>Compulsion Games>Ninja Theory>Double Fine>Currently negotiating with Microsoft going independent
Huh? But they just announced Senua 3. Microsoft really is dumb
>Ninja TheoryShould've been shut down a long time ago
>>741170447There's history of announcing games with 'gameplay' where even the devs have no idea they were working on it.
>>741170301>Several studios in Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox gaming division, including Montreal-based Compulsion Games and San Francisco-based Double Fine, are in active negotiations to spin off as they try to thwart closure, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.>Cambridge, England-based Ninja Theory, the maker of Hellblade, is also in conversations with Xbox, as are several other studios across the portfolio that are at risk of being shuttered.so basically if you ain't making COD, Halo, Fallout or Gears you're up to get axe'd
>>741170301looks like obsidian lives on
>>741170447They also announced Scalebound and Perfect Dark.
>>741170301oh look its the 16th time this has been posted as new thread in last hour.
Slop studios
>>741170724Yeah, about those...
>Compulsion>NT>Double FineLmao, the exact 3 companies I said were probably going to get shut down when anons were talking about potential layoffs a few months ago.
>>741170301>cleaning up the mess Phil Spencer the award chaser left themFuck em, how do you take 7 years to put out a total of 4 dogshit games between each studio. they deserved to close before Microsoft bought them and now they are sitting around bitching because they have to actually make video games as a video game studio. also unironically using AI probably wouldve helped them stay afloat even if it wouldve been dog shit.
>>741170301Removing the leeches
Rest easy old friend
>>741170301Oh Xbox is desperate to not get shut down by MS
>>741170668Hilarious strategy since all those series are 10+ years past their prime. What's the minimum age you could be and have a positive impression of Halo or Gears? Xbox is going to turn into a boomer gamer museum storefront.
>>741170301My bet is Ninja Theory doing a management buyout, Compulsion just closing never to be heard from again, and Double Fine also closing but you'll see a dozen indie games over the next decade all from different studios claiming to be from "The creative minds behind Psychonauts"
>>741170686The fact Obsidian survives is a travesty. Good news about Ninja Theory though.
>>741170301The jew is so happy that he can spin the rumor mill instead of reporting about bungies impending death
>>741171249Grounded 2 is probably keeping them alive for now, the first one was a success with the friendslop audience
>>741171238It's over for them.
>Return to Xbox>Shut down studiosSounds right
Imagine getting the largest corpo on the planet to buy your studio and you do the bare minimum for years and in the process pull down around $1 million in salary alone, plus stock and the original buyout. I don't care about any of these studios or their games(?) but I salute them for giving MS exactly what they deserve.
>>741170301>Ninja TheoryDidn't they just announce a new game?
Cheap and easy money in the world of vidya is disappearing. Turns out middle class is willing to give up vidya quite easily and the rich never gave a fuck
>>741170301>Ninja TheoryNo! It was a great disc!
>>741171380Yes and lol it ever getting finished.>>741171447that it was
>>741171380""game""
>garbage wokeslop s oy studios getting shut downLMAOS
>>741170301GOOD!
>>741170301>>Ninja TheoryPLEASE
realistically speaking. does Xbox need anything else other than GoW, Madden and Halo?
>>741170301>realize interest in your brand is dying because you have no valuable IPs>spend millions to buy a bunch of studios to make new IPs>spend billions to make a handful of games that flop and are instantly forgotten>close said studios and return to the starting linewhat do you call this business strategy
>>741170668If you make games that no one wants to play and take years to make, expect to be shut down.
>>741170447probably trying to shit it out to recoup some cost and have some goypass slopundead labs is probably in a similar situation, that studio and the new state of decay have been an absolute shitshow
>>741170301https://www.theverge.com/games/950204/xbox-ninja-theory-shutdown-hellblade-senuaNinja Theory's closure is official, they were told this morning.The only reason Senua was shown at the Xbox showcase was to bait buyers. Insane tactic after Hellblade 2 sold absolutely nothing.
>>741170301surely no games will sell these xbox consoles
>Double fineDoes that mean Wolf Among Us 2 is CANCELLED AGAIN
>>741171684maybe adding more dykes and niggers will help
>>741171684All these people responsible of these decisions are richer now that they were then.
Roblox
>>741170724Cancelling a game 7 days after you announced it has to be a record
>>741171513https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pEw0p7WEbs
>>741170301>Buy a bunch of video game studios and then shut them downIs this to prevent others from buying them first? I don't understand.
>>741171684It's literally the Microsoft strategy. They've purchased/developed dozens of various messaging apps in their lifetime and have mismanaged every single one of them into EOL. They purchased what was the largest cellphone maker in the world and couldn't figure out what to do with it so now they just give out Mobile Office for free. They threw more money at VR than Facebook(!) and have fucking nothing to show for it. Not a single product, just a bunch of beta test things that no one cares to use even when they are free. Microsoft isn't a serious company. They're a colonialization project funded by the government and B2B compromat.
>>741171756So who's on the market for a studio of this type and caliber?Embracer is dying from over-expansion already. Sony isn't in the market for even more studios. Nintendo isn't gonna buy them either. EA has no interest in a studio specializing in single-player story driven games. The chinese are currently focused on expanding their domestic capabilities instead of overseas acquisitions.Either management gets private funding from outside of the industry for a buyout or they're done for.
>>741171858Que?
>>741170301KWAB
>>741171998roblox games are completely free and run on fucking anything, I think too many studios are missing that. bloated $80 AAA titles that barely run on even top of the line current hardware is not going to appeal to the youths, or much of anybody. I wish game devs would make smaller, cheaper titles that play smoothly but they'd all rather bet everything on their major projects instead like retards
>>741170301Why the fuck were they making sequels to hellblade in the first place. The story was self contained
>>741172081i pray that one day the masses will realize that just because you're rich or a ceo doesn't mean you're competent or intelligentyour average /v/tard could probably run circles around microsoft completely by accident
>>741172215nobody knows. literally nobody asked for hellblade 2 and somehow even after that flopped they still announced a third one.
>>741170686>looks like obsidian lives onBecause they are probably working on a new Fallout game and the development is actually going well.
>>741170301>MICROSOFT PLEASE I'LL FUCKING SUCK YOUR DICK! YOU WANT ME TO EAT SHIT? I'LL FUCKING EAT YOUR SHIT!
>>741170301I have never played any games by those three studios. I hope China buys them.
>>741172215because it was an IP that sold a bit and got awards nominations
>>741172282lollmao even
>>741170686Obsidian games are probably $50m-$100m and are gamepass slop.
>>741170901It takes 4-5 years to make high budget games now, so 4 games between 3 studios in 7 years sounds about normal. If anything you should probably complain to Xbox for making them only work on AAA games instead of A or AA games.
>>741170301XBoxCHADS we won
>>741171756great, now next time we see the game awards we can bet whether a new game shown is actually coming out or an attempt to make the studio look good before they inevitably close
If Double Fine goes independent, I wonder who will be stupid enough to fund their games after how disappointing their games have been.
>>741171513>Basement JaxxI'd drink a Monster with this anon
>>741172427sure high budget games are normally that long. i wouldnt call Kiln, South of Midnight or even the keeper high budget. i also do blame Microsoft and their shitty management and letting these fucking retards make the shittiest games ever with huge studio budgets.
>>741171635I think the dwindling Xbox audience has even stopped caring about Gears now that 90% of the cast in those "games" is made up of ugly man-faced dykes.
>>741172507Didn't they already do that, got a bunch of money off Kickstarter, then did a few decent-ish games and fucked off again? Am I hallucinating?
>>741172507The same people who funded their prior kickstarters.
>>741172228Everyone knows this now. Even normalfags have been pointing out that CEO is the only job where they're rewarded for failing.
>>741172091>dying from overexpansion*from canceling the games people ACTUALLY want from the IPs they own
>>741172507no one, last time they were indie they used kickstarter like a crutch, they relied hard on MS footing the bill for their small flops and their one big hit with Psychonauts 2, if they managed to go indie which I doubt they would probably hyperfocus on a psychonauts 3 just to survive, assuming they still have the IP
>>741172282>new Fallout gameJohn Gonzalez is back at Obsidian, which is a big hint.
That's what happens when you fuck up Psychonauts 2
>>741172215Probably because everything needs to be part of an existing IP or it gets treated as too risky to exist.
>>741172627they did>>741172648no one is gonna fund their kickstarters that dream is long dead, kickstarter is just for physical games now or really small video game indies, ironically because double fine abused it so much and burned people on it
>THE NETFLIX OF VIDEOGAMES!!!>GAMEPASS IS THE FUTURE!!! LMAO
>>741172203>responding to spamAnon...
>>741172203You can also play it on phones or tablets, that's a huge percentage. Activision understood this many years ago when they made phone Call of Duty.
I genuinely don't understand how a third Senua game was coming out. The time that went into that second game, the very obvious lack of widespread appeal, there was no chance in hell they could just go into a THIRD game like that.
>>741171032I liked they made him an actual character when he was just a test asset.
>Double Fine is going under15 years too late
>>741170301>blueskykill yourself tranny
The thing that frustrates me about Double Fine is they finally got out of the hole they were in when they were indie and could have made whatever they wanted. And then it turns out that what they wanted to make all along was fucking garbage. Thought you'd get things in the vein of Grim Fandango and Psychonauts? Nope, turns out it was all Broken Age.
I mean this is all good news?>kill off the woke studios>keep the good studios and give them more money>make good games exclusives and give the snoys COD slopThis sounds like a win across the board. Remove paid online and I may get an XBOX.
I only feel bad about Arkane. They very clearly got thrown into making games that they shouldn't be making. NT and DF decided to make games that had no audience.
>>741170301Can anyone name anything good these studios have made for xbox? Otherwise this is a good thing.
>>741170301Now who will I turn to for captivating dialog such as thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1tbb3iTzkWho, I ask you
>all those studios being closed>all that people losing their jobs>and meanwhile Bioware is still aliveSo unfair
>>741173006Psychonauts 2 was alright
>>741171721That's been the last several Halo games and 343 is still around
Why the fuck would anyone become a Western game developer? What a shitty industry.
>>741173128>Remove paid onlineWhy in the fuck would they ever remove that?
>>741173276Yes, that's the problem, it was alright. They finally had the money to make it after how long and teasing it with that stupid VR game and it was just alright. Then they lost all air in their sails after that. At least it fucking happened, though.
>>741172746Psychonauts 2 was their last kickstarter game, which is why it had a Ps4 version. I can't even remember what other games they put out
Double Fine are going to die if they go indie. Schafer is not a money man.
>>741170301Tim Schafer’s the world’s greatest conman it’s maddening Double Fine has lasted this long
>>741173274Soon, brother.Bioware will meet their end eventually.I've been preparing to dance on their grave since 2012.
>>741173381It would have been a good strategy 6 years ago when the Series X launched and they were optimistic about GamePass, but it would be suicide now.
>>741171380Yes, and now it will never go on to make the tens of dollars in profit it otherwise could have if MS kept them under the same roof. A tragedy.
>>741172473The response to the trailer was likely the reason they are getting shut down. They probably begged to at least let it be shown and to defer the decision until after the response, which from gamers ranged between apathy and fatigue.
>>741173339It was a viable career at one point. Much like being a musician.
suddenly makes the senua trailer being devoid of (most of, can't not have her scream at some point i guess) the trademark annoyances of the seriesprobably a last ditch effort to look attractive before xbox shuttered the studio
>>741170301Just realized they're shuttering the South of Midnight devs the week of Juneteenth, too.Fucking yiiiiikes.
>>741173274How do you think I feel?Blizzard is still around
>>741173128>kill off the woke studiosHalo Studios is still there, as is whoever is making Fable. And Obsidian. And Bethesda.
>>741173431their latest is that pottery game no one actually cares for, so they really have nothing
>wow these two would be a steal for sonyim seeing alot of retards on the usual sites not understanding that Xbox is just the first out the door with layoffs, Sony is also about to axe the fuck out of a few studios
>>741170301>>Compulsion Games>>Ninja Theory>>Double FineNothing of value was lost.
>>741173584>as is whoever is making Fable.You mean Playground who just released a gigantic hit with Forza?
>>741173642It's an open secret that bungie are basically dead now
>>741173642>Sony is also about to axe the fuck out of a few studiosWhere have you been retard? Sony has been shutting down tons of studios over the past year, Xbox is the one whose late to the party here.
>>741173537Fuck you're right
It'll always annoy me that they called people who kept begging them to keep making games that they would have bought as chuds or gamergaters or whatever the fuck and not realizing the fucking irony that they were their former customers and they WANTED to keep the studio alive and people employed. Reap those consequences, I guess.
>>741173675I thought Turn10 was Forza?
>>741170301>Double Fine shutting downThis makes me feel a warm feeling in my chest.
>>741173894Turn10 was Motorsport. Now they're basically a support studio for Playground, who makes Horizon.
>>741173435>>741173458Its crazy. The man is genuinely the writer for some of my favorite games of all time. What the hell happened? What happened, man? Was he not cut to lead a fucking studio? He was given fucking infinite money and time to make whatever he wanted.
>>741173274EA is about ot be vivisected anon, I have a bottle of Rum prepared just for the occasion. This company hasn't just tried to make money, it literally held the industry back just to try to monopolize it ala Microsoft and fumbling it everytime as well with terrible management. Not even Activision or Take2 were that bad.
>>741173727I for one think it's real cute that they artificially keep a 4.3 billion-costing game alive for a maximum of around 30.000 active players me included
>>741174015I fucking forgot EA existed. What was the last real game from them
>>741170686Why would they kill Obsidian? Their games are a fraction of the budget of usual AAA releases, they make like 1 a year and even if they flop it doesn’t matter because they didn’t cost much in the first place and they were supposed to be games pass slop. /v/ acts like avowed or outer worlds two had budgets of 100+ million each for some reason. Also the flack they would get from killing them would not be worth it, since most normies still think of them as the FNV guys, even though they haven’t made a good game since then.
>>741170301I can't really feel bad for any of them, they sold their souls to the devil, now he is just harvesting what belongs to him.
>>741174075hag space, the dead space remake is the last thing I remember and my wallet stayed closed for that
>Compulsion Games>Ninja Theory>Double Finethis will save ms, what, 4 or 5 dollars?
>>741174121double fine is literally gamepass slop the company and they are being closed down
>>741171635GoW and Halo are dead nigga
>>741174162I have to assume they're surviving off their sports games or something. Actually crazy how long its been since I seen their logo lead a game.
>Currently negotiating with Microsoft going independent to avoid closure>Seeking mercy from an Indian. Lmao good luck with that, you White dalits. Start training on putting the fries in the bag.
wonder how Klobrille is coping after hurriedly putting together the XBOX upcoming Gamepass roadmap following SGF’26grim times ahead for Timdog and ColtEastWood, grim times indeed
>>741174075Battleshit 6 I guess, and all the brownoid retards here fell for it.
Senuas Sacrifice getting a second game was weird to me. A third game after the second one flopped? Insanity. Someone needed to reign these studios in. They must have unironically thought Microsoft was providing an unlimited tap of resources for their slop.
why is everyone crying, these studios put out dogshit games no one played and got shutdown, even the people crying didnt play any of this shit
>>741170301is that twat Tm Schafer still at Double Fine? fuck that guy
>>741174556Senua getting a third game after the second one took I think a decade to come out. Could be hyperbole but goddamn, it felt like it took a long time for that pretentious piece of shit to finally be playable.
>>741173987Leadership and being a good dev/writer don't necessarily carry any overlap. You could also be an amazing project lead but fucking suck a financials
>>741174210that's been their survival strategy for many years but their pride made them lose the FIFA license last year or so and I'd imagine that's a big dent in their 'passive' income
>>741174189its more about making the investors think they are doing something.
>>741174596They might have thought they could shit out a third game quick since a lot of the heavy lifting was already done with the second game.
>>741170301So what is microsoft's plan? Barely anybody wanted an xbox when they had exclusives so going third party was their best option and now they decide to close shit down and go in on exclusives when nobody has an xbox??? Their previous biggest titles are barely hanging on while fucking AGE OF EMPIRES 2 is doing better.
>>741174732>when nobody has an xboxsurely another halo remake and gears 6 or 7 will change that
>>741174596it's baby inc-coded and ninja theory seems to be a studio that's probably rife with people who love sniffing their own farts
>>741174590Some xitter faggots with friends on these companies are crying, everyone else is laughing.
>>741173961We officially live in the timeline where both Bluepoint and Double Fine shut down in the same year.Despite everything else, sometimes good things happen.
>>741170301>Compulsion GamesWho?>Ninja TheoryAh yes, the money sink. The devs that make a game that costs a ton to make that near nobody wants>Double FineA dev from the past. Nobody cares what they do anymore. Really out of touch with their online games. Psychonauts 2 was kino, but they keep wanting to be quirky
>>741174732Pajeeta thinks rushing more games from the same dead IPs and making them exclusive will fix everything.
>>741174894Handholding with yuko
>>741170686Asha sent Obsidian to Fallout mines. They're essentially going to be Bethesda B Team from now on.
>>741174732It doesn't make any sense because they aren't addressing the hardware problem, which is half the battle. The only winning move is to get lean and become a third party publisher. The poojeeta has already said no one is going to buy $1,000 consoles, so there is not reason for Microsoft to have console exclusives.
>>741174732go all in on AI money and cut the gaming dead weight. They are a tech company first and foremost. Capitalism sucks.
and all Microsoft had to do was buy Rockstar and Nintendo, Sony and Valve would be dead in the waterfucking idiots
>>741171513jesus, people really buy tenacious d albums?
>>741170301I wont be satisfied until arcane is dead and buried.
why would anyone buy an xbox lmaoalready no games and then they pull thistwo feet in the grave, im sure the bubble popping will be worth losing a constant revenue stream tho
>>741175078>Microsoft had to do was buy RockstarMS maybe sure but I doubt Xbox division could
>>741175078>all Microsoft had to do was buy Rockstar and Nintendo, Sony and ValveYou're retarded and brown
>>741174732>>741174843People don't have money nor kids. Even the oot remake trailer didn't have as many views. Nostalgia doesn't work when your fanbase feels too old
>>741175031While I'm not really that thrilled about modern Obsidian, I guess it's better than waiting for 2035 for the next Bethesda Fallout which would be retardedly written anyway.
>>741174907>Psychonauts 2 was kino, but they keep wanting to be quirkyIf it was kino I would've played it.
>>741174665>>741174859Think what frustrates me is that the idea is cool. Suffering from mental disorders in a grounded world prior to the actual understanding of it. Its like playing through a game where the denizens don't understand the reality of how harmful plague can be and treat it as supernatural. But no, they had to go and make it play like shit. I tried with that first game. I genuinely tried to like it. Its not even a movie game is the most egregious part. Its just SO mechanically shit.
>Microsoft and Sony closing everythingI just love the modern gaming era.
>>741170502never in a million years
>>741175164you mean a $1,500 helix wont save them?
RIP El Donte
>>741175338>people still want to get into this industry for some fucking reasonFighting signing your name on the "I want to be abused, please abuse me" contract.
>>741174732>Barely anybody wanted an xbox when they had exclusives so going third party was their best option and now they decide to close shit down and go in on exclusives when nobody has an xboxXbox app on multiple devices and scrapping Xbox consoles was the best way to go. That would have cut their hardware losses, put them in front of more people and kept the 3rd parties happy since all they need to do is work with Xbox to get their game on damn near every device AND the cloud if they wanted. But Satya wants Xbox gone instead of saved, so he got rid of Phil, put in Asha and she's restructuring and cleaning things up to be sold off. But she's throwing the Xbox console fanatics a bone since they cried so hard about exclusives.
Kill blizzard please, I'm begging you
>>741175409it was a different time, a better time, i wonder if anon ever sent it
They deserve it. Double Fine using Microsoft money to continue to put out art slop that no one cares about, Ninja Theory making ANOTHER fucking Senua game for some reason? Seriously, what is going through these studio's heads?
Think what sucks is there's a decent plot under all the pretentious shit in Senua. Hell, the second one not getting any trouble by the side that "celebrate it" is really funny because one of your allies is a slaver that Senua sees good in and he actually does get redeemed. But its all layered under bad gameplay and pretentious presentation. I genuinely thought NT had the makings to redeem themselves and they were always just one structure away from putting out a game without any glaring faults.
>>741170301So 3 studios who haven't made a single profitable (or arguably good) game in a decade, sounds like a reasonable business decision.
>>741172091Has embracer actually made a game? All I remember is hearing they bought a bunch of shit but you never hear them release anything.
>>741175610The thing is microsoft won't let studios make a cool white male protagonist and sexy women
>>741175610And yet 343i survives, just with the name crossed out and HALO STUDIOS hastily glued on.
>>741173675He is responding to someone who said they killed all the "woke" studios. Playground put pronoun selection in a racing game. Hit or not that is hella woke.
>>741175637embracer is a holding company. they have 'released' stuff like kcd2, borderlands 4, tomb raider, metro games, etc.
has any game made by a studio after microsoft bought them been a success in the last 15 years?, maybe wow expansions but that technically doesn't count as a new game
>>741173128Wants to fast forward in having more Fallout/Elder Scrolls games.
>>741170301I would be surprised if they are the only 3 getting shut, these are the obvious choices that everyone would have made.I would also shut down undead labs, worlds edge and consider both rare and 343 depending on whether rare remembered how to make games and how far along their next games are. I would give halo to another internal FPS studio, outsource their RTS games to CA or whoever and use the remainder to fund SEGA exclusives for their next console launch. I would have bought the MS flight sim team and expanded them to make space sims (possibly starwars) the way they did with playground and allowed them to make fable. I would also look for a studio to revive MechWarrior.Microsofts core identity should become simulator games and fantasy/scifi spinoffs related to those genres, dominate First person shooters/rpgs/immsims with an extensive SEGA partnership for the japanese genres they dont cover. These are western oriented game types that the east asians dont compete with because they prefer 3rd person weebshit and they skew older to take advantage of the aging gaming demographic who isn't being catered to by toddler nintendo or teenage capeshit sony.
These are the only studios save from imminent shutdowns>343/halo studios>The Coalition >Playground >Rare>Obsidian All of these studios have atleast 1 successful live service title still going If your studio doesn't have that its fucked
>>7411733397 to 8 years doing jackshit in game development but get paid 100K+ salary. Seems like a good job to have.
>>741176051Just Playground
>>741175637>>741175843https://www.gamesindustry.biz/embracer-group-announces-plans-to-spin-off-fellowship-entertainment>Fellowship Entertainment will concentrate on its premium IP and development portfolio, including Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Tomb Raider, Lord of the Rings, Dead Island, Darksiders, and Remnant.They are making moves
>>741170301>Double FineKek, that's what you get for allying with MS.
>>741170447That's the problem. Ninja Theory kept trying to make Hellblade 'a thing' even though no remembered Hellblade 2
>>741176291What live service game does the coalition have?
it's amazing Double Fine managed to be in business still.They seem like an absolute money sink
>>741170862you didn't say shit basedny tranny
>>741176376Upcoming Gears of War
>>741176364Microsoft's Aloy
>>741173458Bobby Kotick was right about him.
>>741176387probably why they sold out to microsoft in the first place
>>741176387Double Fine is such a retarded studio they made me agree with fucking Bobby Kotick
lmao, i can't believe that there were xbawks idiots who though xbox was making a comeback
>>741176291Halo Infinite was a failure.
>>741173675Different teams/staff. If Fable flops like I think it will, that team will be layoff.
Phil did a number of xbox lmao
>>741170301Reap what you sow.
>>741175843is that why it was so woke?
>>741171756If I had a nickel for everytime a videogame was announced at a big event only to get cancelled, I would have three nickels, which isn't a lot but is weird it happened three time.
>>741175658They are all infected with a disease that is killing them and they refuse to do anything about it
>>741176387>They seem like an absolute money sinkpsychonauts 2 was initially crowdfunded for 3 million and even then double fine was on its knees. their last two games went so unnoticed i would be shocked if the entire studio is worth maybe 20 million.
>>741174121They had two flops. Only Ground1/2 has made them any money. If they're not making a new Fallout, they might as well fire the Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed team.
>>741170447My theory is that the trailer was put out because it’s a sales pitch for someone to buy them from Xbox. They didn’t decide to do this on a whim in the last 7 days, and we all wondered why it got announced when 2 sold poorly
>>741176291>>741176580Half of a billion dollars down the drain
>>741176769Yeah so good fucking luck thenIt's like stabbing yourself over and over and then complain because you are hurt and bleeding lmaoI fucking hate this retarded timeline, everyone became fucking retarded for some fucking reason
This happened the same day Gameoverse turned one month old.And in that show winning gets your world destroyed.
>>741171858No that's Telltale. Doublefine did Psychonauts and Brutal LEgend.
>>741170447MS is notorious for making trailers/live demos off of vertical slices of games, basically playable game play pitchesPerfect Dark is an example, everything you see in the original trailer was everything they made for the game.
>>741171756>The only reason Senua was shown at the Xbox showcase was to bait buyers.xbox are such massive faggots holy shitjingling a game they never intend to make in front of players to try court investors, fuck off don't make us sit through that shit and waste our time, just show it directly to interested parties
>>741176867That and they genuinely couldn't cover the operating costs of the live service shit until they released the Mark V skin, which was over 2 years after launched.After they had already laid off a bunch of people and winded back on the "content" production.
>>741170301It's how you know Asha Sharma and Xbox are really in the shit when they're taking such drastic steps to turn things around. They probably should spinoff xbox from Microsoft in a way that Ubisoft split off its biggest IPs. There's just way too many people on the payroll that don't actually contribute to the development of games in Western studios. Too many middle management, karens, and HR wanting to understandably justify their jobs so they muddle the waters
>>741173128>Remove paid onlinenever happening, ever>nope, we don't want free money anymorecomical
>>741172282In your dreams and mine
>>741175658Fable will underperform. Not a single good-looking female in that game. Say what you want about Baldur's Gate 3, that game had attractive female to lust after. They Fable team miss the point of the series being a power fantasy series for straight males.
>>741177112And canceling the dlc campaign and putting it in a book that no one will read
>>741173537>they're shuttering the South of Midnight devs the week of Juneteenthlol
>>741176291>>741176230Rare is a coin toss
>>741177123Microshit's plan was to outsource anyway.I don't think these companies were producing anything worth.MS's biggest franchises right now are probably Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Furza Horizon 6 and rest of the franchises are whatever shovelware they have been able to shit out during the last 5+ years like Halo Infinite...It's pretty grim but that's Microsoft's own fault but what do I know.I'm happy to see them to die. MS should just stick to creating Excel and MS Word instead.
>>741170301Compulsion and Ninja Theory are crazy, but if I'm honest Double Fine kinda had this coming>Psychonauts 2 was revealed to be Double Fine's best selling game, selling at least 1.7 million copies by April 1, 2022.>1.7 million in 8 months>best sellingSince being bought in 2019, DF has released 4 games and I bet most people ITT only know about this one
>>741176839If Screaming Pagan Schizo 3 is all they could come up with for a sales pitch they're absolutely fucked. There's no publisher with enough money or mental retardation to invest in this
>make games to own the chuds>get owned
>>741171756I thought it was strange that it was only called "Senua"So are you telling me it's like not even a game in the first place
>Get rid of the studios who actually ship games, keep the ones who are on year 8 of active development who needs an infusion of more cash.
>>741177304No Ninja Theory had it coming from a mile away
>>741177312PlayStation might have before they lost hundreds of millions on live service.
>>741177304Compulsion's last game before SoM came out in 2018. They absolutely had it coming. 7 years to make a subpar AA game is insanity.
>>741177312>is all they could come up with it was. they had 'project mara' which was also cancelled after tameem left. it was supposed to be some psychological horror game (probably even more screaming people)
>>741177523I'll be honest I thought South of Midnight was their debut...
>>741170301>Ninja Theory So fucking based. Fuck them for DmC and Senua. Deserved. This industry is healing.
>>741177523Phil Spencer took a hands off approach but we’ve seen that several of these studios actually do seem to do better when they’re on a leash
>>741176280guinness world records man with the most retarded brain
>>741177304>>741177523Woah, Compulsion are the makers of last year's extremely astroturfed nigress game?Fuck man, that makes me as happy as the Senua studio being shut down. We won, boys!
>>741173254Modern Ninja theory could never make a scene like this. Get real.
>>741170301why do i feel absolutely nothing about this news?
>>741171756Not surprising. No one wants more Hellblade games. Thy announce a new Hellblade game but name it Senua for some odd reason. Said game is probably not even in production. Probably announced in hopes to save their asses from being shut down or at least sold off to another publisher.
>>741170301>Double FineGG won.
>Gears of War E-Day total budget in excess of $400 million>Gears of War 2 sold 6.75 million copies during the heyday of the GoW series>xbox exclusiveoh yea, E-Day is gonna flop hard.all the 30 year old boomers who are stuck living in the past won't be able to save this game.this game and Xbox as a whole reeks of nostalgia.Coalition is gonna get shutdown.
>>741177763GG won in 2016Don't fuck with my circus
>>741178034I'm going to laugh when Microsoft says "It didn't meet sales expectations"You guys put it Day One on Gamepass. How the hell could you have sale expectations?
>>741178034Honestly shouldnt have made Gears 4 and 5 in the first place
>>741178125A NEW FACE FOR A NEW GENERATION OF GAMERS
>>741171305The impending death of the Xbox brand is bigger news.
>>741178217Playstation isn't far offWhat do they have after GTA6 releases? Fuck and all
>>741178034they'll port it>but they said tha-they'll port it
>>741178034The DUDE HALO AND GEARS ARE BACK BRO!!!! stuff is funny. Like, no one cares. Both of those IP's are a decade past their relevance.
Double fine deserves to close for never giving us Brutal Legend 2
>make games no one wants>games don't sell>go out of businessYet people will blame microsoft and not the devs
>>741176464The Horizon games are wildly successful, so not even close.
>>741177085>jingling a game they never intend to make in front of players to try court investorsDon't be silly, these companies would never straight up lie to potential buyers like that.
>>741176280did you just use a bunch of antonyms to describe yourself? when's the next appointment?
>>741178283I'll laugh at Sony hard later, let me finish laughing at Microslop first
>/v/ crying and begging for them to be axed>completely untouched by Ash Nutella>have not had a single layoff in a decade>are actually hiring more people for a big project>working on 4 games right now>rumored to be getting Fallout back>developers laughing at chuds on twitter constantlyWhy do they generate so much seethe to the point incels want them to shut down? They're not holding any IP that they care about hostage, and they can simple not play their games if they dislike them.
>>741178283When PlayStation goes I might actually take a day off to celebrate.
>>741178347This really is the best they have apparently. Fucking sad.
>>741178034>this game and Xbox as a whole reeks of nostalgia.why is when when Xbox does nostalgia it's bad,but when Playstation does it, it's okay?
>>741178283Parappa 3 and Gravity Rush 3
>>741177273As long as Sea Of Thieves has a playerbase Rare will be fine
>>741178560Hey Josh!
>>741170502Was there ever any reason for them to exist at all?
>>741171635realistically EA sports game can sell anything
>>741170447kek those fuckers made the angry autistic woman simulator? now I WANT THEM to go down
>>741178560I don't want Obsidian to be shut down, I want them to make some good fucking games. Everything they put out is fucked one way or another, like they can't just deliver a well-rounded product.
>>741178630because they have nothing else to offeralso, playstation nostalgia is a MASSIVE universe compared to "lulz gears and halo"
>>741178616Playstation died due to trying to compete with Xbox on it's own terms.Never forget all the damage Microsoft Xbox did, from console gaming to PC gaming.The absolute slop we keep getting was on them from day one, they pushed the AAA and western model to what we see today.
>>741178618well it's either continue the past of old school nostalgia, or go down the path of evolution and reinventing the game (aka how God of War 4 evolved and reinvented the series)
>>741177490The era of all of the hero shooters that arrived late to the Overwatch party should have been a wakeup call to most of the industry >OVERWATCH IS POPULAR >MAKE OVERWATCH FOR US>6 years of dev hell later >WTF OVERWATCH ISNT POPULAR ANYMORE WHY DID WE MAKE THIS
>>741178739They never could but they had some strong fucking writing to carry the busted aspects.Now they don't have that it's just, whatever.
>>741178630Should've used this instead
>>741178819I got one of these sitting in my closet still sealed. I should sell it to some Snoy and get rich.
>>741170301you have to understand that these people don't actually know how to make a video game, the only thing they know is how to make the next rugpull or scam. the create slop to sell to old decrepid boomer investors or their drug addicted sons in firms and thesd lemmings just go with whatever horseshit these techbros tell them because they're retarded
>>741171635Despite this circus Xbox is still in the green ever so slightly, I just think Microsoft is demanding more. This is how a lot of western tech companies operate, it isn’t enough to be profitable, they need to be VERY profitable which to be fair, Xbox was before the series of bad decisions
>>741178654Japan Studio is dead and those games don't do AAA numbers.It's over, they'll keep releasing these bloated shit games until they either burn down or contract and start making smaller games.>>741178739Obsidian is nothing but DEI hires and Gen X has been project leads.You're getting nothing good from them until they eventually get shut down.
>>741170301Why do they never shut down 343? They've never created anything good.
>>741178802Overwatch got raped by Fortnite just a year later too which is even more funnier. >>741178950Xbox was never profitable outside the Xbox 360 days
>>741178924If only I had waited a little bit longer instead of buying the white Pro 1TB
When was the last time any of these studios made anything worth a damn anyway? Go ahead, close them.
>>741179006Halo sells enough, the studios in question are making flops
>>741177731>Sweet Baby Presents: Song of the South>Angry White Lady: The Movie (From the makers of El Donte)>3.3MNothing of value was lost.Ninja theory best game in terms of gameplay is still El Donte.Hellblade is a direct to Youtube 6 hour walking sim.To be fair they did nail the Santa Monica visual fidelity and feel, shame there is no fucking gameplay lmao.I really hope Obsidian is next on the chopping block before they embarrass themselves any further.
>>741178376>Yet people will blame microsoft and not the devsInvestors only catch trends, and the devs move foward, when the devs begun to be out of touch, then the shit is going down with creative differences, layoffs. The Game directors and middle management assume the big hits with everything wrong with the IP, if the problem is deep, then, a mass layout is coming. fans don't assume the big differnces with game vision and following modern trend with fired devs. Kojima is a big example.
>>741170301Honestly they deserve to be closed, why did they expect that working under corpos would be better than being independent? They lost the freedom to do whatever they wanted and now their IPs are forever owned by Microslop even after the studio closes.
>>741179105Infinite was a spectacular flop. The CE remake has a budget of 20 dollars so that'll make money.
>>741178630Snoys are mentally ill and even Nintendo is the worst offender>$99 Virtual Boy cardboard box
>>741171513>fellow [REANIMATION] chad
>>741170447Microsoft is one of if not the turbocorp of all turbocorpsEverything internally is a hellscape of middlemanagers infighting, jumping ship without seeing anything through, coming on midway with no clue what's going on, destroying everything someone else did because of some pretty disagreement, sucking someone's dick (often literally) to get support for some project, etcIt's an environment that practically guarantees nothing good can ever happen. The only reason anyone would want to work at Microsoft is so they can leave two years later and say "I worked at Microsoft"
>>741170301If Rare could do this and walk away with the IP they brought in, it could be the greatest thing to happen to the gaming industry. Ever.
>>741179105Does it though? 4 sold reasonably well(because it still could lean on the legacy fanbase) but each game since has been increasingly big flop after flop. Reminder that infinite sold so poorly they shitcanned all their planned story DLC for it.
>>741179328>paid campaign flopped and killed the dlc >live service f2p mp flopped
>>741171314I forgot they made that. That has to be what keeps them alive because there's no way The Outer Flops is keeping them solvent.
>>741171635No one cares about Gears after 3. Halo is pretty much a corpse at this point. Also Sportslop lol
>>741178378>wildly successful when the game is given away with every PS soldFuck off Hermen
>>741171756the trailer for their new game made it seem like they got their head out of their asses and tried to make a game that was more like a hack and slash rather than a walking sim with janky combat too little too late, I reckon if you want to make walking sim games like that you can't take 7 years to make it like they did with the second one
I wanted to come in here and defend Double Fine, but I looked at their Wikipedia page and they haven’t done jack shit since 2009. How the fuck are they even still around?
>>741175078Imagine wanting even more industry consolidation, xbox cucks are terminally stupid.
>>741179187Honestly if Halo 7 happens, it needs to be Master Chief's last game so that he can finally retire as they have no clue what to him nowadays.
>Retards thinking Obsidian would get shut down>When they are the one studio Microsoft bought that are actually pumping our yearly Game Pass slop
>>741179749I remember getting endlessly called a pony or snoy for saying "MS buying Activision is bad actually".
>>741170301Fantastic news.Total western game industry death.Go woke go broke.
>>741170301All of these studios have 100+ employees but they barely release any games and when they do it's artsy bullshit that does not sell. It is insane that these studios have lasted this long.
>>741179853They shouldve just buyout raven from them instead of buying out the whole company
>>741178560They're the only ones who understood the assignment when it came to Game Pass.
>>741171032>>741172910the documentary was so comfy....pozzed cancer ruins everything
>>741177312What else could they do? They already have the model, engine, and a bunch of assets. Making a Senua game but with actual gameplay was probably their only hail mary shot. It basically looks like God of War, I guess, so maybe they hoped some studio would wanna pay for it.I literally do not know what else you would do in this circumstance. The answer was never go all in on this hellblade shit in the first place, but since they did 3 with more actiony combat is all they can do.
>>741179808An ODST2 or new story altogether in the Halo setting would honestly be more exciting.
Face it, these devs needed to be shut down ages ago. Imagine being given unlimited money, 10 years of time to release games and they only put out 1-2 forgettable games? Nobody sane is going to keep funding that. Companies are not charities. These devs are taking their jew daycares for granted and phil spencer has been too kind to let them relax for this long without fire under their boots.
>>741177273Rare has potential to be one of their most successful studios but they are also the kind of studio who will grind their gears for a decade and make nothing if they give the decision making to dei hires who are attracted to studios like rare in the first place. A viva pinata game that caters to the pokemon, animal rearing/female interior decorating craze would do well but if its directed by actual women it'll have a gay as fuck aura that will cause it to flop.
>>741179293Not really, all of the talent from the SNES/N64 era is long gone. Even if they could somehow keep all of those IPs, they wouldn't really be able to do anything with them, just look at Everwild.The best possible solution would be for Microslop to liquidate their assets and someone else to buy only the IPs, preferably either Playtonic or Nintendo, both have their pros and cons.
Double Fine is a real loss. Why can't they just sell it back to Schafer?
>>741172758they also offered a job to chris avellone
>>741178950Asha said Xbox as a whole without counting act-bliz has a 3% profit margin, do you know how pathetic that amount of profit margin is? Meanwhile Activision blizzard is at 30-40% profit margin. Microsoft was just shocked learning that it's possible to be profitable with video games.
>>741180413If Nintendo gets back the rights to Banjo and announces a new game. The internet will cheer for weeks. But the game itself will underperform because Banjo is not nearly as popular as ecelebs think it is.
>>741179808The only way they can salvage halo is by decanonizing everything 343 did and just farming out the license to other studios in hopes that at least one of them will shit out something decent. But yeah, close the book on MC. That too.
>>741179853They were really hoping Sony would die after the buyout.
>>741171635Gears and Halo have been dead for a decade or so at this point, and sportslop enjoyers are slowly getting fed up with EAs extremely jewish practices that even they're quitting. You should seriously look up what niggerball video game players have put up with all these years. Yearly resets in their accounts, less and less quality control as time goes on, fomo events and battlepasses, advertisements for IRL products in between games, it's insane. Anybody that's been playing this shit is par of the ultimate cattle species, worse than gacha whales, just astounding what some people will put up with to see messi or kobe bryant put a ball in a net.
>>741170668It brings hope that blizzard is getting axed soon, since microsoft now knows that none of their games are profitable on the long run unlike the elder scrolls and fallout.We will live to see todd merging night elves and draenei in tamriel.
>>741178675SoT has been declining hard
>>741180419they're all currently negotiating spinning off, apparently.not that i expect that they're going to find that much success even if they do it
>>741170301>Make nothing for years>WHY ARE THEY SHUTTING US DOWN WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!Like when people freaked out over that Rare game getting canceled after eleven years of development, SIX OF WHICH WERE THEM FIGURING OUT WHAT THEY WERE EVEN GOING TO MAKEThe AAA industry and its subsidiaries are fucking daycare centers for legbeards.
>>741178283Keep dreaming.
>>741170301B@s3d nothing but w@k3 s10p
>>741180534There is no way any company is going to wipe away their mistakes and admit they messed up. Disney for example is not doing that with Star Wars, even if they know the sequels is why their recent movies or tv shows bomb. Corporations and the golems that work for them have way too much pride to admit wrongdoing.
>>741180524A competently made Banjo-Kazooie remake or new game would sell well enough to warrant a new title. It just needs the right backer/tardwrangler and advertisement. Banjo getting announced for Smash was the ideal timing, buy Microshit did nothing with it.
>>741180709>Promised a budget>Riding the coattails of GOATs>No concept of feature creep and effective direction>Inexplicably hire a bunch of people to deal with a bunch of bullshit secondary priority minutiaeYeah what a shit showHave the intern artists work on bullshit background assetsHave the intern coders apprentice under the actual play testers and implementersDon't just hire 1000 retards and expect them to be coordinated
>>741170447>Fuck around and do nothing>Hear the axe being sharpened>Bullshit a new release>Get it announced>Suddenly have the eyes of the retarded horde that is Microsoft bureaucracy turn like ancient idiot demons to stare at you with realization for the first time in years>The bureaucrats smell financial loss in the future>They devour you because you made yourself and your failures known to themI guess announcing a game isn't a HAHA YOU CAN'T FIRE ME jinx on your boss.
>>741180772I actually heard Disney was considering doing away with the sequel trilogy and starting over fresh. They even admit the new movies have very little cultural impact and streaming viewership. Nobody is watching The Last Jedi on Disney+ in the big '26. They should follow Doctor Who and just put everything on ice for the foreseeable future. They lose less money that way.
>>741171635Fallout, The Elder Scrolls and id Software ips are carrying MS.Warcraft is dead, diablo sucks, ow got fucked by marvel and fortnie and this COD is a fight or die situation for activision.This will be the last public blizzcon ever, and mainly because dallas gaylord area is better than anaheim and microsoft prefers quakecon.
>>741178560Obsidian is actually profitable. They have 300 employees as of 2026, and have released 7 games in the past decade, which is impressive by today's standards. Now let's say that the average wage is 150k USD for their employees, with lower level engineers and analysts making 80-100k, and the top tier devs making 200k plus. That means that they have a yearly operating cost of 45 million. They're releasing one or two games every year nowadays since they're on games pass duty, with Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 in 2025, Grounded 2 in 2026, and they say they're releasing 2 more games in 2027. That's 5 games in 3 years, 5 games for 25-30 million dev cost each. Now obviously a game will cost more with the marketing added on top, the distribution and cuts that stores get, and the cost of the office space, tools, software and whatever, but what I'm getting at is that Obsidian is perfect happy to make 4-5 mediocre games concurrently because there is no way they can fail that way. Personally, I hope the failure of games pass makes them change their business model and go all in in a single game, because I have not played any of their slop after Outer Worlds 1, simply because I'm turned off by how they're half assing everything.
go woke get broke, tale as old as time
>>741180945Ninja Theory lasting as long as they did, despite them being generally bad at making games, was always shocking. They are based in Cambridge which is like the 8th most expensive city in the UK, so of course Microsoft is going to kill them and just take the Motion capture stuff.
>>741180832>buy Microshit did nothing with it.That's not how game development works
>>741180945You forget another point the new Gears prequel costs 400 million dollars. I mean I'm no financial expert but Microsoft owns Gears, the series is 20 years old and has several entries of assets already made. Why in the fuck does one game from that series cost the average Marvel movie budget?
Imagine being a dev and being forced to actually make games gamers will enjoy, apparently thats the equivalent of asking these people to be homeless
>>741180524The internet would have cheered for weeks if this were 2010 or earlier. It may get a few threads here for a couple of days maximum, but that's it.
>>741181161That happens all the timeIt's called the CoD mines
>>741171441>Cheap and easy money in the world of vidya is disappearing. Turns out middle class is willing to give up vidya quite easily and the rich never gave a fuckI really don't think it's that. I think DEI and wasting money has finally caught up to all these companies
>>741180931Microsoft really is the blind idiot god, the only way to survive in its presence is to keep it distracted. >MS buys Zenimax>arkane releases nothing for 4 years>austin releases deathloop>MS remembers they exist>arkane austin closedThey could've just delayed it for another 5 years and collected checks while MS noticed someone else, poor guys. The nail that sticks up gets laid off, as they say.
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>>741180534Not to mention Steve Downes is nearing his eighties. Honestly after Halo 7, let Halo rest for a decade. Shut down 343 after Halo 7 as well
>>741180945Quakecon is more healthier than Blizzcon, besides less costs and being located on a better location, it was always more open than Blizzcon and more friendlier.Also BYOC is better and still feels like a old computer con.
>>741176291Someone plays sea of thieves?
>>741181313I wonder how many people at Microsoft have been "laid off" but somebody forgot to do the paperwork so they've just been silently logging into teams everyday while they do something else and collect their $200k salary
>>741180945I guarantee you that Overwatch, Diablo and Warcraft, as diminished as they are, out vastly out-earning Id and Bethesda right now.
>>741180945Can't forget about Minecraft as well.
>>741180945>Warcraft is deadThey can rerelease decade+ old expansions as """classic""" and people pay monthly for that.
>>741181569>Bioware might be part of thisEA seeing what's going on and wanting to get in on the layoff action just for fun would be very on-brand for them, lmao
>>741181569I think the simple reality is that we are just seeing a correction that got delayed due to COVID. Games have had massively bloated staffs, which hasn't made games come out any quicker, with massively inflated budgets. I know it isn't possible for a Studio to get a game out in a year from start to finish, but there really should be a whip saying a game should be done in 2 to 3 years.
>>741181569rip tes6
>>741181569Toddbros...
>>741181506Per microsoft's own internal quotas, they arent eaning shit compared to what ESO, 76 and paid modding ate, blizzdrone-kun.blizzard still lives in the past and are commited to continue to sustain the useless and inflated hr hire intern college debt whales.
>>741181569Bioware doesn't surprise me, they are mired in controversy and incompetence. Bethesda...well that one is surprising since they seemed to be Microsoft's Golden Boy. What the fuck is even going on why is doing something so simple as making videogames now a life or death culture war?
>>741181716tbf Bioware should've been closed like 10 years ago. Unironically, since 2012 they have made>cancelled game>cancelled game>Dragon Age Inquisition>cancelled game>Mass Effect Andromeda>fucking Anthem>Dragon Age VeilguardThey paid this team for FOURTEEN YEARS and that's what they made. Like wtf, how do any of these people have a job still, it's insane. They already laid off a lot of them, let's just put the bioware name out of its misery now.
>>741181901And may I see those internal quotas? I'm assuming you have a source for them outside of some random guy on X?
>>741171032He got his bag when he sold his company
>>741181957Bethesda is obviously the last remaining diversity hires from providence equity before the buyout, in fact any contractual shit is over this year, that includes the altmans.
>>741181973The craziest thing is they shut down the Dead Space studio for less. Dead Space 3 still made money but after its release they were gone. Bioware has lost more money and goodwill for them.
>>741181957Starfield was probably a disaster for Microsoft
>>741182147Starfield was almost certainly a flop. It's estimated to have sold a total of 6 million copies so far. And it has a pitiful steam player count so no one is buying any of their paid mods or dlc packs. Unless somehow 99% of the player base is on consoles, which going by sales distribution I highly doubt it.
How come many of these companies seem to gave no common sense or concern about surviving? You read about Anthem development and how they spent 4 years basically drinking coffee and discussing what Anthem should be and had nothing to show for it. 7 years of "development" but only 2 years of that was actual development when the EA CEO demanded something. I feel like all these companies that are about to die and run similarly. Everyone thinks they can drink coffee and have meetings forever with nothing to show
>>741182147Oblivion remastered was abandoned because ue5 was a trojan horse.
>>741182147I think Starfield gave Microsoft a window into what an utter cluster fuck Bethesda's development process in.
I think people forgot that quarter ends soon niggas. We 1000% are going to see layoffs across entire industry. Sony will layoff Destiny team too lol. Publishers will fire people.
>>741182259Don't forget that Starfield costed over 300 million dollars... And there's still loading screens in the game. And the ps5 version is busted and dlc expansions were disasters as well
>>741182147There's no reason to believe starfield flopped, in the sense that it missed targets. But we do know it was massively delayed. MS based their expectations on this >>741178391 when they bought Zenimax, they got fucking fleeced in that regard lolThink about this, they expected TES VI to be finished and released two years ago. It doesn't matter how well starfield did, there's a gigantic fucking gulf of revenue shaped like the elder scrolls, and now GTA VI is going to show up and completely upstage them. They are never ever going to get the revenue they expected.
>>741182312I think Sony has been lining up Bungie for a kill shot for a while, even the losses from Concord technically tie back to Bungie.I think Sony is utterly done with them and they're letting them just take in the failure of Marathon before they gut them.
>>741182275if the publishers don't put the devs to the coals then they're just going to sit around wankingWhen Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard they should have put Kotick in front of Xbox, he's the only western manager in modern times who knows how to get these people to do their job
>>741175701Corporations don't care if something is woke or not, all they care about is what makes moolah. If making a racing game with pronouns or a Fable game filled with niggers named Abdulh makes them money, then they'll do it.
>>741182275pic related on a global, societal, generational scale
>>741182275Because Microsoft has been running skeleton crews to manage a bunch of contractors that cycle out every 11 months because that's how they run the rest of their business There is no identity or culture or anything at these companies because they're just temp jobs where people spend 5 and a half months figuring out how everything works then 5 and a half months looking for another job
>>741182283Starfield was a zenimax providence equity project that was in late development and ms couldnt do shit to stop, ser how the jeet hires were all traced back to zenimax and providence equity money.said providence equity was in bed with sony and dnc before trump's late brother went behind their backs to sign the deal with microsoft that dissolved the entire board, even bruckenheimer and cal ripken jr were kicked out by microsoft.
>>741182489That jew shrierer or whatever his name is said that Sony prepares for layoffs too so yeah its obviously going to be Bungie. As i said its end of quarter so everyone gotta spread asscheeks for investors.
>>741173128there is not one single studio under microsoft that isnt woke, oh and microsoft itself is woke
>>741178034>they need to sell over 6 million copies to break even, assuming every copy is sold at full price as a digital download on the xbox store>in reality they would need to sell even MORE than that because a significant amount of copies sold will be from retail/other storesThere is no fucking way that's real. I do not believe that someone at microsoft saw the math and thought that this was a good idea. 400 million, cannot possibly be an accurate number what the fuck.
>>741182147Starfield was my first guess but then this anon also brings up the >>741182280 the Oblivion remaster that nobody seemed interested in or truly invested in. It also doesn't help its taking them eons to make TES:VI. Like the trailer was announced 8 fucking years ago.
>>741170502This desu. DmC was a disaster and I can only hope everyone involved with it goes homeless.
>>741181313You’re right, if MS were competent they would’ve killed Arkane the moment they pitched deathloop
>>741182660Arent there rumors of them remastering Fallout 3 and NV as well
>>741170301>nooooooooooooo you cant just fire us even though we fucking suck at our jobs and are a money incinerator nooo noooo noooooooooooooIt's funny how even the most basic business-oriented-thinking is sacrilege in videogayme-land. No one would bat an eye at deeply unprofitable behemoth-sized money pits being shut down, unless it's videogayme-related, then it's literally Hitler.
>>741181016None of those games generated a profit
>>741182606Some companies would like to view making games as something similar to running an enterprise software business. Cut costs by going through churn cycles, because hey it doesn't really matter who is fixing the bugs in microsoft word, as long as someone does. Games don't work that way and they can't understand that.
>>741182834Grounded 2 will certainly generate huge profits and is probably the only reason Obsidian remained untouched.
>>741182834Source?
>>741182813Heavy rumors of them remastering NV while it's basically been confirmed that 3 is getting remastered.
THE CRASH IS COMING
>>741178283Sorry microdick, not even Sony is as incompetent as you.
>>741177490https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_kQZbbtpXwI forgot about this shit. Holy fuck Ninja Theory truly were creatively bankrupt. What a shitty failure of a game developer, zero artistic merit.
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>>741182312All the best games were made by small teams of passionate white and Asian men. Games that are made by committees are instantly forgotten. Gaming needs to return to a niche hobby instead of trying to be like movies.
>>741178283depends how much of the "modern audience" buys their slop but it's not looking good, I'd hazard to guess Fable will outsell Gow laundry
>>741182813>>7411829283 and NV are obviously getting ported to 76 engine, Unreal Engine was proven to be useless for creation or gamebryo modding and too complicated to work withunlike the old creation kit.
>>741180658what about overwatch?
only three? they should make it three hundred
>>741183067Oh this is going to be a disaster considering this is Bethesda we are talking about
>>741183120Meh I don't think a 3 or nv remaster were ever made solely with the intention of generating millions of dollars. Probably done as the corporate equivalent of a 'pick me up' with the hopes that showing off some flashy new graphics or engine might bait some dumbass investors. Also decent testing grounds to see if these new engines or dev tools are actually worth a damn.
>>741183094The studio behind South of Midnight is 99% likely to be gone too. One of the Arkane studios is likely gone. Bethesda and Id Software are on the chopping block for layoffs.So it's much more than just what OP mentioned.
>>741170301>Compulsion Gamesnever made a good game>Ninja Theorynever made a good game>Double Finelast good game was 15+ years agonothing of value was lost
>>741173987Watch the psychonauts 2 documentary. Clown company with no control.
>>741183067>3 and NV are obviously getting ported to 76 enginePlease just admit that you're fucking with all of us for the love of Christ...
>>741183391>>Ninja Theory>never made a good gameI'd argue that DmC was pretty good once you learned to accept how retarded and absurd the writing was.
>>741183483nah
>>741183483No DmC was awful.
>>741183391ninja theory made heavenly sword (ok) and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (great)this is before the woke mind virus consumed them
>>741170447>announce game>show it off >big daddy microsoft comes by and asks to see more gameplay footage >all they have is an ugly woman screaming and crying in the mud >shut down the game studio This is precisely what happened.
>>741183483kill yourself
>>741183479Do you really want another half assed and anti mod friendly UE5 slop? even SE is making 7revs on UE4 because 5 is shit
>>741183598Heavenly Sword was a very mediocre GoW clone and I don't remember much about Enslaved other than it looking pretty, probably was mediocre too.
>>741170301I'll kind of miss Double Fine, when they had good games, they were really good. But I also can't blame Microsoft when 5 years after Psychonauts 2, all you have to show for it is Keeper and Kiln. And I doubt whatever they're currently working on had much promise.
>>741183739The MC of that game was in Playstation All Stars
>>741183483I think it's only enjoyable if you are indian.
>>741183483You have to die.
>>741183784>whatever they're currently working onThey're probably still sitting around in a circle jerking each other off about their wacky artslop game ideas that would barely function as a video game
>>741170686>Obsidian and 343 (or whatever the fuck they're called now) get to liveNo justice in this world
>>741182489>Responsible for Last of Us 2 Factions cancellation>Responsible for Concord >Might also be responsible for Fairgame$Bungie is a curse for Sony holy shit
Xbox and Sega could partner up for Dreamcast era type games again. I think Xbox mentioned that they want to revive IPs like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey or something like that.
>>741183509>>741183586>>741183665You guys are hating too much on it. Go back and play it now that time has passed and you're no longer freshly mad about the retarded dialogue and writing, and you'll likely see that it's a 6.5/10 game if you ignore those things.
>>741183869yeah, I remember it. Sony tried to push that game pretty hard back then, but it probably flopped
>>741184036You have dogshit taste, kill yourself.>time has passedand it's still dogshit.
>>741170301>B-BUT MUH INFINITE MICROSOFT MONEY WAS PROTECT THESE DEVELOPERSlmao
>>741184036Fuck off, Adi Shankar
>>741182312Really? When does the quarter end?
>>741170301>ninja theorythey deserve it for doubling and now tripling down on a retard protagonist when the second game was a flop.
>>741170301>Double FineWhat happened between 2021 and 2025?
>>741182930It's already crashing for the last several years now. It's just that the industry has spread out massively since the last crash, and the mess is mostly contained in Western-based game studios.
>>741170301Aren't like all of these part of the studio buying rush Microslop did a while back? Money well spent
>>741173961>>741174894I'd never thought i'd feel good about Schafer getting screwed over back in the 90s.Now i'm just hoping Ron Gilbert stops getting publishers.
Timeless.
>>741184036I'm not ignoring a pile of dogshit just to waste my time with a mediocre gameplay. I'm glad Ninja Theory is gone and I hope every dev ends up homeless.
>>741183784The only good Double Fine game I played that I liked was the 360 one that used the kinect and made you feel like you were in a 90's kids games show
>>741170301>Ninja TheoryGood bye to meme woman yelling
>>741184076>You have dogshit taste, kill yourself.I was right there with you hating on it back when it released. Then I tried it again a couple of years ago and it wasn't that bad if you just ignore the shitty writing and dialogue. Of course it will never come anywhere close to the old Devil May Cry 1-4.
>>741184359You do need to die, seriously.>ignoring DMC5 in your list of DMCs its better thanYeah, the sooner you kill yourself, the better.
>>741184052It didn't help that Playstation All Star came 5 years after the Heavenly Sword and her game didn't get a sequel so her being in the game is just strange
>>741171635Yes, good games
>>741171858That's Telltale retard
Doublefine is under microsoft?
I hope they find the modern audiences
>buy a gazillion studios>announce all games are now multiplat>jk all games are actually exclusive* again>fire all the devs in aforementioned game studios to make quarterly returns look good>??? So uh what exactly is the plan here? I get emptying studios that haven't done anything worthwhile but theyre gonna be left with nothing but Minecraft and Forza.
>>741171756That's actually hilarious. It's almost unbelievable Xbox would have that new Hellblade trailer as part of their announcements lineup just to close their studio a week later, it's honestly comical.
>>741184407You need anger management classes.
>>741171635Actual games since dudebros left vidya and there's no one to consume this slop.
Good riddance. They are all bad, unethical scum. I hope they fired the lot of them too.
>>741183784>I'll kind of miss Double Fine, when they had good gamesI wish we could've gotten a remaster of Brutal Legend without the retarded RTS-lite sections.
Had to look up who Compulsion was. All around deserved. The DMC reboot and Senua's walking sim faggots, Tim Schafer's faggots, and these faggots. Rest in shit.
>>741184528Asha is there to kill Xbox for good.
>>741183373>One of the Arkane studios is likely gonethere's only one left, they already shut the other one years ago. Bethesda is one of the few studios in the industry staffing up because they need a new fallout and elder scrolls asap.
>>741171756There was a very odd set of tweets from the studio a few days ago. Weirdly spelling out how many employees the studio has and a noticeable pushy message to wishlist it. The game was 100% announced to shop the studio around.Question is, who tf is buying Ninja Theory for "Senua" in 2026?
>>741183739I never played Enslaved but I remember it being a /v/ darling fifteen years agoThere used to an image that got posted a lot about the lead writer making fun of Tameem because he kept trying to make the MC an edgelord dickhead
>>741184709>that statement last week like "oh woe is us component costs are so expensive how couldn't we have seen this :(((">not only works for ms but specifically was in their ai division before xbox
>>741182930only Rockstar will be left
It does feel like a lot of these studios are just fiddling their thumbs collecting paychecks and not working on anything until finally getting closed 5 years down the line. I wonder if that's the reason why games take forever to come out, and not because of actual workload.
>>741184794tencent would have bought them 5 years ago, now they cant offload these western turd studios fast enough.
>>741184586I remember we all made fun of the dudebros era, but we had no idea how good we had back then. Gears of War became such an astounding success because the developer team was almost entirely male and comprised of dude-bros. Compare that now to the team that has developed Gears 5 and put that annoying shitty teenager voiced by Laura Bailey as front and center of the plot.
>>741184837You're forgetting someone.
>>741184837Take your weaboo shit back to /a/. Rockstar is degenerate.
Please Fucking Help! Tim Schafer loves his studio and his employees, he promised that selling to Microsoft would save the studio! How is this Fucking happening!?
>>741184914It was a shit era as well but for a different reason. gays of war was never good.
>put all your games on Day 1 gamepass>Oh no! Your games aren't selling well. We have to close down your studio!
>>741173128>Remove paid online and I may get an XBOXThat's the only thing keeping them in the green. They're not selling games, but they get a guaranteed paycheck every single month from people who forgot they were subscribed.
>>741185023Bitch-ass nigga. Go suck on your buttplug.
>>741184528Microsoft is done with Xbox and cleaning up shop. Those rumors of them arguing about Xbox's future? They already decided a year ago. Girlboss leaders always get put in to be a scapegoat when management wants to kill something without looking bad. All the excess fat will be trimmed such as B tier studios (they make no money), PS5 ports (also make no money), extraneous services, etc until Xbox is just a core hardware team and a few profitable dev teams Then they're gonna wrap it up with a bow and sell it to whatever interested buyer for cheap, likely some big Chinese or Middle Eastern company
>>741184869It's fucking insane how for 20 years the usual team size for vidya was like 50-200, even for AAA games. Then something happened somewhere along the line and suddenly it became completely normal to now have teams that are like 500-1000 and also having an additional several THOUSANDS people involved with the development.
>>741184794LOL, yeah that does seem like they already knew huh.
>>741185074The slop they produced wouldn't even register without gamepass. They served a purpose at least, to pretend their shitty service had games.
>>741170301but i thought microsoft is a no beauty allowed company
>>741172282They should have done this 5 years ago when Microsoft first fucking bought Bethesda, I have no idea why it took them this long to crack the whip and get some Fallout games going.
>>741172282Obsidian in its current form would not be able to make a competent Fallout game.
What has Doublefine even made other than Psychonauts?
>>741185105mad cuz true
>>741184145>Amnesia Fortnight>Daniel, I need you to get the Victory Royale
>>741184794I'm betting on Embracer
>>741185216kiln
>>741170301Woke retards were getting haughty about hellblade 3 too. We all know the series sold like shit
>>741170502They should've been shut down 13 years ago
>>741185147The funny thing is that it became normal after everyone starting jumping onto Unreal Engine. Something that was supposed to streamline development because you can see instant results in what you are doing.
>>741185147You get free money for having the right checkboxes of diversity hired but those people can't actually make shit. So you still have to keep around those that can plus people who can fix the diversity hire's fuckups on top.
>>741185176Don't forget they also own InXile as well
>>741175063>and cut the gaming dead weightGod I hope so. They've done nothing but ruin the industry for everyone else. Half the reason they made the Xbox was to force DirectX on PC development, locking new games away from Mac and Linux users and ensuring their Windows monopoly. Now that ship sailed a decade ago with Proton and DXVK, so they don't have much of a reason to hang on.
>>741185216Brutal legend.... 17 years ago. That's it. Psychonauts and Brutal legend.
What happened here?
>>741185402This is the first time I have heard of this game.
>>741185216They made that lighthouse game that nobody knew about or bought. Think they sold like 300 copies, 1k copies at best
I will remain not doing anything.
>>741185402UGLY
>>741185263>no look see we just need to incorporate this one more tool into our workflow and productivity will increase by 200%!>yes yes we'll need to hire a new team to manage integration and pay the per employee licensing fees but trust me it'll all be worth it! >let's just approve it now and we can circle back to the specifics at next quarters meeting
>>741170668Good riddance.
>>741184138End of June, which is also the end of their financial year. MS' next financial year starts on July 1st, so if layoffs are coming, it would make sense to start them in that financial year instead of muddying this one right at the end. Then, you can use that year as a 'dump year' to bundle all the layoffs and severance and studio closure shit in one contiguous financial period.
>>741185402Damn 3000 Overly Negative (16%) is pretty brutal for Steam.
>>741184537It's business as usual. You think Microsoft's execs are going to tell the dipshits in marketing about layoff plans that could interfere with the stock price?Hell no. They're going to keep it secret until literally the last second, which is usually when you have tell the government 'I'm firing a bunch of people.' Make no mistake, these places wouldn't even tell the employees until the second before their computers get automatically locked if they could get away with it.
>>741171635>GearsDead franchise. E-Day won't make back the 400 million dollars needed to make it>HaloDead Franchise. Halo fans have aged out, died, or simply want the franchise to die. Regurgitating remakes is not going to save it>MaddenSlop tier quality that can be shoved over to India
Actually curious...why 'shut down' the studios instead of just cutting all funding to said studio and telling them to make their own payroll while skimming the profits from their games? Why smother them to death?
What games have those studios produced in the last decade?
>>741172552South of Midnight apparently had a very high budget and it flopped massive
A message of hope.The woke faggotry cannot continue in perpetuity, at some point it must end.
>>741185646>instead of just cutting all fundingBecause in 99% of cases this is going to result in the exact same thing as a shutdown. These studios are fully dependent and literally can't survive on their own.
>>741185402Looking at the Steam reviews, the #1 running theme is that it seems they abandoned the game, leaving it unfinished. Apparently Tim Shafer also made snide remarks about people wanting their money back.
>>741185402Looks like they released a broken, unfinished game and decided to just forget it. Honestly sounds like the kind of shit that should make Valve step in and remove from the store.
Xbox is pretty much dead at this point. I can't imagine being stuck in that ecosystem? I would jump to PS if I was.
>>741170301Those studios aren't closed??? WTF close double fine NOW! They crowdfunded their last game over like fucking 8 years...
>>741185771>>741185780Motherfuckers are still trying to sell it for $10 too. Embarrassing.
>>741185768if they can't turn a profit then why keep them?why do they even exist if they can't turn a profitwtf lol
>>741185709just look it up
>>741184696>3 flops nearly 5-6 years apartNot a surprise. Basically every studio getting chopped is because of this. As much as I hate corporations, cutting these studios makes sense. Taking way too long to make games that aren't turning a profit. The only ones safe are studios like ID and Bethesda, makes sense that Asha is trying to force Bethesda to make more TES/Fallout games.Doubt anything will change, at most we're witnessing a ship sinking slightly slower than it was before.
>>741185642Don't forget the gears storyline is fucked
>>741185202They're wouldn't, but it would be unironically better than anything Bethesda would shit out nowadays. I'd say give it to Arkane, if they survive the purge. It would please Bethesda because Arkane is still part of them, they're, in my opinion, better than current Obsidian, and they are on the brink of death so they would put their entire soul into it.
Hey friendos, Game Pass (as a whole) is on the chopping block next. Plan to phase it out by end of the year. These studios they're gutting were studios primarily meant for making Game Pass content. Think games like South of Midnight, Keeper, etc. They're axing that pipeline and now the service itself will be next. Existing subscribers will be able to keep using it for as long as their subs are active (and games like Gears of War E-Day will be available to them) and the servers maintaining will be kept online for probably awhile yet, but otherwise by the end of the year the option to purchase Game Pass will be completely unavailable. Gears of War E-Day will mark the last first party title to go on it. Redemption codes for Game Pass will convert to Xbox Live subscriptions (or whatever they plan on probably rebranding that to).This all basically being done for the chase now of "sustainability" and the reality is Game Pass just isn't sustainable. I won't respond to anyone here nor will I provide any deets, fuck getting sued for this shit hole jeet run company.
>>741170301>Currently negotiating with Microsoft going independentGood luck, once MS gets their hands on something, they wont let go until hell freezes over because Billy G. forgot to pay the heating bill.
>>741170447You were dumb for thinking they would actually make a sequel to that bomb.
>>741185812>I would jump to PS if I was.Playstation ain't doing too hot either.>[Naughty Dog] Last of Us live service game - Cancelled December 2023>[Insomniac] Spider-Man live service game - Cancelled December 2023>[Firesprite Studios] Project Copper/Twisted Metal battle royale live service game - Cancelled February 2024>[Deviation Games] Draconis/Ooze, live service game - Cancelled early 2024 and studio shut down March 2024>[PlayStation Studios' London Studio] Project Camden, live service game - Cancelled February 2024, studio shut down May 2024>[Bungie] Operation Payback, 3rd person Destiny live service game - Cancelled June 2024>[Firewalk Studios] Concord, live service game - Shut down 11 days after release in August 2024, studio shut down October 2024>[Bend Studios] Mirror Pond, live service game - Cancelled January 2025>[Bluepoint Games] God of War live service game - Cancelled January 2025, studio shut down March 2026>[Dark Outlaw Games] Unknown name, live service game - Cancelled and studio shut down in March 2026Upcoming live service games that will either be cancelled or failures:>[Haven Games] Br€ak In(Fairgame$), live service game>[NCSoft/Guerilla Games] Horizon Steel Frontiers, live service MMO>[Guerrilla Games] Horizon Hunters Gathering, live service co-op game>[teamLFG] Gummy Bears, live service MOBA
>>741185646Because it opens the parent companies to lawsuits and hostile takeovers, if a subsidiary can't pay it's employees for instance or have adequate funding they will borrow money obviously borrow money they can't pay back, which opens the creditors to take it directly from the parent company
If MS is wrapping up the xbox brand they wouldn't still be balls deep in developing another console.
>>741185812Basically, no one is. Xbox Series sales are in the gutter. The only reason to even get one is being extremely poor and getting the Game Pass stuff, which looks like it is getting price increases and losing features.Honestly anyone who bought a Xbox post 360 deserves it. Actually if you bought a shitbox at all, the entire platform was a net negative for vidya.
>>7411859252 more weeks
>>741171249They might still die, but what might save them is that they are at least pumping out games at a quick pace.
Next time they should just make games people want to play. I still don't understand what's supposed to be the target demographics for that screaming woman game
>>741185925>Hey friendos, Game Pass (as a whole) is on the chopping block next. Plan to phase it out by end of the year.okay, buddy
>>741186043It's all right, they told me me my PS5 is an Xbox! Along with my Steam computer!
>>741178283They have Fortnite, they have Apex, they have FIFA, they have Madden, they have Valorant and they have people like them slightly more because you're retarded.
>>741181957Bethesda is simply HUGE. They have an estimated around 700 to 760 employees and have released exactly ONE new game in the past 8 years which I don't think flopped, but Starfield definitely didn't perform the way they wanted it to. Keeping that many people employed doing god only knows makes suits get antsy after that long and they start sharpening the axe looking for places to trim the fat.
>>741179039>Xbox was never profitable outside the Xbox 360 daysthats exactly what that guy said
>>741186192What the fuck are 700+ people doing if they aren't making any new games? They could be making like 7 games with 100 staff on them!
>>741186043Yeah, the writing's been on the wall for Xbox since at least 2013. Just dragged out because of MS footing the bill for so long
>>741185998They aren't making another console to try going for another gen, they're making another console to advertise the hardware teams' capabilities Every action they make the next 5 years is with the intent of selling Xbox off
So Phil Spencer killed Xbox?
>>741172072Not really. Running with Scissors cancelled a Postal game less than 24 hours after announcing it, because Vince got bamboozled by a bunch of freaks that vibe-coded the whole damn thing and he got pissed for their trickery.
>>741181085They had a really good mocap setup that they were renting out keeping them alive - according to the voices at least.
>>741186292No, don mattrick did.
>>741186165not him, but I can see it, they're already gutting it of features and took COD off, it's clear they're out to make money and only do safe bets going forward (cod, halo, elder scrolls, etc) and putting that shit on a subscription service people can sub to for a month for like $20, play, and then instantly cancel is just a fucking stupid idea and Sasha and her cronies are probably realizing as much.
>>741186292>>741186375Xbox died the moment they announced kinect.
>>741186231 Bro, they’re unionized. They’re not doing shit
>>741185981Someone at Sony had a massive hard-on for the GAAS profile and I am fucking joyous at how hard the push failed.
>>741186438That just means they have to fire all of them which they were already gonna do
>>741186231I think those people are working 76 most likely
>>741186375>At E3 2013, Major Nelson gave an interview to one Angry Joe, where the latter asked whether it was possible to turn off the always-online systems, stating that perhaps it could be switched off post-release. Major Nelson immediately grabbed hold of the mic and asked Angry Joe if he was a developer, infamously stating that it’s not as simple as flicking a switch to turn off the always-online DRM. Two days later, literally, Microsoft announced that they had flicked the switch.Kek.
>>741172081>buy something>realize it's trash>shit Think about those things as if they were real and things will make sense.
I still don't get how anyone makes any fucking money from gamepass. Later in the year I could just pay for one month (which is what, $15?) and can play $300 worth of their latest AAA bullshit.
>>741186423Yeah thanks to Don Mattrick
>>741172215The non-"they're retarded" answer is that it was supposed to shill their motion capturing tech.
>>741186231They're pretty incompetent. One of the reason why Starfield doesn't have a huge modding community, besides the game not being that popular as previous releases, is that apparently the scripting and engine side code is a fucking mess and nightmare to deal with, according to modders. Literally pajeet tier engineering.
>>741186508Ticked Off Tico made him big mad
>>741186438Unionization doesn't protect you from layoffs or studio closures
>>741186508>Rare Enraged Enrique W
>>741172648>>741172627>>741172746Stuff like that shows how little people understand about money. Those kickstarters made between 1-3 million. You have to be you to think that that's a lot of money for a studio with 100 people.
>>741186508>Major NelsonKek, I forgot about this fag. Microsoft really wanted to appeal to the CoD kiddies and dudebros by adding the fucking "Major" title to one of their corpo execs for some reason.
>>741186508Imagine getting BTFOed by Irritaed Ignacio
>>741173274The entire Dragon Age branch of that company is already gone.
>>741173339Political reasons. Also where else could you go where spending 5 years turning 200m into 20m would let you keep your job?
>>741173274>and meanwhile Bioware is still aliveDon't worry, they're going to be slowly bled to death over the course of years before the Saudi's take them out back. Maybe litearlly too.Mass Effect 4 or 5 or whatever the fuck it is, is never coming out.
>>741175409QUE TE JODAN
>>741186508>E3 2013That show was one of the most perfect realizations of the concept of a humiliation ritual (for Microsoft) in the history of gaming.
>>741173642>Microsoft taking the brunt of the shitstorm for Sony A tale as old as Xbox one.
>>741173727No way, they have at least one more flop in them. Way too expensive and prestigious to not throw good money after bad.
>>741185321Europeans crying about the heat is so embarrassing. It's not even that hot here. t. same flag as that fag
>>741187239I think it's more Sony's pride than anything. Concord was a huge black eye, Marathon flopping also stings, but to close Bungie would be admitting 'We fucked this whole thing up,' which they won't do.So, more money goes into the pit. It's all very entertaining, I must say.
>>741174121This. Being able to consistently develop games is invaluable in the current AAA industry.
>>741176512Gotta have some respect for the devil. That guy was really good at his job.
>>741186481True and good and justified
>>741178802If the era of WoW killers and Dota clones didn't clue them in why would the hero shooter era be different?
>>741178283They have a cut of the GTA6 sharkcard revenue, you know, the actual moneymaker in the last GTA. Plus the cut of the microtransactions in all the ball and gun shit
>>741181973>VeilguardEven worse than that. Dreadwolf got cancelled twice (Joplin and Morrison) and the monstrosity that became Veilguard was made in only 3 years. It was also supposed to be a live service like Anthem, but the latter was such an absolute flop that EA ORDERED Bioware to purge all the multiplayer crap in it.
>>741170301Oh no anyways
>>741187551And he got away with scamming the shit out of Microslop with the poisoned apple that is Actizard.
>>741171380Didn't bethesda announce TES6 8 years ago? Announcements don't mean shit anymore
>>741170301Some actually good closure decisions for once
>>741188065I'm still so curious what they were thinking with that.
>>741186438I have seen studios getting wiped out immediately after unionizing. If anything, it accelerated their demise.
>>741175637Uhhhh I think the last saints row was them lmao
>>741185920I'd expect E-Day to be a soft reboot of the franchise. What the fuck happened to Gears 6's development? Did it get canned or was Gears 6 always going to be E-Day?
>>741188121Also I just want to say if you're operating on AAA company money and you're not using some kind of gacha system, even a completely fair one, to monetize your online games then you deserve to be fired. Bungie for instance could have been raking it in with a cheap $5 gacha subscription but they think what they shit is gold. Genshin is an annual billion dollar empire off of this shitty little nothing subscription and somehow it's not a fucking standard from AAA online games. Mental.
>>741186438>shutters the studioMake good games not live service slop and you'd still have a job (Destiny is live service slop)
