So after all these years, is Xbox really back to just only having Halo, Gears, and Forza?

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  • South of Midnight was a flop
  • Everwild has been cancelled and Rare has been downsized
  • Perfect Dark has been cancelled and the Initiative has been closed
  • Hellblade II was a flop
  • Avowed was a near-flop
  • Fable looks like it's in development hell
  • Redfall was a flop
  • Hi-Fi Rush was a flop and Tango Gameworks was shuttered
  • It's been absolute crickets on OD after it was revealed 3 years ago
  • State of Decay 3 was announced 5 years ago and we haven't heard a peep since
  • DOOM: The Dark Ages was a flop
  • Diablo IV was a disappointment

So we have... a new Forza that Phil hinted at last month, a new Halo that has been hinted to be announced in October, Gears of War: Reloaded, Gear of War: E-Day.... what else?


Is that it? All this shit over the last 10+ years just to circle all the way back to "Xbox only has Halo, Gears, and Forza"?
 
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I think they're basically Forza Horizon.

Halo is basically dead, it'll take a Hail Mary for whatever they're making after Infinite to be a success.

Gears hasn't had an entry in a while, and while it's still got a lot of love, 4/5 didn't capture the audience the way 1-3 did, so E-Day really has to wow.
 
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GooseMan69 said:
Soon to be 3/3.
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Holy cherry-picked. You are ignoring a lot of big IP's. This fanboy loyalty to big corporations still baffles me.
 
Pretty much…

+ CoD
+ Elder Scrolls
+ Candy Crush

Writing is on the wall for anything else now

Edit: Forza Motorsport is dead too
 
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Halo and Gears are husks of their former selves. Forza is still very good though, but now shared with Playstation.
 
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And they can't even handle those three. Look at all Halo releases since 2012. Holy shit it's bad. Look at the last Gears, it's a damn shitshow. And even Turn10, the studio that couldn't disappoint, have given us the last Forza which is so trash that everyone forgot about that game existence in under a week. So the truth is, they don't even have these ip's anymore. What's left are only franchise names, and slop for GP.
 
Not sure Halo and Forza are doing good at all. In fact T10 has lost many employees today. There has not been a Gears games for years as well and the next one is not expected to release any time soon either.
 
Artistic said:
I have no clue. Was it a flop or not?
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I mean it had zero fanfare at launch and the all-time peak concurrent user count on Steam was a whopping 1,400 players. That's near-Concord levels.

It would be a miracle if it somehow wasn't a flop.

and I personally, like many of the other games in my OP, had a really good time with it. But I'm not talking about my personal experiences here
 
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I wish Microsoft would just have the guts to say it out loud. I know they have a new console coming, and Im willing to bet it's their last console. With Cloud becoming their preferred system going forth, but they are going Infrastructure & Cloud console / Developer.

The next XBOX will be a mid level system with all the third party's having better specs and designs. I have lost ALL faith and what XBOX wants to be. Everyone shit on Google for Stadia which was a fantastic technical achievement but screwed by business practices.
Im not sure ever with Microsoft deep pockets they can compete with NVIDIA in cloud, or want to honestly. I think they will try but if they don't want to invest in consoles good luck with cloud infrastructure!

I feel for all those franchises we love as they are going saddled with the new vision and business decisions which Microsoft seems to change on a whim. It's not about gaming for them at all. It's strictly a finical transaction.

Jade isnt going to win over gamers and the product isn't going to move the needed for enthusiasts. I will be steering clear of anything XBOX for some time now. Sony / PC / and Switch 2 fill all my gaming needs.
 
analog_future said:
I mean it had zero fanfare at launch and the all-time peak concurrent user count on Steam was a whopping 1,400 players. That's near-Concord levels.

It would be a miracle if it somehow wasn't a flop.

and I personally, like many of the other games in my OP, had a really good time with it. But I'm not talking about my personal experiences here
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Everything I've heard so far is that it's a must play game on Xbox.

But thanks for the insight.
 
Dorfdad said:
I wish Microsoft would just have the guts to say it out loud. I know they have a new console coming, and Im willing to bet it's their last console. With Cloud becoming their preferred system going forth, but they are going Infrastructure & Cloud console / Developer.

The next XBOX will be a mid level system with all the third party's having better specs and designs. I have lost ALL faith and what XBOX wants to be. Everyone shit on Google for Stadia which was a fantastic technical achievement but screwed by business practices.
Im not sure ever with Microsoft deep pockets they can compete with NVIDIA in cloud, or want to honestly. I think they will try but if they don't want to invest in consoles good luck with cloud infrastructure!

I feel for all those franchises we love as they are going saddled with the new vision and business decisions which Microsoft seems to change on a whim. It's not about gaming for them at all. It's strictly a finical transaction.

Jade isnt going to win over gamers and the product isn't going to move the needed for enthusiasts. I will be steering clear of anything XBOX for some time now. Sony / PC / and Switch 2 fill all my gaming needs.
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Xbox is definitely not aiming for cloud as their primary platform. They're going third party. PC, phones, Playstation, Switch, handhelds, set-top boxes, TVs, and yes cloud are their primary platforms. They just want to be on every device imaginable.
 
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Xbox is definitely not aiming for cloud as their primary platform. They're going third party. PC, phones, Playstation, Switch, handhelds, set-top boxes, TVs, and yes cloud are their primary platforms. They just want to be on every device imaginable.
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Possibly, but I believe that would be CLOUD. 1 platform to develop for and just UI and control settings for all the other connections. Microsoft can't support 1 console properly and now they want to support multiple platforms, devices, interfaces, and markets! Just don't seee it happening
 
Forza is dead as half the studio just got gutted unless we talking about Horizon.

Gears is on a let's see because the first two games under the coalition were just average and now they have abandoned the trilogy to go back to Marcus.

Halo Infinite was just average, and I have no idea what they are going to do next in terms of sequel. Do we even trust 343 to do it right for the fourth time?
 
They literally just have Forza Horizon now.

Motorsport is trash, 343i and The Coalition can only produce 7/10 games.
 
Deerock71 said:
Aren't all those games going to be available on other systems?
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Sony used to have to pay out of pocket to get console exclusives and keep games off of Xbox temporarily.

Now they will get permanent PS5 console exclusives on MS' dime, who has paid 80 billion dollars for all of these developers and will directly fund the development of PS5 console exclusives going forward. Maybe Phil really was a nice guy after all.
 
The only relevant Ips Xbox has anymore are the ones the bought recently

Phil and co let Halo, Gears and other legacy Ips to die
 
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