Starfield is the "starting gun" for first-party Xbox games
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I was talking about internally-developed 1P content, and non-GaaS. In that sense, yes, Sony have published more the past three years than Microsoft, but that doesn't mean it'll continue to be that way.
With the list you just gave, how many are internally developed by a Sony 1P studio? How many are actual exclusives, vs. timed exclusives or being PC Day 1 releases? You mentioned KOTOR Remake when the last we heard, that game was in dev hell and limbo, and has either been quietly scrapped or restarted. The only non-GaaS 1P-developed titled on that list is Wolverine :/
Yeah I know when it comes to Microsoft, a lot of their upcoming slate are from devs and pubs they literally spent out the wazoo to purchase, and now they're claiming them as 1P even if those games had no input from Microsoft dev-wise. But it doesn't change the fact they are now MS 1P content, does it? And yeah we know games like Everwild and Perfect Dark are in pretty bad states, but on the flipside of that we have Sony teams like Naughty Dog that have literally internally gone back to the drawing board with their own GaaS title (Factions 2), stuff like Pixelopus's game getting canned, the Deviation game either canned or back to the drawing board, etc.
There doesn't seem to be much different from them in that respect. Hell, Sony are even relying super-hard on a recent acquisition to carry them 1P-wise (Insomniac) in the way Microsoft are with Bethesda. Just so many parallels the more I think about it and step back to see the wider picture.
I just listed what is published by SIE... I didn't even checked the titles.
And yes I believe KOTOR is in a bad state or changing developers at least.
BTW Rise of the Ronin is non-GAASS, no?
Weird to don't see Elder Scrolls VI in that list. Maybe it's because they don't ever consider the possibility of releasing it in this generation. Which is weird, because some of these if released this gen will be released at the end of it.
Rise of the Ronin and a lot of other upcoming Sony exclusives aren't GaaS.
In E3 2021 they were in preproduction working on a vertical slice before moving into full production. Being optimistic and assuming that what they shown in December 2021 was the vertical slice completed, means that they could have moved to full production in late 2021-early 2022. I highly doubt that they could release a game of the size of Hellblade 1 in 2024, and Hellblade II is supposed to be bigger.
I don't see realistic the 2024 they mentioned. If the game is really going to be larger than the first one and with more gameplay than cutscenes/movies I see more realistic to expect a late 2025 or 2026 release.
Sony will continue getting more multiplatform games, more exclusives, more first party games than and more non-GaaS first than MS. With the difference that Sony will announce them maximum a year or a year and a half from release, instead of announcing them like 7 years before release, when games aren't sometimes even in preproduction and are almost only a CG and a powerpoint.
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Theres a gonna be a ton of threads/articles etc like this all over the place, for the next couple months. All part of the advertising budget for Starfield lol
"This is the beginning of something that's going to be really special," Xbox CMO says
Starfield is the "starting gun" for first-party Xbox games
The launch of Starfield is the start of a "multi-year relay race of first-party titles," Xbox has told GamesIndustry.bi…www.gamesindustry.biz
Starfield
Everwild
Fable
The Outer Worlds 2
Avowed
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Clockwork Revolution
Perfect Dark
South of Midnight
Unfortunately I have to agree with him. Currently Xbox has announced more Interesting Single-player games for next gen than Sony.
You have to be joking about the accessories line considering two of the latest Xbox related releases I can think of are plastic wrap for consoles and Pizza scented controllers. If you're an Xbox fan, you've had Halo, Redfall, and pizza scented controllers up until this point.
They have like a million studios now working on games for at least half a decade. How incompetent would they be if games don’t start coming out soon.
Astroturfing for Starfield is running rampart on forums, a game that would be released on Xbox anyway. Ridiculous.
Except they've already announced a bunch of live service games... Why not announce them 'when they're ready'
the most important RPG of the last 10 years.
it's not even the most important RPG of this year, or this quarter
*edit* importance to the existence of xbox doesn't mean it's important to the gaming space
is the next Bethesda game. is their redemption game after Fallout 4/76.
If you are going to tell me Skyrim was not massively important to the gaming space...i dunno what to tell you.
Starfield could be the next Skyrim.
skyrim was important because of how it pushed the medium forward with the ambition of its scale and scope
starfield is copying shit other games have already done before and arguably doing it worse
People don;t realize that games like Skyrim are no longer that impressive. The industry grew and evolved over since that released.
