Keikoku said:Agent is probably next.
Shiggy said:Ever heard of "French"?
Y2Kev said:Is "Noire" a word?
Opiate said:So ill use this as a launching point: what is MS's next move? The obvious answer, of course, is natal. Outside of that, I see very little room for growth.
Their room for growth before this generation began was, "strip the PlayStation of all its exclusives." That's a goal they've succeeded brilliantly at, and it has hurt Sony mightily. Now that this goal is largely accomplished, it becomes a war of first parties, and I don't think Ms is equipped to win that long term. This problem will be exaggerated if/when epic or bungie begin developing for other platforms.
I therefore think MS is putting most of their eggs in the natal basket in a way that Sony wont do with the Ark. I suspect that their subsidies for third parties are massive, even by MS' already generous standards. I wouldn't be surprised if every game released at Natal's launch wasn't coadvertisef by Microsoft with all licensing fees waved.
I lol'ed :loljcm said:Akia is clearly Shane Kim.
Y2Kev said:Well, I know "noir" is a French word, and perhaps Noire might be a gendered form of noir.
No. My point was that MS' initial goal was to attract all third party exclusives to go multiplat, and this game is an example of how that's pretty much been accomplished. My question is: what next? Because Epic will eventually go multiplatform, and Bungie is at least independant, if not actually an immanent threat to migrate to multiplat. One could easily argue that MS' first party is weaker now than it was at the 360s launch.Jtyettis said:You must be in the wrong thread.
Y2Kev said:Well, I know "noir" is a French word, and perhaps Noire might be a gendered form of noir, but Los Angeles is a masculine noun. Noire might also be an adverb.
P.S. You're an ass who might not speak French.
Opiate said:No. My point was that MS' was to attract all third party exclusives to go multiplat, and this game is an example of how that's pretty much been accomplished. My question is: what next?
Opiate said:No. My point was that MS' was to attract all third party exclusives to go multiplat, and this game is an example of how that's pretty much been accomplished. My question is: what next?
Sony also gave Rockstar a whole lot of money back in 2002 for an exclusivity contract for GTA games to only come out on PlayStation 2 (PC excluded) for two years. A lot of good that did them.chubigans said:Nah, Sony went to Rockstar and paid some cash to get a PS3 only game going. No way they're going to allow the game to make it's way elsewhere after funding it.
You can tell because Sony (think it was Trenton) was a bit disappointed that there wasn't much to announce about the Rockstar deal back in an interview. They gave them the deal and kinda waited around to see the results. Much different then seeing Agent and putting up some money to get it exclusively for their platform.
Even Rockstar said developing for just one system with Agent was very different, had it's benefits, etc.
Opiate said:So ill use this as a launching point: what is MS's next move? The obvious answer, of course, is natal. Outside of that, I see very little room for growth.
Akia said:I just thought this could be the GameInformer thread for this month. Also the news is kinda buried in page 4/5 of that thread. It gets more exposure with its own thread.
Opiate said:No. My point was that MS' was to attract all third party exclusives to go multiplat, and this game is an example of how that's pretty much been accomplished. My question is: what next?
MirageDwarf said:original trailer was in B&W. Would be really cool if developer is daring and make it B&W throughout.
Opiate said:No. My point was that MS' was to attract all third party exclusives to go multiplat, and this game is an example of how that's pretty much been accomplished. My question is: what next?
LosDaddie said:Take out the NATAL mention and it's like Q4 2007 all over again. :lol
lolzStoOgE said:Shane Kim is that you?
:lol :lolCow Mengde said:Resident Evil 5 is coming to the 360!!!
Yep. I could absolutely be wrong. But as time has passed, the multiplat trend has grown even stronger, and even begun to work against Ms: exlusve studios like bioware and bizarre are pushing towards multiplat, and I'm confident that epic will be headed there, too. At the same time, I think Ms first party has gotten progressively weaker, with the initial loss of bumgie along with fasa and ensemble.LosDaddie said:Take out the NATAL mention and it's like Q4 2007 all over again. :lol
:lol :lol I was looking for that pic,p_p_o_d said:this thread reminds me of ....
LosDaddie said:Take out the NATAL mention and it's like Q4 2007 all over again. :lol
chubigans said:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=385513
And is it me, or is this news kinda old? Even Sony talked about exclusivity months back (something like "LA Noire is not the PS3 exclusive, it is Agent")
Technically Epic is already multiplatform with Unreal and People Can Fly's new game. They also own Titan Studios which made Fat Princess.Opiate said:No. My point was that MS' initial goal was to attract all third party exclusives to go multiplat, and this game is an example of how that's pretty much been accomplished. My question is: what next? Because Epic will eventually go multiplatform, and Bungie is at least independant, if not actually an immanent threat to migrate to multiplat. One could easily argue that MS' first party is weaker now than it was at the 360s launch.
Jtyettis said:So you bring up a very little room for growth argument in a thread about a game that has pretty much been confirmed multi for a good while now. Seems a little off to be honest, but okay I'll bite. So with this game and many other games going multi your argument is MS rests it's laurels on Natal for the rest of this gen with very little growth. Ok, I'll check this thread next year to see what kind of growth they have had and bookmark it check it in 2012 as well.
Indeed, heh if anything their first and third party exclusives rival the best year they have ever had, which happens to be 2007 as far as exclusive SW goes.