XBOX IN SHAMBLES
MULTIPLE STUDIOS MAY CLOSE

they wont shutdown south of midnight otherwise they look like racists

>western studios dogshit slops
not my problem

oh on dont layoff the fat danger haired cat ladies that made the last Forza crash and burn after 6 years of development think of how much worse Horizon 6 could be

>>713838721 (OP)
>stop making exclusives
>stop focusing on gameplay quality
>brand begins to fall down shortly after

>give devs creative control and unlimited budget and development time to make a AAA game
>they all make the same shitty woke game
this is why you need chad executives to tard wrangle and tell the nerd devs their ideas are gay and to make something cooler

Xbox only needs
>Halo studio
>Forza studio
>Call of Duty studio
Rest can be outsourced & game quality could even improve (Blizzard games, Rare games, Bethesda games)

>>713838721 (OP)
oh no

>>713838721 (OP)
Then why acquire them in the first fucking place.

>>713838721 (OP)
>Overhire during the scamdemic
>Still put out complete shit
>"WHY ARE WE LOSING OUR JOBS??!?!?!

>>713838721 (OP)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it can't be helped!

>>713839240
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

>>713838721 (OP)
Studios can be rebuilt, OP

>>713839240
>>713839398
MS wanted extend their reach as usual for their evil goal, somebody within actually thought acquiring Call of Duty would secure them ad infinitum ignoring brand/IPs sell software not the talent. They think they're pokemon to some extent.

>I killed a whole studio, with my freaking face!

>spend a colossal amount of money on hoovering up other studios
>keep losing dosh constantly from that point onwards
>decide to trim down or close the studios they burned their dollars on
microsoft is truly filled with genius execs

>>713839669
Bharatians, anon, Bharatians

>>713838959
Want to bet

>Buys a bazillion studios
>Kills them all a few years later
What is this 500IQ strategy called?

>Make service so you give more creative projects a time to shine along with your AAA projects.
>Buy multiple studios for this initiative.
>Shut studio down for not meeting a cerain metric even though we know that creative projects won't do as well as a Call of Duty game.
>lose potential studio that could create more games to fill out your gamepass release schedule and back catalog.
What was the point of buying such a studio if you expect them to sell like your flagship titles? I would think the shorter development time and giving more variety of games for your service in the long run is what you were aiming for. If you are going to shut them down after 1 failure, then you were dumb to buy them out. Should've done a temporary collaboration deal instead where you fund their game to make a timed exclusive gamepass game. It would definetly cost less than buying a studio at least.

>>713838721 (OP)
>buy the entire games industry
>still no one buys your consoles
>all of the studios you bought release mediocre ass games that are all in the 70s on metacritic
>people would still rather buy new games for $70 rather than pay for your $10/month subscription
Brutallllll

>>713840118
The EA maneuver

Is that Perfect Dark reboot going to be cancelled?

Honestly I'm surprised anything Xbox exists at all. I genuinely can't recall a singular moment in my entire life where it ever felt like they tried to sell me something.

Like uuh okay. Alright.
I've never bought your console, or games.
So.. Alright? Later then. lmao

>>713838959
Good.
>Bethesda
>ID Software
>Playground games and Turn 10
>Rare
>Mojang
>Activision Blizzard King
>The Coalition
>Double Fine (Keeper looks interesting)
>Compulsion (SoM is pretty good, fuck you)
>obviously the Age of Empires and Flight Sim teams.
This is all they need. Maybe through in machine gun games, but since they already got rid of Tango, this is all they need.

>What about Obsidian?
What about them?

They only want big turbo mega hits like Call of Duty and Elder Scrolls. They are not interested in any other shit.

>>713840319
>your only source of profit is paid online and microtransactions
>You ensured being locked to it with no way to bounce back after killing your software selling power and console selling power

When Microsoft bought Activision I thought it would mean they would stop the layoffs and Blizzard would have more money to make great games...why do things only get worse

They will keep
>Halo Studios
>The Coalition
>Playground Games
>Mojang
>World's Edge
>The Initiative
>Rare
>Xbox Publishing

They will gut
>Turn 10
>Obsidian Entertainment
>InXile

They will close
>Ninja Theory
>Double Fine
>Compulsion Games
>Undead Labs

Will this also affect Bethesda studios and ABK studios?

>>713838721 (OP)
Fucking finally. Good riddance to Xbox and Microsoft killing gaming.

>>713838721 (OP)
Good.

>Turn10 outed themselves as useless cashgrab faggots
>Playground can't finish Fable when they should've been working on PGR
>Coalition isn't making games because they're now an Unreal support studio for everyone else
>Ninja Theory stopped making games entirely
>Whoever makes State of Decay is still working on a game???
>Bethesda released their shittiest and most uninteresting game ever and then gets mogged by their own farmed-out UE5slop remaster
>No one gave a fuck about Indiana Jones, and for good reason
>Who the fuck is Compulsion Games and why does South of Midnight even exist?
>No one gives a fuck about Outer Worlds 2 and whatever the fuck Clockwork Revolution is
>id can't even make a decent Doom game after 2016, Dark Ages flops

>>713838721 (OP)
That
>2 minutes read time
shit is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to humanity.

>>713840301
>the long run is what you were aiming for
Sony and Xbox NEVER have focused on the long term, even more; these 2 only have been victims of falling into/being memed into short term trends for profits and suffering in the process.

>>713840369
Probably not, it's making good progress like Fable, they're gutting their smaller studios that don't produce money makers because Game Pass is kill.

Don't worry, Phil will fix everything

Isn’t forza one of their biggest franchises? why cut turn10?

>>713840759
>Sony and Xbox NEVER have focused on the long term
Xbox (and Microsoft, historically) have focused on the long term so hard and so early that it's a serious detriment to their bottom line. Tablet PCs, Zune, all that shit.

Believe it or not, what they tried to pull with physical releases on the Xbone is basically where the industry is at now. They were 10 years too early.

>>713840118
>if something doesnt work as intended bomb it
The american way

>>713840995
Because Turn 10 no longer makes the Forza game that brings in the money and players. The latest FM was a catastrophe.

>>713840995
The latest Forza failed harder than Halo Infinite multiplayer did. Turn 10 is getting the 343 treatment.

>>713838959
They are gonna close so many studios people aren't gonna notice all the nigger ones being cut.

>>713839180
When the fuck was the last time a halo game was big?

>>713839159
STANDING HERE I REALIZE
YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME
TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY

BUT WHO'S TO JUDGE THE RIGHT FROM WRONG
WHEN OUR GUARD IS DOWN
I THINK WE'LL BOTH AGREE

THAT VIOLEEEEEEEEEEENCE BREDS VIOLEEEEEEEENCE
BUT IN THE END IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY

>>713841479
Halo doesn't need to be big, it needs to be good. It being big is why it stopped being good.

>>713841479
OSDT

>>713839159
You just need to not hire faggots, trannies, feminists, and browns racist against whites.

>>713840590
>why do things only get worse
Because you live in a reality you shaped with PS360, enjoy it; it will get far worse

>>713838721 (OP)
time to get a real job, suckers lmao

>>713841027
>have focused on the long term so hard and so early that it's a serious detriment to their bottom line
MS, not Xbox. Xbox was built on wrong conceptions of gaming. Cloud gamig is the usual MS' long con, not Xbox's.

>Zune
That was a short term reaction to capitalize the iPhone craze...

>literal who gaming site
>literal who author
>OP lying

Just two more weeks.

>>713841027
>Believe it or not, what they tried to pull with physical releases on the Xbone is basically where the industry is at now. They were 10 years too early.
Not quite; they were part of the downgrade that led to make a thing.

>>713841479
Halo 4's release.

>>713839159
h-hayai!

>>713838721 (OP)
>phoneposting OP
Entire thread discarded, fuck off you faggot.

>>713842065
Xbox pioneered online gaming on consoles, and they were thinking about it from day one. Sure, you could play online on your Dreamcast, but the industry basically adopted the Xbox model. It's really why they're still in the space.

Good, fuck them all. Hoping it effects Halo Studios too, those fags have been getting away with killing the last valuable IP for Xbox for far too long.

>>713843867
Xbox Live sucked dick until Halo 2, Xbox Live being good by 2005 was all because they ripped off what Bungie was doing.

>USAID killed
>non-performing/underperforming studios are getting killed
I'm noticing a pattern.

>>713843867
Yep, after Don Mattrick ran the Xbox division into the ground which culminated in the disastrous Xbone reveal, many MS investors were actually calling for them to either be closed or sold off to the point where HQ was seriously considering it. It was only Xbox Live subs that saved them.

>>713842374
>they were part of the downgrade that led to make a thing
>well they're doing it, that means we can do it too
Well, they reversed a majority of what they said after E3 2013 with disc licensing for good reason.
I agree in that Microsoft started doing shit that sucks (paying for online) before anyone else, but it can be argued that it was a premium service back then with voice chat, lobbies and shit. Then it became the industry standard and they never dropped the pricing model.

But if you think about it, Sony didn't HAVE to start charging for their own PS+ subscription. Nintendo didn't HAVE to create a subscription service, either. But they did because you are yummy recurring revenue.

>>713843867
>Xbox pioneered online gaming on consoles, and they were thinking about it from day one
Sega did long before dreamcast and they were the ones behind the xbl.

>>713844781
Sadly the brand wasn't in tip top shape and needed more exclusive games of quality to turn it around. Sony could've pulled it off but not xbox which is irrelevant to gaming in the big picture

>by shit companies for millions of dollars
>let them do what they want
Are sony and microsoft retarded?

Xbox has always been a tragedy. They've spent millions of dollars over decades to appeal to Japanese consumers while at the same time refusing to build a platform for Japanese games. Recently too with Sony and California axing all these beloved Japanese franchises Xbox had the perfect opportunity to be the safe haven for Japanese games but they held back due to some lame attempt at appealing to retards by pretending to have morals and refusing to publish "edgy" games like Gal Gun or Senran. All the while throwing millions of dollars at game companies that are just designed to fail that care more about slapping niggers everywhere than they care about making, you know, a FUCKING VIDEO GAME. Xbox is rapidly sinking and they refuse to escape the quicksand all because they got sucked into this woke mob mentality and convinced themselves that virtue signaling and pretending to have morals will somehow make people forget them constantly acting like morally bankrupt cheapskates who glee at ripping off their consumers

>>713845260
Yes, that's why they're going third party.

>>713844959
I don't see Sega's name on the original Xbox, and they share MS's problem with being too early to market with shit. And I certainly don't believe there's any netcode from the Saturn or their time with Sega Channel floating around in the Xbox either.

That said, Sega Channel is the reason why you have a cable modem piping internet to your house.

>>713845286
Japan effectively rejected xbox, several times. If it didn't happen with 360 it was never going to happen no matter what.

>>713840590
>more money to make great games

you naive fool

>>713845462
It was happening with the 360 and then Microsoft Corpo happened soon when Peter Moore left.

>>713845260
Sony is going multiplat because their AAA first-party games cost an absolute king's ransom to make and they need a new audience to justify it since console sales and PS+ subs alone aren't enough - they were quite transparent that going pseudo-multiplat was basically just their way of getting the Chinese audience.

Microsoft is going multiplat because, post-Peter Moore, the Xbox division is run by tards who ran it into the ground and made the brand completely irrelevant outside of the States and Mexico.

>>713845413
>I don't see Sega's name on the original Xbo
You forgot Xbox's main reason to exist was seeing the Dreamcast, and then all the Sega support in og xbox... that were DC leftovers after DC's demise? And the duke being a revision of the dc's controller?

>>713838959
I think I’m literally the only person on this board that played this. It’s not worth it. It’s visually quite nice though

>>713845413
>That said, Sega Channel is the reason why you have a cable modem piping internet to your house.
But I don't have cable anymore exactly because of that box...

>>713839601
That's Playground Games, the same studio that makes the Horizon series. Turn 10 handles the Motorsport games.
Playground will be hit with layoffs too after Fable inevitably flops, but for now they live another day.

>>713845541
not that anon but as someone who actually likes Xbox, they could've spent 50 billion after Peter Moore to establish a foothold in Japan and they'd maybe have a 10% market share by the end of the Xbone generation. Japan just never really got into Xbox.

>>713845636
>You forgot Xbox's main reason to exist was seeing the Dreamcast, and then all the Sega support in og xbox
That's speculation. The main reason Xbox exists is because Sony put the word "Computer" in the PS2's full name, and Bill Gates fucking exploded. There's a whole thing on this.

>>713840118
>buying out the competition, and then killing it, consolidating the market
jewery

>>713845695
I'll admit, I lol'd

>>713839159
SPEEEEEEED
AND
WEIIIIIIIIIGHT

>>713844959
>Sony could've pulled it off
They weren't pulling off shit. Playstation was nearing the cliff after 3 almost sunk themselves, and 4 would've sent them over the top if they didn't catch themselves after the Xbox One presser.

>not xbox which is irrelevant to gaming in the big picture
They crafted the world's number one online services, and you're calling them irrelevant? Pull your head out of your rear end, boy.

>>713845286
Senran and Galgun are irrelevant to the gaming space.

>>713845413
You're full of shit.

>>713845912
>That's speculation.
I could swear there interviews with Peter Moore or Gates stating it.

>Xbox exists is because Sony put the word "Computer" in the PS2's full name, and Bill Gates fucking exploded
First time I hear this.

>>713845607
>outside of the States
It's irrelevant here in the States as well.

>>713846148
>They weren't pulling off shit.
The brand legacy is far more healthier than xbox due PS1 and PS2. Even now at its current worst with PS5 they're still above Xbox just because the pop culture association of playstation to games.

>They crafted the world's number one online services, and you're calling them irrelevant?
Yes. Their number one service came from being the only one with no competition and its success from audiences gaslighting selling it as the future. Xbox never has been first in videogames, you could make a point about services instead.

>>713846272
It's in their documentary iirc. Someone mentioned to bill that PS2 was coming to market, called a computer entertainment system. I guess he was also still a bit miffed about WebTV.

>>713838959
>>713845649
I'm the wokest faggot on this board. I tried to play South of Midnight pretty much exclusively because I thought the premise was interesting. It's just an extremely generic, paint-by-numbers adventure game. Indiana Jones and Dark Ages deserved better receptions though.

>>713846272
Pretty much the entire reason Microsoft entered the console market is out of fear that consoles would displace home PCs and their Windows platform along with it. The Xbox One makes a lot of sense once you realize that was on their mind. They were trying to be the first to create the all-in-one home entertainment system which is where they thought he market was heading.

>>713845912
They were clearly right not to given the direction Microsoft took Xbox after Moore.

>buy a gazillion studios
>close them before they even shit out their garbage games
kek

>>713845775
Is anyone actually excited for Fable? All the dev shit behind the scenes that's been reported paints a pretty dire picture.

For those who don't know, it wasn't even a Fable game originally. It was an original IP, citing Dragon's Dogma and Horizon Zero Dawn as its primary influences, Playground pitched to multiple publishers (including Sony apparently) that was rejected until Microsoft picked it up. Despite being in desperate need of AAA single-player content and with Phil having egg on his face about the Scalebound/Zelda/HZD thing, they didn't have enough faith in it to accept it unless Playground retooled it into a Fable reboot.

>>713846597
I'm definitely woker than you.

>>713838721 (OP)
qrd?

If the fuck up my state of decay 3 I’ll find Phil and shit in his street.

>>713846624
Oh, absolutely. Though I believe that Moore would've stuck around longer if he was given the kind of capital and resources Spencer got early on.

>>713838721 (OP)
let it die at this point, I'd rather see Xbox gone than become some zombie brand attached to PCtroons

>>713846649
>For those who don't know, it wasn't even a Fable game originally.
I didn't know that, guess I wasn't paying attention. Hence my lack of excitement. Kinda sad, makes me wonder how shit it's gonna be if no one picked it up in the first place.

>>713846597
>Microsoft entered the console market is out of fear that consoles would displace home PCs and their Windows platform along with it.
Always so retarded that microsoft...

>The Xbox One makes a lot of sense once you realize that was on their mind.
Really doesn't when the product was completely detached from the videogame audience

>They were trying to be the first to create the all-in-one home entertainment system which is where they thought he market was heading
PS3 tried to be that and Wii ended up being that very same thing; people doesn't care about them when the system has no identity.

>>713838721 (OP)
>No new Bethesda at not-e3
It's been canceled

>>713847101
Don't let anyone fool you, Xbox One is really the result of gov't spooks at MS. It's crazy to think about the Snowden leaks and how deep all that shit was baked into that console.

>>713846649
Did Microsoft force them to make the protagonist into an obnoxious tranny?

>>713847423
Shut up, Don. It was your fault entirely.

>>713847470
Shut your fucking mouth. I programmed Test Drive AND made Need For Speed. I did what I had to do at Xbox to protect the world from it!

>>713838721 (OP)
Microsoft own Activision (Blizzard etc), they will be fine game-wise.

>>713840118
Om second thought it is true that Microsoft is super woke tho, hm.

>>713838721 (OP)
I want to know who at Xbox is fucking up. You can't buy this many studios who only job it is to make video games and ALL of them drop the ball (either not releasing at all or doing a poor job). But I also don't want to believe that Microsoft execs are barging into every design meeting and going "hmm make it suck"

>>713847302
Morrowind remake before elder scrolls 6

>>713847470
retard

>>713847723
I think they want windows to be their gaming platform. Console exclusives are getting rarer and rarer

>>713847423
Any YouTuber breaking down the Snowden leaks?

>>713847840
>Console exclusives are getting rarer and rarer
Specially when you invented that trend and killed your actual gaming platform with that idea lol

Never forget that in the space of a few years, M$ went from funding games like

This...
https://youtu.be/QLJ5vXH5yb4?si=VyD3n9pOf4SHzZGW

to this
https://youtu.be/x_xJqkzngBI?si=-g-KyQ8cWNSplqgR

>>713846649
kek i didn't know that. Would explain some of the odder choices

>>713840759
That's capitalism 101, destructive short term profits.
It's also the reason why Nintendo is so dominant because they're willing to hold their cards isn't of forcing stuff out, or knelling to the retarded demands of their shareholders.
In a much darker Timeline if Animal Crossing were a Sony or Microsoft franchise, they'd nickle and dime everything as individual purchases. Clothing, furniture, villagers.

>>713847723
They want as many games on game pass as possible, quality doesn't matter.

>>713846649
They also had to start from scratch because Microsoft didn't give Playground Games anything from Lionhead's Fable.

>>713839159
is that that cowboy from to catch the predator

>>713847723
what you are seeing is much deeper than just video games. Society is fracturing and changing in ways most people aren't ready for

>>713848247
>In a much darker Timeline if Animal Crossing were a Sony or Microsoft franchise, they'd nickle and dime everything as individual purchases. Clothing, furniture, villagers.
LBP was spared from this fate, isn't it?

>>713840759
>Xbox NEVER have focused on the long term

False. Xbox Live was their long-term investment which eventually became Game Pass. Sony never planned for the long term other than the next PlayStation having a successive number ahead of it, and they were caught off guard when Xbox was buying up Bethesda and ABK so badly that they panic bought anything they thought would get them ahead.

>>713847723
Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond, Phil will be forced to retire, and Bond is being set up to be fired since she's DEI. Booty man will take over for Xbox software.

>>713848691
>Xbox Live was their long-term investment which eventually became Game Pass
GP was one of the many attemtps to patch the sinking boat. You're thinking in the cloud thing nobody cares about but xbox keeps around

>>713841098
>>713841248
Because instead of focusing on car autism, they turned it into a stupid grindfest, grinding PER CAR to get basic upgrades and shit.

>>713841801
>>713839159
Then the pendulum would swing the other way and you'd get saturated with cookie cutter sexualized goyslop. Even the successful ones are realizing how it boxes them in, like the devs of Stellar Blade apparently complaining that all the mods for their game are porn.

>>713849581
>like the devs of Stellar Blade apparently complaining that all the mods for their game are porn
That's a thing with PC vegan, not gaming as a whole

>>713849714
There's plenty of stones you can cast at PCfags, but I've got a gut feeling if you gave the ability for console gamers to do the exact same thing, they absolutely would

>>713849581
So what? Just make a fun game with sexy women but make the gameplay the focus. Don't put emphasis on slutting your girl out, just make her look cute but make the gameplay the focus. What we burgers used to do and what Nips do. Just don't follow in the gooks or chinks footsteps. Not that hard.

>>713838721 (OP)
gaming doesn't make any money compared to other divisions, I'm not surprised

>>713849979
Degenerates are found everywhere but PC is the one that enables the most. Don't forget; it's the porn machine for a reason.

>>713849979
>but I've got a gut feeling if you gave the ability for console gamers to do the exact same thing, they absolutely would
They already did with Skyrim and Fallout before Xbox started wiping them out. There has been a low level war between hall monitors, discordfags and CBBE because people kept sidestepping the restrictions to upload tits on the platform. Snoy can't even get that far because you can't have any content that requires external resources to function like scripts and textures, Everything has to be from the basegame archives or endorsed by Todd hence the push towards the Creation Club.

>>713839180
>halo studio
they can't even make 1 game now without indefinite delays. time to kick the can down the road its over and gone.

>>713841479
halo 3 was pretty big, they kinda fucked up everything after that though

>>713839159
>i though i told you this town wasnt big enough for the both of us, Mr. Hansen

>>713839159

>>713847723
Microsoft is very deep into making sure that their development teams represent the makeup of the broader population.

>>713850434
Works in theory, but you inevitably will need to push the envelope to be noticed. Creates that death spiral.

>>713850745
They already did. Halo Studios only leads development of Halo games now, that's why they have multiple Halo video game projects in development.

>>713853405
Just don't push, games only need to be indie and AA. AAA can go die in a ditch.

>>713853507
System doesn't work like that, you'll just be called a rehash.

>>713853507
>games only need to be indie and AA. AAA can go die in a ditch
*Games only need to be AA and ocasionally AAA, indies and full blown AAA can go die in a ditch

>>713839159
>nerds
>woke
Pick one op

>>713853632
There's some good indies but yes, the majority of them need to die like AAA. Only way I'll accept AAA is if it's not woke and is singleplayer gameplay-focused. No focus on live-service multiplayer, no over-the-shoulder movie. Just a fucking video game. And stop putting so much emphasis on hyper-realism.

>>713853582
It'll work like that soon given the rate AAA gaming keeps crashing.

>>713839601
Lmao

>>713853869
Nah, once something become common, people just won't play or make it not profitable.
That's just how things work.

>>713849581
The pendulum before woke tranny sloppa was military shooters not slut sims

>>713839159
The problem is they aren't listening to the nerds (chuds). They need to stop hiring woke fags thinking they are the ones who bring the good ideas to the table.

>>713853869
AAA weren't a bad thing until Sony fucked up and made them commonplace in all levels of production, when AAA worked was when they were few games that had budget as a boost to what they are and games received a powr up instead the restraint forcing developers to follow a formula to avoid loses at all costs.

>>713853960
Gaming is condensing, there is no stopping this process, that's its future and investors will fly the coop.

>>713838721 (OP)
Why even have so many workers in a studio in the first place? No game needs more than 100-200 core workers. Rest of the workers can be replaced by contractors(aka mercenaries) who works for one game and fucks off.

>>713854427
Did AAA gaming even exist before 7th generation?

>>713855262
You're talking about technical bloat, I'm talking about content.

>>713838721 (OP)
I want blizzard and obshittian crippled so hard what warcraft is given to one of bethesda's subsidiaries

>>713855343
budget wise only MMOs back then were AAA

>>713855369
AAA content will just go to mobile gaming while traditional gaming with consoles and PCs will become a niche held up by Nintendo and Valve.

>>713838721 (OP)
I don't care. I haven't even been adjacent to the Xbox space in over a decade.

>>713855519
Time to go back to that

>>713855613
Cared enough to reply

>>713855343
Yes. Squaresoft in PS1 was the embodiment of it; a lot of it had to do with being exclusive. You can see AAA being worse now if they're multiplat, it's no coincidence.

>>713855343
yes, Squaresoft started it and Sony exclusives followed it

>>713838721 (OP)
turn10 getting cut up? isnt forza hugely successful?

>>713855768
Horizon, made by Playground, not Turn 10

>>713840673
>Obsidian Entertainment
god I hope so
sawyer needs to fucking die of starvation

>>713855591
>Held up by valve
It's up to Nintendo then.

>>713855678
It's because when they were locked to one console platform, besides just using the tech in that one platform, because these games were locked to that platform, people would get those platforms for those games. the moment that shit went multiplat, people saw the games for how shallow they really were.

>>713855737
Good to know, all of these years, Nintendo is still right.

british game development is so utterly fucked, i have a feeling sony is holding a gun to media molecule too

>>713838721 (OP)
>be turn10
>make Forza Horizon
>people love it
>people mention how cool Japan would be for the next game
>they announce the next game is set in Italy
>people still love it
>people reiterate how cool Japan would be for the next game
>they announce the next game is set in Australia
>people are mixed on it
>people again reiterate they really want to see Japan
>they announce the next game is set in UK
>people enjoy the game mechanics but demand for Japan or an explanation of why it hasn't been done reaches critical mass
>they announce the next game is set in Mexico
>people hate the location and god awful gameplay changes
>they decide to give the game the longest life cycle to date
fuck them, good riddance.

>>713838721 (OP)
Thanks for the pre-2014 glory days when games still aimed for the core male audience. But it's better to have no games than woke games. Shut it down.

>>713838721 (OP)
shitlennial bugmen, trannies and other child-molestors can show they are on the right side of history by buying all of these games in massive numbers thus giving poor Microsoft billions of dollars and save these studios

>>713855667
Cared enough to spit on the casket as I passed by the procession? Yeah, I guess you caught me. lol

>>713855967
>be turn10
>make Forza Horizon
smartest /v/ poster

>buy all the studios
>fucking die
lmfao

IT'S TIME, XBOX

>>713855930
>besides just using the tech in that one platform, because these games were locked to that platform, people would get those platforms for those games.
That paradigm is still true, the 7th gen paradigm shilled by journos and xbox failed; exclusives are important if you need to compete and to sell your product. So by doing the opposite you can see why Xbox is selling dramatically less, becoming more irrelevant in gaming to the consumer's eye and in need to shift away from consoles and game making towards predatory practices like services to obtain money. Similar can be said about the AAA devs/publishers that went multiplat; they began to stuggle once the novelty of being multiplat wore off.

I never really understood Microsoft's strategy of just not competing this generation and expecting money to flow in.
Add on top of that goy pass just absolutely killed their game sales and is significantly less profitable than simply selling a video game.

Anyone find it funny that the moment the rug was pulled under globalism the video game industry seemed to collapse over night? So, when all is set and done, what happens with the game industry? Are we truly going back to the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?

>>713856057
If Xbox can't save your studio, nothing actually can. They are meant to be a life-support for vidya companies not going bankrupt or dissolving into the aether or being zombified under a diffferent name.

>>713856316
We're going back to the 2050s.

>>713847723
Extreme lack of oversight, they just let these people work on stuff without anyone overseeing it, without real leadership everything fails.

>>713856489
people always side with the devs in these cases because they hear stories from them about the publishers stifling or rushing them but a lot of the time you need someone cracking a whip at them to make sure shit is actually getting done and that shit is actually something that consumers will want to buy and not just some wank from the dev

The biggest failure of Phil Spencer is not buying all these studios but that he was too hands off with them after buying them leading to deadlines being missed by years and games that people wont play even if they're subbed to gamepass already

>>713849581
That so called pendulum swing (actually a return to normality) is what built this industry up while your creative direction has it crumbling before everyone's eyes. Keep your thoughts to yourself and leave this space. It is not yours.

>>713856847
>Bobby Kotick said Bungie routinely missed deadlines and was terrible to work with
>They go independent and prove him right
>Said Tim Schafer always went overbudget and never delivered
>Is proved right after he goes off on his own
2 good examples right there, you need a hard-ass to ensure both quality and for the product to come out on time, Phil never did and all their first party games suffered for it.

damn doom didnt sell well huh

>>713857495
>/v/troon he thinks id and bethesda are getting layoffs
Blizzard is getting the axe as Obshittian

>>713839240
Keep others from having them.

Genuine question.
Is anyone of worth being layed off? For example, Diablo 4 had 900 artists, do you really need that many people for a game like that?

>>713856251
That's mainly the problem with Microsoft. The only games I can see doing good from this are Minecraft, COD, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Kings mobile games. Microsoft is going into an ocean of powerful third party conglomerates and only these games can compete.

>>713857901
No one of worth is involved with microsoft, no.

If I had to guess:
Axed
>Compulsion
>Some/all of Halo studios
>Initiative (Perfect dark)
>Sledgehammer
Reduced/Possibly Axed
>InXile
>Ninja Theory
>Maybe Double Fine (their new game
>Overwatch
>Machine Games
Likely reduced
>Mojang (fucked up and let Roblox get ahead)
>ZOS (ESO never should have lasted this long without Skyrimfags)
>Diablo 4
>Rare
>Obsidian (most of Outer Worlds will be spared for now)
>Bethesda Game Studios (Starfield can't go unanswered for)
>Id (Dark Ages can't go unanswered for)

And then a shitload of middle managers and easy H1B replacements in-between. Also expecting a dramatic pivot from the "everything is an xbox/play anywhere on anything we iz netflicks nao" model

>>713838721 (OP)
They better not touch Bethesda or Activision

>>713842264
You're one of the retards who believed the "just 4 games" lie, right?

>>713858274
the outsource companies will do zero damage to id and bethesda, ESO is still a big moneymaker for MS

Obshittian and blizzard are fucked

>>713839159
Reminder Xbox of the OG/360 era used to tell their devs not to put blacks on the cover because it would sell less. Current Xbox tell their devs not to put female in sexy armor.

Devfag here. Fuck what DEI and Covid cheap money takeovers did to my profession.

No one in NorCal and Seattle actually knows how to make games. Commiefornia is also rapidly slipping. Any new attempts, such as Studio Bend (Portlandfags++) also ends in failure. I pray this is a massive corporate correction to continue purging the woke mind virus from the industry. I can only hope. God help me, I only like 2 of my coworkers and 1 of them is a raging libtard

>>713839240
This was before the ABK deal. They had other plans before ABK fell on their lap to buy up.

>>713858946
I think it's time for video game studios to spread out across the country to red states in conservative locations. California and Washington, just isn't working anymore and needs a military occupation to fix those states.

>>713839431
Based and Floyd pilled

>>713856212
i would be satisfied with blinx 2. Why isn't backwards compatible?

>>713838721 (OP)
what are some of these xbox studios and what they make?

>>713838721 (OP)
How come you don't hear about this sort of news about Nintendo?

>>713862120
Nintendo knew not to break away from gameplay and spend needless money on games to give them a high-budget. They experimented with some and then never did it again while they gutted NST after they dropped the "Hammer" with their abuse of game budgets during the Wii era.

>>713838721 (OP)
>>713838959
Get woke go broke Xbox
That black ceo sure is doing a good job

>>713862465
This, seeing Xbox and PlayStation burn just puts a big smile on my face.

>>713838721 (OP)
I bet 343 will remain untouched.

>>713853781
most nerds are trannys these days

>>713862787
It probably will yeah, since it was closed.
Halo is by 'Halo Studios' now.

>>713840118
The embracer strategy.

>>713862787
343 gets reborn every year anyway

>>713862787
Of course, they did, Microsoft gutted them in 2023, they can no longer make a Halo game by themselves and they have to make the campaigns and multiplayer their own separate games now mostly made by third parties while they just lead everything.

Just because I know someone at MS is reading this. Here is a quick how to guide: Make a Halo with a real physically simulated Halo. Then make your game on that. Reap the rewards of finally fulfilling the initial promise of Halo 1 and the physics/gameplay you can derive from a real Halo. (Have UNSC build a mini-Halo because a real Halo would be too big of a map). Snipe the upturned curve. Deploy from space and feel like an ODST. Open World with natural corridor (ringworld) is perfect compromise to keep it linear. Make a planetary/solar skybox that has a crazy dynamic day/night system while you are spinning on the ring.

>>713838721 (OP)
>sony
>make concord
>the disaster that is Destiny
>fund Mind’s Eye
>still in business
How the fuck did they luck out that chink and Korean games keep saving their butts even though they’ve made so many bad decisions?

>>713862884
Yeah & the creation engine is brand spanking new & totally not gamebyro.

>>713862957
>while the people responsible for every retarded design since taking over from bungie decision leads
what could go wrong

>>713858528
That story was blatantly made up, the game in question (Fable 3) didn't even have a playable black protagonist.

Good.
Microsoft deserve it.
They killed Halo

They will never live that down. Halo was unironically their greatest achievement for the XBOX brand and they let it rot with an awful studio for the sake of milking the IP for everything it had.
Microsoft are without a doubt the worst game company in the Industry.

They deserve nothing but failure.

>>713848247
I'm genuinely impressed that Xenoblade 2 was a gacha game where you can't actually pay for rolls. They just liked the mechanic of players having a personalized experience depending on what characters they get

>>713863148
Sony is a defacto monopoly for modern consoles, they can do whatever they want & get away with it given that the masses love slop. Microsoft did nothing with xbox for over a decade, they have like 2 exclusive game series that aren't trash so its a multi plat machine with the only appeal being backwards compatibility which is niche.

>>713838721 (OP)
but I have done nothing

Gay homos. I REALLY want to get an Xbox ally x.

>>713863257
They got rid of those people two, Pierre Hintze leads Halo Studio now. The old leadership got the boot.

>>713863973
*too

>>713863973
>The old leadership got the boot.
Ah no shit, I'm sure its still going to be an utter disaster like every other choice microsoft makes with xbox.

>>713856847
It is ALWAYS the publisher's (producer) fault. They oversee the project. If the workers do a bad job it's their fault for hiring shitty workers, there are tons of talented people out there who are willing to do their job well.

Always blame corporate. Don't let them play you for a fool, they leech off the real workers work and make more money doing it.

>>713856920
Your arrogance is hilarious, enjoy the goyslop 'your' industry churns out.

>>713863320
I know someone who works at Halo (nee 343) and while she's not a dev she does give playtesting feedback sometimes and I just want you to know she hates you. You as in gamers. All of us.

She leaked to me that they might be making Cortana sexy again just so she could bitch about it and talk about how she submitted multiple feedbacks to get them to cover her up. She also got mad that gamers didn't just play Infinite and shut the fuck up about how shitty it was. It was like she couldn't imagine the idea that someone could like Halo enough to get mad about it when the game is bad

>>713864172
When it currently comes to Xbox, I'm only really interested in
>Halo CE remake and Halo 7
>Gears E-Day
>Perfect Dark
I'm waiting until I see more of Fable and see if I like it, it doesn't look bad, but that protagonist is pushing me away. Other than those, I no longer have an interest in Xbox, Astrobot is the only PlayStation game I'm interested in and I know even that will eventually find its way on Steam. Going forward for 10th generation, I'm going to try to make the terminology "Switch Deck 2" popular because Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 is where I'm headed. All these bastards killed my childhood, fuck them.

>>713864670
>Caring what this bitch thinks

>>713864794
I'm just telling you what people who work there think

She also doesn't appreciate what you said about the dyed haired black lady they showed off in their Halo Studios """reveal"""

>>713864670
>I just want you to know 343 hates you*

we already knew this, otherwise they wouldn't be cunty pretentious douchbags on Twitter

>>713864595
This isn't talking about hiring the wrong people it's talking about publishers mismanaging the workers and implying those workers would be doing good work if the mean publishers just let them work unsupervised and with no deadline. We know what people are like unsupervised see fan translation projects and self published novels, we know what people are like with no deadlines and unlimited funds see patreon. Never gives devs a free pass by putting all the blame on corporate people can and do just shit things up at any point for any reason.

>>713863349
That's why I had no problem with the XBC2 gacha system because you didn't need to pay for rolls, could easily farm stuff even by mid game and normally could unlock all the gacha blades by the 5th chapter if you knew what you were doing.

legitmately an infinite amount of money, employees, office locations
and they still couldn't make good games

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH

>>713864720
I refuse to get anything xbox exclusive on release anymore or at all really, the halo infinite bait & switch on split screen co op was the final straw for me. My xbox is a backwards compatible & multi plat games I don't have interest in modding on pc machine, that's it. If some amazing exclusive actually comes out I won't say no to it but I feel like I have higher chances of winning the lottery before that happens.
>but that protagonist is pushing me away
This is like every one of their exclusives now, not the specifics but that there's something seriously off about their games.
If 360 emulation ever gets good enough to play my library of games I won't ever get another next gen xbox & really I might just do that anyway since it seems unlikely they'll do anymore improvements to those old games. I'll just just roll with the series x I have & buy another down the road for cheap when the one I have goes.

>>713839180
>Halo studio
All of those fucking losers need fired into the fucking sun

Rare needs to be killed for working on everwild for 10 years

>>713846649
Just accept that all the studios and games you loved from 10+ years ago are completely fucking dead and move on.

>>713850840
Reach was pretty popular

Considering third worlders like arabs, europeans, and south americans/brazilians all own playstations to play goyslop like NBA 2k, fifa, or call of duty...

Why the fuck is xbox popular in mexico? they are brown third worlders, prime demographic for fifa playing snoys

>>713865521
All of those things you listed is the reason they can't make good games. Games designed by committee are souless slop.

>>713866091
every game on xbox 360 was popular. That's like saying wolfenstein 2009 was popular,

>>713844325
As well as "pride month" basically being cancelled this year.

>>713864601
Older games used to be pretty good despite having sexy women.

>>713864670
Why would you be friends with a creature like that?

>>713839240
For the brand name and to impress investors.

>>713846597
I wanted to like it, I enjoyed we happy few despite all the bad choices they made, the premise and world and story were interesting enough to get me to play through it. This game could’ve been good, the premise and location were interesting, but they blew it.

>>713856253
It's simple. The people in charge of Xbox are fucking retards.

>>713866252
Because good gameplay came first. You don't need sexy women.

>>713840118
Prevents your competition from getting a hold of the good studios.

>>713846649
Nope. Seeing that they miss the point of Fable being a power RPG fantasy by making an ugly "female" lead tells me they missed the point of the series.

>>713866523
The sexy women were a nice cherry on top. If you're going to include women, there's no reason to not make them attractive apart from retarded woke ideology.
It doesn't take more effort or something
Also, in the AAA space, ugly women are a red flag.

>>713866473
Your mum's an Xbox.

>>713840118
>>713840301
I must wonder: were those people actually trying to advance the company's interests, or were those deals self-aggrandizing moves to advance their own careers in spite of long-term collective damage?

>>713867095
It's probably the latter. People are very selfish.

>>713865689
I really hope this year keeps on giving and Microsoft gets targeted as a company that needs to be broken up, that would help fix American gaming.

>>713866124
The cartel likes halo?

Xbox, go home.

>>713867636
It really would, I'd also include embracer group in that but I don't even think they really own any studios anymore just IPs. I'd love to see those dormant IPs taken away from them & microsoft for that matter if they're just going to hoard them & do nothing with them.

>>713846649
I'm at mildly negative hype, but I intend to give it a shot. The minus is insisting on random brown women to sell it. The plus is...nothing?

Have they done ANYTHING with the studios they bought?

xbox literally just needed to be the console that embraced tits ass and violence and they would be doing fine. When the dude bro casuals at my work are now complaining about ugly women and shit in games you know its a major problem

>>713868147
Its funny that the advertising for the game is them aggressively showing off a ugly brown woman & thats it. Heres an ugly woman, now buy our game.

>>713840118
When the studios make shit games they deserve to be culled.

>>713868426
If they went back to the 360 era exactly as it was it would probably save the xbox brand.

>>713866879
Nah, sometimes you need variation. Although you just bring up the pendulum again of making them too ugly, you can get away with plain.

>>713868426
Xbox is run by karens. Tits and ass + violence are no go. Unless MS wise ups and boots out said women, xbox is the gayest console brand.

>>713838721 (OP)
well they've made nothing but shit, they deserve to be fired

>>713867636
Should have been in the 90s.

>>713847723
>Bought all these companies so they can fill out Gamepass
>They could have spend a fraction of the const by simply just licensing them out to developed exclusives
>Or just add their old past titles to Gamepass

>>713838721 (OP)
Spent a few billiions finally on small game studios. DEI STUDIOS KEKW THANKS XKEKS
Amazing since Sony fell for it as well spending millions when at least Sony Entertainment sold their game at the end of a 9 year cycle.

>>713838721 (OP)
I mean it's embarrassing how poorly xbox has been run. every single decision since the 360 era ended has just been completely retarded.

I don't see any indication of anything being likely to get better

>>713868426
It would have saved both them and gaming, stupid decision to go woke.

>>713855961
Yoshida said that they had these big plans to make Dreams into a sort of recruitment tool for talent but they all pretty much fell apart when the game underperformed out of the gate. All the people at Sony on the publishing side who greenlit it and were involved with it in the early stages had either left or been demoted by the time it came out and their replacements didn't care about it so plans for a native PS5 release and then PC port were killed.

Shame really.

>>713838721 (OP)
>Create a nepotistic sub-profession that primarily employs confidence tricks to keep shareholders on board
>The resulting "business administration" and "consulting" isn't applicable to all businesses or even most businesses, so they all rapidly go downhill

The massive layoffs for these studios are almost entirely performative. They hire useless chaff and fire useless chaff when they need to look forward thinking.

>>713839159
he.. he's fast

>>713839159
>devs under microsoft's thumb have creative control
I don't know why this lie is still being prapagated. This isn't the 360 era anymore. All that woke shit is mandated by Microsoft itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDWCopJ2h8E

>>713871768
You can see it in both South of Midnight and Doom the Dark Ages, just have to look at their concept. This goes further back to even that black chick in Halo Infinite's multiplayer who didn't look anything like that in 343's concept of her. Now that the Left fucked up, I hope companies like Microsoft pushing their ideologies get punished hard for this.

>>713859245
>good developers
>red states
BWAHAHAHAHA
As a software dev, I find this very amusing.

>>713838721 (OP)
>have essentially infinite money
>still choose to fire people
Microsoft managers could literally never show up to work and it wouldn't change anything. Actually things might be better because the decisions from last quarter or last fiscal year may eventually pay off instead of being a complete net loss thanks to somebody wanting to look busy by firing a whole studio again.

>>713863124
>Make a Halo with a real physically simulated Halo.
You're a retard who doesn't even know what went wrong during Infinite's development (hint: they tried to do something ridiculously ambitious like that)

How did Inxile (the people making clockwork revolution) get away with this while being owned by Microsoft?

>>713841479
Halo was always dog shit, it only got big because of marketing to Americans whod eat shit if its marketed.

>>713872796
even if you hate the online it has some of the best FPS campaign content ever made

a shame bungie only ever got worse at game design after that

>>713872532
>a few lame-looking white guys
>one Latino
>two Asian women
>one ambiguously brown woman (Half-Indian? Middle Eastern heritage?)

See, this is actual organic diversity that no one has any problem with

>>713838721 (OP)
All they had to do was make games people wanted to play...

>>713873063
This is literally every software company I have ever worked at. You retards see diversity initiatives where they parade the handful of black women who work at the company of thousands and think it's representative of the whole office.

>>713872532
Microsoft is getting scared and getting a good redpilling since their employees are attacking them for siding with Israel, so now with the whole NYC mayor thing and our leaders above even the President are going after the Left. Microsoft is being forced to pick a side. DEI MAY be dying at Microsoft soon but it's too little too late as Xbox is third party now.

>>713873238
schizo

>>713839159
https://youtu.be/q-SA22Vz-rk?si=UbVGLemxS3ETfDbD&t=190
Same energy.

>>713866462
>the premise and location were interesting
That stuff is way easier to pull off than technical competence.

>>713873328
But it's really happening

>>713840590
>Blizzard would have more money to make great games
Blizzard has only 1 great game undert its belt and it's Warcraft 3 the rest is all garbage
>B-but diab
Garbage

>>713853781
>>713862825
The devs behind Untitled Goose Game put this in their game and donated a portion of income to abos.
>This game was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

>>713839240
>Get loan to buy asset
>Your asset portfolio now looks biggerer
>You are now approved for biggerer loans.
>Repeat ad infinitum
>Over extend everything and start to collapse.
>But since you’re still in charge you get to decide who walks the plank first.

Also this >>713845930

>>713838721 (OP)
I'm surprised Xbox is still alive, they fucked up huge with Xbox One. Buying up a dozen studios doesn't help when they don't put out games.
Relying in Game Pass is only going to get them so far.

>>713848432
>>713839159
kek is he even still alive?

>>713838721 (OP)
Should have let Scalebound get finished and released but nope, Microsoft went full retard with the ENTIRE fucking Xbox brand. Its gonna be the next Dreamcast exit in a few years.

>>713838721 (OP)
Just give Rare back to Nintendo and let us have fuckin Banjo Kazooie 3 already, Microsoft hasn't down jack shit with that company for years. Sea of Thieves is trash as fuck.

Honestly most of the studios Microshit bought up aren't even half bad, a lot them made decent shit. The problem is entirely that Microsoft expects ALL of them to make gangbusters on their projects so line go up for the investors and everyone's happy.

>>713873867
They also do this while gimping them further with shitty woke policies >>713871768. It's like they're intentionally destroying themselves on purpose for what purpose?

>>713838721 (OP)
Good news, but not enough.

>>713838721 (OP)

Grounded is the only game I'm caring about.

>>713846597
>>713846689

>>713838721 (OP)
Hi Fi Rush was one of the best games in 2023 besides Baldur's Gate 3 and Pizza Tower.

Microsoft shut down Tango despite the universal critical claim that game got, which is notable for having ZERO bugs and was shadow dropped on Gamepass. Those retards have absolutely no fucking clue on what they want and what they even want to do with video games.

pajeet ceo is a death flag for a company

>>713838721 (OP)
Still subbing gamepass. Cope more steamies.

ms had the totally wrong idea. they wanted to become sony. ms and even further, the pc isn't about producing first party games. it's optimally a platform thats open to all devs to create games for it.

>>713873846
>pitched kameo 2 to microsoft
>but never the Banjo-Threeie
your tranny bear is literally irrelevant to rare

>>713874409
>Universal critical claim
Nobody spoke about the game or gave a shit about it outside of reddit brain/some reddit circles because it's fucking gayshit game

>>713874409
>which is notable for having ZERO bugs
bruh game has unskippable cutscenes. Cardinal sin for action game genre

>Phil promised 100 million Game Pass subscribers by 2030
>it has already peaked at less than 40 million subscribers
This is the main reason for the layoffs and studio closures. Phil couldn't even achieve half of what he promised even after spending $80 billion on studios.

Microsoft is definitely not happy about spending 70 billion on actiblizz and not on ai stuff

>>713875003
Why do gamers keep buying games instead of renting them...Gamepass is objectively the best way to play video games...

>>713875003
Fake. There's only 20 mil xbox series consoles

>>713838721 (OP)
>Undead Labs is going to get da chop again
We will never see SoD3 at this rate.

>>713875238
One, series and pc.

>>713862687
>Playstation
>burning
lmao how delusional?

>>713875495
10~ live service games cancelled
all spider-man spinoffs flopped and cancelled
We used to pray for times like this during dreamcast days

>>713875495
>Concord flopped
>Bungie is crashing themselves with no survivors
>Alloy is still irrelevant

>>713841857
but that would mean we live in a good reality? instead we live in Shitch and Xbone reality.

>>713875495
>canned multiple live-service games
>live-service games keep flopping
>Bungie, enough said
>one singleplayer movie game a year
>woke as shit
>PS5 Pro costs $700 meaning the PS6 will be $850 or $900 while the handheld will be $650 or $700
>putting their games on Steam
>wants to raise the prices of their games
Yes, they're burning too just at a slower rate.

>>713838721 (OP)
Everyone with a brain knew this was bound to happen. Remember when they were on a shopping spree and retards kept encouraging MS to buy Square or Capcom or Sega? This outcome was inevitable. They get to keep the IPs and everyone else gets fucked.

>>713875597
Aloy's game sold over 8 million copies, anon, that's more than Indy, South of Midnight, Avowed, and Doom TDA sold combined.

>>713876136
Hard to avoid those many sales when it's bundled with every console purchase.

>>713840759
They do have a long con in play. They have infinite money, they can outlast the competition.

>>713845649
You're gonna have to post more of that pic, anon

>>713875567
>>713875597
>>713876053
PlayStation is thriving.

>>713876374
>muh bundles
The first game sold over 3 million copies on PC alone.

>>713876374
copium levels: critical

>>713838721 (OP)
lol. lnao even.

>>713867095
>were those deals self-aggrandizing moves to advance their own careers in spite of long-term collective damage?
this statement is what is happening to nearly every capitalist industry now thanks to the stock market taking precedence over EVERYTHING else; revolving door executives destroy long term companies for short-term personal profits that look good to investors for that one or two years that the executive is at the company, then once they've made their money and had something to add to the resume/CV, then they just bail on the company RIGHT before it starts falling
so they use insider knowledge to sell their stocks at their peak, knowing that the terrible decisions they made will cause the stock to plummet soon....almost like 'insider trading'...but they never get called out or arrested for it because the politicians are just puppets for the rich

This just keeps happening, where a CEO enters a company, makes it generate a huge profit very quickly with unsustainable practices like a flimsy house of cards, then leaves with their money before the whole thing collapses

was it 2023 when microsoft bought or closed more studios than the number of games they released that same year?

>>713876608
You sound like that Game Pass retard that keeps saying Xbox will survive because Game Pass is successful despite only getting 1 million new subscribers putting it at around 36 million now. Doesn't matter how many PlayStations sell if games aren't selling and studios are being closed down and hit with layoffs while having no first party games coming in sight.

>>713876446
>do
did, that ended when Microsoft successfully brought ABK. Microsoft stopped Phil in his tracks when he blew their money on this shit when AI was more important to them, they're never going studio shopping again, they will be third parties putting their games on Switch 2 and Steam, verifying that shit for Deck 2 for years especially when their Xbox PC fails.

>>713877778
If Nintendo or Valve suddenly found themselves looking for a buyer, you don't think Microsoft would be the first in line? They're not going to keep the shopping spree going since ABK was the only real hit for them. Arguably Bethesda as well but even then I'd argue that's more for the prestige it gives them, plus id being thrown in the mix. Everyone else they bought is small potatoes and were always going to be the first in front of the firing squad.

Banjo trannies still seething 20 years later. Amazing

>>713855961
It suffered the fate of literally every British industry, sold out to the Americans who mismanaged it into the ground.

>>713878224
I would love to see Nintendo under MS management
Tendie suicide rates would skyrocket

>snoy fanatic drama clickbait
Every time.

>>713840673
Obsidian got wanked during the last conference with the whole "Year of Obsidian" thing so i will say they are safe for some time.
But Outer Worlds 2 will bomb and i also can't see Grounded 2 to make much of an impact. First game did okay but the idea is no longer fresh. After that they will probably gut them.

Inxile will depend on the reception of Clockwork. People seem to like what they have seen but the sales can still go either way.

>>713878224
Both laughed Microsoft's sorry ass out of their buildings. Microsoft's future isn't in gaming, they will bend over to Nintendo and Valve the same way they bent over to Google and Apple when it came to phones.

>>713877659
PlayStation makes all of its money from PS+ and the 30% fee on all games bought on PlayStation consoles. The only reason why they made exclusives was to get people into their ecosystem, and with Xbox going the Sega route, Sony only needs to make the occasional exclusive just to say "PlayStation has exclusives and Xbox doesn't". Exclusives were never a moneymaker.

>>713838721 (OP)
I wish I could mourn something, but Xbox hasn't given us a good game in decades.

>>713879203
When Gaben dies his son would sell to Microsoft even before the corpse gets cold

>>713857748
this

>>713879301
Wrong, Gaben's son will sell Steam to Tencent.

>>713839159
They really should have kept Kotick. Even if it was just to use him as a looming threat for the devs, having him take over if a studio fucks around too much.

>>713879778
They needed a scapegoat after all the fabricated sex scandals.
It was already weird Kotick stuck around for a whole year

>>713840590
>WoW and Starcraft on Xbox (sub included with Game Pass)
>Licensed Activision Xbox 360 games like Transformers, Deadpool, Amazing Splder-Man and X-Men Origins: Wolverine added to the BC program and FPS boosted
>Xbox 360 CoD games all at 120 FPS on Series X
>CTR Nitro Fueled on PC
>We were finally going to get the likes of Spyro 4 and Prototype 3, maybe even a new Banjo by Toys For Bob
>No more ActiBlizz and Bethesda games on PlayStation or Nintendo
kek, 2 more weeks, right?
What to the retards do instead? More layoffs, Activision remains a CoD machine. They put a handful of Activision games on Game Pass, and whore out their entire catalog to PlayStation and whenever they can to Nintendo,essentially killing off the Xbox console.
Fortunately TfB ran away in time. Congratulations, Phil. Don Mattrick did nothing wrong.

>>713880120
>Licensed Activision Xbox 360 games like Transformers, Deadpool, Amazing Splder-Man and X-Men Origins: Wolverine added to the BC program and FPS boosted
all straight to gamepass. I don't want to hear excuses when sony can afford their spider-man games in ps plus. And why ps plus got Marvel Midnight Suns and not gamepass? Seriously xbox can't do anything right

>>713857495
Yeah, looks like the sales pretty much tanked

>>713879210
Problem here is now that they don't have any competition, they'll just price the PS6 at $900. There is no reason to get PlayStation now, just like with Xbox.

>>713879301
Doubt Gabe will give his son Valve.

>>713880630
well normies hated eternal so that was expected

>>713840118
Doing a Bill (Gates). The cunt used to do the same thing with rival operating systems and office software suites or whatever. I was just a kid then but I remember the Simpsons shit on him. I knew it would be bad for gaming when they entered the industry, but Amerifats just had to support xbox because it was American. Fucking retards. The same cock suckers have the nerve to criticise Nintendo when Microcock are objectively evil, not just greedy and stupid.

>>713879210
>Exclusives were never a moneymaker.
nu-snoygger cope

>>713838721 (OP)
this is what no games looks like

>>713881249
nintendo is literally suing japanese indies, they are more evil from what I see

>>713840369
No. But it'll be released on PlayStation as well.

>>713838721 (OP)
I was told gamepass was a huge success. I assumed they were raking in the dough so why would they need to layoff so many?

>>713839601

>>713866310
Anon didn't say she was his friend. Could someone who's related to him.

>>713883616
>Could someone
*could be someone

>>713838721 (OP)
>buys out half the western industry
>just sits on majority of their library Rare-style for almost two gens
>switches to EA tactics and starts Old Yeller-ing them off

Glad a dumb bitch is running their console-development business into the ground, they somehow found a way to make even modern moviegame Snoy and ninja-stalker Nintendo look better.

>>713880120
>Don Mattrick did nothing wrong
Unironically, at least he launched a console with games on it.

>>713847685
Blizzard is dogshit.

>>713838721 (OP)
let me guess they'll also put all their chips into service slop just like snoys.

>>713884290
>Glad a dumb bitch is running their console-development business
anon, pajeet is the one taking the shots after spending 70 billion on activision blizard king. they need some fast returns so they'll burn a lot of bridges to get there. if this mean firing 20 thousand ppl and closing half the studios to save money drain pajeet will do it, he couldn't care less about gaming culture or DEI hires.

>>713885359
I forgot just how bad things really are there.

>>713876124
most of these IPs were already dead and unmonetizable (stuff like crash, spyro, fallout, psychonauts, hellblade, overwatsh, warcraft, guitar hero, dishonored...), especially true under microsoft management structure which expects big numbers and 1st party AAA quality. call of duty and candy crush are the only ones that matter.

>>713885657
for gaming division yes, otherwise pajeetsoft is still making ungodly amounts of money and this will accelerate with AI investments.

>>713840673
>They will keep:
>World's Edge
What for? All the AoE games have already been redone and AoE4 proved they can't make a sequel with good ROI.

Buying a garbage studio like Bethesda is one of the stupidest decision they made.

>>713856002
reminder these same people let Concord die, $400 million gone with the wind. it will take years for Sony to recover and probably lead no more big games for ps5. you can't trust them when it matters the most. their ideology is weak, they have no morals.

>>713838721 (OP)
they must have always known this was the endgame for microcrap. they always do this shit
>snatch up the competition
>make some half-assed lemons
>shut everything down

Serves them right for buying this slop. They were releasing all their slop on every platform anyways so it made absolutely no sense.

close xbox everything for ever. every single thing after the xbox 360 has been terrible in every way.

indian ceo

>>713886704
>start small company
>grind for a long time to increase value
>sell company to big faceless corporation
I mean this is how capitalism works. what's the alternative? take risk in trying to expand your business hoping you'll be the next apple or nvidia while competing in highly volatile industry, go bankrupt and end up with nothing?

>>713873591
>donated a portion of income to abos.
Now they're going to keep huffing petrol and sculling VBs all day.

>>713885359
Microsoft is probably investing heavily into AI, they'll probably use a bunch of AI tools to fill the gaps for the people they fire. Maybe not coders yet but they outsource those from India anyway.

>>713838721 (OP)
Well duh they spent millions on pride this year when no one cared anymore. They continue to pander rather than just make good games.

>>713887878
bet they're working really hard on playtesting AI. there's so much money to be saved by automating this process. eventually they'll have AI capable of calibrating the gameplay experience so that every game could be on par with the best nintedo or sony games.

>>713868710
The variation can exist in NPCs and non important characters. There is no reason to make the main character unattractive because you'll be looking at them for a long period of time.
>Plain
Like aloy? There is no reason to make a main character like that.

>>713880630
steamies liking the wrose one like normal

crazy that gamepass was such a stupid fucking idea
lets do netflix but where tv shows you can make on a string
games cost years and time to make
sell them both for 15 dolla

>>713884625
I wasn't being ironic. Xbox could put themselves in a position to dominate the industry in the next 10-15 years if someone competent was in charge. Too late now though, after releasing Forza and Gears on PlayStation, it's officially over.

>>713876641
That's supposed to be good? lmao
How many copies of HFW weren't sold on PlayStation, where they make 100% of the money, because they whored out their IP to another platform?

>>713876053
>putting their games on Steam
All you had to do was post that. Where are all the goldface NEVER EVER fags now?

>>713839159
I LOOK LIKE THIS and I DO THESE THINGS

>>713887493
>I mean this is how capitalism works.
that's not how capitalism works faggot.
you put your capital to work to create wealth. selling out to shit out slop is the antithesis of wealth; it's fraud. you're defrauding customers by shipping subpar products for an undeserved amount of compensation

>>713839159
MUDA MUDA MUDA

>>713838959
lol okay resetera

>>713890114
>Too late now though, after releasing Forza and Gears on PlayStation, it's officially over.
Yeah, no idea why they did that.

>>713845930
It works in tech and other things where patents are involved or where buying out a budding startup to shut it down avoids a new technology which could fuck your business model from coming up. In video games though? That's just big exec retarded waste of money, not consolidation.

>>713892797
they wasted 70 billion dollars on activision and have to make that money back sooner rather than later so shareholders don't freak.

>>713838959
>game was a massive success on game pass
>game is absolutely fantastic
No matter how much you trumptards want to deny it, South of Midnight is successful and GOTY material.

Now, yes, PC gaming has a massive racism problem, but that's a different discussion.

>>713840736
>>Who the fuck is Compulsion Games and why does South of Midnight even exist?
To piss off scum like you. Which is always a noble endeavor.

>>713892414
ok, but how do we fix it?

>>713893897
by culling the population to remove all the retards giving the corpo kikes money
it's but a pipe dream

As a Series X owner, I can guarantee you that I will never buy another Xbox in my life.

>>713894903
and they added splitscreen to series s anyway, such a nothing burger

>>713838721 (OP)
>Buy every studio
>Make no games
>Shut them all down
Based

>>713894903
I can't imagine how bad it must feel knowing that you purchased the premium hardware version just to be assfucked by the budget console because it cannot run the game the premium one can. Not having both those games run on launch must have really hurt them.

>>713868710
>you need variation