After Criticism Of Lack Of Xbox One Games, Microsoft Creates New Studio And Buys Four Others

My biggest gaming shame all time was pretending to be a stock holder,epmloyee fanboy of whatever console I had..

*and my old school 90's best bro in Florida asked me

"WHY don't I as a power gamer NOT have a PS3 ? "

I got one and it changed me perma...

Never again will I pretend I owe them a single thjing..

better late then never...

They need AAA blockbuster IP, that doesn't come out on PC, and is not Gears of War. The last 'exclusive' was getting Tomb Raider half a year earlier than other platforms. Fable could be nice-ish..but again, only if it's xb1 only.

Halo is NOT an XBOX exclusive, it's a PC port.

Now buy Insomniac and give me a fugging Sunset Overdrive 2!

Everyone saying "should of done this awhile ago"

MS is thinking long term with their current investments, next consoles are due likely in 2 years, i could see them come out ahead next time because Sony got cocky.

I thought they already owned Playground Games. Have they made a game for another console before? That one shouldn't count...or they shouldn't get credit for it may be better way to state it.

Hope your games sell well... because they will shut your ass down in a second.

Waaaaaay too little and waaaaaay too late. Should've been buying these studios since the 360 or at least at the beginning of the X1. Still waiting for that exclusive xbox studio to make the new Halo or GOW.

Ninja Theory? No!

But...uh...you should have done this a while ago. There's no way you're going to get any games out of your pipeline soon. They must be completely giving up on this gen and trying for the next one.

This is very interesting. Phil actually did what he said he would do. I thought it was all talk.

If they're really going to be given independence and not forced to make the same franchise for the rest of their lives like MS does with the other studios they own, we just might see MS finally being able to compete creatively with Sony first party.

It's good for the devs too. Who would want to join The Coalition knowing they will be making nothing but Gears of War games until they retire?

to bad none of those studios doing anything for me.

Even if they bought Nintendo I wouldn’t get an Xbox

Phil's kind of kickin' some buttocks and taking names in his position at Xbox taking over as Head.

Doubt it will make any difference this gen but might improve things early next gen, though ninja theory will likely regret it, Microsoft's habit of forcing multI player into everything has backfired quite a few times, turning what could have been amazing games into very average ones, and being closed down after a failed game will leave the game industry with one less AA developer.

too little way too late

It does seem like a sellout for Ninja Theory because they were all about preaching independent and self sufficient development. However, they still get to have creative freedom which is good. Most importantly, their games are coming to PC which is the best platform. So, they are not going to be limited to shit console hardware like Sony and Nintendo exclusives.

Good for Microsoft, although a bit too late for the Xbox One.

Sony gonna have a real hard time beating this. The world premiers are not gonna have the same magic if they show em again. As far as the acquisitions? Time will tell.

Watching the video, I kind of understand why. The studio almost dissapeared 4 years ago and had to take on small projects to fund their AAA games like Hellblade. They made a decision based on their need to survive, having employees to take care off.

Do hope the venture proves successful as we need more creative dev like ninja theory. I just hope xbone users support them. This is a single player game after all, and xbone users seems alergic to those.

So cynical in here.

All Microsoft did was show 3rd party games and like 4 of their own games, one which is a shitty mobile game and none of those games are new IP.

3rd party games that they've shown was masking their lack of actual exclusive games (and I meant actual exclusive not the exclusive for 1 month then off to other systems).

Edit: Halo Infinite is confirmed for PC as well. I really wanted a reason to buy an xbox one x and was hoping for this conference to pull a rabbit out of their hat, but alas still have no reason to buy an xbox one x. Most likely the gears games are coming to pc as well.

I still dont know what games they are and if they are even that good to sell me on a console but goodluck to them, by the time they make the games itll be the end of the console generation but I guess they are working for the next gen to have exclusives ready. also what happened to ryse wasnt that game going to get a part 2? classic MS no idea about games

Oh so you can expect 3 of these studios to be shut down, 4 games to be canceled, and the remaining one to be some whalehunting bullshit like Sea of Thieves.

3 years too late

Ninja theory was a huge one in my opinion but sadly people will hate that fact microsoft bought them out.

hahahaha welp "you got no games" has gotten to their head so obviously MS is like we make 22 billion a minimum per quarter year, lets just use some of that money and oh boy they did.

Also credit to MS to give these studios full creative independence, seems like Phil knows what to do rather EA's entire company

I'm very concerned for Ninja Theory's future considering how controlling microsoft is as a publisher.