Fable development supposedly rebooted (update)

[Hitchens]

Phil Spencer is pretty much the best thing to happen to Xbox. He got the full backing of Microsoft and Nadella behind Xbox. Them investing in Minecraft, Zenimax, Activision was because he sold the CEO on it. Game Pass was him. Cross platform multiplayer he pushed it through. Backwards compatibility was him. Smart delivery.

He’s done a great job. I can’t fault him for having the Xbox One be so trash because Mattrick started that under Ballmer. Can’t fault him for the early Xbox Series software struggle because COVID happened.

PR Nonsense.

Before Phil:
Xbox was distant 3rd globally
Xbox was still competitive in North America and UK
First Party output underwhelming
No New sucessful Ip that sold six million or more
EA pass, a subscription service that allows you to play EA games
Halo was still popular
Gears of War was on a decline

After Phil:
Xbox is distant 3rd globally
No longer competitive in North America or Uk unless they do a crazy price cut or if Sony doesn't have PS5 stock
First Party output underwhelming
No New sucessful Ip that sold six million or more
Now Resorted to buying up big third publishers to win.
Gamepass, a subscription service that allows you to play Xbox games
Halo is no longer popular
Gears of War is now

Covid also impacted sony yet despite this they are still releasing four or five AAA games a year so far.

Phil Spencer is a fukking dud.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Yoooo does XBOX even has a set in stone AAA game for sure dropping this year?? I can see Starfield getting pushed back again....

Starfield already got pushed back a full year

Redfall is the other, whether its AAA or not remains to be seen

 

[MeachTheMonster]

PR Nonsense.

Before Phil:
Xbox was distant 3rd globally
Xbox was still competitive in North America and UK
First Party output underwhelming
No New sucessful Ip that sold six million or more
EA pass, a subscription service that allows you to play EA games
Halo was still popular
Gears of War was on a decline

After Phil:
Xbox is distant 3rd globally
No longer competitive in North America or Uk unless they do a crazy price cut or if Sony doesn't have PS5 stock
First Party output underwhelming
No New sucessful Ip that sold six million or more
Now Resorted to buying up big third publishers to win.
Gamepass, a subscription service that allows you to play Xbox games
Halo is no longer popular
Gears of War is now

Covid also impacted sony yet despite this they are still releasing four or five AAA games a year so far.

Phil Spencer is a fukking dud.

Like none of this is true.

Just sony stan musings

 

[The Mad Titan]

What acquisition are you talking about, Playground games, a MICROSOFT studio of 12 years is making this game.

and this was announced 3 years ago

Like all the rest y'all complain about should be releasing games "by now"

That turn around time of two years on triple A games has been a wrap for awhile now. Especially brand new IPs.

 

[The Mad Titan]

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Not really it's just concerned trolling. Deep down PlayStation gamers don't care about what Xbox does as the brand has mostly been mismanaged for most of its 2 decades.

I've never known anyone to constantly talk about a topic they don't care about. They as shook as Meach when he run in a thread to "Sony Stans " instead of whooping his kids asses behind them broken TVs.

I mean its just an engine, it's like saying you can't make 3rd person games on ID tech, at the end of the day it's just a bunch of tools and rendering scripts.

You can use the handle of a screwdriver to hammer in a nail, but why handicap yourself? EA teams struggled to get Frostbite to fit their needs. I'm not about to join the UE5 circle jerk, but I hope they properly evaluated the capabilities of their in house engine vs an off the shelf solution.

 

[Illuminatos]

Ridiculous Stop making these long ass games.

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

borza comes out every year tho

 

[Half A $]

lmao at this shyt, fukk an X Box Series S, more like X Box Star Citizen, a fukking scam.

 

[daze23]

Xbox in 3rd place, but Nintendo don't count

 

[Sad Bunny]

Leaker on reddit saying this is bullshyt

Sounds fire

Seems like this has some Elden Ring influence too huh?

 

[Alvin]

Tried to make a fukking RPG using a racing game engine…

hey EA uses the frostbite engine for everything under the sun

 

[Rekkapryde]

If the rumor is true then this game is not releasing in Q4 2024. You're looking at Q4 2025 at the earliest and that Q4 2024 release window is noting more than strong denial.

Phil Spencer also said Halo Infinite looked Fantastic and that it would distinguish itself and Xbox from the games Sony were showing off at the time(Horizon forbidden west, ratchet and clank, demon souls ps5). We know how that played out when they showed off that Halo infinite demo

And they STILL cape for this charlatan Phil.

 

[Rekkapryde]

hey EA uses the frostbite engine for everything under the sun

I know

 

[Legal]

Ridiculous Stop making these long ass games.

It's not even that the games are long, it's that so many games are shooting for stereotypical "AAA" scope. For example, just deciding to make your game open world is probably a couple of years of development alone, just due to having to make so many systems constantly work in the background.

The answer is really just that studios need to start rethinking what they want to do. Not everything needs to be a massive open world. Smaller scale, focused experiences can be fun too.

hey EA uses the frostbite engine for everything under the sun

And it's negatively impacted a lot of their games. A solid portion of Madden's jankiness year in and year out comes down to them trying to force Frostbite to do shyt it wasn't really designed to do. Bioware has a LONG history of struggling with Frostbite, from every new game they've developed from Dragon Age Inquisition forward. Even DICE has issues with it, and it's their damn engine. And to think this all came about because EA wanted to avoid paying out royalties for Unreal.