Xbox Rumors and Speculation

So not a rumor or insider info....but if you've caught on to Xbox by now, you know they release bad news late in the week. If it's something they have flexibility announcing, the usually have something really positive lined up shortly after. Expect some good news soon. Their dance steps are predictable now.
Hmmm 🤔🧐💭

 



What you need to know​

  • Contents of an internal NVIDIA database surfaced online on Sept. 13, including references to various upcoming projects from third-party video game publishers.
  • Gears 6 and other forthcoming projects from Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios are among those named, including a project dubbed Oxide.
  • Oxide refers to an upcoming strategy/simulation game published by Xbox Game Studios, internally named "Project Indus," according to sources familiar with the matter.
 
I need a good month to crawl out of my gamepass backlog hole. 1 month of no work, kids or responsibility. Damn I miss my youth.
 
  • Game Pass grants a discount for all DLC of games on the service at 10% off. Games themselves are discounted at 10% once they have been on the service for 3 months and 20% if the game has been on the service for 9 months or is leaving soon.

This is a good deal
 
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This isn't really news. Nadella went on record multiple times to say they're looking to buy more. Deals take time. Until something is ready to be announced, it's the same as it's been since late last year. They're looking at big gaming companies with big IP. With it being nearly a year of talking to everyone, makes sense that something could break soon.
 
This isn't really news. Nadella went on record multiple times to say they're looking to buy more. Deals take time. Until something is ready to be announced, it's the same as it's been since late last year. They're looking at big gaming companies with big IP. With it being nearly a year of talking to everyone, makes sense that something could break soon.
I know the buying part, I want to know who though.
 
I don't think buying the WB studios will include rights to the DC ip.

Probably would have to be a separate deal.
Nether realms would be a small win, I don’t see wb entrusting their ip to anyone else for fighting games. They would probably make a really killer Killer Instinct directors cut :D

who else does wb own, as a game dev?
 
Nether realms would be a small win, I don’t see wb entrusting their ip to anyone else for fighting games. They would probably make a really killer Killer Instinct directors cut :D

who else does wb own, as a game dev?
From wiki:

Studios[edit]​

 
From wiki:

Studios[edit]​

Woah, that’s a lot more than I expected….
 
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The only issue with getting those WB studios is both DC games are coming out within the year. So you are what 4-5 years from getting an exclusive IP out of arguably your 2 best studios. However if you can obtain IP for all those games then you can have that entire backlog on game pass and everything in the future becomes exclusive. Which in turn makes not having those 2 DC games exclusive not so bad.
 
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WB has always been the most logical. I don't think Warren was hinting he knew anything. Just playing along. There's no secret that Microsoft and ATT keep talking. If a deal was done, it would be announced within a day. Two public companies couldn't hold a multi-billion dollar agreement a secret for weeks for legal reasons. Different than when Microsoft had an LOI with Ninja Theory and could keep it hidden. Ninja Theory was a private company with a small price tag. Last year they didn't get anything done due to issues with IP. Microsoft needs to guarantee rights to IP to make sure it doesn't have to come out of Game Pass down the road (see Forza Motorsport as a recent example). If they took over WB, they want to know that Gotham Knights, Hogwarts, Lego Star Wars....these games could release Day 1 on Game Pass and stay there forever. Going forward, my bet is they want exclusive rights to the Batman IP and full control of MK.

Outside of licensing complications, this is a deal that makes sense for both sides. ATT is in debt and wants to streamline its business focus. Discovery isn't all in on gaming as evidence that they've put a few of the studios, including NR and TT games, up for sale. There's uncertainty hanging over WB studios that have been pulled in multiple directions. Rocksteady will be nearly a decade between games after starting off as a decently efficient studio due to having the rug pulled out from under them with canceled projects and this pivot from upper management for their studios to start nudging away from single-player, one and done games towards GAAS. They've been public about that.

Meanwhile, WB fills a lot of holes for Microsoft. Say what you want about TT Games being one-note with only Lego games but they've shown they're efficient, have decent writing, art, and technical skills for what they're trying to accomplish. I could see a studio like that doing a good job with a license like Banjo. Avalanche is versatile. They've also made kids games and recently shown technical chops with Hogwarts. Mortal Kombat puts Xbox back on the map with fighting games while keeping them from getting shut out of the genre (and Sony is very close to doing that to them). WB has 3 studios capable of 3rd person, narrative-driven, action-adventure games. Monolith had a nice history of versatility with Condemned, FEAR, and Shadow of Mordor. They also have technical expertise in terms of innovating AI. If they can get exclusive videogame rights to Batman, solves that mainstream pop-culture face they lack.

Of all the rumors, WB is the one who really needs to be bought by someone else for the good of their studios. Could be a win-win for everyone...with the exception of some console warriors.
 
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