Moon Studios signs publishing deal with Private Division (Take Two)

[Quad Damage 1,763]

what a way to close your final year

 

lose your best game to ps4 (cuphead)

lose the studio behind your second best game

[jehurey 3,298]

8 hours ago, Teh_Diplomat said:

It's from the fact that at this point Microsoft - as a whole, not the Xbox gaming division; must be looking at all their money sunk into hardware, and marketing in order to compete in a very expensive and risky market, along with the numbers that come their competitor's sales compared to their own; and start to realize GamePass is where they are headed long term.

 

Do I think they'll abandon the Xbox 1? Not in the traditional sense; rather they'll just expand Gamepass onto other platforms, and provide firmware updates and the like for the Xbox1 years down the line. Hell they supported Windows XP until 2014.

 

 

One thing is clear, they're not interested (by virtue of their actions) in truly competing with Sony and Nintendo at this point.

 

 

It's like a sport team. You ask the owner, the General Manager, the players, the star(s) on the team: "You guys think you have a serious shot this year?"

 

They'll answer yes, but the truth is they may be starting out a rookie - and want to develop them; they may have had a roster overhaul, or new management, or are rebuilding with draft picks, but we know they don't stand a chance. However, you can't operate and tell people: your fans, your employees in the building, your team: "yeah, not this year guys".

 

Microsoft has too numerous of studios that don't have the pedigree of AAA calibre titles, they don't have a flagship title clear as I can tell, that you require an Xbox in order to enjoy. How confident are they, in this one particular field/division of their entire company that they want to sink billions more into without any payoff. At least with Gamepass you can see the 'Netflix' model and understand how that could work out in their interest in the long-term.

 

I want to know if Microsoft has spoken to brick & mortar retailers about this.

 

"Please buy and stock our $500 product (which B&M retailers traditionally pay $5-$15 under the retail price), and whoever buys it, we will heavily push them into signing up for an all-digital service, which means that consumer will not likely come back to your store to buy retail disc video games."

 

How are retailers supposed to react to that? How is this not going to be a product that will have the least amount of shelf space in any electronics section?