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Microsoft Confirms Plans To Release Xbox First Party Games “Across All Platforms”, Including PlayStation (twistedvoxel.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They got Relic to make a surprsiingly faithful Age of Empires, people do like Microsoft Flight Sim, that type of thing.

"Their biggest games have been IP conceived and developed externally" so not really a counter argument to phillaholic when you mention two games outsourced to external developers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kinda. This is the exact opposite of that, in that they control the IP and went out to find an external dev with lots of subject matter expertise to make it.

On paper I'd say that's better than them buying Relic off of Sega, but then Sega fired a bunch of people at Relic this year, like everybody else, so what would have been better is very much up for debate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sega fired a bunch of people at Relic this year, like everybody else, so what would have been better is very much up for debate.

Microsoft shut down the entire Ensemble studio, the original creator of AoE. Internal game development at Microsoft is bad.