Obsidian RPG The Outer Worlds Could End Up Becoming an Xbox Exclusive Franchise

Well as long as it's on PC as well, it's not too bad. I mean, to be honest, as an Obsidian game, you'll want your fan patches and mods anyway.

another headline that makes me scratch my head, like....no s***? Altho i dont understand why people keep saying xbox exclusive, there is no such thing anymore.

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@Matroska If it does go exclusive it will probably be a play anywhere title so no doubt PC will be a given.

@SuperJoon its not an IF, every MS first party game will launch on steam day 1, there is no xbox exclusive games.

Well with how pally they are with Nintendo could see the sequel on the switch and they will definitely be on PC. As other post said it's a bit of a pointless post and if it had been the other way round the article but would of been a lot more positive.

@Amppari Not necessarily. When Xbox bought Obsidian we didn't know whether it wanted the developer to make something new. By the looks of this, Microsoft is gonna see how The Outer Worlds turns out and then maybe commit to it as an Xbox franchise.

I thought this was the obvious conclusion?

@ShogunRok That doesnt make any sense, MS owns the IP now so if theres is a sequel, then it obv wont be on PS. Not sure why anyone would think otherwise.

@SaikoWaifu2003 MS owns the studio and the IP now, this is nothing like the Epic situation.

Use your brain.

@Amppari Yeah, key word being "if". Again, when Xbox bought Obsidian, we didn't know what Obsidian would be working on for Xbox. The Outer Worlds was obviously already announced, we didn't know whether Xbox would have the developer do something completely different. That's why the headline isn't necessarily an obvious conclusion.

@ShogunRok it is obvious tho, the headline is dumb.

@Amppari

i suspect a lot of the vagueness is due to the fact that if they outright say it now, it sounds 1) a little presumptious that it's going to be a roaring success, and 2) you might cheese off a section of its largest potential playerbase and then they won't buy it in the first place. personally, i wouldn't bother with a game if i knew for a fact that its sequels would only appear on a different platform.

So double fine games can be multi-platform but obsidian games is exclusive to xbox? I don’t understand the strategy here..

Exclusive, exclusive...maybe with the power of the could...

@wiiware
Only GI said the word exclusive in the question.

If its exclusive I will buy it on xbox. No issues here. The way Microsoft have been purchasing studios I'm getting the xbox 4 and PS5 next gen anyway.

honestly while from a gamer perspective it would suck from XBOX's perspective it's a good idea, see what the game performs like and if it's a success then expand upon it

not only does it mean you have a good series under your belt BUT you also have a game that could possibly help sell systems

Let's be real, Xbox really needs more exclusives. I'm never really a fan of a series going exclusive when it was previously multiplatform, especially if it's a platform I don't own, but a good system needs the right balance of exclusives and multiplatforms, which Xbox doesn't really have right now.

All the Xbox exclusives I've been interested in came out prior to 2016, since then, the well just ran dry from my observation.

we all know that Mr booty 😊.word up son

this only matters if the next fallout is garbage

if they signed with MS that is obvious, not sure how it could be any other way but all their games are on PC as well! so they don't make exclusive games anymore. which is the biggest mistake for the Xbox brand imo.

so the company that is publishing this game do not own the rights then?

God I hope not!

I don't know... One thing is having a lot of exclusives, which they will probably have, seeing how many studios they are buying, but another thing is having GOOD exclusives... I've read a lot of interviews with developers who already work with Microsoft and most of them seem to agree that Microsoft always mucks it up.
The common theme seems to be that developers have no say at all, it's marketing that has the last word on anything. An example that often came up was the launch of the Xbox One... I remember this programmer telling how the final product had nothing to do with what he and his coworkers wanted to do and they were even more disappointed than any gamer out there.
The Outer Worlds will probably be a good game, but its sequels may not, unless Microsoft has learned their lesson... after Windows 8 and the train wreck that was the Xbox One launch, I hope so, for everyone that owns an Xbox or plans to buy one

Become an Xbox owner or miss out on a potentially great sequel?

Obsidian are known for giving us difficult choices but that's the trickiest one yet

@JJ2 @Quintumply I'll watch the interview tomorrow, it seems interesting.

Well is it really a surprise that a studio Microsoft purchased will most likely make games exclusively for Microsoft? The number one complaint that people say about Xbox is lack of quality exclusives, so logically they will bolster that area, and that is where these studio acquisitions come in.

However, as long as they continue to release games same day on PC, their games will still be very accessible. I would much rather pay for a Gamepass subscription than buy a whole console.

I’m currently putting a budget PC together for only $300 or about the cost of a PS4. It’s going to have enough power to play the majority of current titles at around 40-50 FPS on medium settings. That is more than enough for me to ensure I don’t miss out on any exclusives that are worth playing on Xbox or PC.

Quality clickbait

@leucocyte kinda what I’m thinking. Get everyone “hooked” this gen and then announce the sequel only on XBox

Much too vague. For a guy supposedly running the show in terms of games, he should already know what they're going to do. For starters, MS doesn't do exclusives and hasn't since 2015. They have become the biggest 3rd party publisher since then and even Phil Spencer has made it very clear that "he doesn't care how many consoles he sells". They make too much money as a 3rd party. Secondly, if the game does poorly as a multiplatform title, they aren't going to foot the bill for an exclusive sequel... That's absurd to suggest. Therefore the only logical reasoning here is if the game does well, they will green light a sequel for another multiplatform release. Anyone with any intelligence knows it's going to sell 3:1 with PS4 taking the victory. Hell I imagine even the Switch will sell more copies than the XBO version will.

Finally, for anyone having trouble with this discussion, the parameters don't matter. If 1 game releases on more than 1 platform (meaning a different SKU had to be assigned for distribution, not a streaming app), then it is multiplatform regardless of who owns it.

@DerMeister No, Xbox needs to get out of the gaming business. They bring nothing to the table, except buying up companies, corrupting & wasting their talents, and turning them to poo. If you have a PC, Nintendo, and PlayStation, you've got everything you need.

@Amppari Right lol.

@Amppari Minecraft "cough".

@kyleforrester87 None of the devs they bought are big budget and never will be. Can't make money when games are on gamepass day one. M$ will not be putting money into these studios. They are gamepass fodder.

@kyleforrester87 M$ does not care about Xbox anymore. Gamepass and Xcloud is what they are focused on. Games like Outer worlds are indie anyway. They would have to do much better than that but we know how devs get ran into the ground by M$. Rare is proof of that and now they are mediocre. People keep fooling themselves though lol. I tried gamepass on PC man their games suck.

@DanM Lionhead exposed a lot of crap that M$ did as well as forcing them to make Fable Legends. They talked about how they had no freedom and then just suddenly were closed. Yet for some odd reason people don't understand that these facts. Look at the game Ninja Theory is making. They bought a bunch of mediocre indie devs.

@Gremio108 Not at all. Their games have been passable since FONV and I thought NV was not at all a great game. It got boring and had a very rough design. Tried Alpha Protocol on PSNow and it sucked. Don't get the hype for them.

heres a good financial idea...lets not release a game on that platform that has nearly 100 million users ....phew that was close ...nearly made lots of money...

What does Xbox exclusivity even mean now though? What I think it means is that Xbox wants to be able to add it to gamepass day 1. That is what they care about utlimately, selling software as a service, not selling first party exclusive games per se. Any company wants a monthly sub more than a $60 one off.

Probably a timed exclusive if nothing else. Ignoring a 100m unit user base vs a what, ~35m one (M$ don't tell us) is financially stupid. However, don't forget that M$ owns Minecraft and the PS still gets updates, extra features, etc.

Which is probably why I won't be getting it. I really wanted to, but I figure if it ends up as a Microsoft or XBOX exclusive then what's the point of getting invested? Besides, there's a lot of other roleplaying games coming out in the near future (Greedfall, Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2, Cyberpunk 2077) to slake my appetite, so I don't think I'll truly be missing out here. But good luck to them regardless.

@AdamNovice Sorry you believe anything he says. 😆