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[CyberPanda]

I don't recall MS even showing this during their press conference, and I didn't see it posted. Really strange! Anyway, I thought I would just share.

With the addition of Double Fine, there will be a total of 15 unique, standalone studios that comprise Xbox Game Studios, including our newly-created Age of Empires studio headed by Shannon Loftis and our Publishing group headed by Peter Wyse. We are committing more resources and dedicated leadership to the Age of Empires franchise to ensure that its legacy on PC continues in service of the passionate community of faithful fans.

Double Fine Productions Joins Xbox Game Studios - Xbox Wire

 

[IncognitoPanda]

A strange thing to leave out, indeed.

 

[Silentium]

Hopefully they can capture some of that Ensemble Studios magic. The AOE2: DE trailer from E3 was a good start.

 

[Bernkastel]

What about Relic ?

 

[CyberPanda]

What about Relic ?

I didn't hear anything about them.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Hopefully Microsoft doesn't squander the opportunity to bring AoE back to life.

What about Relic ?

Relic belongs to SEGA now (as a part of their THQ purchases)

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Gamescom 2019 - Microsoft's new Age of Empires arm isn't a developer, firm overseeing other studios working on IP

The newly-announced Age of Empires studio headed up by Shannon Loftis at Microsoft isn't directly making games, but instead is more of a production outfit overseeing other studios' work on the IP...

www.pcgamesinsider.biz

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Age of Empires' head talks the future of its new World's Edge studio, Age of Empires 4, and more

How Microsoft revived Age of Empires, bestowing its once-sidelined strategy icon with a dedicated development studio.

www.windowscentral.com

 

[Dontero]

Well if their goal is to have Age of Empires go to console then they can as well just shut down it already.
The whole point of RTS is to have nice control over your units which consoles can't do which means you either will have to ship effectively broken game or change game for consoles which means game will be shit for PC players.

 

[FranXico]

This is good. I find forming brand new studios much better than buying out third party studios. Should have been announced at XO19.

 

[pr0cs]

The whole point of RTS is to have nice control over your units which consoles

Not true, LOTR :bfme was excellent
It will come down to how much effort they put into controller controls

 

[TLZ]

Well if their goal is to have Age of Empires go to console then they can as well just shut down it already.
The whole point of RTS is to have nice control over your units which consoles can't do which means you either will have to ship effectively broken game or change game for consoles which means game will be shit for PC players.

Why not though? Adding keyboard and mouse support for consoles would solve it easily.

 

[Dontero]

Why not though? Adding keyboard and mouse support for consoles would solve it easily.

Would, but you still didn't solve anything for gamepad users which will be 99% of players.
That is like asking people who want to play racing games to buy wheel.

 

[TLZ]

Would, but you still didn't solve anything for gamepad users which will be 99% of players.
That is like asking people who want to play racing games to buy wheel.

Not really. The wheel costs 100s of dollars, while keyboard and mouse cost almost nothing.

But I know what you're trying to say.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

This is going to suck hard. A formerly hardcore RTS game developed with a dude-bro Big Brother presence hanging over it with one eye on making it all console-friendly. No thanks.

 

[Dontero]

Not really. The wheel costs 100s of dollars, while keyboard and mouse cost almost nothing.

But I know what you're trying to say.

And how are they going to sit on floor with keyboard and mouse with their 50tv ? because that is how usually people play their console games.

Switching controls for completely different input is not an answer and won't ever be. Game needs to play well with default controler if not you shouldn't bother bringing it to system.