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[Shake Your Rump]

Mega!

All I wanted to hear is the reinforcement of my account being safe!

theyve fucking nailed it. Happy with this.

Ah, you are one of the "investors" they went on and on about for the last five minutes.

 

[GHG]

Oh so now having a big technological leap matters when going next gen?

Nice one Sarah, at least we can agree on one thing.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You mentioned that Starfield and Indiana Jones aren’t part of the four despite rumors, but will those ever come to PS5? Can you rule that out?

I don’t think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform. We’re focused on these four games and learning from the experience.


I made it green for the googobblers to see it.

 

[AlphaMale]

Talk about a Nothing Burger...

 

[Kenneth Haight]

"All of our games *will* be on Game Pass day 1"

Diablo 4 on game pass March 28th

- Matt Booty.

 

[KU_]

What fake news?

The rumor was exactly this: Xbox bringing their exclusive games to PlayStation and Nintendo. Phil just confirmed that they indeed are. 4 games in the first batch that will be announced soon.

Really? That was the only rumor/narrative being pushed this past week here on GAF? I could’ve sworn I’d be playing Halo and Indiana Jones and Starfield on my PlayStation soon. I’m certain Xbox was leaving the hardware industry completely and going third party according to the reports and threads I read on here. What happened?!

 

[MCplayer]

What do you mean? this basically confirms that everything is on the table, MS always does this. They could change their mind and bring Tomb Raider to PS within 6 months after launch. Don't trust them for what they say now when their releases continue to struggle and GP doesn't grow.

34MM subs is super disappointing and the console isn't selling, they will do anything to make more money

didn't say Microsoft did or did not do shit, just saying people tend to easly believe rumors coming from a random people so easly

 

[Withnail]

Watched it all. Quite weird really. Phil especially seemed nervous, I think the reaction over the last week had them spooked.

Lots of PR lines in there. The repeated mentions of creating a healthy platform for developers seemed a bit sus, I wonder if they’ve been getting some negative feedback from devs/pubs.

If you believe it’s going to be just four games then you are very gullible.

 

[sensor]

Did they really think this would appease the Xbox fan base?

To be honest, it looks like it already has appeased some. Lots of people are already trying to spin this as a win. See above.

 

[FewRope]

If the goal is more people playing games and more people discovering them, why just these four games and not more? You say you want to learn from these, but surely if they’re hugely successful and you see that more people are playing them, then you’ll do more in the future, right?

Yeah, but we haven’t seen that yet. We’re obviously one of the biggest publishers on PlayStation and Nintendo today, when you think about the Activision Blizzard and Bethesda lineup of games. So we know what it means to ship games on Steam, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox.

These are games that originally launched on Xbox. They were Xbox-branded games and we want to see what happens, because going and doing the development work to bring them to new platforms is real work. We want to make sure that the return makes sense. We want to make sure the audience that’s there has an appetite — maybe they don’t.

We’ll also watch what happens on Xbox as well. Our goal would be that the communities of those games grow, they grow and they thrive, but we’ll see. We’ll see what happens when we take games that launched originally on Xbox and PC and bring them over to other consoles, other closed platforms. We don’t know.

We’ve done it a couple times. Obviously, Ori went over to the Switch after we had launched. We’ve launched Psychonauts 2 on both platforms and launched Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Legends on both platforms simultaneously. So we have some data about what happens there. We just want to make sure it’s good for the long-term health of Xbox.

You mentioned that Starfield and Indiana Jones aren’t part of the four despite rumors, but will those ever come to PS5? Can you rule that out?

I don’t think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform. We’re focused on these four games and learning from the experience.

But I don’t want to create a false expectation on those other platforms that this is somehow the first four to get over the dam and then the dam’s going to open and that everything else is coming, that’s not the plan today. I also don’t want to mislead customers on those other platforms. We’re launching these four games, and we’re excited about it. We’re excited about the announce and everything else, but we’ll see what happens for our business.

Yeah, everything is being ported lol I dont know how people can hear that and think Starfield is still going to be exclusive

 

[Little Chicken]

I think the thing we can all take away from this is that "Insiders" are garbage

 

[Banjo64]

Grounded seems certain to be the other live service game IMO.

 

[Gudji]

Fanboys still think they're getting gears, Indiana Jones and Halo.

It's a matter of time.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

In a few months or less, Starfield and the rest will be announced for PS5, and all the other games they are developing for Switch.

What a predictable way Spencer has handled this.

 

[Crispy Gamer]

3 corporate stooges running a game company that was double speak galore they went from the industry isn't growing to we are seeing so much growth smh complete waste of time.

 

[skyfall]

So much copium in here. Why can't you guys just admit you were wrong?

 

[tmlDan]

didn't say Microsoft did or did not do shit, just saying people tend to easly believe rumors coming from a random people so easly

but the rumors were true, im not sure i understand

 

[TheGrat1]

What because you couldn't play Minecraft already?

The irony. Minecraft was multiplat from the beginning. Now it is presumably games that were developed by XGS in house, even if only 4. The slope is already slippery. Xbox is showing that they are moving in one direction with this move.

 

[Topher]

I thought they were going to talk about hardware

 

[T4keD0wN]

How did they talk for 22minutes and say 1 minute worth of stuff?

 

[Yekshemesh]

They really put Phil, Sara, and Mike out there like used car salesmen. *smacks xbox. "this is how you grow a healthy industry."

 

[Jigsaah]

Sounds like they are just trying to contain the fire, reduce it to a mild smolder. Backdraft is a bitch though...don't open a window.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

The dream is dead again.

Let’s get to work on Xbox going third party version 382.

 

[DeepEnigma]

How did they talk for 22minutes and say 1 minute worth of stuff?

 

[GHG]

Oh my God.

Please let Redfall be one of the four games ported.

I think they want and need to make money now, not do further reputational damage.

 

[adamsapple]

I think the thing we can all take away from this is that "Insiders" are garbage

The real insiders were the false expectations we set for ourselves along the way.

 

[XXL]

Phil also gave an interview to The Verge, which just went live.

Wtf are we even talking about here?

 

[Mephisto40]

The amount of time they spent talking about how they should give people more ways of playing their games, I think it's safe to say this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of xbox games coming to PlayStation. It honestly sounds like xbox is struggling and they've been forced to start publishing on other platforms

 

[xHunter]

Phil also gave an interview to The Verge, which just went live.

Trust me its just these 4 for now, ok maybe its two more, but thats really the end of it. Ok we might launch 3 more, no more than that, pinky promise - Phil, probably.

Same shit different day. Expect to see most of the rumoured games to launch on other platforms.

 

[Luc2010]

At least I get to play Diablo 4 next month with GP.

 

[LostDonkey]

So it's Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and...? Some other "community driven" game. Halo? Grounded?

State Of Decay?

 

[mayham2199]

Phil also gave an interview to The Verge, which just went live.

Exactly. adamsapple fell for the PR spin. My god how can you people not see what they are doing?

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Well, to Phil's credit, this is the longest I've engaged with Xbox in a situation where I wasn't surrounded by coke heads.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Phil also gave an interview to The Verge, which just went live.

midnightAI - also this. (referring to your response to adamsapple )

 

[Pop]

What was the point of this video haha

A whole lot of nothing. Same shit Xbox has been doing

 

[dragonyeuw]

You mentioned that Starfield and Indiana Jones aren’t part of the four despite rumors, but will those ever come to PS5? Can you rule that out?

I don’t think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform. We’re focused on these four games and learning from the experience.


I made it green for the googobblers to see it.

He made sure to give himself plenty of wiggle room when/if they decide to move those games across based on what they 'learn from this experience'.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Full-on damage-control.

So, they're starting with 4 games, but there will be more in the future.
Consoles "don't matter", "everybody plays, we all win".

They are not confident at all. I was actually surprised they name-dropped Playstation and Nintendo.

Yeah, smartest thing to do if you want Xbox games on console, is just buy a Playstation or Nintendo.
The big games will be coming eventually, after at least a year, on case-by-case basis, to support the developers.

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

It wasnt that bad after all. Cant believe i overreacted by giving my Xbox away to some seriously ill kid. Time to get it back.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

I still feel like Halo infinate is going multiplat. The game needs more players. It was clear they are noticing a slow down on current systems and want to see if multiplat will up player numbers. Only makes sense given how much they are asking for with it's microtransactions.

I'm also hyped for Diablo 4 on Gamepass. so I don't need to buy the game again to play it while chilling on the sofa now.

 

[Banjo64]

Because they don’t wanna take those announcements from the teams of course! Even though absolutely nobody would be excited by said announcements, even though HiFi is pretty fuckin sick.

Man speak for yourself I am excited for SoT, Hi Fi Rush and Grounded on Switch. 3 of select few good Xbox games in the last 10 years to be honest.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

“we have a growing platform”

 

[Kikorin]

All of this sounds like missed a "for now" at the end of every sentence.

There's no way they not going to make all multiplatform from now on, just not day-one (for now).

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

the shitshow ain't over pals.

 

[rofif]

Yep as expected.
marketing by the book car salesman bullshit.
They lost and they are bending the whole industry now. They are dragging it with them.
That's absolutely looser behavior

 

[kyussman]

Xbox Business Update.......we are still dead last and will remain there.

 

[Salmon Snake]

Well that was a bunch of nonsense.

 

[Aaron Olive]

Phil deffo had a head and body for minecraft

He needs a personal trainer.

 

[C2brixx]

You mentioned that Starfield and Indiana Jones aren’t part of the four despite rumors, but will those ever come to PS5? Can you rule that out?

I don’t think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform. We’re focused on these four games and learning from the experience.


I made it green for the googobblers to see it.

Sound like "Case by case". So nothing new.

 

[havoc00]

Xbros we are still standing tall we took all they could throw at us and are still standing

 

[Tsaki]

Disappointing. So 4 games for now and for the rest "don't want to rule anything out but we'll see". Add to that the ultra-super-duper next-gen hardware, this podcast was really about the Xbox enthusiasts and telling them "Please keep buying shit in our ecosystem"