Bucketload of good news for Xbone

There's been a recent IGN podcast with Phil Spencer and here's the overview:

•Better year for keeping secrets "secret"

•Recore is playable at their offices, he played it the Friday before E3, "feels like a great new first party exclusive"

•Open to ideas from partners for older IPs (Rare mentioned) or newer things (like Recore) and loves working on new IPs (brief mention of decisions around Gears)

•Halo 5 free maps was a 343 decision, wasn't a blanket decision over all MS first party games

•Twisted Pixel will show when ready basically they need the time to make what they want to make, doesn't really commit to Gamescom either, said the same about Inside (from Playdead) too [as a side note, I think he was referring to Inside as a game they have a partnership on and he's asked about a lot, rather than being a first party game]

•Backwards compatibility was something he commissioned the team to do when he took over the head of Xbox job, wasn't sure if it would even work and hit a break through in January. First party are all in with their games, they need to lead the way. Mentions 360 GwG as back compat titles - this is huge

•Doesn't sound like a 3rd Forza franchise is coming "not right now", he said Horizon does "incredibly well" for them, Playground are "top notch". Team might have ideas but they're busy right now

•Asked about the sort of games missing from the line-up that they're looking at and he mentioned Moba-likes (Gigantic, FL, Smite) and F2P MMOs, said Neverwinter is "an incredible success", mentions Everquest by accident

•Referred to Sea of Thieves as "group co-operative gameplay" with the ships, social, co-op rather than an MMO. Mentioned bigger co-op games which they don't have in their line-up but they're starting on , talks about not having "large scale co-op" games which they're starting to work on

•Fable Legends doesn't stop LH doing a more "traditional RPG" Fable game

•Says if his teams have been doing something for a while with a new creative spark and want to go and do something different like Sea of Thieves he wants to be supportive of that

•Xbox 360 is the biggest market base to upgrade and BC/big exclusives are to try and get those people to upgrade, represents the biggest opportunity for people who haven't upgraded yet

•BC doesn't stop them doing remasters (was asked about Halo Reach specifically) but nothing to announce/planned with HR, will likely be BC long before they'd actually get it on Xbox One itself

•Talks about XBLA, likes the idea of Summer of Arcade [they've announced Summer Spotlight so similar thing]

•More Kinect games coming unannounced from 3rd parties etc, making sure they're investing in the technology to make it better, mentions the new dashboard

Taken from GAF.

thoughts?

A lot of updates to the OS too with more to come. It's obvious Phil turned things around.

Are they actually any good games coming out for it or are we still relying on bastardized entries in old franchises and BC? Because I keep trying to convince myself to find a cheap One, I just can't find a reason, especially with 360s being super cheap.

Fans really wanted a Fable Remake honestly not Fable Legends

They wanted a old Rare IP to come back not Sea of Thieves

We don't want kinect games

We don't want to play 360 games in worse framerates, i honestly prefer remaster give me a 5 dollar pc port or remaster over that garbage BC look at steam ppl will buy 5 dollars if the game is runs better than the old 360 version on pc.

Recore not interested at all in it i don't like robot dogs and stuff im not japanese.

Halo 5 im on wait an see approach maps and free dlc doesn't interest neds a 8+ metacritic and strong twitch players telling me how great amazing the game is an playing it 24/7 an i might pickit up after the first week

yeah i mean so no dude im not happy with this stuff im scared microsoft hasn't really delivered on there product and sony has im still playin bloodborne an 1080 multiplats an the community the online cvommunity the great ps+ games i got too much crap to do on my ps4

xbone really needs to pick up the pace those 360 owners probably lookin at witcher 3 an batman ps4 versions an going i wish i could buy those games an might make the jump to ps4 when games like battlefront an stuff come out

phil really needed those multiplat deals to show 360 owners they are the best box to play these games on or there gonna get buried an the 360 owners iwll move on over to ps4

Great news but of course the usual suspects will do their best to poo, poo this great news. Phil really on the ball these days thank goodness.

@Salt_The_Fries: i still don't see any reason to get the X1 anytime soon.

Poo, poo.

/thread.

@Desmonic:

Bruhahahaha. ... :P

@The_Last_Ride: I'm not preaching you to get one, just merely wanting to highlight that their momentum doesn't stop at E3.

Yep everyone wanted that Fable remake, that's ALREADY OUT, and didn't sell that well.

BC framerate issue only effects a small grou-

Why am I even talking to you, you're going to switch sides after this anyway.

Halo 5 is squad based :|

Fable Legends Free to play Online Smite clone :|

Recore :|

Car Racing Sims :|

900p multiplats :|

60 dollar online with bad free games :|

Old indies that play worse than a low end PC and years old :|

Early access to old PC MMO's like neverwinter nights that are crap and old :|

Xbox One Go home #FirePhilSpencer

so "just keep waiting", where is da cloud?

@Blabadon: 4 new AAA IPs next year alone (Scalebound, Quantum Break, ReCore, Sea of Thieves) and 1 reboot of an old IP that might as well count as a new IP altogether (Crackdown). Sounds bad? Tell me, objectively.

@ProtossX: Agreed.

What's more, Spencer wants to make Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon BC and it's absolute priority.

Buckets will save the Xbone(tm)

Phil did a great job turning around the Xbox Brand. I wish he was in charge when Mattrick was destroying the brand. I think the Xbox One would have been in a entirely different situation.

phil was part of the team who created the xbone he was like directly under mattrick and crew giving input during all fiascos or just being a yes men....the xbox needed an gamer from the outside who had nothing to do with mattricks team to get stuff revamped. Phil was directly part of that same team he said so himself that he was partially to blame for the bone.

imo he's not doing nearly enough on the game front or updates on ui/features like i said I don't even turn my xbone on i have a ps4 it does everything better and my pc beats that so like.

@Salt_The_Fries: Just an FYY, a reboot =/= new IP. Otherwise, MS seems to be making all the right moves as far as the actual software goes.

They are however still making the same mistakes in everything else. They need to have a much bigger focus on WW if they want to succeed.

AKA make the damn brand/console relevant in the European and Asian market (Neither UK = Europe, nor Japan = Asia), along with the emerging markets in South America + Middle East. Otherwise, unless its opponents completely crash in the NA market they'll have a very hard time.

That takes a lot more than just software (though that is always a must of course). Proper localization of 1st Party titles and the OS. Local/Continent wide promotions. Actual marketing (no, a random Xbox ad on the back of a gaming magazine/site does not count). Adapt to the various markets (Sony does this well enough, but even they could do a lot more). Make it a global product, not an American focused one basically. Right now they aren't achieving that, but I think their next big shot for it would be whenever an Xbox One Slim gets made. Usually the companies use those moments to change their PR a bit and broaden their appeal and I think that's when MS should make it's move. By then they'll also have enough software to persuade most gamers I think.

It's being rendered with DX12.

All sounds good , but the blurt at the end about Kinect is just stupid.

@Desmonic:Kind hard for Europe to except the Xbox.

When the og Xbox came , no one could play online here.

And when the 360 came , the only way to get Gold was with a credit card /no point card , no nothing/ plus local language suport came in 2012.

And now with the Xbone.................lets just say that 40% to 60% of the console features are usless.

Sounds good to me, but recently I started running into an update that makes my Kinect(lol) randomly turn off, Huge issue in forums.

@Salt_The_Fries: aside from Scalebound, what's good that's exclusive there?

yea, slowly but surely hes mopping up the mountains of feces mattrick left behind.

Free maps for a game featuring microtransactions on top of a £50 price tag.

They care.

Rekt

So all those 4 are AAA but Tomorrow Children,Rime,Until Dawn are not.?

This is why i hate lemmings any new IP on PS4 is bad,any new IP on xbox one is AAA automatically even if you have seen shit of it,like scalebound case which not a single second of gameplay about the game has been shown even that it was unveil over a year in CG form.

You say new IP next year.?

The Tomorrow Children

Until Dawn

Drawn to death

All 3 new IP and all 3 hit hits holiday....

Lets see your usual double standard trying to downplay those ones.

didn't say that either, i just personally don't see a reason to get one except for the Forza games.

Looks good, at this rate my Xbox One investment will pay off in another year or 2, still ahead of Sony's 4-5 year projection.

@ProtossX said:

@The_Last_Ride said:

@Salt_The_Fries: i still don't see any reason to get the X1 anytime soon.

Halo 5 is squad based :|

Fable Legends Free to play Online Smite clone :|

Recore :|

Car Racing Sims :|

900p multiplats :|

60 dollar online with bad free games :|

Old indies that play worse than a low end PC and years old :|

Early access to old PC MMO's like neverwinter nights that are crap and old :|

Xbox One Go home #FirePhilSpencer

Everything so far has not been appealing to me at all. All they showed this year at E3 was Fable, Gears, Halo, Forza and a timed exclusive multiplat

Rustled

the xbox experience is just not a good one

In the end of the day if the console had great games and was fun to play on it I don't give a crap if its weaker than the ps4 or pc

it really has no experience it has no identity

its only a medicore trash system if you have no other system in ur house PERIOD

if you own ps4 if you own a pc hell even a 360 you don't need this shit

they have no made it a good experience at all id rather have wiiU or a wii that thing knows what is is plays nintendo games and has a identity

this thing doesn't its a piece of trash they don't put any money into it the ui looks the same as it did at launch, the controller sucks comprared to 360 the exclusives were all trash or went to pc already

**** this system imo its not fun to play on it period in 2015

Don't they add new features and updates every month? Its pretty frequent. And judging from the interviews he gave when the Xbox One came out I doubt Mattrick was listening to anybody.

I haven't seen new features the UI stil has a crap ton of text metro blocks all over the screen and its still just as laggy as when i first got the system

imagine a windows 8 computer with the blocks you touch on an stuff thats the xbox one ui from laucnh to now they haven't updated anything to it it looks the same.

still laggy achievements and the thing can't do two things at once when a game is running without lagging my PC never lags ever and my ps4 doesn't come anywhere close to this lag

Seems I have a lot to look forward to as a Xbox owner. Even though I have yet to see actual gameplay, I am the most excited over Recore. A game made by the creator of Mega Man and Metroid Prime vets? Sounds promising.

if you thought the fable anniversary sold bad wait till you see how little money fable legends makes!

nobody on PC wants to play it and nobody on consoles wants it either. The End.

You know what sold millions witcher 3 which coulda been a fable styed remake instead of some shit remaster fable anniversary isn't a full blown remake or next gen game like a fable remake that would look like witcher 3 don't u think?

What identity does the PS4 have? What PS4 games really elevate it above the one? one good exclusive (BB) does not make a system great.

ps4 identity is that i can kick back play destiny / multiplats in 1080p on my tv, the controller is great for my headset an is wonderful the lights help me see things at night and find my drinks an stuff

the ps4 identity is kicking watching poewrs watching exclusive sony tv shows watching good stuff on crunhcy roll

the ps4 experience is the superior experience i feel that when im playing im like oh this is sony this is sony you know i love it love the thing man

What are you talking about Bloodborne is a BB? PS4 has most games rated over 70. Let's go through the list of good rated games that Xbox didn't get:

• flower
• Last of Us
• Bloodborne
• Towerfall
• Velocity 2x
• Resogun
• Geometry Wars
• Axiom Verge
• Final Fantasy X
• Transistor
• Helldivers

and there's more. You say all of those don't matter?

That's a load of something, alright. lol

X1 just keeps getting better and better, it's got a bright future ahead, I'm looking forward to Gamescom to see what MS have for us next year, I hope we get more new ips and lots of gameplay from Quantum Break, Crackdown, ReCore, Scalebound and some Halo 5 footage with the MC

Post this crap in the Xbox One forum. Why post under system wars.

Still a weak ass system that will really show how weak it is in the next couple of year. If they were doing so well they would not have lost Black Ops. He can do whatever he wants but you cant correct BAD engineering even with good programming.

That being said. I might eventually purchase one but only when it is where it should be which is under 250.

I'd like to see that rumored Joe Montana football game there as well.

so complete bollocks then, no identity just your BS reasons, if the identity of a console is playing destiny and using the light in the pad to find your drink at night then massive LOLS.

So my point stands only BB is the only worthy game even you listed is worth anything on PS4, the rest you might as well buy a PS3 to play

bro you have a ps4 why are u defending the xbone its bad you should be attacking xbone im so sick of these cows showing mercy to xbone

dude sweep the leg and the kill xbone. Don't sympathize with them i own both of them an xbone is the worst one its microsoft own fault for this the no games and then worse hardware and the weirdass ui for windows phone on it everything bout it man is just awful.

stop trying to like show pity for them and say that sony isn't as good. SONY IS AS good they are doing better they charge less money for better hardware at start and did better things with the games like bloodborne

enough with the defending xbone

No one fucking cares what you think, dude.

So let me get this straight what about the "exclusives" on Xbox One? Gears of War, Halo, etc are all on fucking pc mate... None of those are on any xbox platform or any other consoles than sony's. It seems you have a double standard there mate. You also completely overlooked my argument that PS4 has more games over 70 than X1

@ProtossX:

I dont own either and at the moment there is no point in owning either. Your comment is so sad, they are both abit of plastic FFS, if you really do feel this passionate bout it i think you need to reevaluate your prioritise in life.

If the XBO has no games then neither does the PS4 as the only game you mentioned is BB, one game for nearly 2 years into its life span. 2016 might be the year its worth purchasing a PS4 but untill then there is nothing to tell me otherwise.

Weaker hardware never stopped the PS2, so with your example the xbox and GC were the better console.