Future First Party Games To Be Released Every Three Months???

[karmakid]

https://m.ign.com/articles/2019/06/...ty-xbox-game-about-every-three-months-e3-2019


"I think about like how long you spend with a game and just sort of the cadence of discovery there," Booty explained. "So if you can do a game every three months, and if a game takes somewhere between two years and four years, I mean, just think about things that have come out recently, you know, things like Red Dead and God of War need to be getting into five, six years. Right? But let's just say for the sorts of studios, like a Ninja Theory or a Double Fine that two, three years starts to be the cadence, right?

"So, then if you've got a game a quarter and you're taking two to three years." Booty continued. "You can kind of back into the math and say, well wow, you probably need somewhere between 10 and 12 studios. But... making games is not yet a perfect science, right? There's no creative endeavor that is. So there's going to be things that take longer. There's going to be some things that we start and say, hey, great idea, but it just isn't, you know, the Jello doesn't want to set. Right. Um, and so I think we need some, some buffer in there, right? So the first, that's kind of my basic answers. We'd love to be feeding a high quality game into game pass about every three months."

 

[Edge BC]

They need to seriously bulk up before they can achieve this.

 

[Andy]

He's including little games in there, too, not just big ones. For instance, Double Fine puts out lots of smaller titles that no one pays much attention to. They've got a handful of studios like that now, who can pump out smaller titles. If you count stuff like that, you could probably do it. I personally don't think that's going to turn the tide. I think they need AAA, high-quality exclusives. No way they can put out 4 of those a year. We'll be lucky to get 2 of them, with the other 2 being smaller titles.

 

[yankeessuck]

He's including little games in there, too, not just big ones. For instance, Double Fine puts out lots of smaller titles that no one pays much attention to. They've got a handful of studios like that now, who can pump out smaller titles. If you count stuff like that, you could probably do it. I personally don't think that's going to turn the tide. I think they need AAA, high-quality exclusives. No way they can put out 4 of those a year. We'll be lucky to get 2 of them, with the other 2 being smaller titles.

They have 14 studios or whatever the number is now. Its not that crazy.

 

[hrudey]

He's including little games in there, too, not just big ones. For instance, Double Fine puts out lots of smaller titles that no one pays much attention to. They've got a handful of studios like that now, who can pump out smaller titles. If you count stuff like that, you could probably do it. I personally don't think that's going to turn the tide. I think they need AAA, high-quality exclusives. No way they can put out 4 of those a year. We'll be lucky to get 2 of them, with the other 2 being smaller titles.

Two is almost given if they can get Halo / Gears / Fable on three year cycles in successive years and return to the Forza / Horizon alternating years.