Obsidian about to climb to Rockstar & CD Project Red levels. XSX will be gamers system of choice.

Dude, Obsidian is and has been beyond Rockstar's and CD Project's level. Not really sure what you are going on about.

Obsidian:

• KOTOR 2
• Pillars of Eternity
• Pillars of Eternity 2
• Tyranny
• Fallout: New Vegas
• The Outer Worlds
• Neverwinter Nights 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Wasteland 2
• South Park Stick of Truth

CD Project Red:

• The Witcher 2
• The Witcher 3
• Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

Rockstar:

• Manhunt
• Bully
• GTA SA
• GTA VC
• GTA 4
• GTA 5
• RDR 1
• RDR 2
• LA Noire

Rockstar comes close to having the amount of quality titles Obsidian has, but their reliance on a.) the same franchise for about 90% of the time (GTA) and b.) the whole open-world bullshit knocks them down a bit imo.

CD Project has good games in The Witcher series, but...that's about it. Not listing Cyberpunk bc it is not out yet.

Obsidian is the true king out of these three developers, and has been for decades.

Link to your streaming claims because from the last I heard, PSNow was ahead of GP in subscribers, though I very well could be wrong now.

@mrbojangles25: I think some ex Obsidian dev's might have worked on it.

I agree though, can't wait for Wasteland 3 next month

1st of all, you forgot Midnight Club on Rockstar side (Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition was VERY successful). 2nd, GTA:SA, GTAV, RDR, and RDR2 are both critically and commercially above nearly everything if not anything Obsidian had created.

Obsidian is one of the best devs in business. Whatever they are working on has my attention. If MS is funding it then it could be great, provided they don't dictate them.

We already know Obsidian is a beloved developer by hardcore gamers and we already know that Fallout New Vegas is considered the best Fallout game and we already know that The Outer Worlds is a great new franchise.

We also know that Obsidian due to budget constraints has not been able to be a top shelf big budget developer like Rockstar and CD Project Red. This is all about to change and Obsidian is likely going to be sitting at the podium with the big boys now.

The latest scuttle butt is that Obsidian is working on a huge new big budget fantasy RPG in the vein of games like Skyrim. Bethesda has clearly got to be a little concerned now. Everyone already knows that Obsidian >>> Bethesda but never had the budget to over take them. That has all changed MS is making it rain at Obsidian and clearly MS has big plans for Obsidian.

MS knows that if Obsidian can produce a game in the vein of a game like Skyrim that it can be a huge mega hit and shift huge amounts of market share. It's looking like this is exactly the plan. This isn't going to be a budget constrained game like The Outer Worlds. The word on the street is that Obsidian has hundreds of developers working on a new fantasy RPG mega project in the vein of a game like Skyrim. MS is pumping the money into Obsidian now to make them a MEGA developer and to sit tall with the big boys.

With Obsidian's pedigree, and with MS $$$, and Obsidian going after the Skyrim thrown this is bad news for Bethesda and Sony.

Lets be honest here if Obsidian is making a huge big budget game in the vein of a Skyrim type game with a HUGE budget and hundreds of developers I think it's safe to say that the XSX and the XSS will sell like hotcakes because gamers will want this game.

Is the XSX & XSS now a must own system, and is MS poised to take back huge chunks of market share, and the XSX be the system of choice for games this gen? Sony fanboys have to be concerned and keeping an eye on this developing story, and they must be worried that they no longer have Obsidian on PS systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOa6xjnSYjo go to 6:44

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Sony has not got many first party studios. Bloodborne and Order 1886 are games made by third party devs. MS will outpace them next year easily with owned studios. Sony studios will have nothing major for 4 years. That's why the only game Sony AAA had to show was Horizon Zero Dawn,

Actually, GP is way ahead in subs due to the fact MS gives it away like candy introducing it for a dollar. PSNow is likely ahead in revenue as they're not so desperate for headlines to pull a stunt like this. Xbox's overall revenue is STILL down despite boasting all these subs.

Now I KNOW you're lying. PSN alone makes more than all of Xbox's gaming revenue combined. Playstation pulled in almost 19 billion in revenue last year. PSN made over 12 billion alone, WITH operating profit. While Xbox made 10 billion total.

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/02/04/sony-psn-revenue-2019-subscription-digital/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2020/01/29/xbox-revenue-is-down-21-but-microsoft-has-a-reason/#2e9a00e515fd

No, I'm sorry bud, but I own YOU forever.

You own nothing MS gaming division as a whole has made MS billions and most years made big profits. This past year it's been down but that's the case for most being the new consoles are coming out this year so consumers are spending less and waiting for next gen.

https://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/microsoft-gaming-division-made-115-billion-in-2018-33451125/

It hasn't made any damn profit, or else they would have reported it. There's no operating income coming out of there. Also, what are you trying to prove here? I just posted 2019's numbers while you're posting 2018's. Shit, the Playstation division did 21 bil that year. Xbox ain't got shit for Playstation on that front. They spent more money than they make trying to chase Sony's tail.

MS has to buy people's love while Sony gets it through talent.

It hasn't made any damn profit, or else they would have reported it. There's no operating income coming out of there. Also, what are you trying to prove here? I just posted 2019's numbers while you're posting 2018's. Shit, the Playstation division did 21 bil that year. Xbox ain't got shit for Playstation on that front. They spent more money than they make trying to chase Sony's tail.

MS has to buy people's love while Sony gets it through talent.

He fails to realize that, that terrible PSNow service has been out for several years more.

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Sony has not got many first party studios. Bloodborne and Order 1886 are games made by third party devs. MS will outpace them next year easily with owned studios. Sony studios will have nothing major for 4 years. That's why the only game Sony AAA had to show was Horizon Zero Dawn,

No one knows Obsidian is better than Bethesda... mainly because they aren't.. lol

Bethesda has some things to prove because Fallout 4 was only ok and 76 was well don't even need to go there we already know.

Like who wouldn't want Obsidian to take over the Fallout games again? I think we all would be ok with that.

@Pedro: “ He is not anymore annoying than non alts. 🤷‍♂️”

Of course not Pedro. He’s a lemming just like you

And a ;lot of the PS profit comes from their hardware sales also. We already know that Sony sells a shit ton of systems. We also know that if not for the PS division Sony would of already gone belly up Bankrupt because the rest of Sony is mostly in the toilet.

Now I KNOW you're lying. PSN alone makes more than all of Xbox's gaming revenue combined. Playstation pulled in almost 19 billion in revenue last year. PSN made over 12 billion alone, WITH operating profit. While Xbox made 10 billion total.

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/02/04/sony-psn-revenue-2019-subscription-digital/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2020/01/29/xbox-revenue-is-down-21-but-microsoft-has-a-reason/#2e9a00e515fd

No, I'm sorry bud, but I own YOU forever.

Thanks for the data. Interesting figure. Wish Xbox would do much better next round.

I think you're right, they have almost everything else setup, hardware and other strategies. Really need to invest and luck out on new first party efforts.