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[watdaeff4]

I'm so glad that everytime Shu tweets or takes a breath there isn't a thread about it, this just simply sad that everytime this man tweets or some minor mundane run of the mill nothing of note was said interview was recorded there is a Thread about it. Thank god for Shu.

In fairness, many of those threads you are whining about were created by Sony fanboys to try to stir the pot or to shit on him/Xbox/MS.

 

[hanspampel]

Well, I was expecting Halo 3 Anniversary by Saber or Certain Affinity.


Just a helpful point for anyone tempted to take hanspampel seriously, he believes in stupid racist bullshit.

wtf. you really take this to different topics?
Just a helpful point for anyone tempted to take Liabe Brave seriously,
he believes in stupid witch hunts and takes a meaningless post, that isn't even racist, on the internet way to personal or whatever

welcome to my ignore list and back to topic

 

[Tallshortman]

In fairness, many of those threads you are whining about were created by Sony fanboys to try to stir the pot or to shit on him/Xbox/MS.

You solved the conspiracy!

 

[Acquiescence]

The Scalebound thread clocked in at 20 pages, the cancellation thread was at 100 pages...

The flak intensity was also an exercise on MS-shitting.

We will have some nice 3rd party Scorpio optimized stuff also in 2017, I think.

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

Not Halo 6 / Gears led, so a Halo 6 Multiplayer Beta in December just in time for Scorpio... gotcha! But really, I'd love a MP Beta for Halo 6 at the end of this year.

Wasn't the Halo 5 beta holiday of 2014? If so, I think this is a very reasonable expectation.

 

[watdaeff4]

You solved the conspiracy!

OH please. Ridiculous

 

[Pejo]

I'd love to see MS give me a reason to connect my X1 to my TV again. Phil says lots of shit though, so I'm not counting any chickens before they hatch this time.

I'd love to see them do a huge surprise like Otagi 3 or a new Mechwarrior, or something awesome from the OG Xbox. It's a shame that they had so many cool games and exclusives in that gen, that just died.

 

[VincentMatts]

Im ok with this.

I dont need a forced Halo or Gears game every year. Release them when they are good and ready.

Does this mean posibly less exclusives this year, probably. But ultimately, they need to those franchises for amazing games, not just for pushing out crap like MCC.

 

[Herp Derpington]

I'm so glad that everytime Shu tweets or takes a breath there isn't a thread about it, this just simply sad that everytime this man tweets or some minor mundane run of the mill nothing of note was said interview was recorded there is a Thread about it. Thank god for Shu.

No worse than the dozens of concern threads about Xbox we have to put up with.

 

[Rembrandt]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

Silent Hills?

Starcraft Ghost?

 

[Ushay]

We dont know anything about the circumstances behind Scalebound officially. Speculating based on stuff we dont know makes no sense.

What i'm saying is that Phantom dust with this re-release is primed an ready for a huge resurgence, and its up to MS marketing the release properly and giving it the proper exposure it needs to flourish



Do they even need it? Its not where their userbase is at, and generally speaking, multiplayer has always been the main focus for Xbox, what drives user engagement

I agree, Phantom Dust has the potential to thrive and become something new for Xbox platform, the question is are MS capable of doing that for this franchise?

 

[Theorry]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

Mwah. Silent Hills? Star Wars 1313?

 

[Prologue]

I actually thought it would have been a good business decision to release Halo 6 with Scorpio, no? I mean, what other first party game from Microsoft is going to make people pick up a new system as fast as that game?

 

[novabolt]

Carefully well placed and executed IP releases would be more better for MS.

 

[watdaeff4]

Silent Hills?

Starcraft Ghost?

Yeah. Ignore those please. They don't count for reasons

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Silent Hills?

Starcraft Ghost?

I would give you Silent Hills had it received trailers and promotion or what not. It was literally just a name.

 

[BigPapi]

Hopefully all xbox games continue to make their way to the windows store so I can play them.

 

[Freiya]

It's remaster of an old game, a game that didn't sell well to begin with. And the "remaster" work is really minimal when it comes to graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8_XXTe66_U

Wtf is this shit? What is even the damn point if you aren't doing the damn graphics. We went from a canceled new pd to this shit? Microsoft stays losing.

 

[uncledonnie]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is.

Really now.

 

[BigPapi]

I actually thought it would have been a good business decision to release Halo 6 with Scorpio, no? I mean, what other first party game from Microsoft is going to make people pick up a new system as fast as that game?

Mainline Halo is every three years so best we can get is MP beta like for Halo 5

 

[Tecnniqe]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time.

The game itself wasn't even high profile lol

Come on now..

 

[watdaeff4]

I would give you Silent Hills had it received trailers and promotion or what not. It was literally just a name.

Um. You might want to look into P.T. And what those initials stood for.

And the end to it

 

[Rembrandt]

I would give you Silent Hills had it received trailers and promotion or what not. It was literally just a name.

It was all over twitter and several sites raving about the demo. Didn't need a trailer at that point.

But okay.

 

[Tallshortman]

OH please. Ridiculous

I trust you can get to the bottom of this.

 

[Ushay]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

Lmao what?

 

[VincentMatts]

The game itself wasn't even high profile lol

Come on now..

Scalebound LOL i dont know one person that was actually interested in playing it. Everyone said it looked meh after e3, but suddenly its the "highest profile game of all time"

Thats amazing. Never change Neogaf.

 

[Izuna]

It's hard to be hyped for Halo 6 when 5 was horrible.

 

[Hoo-doo]

Um. You might want to look into P.T. And what those initials stood for.

And the end to it

Pilent Till?

 

[gamz]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

 

[sir_dany12]

It's hard to be hyped for Halo 6 when 5 was horrible.

LOL gtfo of here with that

 

[cilonen]

Sunset Overdrive is considered a misfire? By who? People who never played it? What Microsoft need to do is stop focusing on people who will never buy their console and actually try pandering to the people who do have one. That means making sequels to newer IP that people enjoyed playing, or IP that had potential.

Unfortunately not many of the people who do have an Xbone actually bought Sunset Overdrive.

 

[Freiya]

Scalebound LOL i dont know one person that was actually interested in playing it. Everyone said it looked meh after e3, but suddenly its the "highest profile game of all time"

Thats amazing. Never change Neogaf.

One of the few xb1 games i wanted besides qb and pd. Now I only get one of those, xb1 has been horrible imo.

LOL gtfo of here with that

Halo 5 campaign is horrible and comes off cheap as hell.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Um. You might want to look into P.T. And what those initials stood for.

And the end to it

It was all over twitter and several sites raving about the demo. Didn't need a trailer at that point.

But okay.

I'm just saying there would have been a much bigger outcry had we actually gotten footage and what not. I'm not disagreeing that there was hype for it.

 

[watdaeff4]

I'm just saying there would have been a much bigger outcry had we actually gotten footage and what not. I'm not disagreeing that there was hype for it.

There was a shitload of outcry. And I mean Jeezus, we have numerous people on here when they upgraded to a Pro asking/worried how the could xfer P.T. Over to it without losing it.

 

[Leyasu]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

Lmao what a post.

 

[Dural]

I can't for the life of me understand why a company that has the biggest gaming IP there is right now (Minecraft), hasn't taken advantage of it. Do what Nintendo does with Mario and make games in other genres using the characters, it's guaranteed sales. I know my 7yo would go crazy for a Minecraft kart game where you could build your own tracks.

 

[nekkid]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

It's certainly the highest profile cancellation of 2017 so far.

 

[Rembrandt]

I'm just saying there would have been a much bigger outcry had we actually gotten footage and what not. I'm not disagreeing that there was hype for it.

there was a demo?

The demo brought more hype than a trailer would have.

some person on here supposedly turned down $1000 for his PS4 with it. lmao.

 

[DOWN]

Is this a sign Halo 6 is taking a while or that they don't want it to compete during the holidays anymore?

 

[KORNdoggy]

I thought this was obvious? Main halo entries tend to take longer than 2 years to develop, and gears of war only came out last year.

crackdown will be their big push this year (it won't sell amazingly, just like the others, despite how awesome the series is) forza 7 (because every year needs a forza apparently) and isn't there a halo wars sequel or re-release happening? (So halo will be there in some form)

 

[dakilla13]

Scalebound is perhaps the highest-profile video game cancellation of all time. That's huge news no matter what your opinion of the game is. In my personal case, I'm no fan of Platinum Games and I thought the game looked crap at its every showing for the most part. But even I can recognise how noteworthy it is for a game that was helmed by Hideki Kamiya, in development for at least three years and paraded at several conferences to be killed dead in its tracks. To me the whole situation is insane.

Lmao, no one gives a shit about Scalebound or Platinum Games outside of GAF. It's debatable if a lot of people cared even before the cancellation.

Cancel Call of Duty and then you'll hear about it.

 

[watdaeff4]

I can't for the life of me understand why a company that has the biggest gaming IP there is right now (Minecraft), hasn't taken advantage of it. Do what Nintendo does with Mario and make games in other genres using the characters, it's guaranteed sales. I know my 7yo would go crazy for a Minecraft kart game where you could build your own tracks.

There is a Telltale game.


And with MS model of games as service I wouldn't be surprised if we do see your MineKart idea

 

[nekkid]

I can't for the life of me understand why a company that has the biggest gaming IP there is right now (Minecraft), hasn't taken advantage of it. Do what Nintendo does with Mario and make games in other genres using the characters, it's guaranteed sales. I know my 7yo would go crazy for a Minecraft kart game where you could build your own tracks.

Minecraft is a money printer. They need to tread carefully. Occasional curve balls like Story Mode will sell well, but oversaturation is a real risk.

 

[Leflus]

Is this a sign Halo 6 is taking a while or that they don't want it to compete during the holidays anymore?

No. A three year dev cycle is normal for the main Halo games.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

i'd rather have the devs at 343i have more time with the scorpio spec and release something in 2018 that will wow us instead of rushing something to meet launch.

e3 can't come soon enough.

 

[gaming_noob]

I'm so glad that everytime Shu tweets or takes a breath there isn't a thread about it, this just simply sad that everytime this man tweets or some minor mundane run of the mill nothing of note was said interview was recorded there is a Thread about it. Thank god for Shu.

"Simply sad" that we are discussing tweets from the head of Xbox? You are in a vidya game forum ffs.

 

[I Reclaim3mer 117]

Is this a sign Halo 6 is taking a while or that they don't want it to compete during the holidays anymore?

Halo has always had a three year dev cycle.

 

[Jigorath]

Well yeah, they're not going to have new Halo/Gears ready so soon.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

I can't for the life of me understand why a company that has the biggest gaming IP there is right now (Minecraft), hasn't taken advantage of it. Do what Nintendo does with Mario and make games in other genres using the characters, it's guaranteed sales. I know my 7yo would go crazy for a Minecraft kart game where you could build your own tracks.

Minecraft as a franchise is instantly recognizable but the characters in it are not as iconic as Mario. With the game you create your own characters and worlds so it's harder to apply to other genres.

Secondly, even if these spin-offs worked, putting them only on Xbox or GFW would kill a huge amount of potential customers. You'd have to keep them completely multiplat and accessible for kids.

 

[Stinkles]

That seems... odd. Maybe Halo 6 is taking longer than expected and won't release this year?

I can't imagine Sea of Thieves or Crackdown 3 "leading" Microsoft's lineup.

Longer than WHO expected? HW2 releases this year, but we've made no mention of anything beyond that.