>announce new game>get closed a week later
>>741171394New game requires money and 4+ years of production
>buy a bunch of game studios>stacked showcase presentation for games coming in 5-10 years>lay them all offGenius move.
>announcing games before work even beganno wonder this brand is in the toilet
>>741171394>no link>no archiveFake until proven gay.
>Hellblade>Game
Good. Total femoid protagonist death.
>>741171696To be fair rebranding 343 was a ritual to save the studio from this fate
When will you figure out there is a concerted effort to dismantle businesses in the West one by one.
>>741171394they probably ran the trailer to gauge public interest before pulling the triggeri know people talk a lot about games that "aren't video games" but hellblade 2 did irreparable damage to the franchise by quite literally being an unreal engine tech demo FMV movie game thing
>>741171751learn to use a search engine retardhttps://www.theverge.com/games/950204/xbox-ninja-theory-shutdown-hellblade-senuaS to SPITNothing of value was lost.
>>741171394So games made for critics are dead
>>741171751https://www.theverge.com/games/950204/xbox-ninja-theory-shutdown-hellblade-senua>Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The closure comes as “several” Xbox studios at Microsoft, including Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in “active negotiations” about spinning off, Bloomberg reports.>The closure and negotiations follow Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty warning last week of a “reset” at Xbox, laying out several challenges facing Xbox’s business — including that it had “over extended” with its studio system and the hardware component crisis is significantly driving up prices. Kotaku reported earlier on Monday that Microsoft was planning to shut down Compulsion, though it noted in an update that studio leadership was in “negotiations” with Microsoft.>Sharma has made many major decisions since taking over at Xbox in February, including locking down Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution as Xbox console exclusives in an announcement at its Xbox Games Showcase just over a week ago. During that event, Microsoft also revealed a new Hellblade game, Senua, and its future with this change is unclear.>Xbox didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
To this day I have no idea what Hellblade is about and don't know anyone who played it
>>741171394lol that's awesome
>>741171990Screaming woman or something
>>741171915Jeets are doing more damage to the industry than jews are.
>>741171394JUST CLOSE EVERYTHING AT THIS POINT
Go woke go broke, BIAAAAAAATCHHAHAHAAAAAAAAA
>>741171394good fuck this astroturfed "game"
Hellblade 1 was fine, Hellblade 2 took a hell of a long time to come out for what is a glorified cinematic walking simulator. I was optimistic about the third game but guess it won't be seeing the light of day now.
ai really threw xbox for a loop hehe
>>741171394Isn't this the western DmC studio
>>741171394>you can’t do this to me. m-my game was just announced
>>741171394How long until Bethesda and Activision are "shut down" and the IPs are moved to new studios dedicated to specific franchises (Soap Price Studios, Ripa and Tear Entertainment, Arrow in Knee Productions).
>>741172273Yes
waste of money foidslop that could be better spent elsewhere like StarCraft
>>741172045You are so close to realizing while all the jew sperging has been pushed for. Almost like the people you hate are trying to deflect blame onto others while they try to infest your countries. Maybe you will start to "notice" how much Qatar, Saudia Arabia, and India spend compared to AIPAC and actually realize you shouldn't be getting distracted by the dangling keys.
Are you telling me that the studio in charge of creating "I'm a strong woman hear me ROAR!" - the game didn't make enough profits to justify its existence?I'm shocked.
i'm not saying closing these studios isn't deserved, but their budgets are so tiny the money saved is so insignificant compared to pouring hundreds of millions into another halo remake which we all know means a complete series remake. again.
>>741171394MS probably threated to shutdown xbox completely so they're in panic mode just trying to dump everything they can to survive
>Gears of War goes back to full on testosterone manly action >Xbox immediately lays off its most woke Studios Holy shit she's actually saving Xbox
>>741171394Microsoft will close down every studio until they only have Halo, Gears of War and Minecraft left in production.
>>741171915LOL
A-Asha Sharma-sama, I kneel...
at this point we can safely assume Xbox bought the stuidos purely for the trailers and not the games?
>make "arty" wank that plays like shit and appeals to nobody>get sucked off by a very tiny group of reviewers that want to seem like they understand LE EMOTIONAL DEPTH>fail because you wont stop making non-gamesmake animated movies if thats what you want to do you fucking losers. good riddance.
DmC was a good game tho i hated dmc1 and 2 outside of the desgins, and the 3rd senua game actually looked decent, i guess they realized they can't make money making vidya anymore with marathon and saros performing like shit
>>741172380Kill yourself schlomo.
Hellblade sounds cool, makes you go woah Hellblade sounds cool whats it about? Then you find out its about some bi polar schitzo female on her period constantly changing soggy tampons and trying clean skidmarks out of her thongs. The game fucking sucks ass.
xbox is a complete joke, there is no saving it
>>741172497This sounds like the last 3 years of the 360
That explains why Senua still had the PS5 logo lmfao. Xbox execs are actually straight up evil.
>Compulsion Games>Ninja Theorywho is next?
>>741172483>spend 400 million on a gears game>"sorry ninja theory, i could have saved you but i decided to spend my money wisely"
Inagine those retarded bongs at NT pitching Senua 3 and working on a trailer while they already had their heads on the chopping blockOr maybe pitching another Senua game is what killed them for good
>>741171394>get closed a week laterI thought they announced a sequel to this years ago.
>>741171394>JUST announced game>DeadI guess it's not like I ever had any interest in their games but wow
>>741171903Not my job you dumb fucking retard.
>>741172587All your boy Massie did was expose how much sandnigger money goes into US elections. Good going, champ. Did he do the Epstein thing he promised to do yet?
>>741172584Honestly I don't like Nu Dante or it's story but it's not that bad of a game. Surprised Ninja theory didn't make more action games instead of schizo woman simulator
>>741172656double fine is also "in negotiations"
endless trash
>>741172483>>741172669>"Gears of War goes back to full on testosterone manly action">team full of trannies>manly women girl boss in gears>Diversity is their strength >400 million budgetLmao another Wokeflop incoming from this trash jeetBox
>>741172423I am not sure how they survived so long, they told the fairy tale about how cheap the first game was, then spent like x10 money, x2 time more on a sequel that sold way worse
>>741171394
>>741172721Yeah and it came out. Last week they announced the 3rd game.
>>741171394>make schizocore movie game that sells meh>make schizocore movie game 2 except even more schizo and even morie movie, proceeds to floppeded and shitteded >hmm i know! lets make schizocore movie game 3 except... you know the drillkekiovanni! good ridance
>>741172880At first glance, E-Day looked decent, but the more they've shown, the more it just looks like another Gears 5
>>741172992Gears has just been the same shit every time. Every new game that comes out it just feels like another stiff shooter with rubbish animation from 2007
>>741171394>multiple Xbox studio closure announcements in one day>right after making vidya announcementsThey really are in panic mode lol.
>>741172878LOL
>>741172045All there games fucking suck. Heavenly Sword and Journey to the West are the only actual games they made. Heavenly Sword was mediocre and Journey had a annoying ask tether that game overed you and those games are old as fuck. All they do is glorified walking sims about mental health now
>>741172992Literally in their dev team they put a tranny and a girl boss in their trailer, put this along side their 400 million budget and this project is already doomed to fail
oh nonono
>>741171892>hellblade 2 did irreparable damage to the franchiseThe issue is thinking there's a "Hellblade" franchise to begin with.What they had was a perfectly valid stepstone to someth ng greater. For Microsoft they essentially had their own answer to Sonyslop, somebody who can do cinematic movie games - or at least a decent AA game on the level of E33 or Plague Tale.Instead NT seem to have literally wanted to make the same game three times, which is a bad idea in general but also like what the fuck is the team doing? They've clearly dabbled in all kinds of genres before, they surely aren't satisfied just going Icelandslop over and over?
>>741172992It's a classic Trojan horse.
>>741171990Woman with mental illnesses (the bad kind)
>>741172757NTA, but it's nobody's fault that you're a lazy butt hurt dork who can't do research so that you won't embarrass yourself! Great job for embarrassing yourself!
>>741171394rip heavenly sword I guess, not that they would have ever done anything with that IP again, they had their woke senua shit which really should've stayed a one off game.
aww, what a shame...
>>741171915Extremely based. Their studio went fucking crazy on this overrated screaming bitch-lady and they internally shut down a more promising project to focus more resources on said screaming bitch
>>741171990I tried the first one on gamepass and it was shit
>>741173175>>741173205both of those are woke
>>741172927>I am not sure how they survived so longthey were absolutely dirt cheap to keep running. in their last financials ms set their operating expenses to 18.7 million pounds.
>>741172878Heavenly Sword was alright for it's time but seriously who asked for Senua games for 10 years? DmC is hit or miss too but damn no wonder Xbox said fuck it
>>741173282>muh female protagonist wokekill yourself
>>741173205This game and every single other project from this garbage company flopping makes me feel vindicated
>>741172483>full on testosterone manly actionthat's one way of putting it.
>>741173282No they're not, they're just crap.
>>741172878With that list I can safely say that DmC was their best game.
>>741173360You lost and they lost their job faggot LOOOOOL. Pray they find a job in a MC Donalds near you trannie
>>741171394>Sister buys me Hellblade 1 for birthday>Install & play>30 mins of slowly walking around>UninstallI don't play "le cinematic" moviegames.
NOT IN A MILLION SALES
>>741173514that dude left a few years ago
were they expecting the trailer for the new game to go gangbusters or something? of course it wouldn'twhy even bother funding the game up to this point and make a trailer for it if you're just going to axe them a week later lol
Yeah, I'm thinking it's dance time.
>>741172880>thenGears of War was already going full retard when they added female soldiers, double retard.The entire point of the game was about hyper masculine roided freaks fighting hyper masculine roided aliums
>>741173282Heavenly Sword isn't woke, but it is extremely fucking mediocre. Also sure love early ps3 games forcing sixaxis motion controls
>>741171394Huh, there was another thread just a few days ago claiming their financials were solid and they were safe.
>>741171394>>741171663This just means that nobody in the marketing team was important enough to be told the layoffs were coming.
>>741173617All its saying is either they were hanging their hopes on "engagement" with their trailers hoping interest might be there. Or, even worse, the right hand at MS doesn't know what the left hand is doing. So either desperation or confusion. Either way they're fucked
>>741173430Why make "female" characters if they are just basically men
These games suck though. Extremely basic combat, lousy puzzles, and the plot is pointless misery porn. The audio was sort of neat but not at all enough to make the game worth playing.
I fucking told you. I said all these a
>>741173850WATCH OUT, THERE'S A SNI
>>741173641Wow thanks for reinforcing my argument retard. They went woke with 3 and their games never recover from that and now they keep increasing the diversity more and more, not surprising since their dev team is full of trannies
I had a lot of fun with Enslaved Oddyssey to the West.It's a shame they went on a downward spiral doing weirder and weirder games. Their fault only for wanting to be "artsy" before focusing on gameplay.
I fucking told you. I said all these acquisitions were bad and you all called me a snoy. Now look at what happened. They're all fucking dead because it turns out lockdown profits were temporary
>>741173948I'm kind of happy MS bought up all these studios and are now shutting them down.
>>741171990It's literally -- LITERALLY -- about a woman constantly talking. That's it. It's like the #1 reason men play videogames is to not hear women talk and then they made an entire game about it.
>>741171394Are we finally free from the ugly-woman-screaming franchise?
>>741172878Genuinely what was their obsession with Hell Blade to warrant like 4 games?
>>741173481how about you kill yourself instead incel
>>741173929Did he get banned yet ?
>>741171394What is /ourguy/ thinking right now
>>741172483Someone should have told the women in the game to lay off the testosterone and the devs to lay off the estrogen
>>741174202>you could have it all>my legacy of dirt
>>741174132Wokies wannabe artists making some shitty movie game because their actual movie projects did not go anywhere, literally mixtape before mixtape was a thing
>>741174176>"how about you kill yourself instead incel"
>>741174178>drive-by belittling of serious issues and stealth-defending corporations in a sensitive thread
>>741171394>Aaaaaaaaah- screaming ugly woman>studio closesTop KEK
>>741173175GODDDDDS DO NOT FIRE MY WIFE’S SWORD
>>741171696This is standard industry practice to drum up workers for games while also placating gamers. It's why Perfect Dark, Splinter Cell, and TES6 were announced so early.
>>741173509kys (kiss your sister)
>>741171394good riddance, how this trash almost got three games is beyond me, the Horizon of Xbox only even worse
How come troonera melts down whenever studio closures happen? Do they expect companies to carry the burden of having a studio that makes no money just for the sake of employing people?
>>741171394This is like if Glitch announced that a pilot got an official greenlight to then the next week have Epic announce they are closing.
>>741171915>a source tellsSo no actual news.
>>741173912That's why your image is retarded.There is no faithful "then" portrayed there. That "then" was the slippery slope.The reason why I'm calling you a retard is because that image is always spammed in these threads as a signal that Microsoft turned woke, when back in 2011 we had already identified the faggification of vidya.That image just shows that the overton window has been successfully pushed towards whatever those faggot progressives wanted
>>741171394I have to wonder if they’re trying to gauge the response to games they announced
>>741173617Xbox had nothing to show besides Gears so they hijacked all the Persona trailers.
>>741171394Good, I dont want to "experience" gameplay as a mentally ill woman
Does somebody have that old Capcom interview where they talk about basically having to babysit Ninja Theory because western devs are so bad at making action games? They just designed the story and visuals with zero consideration for gameplay, they didn't even proper animation techniques where attacks need to have proper wind ups and telegraphing to feel fair and satisfying.
>>741172483Don't forget that she's whipping that lazy faggot Todd into making TES VI instead of doing 10 more Skyrim rereleases.
>>741172483She's actually preparing to sell Xbox.
So then what happens to Hell Blade 3?
>>741175173It may have been a pitch for someone to buy them (lol)
>>741171394ninja theory... didn't they do heavenly sword back when nothing was selling for PS3? so microsoft bought them? hahaha
>>741171394>cinematic game about a strong female warrior dealing with mental illnessIts funny to think that if this franchise was a Playstation exclusive instead of Xbox, everyone would be praising it as a 10/10 masterpiece and sony would be saying it sold 6 gorillion units per game
>>741174821>"That's why your image is retarded."No, it's not. They started with a pretty woman, since a pretty women is way more acceptable than a macho women to most people and because the game came out in 2011, a era where woke devs didn't went as hard like they do today. Same example could be said about God Of War 2018 and Ragnarok, where 2018 had way less woke elements(but the seed and woke stuff was still there) and when they started to feel confident they went full retard with Ragnarok and now Laufey
>>741175006yes whip todd into making another banger like starfield. that, another halo remake, and gears will get people to pay for game pass for 2 months and then cancel again.
>>741174950Yeah these faggots were always retarded and incompetent.
>>741174613i feel like at least a few of those are getting canned
>try out first game>game recommends you wear headphones so you can properly hear the voices Someone explain to me why ANYONE would want to play a mental illness simulator
>>741172878>They made Enslaved and the best DmC gameHow far they fell from grace.
>>741171394This studio needs to be shut down. Those Senua games are pretentious tech demos and nothing more.
>>741171892Not like the first game was much better. It felt like a beta for something better.
>>741171990The first game is literally just about a crazy viking bitch going more crazy. Its played out like shes going on a revenge mission but by the end it just reveals, nope, shes just a loon
>>741175168>She's actually preparing to sell Xbox.Almost. She is preparing to sell the studios. Notice how we haven't heard any news about Xbox platform teams?Anyway, screencap this.
>>741172308Was the mustache really necessary?
>>741175565Thats hilarious. I knew they were incompetent but this degree is borderline novice
Ironically this happened the same day Gameoverse turned one month old.And in that show winning gets your world destroyed.
>>741171394Based
>>741171394>Hellblade flops>"Let's make a sequel!">Sequel flops>"Let's make a trilogy! Surely this will sell!"The fault is with Microslop for letting it get this bad.
>>741176242This. They arent going to make consoles anymore. Its going to be subscription based.
>buys half the industry>not a single good game comes out of that>refuses to elaborate>leaves
>>741176436>spend the money to make a trilogy>cancel the trilogy after spending the money9001D chess
>>741171394>>741171696>>741171751 (You)>>741171773NorsePaganniggers on suicide watchHow can vaccinated porn masturbating zoomer white bois terminally in their bedroom playing skyrim calling themselves Ragnar in their mum's house consuming products recover from all these blows, and god of my wife's son to boot. Hoping we see LARPnigger suicides
>>741176106>Celtic>vikingYour whore mother should be raped you covid vaccinated zoomer sub human dumb fuck retardTo you new age faggots, rugg gruff muddy = viking because you are mentally ill and vaxxed
I actually liked dmc (though I've never played the original)
>>741176819Im happy that made you as mad as it did fuck viking cucks
>>741173175i legitimately dont know a single person whos played either hellblade, hell most people i know didnt even recognize the name when i asked, its so bizarre 2 got made and released.>heavenly swordhow was this game? i missed it when it originally came out but i recently softmodded my ps3
>>741176668this post is outright nonsense i want the old 4chan back
>>741177253he's a hebrew storm demon worshiper actually see >>741176668it can't be helped
told you all you have 5 second memory you fucking zoomers xbox did this shit previous years after e3 / sgf. they announce projects then shut them down months later quietly microsoft hasn't changed at all no matter who is in chargemeanwhile Sony is sitting here still finishing ff7 remake even though sales arent goodso fuck you faggots for giving money to ms for 20 fucking years the pure trash ms dumps onto gamepass by obsidian and friends is just patheticlet the platform die you failed in every possible way
>>741173327>>741173476>>741175926reminder the original release of DmC is abject trash, it's only passable now because they literally had to call in the guy that made 1 and 3 to salvage the fucking thing
>>741171394sega chads... we're so backdreamcast 3, sonic adventure 3, nights into dreams 3, Metropolis Street Racer 2...when sega buys xbox we will finally reclaim our throne as the distant 2nd console manufacturer from sony
>>741171394Hooray! Yay! No more Senua! We won!
>>741174202>The Meme
First thing that's made me smile all day.
>>741173948don't look at me, i'm enjoying seeing the westoid side of the industry collapsewaking up to the news that some westoid sloppa devs are now on the streets makes my day
>>741172045they are proxies, my man
Reddit sisters..? I thought Jeeta was wholesomely saving gaming.....
>>741171394What exactly was the point of even releasing the trailer then? Was it to drum up some buzz hoping to increase the value to potential buyers?
>>741175335But even then, why did Microsoft include it in the showcase a week ago? Did they decide to shut them down literally in the last week?
>>741171990sameall I know is it's fairly popular and has lots of positive reviewsand I only know that because it's the front page of steam every once in a while
>>741178304 sega couldnt even afford xbox
>>741176539Dude tricked a whole generation of people into thinking he was doing everything "for the gamers" because he walked out in e3 wearing some bullshit gamer shirts and playing Fallout 76 in his spare time
>>741171394does anyone here really think that their next game would be any good?I HIGHLY doubt it
I thought their mocap studio made them enough money to stay afloat?
>>741179645Staying afloat isn't enough
>>741171394>spinning off>spinning off>spinning offnew corpospeak for getting shut down just dropped! It doesn't sound as humiliating!
Hellblade was a cool indie game but fuck Phil Spencer was brain-dead thinking it would be a big franchise
>>741178304It’s just going to lead to dumb shit like Sonic console exclusivity and another failed Smash clone.
>>741172656i love boba :)
>>741171394called it called it called itwhen hellblade 3 was announced I was like who the fuck is greenlighting these things? They cant be that cheap to produce, and they absolutely don't sell. It was so obvious.
>>741172045Jeets idolise/love the jews so it makes sense they are doing the same things as jews doJews hate that Indians love them
>>741178304>every console purchase comes with a copy of project divajesus christ i love sega
>>741172380jews and jeets are the same brand of shit
>pander to "modern audience">tell gamers to go fuck themselves>studio shuts downwow, I never saw that coming!
>>741179645then just keep the mocap studio
YOU DID NOT BUY MY GAMEIT IS YOUR FAULT ANONTHEY ARE SHUTTING ME DOWN AND IT IS YOUR FAULTI HOPE YOU FEEL BAD
>>741173075Concord Gaiden
I remember the combat in hell blade being fun, if only it wasn't so easy even on hard. In the last fight they make the game harder because you're supposed to lose and I just had to decide to lose because it was still too easy.
>I just killed a gaming studio with my freaking teeth!
>>741179715It pains me to think about their cutting edge mocap rig just getting pawned off to the highest bidder and Asha keeping the cash.
>>741172483GoW wasn't made over the past 3 months bro.
>>741171394HAHAHAHAH Well deserved. Remember that the original studio owners get rich when selling out even if the studio gets closed later.
>>741171915>The closure and negotiations follow Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty warning last week of a “reset” at Xbox, laying out several challenges facing Xbox’s business — including that it had “over extended” with its studio system and the hardware component crisis is significantly driving up prices.I mean, in a vacuum it's not really a bad move?The studio is a literal money sinkhole that makes no profits and keeps shitting on the reputation for xbox, shitcanning them is a no brainer.
>>741176668BASED except paganlarpers are all zionist shills working for bibi
>>741176668kill yourself you stupid faggot troon
>>741171394JUSTICE AT LASTreminder Microsoft delayed stuff like TES VI and Gears because they were too busy greenlighting psycho lesbian simulatorsFUCK THEM
>>741176668LMAO based
Wait, so they just decided to burn money on Jeff's advertising for no reason?
>>741171394Nice to see Xbox is still a chaotic mess with no plan. Jeeta on fraud watch.
>>741172045>no general you don't understand, swords are doing more damage to our army than the men holding them
>>741180168ew
i don't even know what the gameplay is like and there's supposedly 3 games
>>741172878The PS3 era games were alright, even el donte despite it shitting on the franchise, but no clue what possessed them to make three Hellblade games.
>>741180489Those deals are made months in advance. My guess is that the reaction to the trailer wasn't enough to stop Xbox from shutting it down. Xbox has shown off and cancelled multiple games so what is one more.
>>741176668>>741180414>>741180481>all 3 posts are phoneposts with the same first word capitalisedeveryone thinks you're disgusting
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An anon told me that Tim’s Jewish privilege would save his studio
>>741174950That sounds about right with my experience with the first Hellblade. Not only was the combat simplistic and stiff but even something as basic as moving around feels obnoxiously slow. Absolutely miserable game with some neat sound design.
>>741172781Kind of interesting that he just gave up on that completely after he lost the primary
>>741172878>DmC Devil May Cry>half the work was done by QLOC Japan, aka the DMC4 team
>>741171394Sure are a lot of foid action game devs getting shut down.
>>741171903>erm it's not my heckin job to educate you, BIGOTconsume cyanide, retard
Microsoft's kike-run corpo machine rolls up like a bunch of nigger poachers in Africa, snatching up based talented white game dev studios full of autistic geniuses who actually know how to make good vidya. It started around 2018 when they bought the State of Decay studio, Undead Labs, back then it was packed with skilled whites cranking out zombie kino, but right after the acquisition the slow replacement began, with all the talented whites getting pushed out and replaced by forced DEI hires: retarded diversity niggers, troons, blue-haired landwhales and useless pajeet coders who can't code for shit but check the brown box. The once mighty studio gets castrated harder than a tiger getting his balls chopped off at the zoo, then they let the neutered husk loose to shit out massive woke flops that no one buys. Just like endangered species getting sterilized and released back into the wild to die slow and pathetic, the studio wanders around bleeding cash, real talent bails, and it fucking dies out while the jews at Microsoft laugh and move on to the next white studio victim. Pure anti-white extinction globohomo h1b great replacement theory agenda.
>>741181460if you don't buy their woke games they'll crush any non-woke competitionthat simple
>>741178219>Sony is sitting here still finishing ff7 remake even though sales arent goodYou mean SE, Sony doesn't produce a shot of FF7 remake otherwise it would be on Nintendo's consoles.
>>741171990bro same
>>741171586the reason they killed them off right now is because they title is so far along in its developmentit means Microsoft can negotiate a higher selling price to whoever wants to buy the studio or IP. Rugpulling the devs is pretty brutal
Buying doublefine was always a dumb decision.
>>741171394correction:>announce "new game">its is just the same game again>literally the same gameplay and protagonist>they just made Hellblade 2 again (a dogshit boring pretentious turd, that sold 5 copies)>get the bootYeah, I am with XBOX on this one chief.
So they're at least not doing it EA style and destroying the studios and putting their skinsuits on random products?
