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What is a possible Microsoft answer to Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild?

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Del Boca Vista

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Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
 
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OrbitalBeard

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ROUGE_BLOCK said:
Literally nothing right now, like no big genre defining release. The Xbox world past Scorpio will not move much this year
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Man, if their E3 is just Scorpio + new Forza, Gears, and Halo announcements (alongside previously announced stuff), it's going to be rough. I have to believe they've got more cooking than that.
 
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xxracerxx

Don't worry, I'll vouch for them.
OrbitalBeard said:
Man, if their E3 is just Scorpio + new Forza, Gears, and Halo announcements (alongside previously announced stuff), it's going to be rough. I have to believe they've got more cooking than that.
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Crackdown will be the "big" showpiece for Scorpio, count on it.
 
godhandiscen

godhandiscen

There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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Grow up.
 
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StrongBlackVine

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wapplew said:
Why MS need to bring IP's like Zelda/Horizon when For honor outsold both and sold better on Xbox one?
A game is a game whether it's made by Ubisoft, EA, Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft. They just need to build a system that can play most popular games the best, show third party publisher how profitable when their games release on Xbox.
The goal is build attractive video game platform, take a cut from every games as platform holder and release profitable games occasionally.
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Proof that For Honor sold more than Horizon and Zelda? We have no cumulative sales figures for For Honor and all we know is that it led February NPD which Zelda and HZD were not a part of. Ghost Recon sure, but I'm not sure For Honor is in that class of sales.
travisbickle said:
Is this just US sales figures again or do we have world wide numbers?
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Made up figures.
 
wapplew

wapplew

Member
OrbitalBeard said:
Man, if their E3 is just Scorpio + new Forza, Gears, and Halo announcements (alongside previously announced stuff), it's going to be rough. I have to believe they've got more cooking than that.
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Sea of thieves will be a huge hit, lots of members sleeping on this game.
 
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Candescence

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Minecraft 2.

Seriously, though, they ain't got shit. Scalebound might've been it but they canned it. Pathetic, really, but that kinda summarises MS in general this generation.
 
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xxracerxx

Don't worry, I'll vouch for them.
Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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You will last long here.
 
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tuna_love

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Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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wapplew

wapplew

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StrongBlackVine said:
Proof that For Honor sold more than Horizon and Zelda? We have no cumulative sales figures for For Honor and all we know is that it led February NPD which Zelda and HZD were not a part of. Ghost Recon sure, but I'm not sure For Honor is in that class of sales.

Made up figures.
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You are right, I messed up.
 
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Piichan

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Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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Fanboy hate against Microsoft, sure I've seen it before, but the random The Rock diss made me lol.
 
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ryseing

Member
Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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Yo, the Baywatch reboot actually looks kinda funny.
 
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xxracerxx

Don't worry, I'll vouch for them.
StrongBlackVine said:
Why? For me personally the first half of 2017 has been so great that what happens at E3 is not even a much of thought this early. No need to get hyped on the future when the present is so damn amazing.
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It's true. There are so many games that were just released that my year could be filled up (after Persona is out that is).
 
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Syranth

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ShemhazaiX said:
The real answer is Crackdown 3. Open world game that's doing something different.
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I dunno. Crackdown 3 looks like Crackdown 2 and 1 with some physics from Red Faction wrapped around a gimmick they can't get off the ground. I expect it to be cancelled by the end of the year.
 
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Triggerhappytel

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Topics like this are normally locked. I recall a similar one was made a couple of years ago after Bloodborne launched, which got locked. For what it's worth, the answer both then and now should have been Scalebound. Was by far the most interesting and promising game MS had in development IMO.
 
Crayon

Crayon

Member
StrongBlackVine said:
Why? For me personally the first half of 2017 has been so great that what happens at E3 is not even a much of thought this early. No need to get hyped on the future when the present is so damn amazing.
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Because it's going to be so fun here like it is every year. :eek:
 
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polyh3dron

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None of their current IPs could really fill that void. They'd need to make something new, and I don't see that happening at this point of the gen to be honest, considering MS's history with first party releases.
 
wapplew

wapplew

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Even if you have the talents, time and money, it's still really hard to come up with something like BoTW.
It took almost 20 years for Nintendo to finally replicate OoT like breakthrough.
No one have answer to that, you do your own thing.
 
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Cerium

Member
wapplew said:
Even if you have the talents, time and money, it's still really hard to come up with something like BoTW.
It took almost 20 years for Nintendo to finally replicate OoT like breakthrough.
No one have answer to that, you do you own thing.
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You could argue that this shines a light on the fact that Sony and Nintendo have a plethora of extremely capable, diverse, and creative first party studios. Any of them could be the source of something fresh and exciting coming to their respective platforms.

Microsoft, recently, tends to be more predictable.

The question shouldn't be what Microsoft's answer to those games is, but rather which first party studio could be the source of that answer?
 
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michaelius

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MatrixMan.EXE said:
Look at their current release schedule and the Scalebound cancellation. I don't think Microsoft is interested in developing those kinds of experiences. They'll leave that to third parties. Seems like games-as-a-service is their M.O now.
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Every big third party publisher is doing games as service - the whole point of having first party is making your console more attractive by taking bigger risks.
 
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Zasa

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Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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Lmfao, this post was coming eventually. That's all these sorts of threads & MS ones in particular spawn, really. Sly console war posts that inevitably lead up to this.
 
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MatrixMan.EXE

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michaelius said:
Every big third party publisher is doing games as service - the whole point of having first party is making your console more attractive by taking bigger risks.
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Well that's the issue that Microsoft have right now. They're trying to compete in a model that already has several well established Titans with huge player bases. I'm not necessarily saying it's the right strategy, but it's clearly what they're banking on right now. The results have yet to be seen though.
 
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Mass_Pincup

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By the time they answer Sony and Nintendo will have 2 or 3 more HZD/BotW games in terms of sales and critical success.

As of now Microsoft can't compete.
 
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OrbitalBeard

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MatrixMan.EXE said:
Well that's the issue that Microsoft have right now. They're trying to compete in a model that already has several well established Titans with huge player bases. I'm not necessarily saying it's the right strategy, but it's clearly what they're banking on right now. The results have yet to be seen though.
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It's a horrible strategy, because MS is already getting these types of games on their system from third parties. Lots of them, with more to come. You know which first party would actually benefit greatly from going all in on a Destiny-type "shared world" experience? Nintendo.
 
MilkyJoe

MilkyJoe

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Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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Did you just call all Xbox gamers idiots?
 
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Cranster

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Del Boca Vista said:
Microsoft don't actually need an answer. it's MICROSOFT. they just have to spend millions on convincing people they are going to release the greatest piece of technology of all time and they will pay for it. people are idiots. "xbox gamers" are just idiots, the same ones that think the latest film with The Rock in it will be brilliant. you can sell anything to an idiot.
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Pretty sure the DRM/Xbox One announcement proved that one wrong.
 
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