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Soilder of Fortune. The memories

 

[ethomaz]

Some random IP Sony owns that they could bring back:

Dark Cloud
Cool Boarders
DriveClub
The Order
Until Dawn
Arc The Lad
Jet Moto
Warhawk

Ones you missed:

Ghosts of Tsushima
Death Stranding
Returnal
Bloodborne
Demon Souls

If you add all Sony or Nintendo IPs to the list it will be more than 100 each I guess… even with Activision the numbers of IPs are way lower on MS side.

But IPs counts doesn’t matter that much.

 

[Arxisz]

Sony needs to develop a flagship JRPG and WRPG franchise. There's a huge void in the market where Bioware and (good) Final Fantasy used to be. They should also probably buy Bungie in order to have a competitive FPS.

They don't even have to develop a new JRPG, Could just bring back Legend of Dragoon.

 

[STARSBarry]

Microsoft also owns the rights to Starlancer and its sequel Freelancer which I am still waiting on for a third entry.

People still play the game to this day, come on Microsoft give us a sequel.

 

[Bragr]

No, you're wrong. Use google, wikipedia or something.


Source?


Marvel owns Spider-Man, Disney own Marvel. Marvel/Disney license many different publishers to use their characters on videogames. The case of the Spider-Man games made by Sony are only one of them.

Spider-Man appears on a shit ton of other games. As an example it recently was included in Fortnite, which isn't a Sony game.

Sure, but licensing characters to Fortnite doesn't mean much.

Regarding Tenchu, Activision owns the first 2 games or something, it's complicated.

Microsoft seems to have outsourced Mechwarrior to several actors, but ultimately owns the Mechwarrior game IP: "Microsoft owned the rights to the series, having acquired them when it bought MechWarrior creator FASA Interactive in 1999."

Building MechWarrior Online

Sometimes, early movers in an emerging field are enthusiastic advocates and driven believers, people with a vision and …

www.gamesindustry.biz

 

[Bragr]

Tenchu is From Software not Activision.
Mechwarrior I need to check.
Bayonetta is Sega.
Spider-man is licensed to Sony… it is Marvel IP.

I mean you added a lot of stuff to MS and forget all the Sony IPs.

What Sony IP's are you thinking of?

 

[lefty1117]

MLB I can add, Days Gone is a single game, not a franchise. I have no idea about Spider-Man really, I can add it since it's such a big Playstation franchise now, but I think it's some sort of joint ownership between Sony and Marvel, so I'm not sure how much control Sony got over the game license.

MLB The Show is multiplat now courtesy of MLB. In fact you can play MLB The Show on ... Gamepass

 

[Ceadeus]

i'm still shook

 

[Halo is Back]

Lists dont make much sense when you include franchises that are totally dead.

I understand trying to be complete but who cares about 1080 or Conker. The companies who own the IP dont care obviously

I care about Conker

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Sure, but licensing characters to Fortnite doesn't mean much.

...How could marvel license the character to many different studios/games, if sony owned it? Sony strictly only owns the movie rights, absolutely nothing else.

 

[ethomaz]

What Sony IP's are you thinking of?

I already listed several… you left out even IPs released in 2021.

 

[ethomaz]

...How could marvel license the character to many different studios/games, if sony owned it? Sony strictly only owns the movie rights, absolutely nothing else.

Disney/Marvel owns Spider-man IP and right now it is licensed to Sony… they can’t use it in any game without Sony authorization unless they break the licensing terms.

 

[Bragr]

I already listed several… you left out even IPs released in 2021.

You listed single games, not franchises.

 

[ethomaz]

You listed single games, not franchises.

So you made an incomplete list wars to make Sony looks bad lol

 

[Bragr]

So you made an incomplete list wars to make Sony looks bad lol

You don't know what a franchise is do you

 

[Valonquar]

Which console can play critically acclaimed MMORPG FFXIV again?

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Why are you just counting franchises? Don't see the point in that

 

[ethomaz]

Why are you just counting franchises? Don't see the point in that

Because he wants to make Sony and Nintendo looks bad.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I mean does one need to buy developers to add to your stable of games?

What's stopping Sony from investing in their existing developers, increasing the numbers to grow them into huge studios able to work on 3 or 4 games simultaneously.

 

[Bragr]

Why are you just counting franchises? Don't see the point in that

That's usually what you do, franchises are what carry value onward and bring in the big money and establish the brand. Great games become franchises. If we are gonna count single games the list would be 30 times bigger, the franchises the companies own usually highlight their strength and value. Mario, Halo, Uncharted etc.. this is the bread and butter.

Moreover, this was just to highlight how many franchises Xbox has gathered recently.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Looking at that list its borderline cheating what Xbox doing man

 

[Oddvintagechap]

>Crash and Spyro now exclusive to Xbox

This is really all I care about.

Feels weird. Even thought I didnt enjoy the remakes or Crash 4.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

That's usually what you do, franchises are what carry value onward and bring in the big money and establish the brand. Great games become franchises. If we are gonna count single games the list would be 30 times bigger, the franchises the companies own usually highlight their strength and value. Mario, Halo, Uncharted etc.. this is the bread and butter.

Moreover, this was just to highlight how many franchises Xbox has gathered recently.

Well a lot of these are still "franchises" then regardless of if they have one mainline title.

 

[Bragr]

Well a lot of these are still "franchises" then regardless of if they have one mainline title.

What?

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

What?

an IP becomes a franchise when it has additional products. Doesn't need to be a second game

 

[Rusty Shackelford]

Maybe Sony will now realize it's not about selling consoles anymore.

 

[Bragr]

an IP becomes a franchise when it has additional products. Doesn't need to be a second game

You are talking about media franchises, we are talking games.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

You are talking about media franchises, we are talking games.

Games are a media franchise. It's the same thing

 

[alabtrosMyster]

You included the most random franchises for Xbox. Geometry Wars, Conker , Dance Central, Viva Pinata, Heretic, Solider of Fortune?

Don’t mention Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Returnal, Bloodborne, Demon Souls, .. Hell Knack might be bigger all those titles.

And you forgot the old ones from ps1 days like legend of Dragoon.

I think that counting the studios could be more representative of the future output.

 

[JLB]

Wheres Phantasmagoria and Space quest OP ?!?!

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Why are you just counting franchises? Don't see the point in that

Makes no sense. Ghost of Tsushima is bigger than most of those titles mentioned. It’s even getting a movie. But not a franchise? And of course its getting a sequel. I dont even like GOT.

And you forgot the old ones from ps1 days like legend of Dragoon.

I think that counting the studios could be more representative of the future output.

I didn’t vvvv

youre going by sequels over the size?

So like Stardust over Returnal for Housemarque.

I guess Everyone’s Golf, Arc the lad, Ico franchise, Ape Escape, Sport Champions, Resistance, White Knights Chronicles, Dark Cloud.. are the real heavy hitters.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Disney/Marvel owns Spider-man IP and right now it is licensed to Sony… they can’t use it in any game without Sony authorization unless they break the licensing terms.

...ok, that's not what I said, they still don't own anything except the movie rights, but sure.
Also you don't know what the license allows or doesn't, it's complete speculation Spider-Man content can't be used anywhere else, especially since he's in fortnite and many other mobile games; Marvel is not making the mistake of letting one company have full free reign over their IP ever again, so it's far more likely they gave Sony an exclusive license for a console game where x character (insomiac chose Spider-Man) is the main character, and have to renew/renegotiate for any sequels.

 

[Midnight Bliss]

i see nothing on that list i actually want to play. Bring out a new Arcanum now that microsoft owns former troika stuff

 

[Hobbygaming]

I probably missed a bunch, but it's in the ballpark, and some of these are old and inactive, but it paints a picture.

Sony
Astro Bot
God of War
Gran Turismo
Gravity Rush
Horizon
Infamous
Jak And Daxter
Killzone
Knack
The Last of Us
LittleBigPlanet
MLB The Show
Motorstorm
Ratchet & Clank
Resistance
Sly Cooper
SOCOM
Syphon Filter
Twisted Metal
Uncharted
Wipeout

Nintendo
1080
Animal Crossing
Brain Age
Clubhouse Games
Donkey Kong
F-Zero
Fire Emblem
Kirby
Luigi's Mansion
Mario (massive amount of sub-genres in this one, sports games, puzzle games, etc.)
Metroid
Paper Mario
Picross
Pikmin
Pilotwings
Pokemon (shared ownership between "Game Freak" and "Creatures")
Punch-Out
Splatoon
Star Fox
Super Smash Bros.
The Legend of Zelda
Warioware
Xenoblade Chronicles
Yoshi

Xbox
Age of Empires
Banjo-Kazooie
Call of Duty
Candy Crush
City Building Series (ceasar, pharaoh, zeus)
Crash Bandicoot
Conker
Crackdown
Dance Central
Diablo
Dishonored
Doom
Fable
Fallout
Farm Heroes Saga
Forza Motorsport
Forza Horizon
Gears of War
Geometry Wars
Guitar Hero
Halo
Halo Wars
Hearthstone
Hellblade
Heretic
Hexen
Killer Instinct
King's Quest
Lost Vikings
MechWarrior
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Minecraft
Ori
Overwatch
Perfect Dark
Prey
Psychonauts
Quake
Rise of Nations
Skylanders
Soldier of Fortune
Spyro The Dragon
StarCraft
State of Decay
SWAT
Tenchu
The Elder Scrolls
The Evil Within
Tony Hawk
True Crime
Viva Pinata
WarCraft RTS
World of WarCraft
Wolfenstein

This list is missing hella PlayStation IP's lol

 

[KAL2006]

Lists don't mean shit to me, who exactly plays that many games. I only play a few games a year and a few games a re must haves. Unfortunately the few games I do like are on all 3 platforms which means I need to purchase all systems damn you Microsoft for taking away Diablo.

 

[Bragr]

Games are a media franchise. It's the same thing

It's not the same thing, game franchises live on because of sales of their games, not the toys. Do you think they would make Uncharted 4 if 3 didn't sell, but the toys did?

Do you really want to update the list based on available toy merchandise?

 

[ResilientBanana]

Sony missing Spiderman, Days Gone and MLB.

MLB is not exclusive.

MLB The Show 21 | Xbox

Experience faster, deeper and more intense moment-to-moment match with MLB The Show 21.

www.xbox.com

 

[yurinka]

Sure, but licensing characters to Fortnite doesn't mean much.

For sure it means. Disney/Marvel can license Spider-Man, I don't. Only the owner of the IP can license it.

Regarding Tenchu, Activision owns the first 2 games or something, it's complicated.

From Software owns the Tenchu brand:

From Software acquires Tenchu brand

Activision sells all future rights to the Tenchu series to From Software.

www.gamespot.com

Microsoft seems to have outsourced Mechwarrior to several actors, but ultimately owns the Mechwarrior game IP: "Microsoft owned the rights to the series, having acquired them when it bought MechWarrior creator FASA Interactive in 1999."

Building MechWarrior Online

Sometimes, early movers in an emerging field are enthusiastic advocates and driven believers, people with a vision and …

www.gamesindustry.biz

Ok, MS owns it.