Xbox Game Studios Stupidity Hate Thread Game Pass Edition

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Milwaukee Macho Man said:
It's kind of cute to think of the days when people were afraid of MS being too hands on when gobbling up all these studios and it may be the exact opposite that is the problem.
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It's become painfully clear that these studios need a firm guiding hand to give them a sense of productivity.

Maybe it can do the game some good in the end, but the delay of Starfield made it more apparent how badly Xbox is still lagging behind PlayStation and the Nintendo Switch in terms of first party support. It's been about four years since Microsoft made that commitment to improving their output, how much of that can still be chalked up to "growing pains" instead of these developers failing to get the ball rolling?
 
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I'm thinking with this Activision acquisition, they could resurrect some dormant IPs and claim them as their own. That's be a start, but they need originality.
 
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Vault Boy said:
Hopefully, but they also need to do more with Rare's old IPs as well. The fact that Banjo-Kazooie has yet to return is horseshit.
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I unironically think they should just sell them back to Nintendo, since I can see Nintendo doing more with them, even if its just pawning them off to Retro Studios to use as they see fit.
 
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The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
I unironically think they should just sell them back to Nintendo, since I can see Nintendo doing more with them, even if its just pawning them off to Retro Studios to use as they see fit.
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Considering that Retro studios has not put out a new game in years, it wouldn't change anything. Metroid Dread was made by a spanish studio and Prime 4 is still MIA despite being announced well before Dread.

Nintendo didn't want to keep any of Rare's IPs because they already had that ground covered by their own IPs like Mario.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
Considering that Retro studios has not put out a new game in years, it wouldn't change anything. Metroid Dread was made by a spanish studio and Prime 4 is still MIA despite being announced well before Dread.

Nintendo didn't want to keep any of Rare's IPs because they already had that ground covered by their own IPs like Mario.
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When Metroid Prime 4 was announced, it was being worked on by a completely different studio, and the project had to be yanked from them and given to Retro to salvage. Retro are trying to clean up someone else's mess, so that will effect game development, depending on what they had to work with and whether or not they had to throw everything out and start over. As for the length of time since their last release, it seems Retro had multiple projects that they cycled through after the Donkey Kong Country games that just didn't get off the ground for various reasons. If they were an established IP with an established blueprint, it probably would have eased development.
 
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Übertroon said:
If gamepass becomes the industry norm I'm out of the hobby. I'm not paying a subscription so that some dangerhair at microsoft or sony can decide what I get to play this month.
Imagine how fucking dangerous it will be if you give up control over your own gaming library
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Exactly why I don't bother supporting any of these games subscriptions. It's just the first step to cloud gaming replacing a copy you can modify and have any control over at all.
 
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Übertroon said:
If gamepass becomes the industry norm I'm out of the hobby. I'm not paying a subscription so that some dangerhair at microsoft or sony can decide what I get to play this month.
Imagine how fucking dangerous it will be if you give up control over your own gaming library
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It's no different than renting games or having a Netflix. If money is tight, GPU may be a good start. Although, they need more games beyond indie titles and MS copy paste.
 
The Last Stand said:
It's no different than renting games
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Counter-Point: I never had an issue going to different BlockBusters and finding something I wanted to rent if one store branch was out of stock on a specific game. Worse case scenario, they axe out a console generation to make-way for a new one, but that was the norm with ANY store that sold games to buy/rent that wasn't named FuncoLand.

What this is doing is WORSE than that. It's basically saying "hey, you can't have these ever again unless we allow it", which Spoiler Alert: they won't.
 
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