Ok now having time to fully read the article let's see -Snip
With Minecraft
Given the whole context of this quote was about the store it's fairly safe to say they were talking about the Win 10 version of Minecraft and not it's overall performance.“Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful,” says another. “The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It’s on fire. 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider, a flagship Windows 10 game, were bought on Steam. The same is true for Minecraft. That hurt us, too. The store’s a mess; the number of people who couldn’t even install the game from the Microsoft store was… significant."
I don't know numbers at the top of my head but they would be making predictions based on X360 performance and more than likely essentially on markets like US/UK were they had a big lead with the X360. So realistically at the very least they would be predicting being the market leader again in these markets as well as possibly increasing their marketshare due to things like their entertainment plans, combined consoles on market. We also have to remember they were also banking hard on entertainment being a big thing there is a reason why majority of their reveal was "TV TV TV", the creation of Xbox Entertainment Studios. If you add those things you can see why their predictions would be a lot higher than where the XB1 is estimated to be those days(19-21m) I don't know about being 2x but definitely a lot more than it is atm.“Let’s be honest – we make our projections based on a series of assumptions,” reflects a former employee who worked closely with Microsoft. “There are supposed to be 2x as many Xboxes out there as there are right now. There are supposed to be 2x as many Windows 10 installs as there currently are. So now, when we look at how much money Legends could make in the free-to-play universe, you have to halve it. Because we can only reach half the audience that was projected.”
The main problem here is the way sources are referenced to. In the beginning we haveOne source reckons that the final decision was probably made about a week before, as Microsoft started doing its fiscal planning, deciding what products and studios to fund and not. Lionhead was not the only first-party studio that was having problems. Something had to give.
“I reckon [Phil Spencer] feels bad about Lionhead, but I think for him, he has to run all of Microsoft Studios as a business,” they say. “First-party studios isn’t doing so well. Halo 5 is a big miss, versus projections. Minecraft is a big miss, versus projections. Compared to either one of those, Lionhead is practically a rounding error. But I think if your division is under-performing, you have to go to your boss with something on the altar.”
That makes it seems like the sources for this article are many and are not always from Lionhead as seen byAfter Milo and Kate, Molyneux and a large team of others at Lionhead were working on something called Project Opal – a sprawling project so unfocused that even the other designers working on it had no idea what it was actually supposed to be in the end, according to some people who were with the studio at the time. (Due to non-disclosure and redundancy agreements, the people who spoke to me for this article did not wish to be identified.)
so this information doesn't all come from only Lionhead employees the difficulty is knowing where the source is coming from at each point because of how they are referred to.reflects a former employee who worked closely with Microsoft.
Nothing in here seems too hard to believe it could be close to the truth when you look at things more closely. Like with Win 10 installs you only have to see they overly-aggressive actions they been doing for months to see what is said here could be close to the truth.
I was saying for months Halo 5 was way below expectations by them. So no rumor on that part!
Thatitis.gifAll of this is true, as far as I know.
I would even say Xbox being at half of their projections is generous, rather than conservative.
I wonder if people would put more believe in you guys.