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I don't get it
>tango made the only xbox game received positvely in years
>shut down
That's fricked up.
Guess that Mikami saw the writing on the wall and gtfoed last year.
Wasn't his successor the gaijin that directed Hi-Fi Rush? I wonder if that was on purpose.
The unfortunate thing is that Mikami said he left specifically because he thought the studio was safe under Microsoft now.
Ouch
which one?
This might be a bad time to mention but Redfall is actually in a humble bundle right now.
Take Two is doing layoffs even though they just doubled their execs pay last year and they could easily weather the storm until GTA6 drops. It's not really about making some money but making the most money.
>Take Two is doing layoffs even though they just doubled their execs pay last year and they could easily weather the storm until GTA6 drops. It's not really about making some money but making the most money.
Makes sense, Spencer can't stand the idea of having a good game to his name.
Good
Total Xbox Death
Total Snoy Death
>The only good xbox game
But Ganker told me xbox made a ton of good games... this was really the only good one...?
There are lots of good xbox games yes. But this was the only one journalists couldn't fabricate a narative around and bomb it hard with negative scores thanks to everyone getting to pla yit before them.
XBOX MARKERTERS ONLINE: RentPass and uhhhhhh.
stop acquiring companies. Frick you all shills cheering on Microsoft spending sprees in hostile takeovers.
We need chemo before the cancer will be gone. It will be painful. But good game developers will survive and even be pushed to start their own indie studios and they'll make spiritual successors. But israelites like micro$haft and $n0y need to die.
Wow.
>Redfall’s previous update will be its last as we end all development on the game. The game and its servers will remain online for players to enjoy and we will provide make-good offers to players who purchased the Hero DLC
KEK. $100 game btw
>Tango Gameworks will also close
fricking morons. imagine dissolving talent like that just because they didnt sell 10million copies. meanwhile 60 billion dollars are wasted on acquiring ABK
tango was gutted before hi-fi rush even released, was just a swan song, no chance they were putting out anything worthwhile again anyway.
>make-good offers
I'm curious, what could they actually offer players in compensation?
>In an email obtained by IGN, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty said that the decision comes due to the “reprioritization of titles and resources” at Microsoft.
>“Today I’m sharing changes we are making to our Bethesda and ZeniMax teams,” he said in the email. “These changes are grounded in prioritizing high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games and beloved worlds which you have nurtured over many decades.
>“To double down on these franchises and invest to build new ones requires us to look across the business to identify the opportunities that are best positioned for success. This reprioritization of titles and resources means a few teams will be realigned to others and that some of our colleagues will be leaving us.”
So, they're attempt to make successful new IPs failed and they have to put ALL of their chips on Elder Scrolls to be a success. Right after Bethesda burned an enormous amount of customer good will with Starfield. This is going to get worse before it gets better.
>Starfield
>Blockbuster
Oh sweetie no.
Even most of the key people at Bethesda who made Elder Scrolls a success has left, I don't know how they will manage it.
The plan is literally
>Make Skyrim 2
Hell there's not even a lot of Skyrim devs left at Bethesda though.
>Microsoft comes out and say they want to push out the next Fallout sooner.
>Matt Booty now is choosing to close studios to reallocate recourses.
This is Fallout's fault. Isn't it?
Probably.
Yeah, someone in a decision making position saw the Fallout tv show do well with audiences and decided that's the direction they need to go in. Now I'm not against doing something with a company you paid $65 billion to acquire, I just don't think it'll be any good.
Rushing vidya always ends up like shit.
And it shouldn't be doing well; the Fallout TV show is ultra-moronic-
Ach, it's just like F3, 4, & 76, god damn it.
I mean Fallout 4 is almost 10 years old now. They should have been trying to make another Fallout way sooner than this. It amazes me that games companies can be so fricking large and not ever make any god damn good games anymore.
2002-2012
Morrowind
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Skyrim
2014 - 2024
Fallout 4
Elder Scrolls Online
Fallout 76
Starslop
Yeah, we should have had a new one. Looks like Microsoft wasn't happy about the outcome of Starfield. Sucks for Todd, but no one liked that shit.
Obisidian is literally part of the same company and im damn sure the only reason they arnt working on a new Fallout is because of Todds and Emil's endless seethe
But unlike before, Todd wouldn't call that shot anymore. If the higher ups wanted it to happen, it would happen.
At the same time though, how many people who made NV are still at Obsidian? The people making the game matters a lot more than the name of the developer on the box. These ridiculously long game production cycles robbed us of some great games.
Josh Sawyer's still there and 'seemingly' doing alright with Pentiment's warm reception.
Are Obsidian still making that "not a TES game" set in the PoE universe?
Avowed, yes. It looks like a bucket full of cold vomit.
>At the same time though, how many people who made NV are still at Obsidian?
Out of the principles, almost none. It might just be Sawyer at this point.
I'm starting to think the NV dev team was one of those, once in a lifetime dream teams, kind of like what happened with Chrono Trigger.
>At the same time though, how many people who made NV are still at Obsidian?
thats irrelevant
Tim Cain, Brian Fargo and Josh Sawyer all work for fricking Microsoft right now, that is the dream team to head a new Fallout game (sans Avallone but thats debetable)
The original creators are all there to create the perfect Fallout yet Microshit cant fricking see it
They would be hamstrung by Todd and Bethesda's meddling. I just don't see anything positive coming of it. I wish it would, but the recent track record of all parties involved makes it seem improbable.
Todd really is a vindictive little toad
Cain and Saywer have gone full twitter leftists since New Vegas came out man. I don't think you really want to see something they would put out if they worked together again.
Like just look at Outer Worlds, and realize how worse things have gotten since 2019.
It would be "Orange Man Bad" : The game
They need some fresh blood. Just let the japs they just fired make it. They would make something kino like how Vanquish was the japanese take on Gears of War.
i dont really care about whatever leftist dogwhistle they put in the game, all i know is that atleast ill be able to kill it unlike a Bethesda game where they make it immortal
I never played Outer Worlds, could you kill everyone in that game as well? Even the "asexual lesbian" that was clearly some fat female writer's self-insert?
Yeah the only unkillable character was the AI controlling your ship
Well, I can actually respect them for sticking to their guns on that front.
Obsidian today isn't the same staff that made New Vegas. That game released over a decade ago. Expecting the same people (who are no longer there) to deliver the same quality 14+ years later is just stupid.
No point arguing with the homosexuals who think Obsidian are good. Its like saying Turtle Rock are good because 1 of the devs was part of Left 4 Dead's development.
>Fallout New Vegas
>Elder Scrolls Online
Not in house. Obsidian and some Zenimax studio respectively.
I meant more games in their mainline franchises. If I didn't include them then 2014-2024 would just have Fallout 4 and maybe 76.
Who in their right mind thinks that the target audiences of both tv shows are the same as videogames?
I hate Fallout so much bros
to be fair with a name like matt booty what did you expect
It's a smart move. Bethesda Game Studios is clearly not good enough to make a hit title after the past decade of stagnation its gone through, it's going to take major restructuring for even an IP as big as Fallout or TES to put out something people will actually come out in droves for after a decade of nothing but Starfield sank their reputation.
The only real major loss is Tango but the team had already been chewed up since Hi-Fi Rush released.
>Be a smaller team under a gigantic umbrella corporation.
>Successful for what you are. You're still a net gain for them.
>A much larger team fricks up and loses money multiple times your value.
>YOU get shutdown instead because even a semi-success from the much larger team is considered potentially worth more than your entire existence.
Holy goddamn FRICK!
Always stay independent if possible. The stockmarket is a tool of the antichrist.
This is going to be a truly legendary catastrophe for Bethesda and MS, isn’t it?
>Matt Booty
good now Arkane can go back to making good games
They made Prey
Arkane austin making redfall was bethesda’s fault. They were forced to make it by bethesda due to their Fallout 76 mentality.
Join the ack never stops.
based Phil crashing the Xbox plane after 20 years of subterfuge
>Tango FINALLY makes a good game
>Shuts down
>Microsoft: Hey Bethesda hey buddy we see you are working on your little elder scrolls 6 game ey?
>Bethesda: yeah we are gonna release it in a few more yea-
>Microsoft: CHANGE OF PLANS Black person UR GONNA HAVE TO RELEASE IT FINISHED OR NOT WE NEED MONEY LOL
To be fair, a company that makes games should, you know, make games.
Yeah poor bethesda, now they can't finish their magnum opus because of microsoft
Never mind that every single one of their games is a buggy mess on release and beyond, and that they had a decade since skyrim to make a sequel
There is no fricking way starfield ended up the way it did because of MS when it was supposedly in development years before the purchase.
Yeah, it followed the trend of Bethesda games getting shittier every release. It was going to be shit no matter what.
Still makes no fricking sense they waited a decade to make a sequel to their most known game for Starfield. Honestly happy Starfield happened woke up enough normalgays now Microsoft probably doesn't want another blunder
Bethesda fell for the skyrim meme of "it's better with mods!" and released a game ripe for modding in additional content but failed to consider that nobody wants to mod a boring game.
With bethesdas track record of their dev team said
>we need more time and infinite resources to shit out another bad product
I’d start letting heads roll that day as well
Oh no, now TES6 is gonna be bloated and buggy as frick
>Oh no, now TES6 is gonna be bloated and buggy as frick
no, now it's going to be good and polished... FRICK!!!!
>now
That's the joke, yes
It's funny because he's pointing to a israelite hidden behind a israelite.
To be fair, Bethesda seems to be incapable of releasing finished games anyway
If you still have hope for ESVI you're a fricking moron
todd wanted to release saarfield months before the microsoft demanded delay,
to add by the game's credits it's practically made entirely by pajeets and chinks
Why would they close down tango when it's probably the only AA studio/ game that made them profit
It probably didn't, it was just well received by people. But no one actually bought it, mainly because it was priced too high.
>Why would they close down tango when it's probably the only AA studio/ game that made them profit
Hi-Fi Rush flopped. Not even the PS5 could save it.
>Not even PS5 could save it
Well yeah that's obvious because sonybros don't buy or play games
Demon souls' only sold a total of like 1million(HiFi rush sold more than that)
happy to be one of the thousand or so people that bought HFR on PS5, i guess.
that being said, i'm glad i didn't give MS any of my money for any of these other games if this is the way they treat their devs.
>Buy Bethesda
>Make them produce more shitty games
>Strip their funding when they fail
I wonder how Todd is feeling about this
Todd doesn't lead these studios. His studio is completely unaffected by the layoffs
The games were in development before the purchase. Refill was going to be a shit game no matter what
Those trash games were on Todd, not Microsoft.
>it's real
>Hi-Fi Rush 2 never ever
FRICK
Arkane Austin deserved it, Alpha Dog is a mobile studio.
Shutting down Tango after Hi-fi rush is fricking baffling though, Xbox is insane.
Their leadership is absolutely moronic. They bought all of those developers and still have no games. Starslop was supposed to be their big title and turned out to be
*shit
how many studios will they kill at this point?
if they could, all of them M$ is pure cancer with their woke shit and how they treat their developers.
Tango is a tragedy, none of the other closures mentioned had anything of value. Arkane Austin should have been shut down even sooner imo.
but sony shills told me they buy games. why didn't they support hifi rush after they celebrated it being ported? i solely blame playstation gamers for this because they constantly told me they support games when xbox players don't. evidently not and they're just as poor.
Sony: "Wow we sure did frick up this week"
MS: "Hold my organic kombucha"
This kek fricking crazy
These companies have a serious problem with quality control and management, because holy shit. No amount of money can save Xbox ever.
>angry shitposters crying like homosexuals for 2 days
>fricking up
literally on par with homosexuals from reddit crying about trump literally nothing happened homosexual
>buys half the studios just to close them
Based Microsoft crashing the western game industry with no survivors
>Xbox finally has a fantastic game
>They straight up say that they're more than happy with the sales after some false report earlier about it flopping
>Kill studio anyways
god dammit
They weren't happy with sales, they HAD to say they were happy with them after it leaked. What choice did they have?
>Game was released Day 1 on Gamepass
>b***h about sales anyways
You cannot have a game Day 1 on gamepass and also expect good sales number. The whole fricking point I thought of Day 1 gamepass stuff was to make people sub to gamepass.
Well, the game flopped in their eyes and it leaked that it flopped. So they lied and said they were happy with the sales to correct the bad pr.
But gamepass doesn't eat into game sales......
are you THAT moronic to believe in companies numbers and whatever?
Interest rates are 6% goy please understand, Ismael at the central bank needs another yacht.
>false reports
You thought they were gonna come out and say it flopped? Fricking moron
I hope they fire Todd next
cope
rip tango
the evil within (first one) is still in my top 10 games of all time idgaf
There's evil outside
why
it's an amazing game. 2 is good too
is the steam version fixed?
hifi rush sucks too, sorry
So it is safe to ssay that snyoggers didn't buy hifi rush either lol.
>buy company
>run them into the ground
GREAT JOB PHIL, GREAT FRICKING JOB
>BUT HE PLAYS HECKING 76' BROS!!! HE'S A GAMER LIKE US!!!!!
>make a good game
>close the studio
>WE DON’T MAKE MONEY BY MAKING GOOD GAMES GUYS BUY GOYPASS SUBSCRIPTIONS
what the frick is phil doing
I swear he's like an undercover CIA agent assigned to destroy the gaming industry.
I can understand blowing Arkane, it seems the studio was crumbling before the purchase but why Tango. There is just no defending this shit, Phil is a fricking hack.
He needs to be fired for the good of everything but no one has the balls to do it.
This isn't the real Arkane, it's the one that made Redflop.
I don't think Phil has any control over Xbox anymore, this has been clear for a while.
He failed and now his overlords are steering the boat.
Why don't they just fire him? He's been a fricking disaster
Yeah it's Sarah Bond's turn, she's the one in charge now.
Mikami is cursed
Hi-Fi Rush might've been not THAT profitable but the reputation it has at least brought back some goodwill to Xbox's brand which can go a long way on carrying their reputation for customers. Pretty baffling of them to just trash Tango like that, but then again I'm not some CEO calling the shot so what do I know.
So Xbox killing studio meme was real?
>“h-hifi rush didn‘t flop..“
Told you homosexuals
I'd blame Gamepass for that. All that bragging about 3 million players is meaningless.
Watch them close Ninja Theory after they release Hellblade 2 this month.
Microsoft is fricked.
Phil says all business decisions are made with the long-term health of Xbox and the community in mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlD9SO3rKU&t
I want to beat Phils head in.
Phil is such a fricking snake holy shit.
>Tango
kek, as moronic as Sony, shitting on the only thing they have that manages to produce something people actually like.
>Arkane.
Feel like I was the one to jinx this, I made a joke the other day about how Xbox's Blade would come out before Marvel's film.
>Tango.
Only real loss here. They made good shit.
Tango has absolutely fricking not. Trash devs.
>the developer of REDFALL is closed
>the dark age of gaming
sounds like the dark age of gaming is coming to an end if anything.
but it is strange that hi fi rush devs are getting fired, wasn't that game at least critically acclaimed? should keep the people who are actually good at creating games. not at Microsoft though. Microsoft hates developers who know what they're doing, they'd rather hire a rotating roster of pajeets and women for 1.5 years at a time and pray that this somehow results in a shippable product over a dev cycle of fricking 5-7 years. what could go wrong? lmao
Microsoft cannot make games any more.
>that hi fi rush devs are getting fired, wasn't that game at least critically acclaimed?
Single player games don't have any place in stock market economy now.
Entire company's portfolio of critically acclaimed single player games is MAYBE at least 10th of yearly earning of average gachashit or popular microtransaction game, because the gamblinng morons just kicked gamers out of the economy.
If your company is on the stock market you either have to:
>be the greediest frick in the pond,
>follow DEI/ESG, bankrupt the company and gather ESG loans as earnings,
otherwise you'll get a lawsuit so damning your only ways out are:
>rope
>becoming a warlord in apefrica or other low-profile life in turdworld
We've been in one for over a decade already tho?
>dark age
>shit studios making garbage shutting down
homie we've been IN a dark age, this is the light peeking through
SIR IS NOT TRUE DO NOT REDEEEM
>kill Tango after they've finally made a good game
You know what just cull the entire Xbox division
Kill Bethesda
Kill 343
Kill Obsidian
Kill Activision-Blizzard
Kill Microsoft Game Studio
The Xbox experiment is over, everyone go home
Holy fricking shit
>captcha:AWHY
>They were allowed to buy most of the industry
>Do nothing with it and don't give them permission to do anything
>Studios collapse
>Now they're sitting on a Disney vault of IPs (That will never get vidya because microsoft are moronic and incompetent
Copyright law is moronic
>we will never see these characters again
🙁
It's almost funny that the final scene of a tango game most people will see, is queer-baiting.
>Black person troony pozz squad
good riddance
>they give the IP to some western studio that completely ruins them
>shut down their only one japanese studio after Hifi rush released
big brain
>Shut down the only studio that made them a good game in decades
>343i still exists
Insanity
Microsoft doing what it does to everything. I hope you're happy Ganker.
Does it seem like we're fricking happy?
>343 is still alive
>turn10 is still alive
It's truly incredible. 10 years of running the Halo franchise into the ground.
Shows how strong it once was that it took so much effort to kill it.
People like to bring up how Halo fell out of relevance, and that is true, but I still see people discuss Halo. I still see them play Infinite and MCC, or just reminisce about the older games and the world of Halo.
You know what you DON’T see people talk about, at all? Gears of War
>I still see them play Infinite and MCC
Almost exclusively in the Xbox ecosystem, and that's not a large number, that's a small number, the opposite of large.
One of my friends will still go on an hour long ramble about Gears if I'm not careful. It's so bizarre to me that both of xbox's bro shooters have a frickton of books and stuff required to understand the deep lore
Good. Vidya is way too bloated.
So this is gotta be a high up Microsoft choice, right? No way they'd just kill Tango after porting their game to PS5 and planning to port it to Switch
https://twitter.com/TangoGameworks/status/1787837929332601189?t=K6GuvGIzmttTmKaoIGTSIQ&s=19
Great, now we'll never get a conclusion to The Evil Within.
So... what's next for Mikami's protege?
>shovelware studios get shut down
'>this is somehow bad
oops. Small correction on my part. I meant, Fanatical bundle is where you can get Redfall at. My mistake there. That's if you want it. Also, expect Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League to appear in a humble bundle or fanatical bundle as well.
why is everyone but nintendo making crazy gaming decisions lately?
Because the videogame industry is collapsing
Microsoft is making a good decision though. Killing off and gutting studios that put out shit.
>Pay billions for studios
>kill them off without getting a single good game out of them
How exactly is that good decision making again?
they didn't pay for the studios, they paid for names like elder scrolls.
microsoft did not care whatsoever about "tango gameworks". japanese can't make good products anymore.
Are you seriously implying microsoft paid for tango and arcane studio? That was just luggage that came with what they wanted.
>>kill them off without getting a single good game out of them
they got one
>tranime
Lol
Lmao even
Hi-Fi rush is heavily westernized.
Actual weebs don't care about it.
I can't recall any troony shit in Hi-Fi Rush but yeah, go ahead. Why do you homosexuals insist on shitting on something you clearly haven't played?
KEK
Its not good for MS unless it sells 10 million
They got what they wanted, now they're killing off the shit parts they didn't want after giving them a few chances. You think they would've bought Blizz had they not come with with package of Activision and King?
Nintendo managed to keep their budgets and staffing under control for the most part. Everyone else essentially went full moron between budgets for games and staffing for developing games.
>Let the two major platform hosts engage in a moronic IP grabbing arms race
>Get fricked by The Knowledge Problem of economics like all centrally planned systems
>Collapse
Microsoft and Sony fell for the AAAAAAA budget game and buying studios meme.
Nintendo just makes their own shit and poaches individual talent instead of blowing a bunch of money on entire studios.
KYS. No one need your mindless worthless purile fan boy brand shit, the japanese yen is collapsing and nintendo stock has done nothing but fall since February
homie please this news is on par with Nintendo deciding to NOT buy Alpha Dream because they are hacks a decade behind current tech and all their games bomb in sales.
but nintendo already has multiple people from alpha dream still working for them.
Money and thinking "if we throw enough money at this game we will make hundred times that."
Nintendo is the only one of the 3 console manufacturers that sells units at a profit
they don't go around snatching up companies and instead prefer to just have good relations with them
they don't spend hundreds of millions on a single game that doesn't make back its budget
Nintendo can simply just keep doing the same shit they have been and be just fine
It still blows my fricking mind that Spider-Man 2 had a budget of over 200 MILLION.
And it's like where did it even go? It didn't even look that much better then the first one! AND THEY ALREADY HAD MOST OF THE MAP
yeah I don't understand it either
like, you can look at some indie games made by tiny teams that genuinely look and play better than this AAA slop, and they probably cost frick all to make
actually, it's probably mostly marketing and management
With Spider-Man it was probably just the licensing more then anything. Marvel went full moron with how much they charge to acquire licences for their characters ever since the MCU blew up, and even though the MCU is burning out, they aren't budging.
Which is why you should basically never expect another Marvel vs. Capcom game ever again.
>Nintendo can simply just keep doing the same shit they have been and be just fine
Funny that Nintendo keeps doing so well because of the revolutionary tactic of just making video games.
Don't know why Sony and Microsoft keep trying to copy each other when the recipe for success has been seen for decades now.
More like pedos buying multiple copies
Big publishers are a fricking meme, they are spending obscene amounts of dough on shitty open world hyper realistic games and destroying themselves from the inside out with shitty devs and incompetent personal, they all deserve to implode
What Sony and Microsoft began the trend with the 360/PS3 era isn't profitable. Consoles are becoming less profitable while services and subscriptions are. These ultimately hurt developers who gets more money directly from PC instead of devaluing their content, and because of this console game makers including first party has been going to PC in droves to make money outside of services. This is already in an industry where it's very easy to have a bomb.
PChomosexuals don't buy games cope
How exactly does Valve stay in business then?
Valve is pirating money
>why is everyone but nintendo making crazy gaming decisions lately?
Because the video game industry hasn't been growing since after the covid boost (there's a limited amount of people with a limited amount of money on planet earth, for those that don't know!)
Investors demand LINE GO UP so companies are now going full moron burning every bridge possible trying to squeeze more profits out of anything they can. This isn't limited to video games either, basically the world is fricked.
There's litterally billions of chinese, indian, south american and african people who haven't bought a console yet. Plenty of room for growth.
Problem is that most companies don't know how to make fun games and would rather make woke shit or chase trends.
The average Chinese, Indian or African can't afford the amount of money Microsoft wants from a customer. They'll sell games at 70 dollars and/or force you to pay a Game Pass so their numbers go up even harder. Getting measly 5-10 dollars per sale is peanuts to them and would require them to set up studios, offices, deal with local laws and shit.
They just want to squeeze what they already have harder.
with switch, it is a hybrid console that has assimilated 2 markets, it is in no way in favour forn nintebndo over generations before
1 market the mobile market, is a huge market on its own, in fact nintendo is in a market of its own regardless.
So for example a household of 2.4 children might buy one for each member where a PC or a console (non hybrid) may only be bought 1 per household.
Then on top of that it has 2 (3 including a revision) different versions of the product. Some people themselves may even buy multiple copies of even the same version for themselves.
A PS5 requires a separate TV, very few people are going to buy a TV and a console per member, multiple times etc.
big money investors are genuinely some of the stupidest people on the planet, and they're ruining fricking everything because they lucked into having basically infinite power
>Redfall dev
Who gives a frick
>Tango Gameworks
Okay that's kind of shitty.
Couldn't care less about everything else, but that hurts.
Well frick, we'll never get a Hi-Fi Rush 2 now.
We will
>Microshart bleeds money
>gets desperate
>sells off old IPs
>sells rights to hi fi rush to someone else
the hope is that someone else is good, it has potential to be amazing if refined with a sequel and surely someone out there sees that.
>sells rights to hi fi rush to someone else
lol no they're just going to sit on the IP
You have no idea how anything works.
They finally make a game that isn't a reskin of a game I played ages ago that also happens to play great with an awesome soundtrack and this fricking happens
Why
No talent hackfrauds get what they deserve. Good riddance.
jfc that's awful.
the doomers were right; gamepass really is MS cannibalizing themselves.
And the industry, what the frick are they even doing? This shit always happens.
Gamepass is probably the worst thing that could happen to Xbox. Subscription service just doesn't work with video game market.
It could have worked if it was just for older games. Doing it for games day one was dumb.
with the AAA video game market, yeah i'm starting to believe that.
it seems more practical for indie/smaller titles
moron alert. Gamepass is the reason hi fi rush and redfall saw any revenue at all.
lel gaming industry is just totally fricked.
AAA gaming lost
AA + indie gaming won
Welp. So much for that "We're committed to improving Redfall"
Game is officially vaporware. Also didn't they promise 2 DLC characters in that ultimate edition? Think a lot of refunds are going to happen soon, or even worse, a lawsuit
The Hifi Rush Vs forspoken memes aged like shit.
Lmao yeah.
I can understand Arkane Austin since the reports said that 70% of the Prey developers left the studio anyway.
But why Tango? Hi Fi Rush was great and their biggest success when it comes to reviews. Even Evil Within and Ghostwire were decent.
I really liked ghostwire tbh, mostly because of the concept, atmosphere and vibes
I'm sad there won't be a sequel
Because Nose Tribe is moronic, basically
>Microsoft buy Studios
>israelites force disgusting diversity hiring on them
>Workers feel uncomfortable
>Games quality suffer
Its not logic, stop looking for it, its just destructive behaviour from a very mentally ill tribe
The forspoken Studio was closed ages ago homie
>The forspoken Studio was closed ages ago homie
I know but now also did Hifi Rush Studio meaning both Games were flops that killed their studios. Metacritic means jack shit if the game doesn't make any return.
>Metacritic means jack shit
Yep and Steam thumbs up/downs mean even less. That's why starfield is a success.
Well, Luminous closed down first, so by default, Hi-Fi Rush wins kek.
In hindsight you deserve it for making us vs them maymays instead of commissioning 3d hentai of this b***h.
I am not giving ign a click so someone read and tell us if they just integrate the devs into a proper working studio.
The arkane devs get to go to other beth studios, tango employees are fricked lol
NINTENDO, HIRE THESE MEN
this but unironically
Snatch up those ex-Tango devs and get them to work on something like Astral Chain 2.
Alright at least half good. Not even sure if tango devs are worth anything to anyone.
>tango employees are fricked lol
ENTER
Nintendo only puts money into safe franchises nowadays. They wouldn't buy out a company just to make a game hardly anyone except extremely vocal xbox fanatics cared about. They can't even be bothered to make more than one metroid game every decade.
>buying the company
lol just grab the Tango devs that Microsoft just fired
They made a mediocre rhythm game that just looked palatable in comparison to everything else xbox put out. They do not need them kek.
>They made a mediocre rhythm game
But enough about Sekiro.
Nah they won't buy out companies, they would specifically headhunt the key talent of those companies.
>Nintendo only puts money into safe franchises nowadays.
Anon they literally released niche as frick ip this year in Endless Ocean and Another Code
Those are remakes to fill in the time to switch 2 which are way less cost than making a new game.
>Cope
>Nintendo only puts money into safe franchises nowadays
Then why bring back Metroid? why make Astral Chain? why make Princess Peach or bring back Endless Ocean? why keep Xenoblade rolling? Nintendo's key issue is that they leave space for third parties that third parties don't fill.
>Then why bring back Metroid
Market testing
>why make Astral Chain?
No fricking clue, it was a flop and not good
>why make Princess Peach
Movie
>Xenoblade
Makes a shitton of money and always has
>Endless ocean
Cheap
>Makes a shitton of money and always has
Lmao, the delusion. The games sell like shit.
>mario movie
>make princess peach game
Your points are hollow at best.
They literally edited the box art to have woke movie peach though
>why keep Xenoblade rolling?
because Monolith is the backbone of Nintendo's technical team so they bankroll whatever Takahashi wants to make
Nintendo put out a trace memory duo remake and endless ocean this year. moronic Xbox defense force.
>safe franchises
They literally funded and published several niche titles including remakes of IPs they don't even make anymore (Famicom detective club)
And nothing of value was lost. Boohoo
>Arkane Austin
It's fricking over for us Preybros.
>Tango
Ghostwire 2 would've had a lot of potential if they learned from Arkane instead of Ubisoft.
I think if you've been defending Microsoft's acquisitions over the past few months you deserve to be spat on
They've bought more? The last thing was Phil wanting to buy Nintendo and I literally unironically laughed out loud at how batshit insane the idea was. Looks like someone might have wrangled him recently, but doesn't look like I thought.
>Buy game studio
>do nothing with it
>close it after 2 games that were in pre production before even buying the studio
legit frick up since hi fi rush was good
What I hate about this in particular was Mikami's story in all this: Quit Capcom and Platinum over executive meddling, saw a fresh start with Bethesda and presented several new ideas for possible games and all he got was:
"Hey, you are that Resident Evil guy, right?"
"Sure, I worked on some of those, and these others like..."
"Make Resident Evil for us!"
And when he finally got to make something original, he quits just in time for Microsoft to crush his latest legacy.
>Tango and Arkane Austin make 1 flop
>shutdown
>pic related has succesfully destroyed Halo as not just Xbox's flagship franchise but as one of the pillars of the FPS genre since 2012
>still alive and kicking
i truly dont get Microsofts endgame
I mean its run by people who think shitting in the street is normal...
they were literally gutted half to death after infinite. they no longer make halo games and solely exist as a halo hub studio for lore and shit. we already know the new halo game is being made by certain affinity
>we already know the new halo game is being made by certain affinity
source?
https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/xbox/a-new-halo-game-is-in-development-with-certain-affinity-304868-20231126
All of these studios should be gutted down to only the useful pieces and then told to make a fun game with AA level of investment. If that turns out ok, then start to invest more into them. They have to trim the fat.
Anon, we are in the dark age of gaming.
>DESTROYS the gaming economy
>PLUNGES the world into darkness
>RAPES todd howard
>REFUSES to elaborate
>Leaves with 100's of millions of $$$
Simply perfect.
What Phil a Sony double agent?
It's crazy, Don was actually great for Xbox until the gigantic blunder of the Xbone. But the features of the Xbone may not have even been his decision and was simply just one gen too early.
The winning argument Microsoft had to buy Activation was they couldn't compete with Sony when they had HALO GEARS FORZIA! Why couldn't they just make a not-shit Halo game again and not put dumbfrick feminist women who obviously don't like games in charge of everything?
lol don't care.
hi fi rush was so mediocre that had potential though in a sequel
>both haven't made a single good game in years
>the dark age of gaming
Nothing of value was lost
yeah, gaming is going to end because the studio that made redfall closed
also made Prey, Black person
yeah and Prey wasn't good at all and the founder of the company was still there when they started Prey
guess what the founder of the company left after that and took every meaningful employee with him
the company was ALREADY GONE, it's like you don't even know what goes on
can say the same about tango tbf. it was never going to be the same without shinji mikami at the helm. his departure probably signed the death warrant for the studio.
You need to look at the bigger picture.
BRO YOU DONT GET IT, MICROSOFT IS GONNA FIX THESE STUDIOS
MICROSOFT IS GOING TO GIVE THEM CREATIVE FREEDOM AND MORE RESOURCES
MICROSOFT AND GAMEPASS WILL SAVE GAMING
I guess Hi Fi Rush wasnt a success on Playstation either then?
Who's next?
yes because blizzard was a healthy studio creating lots of GREAT products when purchased as this picture implies, LMFAO. Have you ever seen a d4 campfire chat or heard their people talk? They are beyond clueless and antagonistic
If anything, blizzard was already dead and buried with a hostile management team that was absolutely unwilling to do anything at all with its ips, even chase easy money. There is zero, ZERO possible downside to MSFT holding the reigns. At worst blizzard continues to stay dead. At best they are forced to make something with their ips.
we love igumdrop
>yes because blizzard was a healthy studio creating lots of GREAT products
Unironically yes before the Activision merger and Bobby Kotick got his little grubby hands on them. You were warned it would end badly back then too, of course gamers are Black personcattle with goldfish brains so they defend it.
microsoft didn't acquire blizzard in 2008
>missing the point this badly
Keep defending mergers and acquisitions like the cattle you are
you bring up the activision acquisition, which yes was a healthy blizzard being purchased and ruined.. How is that similar to the MSFT purchase?
Try reading the thread
>There is zero, ZERO possible downside to MSFT holding the reigns.
lol
blizzard should die for killing vicarious visions
We failed her bros...
I can still adopt her if she is unemployed.
Consoles do nothing but hold ging as a medium back from its true potential.
If we're talking about the "cheap" consoles that are always released besides their flagships, yeah. Microsoft should have just released the X and said "frick you" to everyone else.
Consoles continuously raise the baseline hardware spec minimum developers have target, open up massive casual audiences that bankroll publishers and allow them to invest in more niche games, and allow for a frickton of innovation from first/second party titles that have regularly moved the entire gaming industry forward rather than stagnating with just the same rehashed safe franchises.
Sure, 2 out of 3 consoles today are total shut, and the 3rd isn’t taking the risks it used to, but if we lost consoles PC gaming would not suddenly enter a renaissance of mega games and predatory business practices free dream land, instead it would default to mobile gaming being the default model every big studio and publisher would be basing their business decisions on, and that would be an absolute fricking hellscape.
Remember Ganker unanimously cheered corporate consolidation because it is mind broken by Sony for 20 years
You know if you're going to project you probably shouldn't out yourself as having done it in the same post.
Blow your load a little later that you're a cranky fanboy.
Why don't they just say that they're going third party?
What games Arkane Austin made besides Redfail?
I mean the Austin studio, not the main one
Prey 2017
Dishonored and Prey
>close bad studios making bad games
We're on our way back to AA kino.
Tango made the only AA game Microsoft released in 2023 that anyone gave a shit about,
Pentiment>HiFi rush
>B-But Gameshart and the millions of players!!
Downloads merchants killing the industry.
>yeah and Prey wasn't good at all and the founder of the company was still there when they started Prey
Oh yeah sack the hi-fi guys but keep 343 around who haven't made a good Halo in literally over 10 years, Thanks xbox
>Arkane
I would be more upset but nu Arkane sucks ass anyway
>Give a reason to have a massive talent exodus on the few talented studios you bought
Nice one MS, holy shit how can executives be this dumb? I simply can not understand.
I feel embarrassed for shilling for Microsoft last year even if it was to own the snoys.
Good.
Sony might be incompetent and do moronic things but Microsoft is downright poisonous
Quality can come in waves and with big corportations you can't expect quality across everything, like how you can praise a Nintendo game and hate the company or even another game.
Good MS games need to be praised for their merits, if MS funds those games while nobody was, then good of them, like Psychonauts 2, if they kill good studios then they deserve to be called out.
>redfall DLC is just getting canceled
that is both funny and sad
>Shitters got canned
>Somehow this is a bad thing
???
DUDE MS LOVES AND CARES ABOUT JAPAN
>closes their only Japanese studio
What a joke. I hope every exec at Microsoft fricking hangs.
So Marvel's Blade is basically canceled now?
arkane austin has nothing to do with that
i think that was the other Arkane studio
That's Arkane Lyon.
>Nintendo's fw all those Tango devs that are now ripe for the picking
They did that with Japan Studio and now they got another one.
arkane sisters.. does /ourgirl/ still have a job
Unfortunately Lyon is still kicking with that Blade game
MS really is going the say of Sega huh but instead of ceasing Xbox production it'll just fill the niche that the Surface line does for laptops.
Grim. GTA6 and Switch 2 save the industry.
Wtf is alpha dog and roundhouse ?
What games did they make?
Roundhouse is former Human Head (Prey).
Games ?
some mobile game
>Bought ActiBliz for Candy Crush to expand their mobile section
>Close down Alpha Dog (Mighty Doom phone game)
lol
There's your 0.0001% chance of Prey 2 being made gone now that all developers of both incarnations of Prey games are gutted.
>Alpha Dog
irrelevant mobile games, I have legit never heard of a single one. Wtf is Mighty Doom?
>Roundhouse
OG Prey developpers, also made stuff like Brink. They were silent for many years and were working on a game for Microsoft.
Tango would been catapulted way earlier in this economy under zenimax
Nice twitter thread, OP.
Good riddance. Microsoft kills everything it touches, many such cases.
>Sony closes studios with no IPs, Bad!
>MS closes studio that made their best game of 2023 and their best game in the last decade, Viva la Xboxe ese!
LMAO
anon please, you can't let the autistic off-their-meds weebs that deify Japan Studio know that none of their games were profitable. the results will not be good for anyone.
Ganker what's the logic behind firing the people who made the only games people actually liked from you?
People may only like a game after they already bought it, there is little causality to how much the game is profitable at MS's level. A very shitty Fallout or Halo game will always sell gazillions on their name alone, people buy them anyway.
Not really
Was hi-fi rush really that good?
I want something to play on my PS5 and was considering it
>only good PS5 game is an Xbox game developed by a dead studio
Lmaoing at the industry right now
>sending some of the staff from arkane austin and roadhouse to work on bethesdaslop
kek it's literally activision
I really wanted a Ghostwire Tokyo sequel, this sucks so fricking bad
legit its hits hard this news for tango
atleast we got gatoo sexo
>Harnessing the power of Unity and Unreal Engine 4, our goal is to build an iconic brand through evolutionary design and pushing the limit of mobile games.
>Historically, Alpha Dog Games has developed games such as Wraithborne (Action-RPG) and MonstroCity: Rampage (Action-Strategy).
>Early details indicate that not only is Roundhouse helping develop Redfall with Arkane Austin, but it's also working on an unannounced Xbox game itself.
Kek
>Tango gets taken out back.
>There's still a team working on a new Perfect Dark that hasn't had an update in over a decade.
They've spent so long on it that they've gotta add another A. It'll be the world's first AAAAA game!
While we're piling on MS, i would bank on Obsidian shuttering next year once Avowed comes out and inevitably flops. i was really getting concerned about the lack of anything related to TOW2 being shown anyway.
Why did they even bother lying?
was that before or after the Bethesda and Blizzard deals went through?
Because you Black folk fell for it and defended them
Death to Ganker
Microsoft just recently got out of a major legislative battle to complete the biggest acquisition that has ever happened in the industry and needs to play softball in order to ensure that it can keep its golden goose. Microsoft has a controlling hand in the market now when it comes to video game production. It has more in-house studios then Sony does; Sony is more vulnerable to shifts in the market because it hasn't been able to diversify as much due to not having microsofts raw capital. The call of duty acquisition was bigger then just Xbox. It was important for Microsoft. Microsoft sees value in software production and wants to build a diversified portfolio to better help it weather the storm if for some reason - such as a generation of kids without desktop computer experience entering the workforce - there is less profit in the OS market. It doesn't matter if Xbox does well or not, all that matters is that Microsoft thrives. Xbox is stronger than ever, and more profitable than Sony and Nintendo. AI will save Microsoft
God I fricking hate Microsoft. They were only just b***hing last week about how they need somebody to make fallout 5 right now, almost like they realised they need to make games as a games box company. Then they fricking fire everybody who makes games.
>Hifi rush got shut down
it's so fricking over
was actually looking forward to the sequel and if they had plans for evil within 3
Remember when Xtroons thought that PS5 owners would pay for Hifi Rush 2 but wouldn't get to play it because it would be exclusive to Xbox?
Good times.
>Tango makes one of the only good games out of microsoft
>Shut them down
>Bethesda makes a massive flop
>Give them even more money
How the frick does Todd keep doing this?
Todd is immune. Everyone else will be punished for his mistakes
The shortest nail never gets hammered
Probably because Starfield made a lot of money despite being shit and hifi rush didnt respite being good
>studio finally does something
>shut it down too
what the PHUCK is PHIL doing
Not a snoy but all of the fake xbox fans getting eternally btfo month after month will never not be funny
>Be Microsoft
>Buy Studio
>Strangle them firing workers and crushing deadlines until they release a dogshit game
>Close Studio
For what purpose? This is like the 5th time this has happened
remember when the only people doing this shit was EA, back in the day?
I'm still mad about Pandemic...
Pandemic fricked themselves over with the batman game.
EA has a more impressive graveyard for now.
You were warned this would happen. You didn't listen.
>sony making woke cinematic games
>pc monopoly by israelitevidia and developers making unoptimised games
>xbox selling and shutting down everything they buy
Mario and zelda is all that’s gonna be left then
Arkane has been dead since all the important people left shortly after Prey.
>dark age of gaming
Can we just ban morons who insist the fall of AAA publishers is a bad thing?
>All those homosexuals celebrating Microsoft buying studios to own it to Snoys
Told you this was going to happen, Microsoft is incredibly incompetent and the biggest cancer the gaming industry has has the little fortune to meet, over the years they'll only close more.
You thought I wanted only Sony to suffer; but it was a ruse! I actually want the whole industry to crash!
Microsoft has been known to be an absolute terrible business partner as far back as the 2000's, let's not forget that Bungie would rather escape to ACTIVISION than stay with Microsoft. If you get in bed with Microsoft they will bleed you dry and then kill you when you stop being profitable
>only example he has is bungie of all things
>Arkane
I know most people had left with Prey, or even earlier, but I still feel bad for them. They had a decent run.
It's Austin, though. Lyon is still there. Not that either one has made anything good in a long time.
imagine announcing that youre shutting down one of the only studios thats actually making anything down on the same day nintendo announces the switch 2 LMAO microshit is moronic
I don't consume western garbage so I'm ready to have fun watching the entire western and AAA industry going to shit.
in 5 years time they close Blizzard, in 10 years time they'll close Bethesda too. Microsoft has israelite money and don't have to think about the consequences of their moronic business moves.
Heckin based, Arkane studios sucks ass and I'm just glad that Tango's staff get to go elsewhere.
I wish Nintendo would do their fricking job.
>Tango's staff is no longer trapped at Microsoft
You know, putting it that way that actually isn't so bad.
Hope they go to Capcom
>go to Capcom
Why?
So they can work on Resident Evil and Monster Hunter since that's all Capcom makes?
EXOPRIMAL 2 BABY
>that's all Capcom makes?
I can be reductive also.
Yeah but someone needs to actually get them going again.
But they'll probably scatter which means even a spiritual sequel coming out is unlikely
I'm done. I want him OUT. I tried being reasonable before but this shit is just inexcusable.
It's over, get the FRICK out Phil.
Actually, it wouldn't be his call. Sarah Bond is the CEO. She's the one doing this shit
Exactly
Phil spencer is the CEO of Microsoft Xbox and Sara Bond reports directly to him
At this point he's just a puppet, see how he's completely silent at this when he's usually at the forefront of good news.
phil is in control of all the studios, sarah bond controls xbox studios. It's something like that
>Tango
This is why Mikami jumped ship early, he's been in the industry for ages and saw all the red flags.
MS is a cancer. Reminder the founder of ninja theory Tameem left too after his company got bought out by MS, he even made it a point to leave as quality as possible with all the money he could take with him and people didn't even for ages until an Xbox spokesman said it
he left so he could make another studio and do the same thing he did with tango (cultivate new talent)
>Evil Within 3 never ever
Goddamn it. Arkane would be more upsetting if they hadn't already made it clear that all the talent has left. They never would have topped Prey anyway. Tango was still making good games, even without Mikami.
Evil Within never got close to the impact of Resident Evil or Silent Hill.
Shitty franchises should not go on forever.
>Shitty
Filtered
So for a horror game to justify its existence it has to be as big as the two most successful franchises? Give me a break. Both games (1 especially) are really good. What a shitty industry where there's no space for that.
You numbergays are fricking cancer
>Man, I sure do love all those game studios. Arkane, Tango.... I love them so much. Can't wait to reinvest in them.
A daring synthesis
>get bought by Microsoft
>never release another game or release a game and then get closed
I wish I could say I was surprised but this has been Microsoft's MO with Xbox since the brand's beginning.
>Gets promoted to President of Xbox little over 6 months ago
>Shuts down 4 studios
I'm telling you she's a Snoy agent.
Why would they hire a person like that to be in charge of video games? I want some fat nerd like Gaben to be in charge.
i will forever associate her with that Xbox Showcase last summer where she said Starfield would be "the most important RPG ever"
and all of you fricking ate up the Starfield Direct and ignored that meme all together.
Nope, companies actually hire these diversity dummies in advance before announcing bad news
She looks like she hasn't played a single game in her life.
I say we all buy Helldivers 2 and review bomb it to shift the heat back to Sony!
We have been living on it since 2020.
Total Corpo Death
>pic announces that a direct and new console is on the way
>Xbox announces that they're killing multiple studios
So what is Sony going to announce today?
I'll tell you what they won't announce - games.
No PSN requirement for Helldivers II i guess
debatable Sony W
Another digital bobblehead, based on the new temp? Censoring Stellar Blade even more would be pretty funny.
BRO JUST LET ME BUY ANOTHER STUDIO
JUST ONE MORE STUDIO
ONE MORE STUDIO WOULD SOLVE EVERYTHING PLEASE
Should have bought From Software instead.
>Arkane Austin
Deserved
>Tango Gameworks
Now, THIS sucks. Frick Microsoft
Arkane sure but although Hi-Fi rush underperformed I still think there was potential left in Tango, but these are racists we are talking about they will take any excuse to kill a Japanese studio
Can someone about to get fired at Arkane Austin please leak the list of everyone who spent $100 on Redfall?
>billions wasted on dead studios
>all games are flopping
>still no exclusives
It's unironically over for xbox
All that and they still make more profit than playstation does.
>Xbox
>Profit
>Playstation out of nowhere
AAAIIIIEEEE CARAMBA...
maybe on planet moron
Maybe Playstation should stop spending 320 million on a game thats already 70% already made
>posting outdated charts
Meanwhile in reality Xbox hardware profits are down 30% year over year and their games are only barely breaking even if you count Activision Blizzard but don't include the +$70 billion they spent to acquire them.
You need to go back to school kid
>hardware profits
Why are redditspacers this moronic? Hardware was never the money for consoles. Meanwhile the actual profitable software sides is many times up.
>Meanwhile the actual profitable software sides is many times up.
But that's wrong, you shiteating moron. Try reading past the first fricking sentence.
profit is irrelevant unless you're a MS shareholder, where are the games?
Helldivers 2 currently has more players than every Xbox game do :^)
Even after Sony tried to frick it all up. Pretty impressive. Amazing what actually releasing a fun game will do.
AAA console gaming is dying. It's not sustainable. Sony know it, Microsoft know it. Nintendo are the only one who is even slightly immune.
I'm starting to wonder if that's why Nintendo slowed down so fricking hard during the Covoid years. Like they saw the writing on the wall and started restructuring.
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/text/phil/type/op/start/2020-01-01/end/2024-05-07
Kek, Ganker was so smug about Phil when the SeX launched. Now not even xbros like him. What happened? I thought he was ending snoy.
I hope the shill that always types out "Microsoft Windows" specifically hangs himself today.
Quite down snoy, you have PChad dicks to serve.
Sony isn't any better bootlicker. They're all a fricking disgrace to the human race.
I see Phil has learned from actblizz to throw every single dev into the mines (Bethesda's in this case)
I think I may quit my vidya job and find a new career path bros.
My company isn't related to all this BS but seeing how veteran studios be treated like dirt makes me wonder what's the point of building yourself up in this industry if you're gonna be left in the dirt like this anyway.
>Pisses away billions buying studios only to shut them down them shortly after
Is Phil's goal to kill microsoft?
Microsoft uses the Xbox brand to gather a userbase and collect data. It is not a money project.
Microsoft earns all it needs from Cloud services, office software and AI investor hype.
>Data
Wtf do they want to know?
and the industry. It's actually strange behavior.
Its a mix of this
The problem is making everything a fricking spy loses its purpose, like they said, people are not deep nor interesting, boomers need to stop being so fricking autistic
YOU STILL DON'T GET IT, DO YOU Ganker?
I'M BUYING VIDEO GAMES AS A BUSINESS, SO I CAN END VIDEO GAMES AS A BUSINESS!
We're already in the dark age and it doesn't end until Microsoft finally fricks off.
The problem is much bigger than just Microsoft. All big studios have gotten too bloated and barely release any games.
yes please God just let the industry die for 5-10 years it needs it so badly
Xbox fricking sucks. I miss Major Nelson so damn much, at least in his peak he was actually pumping out banger after banger. Phil sucks and always has sucked huge fricking donkey nuts
Sincerely,
-360 kid
We lost Klobrille.
lol he recently announced he wants to use his followers to make his new videogame news site succeed. (one for ps5 and one for xbox). I never seen this lil german nig post about actually playing a game.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO GOD NOOOOOO NOOOOO
Only peter moore can save xbox
I think there's not someone here that couldn't save Xbox. Shit, maybe I even could. Phils just fricking moronic.
Wrong Peter
Watch him make xbox grow.
So what the frick is Xbox gonna do now? they can't rely on Todd forever because Todd takes too fricking long to release games. Hell look at Starfield that game was in development since Fallout 4 got delayed for years and came out a flop. Elder Scrolls 6 will end up the same
Seems pretty reasonable that they'll gut anything that isn't Starfield and CoD level of sales. Which makes me think how the frick is 343 and turn10 still alive.
Reminder that a rich israelite has more in common with the average israelite than with a rich white.
well hopefully it will be a wake up for normies to finally start shitting on phil spencer
This pseudo goty contender (according to Xbox embassadors) flopped so hard that it killed the studio. What does this tell us about GP?
>gaming is actually just going to be PC and Nintendo
>sega teams up with valve to make sega branded steam console
Pc only thanks to Deck plus other umpcs
NTA
>Deck
Doesn’t have exclusives and it's basically an underpowered PC, while Nintendo is making their own exclusive games and not hurting themselves in any way yet
>Wow, turns the Fallout series is really popular, whens the next FO game, Todd?
>Uuuuh, in a decade or so...
>Too late, Ill just close half a dozen studios and sent you the scraps to work faster. I want the next game in two years top
>Sure thing Phil (starts searching for a retirement beach house in Miami)
Yeah, heaven forbid they have to actually release a game more than once a decade.
Can't blame them, I bet they want it out before or during the release of Season two of the show.
How is Timdog coping? I swear the xbox fanboy twitter accounts are the most entertaining when this shit happens.
He's kinda out of it
>The bootlicker can't live without bootlicking
How these people manage to even live?
Honestly I think he built an unhealthy habit of being a fanboy over a plastic box. He was there since the og Xbox. Dude was legitimately so in it that it ended up building insider connections in the industry and Xbox studios. He's been doing it for 2 decades so he can't just stop.
the sad truth is most people are meant to be followers, not thinking too much about anything beyond what has been provided to them by circumstance
it used to be that those people naturally settled into the roles decided for them in their village and they knew nothing of the outside world, but now they have infinite possibility and have no idea what to do, so they dedicate themselves to whatever catches their eye
in another lifetime that dude would have been autistically replicating the last copies of esoteric ancient greek scrolls 350 days a year in some monastery not really knowing the reason why but just contently living his life that way.
You gotta keep up with the fanboy twitter news. Timdog mindbroke himself over pentiment getting ported to ps5, a game he never read a single line of dialogue of.
he's trolling everyone. i literally speak to him daily.
Elder Scrolls VI when? Todd can save this publisher with one (1) game.
If these devs are so talented they will quickly find jobs at other companies
>unless they were a group of useless hacks all along
You defend corps treating game devs like disposable trash and then you wonder why the industry puts out garbage and blame it on woke dei
Dei is a thing though
It's the ultimate scapegoat for corps to get away with fricking you on behalf of their shareholders. Boeing cutting corners to boost their stock price and do stock buybacks? Uhhhhh its actually because too many blacks make the planes lol. Don't pay attention to those whistleblower deaths, those were just dei hires.
But DEI literally are just useless quota who not only dont know how to work, it cost the company a lot of money and on top of that make the good workers uncomfortable
Like I said, the ultimate scapegoat. You're a Rube.
Because the game devs are shit
No, you are shit and you deserve nothing but shit games
>t. Seething game dev who is shit at their job
Your kind drove out all the good old game devs and now we have to deal with you gays
No, YOUR kind drove out all the good old game devs and you deserve to get stuck with no talent homosexuals pushing hyper monetized trash you Black folk eat up
The vidya industry is the Bangladeshi sweatshop of software development and entertainment. Most veteran devs who haven't retired or gone freelance end up being poached by non-vidya companies while Ganker b***hes and whines about bad games while going to bat for the CEOs. Most other ceos would kill to have the same market as stupid and gullible as modern gamers.
If a game dev isn't willing to go to jail to get his game out, then he should find another industry to work in.
The world needs physical laborers and caretakers, anyway. Not lazy nerds who are satisfied phoning it in at an office, producing trash that nobody cares about or remembers.
Game devs without a purpose get shut down by based Microsoft.
wait is it just because starfield flopped so hard?
>evil within is dead
Frick, that sucks. I loved 2.
How will the games industry ever recover from the loss of such an iconic and beloved franchise
It's not iconic or beloved, if anything it's shit. I just liked it.
Kek. Xbox can't ever win. They will always, always, always be dead fricking last.
It's like they genuinely hate winning. They have the money and studios. They spent more money on studios and publishers in the last 4 years than the last 2 decades combined.
the Xboner really mindbroke them
>Sony
>fricks up but managed to crawl back and say sorry
>M$
>kills everything in it's path like some sand worm >somehow people still see them as good
How did M$ became old EA?
Money, greed and short-sightedness.
Ive been saying for years that Microsoft has the excellent oppertunity to just make an incubator: A dorimitory for nerds and metalheads. Give them a place to live, a computer, all the pizza, beer and drugs they want and see what they come up with. Sure 99% of them wont make anything of note, but in that throng our new generations Carmack and Romeo will meet over a night of boardgames and sweet music will be made. And a new franchise that will make MS billions.
>uhhh Im an idea guy pls buy weed and booze for me and my pals
???
>Sure 99% of them wont make anything of note, but in that throng our new generations Carmack and Romeo will meet over a night of boardgames and sweet music will be made. And a new franchise that will make MS billions.
that sounds amazing but impossible in the current year, you know this, and you know why they force women's quota on them, they would force them to make the game in a way that makes them the most money and please the shareholders.
>"Hi-Fi Trash is not a flop! Also, I want to frick a cat!"
Lol
Lmao
Where are you now, zoophile?
Dark age for who? I don't care about any of these games.
Xbox in charge of not fricking up challenge = impossible
Its funny now a random tech company like Snoy managed to barge into the video game market in the 90s and dominate immediately forever and Microsoft tried to copy them but constantly failed.
>Sony's having bad PR. Dump the studios Mr Booty.
>Tango made the best xbox game in years
>Shut it down
Xbox is too dumb.
I just wanted Banjo-Threeie. We almost got a remake on the original Xbox, and that's all I really wanted ever since Microsoft acquired Rare. That's it.
The second Microsoft started the process of bailing on dedicated hardware is the second most of their A/AA projects died since they no longer have to worry about diversifying their 1st party library.
The end of AAA console gaming. Enjoy your CoD slop until the end of time.
AAA's been dead for almost 15 years now.
Girl here i will miss the evil within 🙁
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaieeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Were they hoping that the Helldivers 2 shitfest would last longer to sneak this one in now?
Double Fine and Obsidian are fricked.
Why the frick did MS buy up all the middling AA studios.
Because Phil really believed they would make banger after banger after banger.
These studios are all dead now.
>ready
We've been living on it for the past 15 years
The CEO of Moon studios ( creators of Ori) is grilling Microsoft
Chad.
current Microsoft is actually a lot worse than old EA.
t. old gay.
Yeah, "Old" EA (Early 2000s), would actually sometimes release good games.
Wasn't he the one who openly grilled Cyberpunk's disastrous launch back in the day? Yeah, the dude didn't mince his words.
Moonstudios didnt get aquired because their workplace is a hellscape for devs. Fricking hate that shitty ceo.
Remember when Ganker was full of Xbox wienersuckers few years ago claiming how based Phil was going to save gaming from Sony? Yeah, here's your based Phil dumb underages lmao.
Xbox is a better console than Snoy. It had a better library than snoy. Your unwavering devotion to a fricking corporation is what costed these people their jobs. Not Microsoft. Keep buying shit so the actual talented people and consumer-friendly company go under. You sure did "own" us, you fricking homosexual snoy vermin.
Werent switchgays your hecking allies? Sure all those 140 millions of switch users could have supported you
>Xbox is a better console than Snoy. It had a better library than snoy.
lol
lmao
I don't, actually. Short of some wienerroaches crawling out every console launch cycle, Xbox as a brand has been dead here since Kinect. Back in 2012, you couldn't even make an Xbox thread because they were that much of a joke, never mind what happened in 2013 with Xbone's launch. I've seen wider nets of cope cast than Xbots hoping for Xbone, but rarely have I seen deeper. I don't know how anyone sane has trusted MS since, and for the most part that's held true in the last decade.
That guy at Arkane Lyon is mad. Love the French always getting pissed off.
Death to the Western video game industry.
>dark ages means bad
Midwit
Damn that's sad
>Have your PR last year about how Xbox as a brand wants to expand to Japan.
>Close your only japanese studio.
Japan is a downward spiral, old money. They have to pander to the EU again and german autists. Expect three more simulators in the next 5 years.
Western devs and publishers have grown too fat and out of touch. Start over.
>devastating cuts in Bethesda
So TES6 never?
Microsoft is a cancer, and has done more damage to the industry then any other.
you know, after acquiring Bethesda that's even more true LOL horse armor
BEST DEAL IN GAMING SIRS WITH THISE ONE CLEVER GAME PASS TRICK
You know that means $7,000 in general, not spent on Gamepass. Right?
YES SIR SIMPLY REDEEM THE XBOX CREDIT CARD AND SPEND 7000 SO YOU CAN GET THE GAME PASS CODES OKAY BENCHOD
>38
You're a dumbass.
$7,000 for two trials of game pass is a fricking horrible proposition. Why not just open a credit card that gives you a few hundred dollars cash for far lower spend at that point?
Yes, it is stupid. A gamepass account is a lot cheaper.
>within 12 months
How do you spend 7000 dollars on games in a single year??
Pic related, my almost 18 year old Steam account.
Where at the point where Xbox is worse then EA at this point. Then they wonder why no one owns the xbox when they have zero fricking games.
At this point I just want them to shutter 343 Industries
Do it. Fricking DO IT Phil.
At least Halo can finally rest and never be butchered ever again.
They should have killed 343 instead of Tango. Atleast they didnt make shit
THIS HOLY FRICK
HOW DOES 343 INDUSTRIES GET TO EXIST WHILE TANGO GETS SHUTTERED
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKK
Halo will be raped so much, it's literally like some satanic ritual to piss off us.
the power of bidenomics
>Gamepass saved the industry!
>Reality: GP is literally killing studios because they make no money from downloads
Yikes
AAA is a cancer that'll inevitably destroy you. The sooner independent studios realise that, the better.
>Independent studios
>owned by Microsoft
huh?
They were independent, then they sold their soul to Microsoft just to get destroyed.
Remember Phill said you don't need good games to sell consoles. this is just him self actualizing his beliefs
That's not just the dumbest thing said about gaming, but everything in general. He should have been fired right then for that statement.
both Sony and M$ need to step up though, what's the reason for me to buy a console if there's not a single good exclusive title for it?
Why would I own a console over a PC now?
At least Nintendo has Switch exclusive games.
The newest cope from both companies is that PC gamers won't buy the console no matter what and that it's more profitable for them to sell ports for $5 in a steam sale.
well they're right
most PC people won't buy a console, so that's literally millions of potential customers lost by keeping something exclusive
Yet this isn't an issue for Nintendo somehow? Almost as if their games are good enough to justify buying the hardware for.
nah, majority of PC users just emulate Nintendo stuff, Nintendo just has the market of casual game players cornered
Nintendo cried and took down Yuzu because according to them over a million people were playing TOTK early
Thanks for exposing yourself as third worlders, bye!
Not buying Tendie shit when emulators provide a better experience, gay.
You know third worlders can't run switch emulators right especially ryujinx which require higher end pcs
The replies in threads about the TOTK leak suggested otherwise to me.
>Emulate
>No longer forced to play Nintendo games in 720p 20 fps
Nintendo has children and cult of manchildren.
There hasnt been a reason for 2 decades now
>At least Nintendo has Switch exclusive games
Also on PC
There's a chance that a really shitty PC port gets made (Like DD2)
Hey guys, what about TV and Kinect?
kinect sold more than series x
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Imagine a smaller game that gets 3 million plays on your game service, and actually makes a profit after paying off the employees is not worth keeping around for a multi billion dollar company.
>Tango Gameworks
RIP Evil Within 3
>Evil Within 3
>GhostWire Tokyo 2 (it was cool)
>Hi-Fi Rush 2
All gone.
not on gog, don't care. If I don't own a game I don't care if I have it or not. If it can be taken away from me any time, I don't want it.
But Ganker told me Hifi Rush was a hit and GOTY.
>No battle pass
>No 100+ bucks worth of DLC
Could it ever be an actual hit? The numbers don't fit.
>we won't see Korsica again
Truly grim.
Sad
I still cannot fathom nuking a studio that makes a profit and only brings benefits to the overall brand unless Xbox really wants to only be third party and moronic with brand deals.
So how will the journalists that insisted MS acquiring all these studios was a good thing, spin this?
Kinect was actually fun. Frick phil spencer for not even giving it a chance
WABAM
THERE IT IS
Bill...
It's time you returned...
They're fricking your legacy, Billy...