Microsoft bought Titanfall outright?
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I had a blast playing it at PAX.
I don't care that much.. if it's XBO exclusive I'll continue to play the series on XBO assuming I like it. If it's multi-plat I'll have greater choice of where I play it.
The latter seems optimal, but sometimes exclusives also get a more polished treatment.. so.. up in the air whether it would matter to me.
I find the business aspects of the industry interesting but don't have some other attachment to how things work out, other than a general hope that quality companies do well.
Here is a tip. Kill Zone looks gorgeous and people think it is bland and boring.
I think you mean "Killzone is bland and boring, but some people think it looks gorgeous".
Smart move by Microsoft if they did. Titanfall is the first game that everyone is calling next gen. It's going to be the next mega hit that Call of Duty was. Simply put it's a flagship title and may win Microsoft this gen on its own.
ppl don't give a s*** about next gen, they just wanna play fun games. and Titanfall seems to be the one.
It isnt hard to understand how powerful it can be to make Titanfall exclusive to the XO. If its a [system seller] Microsoft stands to make more profit as a manufacturer with every release. The more systems sold, the higher the adoption rate, the more profit each release of Titanfall makes, to make the next release better which also increases hardware and software sold, and on and on and on....year after year.
Going exclusive definitely has its pros.
Going exclusive definitely has its pros.
The game isn't even out yet. Maybe MS see this as a systemseller. The benefit will be MS can fund the team with more resource, say 343i support the team on a next gen engine, or Ms just fund them for another next gen engine like cryengine or UE4.
First of all its a new company and also they havent yet sell a game yet. I think its safe to do go with the MS because what if the game is not as good as what people think, its now in MS hands to worry about because its paid.
Not that it truly matters (KZ:SF = beautiful graphics, but poor gameplay, etc., apparently based on all the reviews)
I'll call it now - With all the focus MS is paying to this particular game - I doubt very seriously that TF will be 720p on release - it may be 900p instead of 1080p ...
I'll also call it now - TF will be a *blast* to play and will rate much higher on average that KZ:SF...
Most of the ones I listed...?
Devs want pubs to fund their games. What they don't want is to be forced to keep pumping out the same game every year and to have no money flowing in or control over the IP. This is way more common than you seem aware of.
EA would have likely had clauses for first dibs on future titles in the series as part of their partners program.
For a mech game? Ummm...yeah actually, I bet they were.
Which means nothing if the games never get funded. The dev itself doesn't make hundreds of millions of dollars. Vince's reply to the tweet directly asking him is a big tell. He had no reason whatsoever to dodge that question and he did so using the cookie cutter reply every other dev that's been money hatted has used over the past decade. He did that after clarifying the exact same subject previously without any PR language.
I think this game is a bit overhyped so far. I get it, they want to build it up to have another exclusive system seller, but I don't know. I just doesn't look like it's that jaw-dropping amazing to me yet. Especially the world. It looks like Call of Duty textures on all the buildings & such. I know, it has mechs though, I know. lol.
This is a weird one as a franchise buy out is a clear yes or no answer. One side says yes, the other says no. I'd go with yes as I can't see Polygon purposely making up an answer like that on the spot.
Keep in mind there is a difference between securing the franchise and securing the publishing rights. As far as I can see Zampella was pretty explicit that they have not sold the franchise. What's up in the air is future publishing rights, which is a pretty huge minefield of deals and contracts and the like that is beyond our ability to know enough to speculate on at the moment.
I personally file this under "need more information".
That's a good point, particularly when it's 'from the horse's mouth', as it were. If Vince doesn't know what's going on with Titanfall, no one does.
Not hard to imagine. Next gen isn't only about pretty graphics and the 'tried and cliched' gameplay from last gen.
Dedicated server as standard will be a good start. Voice activation, as well as proper use of gesture also, I hope will gain momentum. Issuing squad command will be damn cool. 'Alpha team, engage enemy', 'Bravo team is ready'.
Imagine I hold my hand up, & my team stop (like in real life military). But I think most 3rd parties will not bother with these, hence its a good idea for MS to buy potiential good developers & ask them to integrate them in, but as an option of course(so Kinect paranoiders, /anti-kinecters can sleep easy)
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Pretty much, though X1's cloud/dedi servers is a good feature if implemented right. Also, both X1 and PS4 have some built in video uploading so people who don't care about making spiffy videos offline don't have to mess with external video capture devices.
Yes, exactly, we need more horse riding games like the one with Barbie.
....and it hasn't even launched and already that fact makes it more interesting than the other 'cliched' FPS that are out there.
Haven't really been following this because to my knowledge it's a rumor and one I haven't seen Microsoft confirm, I'd assume they would like they did with the first.
If it ends up being an exclusive franchise that's awesome, if not then that's cool too. X1 and PC are rumored to get all the games in the franchise?
I hope Azure is up here in AU by the time the game releases... Doubtful but I can hope, will be crap with p2p.
The game are only on Xbox 360, Xbox One and Windows PC.
- So if you're expecting this to reach same massmarket as Call of Duty, you'll most likely end up dissapointed.
- As to beeing a 'first next-gen title' - it's also on 360, so technically all must also be able to be done on 360 - wich means xbox one version is going to be like most third party launch-window games - a upscaled current-gen game.
And due to Respawn still using the source-engine It's gonna be much less of a upgrade from Titanfall 360 => Titanfall X1 - than a game like Battlefield will be, doing the same upgrade.