>We still value Japanese games and the Japanese game market
>shuts down their only Japanese dev
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>We still value Japanese games and the Japanese game market. >shuts down their only Japanese dev
It's not their fault. Xbox was a killer product and their library was better. Their mistake was trying to break snoy conditioning. It's snoy fanboy's faults for not dropping their dogshit console and supporting the ones actually making quality vidya.
I haven't bought a single Xbox games for 12 years until HiFi Rush came out. And I got that on PC instead of Xbox. You couldn't hope to tell me a "killer product" Microsoft has made that I believe is such.
>Every Japanese game that has ever sold on a PlayStation has been successful financially
Idiot.
every cross platform game runs better on playstation than on xbox. even hifi rush runs better on playstation. the people of xbox even said no, we will not make better videogames. xbox is like an abusive husband, and xbox players the 95lb woman getting battered, while pc gays are the friend telling them to stay with him. Nintendo is just some random person who is oblivious to it all.
Nope, it's 100% their fault.
Gal Gun Returns for Xbone was cancelled because MS wanted it censored and the devs wouldn't bend the knee.
Despite being located in Japan and having Japanese people working for them, they employ a lot of westerners and only make games geared towards westerners. I wouldn't really consider them a game company for the Japanese market.
Hi-Fi Rush probably would've done better if it had a more authentic anime style too instead of a western faux anime style.
>Despite being located in Japan and having Japanese people working for them, they employ a lot of westerners and only make games geared towards westerners.
So... Capcom?
Sort of, but Capcom still occasionally makes stuff tailored to the Japanese market though.
MS just kind of proofed that original good games dont sell.
Sad state, but I think its time to just stop keeping up with modern games.
If even rich frick MS cant keep a passion dev in the air, no one can.
Time to stick to PS2 emulation and indies.
Except they do sell. It was just Microsofts fault it didn't. Since they shadow dropped it onto a platform people could pay $1 to access.
A vast majority of the million+ people who played Hi Fi Rush. Did so through gamepass when you could effectively rip off Microsoft for a dollar. The game was popular enough to get ported to playstation and switch.
>The game was popular enough to get ported to playstation
And it didn't get any sales despite having months of advertising
>and Switch
It's not on the Switch.
>And it didn't get any sales despite having months of advertising
Of course. Because for first two months the game was out it was effectively free. It's a single player game anon. People play it and beat it and move on. So people played it for effectively free then stopped. Didn't buy it when it changed systems except for a stark few snoys who were b***hing for it to be on their console forever.
Didn't help that this game was the reason Microsoft abolished the $1 gamepass deal.
Hifi Rush was already a niche game, and it was following in the steps of 2 AAA games that's bombed. It was never going to sell big, but I at least thought MS would keep the studio around for good PR. I guess the money saved is better than good PR.
It's documented to have a few million players and an pretty low budget. If it wasn't effectively given away for free it would have profited for Microsoft.
>It's documented to have a few million players and an pretty low budget.
Yes, because people got it with their gamepass sub. If it wasn't on Gamepass, even fewer people would have played it. Bayonetta 3 is an established IP, on the Switch, had like 6 years of hype, and that probably sold less than 2m. This game had none of that and managed to get at least 3m players. The game was never meant to be a huge seller.
Few people would have played it. But it would have made considerably more money and covered it's production costs at the very least.
Instead of making nothing even though it had a few million people playing it.
No anon its gamepass and the fact games has 0 atachment and replayability unless its a gay as service or mmo
I think they only proved that the Netflix of gaming doesn't work. They can't cover the cost to support studios.
>Time to stick to PS2 emulation
Yeah. My backlog of games across platforms and generations is so massive there is not enough lifespan to finish them all. So yeah. I don't care.
>release the game on Gamepass day one so all of your online subscribers play it for "free" without supporting the devs
>be surprised when the game isn't selling millions in the first week
Gamepass was a mistake.
>shuts down couple troony studios
>somehow a bad thing
explain???
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It's almost as if making exclusives and bad sequels had something to do with it
You cannot pander to the Japanese and trannies at the same time, Phil. It's either one or the other.
>Gaming For Everyone
>except the Japanese
Sounds kinda racist doesn't it?
I thought hifi rush was pretty well liked. I didn’t play that slop but why would they close them down. Also did they totally shut down all of arcane or just the homosexual austin studio?
Hifi Rush is pozzed desexualized slop for troons. The female characters look like tumblr abominations.
Well yeah I agree I hated the art style and it had Black folk in the game I didn’t waste my time with that trash but I remember alotnof people saying how much they liked it. I was under the impression normalgays are it up
It's a rhythm game, rhythm games suck. The fad is over. Only a few deranged autists are left playing them, that's why there's people on here that liked it.
Well liked and profitable are not the same. Since it was released on 1$ gamepass with no advertisement. Most people played it for free so Microsoft got next to no money out of it. Even though it was quite popular.
Just the Austin studio. The one that made Redfall and Prey. But not dogshit dishonored dlc or deathloop.
Sad because Prey was pretty damn good and Redfall was shit because the studio wanted to scrap the damn thing multiple times over but Microsoft wouldn't let them.
Kek prey homosexuals finally get what they deserve this wonderful news. Gamepass is clearly not sustainable what morons for chasing a subscription model what did they think was going to happen?
While it's understandable it was a mistake to put it on gamepass, now that they got a cult following they' could've attempted to milk the cow with a new game first? Like HiFi generated enough buzz that people would keep an eye on their newest game. They just had to not repeat the same mistake with gamepass. I feel like they pulled the cord too soon on them. Although there would've been enough meddling to end up with terrible modern practices so maybe it's for the best.
Somehow I believe, in Microsoft's infinite dumbassery, that they thought the Playstation port was that attempt. Microsoft is stupid enough to think such things.
If you truly love something you have to learn to let go
Just like Sony with with Japan Studio.
Does this lead to more exclusivity deals with Japanese developers like Sony with Square or someone getting bought out?
>SIE Japan was Sony's oldest studio
>still managed to go on for years despite flops
>Arkane and Tango pretty much just got bought
>Arkane had their game mutilated by DEI and rushed out in Redfall
>Tango somehow got axed even though Hi-Fi was a surprise hit despite Microshit literally not even marketing it
Hardly even close.
Just realized that the ones they kept are the ones that have their own engine.
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Japanese games are shit too anyways, the industry is collapsing.