I'd be very interested to hear what makes Sunset Overdrive less of a random game than those that are already announced for Windows.
Microsoft to hold Xbox & Windows 10 Media event Feb. 25th
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I'd be very interested to hear what makes Sunset Overdrive less of a random game than those that are already announced for Windows.
I do suppose that is true, and a big bummer for a PC only gamer
"random games" was a bad phrasing, a more appropriate term would be non-AAA titles
Perhaps because the Xbox would bring them more money than PC?
This. Release at E3 along with a firm price drop to $299. Combat NX announcement, combat PSVR price announcements and dates.
vasametropolis
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MCC for PC or bust. No interest in anything else they are bringing. (I know it's not happening, let me dream)
This still doesn't really work. Gears, Halo Wars 2 and Sea of Thieves are all at least as AAA as Sunset Overdrive. Hell, despite being f2p, Fable Legends probably is too.
The divide seems completely arbitrary tbh, and seems to pretty much just amount to "those don't count" in general. I can already imagine if those two games were announced, we'd still be hearing about how it's only "2 year old ports... give us Gears 4 and FH3 if you want to show you're serious".
BeforeU
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but why lol. Who would want to do That?
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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ReCore gameplay!!! Do it!
BRocknRolla
Member
I can't tell if these comments are jokes or not. This event for an Xbox slim? For Halo 5 on PC?
We'll be lucky if we see new gameplay for games we already know exist.
We'll be lucky if we see new gameplay for games we already know exist.
BananasWithGuns
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Excited to see more of KI since it's probably a given that it will be there.
I'm also hopeful this will be where they'll debut the Gears 4 beta.
I'm also hopeful this will be where they'll debut the Gears 4 beta.
I guess with Continuum it might be useful to someone lol.
tiredheadcrab
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Not expecting anything big. We might get like a gameplay teaser trailer of Recore which would be cool and then maybe a big reveal at E3. Also I do believe they will release an xbox slim this year, however that could be announced on or after E3. Id say after with a Gears of War 4 bundle. It would be killer.
They (MS) are in a bit of conundrum as they are trying hard to push win10 as a viable gaming platform to force people to upgrade without alienating the xone playerbase.
This means pumping out games that are not aaa exclusives or system sellers and pushing for this streaming stuff/cross integration.
lmcontaldi
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New Microsoft IP trademarked:
Roboraid
Fragments
Phantom Dust
One can hope we see signs of one of them, but I'm holding out for E3.
Roboraid
Fragments
Phantom Dust
One can hope we see signs of one of them, but I'm holding out for E3.
Sorry for the bump buuuuut...
UPDATE: I got news from a birdy in the sky with some information on how the event will play out. I've edited the first page with this information. Please don't ask where I got this information from as I can't disclose that.
- Open house format from 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Stay and play all day, or drop in/out as your schedule allows
- Phil Spencer will open the event with a welcome address please arrive promptly
- Hands-on with new content from Quantum Break, Forza Motorsport 6, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for Windows 10, Minecraft, Killer Instinct: Season 3, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Below, Pit People, Dark Souls III, Tom Clancys The Division and more
- Developer talks and platform experiences offered every 30 minutes
- Developers and Microsoft Studios spokespeople available for interview
- Direct gameplay capture permitted for several experiences; recording equipment provided
- Video assets and art provided
UPDATE: I got news from a birdy in the sky with some information on how the event will play out. I've edited the first page with this information. Please don't ask where I got this information from as I can't disclose that.
- Open house format from 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Stay and play all day, or drop in/out as your schedule allows
- Phil Spencer will open the event with a welcome address please arrive promptly
- Hands-on with new content from Quantum Break, Forza Motorsport 6, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for Windows 10, Minecraft, Killer Instinct: Season 3, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Below, Pit People, Dark Souls III, Tom Clancys The Division and more
- Developer talks and platform experiences offered every 30 minutes
- Developers and Microsoft Studios spokespeople available for interview
- Direct gameplay capture permitted for several experiences; recording equipment provided
- Video assets and art provided
Steverulez
Member
Thats about what I predicted. A few indies, their own published titles, and their marketing deals.
Someone ask them where the fudge ReCore is as well
Obliterator
Member
I hear this thing is heavily PC / Windows 10 focused
GeordieMark
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Ooooh! New Forza 6 content? Wonder what this is? Sounds like more than another car pack.
Steverulez
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The Porsche expansion Amazon leaked? A new track, 20 cars etc etc?
Sure. They will kill The Division and Quantum Break bundles.
RowdyReverb
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That's a pretty good point. Unless those box designs were decoys, but that seems very unlikely
Yea, I think we'll hear some things about "going forward PC/XBO cross-buy/play on first party titles with digital preorder" or something. That way people can assume stuff coming from MS.
My half-realistic prediction:
- from now on, every Xbox exclusive is also coming to Windows 10
- Xbox One receives possibility to Stream games from a W10 PC like Steam Link
- They announce a Xbox One Mini, no possibility to play games natively, has only streaming option and runs apps like netflix. Pricepoint: $100.
- They announce a line of Xbox branded PCs that run W10 games at the recommended level. (Think GTX970 etc)
--> Giving more choices to play Xbox Games. They still commit to the dedicated console business.
- from now on, every Xbox exclusive is also coming to Windows 10
- Xbox One receives possibility to Stream games from a W10 PC like Steam Link
- They announce a Xbox One Mini, no possibility to play games natively, has only streaming option and runs apps like netflix. Pricepoint: $100.
- They announce a line of Xbox branded PCs that run W10 games at the recommended level. (Think GTX970 etc)
--> Giving more choices to play Xbox Games. They still commit to the dedicated console business.
Alx
Member
Hopefully there will be some clarification about universal apps on Xbox One. You would think that after the Windows10 transition there would be an influx of different applications, but there's been hardly any new release or announcement. Sure it's been only two months, but maybe we could know when/if things are coming ?
ooobazinga
Banned
How I see it too. Seems sensible.
The official Quantum Break activity feed says you get a "free PC copy" for pre-ordering the game on the Xbox One store.
The official Quantum Break activity feed says you get a "free PC copy" for pre-ordering the game on the Xbox One store.
I even made a whole thread about it.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1182809
Movalpolos
Banned
Great news! Looking forward to more xbox game announcements for PC.
arhra
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That seems like the kind of thing that would be saved for Build, at the end of March/beginning of April, since apart from whatever private behind-the-scenes deals they've been making with specific high-profile developers (ie, if they've been working with Netflix, for example, on a new Universal App client with Xbox support to prove out the framework ahead of the public rollout), the big news would hopefully be opening up the SDK for app developers in general.
Movalpolos
Banned
Yup. It would also really help improve their image after the terrible MCC release. Maybe the PC version will be better. Halo deserves better, 343 can still redeem themselves.
That's great, thank you.
I came onto GAF a bit late today, so I'm just absorbing these new Xbox/Win 10 based threads, lol.
abracadaver
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How are the chances of 360 backwards compatibility for windows 10? That would be huge
I guess they could do that. The BC stuff on Xbox One is basically a VM and it should be possible to make it run on W10 (unless they really optimized it to just run on a Xbox One)
BrokenIcarus
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I'd say basically 0%, but I would've said the same thing about BC coming to Xbone, so I could be wrong again.
It'd be very surprising to me, it would require a huge effort from the technical side.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Some stuff should stay on the console
Why would make a years old game running through BC a big impact? Black Ops is nothing to write home about
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
uups double post
Don't think we will see that in the upcoming conference, though i thought about that either but for next gen time, Microsoft could decide to go that way instead of making another standard console, they could move everything into their Windows 10 store and release a few models of Xbox, which at that point would just be pre-build mini PC with Windows 10 made by the Surface team with Intel i5/i7 and medium/high end GPUs depending on the model you choose, of course at that point something else should also change in the actual W10 Xbox App and Gold subscription will become something else
That's a solid prediction. 👍
Microsoft is now platform agnostic so this makes no sense
GabeTheGrouch76
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Can't wait for Microsoft to finally reveal in their Media event how many Xbox Ones they've sold.
lol
MS just does this because they are losing and have no chance, it was the same with WP they start putting everything on Android and Iphone, see if Google got their apps into WP, of course not. Plattforms need some kind of exclusivity to gain some steam, WP had neither, its the same story right now with Xbox, looks like MS cant do anything right these days, W8 and Vista was the same story...
Xbox 360 was a different story because they had the sales and share, they didnt need to put those games on Pc they didnt even bothered when everyone was begging them to give us Halo 3 and Gears of War 2 etc... And suddenely they care? haha this is MS saying "hey we have lost the console space but we still can cover that with selling games on Pc."
I think this event will not please Xbox Fans who invested 500e to play exclusives and see everything going into Pc.
As far as im concerned, i love this, it just saved me what 600 euros? i dont need to buy a Xbox anymore as the best choice right now with a Ps4 is to build a decent Pc that will run games better than Xbox and im all set so yeah thanks Microsoft