Marvel`s Blade Announced
- Thread starter John Elden Ring
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That is the most reasonable guess.
The contract was multiplatfoform like Indiana Jone.
Now MS wants to change it to exclusive.
So they need to negotiate ($$$).
The game is a certain so there is no impediment to announce it.
And MS wanted to show something because they didn't anything at all.
And even that new game was for 2046-2027 mininum.
Just promises again.
What MS is launching in this fiscal year?
Pretty funny that they're going through all this trouble for an exclusive after demonizing Sony for having exclusives.
Hypocrisy is MS' number three product, behind Windows and Office!
No doubt they'll throw however much money it takes at Disney to lock it down for bragging rights and relevance.
"So we see here youre losing relevance in the US, basically irrelevant in the rest of the world, and have conditioned your audience not to buy products, is that correct mister Spencer?"
MRTired from Neogaf made a great point:
"I believe that the game is an exclusive but there Xbox brand is "toxic". In so far as if it was revealed as an exclusive the amount of awareness the game would generate would drop by an not so insignificant amount.
A significant amount of people will immediately disengage from checking out the coverage. It the same reason they were vague about Starfield release platform cause they won't Playstation gamers to not immediately disengage so the can sell them on the Xbox platform.
The fact that the platform is in this state we're there's a "stench" being associate with Xbox says it all"
MRTired from Neogaf made a great point:
"I believe that the game is an exclusive but there Xbox brand is "toxic". In so far as if it was revealed as an exclusive the amount of awareness the game would generate would drop by an not so insignificant amount.
A significant amount of people will immediately disengage from checking out the coverage. It the same reason they were vague about Starfield release platform cause they won't Playstation gamers to not immediately disengage so the can sell them on the Xbox platform.
The fact that the platform is in this state we're there's a "stench" being associate with Xbox says it all"
I don’t think it’s within the Xbox budget to make up the lost sales exclusivity would lead to.
The Indiana Jones deal was signed before this generation began, when they figured Xbox would make a comeback.
Things have not gone the way Xbox expected…
If this is true, Blade is not an Xbox exclusive. Sony got their deals in with IPs before this new initiative.
I believe that is true and MS is trying everything to change that contract like they did with Indiana Jones.
Here platform potential matter a lot.
It is easier to Sony get an exception than Microsoft.
Nobody wants their game limited as Xbox and PC.
While most are fine with PS and PC.
Xbots will call that the Xbox tax… I just call it business.
Been a while since Arkane made a good game. Prey was great, since then it's been downhill.
Weird to announce it before all that's settled. Guess they just really wanted to look like big shots at the game awards, lol.
That all makes a lot of sense. Only question is whether Disney is willing to accept a big payment from a desperate MS.
For me it makes much more sense to make it a 6-12 month timed exclusive. Putting it on Xbox and GamePass day one kills this games' sales and hype.