>Xbox Game Studios boss and Former Rare Studio Head Craig Duncan is leaving the company, just 18 months after taking on the role.>Studios will report directly to Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty until a replacement is found.>In an email to staff, Duncan wrote: “When I stepped into the role of leading XGS 20 months ago, my purpose was to serve our studios, our teams, and the people making our games. “Together, we set out to deliver high-quality games, strengthen the cultural fabric across our studios, and help shape the future of the business. I’m proud to say we delivered many flawless launches that drove business success for the company.”>Duncan’s former Rare colleague Louise O’Connor, who was made Xbox Game Studios chief of staff after the cancellation of her project, Everwild, last year, will also be leaving the company, it’s been confirmed.
Let's be real, all of his Studios except Mojang and Playground are getting culled this year.
calm before storm
>>741147730he is britishhe thought he was going to publish on playstation lmao
>>741147730>>741148024>All woke trash studios that are an embarrassment to the industryGood riddance. The last 20 months in particular have been especially bad during his tenure
rats are leaving the ship
>>741147730They both should have been gone long ago after they fucked up their new ip everwild
>>741148024What are Double Fine working on? Where is my Psychonauts 3?
>>741148024Compulsion Games 100%
>>741148024Inxile and obsidian are safe because they can be used to churn out fallout and elder scrolls games
>>741152069the only xbox studio closure that would shock me is playgroundif we're talking any studio out of all of their acquisitions then maybe one of the CoD studios
>>741147730>Louise O’Connor, who was made Xbox Game Studios chief of staff after the cancellation of her project, Everwildimagine spending 8 fucking years doing nothing and getting a promotion in return. man i wish i lived on easy mode
>>741147730Jeet'd.
>>741152069>made south of midnightGood riddance
>>741152069It should be halo studio
>>741147730Theres a poo ceo nowso that means shes going to push out all the old leaders to replace with more poo. Thats how it goes every single time.
>>741152071Obsidian's last hits were Avowed and Outer Worlds 2.They're doomed.
>>741152798Those old leaders were in charge of everwild which got canceled after they couldn't put together a game after 6 plus years. I don't even know how they managed to fail upwards after that disaster.
>>741153240Grounded and pentiment are good. They're probably already working on a new fallout now that tim cain and one of the fo new vegas writers is back at obsidian.
>>741148024My closure list predictions:>Compulsion GamesLast game was a major flop, nothing new coming up, probably 100% closure.>DoubleFineNothing new lately, last game was a borderline flop, and they're in SanFran, which is really expensive.My layoff list predictions:>Xbox Game Studios PublishingTotal marketer death. They'll cut a ton of useless office worker roles.>ObsidianMaybe a team gets cut and they go down to a one project at a time studio.And if GoW E-Day flops or underperforms, The Coalition is getting the axe for sure.The other studios are safe because anons pointed out they had games in the recent Xbox showcase (inExile, Halo Studios, Undead Labs, Playground Games, although if Fable flops, that team is probably done), make money (Mojang, Turn10, World's Edge), or they're really cheap (Ninja Theory).And I think in the background, they're going to spin Xbox out as a wholly owned subsidiary company that they could flip in the future, to someone like Tencent or a Saudi Investment Fund.
>>741153407>to someone like Tencent or a Saudi Investment FundElon & co will buy it and save western gaming
>>741152069343 studios should be shut down and turned into an office of a dozen guys handling the IP and outsourcing to actual developers who can make a Halo game because I'm 100% sure they're one of the biggest studios at Xbox and they've done nothing but waste billions in the past 2 decade for jackshit.
>>741153574Elon buying xbox would be the funniest outcome. Just imagine all the seething from all the giga left leaning devs working at xbox would produce.
>>741153582Honestly just give the halo ip to id or machine games and just shutdown 343i
>>741153574>Elon buys XboxCould you imagine the screeching? It wouldn't be as bad as when he bought Twitter, but it would be close. But like >>741153682 points out, the seethe from leftists that work in Washington state at Xbox would be immense.
>>741153682Just @ him and say hey Elon can you buy Xbox and he might actually do it just to own Diablo since he's addicted to the game and he'll do it just to ask Blizzard to implement the changes he wants. He'll also spend a few months cleaning up all the devs and fixing all the inefficiencies by mass firing the useless people and suddenly Xbox can make good games again.
>>741153574>xbox but even more indian lol
>>741147730>XBOX BOSS LEAVEShow many bosses, chiefs and executive directors does xbox have?
>>741151104>>741153407DoubleFine unionized though, it might be harder to close that studio.Psychonauts 3 is still never ever, I died of boredom during their latest game.
>>741154004hundreds
>>741154004Just goes to show u how many fucking layers of management there are at xbox. All of them are a waste of money
Apparently the guy deleted his xeet about Compulsion games and Arkane being the ones most likely to close but I'm guessing south of midnight being a huge disaster and Blade being cancelled meant that Arkane is just sitting around doing nothing so both are gonna be gone at the end of the year.
>>741153975>Xbox but more indianSuch a thing is not possible, saar. Not at Microjeet and damn sure not after Asha got put in charge. Curry levels are at 120% and climbing.>>741154006>DoubleFine unionizedThat won't stop MS and its army of corporate lawyers. Even if they have to just pay a bunch of penalty fees, it's probably cheaper than keeping DoubleFine open.>>741154076>ArkaneI keep forgetting about all of the studios attached to Bethesda. But aren't these 'Xbox going to close studios' rumors referring to only the ones under Xbox's masthead? Not Bethesda or ActiBlizz?
>>741153682>>741153762He's the only realistic option to actually restore Xbox and do what needs to be done. Tencent and the Saudis just continue funding woke feminist shit as we've seen with Ubisoft and EA. Same with Netflix, Apple, Amazon or any of the others. It would be business as usual. No future with any of them.
>>741154048>>741154074All to avoid accountability. Worst case they get an 8 figure severance package and a thick stack of shares.
>>741154136Arkane is the "comes as a shock" studio
>>741154216aren't they working on that blade game? I can see that being cancelled because these marvel IP games are always expensive as fuck
>>741154265Some other insider said that work on Blade has stalled or having issues. Needless to say, it isnt looking good.
>>741154154>Tencent and Saudis would fund woke shitSaudis maybe, but Tencent has been on record as 'no blacks, and make the girls' tits bigger.' Those chinks know what sells.>>741154216If the layoffs go into Bethesda, I'd expect them to go into Activision-Blizzard. Maybe one of the CoD support studios gets gassed, too?
Ive owned every xbox but their studios have produced shit to nothing for over a decade. The employees are basically stealing money
>>741154349Activision Blizzard is fine because they have a healthy 30% profit margin on all their games, Xbox isnt concerned about touching them. It's the other parts of Xbox that is causing them to have a 3% margin over the years of generously giving them time and money to make games that are the problem excluding Bethesda because they also print money too.
Despite there being a ton of games coming out gaming is in a downward spiral. This is the closest we will come to calling it a crash. Who wants to invest in games when the profit margin is so shit and AI is a guaranteed bet while the governments are artificially propping it up?
>>741154004Phil's big merger plan was stupid as Xbox is now 3 super publishers working as 1 business, which includes miles and miles of red tape.
>>741154349you say that but tencent has investments in a ton of companies including insanely woke ones like ubisoft and nothing has changed
>>741152069Yep. The writer of South of Midnight is job hunting as of a few minutes ago on BlueSky, and Kotaku has this: https://kotaku.com/xbox-shuttering-south-of-midnight-peabody-award-compulsion-games-2000706065
>>741147730Pay attention. Seriously. This is exactly what happened to Japan Studio right before that shit went tits up. PAY ATTENTION.
>>741154478Xbox game studios is proof that buying low tier studios and giving them time and money does not allow you to get good games. When the studios produce hits by themselves, they'll continue to produce hits over time. Whereas you cant boost a low tier developer into a high tier one no matter how much money you give them.
>>741154478>corporate leadership ouroboros
>>741154349>I'd expect them to go into Activision-BlizzardBlizzshit has WoW as an endless stream of money, and Diablo IV is also doing well (could be doing better if their monetization wasn't retarded). CoD is only starting its downturn.
>>741148024oh I wish Bethesda and whole Zenimax Media would get the axe
>>741154216frankly i'm more shocked that arkane is still around
>>741154618>Xbox game studios is proof that buying low tier studios and giving them time and money does not allow you to get good games.By their very nature, game designers want to create greatness. But the enemy of good is perfection. Combine that with a near infinite budget and you end up with games that spend 10 years in development hell where they are rebooted twice. All because not even leadership can agree on a concrete vision for the final state of the project.
>>741154749>Doom sells>Indiana jones was a success>Starfield is a massive success>ESO keeps printing money>Blade is dead in the waterNeedless to say they arent going to touch Bethesda since all they have left makes a lot of money.
>>741154541>my wokeslop game that sold 5 copies got an award for its writing!>how could I get laid off?!Fuck Kotaku for having to put in that 'Peabody Award' bullshit because there's nothing else at all to even say about that nothing game.
>>741154678Complete.Global.Bureaucracy.
>>741153574>Buys popular ip with established fanbase, makes non woke activist games with the same formulas of the old games that got the fans into it in the first place.This is a legit jackpot, buy cheap ips degraded by shoddy administrations then restores with the good old formula by doing the bare minimum.
>>741154901>Indiana jones was a successI was?>>741154216I will be sad seeing them gone, I wish they didn't have to make Redfall or the Blade game for that matter.
>>741154901>Doom sellsDidn't the new medieval Doom massively underperform/barely break even?>Indiana Jones was a successsee the above note for Doom>Starfield is a massive successIt was a borderline flop, IIRC. Because of how long they took to make it. And it has no interest at all and isn't a revenue generator like Skyrim is.>ESO keeps printing moneyIt probably covers its operating costs and makes a little moneyAnd don't forget that ES6 is stuck in dev hell, Fallout as a brand has lost a lot of steam, and Bethesda are full of incompetent diversity hires trapped in hell working with their shitty Creation Engine.I think Bethesda is in a much weaker position than people think.
>>741155124Starfield got new legs on PS5. It's still in the top 10 sellers list. Terrible game but Bethesda isn't going anywhere.
>>741154541>User of BlueSkyDeserved.
>>741154541Fire literally everyone who has a Bluesky account. I promise that quality and productivity will increase.
>>741155189>top 10 sellers on PS5Sony is struggling to sell units, so being top 10 there isn't a major sign of financial success. And this was Starfield's release on the system, not some patch that brought people back. I'm not saying Bethesda is going to close, but it's clear that if Microsoft's leaders are saying 'ES6 is taking too long' that Bethesda is being put under a microscope.
>>741155124Dark Ages apparently sold less than 1 million copies but had 7 million players (via Gamepass), so depends how you define good performance.
>>741155124ESO made more money than Skyrim and is still printing money. Starfield is one of the best selling games of 2026 just from the PS5 launch alone. Doom/Indiana jones did well after releasing on PS5 and Switch 2. Dont forget there's Fallout 76 printing money, Oblivion remastered being the best selling game of 2025 and Fallout 3 remake coming out next year. Bethesda is incredibly secure and everything they do prints money.
>>741155347Sorry, it was 3 million Gamepass players, which was 7x what Doom Eternal's peak was.
>>741155189If anything Bethesda is going to get pumped up. One of Microsoft's big sticking points right now is the underuse of a valuable IPs, like Fallout. Broken updates to Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 are not making the most of the hype surrounding that franchise.
>>741155335Microsoft's leaders wants Bethesda to help make more games and to pump out more Fallout/Elder scrolls in a desperate bid to make more games people want. They're kissing Todd's ass to help ensure that happens and one of their developers like Obsidian isnt going to waste more time making a mid RPG when they could be making fallout new vegas 2.
>>741155484If they don't reassign what staff they can salvage at Obsidian and then scuttle the studio, they're retarded.
>>741155335PS5 has 100 million units in circulation. This is on the list that FIFA and CoD are.
>>741155349>Starfield is one of the best selling games of 2026 just from the PS5 launch alone.NTA but do you have a source for that claim? Yes, we know that their GAAS titles are the reason why we're not on TES7 and Fallout 6 right now but Starfield actually selling(!!) well is news to me.
>>741155062Yeah it's an insane collection of IP. Can expand into tv & film with a likeminded straight male friendly studio like the new Paramount-WB. Going to get attempts from other major corps with a left-wing, female slant like Netflix, etc to prevent it from happening and keep it all feminized or destroyed though. It's so obvious this is all intentional as part of the shitty culture war they started over a decade ago.
The next xbox is rumored to have extreme cost cutting measures to make it affordable.>No controller in the box, you must use your old controllers >Storage memory is basically vestigial. You need to add your own>Shitloads of other parts are intended to be user provided. It's basically a locked CPU and GPU with slots for other partsThis might actually work.
>>741155669Pretty sure he's talking shit
>>741155669this combined with Starfield being at the top 10 best selling games on the PS5 next to crimson desert and pragmata shows that it's done very well.
>>741147730Xbrahmin i dont feel so good... or izzat was finally returning to us..
>>741155669jumped to number 8 back in April and stayed there
>>741155862>top 10You know there are chasm-sized gaps between those 10 spots, right?
>>741155783A worse PC?
>>741155979a three year old game selling so much three years later is an impressive feat no matter how you slice it.
>>741154491The ubislop shares are prority shares. That means tencent get no say at the board in exchange for getting first dibs when assets are divided when ubislop goes bankrupt.
>>741155783>Still no default gyro. Xbox can die.
>>741148024Safe:>Rare>Turn 10>inXile>Obsidian>Halo Studios>Mojang>Playground>World's EdgeCut loose to be independent studios (looks good and avoids tricky laws):>Double Fine>Ninja Theory>Undead LabsThe headsman watches while sharpening his blade:>The Coalition
>>741153240Outer Worlds 1 was ok, but I felt ZERO excitement for the second. Didnt even feel the desire to pirate it.
>>741155854>lost to outer worlds 2OOF!
Guys, they've lost xShill Prime...
>>741156065Guess we'll see when Dark Arisen 2 comes out. Starfield sold on the copium pendulum. >OMG IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZ->it sucks>OMG BETH OVERHAULED IT AND IT'S NOW ON PS->it still sucks>OMG TERRAN ARM->it still sucksThe game moving a million copies per hype cycle isn't that far fetched and that's a nice boost large enough to earn the top spot for a week or two and then trickle down the charts.
>>741155862>NUMBAH WON GAME>of the week ending on the 11th>on no games station 5>in US sales>and only counting full sales prices
>>741153741>machine gamesNot after young blood.
You're gonna see a lot of "HOW COULD THEY?!?" toned articles before the end of the year. She's cleaning house. I have to admit I'm a little impressed, she's thinking and acting like a business person instead of trying to be every developer's tolerant friend. It isn't gonna save Xbox, but I can appreciate the effort.
>>741156451Indiana was good. They're probably busy working on the new wolfenstein so they can release it along side the amazon tv show
>>741155854Man plane autists are a much larger audience than I expected.
>>741156451They just made Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which was so good that Disney wants another and Harrison Ford said he would have voiced it if he realized it was going to be so good.
>>741156357I don't see how cutting the fat and actually trying to run Xbox like a business isn't investing in gaming. Does he just want MS to keep throwing infinite money at them for "the love of the 'art' of video games"?
>>741156513Pretty sure it's nothing to do with Asha. Phil wasted billions in a business that's still in the red and Microsoft just want it gone.
>>741147730I mean, at least he launched Doom The Dark Ages and Forza Horizon 6?
>>741156586flight and truck sims have always had a steady following, but seeing it on a console list is surprising.
>>741156618>Why does Indiana Jones sound like he's 85 years old in the 1930s?His vocal presence was unnecessary
>>741156536>>741156618I ignored that one because I thought it'd be shit, but maybe I'll have to give it a chance.
>>741147730>Studios will report directly to Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty until a replacement is found.what a power hungry whale of a human creature
>>741156357Will xbox studios start putting fine bitches and putting less dei in their game now that they know pajeeta is ruthless and will shutdown studios?
Prepare for another bloodbath.
>>741156769I thought this was natethehate for a second but it's just some rando fag on resetera
>>741156769Should be fun.
>>741147730This is it!SEGA is going to swoop in and save Xbox. They are just waiting for MS to spin it off and SEGA will buy it (they'll find the money). Afterward, SEGA will rise from the ashes like a Phoenix after over 20 years of being out of the hardware space. SEGA will be making the successor to the SEGA Dreamcast! FINALLY!!!
>>741147730nah this is jim nortonhis wife has a penis
Hopefully they're cleaning house of all the woke activists because they realized those people have wasted every single dollar that they've been given. Meanwhile actual games like Sea of Thieves truck on.
Every developer you fast forward through during an Xbox showcase video will be gone by 2027
>>741155347Gamepass is anti-money in terms of game sales, so for a new title to do well on Gamepass and bad on retail is a death knell for the title's profitability.>ESO made almost $2b!About $180m a year for 10 years is ok, but it's not this money printing machine you're positioning it as. Something like GTAV or gacha are money printing machines.>StarfieldAgain, PS5 install base is low and competition there (other PS5 games) is thin. And remember, the reason it's on PS5 to begin with is because of poor sales on Xbox and PC.>Doom/IJ'did well', how?>F76 prints moneySource me, because I would only buy that game making back its operating costs and maybe a tiny, tiny profit.>Bethesda is incredibly secureAgain, I think there's a low of flowery marketing fluff around them because they're a press darling, but under the hood they're a mid-grade studio that's been past it prime for 15 years.
>>741156769Retarded leaker comes out and says obvious thing everybody is expecting
>>741156875They're the same guy.
>>741156357>come to work at Microsoft, here are what your bosses look likeGrim.
>>741156692They wanted it gone after the Xbox One. Satya kept interfering with what Phil was doing so he always had to change shit up even if he didn't agree with it. Gamepass I think is still their best idea they've had in a long time and I think Phil's longterm plans for it were much different than what Satya and Amy saw for it.I can't wait until Phil's NDA is up.
>>741156920Would be ultrabased to see Sega re-enter the console market but no way in hell could they afford to buy Xbox.
>>741157803M$ will sell it for a tenner.
>>741157387>Gamepass I think is still their best idea they've had in a long timeIt really wasn't. It hurts game sales and didn't do anything to save the console. They should have remade oblivion and had it as a day one exclusive to series x. They should have forced developers to make appealing exclusives instead of woke trash.
>>741157037>they're a press darlingWhat? No they're not, the journofags hate them. The journofags' favorite Fallout is Troon Vegas.
Microsoft leaving this shithole industry will not be enough to heal it, but its a good start.
>>741157992Xbox console died with Don Mattrick. Phil should have just cancelled Xbone as best he could and gone all-in on PC, and essentially done the ROG Ally X strategy from there, way ahead of Valve.Gamepass being a major compliment to that which could have rivalled Steam potentially.
american AAA industry is in complete collapse modegood riddance
>>741158413thank you jesus
>>741156769
>>741147730so this is the power of the jeet princess
>>741158464turns out Tim Schafer had a brain after all, MS couldnt destroy double fine at all.
I honestly believe they are sabotaging gears e day solely to have a reason to close that studio
>>741157037>I think there's a low of flowery marketing fluff around them because they're a press darlingThe press has been shitting on bethesda nonstop for the past decade and ever since they punished Jew journalist Jason Schreier for leaking Fallout 4.
Total Xbot death.
>>741156920That would be the worst possible thing that could happen to sega. If Microsoft had no studios outside the zenimax aquisition I could see it being sort of valuable for them but there's way too much dead weight there.
>>741156692Its that and trying to make money back after M$ spent almost $68 Billion on Activision/Blizzard.
>>741158464But that's fucking retarded. Any studio can go independent. All they need is a bunch of money to buy back their IPs, brands and other assets. You don't need a special clause in the acquisition contract to do that. No publisher is stupid enough to hold onto the ownership of a failing studio.
GUY LOOKS GAY
>>741158607Microsoft would probably be very happy to just own a few key IPs like COD, WoW, Minecraft, Elderscrolls and Forza Horizon (plus some minor ones here and there).Selling off Halo, Gears and all the other shit no one cares about would be ideal.
>>741158803Activision/Blizzard prints enough money that they will pay themselves back in no time. The issue with buying them was that they had a 30-40% profit margin thanks to Kotick being an amazing jew ceo while Xbox has been running on the edge of profitability for the past decade that MS execs thought it was normal for entertainment to cost so much but when they looked at activision being so profitable they realized xbox has been run like shit and losing money for this long.
>>741158327MS got more of my money this gen than they ever have before and thanks to their Gamepass/PC strategy. I never got an Xbox and never wanted one (and this gen I literally don't have any current gen console and don't want any). I tried Hi-Fi Rush, Forza Horizon 5, Yakuza 0, Halo Wars II, Hellblade 2, Starfield, and I want to say Beyond All Reason was there. Bought almost (keyword almost, I didn't care for Hellblade 2) all of these after playing them there.
>>741159165>Beyond All ReasonBAR is free thoughbeit.
>>741158805Simple, the more IPs they hold onto, the more attractive they are to investors. plus holding onto those IP's don't cost a whole lot of money for them. Its not just video games, Hollywood does this, toy companies do this, tech companies do this. They all do this. To most people its stupid, to them and the Wall Street investors it make a lot of financial sense.
>>741158803Actiblizzking will actually make back their money unlike bungie which will forever be a money blackhole for sony
>>741159087That's what happens when you let a Pajeet run your company. Apple was smart enough to keep the Pajeets at bay and are promoting from within, hell the new CEO worked for Apple for years and was the main tech guy who created pretty much all their current products.
>>741147730>Matt Bootyhehehehe
>>741159165Also forgot to add AoE IV, one of the persona games and I think Ninja Gaiden to that list. I didn't get Ninja Gaiden since that's $70, but I did end up getting AoE IV and Persona (on a discount on Steam I believe). Wouldn't have bought them otherwise.
>>741147730Replace him with the former sony guy that was in charge of 1st party i think his name is Yoshida
>>741159262Bungie's already on thin ice so they won't last long.
>>741159232Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was still on Gamepass though. I had no idea the game even existed until I saw it there.
>>741153885Get Asmongold to pitch it to Elon. Asmon can serve as a Consulting Producer at Blizzard afterwards. Let's steer the ship towards success
>>741159540Honestly can't be worse than what we have right now
>>741159530Sony buying Bungie will always be seen to me as a impulse move by Jim Ryan. He was scared shitless about the Activision acquisition and needed a major purchase to try and dent the massive blow Sony was about to get. Wall Street Jews can say whatever they want about "Muh console sales", but Jimbo damaged the Sony brand for possibly over a decade thanks to his idiotic purchase of Bungie and investing heavily in GaaS
>>741159506Shu's been loving every second of this disaster
>>741159540>let's steer the ship towards a waterfall
>>741159730>those flagslol
>>741158116>>741158749But Bethesda appeases the woke/dei clique, so they don't get actual, honest reporting or criticism done on them, which was my point. Starfield still got 10/10s despite being a 6/10 game at best.>>741159730It has to be bittersweet when he turns around and looks at what's happening at Sony, though. Sony's Asha is Herman Hulst I guess, and he's sabotaging them with this live service shit and the Bungie purchase.
>>741159947I can choose to ignore it since he was a decent head of Playstation, certainly compared to what has followed.
>>741159748The boat is already smashed to pieces at the bottom of Feminist Falls. Now we're just salvaging what we can and press on
Xbox is just kind of a poison brand at this point. I don't think it can be saved by anyone. Sony just has the pure juggernaut momentum and customer brand loyalty, they'd have to hire a fuckup 10x worse than that retard Jim Ryan to do much real damage to themselves. Nintendo does what they always do, aim low enough to ensure they always hit the target, and trickle out enough content to satisfy their core base. There's just no room for an Xbox anymore.
>>741147730>spend 14 years at rare doing fuck and all>do the same when you get promoted Good riddance. Fuck xbox and fuck everything theyve done to Rare
>>741160237Selling xbox to elon, tencent, etc. would be the only way to unfuck xbox's image
>>741160417Can see Elon buying Xbox just so he owns more companies with X in the name.
>>741160595I can't wait for the X Xbox Helix Series X
CEO Satya poopdella's assignment for Asha poop is to wind down xbox and then sell the name to whoever wants to buy it.
>>741159247>them and the Wall Street investors it make a lot of financial senseBut only up to a point. If someone approached Bethesda(Xbox) with $5mil in cash to buy WET, Arx Fatalis or Hunted they would sell. No credit rating agency is going to lower their evaluation of a billion dollar company if they sell a couple penny IPs.
>>741152178>then maybe one of the CoD studiosWhoever decided to make BO7's campaign cooperative with no real single player option needs to get fired, along with all their enablers. I thought they'd quickly fix that with a patch, but nope, they still haven't. I just wanna play as Section.
>>741160889Would anyone buy the Asus Ally X Box?
>>741152448>man i wish i lived on easy modeAll you need is to be a woman and Irish. Just ask Kathleen Kennedy.
>>741153885I'm surprised that we don't see billionaires purchasing their favorite games studio, or at least buying a controlling stake of the shares.
I hurt myself today
Mark Gordon, Studio Head for Treyarch just retired.
>>741152071>>741153240Obsidian will exist as a studio, but it's absolutely imperative they lose their art director. The one who got into a public slapfight when they were promoting the game, and promsied to work extra hard to make sure chuds hated the game.
>>741160793The xxXXXBOXXXxx
>>741161721IT'S HAPPENING
>>741153682>>741153762I mean in this case, you have several employees, and I mean director level people in a few cases getting into fucking screaming matches on twitter with Musk about the games when they were trying to promote them. >>7411559793 years old. That's serious legs. Too bad the game is ass.
>>741161721Everyone involved in Black Ops 7 will be following him
>>741160417Lmao Elon is not gonna spend billions buying xboxFor the same reason Microsoft is trying to get rid of xboxThey all need cash for their hyperscaling business
>>741161545Why do snoys wish bad for other companies?
>>741161545is this a known leaker or just some literally who faggot talking out of his ass?
>>741155854Really sad to see that garbage NG4 selling the most
>>741161976If there's any US individual or company I could see buying Xbox, it would be Musk. None of the other major US publishers would want to or could afford to.But I could also see a situation where Microsoft holds onto Bethesda and Activision Blizzard and all they put up for sale is the Xbox brand and the Microsoft Game Studios. Still, Musk buying it would be hilarious.
>>741162057That nigger is and insider
>>741161721I heard about some big CoD game being shit lately, but I don't play them. Can any anon QRD me on what's been going on with CoD lately? Are things bad? I thought it always was a safe money printer.
>>741162014You're right, bo7 was fucking trash. They need to clean house of there too.
>>741154491>>741156186the ubisoft deal is structured to keep the guilmonts in charge as much as possible. >>741162175Hell, I could see him buying JUST the xbox brand and a few throwaway studios, just for the X.
>>741152448>>741161167Shipping a game used to be the end all be all. But today, with games in development for 10+ years it's more about what other execs think about your style of leadership. Like one of those team building exercises. You don't get evaluated based on the solution but the path your team took to come to the solution.
>>741162078Known.
>>741159748No way does the roach king take a bath. But consider this: Who's better at understanding what normie gamers like and are hyped for? Him? ANy of their thousand consultoids?feels more suited for Jackie Chan than Indy. >>741158607To the tune of 400 million fucking dollars? No way.
>>741162668>Jackie ChanFuck you! We were so close to winning!
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>>741162668>To the tune of 400 million fucking dollars? It looks better on the graph that way.Shelving a 99% complete PS5 version is retarded though.
If Microsoft were truly downsizing to being a Minecraft and COD machine and were to get rid of all their other IPs who would buy Halo?
>>741162936>Shelving a 99% complete
>>741148024I would shut ninja theory, 343, compulsion and undead labs then allow double fine to become independent. I have no idea why Phil bought any of them to begin with.
>>741163119>undead labsAren't they doing okay though?>>741163072Still mad.
>>741163119Ninja theory's former studio head that sold to Microsoft and then retired is so fucking based
>>741163272Is Tameem actually a chud? I might have to fill out an apology form
who?anyway retards aren't videogames
>>741153407Turn10 is already closed.They just left a few employees working from home to answer Jira tickets from Playground Games using their Forza Tech engine (but hopefully developing a new one for the next Forza Horizon).
>>741163418Yeah, Dude retired after the Microsoft pay out so he can party and fuck young broads all day.
>>741163272>indian asking for remigration>allowed his studio to generate endless woke slopThe only based thing he did was scamming Microsoft.
>>741147730How do you own WoW, CoD, Minecraft, Skyrim and Halo and still fail
>>741164171>dude what if we help push and invest heavily in ai, driving up hardware prices that impact our own future console hardware
If there's anything I've learned since the Xbox showcase, it's that current day Xbots are basically the vidya equivalent of MAGA who think it's still 2016.So basically all these people stepping down and all these studio closures mean Xbox is winning actually. Every single bad/weird decision Microsoft makes, if you notice or acknowledge any of them, you're just a mad and jealous sony pony.
>>741147730Fucking finally. What has this guy done at either rare or xbox studios in the last 2 decades outside of sea of thieves? Based asha flogging the dead wood
>>741164171Guaranteed when you either make progressively worse games or none at all in most of those cases.
>>741163998Literally living the life. Much respect for him.
>>741164330>IT'S THE NEXT STEAM ENGINE, THE NEXT PRINTING PRESS, THE NEXT CALCULATOR
>>741164406Watching the U-turns has been hilarious>It's just 4 games coming to PS5, Ponies. Exclusives are still king>U-uh going multiplat is the future actually. Sony are stuck in the past and will go bankrupt in no time.>Gears going exclusive is a massive win. Suck it, Ponies!
>>741148024Most of these can go as they've done nothing. Compulsion games was acquired 7 years ago and made one indie game that's 3 hours long. Complete waste of money and should've been closed down by any competent leadership years ago.
>>741164171All those games are still wildly successful. Its the rest of them that arent. Although this year is probably the best year of xbox games in 15 years with forza already doing extremely well, gears looking good, fable looking good and halo ce looking good too. Between switch 2 and xbox you're feasting this year and we're not even mentioning 3rd party games like black flag re-synced, gta 6, 007, lego batman, ocarina of time etc. Great year for gaming if you have those two platforms and/or pc.
>>741164835>PoniesDo I want to know?
>>741164656>Xbox is about to become the next water coolerwas she right?
>>741165091You also have blizzard shutting down all the classic plus servers like turtlewow so they can announce theirs at blizzcon in a few months. Ppl are also hyped for cod game set in south korea
>>741165118Who is this hag that looks like she's giving a salesmanship presentation to a bunch of people selling refrigerators?
>>741164835They really are broken and I don't even blame them. Out of all the signature tentpole Xbox IPs, only Forza is in good shape. And Starfield was supposed to be the next big one of those lolHell, even if E Day is a genuinely great Gears game, we aren't in the era of the brown and bloom shooter anymore. It's a nostalgia kick at this point and not much more than that. You aren't moving consoles or GP subs for something like that.
>>741165091>All those games are still wildly successfulTES is pretty much dead, I don't think reselling Skyrim is the success people expected. And Halo is kind of dead too
>>741165378Define dead because these games still have hugely active communities. CE is projected to sell millions in its first week. TES 6 hype is still sky high.
>>741165110Just a childish insult for PS owners - Sony Pony.They've tried to make it seem more clever in recent years by saying it means "Pony up cash" for $70 games instead of using Game Pass.But given this is thread about Xbox dying, you can see how well Game Pass has panned out.
>>741165378Tes 6 will probably be the most anticipated game after gta 6 releases. The elder scrolls and fallout gooner modding community will keep it alive for a decade plus
>>741165490>"Pony up cash" for $70 games instead of using Game Pass.That's clever.
>>741161721I used to be the biggest treyarch fan but somehow even fucking sledgehammer have over taken them and they were literally a support studio at one point. Black ops hasn't been good since bo2 back in 2013 which says a lot. While every modern warfare game has not only been far more successful than black ops for a decade now but has also become the flagship franchise for the cod brand. Treyarch completely fumbled the bag so good riddance. They should replace the entire treyarch leadership.
I can't believe Geoff cursed xbox forever
>>741166007Crazy how they still went straight back to this strategy but just renamed it to "Play Anywhere"
>>741163160>Aren't they doing okay though?They haven't released a game in 9 years and never put out a single thig during the time Xbox owned them, their only IP is a c-tier zombie game. They are as not OK as its possible to be without being shut down.
>>741167475Didn't they have a game in the recent Xbox showcase, though? It would be really schizo for MS to shut down that studio after saying 'Hey, check out this game they're working on!' unless the entire Xbox division is getting axed
>>741154136They will probably just let Double Fine go independent again.
>>741167475>9 years8 years. And SoD 3 is supposed to come out next year.But yeah, I did not realize it had been that long ago. I liked SoD 1&2 for what they were, so hopefully 3 is good.
>>741167764yes, they have state of decay 3 which they have been working on for 9 years. The only reason they haven't been shut down already is microsoft expects them to shit it out in the near future, at which point they will be shut down for wasting 9+ years making a AA zombie game. They shut down the initiative for this reason even though perfect dark actually had a minor amount of hype behind it, the studio not releasing anything in 7 years and needing more time was too much for them. Perfect dark also began development at the same time as state of decay 3.
>>741168237>9 years>for a AA zombie gameI need some facts to back things up on this. Did the game get restarted a dozen times? Indie teams shit out AA games in two years on a shoestring budget. Taking almost ten and not getting shut down is totally crazy.
>>741168237The problem with nu-Perfect Dark is they hadn't made a game at all in that time.The clip we saw was a CGI mock up trailer made by some outsourced company.
>>741165472>Define deadTES haven't had a mainline game in 15 years, I don't think this is the time for semantics>>741165601If it even exists at any stage of development at all
>>741168237>>741168405They weren't actually working on it for that long, 3 just got announced too early. The devs were still updating 2 until about 2 years ago.
>>741148024The pieces are falling into place
>>741169190Imagine working at Double Fine and seeing this article. Those $15 onions avocado lattes are coming back to bite them in the ass.
>>741169154why would microsoft primarily fund updates on a non gaas game for 6+ years?
>>741169313In case you hadn't noticed a lot of critical errors have been due to microsoft being too hands-off.
>>741147730What was he even doing during those 18 months
>>741159016MS owns thousands of IPs going back decades. They do nothing with them for the same reason they do nothing with Windows - there's no programming talent left. It's nothing but nepo hires scouring MS-owned Github for code, which is why they're so desperate to get Copilot coding (I forget the marketing name) up as fast as possible. Then the AI can just maintain Windows/Azure and the jeets collect fat cheques for doing nothing and they can spend all day on LinkedIn farming izzat.
>>741169495Dunno if true, but Xbox shills have been saying his entire job was convincing the studios to make PS5 ports.
>>741169562Yeah, they are literally the stereotype of a rich guy buying up everything because they can't make anything on their own. Still gets me that when they bought Rare they had guys that thought it meant they owned Donkey Kong.
>>741169704>job is convince studios to make PS5 ports>start making headway, actually get Starfield on PS5, where it does ok>about to get Halo on PS5>suddenly, Phil is out, jeeta is in>Halo pulled from State of Play at last minute>more restructuring coming>fuckthis.jpgDude probably left on a golden parachute, and he looks old enough to just be done with this gamedev crap.
>>741169190didn't Ninja Theory literally just announce a new game at that showcase a week ago?
>>741170134Yeah, Senua 3. Strangely, a 2027 title that already has the PS5 port locked in.
>shut down all the shit unless studios >keep the good studios makes logical sense. why did it take 10 years is the question. meanwhile sony are about to close down bungie.
>>741170679Asha doesn't have to cancel the PS5 port if the whole studio is getting cancelled first
I might be the only anon who cares about Sea of Thieves but I wonder how this is gonna shape up for Rare. That game's been on life support for the past several years, and with the newest season being the "we're giving you custom servers" one I expect to see the announcement any day now. Was hoping for a Sea of Thieves 2 with a fresh engine but honestly it'd probably make more sense to take it from Rare and hand it off to another studio entirely
>>741171242If you're lucky, Embracer Group might give us a Banjo HD collection.
>>741154006When does being in a union prevent being closed amongst a sea of other closures?
>>741171242If I remember right, the developers behind Destruction Allstars worked on Sea of Thieves for a while, back when Rare was supposed to be shifting their staff to their next game Everwild. But that was around three years ago and Everwild has since been cancelled.
>>741147730>>741148024hopefully Rare gets bought by Nintendo
>>741150763>>741148024>All woke trash studios that are an embarrassment to the industryMaybe Jeetas aren't so bad after all. She is even nearly immune to criticism, because she is brown. Phil Spencer could only dream of being so privileged.
>>741173216She thinks you can just throw IPs off to whatever developer and make money though. She's going to tank MS further.
>>741173647She doesn't think anything. She's been told to cut costs, no matter what the means.She gets to be a villain for a few years, before Microsoft ultimately PR her into being the savior of Xbox for making it profiable again and will then move her off into a cushy role.
>>741173216Nigga she is just another dei hire. Microsoft doesn't know wtf to do because themselves don't want companies to feature white men and hot women
>>741172341Nintendo doesn't buy companies unless they are already working closely with said company. Most you'll get is a handful of possibly competent remaining Rare employees being rehired by western devs that work with Nintendo or they run off to Playtonic with the rest of the Rare employees.
>>741147730>Matt BootyThats Ashas husbandWhats going on there, awfully usupect
>>741175865Shame Free Radical seems to have died more times than it's been alive.
>>741175676>She's been told to cut costs, no matter what the means.You just disband Xbox entirely at that point. It's always been a complete moneysink relative to Microsoft as a whole, and instead focus on making Windows less shit.
>>741173216She has zero knowledge of gaming. She will just be the poster girl while the real masterminds try to fix Xbox by throwing off ballast. As you pointed out, she is brown and a woman, so she doesn't really have to worry about criticism.
>>741176753Don't worry, she'll just keep asking ChatGPT what to do, being former AI-girl at Microsoft.
>>741177320Making Gears exlcusive at the 11th hour seems like an AI told her to as that makes no real world sense.
>>741165370I blame them, they should know better by now considering how much of a clusterfuck xbox has been since the 360 era
First death officially confirmed
>>741177384It's probably less AI and more listening to all the loudmouth fags on twitter, reddit and the xbox player voice thing.
>>741178361didn't they JUST announce a game last week? what the fuck
>>741178392I'd blame Asha for being clueless but the same shit happened with Phil. The higher ups clearly pull the strings.
>>741171242It's funny how people not into SoT largely assume Rare is safe but those into it thinks Rare is FUCKEDIf Ken Lobb leaves its gonna look direHe's like the last Rare to Microsoft guy and he's already approaching retirement age
>>741178361>>741178392>>741179049I remember people thinking they were safe because apparently they're a popular motion capture studio for outside companies to hire
>>741147730>strengthen the cultural fabricThere is the fag talk.>>741155124>Didn't the new medieval Doom massively underperform/barely break even?$80 Nvidia Tech Demo on Steam.Id has made plenty of improvements to the game since launch, but thanks to the moneypit that is the goypass, people are not coming back to check an update. The first impression it made was really bad.Not to mention the shitty story tacked on by the retard tranny imported from Bethesda.
>>741156241>The headsman watches while sharpening his blade:>The CoalitionThis could break even if MS would kill the Gamepass.Nobody uses it.No one wants it.Gamepass shouldn't add new titles on launch, they should add them 6 months later for a limited time at best. It is honestly killing studios.But Microsoft executives are the special type of shitheads that would sooner kill the company than to admit they fucked up.
>>741180219>Nobody uses it.>No one wants it.It's the exact opposite. Everyone wants to use it because you get access to new games that you'll play only once at a cost far cheaper than actually buying the game new. You are right in that it's killing a lot of Microsoft's profit, but they should've thought about not implementing it in the most retarded way possible.
Not directly Xbox's fault, but another one bites the dust
>>741165118>chromecast came out the same year as the xbox one and it could stream all TV TV TV SPORTS SPORTS to your television for 35$what even was microsoft's plan here
>>741156750Those guys might be jeet marketers or nervous Machine Head employees.It's Wolfenstein TNC with Uncharted's "puzzles".The story is fucking trash, and your love interest is a lesbo.The head of the studio is a troon retard who at one time made good levels for Quake.BUT... there is an Amazon Wolfenstein show coming up allegedly, so they are not on the list, yet.
>>741155256You aren't wrong.
>>741153682Culture War faggotry aside.There are no good buyers since the world is fucking retarded.Tencent won't buy EVERY failed western studio to turn them into the softcore porn gacha spyware you browns play.Saudi Arabia and India do have cash but I am not ready to see Master SAAR and the LooSlayer (Yes, I know the new Halo game was developed mostly in India).I just hope Id Software survives, I cannot care for anyone else.Except for Marty Stratton, he can get fucked, him and the retard tranny Bethesda Import Avacyn.
>>741154216>Arkane is the "comes as a shock" studioEvery veteran jumped ship immediately after Prey.They have been hollowed out.They should had been killed before Redfall came out.
>>741180343>It's the exact opposite.No, it is not.A game people want to try out might arrive on Gaypass on a blue moon and people know exactly how to make burner accounts to play it for $1.No one recurringly pays for Gamepass.If it has any real subscribers is because much like Xbox Live Gold, it is mandatory for online play.Which begs the question: You already had a working subscription service, why the fuck keep the gamepass alive? If anything it's evolution from a corporate viewpoint is the reverse.You got a passive income for doing nothing but holding online gameplay as a ransom, then some idiot had the bright idea to turn it into a streaming service because "That's what everyone else is doing".Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond fumbled worse than Don Matrick, WAY WORSE.
>>741147730>former rare bosslol he's just a common now
>>741147730>>741148024Looking forward to more indians and indian studios
>>741148024RareTurn 10Double FineObsidianHalo StudiosMojangPlayground Gameseveryone else probably on the chopping block or being sold
>>741160036>But Bethesda appeases the woke/dei clique, so they don't get actual, honest reporting or criticism done on them, which was my point. Starfield still got 10/10s despite being a 6/10 game at best.
>>741182184I thought they gave it higher scores on PC?But 7/10 is still the 'we like you and won't go lower, no matter how shit your game is' score from those sites.
>>741164171Most American devs just suck, money can only get u so far.
>>741182424IMO: 7/10 was an appropriate score for Starfield at launch. I still sunk like 100+ hours into it. These days I would bump it to 8/10.
>>741172341>>741175865Nintendo has ONE incentive to acquire Rare's assets and its strictly for full rights to keep re-releasing games especially DK64 and Diddy Kong Racing which have Rare IP in themOther than that, Nintendo isn't gonna buyIt's cheaper to just work with Microsoft unless they're looking to sell and an AtGames fiasco could happen
>>741180084Doom 3 won
>>741183001All depends on whether Rare owns the IPs or if Microsoft does.
>>741183001Nintendo has full right of DK64. Rare has nothing to do with it taking forever to come to NSO because then it doesn't make sense why DKC has none of the issues. Diddy Kong Racing makes since because it has Conker in it and Microsoft fully owns Conker.
>>741183156Dr. Betrugger won.I liked Eternal but I would not mind a reboot that was a direct sequel to Doom 3
>>741183267If MS 100% owns Rare, that means MS owns all of Rare's property, which includes any IPs. The only exception there would be weird pre existing shit like Rare split IP ownership with someone else and that agreement predated MS buying Rare.
>>741186096>Nintendo has full right of DK64Jetpack
>>741154349>no blacks, and make the girls' tits biggerit would be so fucking easy, instead they hire 20 consultants costing them millions just to tell them the opposite.
>>741187679I think the consultant game is a big circle jerk where people are just getting overpaid contracts for their friends.
>matt bootyLmao
>>741187679The assumption is that anyone involved on any level gives a shit about the success of anything. nobody cares about any of it, they just float through for a few years, collect their pay and fuck off before everything collapses. Phil probably cared, he was too nice and offloaded decision making to people who didnt.
>>741147730It's okay, he's going to be replaced by a POC trans lesbian woman
>>741177320Chat GPT would do a better job than their current leadership. >>741190273By indians. Learn to izzat.
