The warning signs were always there and we didn't listen.
>bought by no one
>played by no one
>loses Xbox GOTY to Starfield
>forces Xbox to go third party
>flops so hard it gets Tango shut down
So much for that sequel.
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Thanks Denuvo!
Whats the cope now?
Apologize to Jeff Grubb RIGHT NOW
If it has Denuvo, I'm not buying it. It's that shrimple.
>If it has denovo, I can't pirate it. It's that shrimple
Based Microsoft would rather kill a whole studio rather than letting pirates have fun.
Who are you quoting?
Yes and look at how that's working out. Pirates = free marketeers, they're less critical of your game and yet they're still real gamers so their shilling is organic. Piracy was always good for sales. It creates positive buzz.
You can pirate denuvo games, but only if empress bothers cracking it.
I never pirate tho. If I can't get the game how I want for the price I want it, I won't get it. Pirating would only further engagement and indirectly support such underhanded tactics.
>t. coping homosexual zoomer who doesn't know how to pirate
I don't pirate games I wouldn't consider buying in the first place.
>no marketing
>random shadowdrop
say it ain't so
This anon is the only not moronic person in this thread. It would have been so easy to market it. It's actually a miracle it sold as well as it did.
Everyone praised it because of this though? If it got marketing no one would have cared.
>Everyone
Clearly not, you mean a vocal minority.
They praised it because they played it """for free""". Had they have to pay, they'd just ignore it and Buy Later, Maybe, then forget about it.
And day 1 Game Pass on top of that, no shit it didn’t make money you dumbasses.
>>no marketing
shadowdrop
and yet it BTFO an AAA game released on the same day
Didn't this get a lot of press last year for being a huge success on game pass?
More proof that streaming / online rental services are completely unsustainable.
It did well and deserved the GOTY awards it got too. Problem is that it's not Fallout, and Fallout has been the biggest thing to happen to Xbox in a long time since the Halo series has been hot garbage. Also, as much as we talk about the Evil Within here, that wasn't really a huge seller.
I feel like they're shutting down Tango but keeping the talent. Not everyone, just the talent. So expect Hi-Fi Rush 2 provides by "Xbox Game Studios" instead of "Tango Gameworks".
>I feel like they're shutting down Tango but keeping the talent
Nope. They specified that they're only keeping some Arkane Austin and Roundhouse Games employees and putting them onto other studios, Tango and Alpha Dog are just gone.
>i-its never going to be playable on PS
>t-the game did fine they’re making a sequel
lol, lmao
>Embrace Extend Extinguish
>surprised when we get to Extinguish
It’s the price of taking the Microsoft money. Tango deserved it, Mikami is coasting on his name harder than Kamiya was, Tango literally hasn’t made a single good game except Hi-Fi Rush.
>shadowdropped into GamePass
>GAIS WHY ISN'T OUR GAME SELLING
Microsoft is filled with mouthbreathing imbeciles, the faster they leave the gaming industry the better.
I don’t think the issue is that Hi-Fi Rush did poorly. I think the issue is Hi-Fi Rush didn’t do well enough to offset the losses on TEW, TEW2 and Ghostwire Tokyo which were all financial black holes. It didn’t get marketing because they were out of money for marketing. They were out of chances. They were at their own end-zone and threw a hail mary pass and made 30 yards. It “worked”, but it wasn’t enough to actually save them from the situation they were in. They needed Hi-Fi Rush to be a Hollow-Knight/Ultrakill-tier indie darling that soaked in unprecedented revenue, not to just do okay. It was carrying the weight of three failed AAA attempts on its shoulders.
They needed to not have dykes in their game. Go woke go broke
If I wanted a clown's opinion I'd get tickets to a circus.
oh please there can be dykes in a video game, although making the main girl one kind of disafects your target audience slightly
It doesn't make sense because by your logic since studios inception they were hammeragin money? working on games since 2012 and making no profit?
moron. When a company is owned by a bigger one then they can hemorrhage money and keep surviving until the bigger company shuts them down because they're a money black hole. Tango was owned by ZeniMax and then sold to Microsoft, they were always under someone bigger and that's how they survived this long, since they were spending someone else's money. Microsoft just finally pulled the plug.
Yes that is actually how most companies work, specially startups and smaller ones, even more so ones that are owned by a bigger corp.
>Handegg analogy
Mutt moment
>non-American
Actually lmao. I cannot fathom being from somewhere that either has no cultural relevance or hasn’t been relevant for hundreds of years and still desperately clinging to it as a tourist attraction for Americans.
Be quiet, third world shithole.
To be fair, the US economy is a complete lie, the tech and financial sector are banking millionaire salaries while the rest of the population can barely afford to live to next month, everything thanks to their corporate overlords moving the production of basically everything outside the country.
Frick, shit so fricking important like medications should be made in-house, not on your fricking rival country you've been at war for 100 years already.
You do realize it's because of the israelites right
>The one anon who knows how business works
You have no idea how rare you are here.
This makes sense when you're not owned by Microsoft.
>not to just do okay. It was carrying the weight of three failed AAA attempts on its shoulders.
The fact that your game can do everything well and be a "success story" but end up "not meeting expectations" because its carrying the hubris of an entire corporation in a race that wasn't possible to win is fricking grim.
I can see Ghostwire beiing a failure, but what about TEW and TEW2? Do you have a source for that?
Welp, maybe add heterosexual love interests into your game next time if you want your game to be a success, libtards! LOL
This. Japanese anime style game but all of the women are dykes and nonwhite. It was an anomaly.
Unironically the sole reason I did not play it. Game looks cool, but I will never buy into this type of style being okay.
>heterosexual love interests
It did have one.
This. Their downfall was well deserved. They got what they wanted by getting bought by Microsoft
gay.
I blame the devs for being a bunch of cowards and not adding a secret GATOSEXO scene.
Good. More studios need to burn down so that the crash can get going on earnest
>but their last game was goo-
Don't care
homosexual moron
It was woke so not a big loss for gaming.
But Ganker told me Hifi Rush was a hit and GOTY.
It was a pretty well received game and people liked it.
It was so good it killed an entire studio LMAO
Is insane how last year both Barry and soibox fough at which one was the flop and which one the hit.
And in the end , both games killed the Studio.
Well, at least the teams can work with Mikami/Platinum and Squenix main studios
>Silent hill 2 looks like shit
>Parasite Eve and Dino crisis were never pure surivival horror
>Obscure and Clock tower Will never come back
At least alone in the back and song of horror were ok games.
I just wish that Capcom do things more like RE2make and RE7 but after village that's imposible
And I hates the trannies that want another RE1 remakes, nobody yell at another FF4 remake or a supermario remake, but the capcom fanbase is the only one obsessed with remakes
You must be new to gaming because there are plenty of cases when studios made great games but still shut down, often leaving games ending with cliffhangers and floating in a limbo.
>Dead Space remake flopped and the series is dead again
Fricking good, I'm glad about it. Let this series rest. I'm still pissed off everyone praised this shit and threw money at EA when they're the ones who raped and murdered the IP and Visceral, then tried to dig up the corpse and rape it again.
>You must be new to gaming because there are plenty of cases when studios made great games but still shut down
Game being good has nothing to do with it being a commercial hit.
Its a good game, but gamepass + it was shadowdropped out of nowhere really hurt the sales.
Are you going to make the same shit ass post in every thread, like a bot?
What are you doing with your life?
>Tranime
>GOTY
Botw won goty and that had anime artstyle
Turns out all the anons were busy jerking off to the robot cat and forgot to actually buy the game.
It was a good hit for a AA game, but they flopped hard with Evil Within 2 and that stupid FPS horror game.
Good games don’t always sell. Fricking look at gold like God Hand.
Mikami said it was like 1-year project with very limited resources, and he knew the sales would be bad, he just wanted to make a game instead of writing design documents. IDK why Capcom was so angry at him because of it.
Or Sunset Overdrive.
Sunset Overdrive flopped because it was an Xbone launch exclusive and that entire console was a fumble. At least it finally made it to PC after years so people can still experience it. Shame about the multiplayer though, I had a lot of fun playing that
This.
Good games don't sell. The average consumer has zero capacity for looking to be educated on quality. They will not spend time finding quality on past games with.
Passable games that are sequels to good games, marketed to hell and back, are what sell truckloads. Because all the people who already knew the first game was good will mention the same names that the average morono sees on ads.
It's a worse devil may cry with one gimmick to differentiate itself that wears off after a while
Yes, and?
It was, is just MS went full moron and want every game sell 9999999999 copies in 3 months. The worst part is that they had plans to make an RPG.
>rhythm rpg like paper mario
frick, could have been badass.
Shareholders are fricking moronic and useless, funny how the games that made money didnt need shareholders lmao
Nobody except actual console warriors butthurt about sony thought this game was GOTY when it was competing with the likes of Zelda and BG3.
it was a spiritual success but economic failure
~~*Microsoft*~~ destroys everything they touch
Miami also left the studio
>shadow drop
>day one on gamepass
>Zero marketing
>digital only for 90% of it's short lifespan
>Only got physical copy on the xbox/ps5 two weeks ago.
>Still not on switch, and now likely won't be
Yeah, I've no idea why it failed to make money.
You’re missing the most important issue with this - it’s an action rhythm game
How convenient of you to forget Denuvo.
No one cares about that chud
Anon literally no one cares about that excepts spergs like you on Ganker and Ganker who would probably pirate the game anyway.
>Why won't people port games to our shitty oversized phone
The self entitlement of Switchgays always gets a chuckle
>Still not on switch
It can't run its own games and you expect them to run third parties?
doom eternal is on switch and that's why it was a succes.
The lack of games is getting to you bud
>Physical copy
Nani?!? How i didn't knew that?
Mikami should just link back up with Kamiya and start making ludo again.
so evil within is fricking dead now?
Yeah
>no The Evil Within 3
Frick, I liked them both, the second was fantastic
TEW 2 was kino.
The second one killed off Not-Umbrella. The story was over. Its more satisfying closure than we ever got in Resident Evil.
there was a tease post credits scene in the second game showing STEM wasn't inoperable and could potentially still work.
hell, HFR even made fun of this shit in the secret ending when you complete all those challenge rooms in NG+ where chai unplugs this machine and puts a "do not touch" post it on it.
Nah we needed Ruvik wanting to frick his sister game
Ghostwire underperforming heavily as a giant budget open world RPG is probably what clinched their death a lot more than a niche short action game that did okay.
>Dead Space remake flopped and the series is dead again
>The Evil Within is dead as frick now that the studio is shut down
>Resident Evil is going straight back to action slop with the success of the RE4 Remake
It's not looking good survival horror/action horror bros
Evil Within was dead they made 2. That's the worst fricking game ever created. Good riddance.
>Dead Space remake flopped
Which is fricking moronic given the remake sold more in a week than the original made in its lifetime. Publishers need to stop using their stupid boomer shareholders as a metric for how much a niche game should sell.
Should've kept the sexy girlfriend and problematic elements, imo. A bunch of stupid little changes overahadowed reporting on the game from "it's a fantastic modern remake" to "girlfriend looks like a hag, protagonist speaks from the beginning, and there and transgender bathrooms but <three paragraphs later, 80% of readers/watchers gone> it's an otherwise fantastic modern remake. "
That has nothing to do with it, the giant mass of normalgay morons you need to make a AAA game a success doesnt hear anything but a vibe from social media
In reality normalgays just never wanted AAA sci fi horror and still don't, you can only make money with cheap horror
>Dead Space remake flopped and the series is dead again
I personally helped make this happen and I couldn't be prouder. Frick remakes and anyone who asks for them.
>Dead Space remake flopped and the series is dead again
Wait what? Wasn't the game massively popular?
First time seeing a marketing campaign? It was an EA title.
Who cares. It's an indie genre now. Sucks for the action slop enjoyers, though.
I just want more action horror games like Dead Space and The Evil Within
Is that really so much to ask for?
It has become a niche genre whose games still require at least a AA budget to be somewhat decent.
Even the recent Alone In The Dark remake could have used more money to iron out its shortcomings, and I'm not quite sure that has made a profit yet.
Can't really make set piece driven action horror with three people working from their basement (yet).
Every genre dies, halo killed boom shoots, action horror killed survival horror, and amnesia/penumbra killed action horror
don't forget Calisto protocol 🙂
Did it actually fail or did it perform "below expectations"?
>discordtroons still mad over flopspoken
roru
rumao
>Microsoft insists Hi-Fi Rush a "break out hit" for Xbox amid claims it underperformed
>"We couldn't be happier".
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-insists-hi-fi-rush-a-break-out-hit-for-xbox-amid-claims-it-underperformed
>Microsoft is either lying or Hi-Fi Rush is dead because of the frick ups of other studios
Don't know which reality is worse. Can't remember the last time I was genuinely sad that a studio got iced. Maybe Japan Studio?
The Later and the fact they lost a TON of money thanks to Blackrock and Vanguard forcing DEI and ESG all over the place and making everyone hostage since they stole all the money.
Even the Car industry is feeling the fire now because no one is buying electric cars anymore, and favoring Hybrids.
Musk Himself has already said that the world isnt ready for it, Hybridization and Fusion is the future.
Meds
>t. Lolbert
Electric and green shit failed.
ESG and DEI Failed
Welcome to the Human Race.
Meds, now
It making 3x the cash back wasn't enough when it needed to make 20x back to account for how hard Evil Within 2 and Ghostwire flopped.
You're all forgetting Bethesda has a lot of making up to do for Starfield flopping.
I thought it sold two million copies? How is 60 million dollars not enough revenue for them?
>How is 60 million dollars not enough revenue for them?
the usual morons believing every game needs to be the "most selling game ever" every new game they release
Who the heck knows. Big publishers now are throwing such expectations at games that it's not enough to make back the development budget but to fit a huge number over that. It's like the execs are aiming to shut down studios and these devs have to convince them not to.
I tried the game and the music wasn’t good. A necessary requirement for the game to be good.
So who gets the rights to The Evil Within? I can't imagine they revert back to Mikami
I get
bethesda thus in turn microsoft
and hi fi rush very heavily implied ew3 was in development with an ingame easter egg
I don't need a Hi-Fi Rush 2. The game was so utterly satisfying that a sequel would never meet expectations. It was the exact same with Space Channel 5
But anon, Space Channel 5 Part 2 was so much better than the first
who cares mikami left ages ago
Honestly, this. I think both Mikami and Kamiya were under non-compete clauses after they left their respective studios, which is why they haven't been doing anything, but I believe I remember both of them expressing a desire to get back to game development.
Hi Fi Rush is infinitely better than anything Mikami has ever shat out.
So good it killed its studio
Yes, being good has nothing to do with selling good.
That reminds me, that Prasyste rip-off game was being made by Tango wan't it?
That shit is probably canned.
I need a god hand 2. Couldn’t care less about mid rush and ghost trash
videogame corporation are run by absolute troglodyte morons
I don't buy games bundled with malware, but the cat was hot.
This game was shilled to hell on Ganker when it came out it couldn't be more obvious how artificial it was. Guess the campaign didn't work.
>NOOOOOOOOO THESE PEOPLE ONLY PRETENDED TO ENJOY A VIDEOGAME AAAAAAARGGGHHH
I'd love to see how you'd act if you were around on message boards/forums when games like Doom, X-Com, Quake, Duke Nukem, Fallout, Diablo or Baldur's Gate were still fresh and popular.
Yes actually, hence why the studio is now dead, because it didn't sell well enough. The point is that the sales didn't reflect the amount of hype it had on Ganker.
"sales" is an impossible metric to try and judge HFR since its biggest market didn't have to buy it due to gamepass.
A better metric would be the collective IQ of Spencer and his pack of MBA morons that handled this game's release.
This shouldn't surprise anyone
Microsoft did this same shit in the 00s
But hey, at least Phil Spencer is your epic gamer buddy right? He's not like the other execs
anyone who ever speaks positively of a corporate figure needs to be circumcized at the anus
>they've now started deleting tweets
Fricking kek
What tweets?
That's a shame, it was a good game with a fun hook and I would have looked forwards to a sequel with more developed combat.
>The Xbox studio that made a game which actually got an award in the TGAs is closing
That's what you get for making the main girl a dyke
fricking pathetic.
Would've given it a try if they didn't make the main girl a dyke out of nowhere.
Nips understood this years ago that you NEVER have romantic shit or resolve it, especially not making delicious brown girls into haughty dykes. This is the Western influence.
>westerners larping as japanese get btfo
You love to see it.
Should've made fricking 808 a main feature if they needed money so badly.
>Practically given away via gamepass + $30 on steam
>Makes a huge media pop because it was shadowdropped
>Instead of doing anything with the brand recognition and clear high level of quality Tango is capable of, they close the studio
These people are fricking morons and this industry is a giant uroboros eating itself alive. Hope sacrificing Tango at the altar of trying to sabotage *Flopspoken* of all things was worth it.
This studio closing down really makes you think of what it takes to actually exist in the games industry.
Does every studio really need to release massive hits in order to simply survive? This IP is the only good new Microsoft IP and they decided to kill it instead of nurture it.
It requires a handful of C-suite MBA prostitutes who don't even know what industry they're sabotaging this week to *not* completely frick up the handling of your game, even if its perfect. Even if its so good, it can handle being shadowdropped in a packed release window. They're collecting 7 figures while packing their golden parachutes either way.
you know how everyone made fun of square enix back when they owned tomb raider because their sales expectations were too high even though tomb raider made a high amount of sales?
they actually werent high enough.
Small studios simply shouldn't sell out to big publishers. They have a right of life or death on a whim as recent events show it.
Smaller studios need to not leave themselves to the whim of mega corporations or shareholders. A game can sell magnitudes less than what Xbox or EA or Sony wants and still keep the lights on, but because it's not a billion dollar multi-year cash cow, they want nothing to do with it
So much for billions on goypass.
A few months after it came out, people were circulating that HFR bombed. Then MS including Aaron Greenberg totally and unequivocally refuted the claim. Well, looks like they were right and Greenberg lied, who could have thought.
It was set up to "bomb". If they just released it as an average $40-$60 game on PC and Xbox it would have made bank, but gamepass meant they probably got effectively $0 from Xbox players who played it and a $30 PC release for a AAA game goes beyond being generous into intentional sabotage.
>they just released it as an average $40-$60 game on PC and Xbox it would have made bank
I would NEVER pay $60 for Hi-Fi Rush. I only bought it on Steam after seeing it was $29.99 and liking the game enough on Gamepass to outright buy it. Hi-Fi Rush isn't a $40-60 game and would have performed infinitely worse because of that.
>Hi-Fi Rush isn't a $40-60 game
Wrong, especially after the free dlc update with bloody palace and beat rush. But even if you weren't full of shit, Xbox was the game's biggest day 1 platform and simply cutting gamepass out of the equation and selling it for $30 on both would have made them plenty of money.
Why is the industry so fricking heartless? Is it really just because of shareholder greed (line must go up!)???
Shut the frick up commie moron
No, he's right
Keep sucking shareholder dick moron
Kind of yeah, this is why I hate acquisitions in general. A studio goes from being an independent entity that must do everything it can to survive to an expendable "asset" that is sometimes only worth keeping to kill off or leech talent from.
Our entire economy is irreparably fricked over because of "line must go up"
Gotta bail out 343 and Todd somehow.
Now where I have seen this before?
goodnight my sweet princess ;_;
Frick off moron
am I not allowed to sadpost
No you fricking leech, make your own thread that will die in two posts without autistic and worthless bumps
why?
we'll have to wait and see on that stuff but its probably not pushing the needle enough to get more games
She's not fricking dead, moron. She's getting a movie and a port soon.
Where'd they say that?
Look it up, you have google.
Just did. It's all baseless rumors from what I've found. And it's also only talking about Gravity Rush 2 and I don't care unless I can get the first on PC.
>She's getting a movie
Why are you saying this like it's a good thing?
>and a port
Source? Because if it's your ass frick off
>She's getting a (live action) movie
She's not only dead, her body is being raped as we speak
>Soulless woke movie made by Sony Pictures
>Japan Studio not involved (cus they're dead duh)
Who
Fricking
Cares
dont name game Rush if you're Japanese...
they didn't because its called gravity daze in Japan
This was an evil move by Sony. One of the few studios they had that cared about making fun games instead of cinematic slop
It's also that it's one of those core first party studios that was always associated with Sony. Killing it is like backstabbing your own brand
No that's different.
No it isn't. They were always the same Xbot, you're just waking up to it now
Japan Studios was shut down by Sony, idiot. He's saying Sony and Microsoft are both garbage.
Snoy is in its won category of cancerous, don't lump them together
Xbox just lost 4 studios in a day, but okay.
You just don't understand business. It's wasteful to keep studios around if you aren't interested in releasing any games, kek
>Your shitty company that hates vidya is worse than my shitty company that hates vidya
lol
baa baa more you Black person sheep
Shut the frick up moron
Literally the exact same companies, right down to censoring. The games just get censored by not releasing on Xbox at all most of the time.
Yes, that's what my post meant.
No Tanga got fired, Japan team was split apart and are on Team Asobi, and the hardware design team.
its called soccer
Should have released it on the switch
Ugly Art = Ugly Game = Dead Studio
Xbox always loses.
So no Switch release? Kek.
If only the studio went bankrupt earlier the game would have remained an Xbox exclusive forever.
It was another one of those "meme games" people constantly posted fanart and porn but never played it.
Often the loudest fanboys are the poorest lol. People latch onto the idea of a cult classic and don't really support it meaningfully. Not helping is the fact that even the most popular games don't tend to get finished anyway.
Yes, only around a couple million people played the game.
>le contrarian goty
good ridance
>make the only good xbox exclusive in 10+ years
>they make you port it off and then shut you down as thanks
lol. lmao even.
I didn't buy it. I gamepassed it like they wanted me to. Frick Microsoft for killing the best Bethesda studio
>Studios makes shitty games
>It closes
What a shock !
Didn't Lies of P sell pretty well even when it was on Gamepass day one just like Hi-Fi Rush?
Because Lies of P was a good game.
Just a little good
It launched on Playstation.
So? Playstation fans don't like non-AAAA moviegame extravaganzas.
There's like 120 million PS4s, you will get people that enjoy all kinds of games and most importantly Sony is marketing their shit as if it were some Apple tier product so it's a paypig system. Paypigs buy games even if they don't play them for more than an hour.
I guess the studio was doomed long before. That's why HiFiRush got a shadow drop and Mikami resigned almost immediately. Those decisions looked strange but now make sense.
I hate how these headlines are just shifting all the blame on the game and the developers. Hi Fi Rush was a massive success and recieved accolades everywhere, it was a return to form of PS2 days where games like this came out every week with the same energy. A more fitting title would be "Microsoft's investment failures has them blaming a small passion project for their own ineptitude."
Remember when Gankertards were begging for Microsoft to buy Sega?
>we need japanese games
>close the only japanese studio
So that means is okay to pirate the games now right?
Good ridance. Frick that troony shitter studio, gaming and Microsoft are finally healing
I need to see Microsoft and Sony burning, I unironically want something like an ex-dev getting drunk and shooting up the higher up's place
>Play the game
>Cringe at how obvious it's a Japanese team held hostage by an American Producer
It deserved to die and nothing about that game's "popularity" was organic.
>Needed to make
Whatever happened to just focusing on making good games, instead of making good money?
>indies are garbo
>big companies are garbo
it's over
So what happens if you buy a steam game from a dead studio?
It goes to the shareholders, which is what we should want as red blooded, patriotic Americans
all of it goes to the publisher and its shareholders
You fund Phil Spencer's next bowel movement
The developers get paid during development. Unless it's an independent studio (indie or AA) then they don't ever see a dime regardless.
>Vidya bombing left and right
I find it amazing that more studios aren't closing their doors.
We're at the halfway point of 2024 so anything can happen still.
Shut the frick up you stupid busty sow
Everyone played it for like a buck on game pass so I'm not surprised.
I recall people initially defending M$s acquisition of everyone they can being a good thing because it meant that with unlimited money and a focus on gamepass, the aim would be to just let all studios RIP and allow for top-notch yearly releases, but it's clear that the mismanagement has caught up with them. They only bought Bethesda recently, so to close 3 whole studios from within that same studio tells you that they clearly need to cut costs.
I defended the acquisition only because it would harm Snoy due to new Activision and Bethesda games not releasing on PlayStation and I didn't play their games anyway. I guess I underestimated Microsoft's incompetency and didn't expect that they would not release anything of value and would actually backpedal on exclusivity.
Oh well, Microsoft killing Western studios is a positive in the end.
I predicted that something like this could happen but that means they are as bad at managing as Embracer, all they bought are old IP some chinks could remaster
R.I.P. Tango
So every big publisher is now a piece of shit? Is gaming actually dead for real?
We still have Nintendo barely
Why did they shadow drop the game? Why didn't they market the game? Why didn't it release on Switch alongside PS5?
>Why did they shadow drop the game? Why didn't they market the game?
Because they wanted it to fail, duh
>put game on goypass
>people play it and don't buy it
>Pikachu face
Seems like releasing it on Playstation didn't help or maybe it was because they just didn't give a frick about a soon to be dead studio and game
Too little too late
Not even putting it on Steam helped
Why didn't they release it on Switch? It fits way more with the games and demographic you would see there and wouldn't fricking melt it to run.
But nooooo, they put the fricking Honey I Shrunk the Kids team shooter that everyone already forgot about on Switch
It needs 60 FPS to function properly, it legit can't be on the Switch because of that. Nintendo not releasing stronger hardware is fricking over 3rd party devs a lot that could get a lot of sales on the platform if it could actually run more games.
Let's be real; the Switch is as powerful as can be for a portable from 2015 to be sold at a reasonable price without it being a loss leader for Nintendo.
Sure but that's 9 years ago and mobile is about the only kind of tech making huge progress still. That's going back to the Galaxy S6/ iPhone 6S. The Switch needed some sort of refresh but COVID fricked it so we got the OLED instead of the pro. I'm 99.9% sure that the Switch 2 release is going to open the floodgates and a ridiculous amount of ports are going to be there in the first year.
>The Switch needed some sort of refresh but COVID fricked it so we got the OLED instead of the pro.
I don't think Nintendo was planning on releasing a new system these past years; that would imply they gave a shit about consumers, developers, the market, or anything.
So why hasn't Microsoft closed Bethesda yet?
Because Todd with one (1) game can unironically save the entire industry if Elder Scrolls VI delivers.
They have Fallout and TES
And after the Fallout show massive success, it's their golden boy next to CoD
Although this isn't too surprising after thinking about it.
There's been a big shift in how people interact with games media. The days of buy a game, play it for a bit, put it down and then repeat are over.
People releasing new games are now not only competing with every title ever released now easily accessible via the PC gaming platform and consoles with lifespans spanning about a decade, but they are also competing with evergreen titles.
These titles got lucky racing to release and creating massive ecosystems which demand more and more of people's time.
I think what people are going to have to do moving forward is to try to release games a little differently, maybe use Roblox or some other suite as a platform.
Maybe they could try releasing anthologies with very short "games" and a short pricetag or something?
Premium games are a dead industry for the most part unless you load the game up with micropayments, then you can make a larger pool of cash with the same sized audience.
Something to think about.
If that's what gaming is gonna be, then I quit being a gamer. I didn't even like a single game listed in that picture. This shit is fricking gay, and I'm not gonna participate.
Agreed, not much we can do about it. I think the games industry can recover a bit of team sizes shrink but then it's just going to be a bunch of small games competing for a very small portion of customers.
or maybe they could try releasing games that aren't complete shit
Why bother? Executives, publishers and developers all know how fricking stupid it is that mtx make so much money compared to how much work they take to make and the more you make the less likely players will play anything else because they have all those cosmetics they paid for stuck in that one game. That is why GaaS is being pushed super hard because you save money AND make more money.
My point by posting that is more that it's probably too much of a gamble. Good games don't necessarily even equate to sales anyways.
You need to create a game that moves the heavens and the earth (or just get lucky) these days to turn a profit.
Looks like forspoken wasn't the only game to sink a dev
Maybe they should have scrapped the gamepass model
They'll get the pricing right eventually. Subscriptions are hot in the business world and all the MBAs are shitting themselves about how to sell more of them.
But it is not sustainable or profitable only Netflix has been able to make some profit but even then it’s a shitty model
That is the funniest thing isn't it?
Streaming has reduced profits in the film industry across the board basically but companies *have* to have their own streaming platform so that they can be the company that owns the "successful one".
I’m just a neet don’t have much of an interest in money but that seems pants on head moronic even to someone like me. To me it just seems like it’s all a scam to siphon off parts of the massive budgets for a few rich israelites.
it's time to start exiting the console market it's literally over
but like forreal this time I'm not even joking buy a PC NOW
If a game studio makes a good game and you fail to find ways to make money from it, that's on you, not the studio. By only caring about bottom line, they are completely destroying their chances of ever being good again.
is phil spencer is gonna continue with his whole schtick of "hey guys, I'm just a gamer just like you", like how many times is one gonna fall for the same routine
Maybe because it was a mediocre safe horny game. Any time this game was brought up half the talking was
>UWU SCOTTISH MOMMY IN A SUIT WHO LOOKS LIKE GENERIC ANIME GIRL WITH NO breasts OR ASS UWU PWEASE STEP ON ME
>No breasts
>No ass
Shut the frick up homosexual
I sincerely hope this image was trying to disprove my point, because if so it failed miserably.
I'm sorry, you're both blind and moronic
>Those tiny man breasts are acceptable to trannies
Anon shut the frick up. If you are gonna simp Korsika at least use a costume that makes her look better.
>Small breasts
>No ass
>no ass
it's as wide as her shoulders you literal troon
>baggy pants
>no breasts
>man face
>troony shoulders
You are going to die of aids turn away from your homosexual lifestyle
Is that a boy?
I'm pretty sure most kid-friendly japanese games/anime have more breasts than that.
>man face
You lost me chief
>man face
Low t Mentally ill brainwashed troony
Her tranime design doesn't fit the game at all, every character looks like a western cartoon character and suddenly animu girl who (unsurprisingly) is actually le good!
Japs just can't help themselves
>they need to appeal to their market
And now you're closing shop
Good. Leave the weeb shit to Sony
No, please don't.
t. weeb
>Weeb
Welp, there goes the last reason I had to care about this industry. Time to start voting for more DEI and MTX until it collapses.
Uhm... Hellblade sisters... please buy this game in 2 weeks, or else Ninja Theory is the next studio to cease existing.. i'm a little scared..
>Has less sales the PS5
>Games also sell less on it, with fewer people giving a shit about its "exclusives"
Oh...they're so very very fricked.
Microsoft likes to gut anything that doesn't make them money save for Xbox because they make money off subs. Anyone remember Zune? Windows Phone? Surface Tablets?
I am not worried about the people who made Hi-Fi Rush. They can just go to literally any other established publisher/studio and say "Sup, we made Hi-Fi Rush; we're here to make you some money".
Platinum Games only exists because Capcom was moronic and shut Clover Studios down. Same thing will happen here; anything that wins Game of The Year from Yahyzee; its developers aren't going to disappear from the industry anytime soon.
The Arkane guys will probably regroup and make immersive sims somewhere else as well.
Bullshit those homosexuals will put out some debra wilson sim and it will be garbage like everything else they made
They closed Arkane Austin, though. The Redfall Black folk. They're not gonna make immersive sims, lol.
They made Prey as well.
Platinum hasn't made a good game in over 10 years.
Ha ha, very funny, now frick off
Astral Chain was pretty fun
Its a particular collection of talent backed by potentially infinite money. The potential for great games was there if executives didn't find a way to ruin it all.
Shut the frick up, moron.
Name a single non-moronic publisher that is interested in actually making real video games instead of NWO programming or digital casinos.
There isn't one. There are zero left. The industry is dead and indies are the only worthwhile video games going forward.
>An otherwise excellent game is immediately bad if it even suggests that minorities are people too
Please do this board a favor and have a nice day.
Devolver Digital, New Blood Interactive
SO HOW DID MAKING HOT CHICK LESBIAN IN THE END CREDITS OF HI-FI RUSH PLAYED OUT FOR YOU, homosexualS?
ESG SHIT DIDNT HELP, DID IT?
BURN IN HELL!
Damn.
I'd imagine the lack of marketing and dropping it on fricking gamepass at launch caused more damage then one dyke blushing and smiling at another girl.
maybe but so does making character gay in the end fricking credits
that shit killed any interest many people had for potential continuation
didn't they just announce a switch port?
Nope and it probably never will now.
Phil Spencer is a _____________
i thought tango gameworks was that shitty software that come in some prebuilt pc with mediocre games. had no idea it was a real studio
We win barrybros
Good game, even with the slight wokeshit with the lesbian. Sad to see it go.
20k reviews on Steam seems like a lot for this sort of game. What were they expecting?
Microsoft went straight down EA tier in my eyes after this. Frick them. And frick Bethesda.
>you are now aware they are gonna take the song out
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone
>denuvo still in place so there's no "backup" version yet that people can pirate
Grim
>Refuse to re-up licensed music.
>Refuse to remove Denuvo.
The only way to play this in 10 years is going to be Switch emulation.
>Tango Gameworks – Tango Gameworks will also close. We are thankful for their contributions to Bethesda and players around the world. Hi-Fi Rush will continue to be available to players on the platforms it is today.
We might not even get the Switch port.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/05/rumoured-hi-fi-rush-switch-port-in-doubt-as-microsoft-culls-tango-gameworks-and-other-studios
Reminder to all you braindead homosexuals that Microsoft acquired Bethesda after HFR was nearly finished development, and it was shadow dropped onto digital distribution only.
Microsoft spent ZERO DOLLARS on the game. Whether or not it hit sales expectations, every copy sold was a profit to their bottom line. Every single purchase was Microsoft's gain for absolutely no work or effort. And they also got one of their most highly acclaimed titles in recent years that was praised from everyone.
This decision has NOTHING to do with money in vs. money out. There is literally no possible way that HFR could have been a financial loss for Microsoft because they didn't spend any fricking money to make or promote the game. This decision was made EXCLUSIVELY because Xbox is a dying fricking joke of a brand and they need to sacrifice as much as possible to try and keep worthless failures like Bethesda and 343 and Coalition afloat because those companies are run by homosexuals who know how to suck corporate wiener and tell Phil that their team of trannies can totally bring back the glory days of Halo and Gears and Skyrim this time if he just shovels more millions down the drain.
It wasn't Microsoft's decision it was Bethesda's.
Microsoft still didn't integrate them completely into the Xbox Games Studios.
The real reason is because Starfield is a disaster. And instead of firing his buttbudies and resigning, Todd decided to shut down multiple studios under the Buthesda publishing umbrella because he doesn't give a frick about those people.
This is purely Todd's fault. It's all hapening because Starfield flopped, and Todd decided unrelated people should take a fall for it.
If this is indeed Todd Howard's doing then Phil Spencer should be able to offer a job to anybody laid off he deems talented.
>Phil "Bringing more than hype, bringing games" Spencer doing jack shit
Yeah no frick that guy, he probably only cares about keeping his job
Screw you Todd
pretty sure bethesda is just pivoting to be the fallout studio after the success of the series. they're probably putting every person they can on some new fallout now at the cost of literally everything else.
>the success of the series
Fricking what? Nobody is watching that slop, and even if they were how does that translate into more people buying Bethesda games?
not only is it massively popular but it led to gigantic spikes in people buying and playing the games.
BARRY WON.
Fricking hilarious
This is actually doomed to
>Physical is handled by LIMITED RUN GAMES
>Digital will inevitably get delisted (Licensed music)
>Can't even pirate (Denuvo)
>Physical is handled by LIMITED RUN GAMES
Great, can't wait to get my games burned on DVD-Rs in the future.
Doesn't CD-R games rots quicker than pressed discs?
I think the glue between the layers of CD-Rs is of lower quality which can cause errors/rot after some years.
But shills said (and keep saying) that it was
>shadowdropped
>shadow dropped
hence it should be good!
Seriously, they can't even use other words because contract told them to say that.
Meds
Damn that kinda sucks, Tango was one of the only ones there not making pozzed garbage, but Mikami left recently so I guess it would probably go downhill anyways
>denuvo + no marketing
I'm pretty sure that piracy helps a lot with word of mouth.
>Lionhead Studios
Lionhead was killed by the lying homosexual, not microwiener.
I miss them. I mean, I hate what they did to Fable, but damn I wish they'd have at least stuck around long enough for a third Black & White.
That's....really little? and low quality
Seriously fill up 4 times of this ime with 1 year of sony.
Seethe
how is a microsoft game that's on gamepass day 1 supposed to hit a monetary target?
genuine question. isn't the whole point of first party games to funnel people onto gamepass and stay there forever because those games are never leaving the service?
morons on Ganker will endlessly cry about GaaS and multiplayer games but cheer the moment two prolific singleplayer studios are closed forever
I didnt think i could be so sad about a studio closure, this didnt deserve to happen and i just hope everyone makes their own studio or joins other developers.
I hope john johanas works on another cool as frick game too.
They were probably in the middle of developing multiple games, there was a blatant teaser in Spider's Thread on an arcade machine of a game with an anime artstyle that looked insanely detailed with unique characters. I was sincerely hopeful to see what that project might have been if it existed but it doesnt even matter anymore.
Microshit sucks my ballsack.
I pirated it kek. I only played for like 40 mins though so whatever. Game seemed popular enough though.
>Microsoft shadowdrops the game
>its on gamepass so no sales
>Studio recieves award after award
>Microsoft praises the reception
>Nicki Minaj skin sold more by itself than the combined sales of several studios
what the frick did you think was going to happen? do you think a massive shareholder driven company gives two fricks about artistic and fun games? it made nothing, the studio made nothing and its way more profitable to kick them to the curb and make another FATASS call of duty coomer skin that will outsell everything. hell im sure the skin made more than Halo Infinite did all last year
>the schizos were right about it flopping
Cats are unappealing to the mass market as a cute companion animal, that only appeals to the mentally ill and spergs because they find cats sexually attractive
Cats are appealing as villains and buttholes because they look evil and are the opposite of a companion animal.
>people still think the game has to flop for the studio to be shut down
HAVE YOU moronS LEARN NOTHING FROM JAPAN STUDIO/WESTWOOD/PSYGNOSIS/LITERALLY EVERY STUDIO EA EVER BOUGHT
HI-FI RUSH DID WELL
WE HAD DIRECT CONFIRMATION THAT HI-FI RUSH DID WELL
THAT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THESE BIG PUBLISHERS ARE TURBOCANCER AND "EXTEND, EMBRACE, EXTINGUISH" HAS BEEN MICROSOFT'S M.O. SINCE THE FRICKING 90s
WHEN WILL YOU homosexualS FRICKING LEARN
333th post has the answer
Whatever happened to the peole at Westwood that made Command & Conquer what is was? Did they make other games at other studios?
Anon Westwood these days goes by the name Petroglyph, and they made the CnC Remaster
Oh it's those guys, thanks.
Japan studio games did indeed flop. More info was found from the Insomniac leak and Japan studio games were some of the lowest sold among Sony releases. I still think Sony still should've continued
to subsidize them though.
No, Sony would've raped their corpse. They are better left dead.
reddit goislop
Hi Fi rush couldn't satisfy Microsoft like Bethesda can.
>be corporation
>buy thing
>destroy it
>move on
If laws don't stop corporations doing this then unironically what's preventing somebody just ruining entire industries for shits and giggles?
>make good game
>no battlepasses, no live service, not DLCs, no microtransactions
>just make a good single player game
>"umm you didn't make us $666 gorillion this quarter?.. heh... too bad... on the graveyard you go"
>"your IP? oh, I think I'll hold onto that for next 80 years just in case by the way ;)"
FRICK YOU FRICKING israelite homosexualS
I'LL SPIT IN THE FACE OF ANY Black person MIDWIT NORMALhomosexual WHO DARES TO SAY THE GAMING INDUSTRY ISN'T DEAD
The worst part is that they made them release the Playstation port so they could make just a little more money off HFR before firing all of them.
I wonder what happened to the Switch port people datamined files for.
Either Nintendo is saving it for a direct or the current Switch is too weak and they either scrapped it or it's going to be a day 1 Switch 2 port which would be incredibly awkward.
>The worst part is that they made them release the Playstation port
So what? If you like a game, wouldn't you want more people to play it you stupid homosexual?
I'd rather have them pirate it, then give money to MS israelites
Because instead of letting them make another game, they made them release it elsewhere so they can get more money off it and then fired the entire dev team. This is an award winning game, the best exclusive Microsoft has had in a decade. It's so fricking over now it's not even funny.
>they made them release it elsewhere
So what? Are you an actual console warring homosexual?
Hate on them all you want for closing the studio, but you are acting like a child whose mad because someone else got to play with his favorite toy
Anon, this is squeezing every last drop out of the developer, wringing them dry, and discarding them. The ultimate fricking scumbag penny pincher move possible.
Post your nose
You first
>make good game
>no battlepasses, no live service, not DLCs, no microtransactions
My two favorite games of 2023 (Armored Core 6 and Lies of P) were like that and still you omegashitposted them to death so I spit back on you.
>and still you omegashitposted them to death
The frick are you bumbling about? Who the frick is "you"? I liked those games too. Your brain has rotten from shitposting for-real. You actual schizophrenic tard, talking to the voices in your head. Do no reply to me, lobotomite.
No you don't. Hi-Fi Rush are very vocal about how much they despised AC6 and anything souls-adjacent (see:
,
)
>No you don't.
YOU are telling me which games I like?? You arrogant fricktard. I said do not reply to me, you actual brain rotten imbecile, you are a husk of a human, I will not engage with your delirious drivel further
Because unlike HFR they're worthless soulsslop
Based Gravity Rush bro
You just can't have nice things with this industry, man
It's all so tiresome
I'm not even angry anymore. I'm just depressed.
Didn't read the thread. The sole reason I didn't play the game is the stupid plot and presentation which were disrepectful towards the MC and by extension the player. If they didn't treat the male MC as a servitor to the female writer self-inserts, I would have bought it, because the gameplay looked pretty good. But obviously, one more putchase would not have done much. Oh well. I'll buy some indieshit to redeem myself (Animal Well perhaps).
>which were disrepectful towards the MC and by extension the player
I bet you hated Kid Icarus Uprising too you fricking culture war wienersucker.
What does it have to do with a culture war? I started watching a no-commentary playthrough and 15 minutes in, it was obvious that the the brown girl is the writers self-insert and the main character, and Chai is an accessory who is doing a thankless job. Because the writer thought her self insert deserved a sidekick. Okay, but this is not for me.
>it was obvious that the the brown girl is the writers self-insert and the main character
wrong
>and Chai is an accessory who is doing a thankless job.
wrong
You saw two characters at the start of their arcs, one who is a touchy b***h and the other who is a headstrong idiot, and both of whom get called out and humbled over the course of the game until they're in better places, and you took it as your moronic culture war nonsense because you're a fricking homosexual who doesn't actually play video games
If I could erase every single one of your ilk off the face of Ganker I'd do it in a heartbeat
The point where I stopped looking at the game for good is the girl explaining how it's her grandmother or whoever who built everything and now everyone needs to fight for her cause. No matter how much you sugarcoat this, she remains the main character, who is central to the plot. Niw, it's normal that the MC is somewhat an outsider in a story (cf. Armored Core 6). It's also normal that the MC is surrounded by freeloaders who directly profit from him (cf. I dunno, Diablo 2, Terraria). Yet, doing all this and painting the MC as an idiot who needs to "grow" or "develop"/is tone deaf. Excuse me, but the guy who from the start did all the heavy lifing does not need commentary on how he needs to grow.
that nitpick is directly addressed in the game in a cute quirky 4th wall break sort of way. Chai is constantly questioning why he's doing everything, and how the squad can zap in at anytime yet chai still has to do everything in person. and it's all meant to poke fun at the fact this is a video game and the story doesnt need to make sense or follow any real world logic.
Chai is only ever framed and being dense and too willing to rush in to stupid situations. Peppermint is constantly framed as being a touchy b***h. Peppermint's arc is far more of a character shift than Chai's, and the game acknowledges this through Korsica and Macaron, both of whom are far more appreciative to Chai right off the bat because they're both older and wiser and can see that even if Chai is a bit thick-headed he always gets the job done. Again, you saw two characters at the start of their arcs, made a snap judgement, and immediately refused to actually pay attention for the rest of the game because you're a lets-play watching moron who doesn't actually play games.
>No matter how much you sugarcoat this, she remains the main character,
You are too far gone, your higher mental functions are completely decimated by memes,shitposting and extremely poor quality media you consume. I suggest forced euthanasia as the only cure for you.
This is a fairly strict standard regarding writing media. I think their relationship is fine for the most part.
>the guy who from the start did all the heavy lifing
You couldn't even understand a simple cartoon tier plot. You are on toddler level intelligence. Nothing you type has any worth.
1. Chai needs help
2. Peppermint helps him
3. Chai returns the favor by getting into Rekka's office
4. Chai fricks up Peppermint's plan
5. Peppermint discovers the mind-control plot and Chai helps her, because he fricked up previously
They are on completely even ground from the very start.
have a nice day.
Not to mention that the literal author insert character gives Peppermint a personality test and concludes that she is unlikable. Or that Chai outright states by the end that they both smoothed down each other's rough edges. The game completely spells it out that both characters are flawed and need each other.
Imagine your brain being this corrupted by marvel that you believe character development doesn't exist
Part of the story is the party growing to understand and respect each other, none of them are painted as paragons
I didn’t play it because it had Black folk in the game that and the ugly western art style
You actual fricking brainless zoomer Black person dimwit moron.
They get to know and respect each other and are friends at the end of the game.
I swear you idiotic zoombies can only comprehend marvel-tier plots nowadays.
I have an Xbox.
I have gamepass.
I like action games.
I still didn't play it.
Fricking israelite megacorpo game industry of 2024 will not be pleased with anythining below billions of dollars in profit in this day and age thanks to moronic consoomers dumping money on mtx.
can ANYONE ELSE ponder about this weird easter egg in spider's thread, i've tried in the past to drum up discussion but i guess literally nobody played spider's thread at all.
I was very, sincerely hopeful this was that rumored JRPG they were making and now that doesn't even matter anymore.
>eternally on gaypass
>why no one buys
are they getting senile?
Nintendo won by doing nothing
Woah now Anon, let's wait and see what bullshit they name the next Switch before saying that
Isnt it funny how ms shot themselves in the foot right after nintendo confirmed their next console
I won't give Nintendo credit for a lot, but at least they never directly shut down their partner studios. The worst they've ever done is not saving them when they frick themselves over (i.e. Alphadream).
Studios really should go to Nintendo Steam.
Also this makes me suspect Embracer really was a fake company made by Microsoft since its pretty much doing the same
>But studios
>Kill the ips
I wonder if this is just some movements against videogame marketing for stealing movies market
This video goes over it and it's not just gaming. This is just the modern face of capitalism to make money for a very select few at the cost of everyone else.
>another win
>all my husbandos from the evil Within are dead now
Sisters.....
Smart of Microsoft. Why take the risk with these indie studios when you have OpenAI infront of your doors? Soon you will be able to prompt whole games.
So where are the homosexuals thats kept saying ms buying studios is a good thing
Wasn't Ganker vehemently denying and coping about this? Insisting it was a success or something?
Funny that this game released the same day as Forspoken and both games managed to kill their respective studios.
You are a blithering fricking idiot. The company didn't shut down because of the game. The game did exceedingly well, well enough that it actually got interest in microsoft after sales numbers came in. They're doing this shit, shutting down Tango, and The Ghostwire Tokyo team, and lots of others, because it'll make them more money to do so, and they don't care if the fans want more shit. Shut down smaller parts of your big company that made you a good profit, and you can easily write it as an easy tax write-off. This isn't the first time Microsoft has done scummy shit like this, and just goes to show that modern gaming companies, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, all of them, they're scummy trash.
I’m a neet so I don’t understand shit about taxes can you explain why they are allowed to write it off for tax reasons. I don’t understand how a “failed” business venture can be a tax write off
NTA, but I'll do my best.
First, they can write off any assets as a loss. Intellectual property, software, equipment, can all be written as a loss, so they can reduce their taxable income.
Any expenses that came with shutting down the studios, like severance pay or other termination costs can ALSO, be deducted as well.
If it was a big shut down, like, shutting down this, along with the other companies like Arkane, they can put it down as restructuring, they can get tax benifits and treatments that can help with "restructuring costs."
And the reason it's allowed is because it's follows the tax laws our own government set up. As long as what they're doing is fully legal, and everything is written down in the books for their pay, they can do this shit, cut off these smaller companies, get a nice tax write-off, and get off scot free.
Sounds very israeli to me thanks for explaining it. So let’s say I had a shitty financial expense could I just say frick it I don’t really feel like paying taxes on my mistake?
Pretty much. If you think it could get you paying less taxes, just cut off that lil arm, and the governemt'll come to help ya. Same with film studios. Just, don't release the film, shelve it, and count it as a loss in your taxes to have to pay less.
Maybe I should get a bunch morons to invest their money into trash and then just run away with the bag then. Wtf
Denuvo chads keep winning.
>Make the only good Xbox game of 2023
>Get shut down to fund Starfield patches
Grim
truly mind boggling because tango were doing multiple free updates for both ghostwire and hi-fi rush.
I think the shittiest thing was not porting TEW1 gamepass ver to steam but i honestly think that's microshit's call.
lmao remember when the xbox execs came out and said this was false?
bunch of lying homosexuals the lot of them, anyone who fell for their big PR offensive is moronic
Wasnt hfr team japanese? They really do hate asians kek
The only decent xbox game in years and this happens, Ninja Theory fans better brace for impact because there is no way they aren't next, Bleeding Edge was an ultra flop and there is no way Hellblade won't flop.
Didnt they build a brand new studio, spent like 6 years on Hellblade 2 and also a bunch of weird projects about sensing human pulse and shit? they are gonna get fricking suplexed if Hellblade 2 doesnt earn a frickton
Hellblade 2 will be a flop no other way around it, the fact that ms also let go Toys for bob makes me think that they basically gave ms studios an ultimatum to either make successful Gaas or gtfo and NT already have strike one with bleeding edge.
>Tameem left knowing this will happen
It's Xbover
>they are gonna close ninja theory because hellblade won't make cod profits
>they are gonna close id because doom won't make cod profits
>they are gonna close arkane lion because blade won't make cod profits
>they are gonna close double fine because they make creative games and not cod profits
and they are gonna keep their IPs on their supersecret disney caveau
even if you don't care you can't deny it has never been more over for this industry than now
>they are gonna close id because doom won't make cod profits
This might actually cause murders.
They want to make money but they refuse to add cute women
No reason no company wouldnt make their own Persona game with hot white and white women, see how popular Astarion is, i hate their doublethink
Also you can have a few ips and build popular during time and sales
>bro microsoft they can still make profits with cute women
JESUS FRICKING CHRIST Black person HOW THE FRICK DO YOU F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N
"DUUUUUH?? IT'S NOT THE UNSUSTAINABLE EXPECTATIONS OF SUITS
IT'S CUZ MUH WAIFUS!!!
WHERE DA YT b***hES AT? HUEHUEHUE :DDD"
EAT SHIT AND DIE OF TURBOAIDS YOU DROOLING homosexual moron
>even if you don't care you can't deny it has never been more over for this industry than now
Legitimately what fricking non-indie studios are left?
What the frick is there to look forward to?
What franchises haven't yet been raped?
The industry is completely fricking dead.
>Legitimately what fricking non-indie studios are left?
Nintendo and its affiliates are still doing alright, I guess?
Valve still makes a new game every few years, too.
God, it's so fricking dire.
>Legitimately what fricking non-indie studios are left?
Suckerpunch is still doing good for now
And to add insult to injury, you can get Hi-Fi Rush in this months humble bundle. Redfall was also in a fanatical bundle as well. Did Microsoft really time this to happen when they were shutting down both studios?
No wonder he resigned. Imagine dealing with all the backlash and hate Bethesda is rightfully getting right now
>Hi-Fi Rush fans shit on Pizza Tower and AC6 for not having enough waifus
>this happens
Well, I'd feel sympathy for you guys, but you kinda brought this on yourselves.
>Hi-Fi Rush fans shit on Pizza Tower and AC6 for not having enough waifus
I literally never did this and I think you are making people up in your head to get mad at.
Hell, I drew art for /pizzatrash/ a few times.
have a nice day and take your consolewarring Black person mentality into the grave
i really hate this tribalism shit.
Those are all great games in their own respective niches, and their niches are too small to fling shit at eachother and put people off.
Nobody can like one thing without hating another.
>100% cleared HFR and AC6 the months they released
I shat on none of them except forspoken.
>try to criticize the game in any capacity
>immediately deflect to "OH BUT EVERY OTHER GAME THIS YEAR IS SHIT" or accuse people of being Forspoken shills, like
>>no marketing
shadowdrop
and yet it BTFO an AAA game released on the same day
Who do you think you're kidding?
Because the game wasn't the problem. the company is.
>this game is a perfect masterpiece, you're just a forspoken shill!
You just can't help yourself.
>>this game is a perfect masterpiece
No but it's the best game to have come out in 2023 and one of the most original games to come out in a long fricking time.
>No but it's the best game to have come out in 2023
And this gives you the right to shitpost against anyone who disagrees?
yes because you're wrong.
Unironically yes, it does. Frick whatever shitty goyslop you enjoyed from that garbage year.
>Because the game wasn't the problem. the company is.
this.
Forspoken = bad game made by a bad studio (the same hacks who made FFXV)
Commit sepukku
>try to criticize the game in any capacity
What criticism? You're just schizoposting and deflecting to unrelated topics. The posts you all just responded to aren't replying to "criticism", they're replying to you being a schizophrenic frick and making this about Pizza Tower and AC6 for some fricking reason.
Show me a single time that you guys were able to take criticism of the game without any kind of deflection. You made discussion of this game impossible, especially since every other thread was porn spam.
The game has annoying mid mission pauses even on replays and the balance of assists is completely skewed.
Now, I really mean it. have a nice day.
You're the only one deflecting right now, moron. Nobody was talking about criticism until you started trying to use it to deflect from you being a schizophrenic homosexual starting fandom wars.
Also, I have yet to see a single fan of HFR that won't admit Z-Shielding is an annoying ass mechanic.
Funny, I got called a shitposter when bringing up these criticisms months ago. I wonder why you accept them as valid now. Quite interesting.
When you guys shit on every other game, then you don't really open yourselves up to receiving sympathy.
I literally complained about this shit at launch you disingenuous homosexual.
End your fricking life.
>Funny, I got called a shitposter when bringing up these criticisms months ago. I wonder why you accept them as valid now. Quite interesting.
You're an annoying frick and the reasons people are/were calling you a shitposter almost certainly has nothing to do with your criticism of the game.
have a nice day NOW.
Anyone, who replies to this anon with anything, but variations of "have a nice day" is a homosexual.
>I wonder why you accept them as valid now
Reminds me of The Callisto Protocol.
Before release if you dared to criticize the little we saw about the game or be skeptical about it Ganker called you an EA shill and yelled "IN GLEN WE TRUST"
After it was released and it ended being shit Ganker did a 180° and went "I told you it would be shit, as expected from a PUBG spinoff".
It also makes Macaroni only good for breaking Z Shields. You need to keep him ready for breaks at any moment, so you never use him organically like Peppermint.
the assist recharges in literal seconds and if you parry > assist he annihilates the shield
macaron was my favorite one because he launches and ground bounces
Everyone has criticized the obvious flaws with the game, homosexual. It's dumb that you're required to play the game 5 times for all achievements/unlockables. Unskippable scenes suck. Assist spam is overpowered. Denuvo. Korisca is not sitting on my face. It's obvious that at least one boss and level were cut. And so on. Everyone has been straightforward in acknowledging the game's few flaws from the start. Now how about you make a real criticism that isn't just "AAAAAAAA TOXIC FANS SAVE ME TWITTER"?
>Everyone has criticized the obvious flaws with the game, homosexual.
>this game is a flawless masterpiece and every other game is "shitty goyslop"
That doesn't sound like you guys are being receptive to criticism.
>this entire fanbase is a hivemind, you and this other hivemind should fight
you are a schizo moron and should have a nice day
I can say the same thing about you, Forspoken shill.
ANY criticism for that flop of a was met with "you are some FF16/LGBT FF14/Kingdom Hearts/FF7 Remake fanboy"
i hate Forspoken, much for the same reason I dislike Hi-Fi Rush. I hate movie games.
Do you want to offer your opinion on any other games you've never played?
Oh.
it's you, ACgay
I'm going to make you receptive to a gun in your mouth.
Notice that people keep saying it was the best of the year and only you keep routinely interpreting it as them saying it's flawless and perfect.
I complained about the cutscenes being unskippable and the fandom called me a troony who "hates fun".
I'd love to hear the justification for why unskippable cutscenes are an essential part of the game.
Keep us in touch with the voices in your head. Better yet, have a nice day
See, if you're gonna keep shitposting because I make valid criticisms, then enjoy your dead studio.
I am not getting into this discussion with you ACgay, because we've long established over multiple fricking years that you are not capable of understanding that there are people in the world who will not share your opinion and are not automatically stupid for doing so. If it were up to you, the game wouldn't even have a soundtrack.
>you are not capable of understanding that there are people in the world who will not share your opinion and are not automatically stupid for doing so.
>every game that isn't Hi-Fi Rush is dogshit
>Frick whatever shitty goyslop you enjoyed from that garbage year.
Perhaps you should practice what you preach.
Sure, let me just bodyjack anon there, I'm sure he won't mind.
You could prove that you don't agree with him by actually being open to criticism, and not shitting on people for disliking the game. But that would take too much work, I suppose.
We've had this argument a thousand times over. You have had a completely inflexible opinion for nearly a decade now. You think unskippable cutscenes are bad. Noted, I'm not a fan either, but I can live with it. You think every cutscene is bad. I can roll with them, provided the game is fun and if the story at least somewhat interests me. This is where if always stops, because you stance is that all cutscenes are bad, period, after which you will lament that I'm not policing every fricking HFR thread under the sun, because people say mean things to you due to being tired of you.
It is the same thing every goddamn time. The only thing you haven't done yet is start spouting imaginary numbers how the studio totally spent 200 milliom on cutscenes and 50 billion on the soundtrack.
Every single goddamn time, whether it's HFR, Xenoblade, or whatever else you hold an eternal grudge over.
>You think unskippable cutscenes are bad. Noted, I'm not a fan either,
But you defended the unskippable cutscenes. You cited them as essential to the experience even. Just like the Zelda fans who vehemently defended the intro in TOTK being unskippable, even though it's just walking down a hallway and then watching Beef Jerkydorf instantly kill link and break his sword. It's not enough that people praise the game, you are completely averse to the tiniest criticism.
All of this could've been avoided if you were just willing to listen to opposing viewpoints, but you couldn't do that. That would mean "giving leeway to the evil forspoken shills".
and yet over in
shits on Forspoken which is automatically followed by
bringing up HiFi Rush for no reason
>bringing up hi-fi rush for no reason
Gee, maybe you guys shouldn't have defended Hi-Fi Rush's problems by instantly deflecting to Forspoken at every opportunity. For the record, I agree with the first post. People who complain about the character being black are just /misc/kids who can't stand black people being in their games. Like he says, the game has a trillion other problems to worry about.
>Trying to create a stupid fandom war
Kys
With this, Microsoft (and all their children company) have officially entered the list of companies I will never give another buck to.
Enjoy your seat next to Ubisoft, Sony, EA, Nintendo, Square Enix, CDProjekt, Konami, Epic Games, Gearbox, Take Two, Bandai Namco and Disney
Game looked like it had ESGshit in it. Did not buy.
Why couldn't Tango just split from Bethesda and MS and become independent? People would surely support them after the success of hi fi rush
It's far easier to make a new studio from the legal stand point, which is what Mikami did.
How could this happen? Hi-Fi Rush was such a GAMEY GAME that KNEW it was GAME. Not like typical Sony movie SLOP like The Last of us. HFR was SOUL and KINO out the ass. This is the future that we gamers DESERVE.
Literally exactly all of this but said completely unironically.
Dear god MS is full of homosexual morons
frick tango for suckling on the xbox tit with no results or good games.
enjoy the soup line you incompetent fricks.
The Shadow of the Erdtree threads are going to be unbearable due to the shitposting coming from Koreangays, bitter Dragon's Dogma and now resentful Hi-Fi Rush fans.
Good thing around 2019-20 I stopped discussing the games I'm playing
Yeah, there is no point in creating a fandom war with a dead game.
KEKAROO!
At least Hi-Fi is on PS5 now
They could have closed down all those other studios and it would have been unfortunate but understandable. Closing down Tango is just braindead
I had to mute the dialogue and turn off subtitles to play this game. I enjoyed the gameplay but the characters were so fricking annoying and they never shut up.
WHOA, careful anon. You can't say that. That makes you a Forspoken shill.
Fair enough. I liked most of it, but the game really needed an option to turn off cutscenes on replay.
>He still can't cope.
have a nice day.
A good rule of thumb is that Microsoft will always run every franchise and ip it has into the ground, if Microsoft buys or aquires your favorite game series, you might as well kiss it goodbye
For example:
>Halo
>Minecraft
>Gears of War
>Age of Empires
>Fable
>etc
Hi-Fi Rush OST Synesthesia(Ending Theme)
HI-Fi Rush is one of the very few games with soul that came out in the past 10 years.
It's no wonder it was only a mild success: majority of consoomers in 2020+, especially zoomers, have no souls, no spark in their eyes, God had nothing to do with their creation, they are empty golems, shaped and animated by cancerous modern american culture.
It's only downhill from here.
I am so mad I became moronic.
Meant to post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wbKNpvVih4
americans in general are conditioned to be the perfect golems
no history to look back to
no culture that unites them
like crabs in a bucket they throw shitfits at each other instead of looking up at the people trapping them
"nooo that's what commies do" they say as they kneel to the current fabricated narrative their media feeds them
"trickle down economics" they say as they feed on highly processed fast food that weakens them physically and mentally
all those talks about muh 2nd amendment and no action against the tyrant it preaches
the pastiest of french people holds more conviction than the most deluded american
americans in general are conditioned to be the perfect golems
>Game comes out
>Love it
>Studio gets killed
United Front (Sleeping Dogs), Vicarious Visions (THPS1+2), Tango (Hi Fi Rush) and many more
They can't keep getting away with it
>Sleeping Dogs
I know its been a long time since United Front went defunct but I still hate it that they did.
The amount of money that went into paid shills outnumbered the actual revenue of the game.
Black person frick your reddit tourist 'every Ganker thread is a shill' bullshit, I'm fricking depressed over here about good devs getting shot.
homosexuals like you are why we can't discuss games. Sorry this isn't another e-celeb rage thread.
Is Hifi rush actually good
It's good game, but it has denuvo and I can't bring myself to tell you to buy it to give money to the MS israelite
yeah it's great. dmc with rhythm elements
oh no! some weebshit adjacent game company is being shut down?!
>Put game on GoyPass
>It doesn’t sell
Imagine my shock
THANKS FORSPOKEN