Even if that's true. Why the fuck let their twitter ambassadors push this narrative? They wouldn't say these rumours without hearing 'something'.
This is already happening. “We weren’t wrong, they changed it”.
If you believe 2 games needs an entire business update show yeah.
Before that. His whole persona on Twitter was being a Project Natal fanboy. His handle was something like PNF4LYFE. Dude's been at it for over a decade lol
He is 100% a phony. He enjoys the social aspect of discussing games more than actually playing them. Someone posted a screenshot of his XBL profile years ago and he had like 2,000 gamerscore which showed that he barely played games on the console he relentlessly shilled. It's so f'n weird.
I highly doubt it. There is a caveat here - no game is being released on a platform without a signed release agreement between the platform holder and the game publisher. Do I think every single one of the titles that have been publicly discussed have an appropriately signed agreement with both Sony and Nintendo? Unlikely. You don't have to have a release agreement signed to begin working on a game for a platform, or to even begin planning so. I also don't think that all of the projects that have been discussed as coming are actively being ported and are instead in a sort of planning stage to be ported in the future.
Only porting that game would be a complete waste of times and resources. The ROI isnt worth the trouble
Well, it's nothing new. Personally, I have stayed away from making any definitive statements regarding the rumors, as Phil already let everyone know that we would have clarity next week. In saying that, the people that would claim that MS changed their agreements with Sony and Nintendo, within the time frame of a week due to backlash, would just lose even more credibility in my eyes. It would be more honorable to just take the L.
Oh yeah, nowhere to go but up!
I am thoroughly convinced that Microsoft saw the revenue Call of Duty was bringing in and told Phil there is NO WAY that we can make that game exclusive or put it on Gamepass. I guess it doesn't matter since they signed a 10 year agreement with Sony. Call of Dutt will most definitely release on Xbox and PS5 at the same time. There are other games, but MS likely says "this game is our revenue machine" and we ain't fucking with it.
In what way would
I mean, the scope of what we're talking about here goes well beyond CoD though.
How confident are you on ur info? I'm just confused by all this now, so all their games are getting a multiplat port at some point?
We can only speculate to the nature of their agreements, but I doubt Sony and Nintendo would have been happy with their partner spilling the beans because of "overzealous forum posters and Twitter users". Obviously, MS wants to leave the door open for future ports, that make sense. It's reasonable that they choose to make a more comprehensive announcement vs being reactive to ever new rumor popping up left and right.
I do like how some are conveniently overlooking Jez and Co. tweets, articles about other games this past Sunday.
Have you seen the meltdowns lmaoSo the only truth is that PlayStation fanboys are the worst?
They're holding a "business update event" for the sole purpose of announcing a port of a small game they originally shadow-dropped on their own platform? Might be just a little bit more to it than that.
My colleagues are literally working on these games. I don't know why anyone is confused at this point.
They already announced they they would be speaking more comprehensively about their plans next week, they have not been silent. Their plans involve other companies platforms, they can't release proprietary info regarding other platforms, without the other platform holders concent. I imagine their response would have been different if their plans didn't include the interests of Sony and Nintendo.
The big thing is that ABK made Microsoft take more notice of the Xbox division and the bean counters saw money been drained and said this has to start generating revenue. they also likely panicked when $349 consoles didn't move the needle.
well, while unlikely this isn't actually impossible, imo. spencer's been falling back on the whole word salad thing for a while now, & if you do that long enough, it eventually gets to the point where you can't stop yourself from doing it. so, yeah, this actually might be just some ludicrously opaque word salad embellishment of something relatively simple...
That is exactly what this sounds like. At the very least prepping for a soft landing.
But those two statements wouldn't have closed the door for future ports in any way unless they were indeed also trying to appease the overzealous forum posters and twitter users at the same time which I suspect they would do anyway. They clearly wanted their cake and to eat it too. I don't think Sony and Nintendo care about any spilled beans. "We don't have any current plans to bring starfield to other platforms" would have worked without spilling anything at all. I'm not sure why that would upset overzealous people or why they should even care about those overzealous twitter trolls in the first place like you say. They cannot have it both ways, if next week they say that there are no plans what would be the difference? Have they not somehow "upset their partners" if that's announced next week rather than two days ago? Why? Only way that makes sense is if they were making the decision with partners in that week.
