nikolino840
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So moneyhatting... Disney/Marvel could earn money from both and could be a win-win...they aren't losing potential Money ?
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Xbox passed on deal to make Marvel games to focus on their own IP - Head of Marvel Games
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DeepEnigma
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All these mental gymnastics.
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Faithless83
Banned
Thank you MS! Imagine a spider-man made by the crackdown team? 
Lognor
Banned
I don't think it was a huge missed opportunity. Again, ms would have to pay Marvel to use these characters and the sales threshold for these titles would be much higher.
Gotg was a huge blockbuster at the box office yet the game bombed. No one asked for it? Everyone loved the movie. There is a ride coming to Disney. Everyone loves the ip. Yet the game bombed. So no, it's not as simple as pick a popular Marvel ip and rake in the cash. It didn't work with avengers. It didn't work with gotg. If I was a betting person I would say it's not going to work with the upcoming DC games. No guarantees in this business.
Faithless83
Banned
I've been saying this for a while now. Gamepass will make people buy less games on xbox.
"bu bu but Sony is doing it too"
Yeah, I'm worried about it too, but at least they are not doing games day one.
Doing for old games is a great way to profit on games that wouldn't turn in money anyways (Sony PC releases), but still...
I'm expecting a lot of "straight to gamepass/plus games" with subpar quality and people shrugging with "at least it's free" argument.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Sumo Digital made Crackdown as well as the latest Sackboy game. It has nothing to do with MS.Thank you MS! Imagine a spider-man made by the crackdown team?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Had plenty to do with them and how many different studios and hands were in that CD3 pie, due to MS studio
Sumo rescued the shitshow that it was over the years to actually get a product out the door.
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
A former VP of Xbox who left Microsoft in 2004... and who certainly wished he had the opportunities and freedoms Phil and the current Xbox team now has. The industry has changed drastically since 2004.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ed-fries-leaves-microsoft
With Spotify, which he makes a horrible comparison to, he doesn't even acknowledge the differences in the industries. He says how spotify cut music revenue in half, but a lot of the money these days, if not most, is made from in-game micro-transactions and things like DLC, live service models. Music is made entirely independent of platform. Videogames are largely an entirely different creative process and undertaking, hardware and API specific programming. Music is far easier to distribute in many different places, hence why you would be stupid to not be on spotify once you have a finished and released product if the competition and everybody else is benefitting from it. Because of exclusives in the gaming space, be it Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, the same pressures will never exist on the same level as it did in the music industry with things such as Spotify. There are built in protections for the games industry that don't exist for music. You're not getting any music that can only run on Sony platforms or Microsoft platforms.
And where is his acknowledgment of the differences in the consumer markets?
Microsoft putting a bunch of awesome games onto game pass day one and essentially free won't suddenly make people not give a damn about Spider-Man 2, God of War: Ragnarok, Wolverine, the next Zelda, the next GTA. It's literally like Ed Fries is stuck in time back in the year 2004. Even physical game sales aren't what they use to be compared to back in 2004. Did he also have similar fears about digital distribution for games? I also suspect he certainly did. Nobody is crying for Gamestop.
The Alien
Banned
Well, they were coming off the 360 generation when they were at a 1:1 with PS.
But I was more focused on their capabilities. They didn't have management support that they have now and they certainly didn't have the studio support to be a farm team for Marvel.
PS studios and MS studios were in a different place. Sony was churning out great 1st party games with successful studios. MS had a handful of studios and some IP. Gears for example was a purchased IP that they needed to build a studio around. And they had 343 and Halo. Not much else. Like they did during the 360 gen, they relied heavily on 3rd party support. Sony not so much.
Respect your opinion, but really can't have seen Xbox making Marvel games back in 2014 with what they had. Now....hells yeah they could/should do it.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
I don't think first party studio/team was an issue. Sony didn't assign Spider-Man to a first-party studio either. They gave it to Insomniac, which wasn't a first-party studio and was actually working on Sunset Overdrive, an Xbox exclusive around that same timeframe.
itsjustJEFF
Member
Damn... Activision really pulled the "good luck finding someone better than me..." card
OT: I love hearing back stories like this! I can't even imagine the amount of stories, just like this, that went down. There is no way this doesn't happen more often. The "what if" scenarios you could play based on those stories
Also, hindsight is 20/20. Great insight from PS to choose the Insomniac for the game.
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mejin
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DeepEnigma
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
Square that with Elden Ring performance or Forza Horizon 5's performance before even touching Game Pass. Or the actual statistics.
Halo Infinite Campaign was free with Game Pass, and it still outsold COD Vanguard for the month of December on both Xbox AND on PC.
This is all the same stuff I heard back when digital distribution was taking off, and everybody was so afraid for their physical games and letting their friends borrow them, just on rinse and repeat. I remember all the concern over that, and where are we now? Digital vastly outperforms physical sales. It's not even funny. Gamestop's business model has basically been turned on its head. And subscription based services will become an ever more popular option for the future. Just how it is.
Look at Sony.. embracing the hell out of live service titles, which for many will make total sense as PS Plus day ones. All the things people suggested Sony would never do, like pay for online, they eventually did do. What sony recently did is make PS Plus as exciting as the draw to Game Pass was with all those free games for one low monthly price, just without day one. If nobody thinks Sony is headed to day ones eventually, you're in for a surprise, just like all the folks who thought Sony would never embrace PC releases, which will also eventually start happening day one when Sony's PC stuff catches up. Sony is quite literally announcing that they're going multi-platform, so we know what they mean, PC and Playstation.
PropellerEar
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Nice marketing materialsSquare that with Elden Ring performance or Forza Horizon 5's performance before even touching Game Pass. Or the actual statistics.
Halo Infinite Campaign was free with Game Pass, and it still outsold COD Vanguard for the month of December on both Xbox AND on PC.
This is all the same stuff I heard back when digital distribution was taking off, and everybody was so afraid for their physical games and letting their friends borrow them, just on rinse and repeat. I remember all the concern over that, and where are we now? Digital vastly outperforms physical sales. It's not even funny. Gamestop's business model has basically been turned on its head. And subscription based services will become an ever more popular option for the future. Just how it is.
Look at Sony.. embracing the hell out of live service titles, which for many will make total sense as PS Plus day ones. All the things people suggested Sony would never do, like pay for online, they eventually did do. What sony recently did is make PS Plus as exciting as the draw to Game Pass was with all those free games for one low monthly price, just without day one. If nobody thinks Sony is headed to day ones eventually, you're in for a surprise, just like all the folks who thought Sony would never embrace PC releases, which will also eventually start happening day one when Sony's PC stuff catches up. Sony is quite literally announcing that they're going multi-platform, so we know what they mean, PC and Playstation.
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mckmas8808
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Come on bro.
Jaybe
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Square that with Elden Ring performance or Forza Horizon 5's performance before even touching Game Pass. Or the actual statistics.
Halo Infinite Campaign was free with Game Pass, and it still outsold COD Vanguard for the month of December on both Xbox AND on PC.
This is all the same stuff I heard back when digital distribution was taking off, and everybody was so afraid for their physical games and letting their friends borrow them, just on rinse and repeat. I remember all the concern over that, and where are we now? Digital vastly outperforms physical sales. It's not even funny. Gamestop's business model has basically been turned on its head. And subscription based services will become an ever more popular option for the future. Just how it is.
Look at Sony.. embracing the hell out of live service titles, which for many will make total sense as PS Plus day ones. All the things people suggested Sony would never do, like pay for online, they eventually did do. What sony recently did is make PS Plus as exciting as the draw to Game Pass was with all those free games for one low monthly price, just without day one. If nobody thinks Sony is headed to day ones eventually, you're in for a surprise, just like all the folks who thought Sony would never embrace PC releases, which will also eventually start happening day one when Sony's PC stuff catches up. Sony is quite literally announcing that they're going multi-platform, so we know what they mean, PC and Playstation.
Here’s independent research numbers, not MS marketing material. GP subs spend more but only minorly. He even politely calls out MS lol. There is likely causation at play as who would be attracted to the service and see value from it other than people that are heavily engaged in gaming to begin with, no? I think he covers it in the Q&A.
Time stamp 27:40 if it doesn’t start there
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Nice marketing materials
Yes, because Microsoft, a publicly traded $2 trillion dollar company, is going to lie.
People will have to accept that Microsoft has always had good ideas for pushing the industry forward and those ideas work. People don't usually accept that they work till Sony ends up doing the same. Sony is following suit for good reason on PC releases and also heavily revamping PS Plus. I notice also nobody complains about Live Service games like they use to anymore because Sony has embraced that, too. Not implying Live Service games are a Microsoft innovation, but you guys get the point. Slowly but surely everybody is being dragged into the future.
Trust me when I say this: Game Pass is nothing to fear, just like this innocent Lion wasn't.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Jaybe
Gold Member
Interesting reach. You using MS marketing materials and the poster saying nice marketing materials, then you pull the ‘oh you think they are lying’ card. Look, maybe you don’t work with businesses, but there is a whole craft to taking data and making it fit the narrative your company is seeking to push. All businesses do this. That’s why independent non-biased research is so valued. And reports to Wall Street as there are legal regulations. So yes, MS spins this data to the audience they want an action on, in the case of your materials, they want game devs on their platform at a lower cost.
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SenjutsuSage
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Here’s independent research numbers, not MS marketing material. GP subs spend more but only minorly. He even politely calls out MS lol. There is likely causation at play as who would be attracted to the service and see value from it other than people that are heavily engaged in gaming to begin with, no? I think he covers it in the Q&A.
Time stamp 27:40 if it doesn’t start there
So your source is someone who does not have all the same internal data as Microsoft does, is using US only figures, and is only using Q4 2021... Surely you can't be serious, right?
Microsoft's data covers data before and after game pass entry, and some of their data covers a far larger sample size from Jan 2020 - January 2021, Microsoft is also giving you PER game data and spending versus like for like users, data this person can't possibly possess. Microsoft's numbers are simply more reliable.
What you call marketing numbers is what's shared to their investors as well. You implying they're lying to their investors?
Jaybe
Gold Member
Watch the video. See my other post re financials. Please stop embarrassing yourself. lol, live from Reach indeed.So your source is someone who does not have all the same internal data as Microsoft does, is using US only figures, and is only using Q4 2021... Surely you can't be serious, right?
Microsoft's data covers data before and after game pass entry, and some of their data covers a far larger sample size from Jan 2020 - January 2021, Microsoft is also giving you PER game data and spending versus like for like users, data this person can't possibly possess. Microsoft's numbers are simply more reliable.
What you call marketing numbers is what's shared to their investors as well. You implying they're lying to their investors?
PropellerEar
Member
DeepEnigma
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Jaybe
Gold Member
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I actually manage and work with a few very successful businesses (understatement, but we will go with this) where I'm often in a position to provide the types of information on performance to our partners when discussing our services. I won't even include private contracts because then we would be in territory where I'm not willing to go far enough to prove the point, but contrary to what you might think, and what we may discuss around here, my business side knowledge is much higher than you might initially think.
I make nearly weekly deposits or get direct deposits in these kinds of amounts.
And this is money in my pockets, not money needed to run the business.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
In this scenario, 3rd parties see their revenues practically cut in half or even worse. This would push them to release every game as a GaaS game that is designed from the ground up to eek out every cent in MTXs from the gamer.
This is not the future you or I want.
This would be even worse than the above, considering that Nintendo essentially sells mostly Nintendo published games and popular Japanese franchises.
Essentially, any game made by a western publisher or made by a Japanese publisher for the global market, would either be cut down in scope from AAA to A or AA at most, or become a nickel-and-diming GaaS MTX-fest.
Do. Not. Want. (And neither do publishers)
The only realistic scenario outside of all major 3rd parties being acquired by subs platform holders, is the current status quo, with games sales continuing to be the dominant distribution platform and subs services acting as a supplementary offering to expand the reach and visibility of smaller and older less popular games.
Ev1L AuRoN
Member
I imagine that Sony put the game rights to the Spiderman on the deal to allow the use of the character on the MCU.
Swift_Star
Banned
People still wanting to make Microsoft as some kind of poor underdog just like that ridiculous post made on resetera trying to defend Microsoft acquisitions. Lol trillion dollar company, amirite?
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alabtrosMyster
Banned
Marvel was looking for the hat full of money and they found it.
Sony should have said: yes, but only if we are allowed to make the games on Xbox will we partner with you!
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Sounds like they didn't have the resources to do anything with a Marvel license. They had other issues to deal with like building up their first party studios.
I see you didn't play Hulk Ultimate Destruction on PS2. GOAT Hulk game.
Faithless83
Banned
Here are some numbers, not from a business conference though:Square that with Elden Ring performance or Forza Horizon 5's performance before even touching Game Pass. Or the actual statistics.
Halo Infinite Campaign was free with Game Pass, and it still outsold COD Vanguard for the month of December on both Xbox AND on PC.
This is all the same stuff I heard back when digital distribution was taking off, and everybody was so afraid for their physical games and letting their friends borrow them, just on rinse and repeat. I remember all the concern over that, and where are we now? Digital vastly outperforms physical sales. It's not even funny. Gamestop's business model has basically been turned on its head. And subscription based services will become an ever more popular option for the future. Just how it is.
Look at Sony.. embracing the hell out of live service titles, which for many will make total sense as PS Plus day ones. All the things people suggested Sony would never do, like pay for online, they eventually did do. What sony recently did is make PS Plus as exciting as the draw to Game Pass was with all those free games for one low monthly price, just without day one. If nobody thinks Sony is headed to day ones eventually, you're in for a surprise, just like all the folks who thought Sony would never embrace PC releases, which will also eventually start happening day one when Sony's PC stuff catches up. Sony is quite literally announcing that they're going multi-platform, so we know what they mean, PC and Playstation.
01011001
Banned
it was decent at best, fun for like half an hour and then the extremely shallow gameplay starts to show.
compare that to any more sophisticated hack n slay/beat em up and it will not compare favourably.
but I mean, sure it's fun enough if you just want a game to mindlessly punch stuff, not a bad game... but that was also not the time period in which this deal went down at all.
by the end of the PS360 era, Marvel games were almost entirely terrible, with only a tiny fraction being somewhat ok games...
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Impossible when MS has much more.
Wait you know I'm talking about the open world Hulk game right? The one with destructible environments?
01011001
Banned
yes, games like that. "power fantasy" games if you will, are fun for a while, but just like Prototype that "hell yeah imma destroy all those cars!" factor wears off really fast. and not much than a VERY basic fighting system is what's left if that fun factor of climbing buildings and smashing stuff wears off.
imo, that's why it is often better to restrict the abilities of the character and focus on more depth with/with less OP abilities
but again, it's not a bad game or anything, it's just very basic (which can be exactly what you want sometimes of course, like I loved Crackdown 3 even tho it's a really dumb game at the core, it's in a similar position to Ultimate Destruction actually, pretty comparable)
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Jaybe
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Cyber_hunter026
Member
Marvel was looking for the hat full of money and they found it.
Sony should have said: yes, but only if we are allowed to make the games on Xbox will we partner with you!
Moneyhat would entail the company or publisher was seeking or seeking to make the deal in the first place. this is not the case, as marvel seemed to of went to sony, sony chose insomniac games. at the time, before the whole bungie deal and when timed exclusives was becoming a thing. Some publishers would make deals for exclusives, yeah shocking right! /s doesn't work that way buddy but hey you do you
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Zok310
Banned
what caused those crash was mostly mismanagement, that type of crash won't happen today, the industry have learned what and what not to do. But Ed believes how we purchase our games would cause a crash that would eliminate many pubs if we went to full sub model.
Iced Arcade
Member
After licensing fees and the cut to Disney/Marvel it was probably seen as a waste even though these IPs sell and move consoles with little effort among kids.
That being said I enjoyed the shit out of spiderman.
That being said I enjoyed the shit out of spiderman.
Definitely. I’m a big fan of insomniacs Spider-Man games and super excited for Spider-Man 2 and wolverine.
I also remember liking those old school hulk games and Deadpool was pretty fun. But to be fair they are nowhere near the quality of insomniac’s marvel games.
I would be happy for some AA marvel and DC games. Maybe $30-40. Just so many cool characters that would thrive in a game. But the fact it takes 3-5 years these days to get games out I feel like we will never get to see these characters in a game.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
It does not matter who decided that there would be a hat or no, we usually just don't know who initiates the talk... nor do we know the motivations.Moneyhat would entail the company or publisher was seeking or seeking to make the deal in the first place. this is not the case, as marvel seemed to of went to sony, sony chose insomniac games. at the time, before the whole bungie deal and when timed exclusives was becoming a thing. Some publishers would make deals for exclusives, yeah shocking right! /s doesn't work that way buddy but hey you do you
That being said, I see no problem with that kind of deal.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Now do Playstation
I expect crickets.
MasterCornholio
Member
Now do Playstation
What’s going on with Sonys numbers?
John Wick
Member
Wrong. Nope. Very different as no day one games on there.Now do Playstation
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Same. 3rd party software sales decreased. That's why blaming Gamepass is a bit weird.
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