Moon Studios, the developer behind the Ori games, will focus on PS5 over Xbox for its forthcoming No Rest for the Wicked due to "current market conditions".
I’m confused, has Microsoft lost favor with people? I was under the impression that the PS5 had no exclusives whereas Xbox was bending over backwards to get new storefronts and all these games on gamepass on launch day.
For the record I’m a PC Gamer, the only consoles I play are for Nintendo exclusives. So I am very much out of the loop on the situation.
As far as I know, the PS5 had way more exclusives that the equivalent Xbox console. Sony just started releasing PC versions of many of those exclusives a couple of years after release because they like money, which took away their exclusive status. I see this as a good thing as exclusives aren’t good for anyone other than the console maker.
It’s true that the PS5 has basically no exclusives, but the PS5 also has over double the market share of Xbox. Plus, porting to Xbox is a huge lift since the hardware differences between the Series X and S is like making two ports. It sounds like this studio would rather focus on a single good port to reach as many players as possible before moving to other platforms.
Also, Microsoft definitely has been losing favor recently after mass layoffs (even for studios that have been successful like Virtuos) and multiple game cancellations like Perfect Dark (shuttered the whole studio) and Everwild. Zenimax supposedly had a game in early dev that Phil Spencer could barely put down, but the game was cancelled a few months later.
Some folks are now wondering what the point of them buying up all these studios has been, if they’re just going to cancel their projects years later after giving a thumbs up the whole time. From what I’ve read, it seems like this has been more so Microsoft fucking over Xbox to divert resources towards investing in AI 🤮
A mystery for the ages, why does Microsoft buy so many gaming companies only to not use their IPs.
If I owned Microsoft, I’d go fucking crazy
“We’re putting Sheogorath, Crash Bandicoot, Master Chief, Joanna Dark, and Corvus from Heretic into Heroes of the Storm. New Spyro, New Banjo Kazooie, New Jet Force Gemini, fuck it we own Activision right? When’s the last time there was a Pitfall Harry game? Right now mother fucker! Wash it down with a bottle of Hexen 3! Maybe a new Battletoads that doesn’t suck? Sorry about that reboot, that was a little cringe. But ya know what’s not cringe? A Crash and Spyro crossover game that’s actually a 3D Platformer and isn’t a Skylanders game… But those of you who like Skylanders? Skylanders HD Remasters; toys no longer required! Bowser and DK in the Switch versions”
Or at the very least put the ID Software games Activision owns onto Steam since Activision and ID are owned by the same comapny now (Heretic 2 and Wolfenstein (2009) are in danger of becoming lost media)
Like I never got that, there are ID Software (which is now part of Bethesda) games that aren’t available because Activision owns them, but Bethesda and Activision are owned by the same guy now.
It’s still up in the air for now, but Microsoft has been shifting away from games for a bit now. It’s looking like there may not be a dedicated Xbox console ever again, instead they look to be going down a different path with their recent announcement that “everything is an Xbox”
PS5 has plenty of console exclusives, they’ve just been porting them to PC after awhile which technically makes them no longer “exclusives”, even though the only console you can play them on are PlayStations.
I’m confused, has Microsoft lost favor with people? I was under the impression that the PS5 had no exclusives whereas Xbox was bending over backwards to get new storefronts and all these games on gamepass on launch day.
For the record I’m a PC Gamer, the only consoles I play are for Nintendo exclusives. So I am very much out of the loop on the situation.
The people at the head of moon studios are giant scumbags and get their shit called out by Microsoft.
This is PR damage control for them after Microsoft refused to let them continue being miserable assholes with Xbox money.
https://www.windowscentral.com/ori-developers-describe-moon-studios-oppressive-workplace
As far as I know, the PS5 had way more exclusives that the equivalent Xbox console. Sony just started releasing PC versions of many of those exclusives a couple of years after release because they like money, which took away their exclusive status. I see this as a good thing as exclusives aren’t good for anyone other than the console maker.
It’s true that the PS5 has basically no exclusives, but the PS5 also has over double the market share of Xbox. Plus, porting to Xbox is a huge lift since the hardware differences between the Series X and S is like making two ports. It sounds like this studio would rather focus on a single good port to reach as many players as possible before moving to other platforms.
Also, Microsoft definitely has been losing favor recently after mass layoffs (even for studios that have been successful like Virtuos) and multiple game cancellations like Perfect Dark (shuttered the whole studio) and Everwild. Zenimax supposedly had a game in early dev that Phil Spencer could barely put down, but the game was cancelled a few months later.
Some folks are now wondering what the point of them buying up all these studios has been, if they’re just going to cancel their projects years later after giving a thumbs up the whole time. From what I’ve read, it seems like this has been more so Microsoft fucking over Xbox to divert resources towards investing in AI 🤮
A mystery for the ages, why does Microsoft buy so many gaming companies only to not use their IPs.
If I owned Microsoft, I’d go fucking crazy
“We’re putting Sheogorath, Crash Bandicoot, Master Chief, Joanna Dark, and Corvus from Heretic into Heroes of the Storm. New Spyro, New Banjo Kazooie, New Jet Force Gemini, fuck it we own Activision right? When’s the last time there was a Pitfall Harry game? Right now mother fucker! Wash it down with a bottle of Hexen 3! Maybe a new Battletoads that doesn’t suck? Sorry about that reboot, that was a little cringe. But ya know what’s not cringe? A Crash and Spyro crossover game that’s actually a 3D Platformer and isn’t a Skylanders game… But those of you who like Skylanders? Skylanders HD Remasters; toys no longer required! Bowser and DK in the Switch versions”
Or at the very least put the ID Software games Activision owns onto Steam since Activision and ID are owned by the same comapny now (Heretic 2 and Wolfenstein (2009) are in danger of becoming lost media)
Like I never got that, there are ID Software (which is now part of Bethesda) games that aren’t available because Activision owns them, but Bethesda and Activision are owned by the same guy now.
It’s still up in the air for now, but Microsoft has been shifting away from games for a bit now. It’s looking like there may not be a dedicated Xbox console ever again, instead they look to be going down a different path with their recent announcement that “everything is an Xbox”
PS5 has plenty of console exclusives, they’ve just been porting them to PC after awhile which technically makes them no longer “exclusives”, even though the only console you can play them on are PlayStations.