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Ubisoft Games for PS4 and Xbox 720 : Product Reviews Net
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Microsoft working on 300,000 player MMO and next Xbox? Job ad hints | ElectricPig.co.uk
Ubisoft Games for PS4 and Xbox 720 : Product Reviews Net
Some rather exciting news for gaming enthusiasts around the world now as it has been revealed that Ubisoft are ALREADY developing games for the PS4 and Xbox 720 consoles.
As reported from TheSixthAxis, the news comes from Ubisoft founder Yves Guillemot who revealed the juicy details himself. When speaking about the companies latest financial report he stated:
10 percent of Ubisofts workforce is working on developing games for the next generation of game systems that will eventually replace [the] Wii, [the] Xbox 360 and Sonys PlayStation 3.
Can you believe he actually said that? You would of thought developing games for the next Xbox console is fair enough, but to reveal that they are already designing for the Playstation 4, its madness.
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Microsoft working on 300,000 player MMO and next Xbox? Job ad hints | ElectricPig.co.uk
A Microsoft job advert appears to hint that the company is working both on the successor to the Xbox 360 and a massively multi-player online game (MMO) thats capable of hosting 300,000 players all at once.
The advert read: Microsoft Games Studios is looking for experienced game developers to work on next generation Xbox platform titles and Windows games. Specifically, Microsoft Game Studios is looking for: an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data. And thats not all, Microsoft is currently building a backend capable of hosting a 300,000player game in real-time with real money on the line (anti-cheating, etc).
Most MMO games use multiple servers to each host a small fraction of the overall players in the game. EVE Online is the only single-server MMO, according to Develop. And while that does have around 300,000 players, only a peak of 50,000 of them have ever been online at once.
While Microsofts Xbox 360 motion-sensing peripheral, widely expected to be unveiled at E3 next week, indicates the company is taking the mainstream casual gamer market seriously, this also looks like its taking the hardcore of online players seriously too. That said, the company still has to roll out any serious MMO for its current generation Xbox 360.
MMOs or sensor bars or both? What direction will the next generation of consoles go in?