On the Game Pass stalls, there are of course new products, but also older games, sometimes from the catalog of the first Xbox of the name. "Old things", dare we say, whose popularity is closely scrutinized by Microsoft, says Phil Spencer.
Guest of the Kinda Funny podcast, the CEO of Xbox confesses that the start of a new opus of Fable (developed by Playground Games) was motivated in light of the popularity of previous opuses on the Game Pass.
Game Pass and second chances
Asked by his hosts about the importance of Game Pass data in decision-making, particularly concerning reboots of known franchises, Phil Spencer drops a peremptory "Absolutely", before engaging on the sometimes life-saving character offered by the service. game by subscription to certain titles which did not enjoy the success they deserved when they were released.
“Look at Prey, which I think was great when it came out, but a lot of people missed it… To see more people playing Prey, or Dishonored, or going back to Fable and seeing them talking about those games , for us as a creative organization, it gives us data to think about things we could take back or move forward with new ideas, new teams. »
Should we understand that if we want a new episode of Banjo-Kazooie, we just have to rush en masse to Nuts and Bolts, the latest opus to date and available on the Game Pass? We imagine that it is a little more complicated than that.
Still, Phil Spencer expresses, still at Kinda Funny, the wish to see one day appear a compilation dedicated to FASA Interactive games (MechWarrior, Crimson Skies, Shadowrun), on the model of what had been done with Rare Replay in 2015.
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