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Microsoft is collaborating with FromSoftware again.

Barakov

Member
-Set to release 2 years after Elden Ring
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This one is going to be awhile.
 
It's Reddit so always worth taking with a grain of salt but the OP also listed other games FS have done with MS exclusively and, technically speaking, it's more than they've done for Sony so there is precedent if you want to span back a couple of decades.

The premise sounds really cool ngl; if they could do something even remotely close to BLAME! (even if without the license) I'll be there Day 1. That type of atmosphere, setting, story in a Souls-like framework would be extremely awesome.
 

Varteras

Gold Member
ninja blade released in 2009
I stand corrected. 12 years ago. That's still quite a while ago. Japanese developers are very unlikely to create an exclusive title for a platform that doesn't sell in Japan. Even less likely anymore to do so for a platform that isn't expected to even be close to the market leader this generation and after the performance of the previous one. Add onto that the capital alliance between Sony and Kadokawa and Sony's stock purchase of the company... it's easy to see why people have serious doubts.
 

driqe

Member
I stand corrected. 9 years ago. That's still quite a while ago. Japanese developers are very unlikely to create an exclusive title for a platform that doesn't sell in Japan. Even less likely anymore to do so for a platform that isn't expected to even be close to the market leader this generation and after the performance of the previous one. Add onto that the capital alliance between Sony and Kadokawa and Sony's stock purchase of the company... it's easy to see why people have serious doubts.
How much did the 360 and og Xbox sell compared to PlayStation in Japan?
 

Varteras

Gold Member
How much did the 360 and og Xbox sell compared to PlayStation in Japan?
I said very unlikely. Not that they wouldn't. And since we're talking about it, the 360 actually made significant inroads into the Japanese market early on.
 

Dabaus

Banned
So after fromsofts parent company strikes a deal with Sony for gaming they’re going to make an xbox exclusive that will be dead on arrival in Japan and have probably half to 1/3 the installed base of the ps5 because...why?
 
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Pallas

Member
Sounds nice but I’m not going to believe in a rumor about a game that’s several years away potentially.

Elden Ring being delayed to 2022 is much more believable.
 

Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
Just seems really unlikely to me based on their past work for Xbox all being through external publishers with the notable exception of Ninja Blade. Which was not a success for them.

The reality is that FROM as a company was in a far weaker bargaining position back then, their rise really only started with Dark Souls in 2011.
 

fatmarco

Member
According this thread most people think From started their company with Demon Souls lol.

Isn't it more like 8 xbox exclusives?
 
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I hope this is real solely to see you triggered even more
Wait, you're actually taking stock in a random Reddit account that's barely an hour old and with no source...

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*BTW - thanks for the laughs. Been chuckling non-stop for the last few minutes
 
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driqe

Member
Wait, you're actually taking stock in a random Reddit account that's barely an hour old and with no source...

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*BTW - thanks for the laughs. Been chuckling non-stop for the last few minutes
Or maybe if you should read the thread where I said multiple times that I don't think it's real...
 

Varteras

Gold Member
According this thread most people think From started their company with Demon Souls lol.

Isn't it more like 8 xbox exclusives?
Looking back I think it's 9 between OG Xbox and 360. Last game was almost a decade ago. Some people just choose to be ignorant but for many others it has more to do with whether or not it has happened any time recently and it hasn't. It's not that it can't. Just that it's unlikely and this is coming from a totally random source.
 
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