

[James Skywalker 528]

That’s good because I get paid quarterly normally.

[Vini 430]

M$ making all the right moves with first party

[Teh_Diplomat 2,054]

4 hours ago, DynamiteCop! said:

This doesn't impede their AAA studios, it simply guarantees a steady stream of in between games.

[102020393023445948594 2,223]

2 hours ago, Vini said:

M$ making all the right moves with first party

They haven't released a AAA budget game since Gears 4 in 2016.  

 

'All the right moves' he says. 

[Playstation Tablet 1,725]

It's all Straight to Gamepass stuff aside from a rare AAA. Shit like Sea of Thieves and Bleeding Edge are basically F2P games so paying 10 bucks a month for them isn't even a good deal.

 

 

Edited June 11, 2019 by Team 2019