Why Make a New Game When a TV Show Will Sell Your Old Games? - Next-Gen Console Watch 

Halo deserves better

I’m glad games figured it out. Tv Series are WAYYYYY BETTER than movies for video games. Tv series allow it to be more detailed and tell more of the story the movies never did games true justice.

Much rather have the new video game, thanks.

TV Show is an expensive gamble as well, main positive for the devs is that someone else takes up the bulk of the heavy lifting....

They saw what wonders it did for Cyberpunk & Witcher.

Halo really shot itself in the foot with it being an AU story. Imagine if we got something about some insurgents on a planet in the outer colonies just at the start of the covenant war. Where at the start, they're fighting the UNSC for their independence. And here comes a covenant ship that starts glassing the place and it becomes a fight for survival to escape off world. Evading the Kig-Yar scouts, taking out some Ungoyy, an extremely close encounter with some Sangheili that leads to tragic deaths. Maybe even a run in with some UNSC marine or Spartan that has them on edge at first but work together to overcome the alien threat. A whole original story that could canonically take place within the universe of the games, books and comics.

Sorry Ryan, but the halo tv show is not fine.

Yeah, instead of making new and interesting games... Great times....

That's a silly title. Won't stop them from. Making a new fallout games

Don’t forget that there was also the Twisted Metal show on Peacock

Because eventually there will be a limit of how many customers you can sell too until you are forced to make another product.

Halo tv show was 🗑️. Halo deserves better and could be way better it has so much lore and so much potential in the cinematic universe

Ahh yore, those were the days. It’s also probably frustrating for writers who have unique stories they’d love to get in front of people’s eyes when they’re up against shows based on game properties let alone recycled known IPs

The same holds true in Japan when they make anime about a manga, novel, or game.

Very few games actually work as movies. Portal would work, but games like Skyrim wouldn't be done justice without several hours of screentime

Yall forgot to mention "Fort Solis" there making a show out of that game as well!

These guys look like 3 versions of the same person

But they keep updating their 20 years old games with useless patches with the only purpose of breaking as much modlists as possible. I'm missing something in the equation.

You can make a show or a movie about a game series. Just don’t expect the long term fans of that game to enjoy whatever gets pushed out. Fallout is a diamond in the rough for recent adaptions.

The opening title card music is way louder than the rest of the video. Can someone at IGN fix that?

Fallout 4 new update was getting played with or without the show just sayin.

Again, if both PlayStation and Microsoft dont show some actul bangers in the upcoming months, it's going to the worst for games.

The TV show gets viewers curious about the game. The Game is the hook. New game would be the big money maker as most of the people who play the games recently either bought it at a huge discount or have owned it since 2015. So a new game would sell to the new and old fans together for a bigger first month profit.

Take a shot every time Max says "You know". Hardcore mode for every time he says "Errr".

IGN you are the ones promoting Fallout and releasing new videos for the old games … ur causing this “phenomenon” & likely profit from it as well - i’d rather have a new game than a tv show & ign videos

What do you guys think about Zack Snyder's gears of war movie on Netflix?

Hahahaha....the title alone Hey man if its going to be like that than let it be Fallout Fallout was ALL THEME ...very genius from the beginning with open world open choices and KARMA YES we need karma back Completely and totally adds to the feel of the reality of one's choices Big thumbs 👍 to Bethesda .. Keep getting better at what you do

could time shows releases with game releases, or as a hold over to the next release of either

A canonical Gears of war TV series, maybe about a team of onix guards on azura or something like that, and done well as fallout

IGN makes me understand what an "industry plant" is

Hope that games will focus more on gameplay and avoid to be movies like, fallout is not cinematic and that helped the show a lot in bringing something that the game couldn't do, and that's fine because games are not supposed to do what movies do.

As a huge Halo fan since CE, the Halo show is an embarrassment 😭 the 2nd season was slightly better but still not up to par

The Halo show is so insulting.

We def need more games this generation. My series x is a dust collector and I’ve played more bloodborne and dark souls replays on ps5 than much else. Not counting the few exclusives we have gotten. It’s got more use than my xbox for sure. Baldurs Gate 3 has been the only game that really had me putting loads of time into it.

As a 21 year old it's strange thing to say but...i was raised on the OG trio, seeing a mix between new and old in the show was pretty good..i just hope season 2 shows the varying factions from NV like the boomers and khans.

Streamers have had their traffic spike significantly, walk through channels and first playthroughs are popping up everywhere, even veteran fallout streamers are reinvigorating their tips and tricks videos, everyone seems to be benefiting. ❤

So when the hell are we getting that Half Life Alyx port on the PSVR2?

And why improve a buggy and technically messy game when modders can fix it for free...

Because new games bring in new fan and revenue but also fixing glitches and making dlc's is also lucrative❤

thanks for the info IGN

Just give us new games!

Yall keep forgetting the Witcher

not looking forward to extra episodes as DLC

First make the T.V. show then make a new game that is connected to the T.V. show without spoiling the next season of said T.V. Show.

Why do games professionals see legitimacy only through imitating Hollywood?

What Xbox and Bethesda are doing is on point. Sony should take notes 🗒️

Joebert is someone’s name?!

Easy because a game can sell more and the TV series has a really big history no matter what it is it will do to fail but the Mario movie ended up providing that they have potential but after that they went back to sucking

As long as the show is done well 😋

Bad take.

3 similar guys

The games are always disappointing so maybe just make the shows..its an interesting argument .

Todd in 2025 Fallout 4 SPECIAL Edition !

You missed out the witcher !!

The show is based off the game and popular cause of the game ign

NGCW was better when all guests were in person. Time to get out of the house, boys.

So now they want games to coincide with tv and movies. Never happy humans

Christ bless you, poor halo

can Sony's TV shows saved their IPs now?

If one they had cheif's helmet on....

Fallout actually stuck with the core principles of the game. While the producers of halo wanted to appeal to my grandfather and not the people who actually played halo

new halo game > halo tv show

Everything went well, except for Halo😂💔

More money in games.

Because it barely ever works out.

Who voted for the Steamdeck 2.0? Just buy the Steamdeck 1.0, 2.0 isn't coming anytime soon.

Yes for the first time

Dooooooooooom !!! But this time better

Why enjoy culture when you can complain about it instead?

Are you seriously a games site?

343 ruined the halo series and the TV show period

I’m playing fallout 4 right now

Baiting.

Because 343i does a piss poor job at both