Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Didnt back up what? Xbox store makes up majority of the revenue for the Xbox store. You say that a statement made by an executive can't be verified and then want me to take you seriously?You made a statement about me forgetting something and didn't back it up. You brought an article that cites an ex MS suit having a convo with a youtuber (the accuracy of which said convo can't be verified), seemingly suggesting or implying unlimited warchest budgets (Xbox fanboy's wet dreams) and I simply countered with Matt Booty's famous stream, a current MS exec, and it lines up with the Initiative looking at their staff levels. Just connecting the dots for a reasonable take on the situation. You can add any adjectives you want but that's just you being upset.
Rockstar maybe but definitely not "most AAA games".As for the 500m number, it's what it needs to be as long it makes your line of thinking work - lets not pretend it can be anything else that doesn't. We can talk endlessly about irony or hypocrisy there. The fact is AAA budgets have increased massively, and the context within which the arguments were taking place paint a much higher number than that illusive and efficient $100 million. Which btw I'm not discounting a game here or there (depending on the genre and studio - location being important) can be considered AAA and ship for that price.... but we also know that many AAA games today go well and beyond that number - specially for American devs (like most of Bethesda) - and Naughty Dog's budget isn't an exception to the rule, which is why I brought 343i and Halo Infinite and its reported budgets (and overuns by now). It's about trying to be reasonable.
List of most expensive video games to develop - Wikipedia
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Why This Summer’s Best Movie Was a Video Game
Sony’s The Last of Us Part II heralds a rising tide of cinematic gaming titles.
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And other SIE studios definitely would have lower budget. The ICE team which makes the proprietary engine tech used by most SIE studios is also part of Naughty Dog(in case of MachineGames that is handled by id Software).At least six years in the making, with a crew of thousands and a budget likely in the neighborhood of $100 million, Sony’s The Last of Us Part II could easily be confused with a big-screen action epic.
Horizon Zero Dawn - Wikipedia
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100M is not "illusive and efficient", its an overstatement. A studio in Sweden has to spend way less on budget than a studio in Santa Monica. Bethesda spends 100 million on their games(except Fallout 76) but they also take forever to make them. Also, I have always denied the 500 million figure. As per Frank O'Conor, it always had normal AAA budget.The game had an estimated budget of over €45 million.
Read the thread. 500 million figure has been rebuked by Frankie.
If I was "damage controlling the failures", I won't be telling people to skip Halo 5. I even got permed from the other site for saying Gears of War franchise should be concluded. But I am not defending insecure business takes in every Xbox thread, neither do you have any authority on influencing others what they should consider as "poor decision".You can like Xbox, and as I often say I got nothing wrong with people gaming on the Xbox platform. A subset of hardcore fanboys within the Xbox hardcore however do take their fanboyism to deep depths, damage controlling the failures of MS and its leadership to the point of exhaustion.... not just one poor decision here or there, each and every one - trying to herd speech, even within their own flock. I've my opinions on that type of psyche and I'll let those opinions be known. It's what it's.
You participate in Xbox threads and then call out people for not receiving your takes positively as "hardcore Xbox fanboys".
I dwell on rumours? Maybe this is what too much participation on Next Gen speculation thread does to people. Atleast don't try to project me with your favorite twitter/discord conspiracy gang, I have zero interest in validation from twitter celebrities. I called you a conspiracy theorist for latching on to them as a last ditch effort. This is why you deserve all the LOL's.Also for someone who loves to dwell on rumors of what could be, trying to label someone else as a conspiracy theorist is big time lol. A few more laugh emoji's at my posts will make you less triggered by them - I'm sure of it.
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