I know Noone likes doomsday posts, but somethings come up that worries me. The developers that made Fable are now shut down. Alot of Xbox exclusives are moving to Windows 10 :/. And servers are slowly declining in quality. I like the Xbox One, because im loving Halo 5 rn, but it seems like the end times of Xbox are coming. So I ask you, the players who have been around since H3, H2, AND CE, has this ever happened before? Please tell me I’m paranoid, because I feel like we’re going in the wrong direction. It would suck of MS just Yoinked over Phil Spencer, 343, and Xbox as a whole.
That explains the Halo 6 PS4 as that just got leaked…
jk.Im not sure if they can be correlated at all. Lionhead and fable had jumped the shark and I’m really not surprised they got closed. I’ve seen better studios close. Ultimately just cross your fingers and move on.
Lol.
Xbox makes MS too much money for it to die. Also, MS is not Nintendo, so we’re fine.
Well, they basically just announced a new XBox to release within the next three to four years, so there’s that…
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> I know Noone likes doomsday posts, but somethings come up that worries me. The developers that made Fable are now shut down. Alot of Xbox exclusives are moving to Windows 10 :/. And servers are slowly declining in quality. I like the Xbox One, because im loving Halo 5 rn, but it seems like the end times of Xbox are coming. So I ask you, the players who have been around since H3, H2, AND CE, has this ever happened before? Please tell me I’m paranoid, because I feel like we’re going in the wrong direction. It would suck of MS just Yoinked over Phil Spencer, 343, and Xbox as a whole.
Won’t happen, Microsoft has way too much money. Also 343 just moved into a new studio, you wouldn’t move your studio to a nicer place if you had plans of shutting down.
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> Xbox makes MS too much money for it to die. Also, MS is not Nintendo, so we’re fine.
You know that Nintendo makes way more money than Microsoft, right?
Xbox is doing well in terms on sales and profit so I’m not scared that MS will drop Xbox, especially the flagship franchise that made Xbox successful in the first place
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> > Xbox makes MS too much money for it to die. Also, MS is not Nintendo, so we’re fine.
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> You know that Nintendo makes way more money than Microsoft, right?
Nintendo makes more only in the video games market, but yes.
I know that makes me sound dumb, but if Nintendo can still be making more money with the crap they’re making, MS and Xbox should be fine. At least that’s how I see it.
Honestly it’s hard to say, the recent talk of upgradable consoles and running on windows on the console don’t fill me with confidence.
Every single one of the games in Xbox’s Greatest Games Lineup, except for Halo, is confirmed as a PC game for now.
Basically, MS is being as smart as they can with their IPs. Microsoft owns PC. They treat it like another platform.
imo, Halo FPS games and mainline Gears of War games will always release only to Xbox One. Those are the games that are actually console sellers. Forza will always win in terms of console sim racers, but will lose to other PC racers. Putting it on PC only means more sales to MS. Same with Gears Ultimate Edition. Tomb Raider isnt even an IP. QB is, again, a niche game. It’ll sell well no doubt, but it isnt a console seller. And the PC market is constantly changing. People still love their consoles.
Id say not to be concerned. Most people are buying the Xbox for Halo and Gears. Hopefully, other game series (Scalebound, ReCore, unannounced IPs) can be system sellers as well. But the age of the “console seller” is giving way to the “exclusivity deals”.
Good news for X1 owners? MS seems to be moving away from exclusivity deals, opting instead for publishing deals or just new IPs.
Theres a reason us old ones like being able to play stuff offline.
But if you’re wondering theres no foreseeable worry. -Yoink!- has money if nothing else. As for what Microsoft is doing im not sure that that is a good idea but if they don’t dog the devs to hard W10 could be a good thing.
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> Honestly it’s hard to say, the recent talk of upgradable consoles and running on windows on the console don’t fill me with confidence.
That’s what worries me. I know Xbox is making a profit. OF course it is its Microsoft. But they’re unpredictable and strange business movements with the Xbox One arent making me confident. Let’s hope they don’t mess this up like they did with Ones launch
The truth of the matter is that the Xbox and Halo will never go anywhere. As PC technology continues to advance and seemingly dominate the gaming market, there will always be people that would rather not bother to keep up with the hardware revolution that has been going on since long before Halo redefined console gaming.
Not everybody wants to run around spec-ing gaming rigs and comparing the pros and cons of the thousands of potential hardware combinations while weighing it all against a budget and then building it themselves and frequently troubleshooting when stuff goes wrong. Many people just want to pay a set price, get their warranty and play their games in a (relatively) stable environment with as few hiccups as possible. And as long as the PC elitists don’t start a revolution and commit genocide on console players, the Xbox is here to stay regardless of it’s projected upgrade path.
Also, -Yoink!- makes too much money off Halo, and they will do everything in their power to prevent it from burning out.
Halo ain’t leaving Xbox any time soon
There’s no threat to the Xbox’s position in the console space, exclusives being ported to Windows 10 shouldn’t adversely affect the system. I get that people find value in exclusives in the console space, but it’s not exactly as much of a thing anymore, the Console Wars are a shadow of what they were even as close to a decade ago. With that said, The most immediate change is that the Universal Windows Platform will be a usable development pipeline on the Xbox One, which would allow games to be developed for more than one Microsoft Platform in mind, Sony isn’t getting anything, neither is the Mac or Linux.
(Example: They could bring Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta to the console, which would subsequently work with the 10 PC version and the Pocket Edition, in which both versions share code)
MS didn’t screw over Phil Spencer, either. He’s just been given a seat with the big boys. There is clear merit in the idea of MS gaming not being about where you play, but how. And with Phil Spencer now having the ear of all the other major elements of the company, he’s in a decent position to take advantage of the direction that the company is going in, which is moving away from many of the Ballmer-Era miscalculations and more towards the progressive view that Nadella has.
If Halo 5 was ever considered for a port to Windows 10, I’d be all for it. You can justify more dev time to the game while also considering stuff like DirectX12. (Just Cause 3 is considering this as well)
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> The truth of the matter is that the Xbox and Halo will never go anywhere. As PC technology continues to advance and seemingly dominate the gaming market, there will always be people that would rather not bother to keep up with the hardware revolution that has been going on since long before Halo redefined console gaming.
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> Not everybody wants to run around spec-ing gaming rigs and comparing the pros and cons of the thousands of potential hardware combinations while weighing it all against a budget and then building it themselves and frequently troubleshooting when stuff goes wrong. Many people just want to pay a set price, get their warranty and play their games in a (relatively) stable environment with as few hiccups as possible. And as long as the PC elitists don’t start a revolution and commit genocide on console players, the Xbox is here to stay regardless of it’s projected upgrade path.
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> Also, -Yoink!- makes too much money off Halo, and they will do everything in their power to prevent it from burning out.
^ THIS ! I hated keeping up with the Jones’s when I did PC gaming. Constantly suffering from hardware envy. Constantly finding out that the next version of your favorite game will look like -Yoink- on your current box, on and on. Consoles save you from all that.
Halo will endure for as long as there are people like you which enjoy it.
People are forgetting that even though they may not like the REQ system or that you can basically pay to play, but all that extra cash flow and steady income does have an effect on what a studio can do for a game now and in the future.
Honestly I dont mind it as long as it prolongs 343 and the capability for me to enjoy the Halo universe as a whole. I love the Master Chief but its not just him I play the game for, its the richness and depth of the story. I dont so much as like alice as much as I love the rabbit hole, so to speak.\
Things like this make sure that xbox always has a place. there will always be a difference until consoles can update hardware the way pc’s do. the problem is that its much easier to mod and cheat on computers. thus taking away alot of the “fairness” in online play…plus cheating is kind of encouraged on some PC games.
Fable has been in decline for a while now. They hype they series up too much and it doesn’t deliver. You also have to remember it’s a single player game so it has a shorter life span compared to Halo which gets continued support through multiplayer and tournaments. And if we REALLY want to show our age; in regards to population count a lot of people have to remember during Halo 2’s time it was THE game to play on Xbox Live, there were other games sure but everyone returned to it. Come the 360 and Call of Duty 4, Gears of War, GRAW, and Rainbow Six Vegas then Halo’s population splintered off and continued to do so because “Hey these games run pretty well on Xbox Live!”
I wouldn’t worry about Halo’s future too much, I mean, last I heard the prize pool for HCS was what? around $2mil? Halo’s making MS bank it’s not going anywhere any time soon.
I see the future will just be Xbox going more and more towards in own type of computer. It’s already running nearly 80% Windows 10, not much is different. Who knows, I suspsect soon consoles themselves won’t exist, we’ll be able to plug in a controller (like we already can) to a computer and just play games that way.