>formed specifically to be Microsoft's answer to Naughty Dog or Crystal Dynamics
>Microsoft sink a small fortune into them, recruiting staff from big name studios including Insomniac, Sony Santa Monica, Rockstar, Blizzard and the original Kojima Productions
>all pitches for an original IP get rejected
>after two years of nothing happening, get put on to a Perfect Dark remake
>staff turnover is huge due to project mismanagement and general employee dissatisfaction
>virtually nothing to show after years of development time
>Crystal Dynamics have to be brought in to help because development has turned into such a shitshow
>game gets cancelled anyway and what's left of the studio is disbanded
How the fuck did this get bungled so badly?
The games industry has a supergroup problem
Supergroups died because it turns out getting the greatest musicians to collab just leads to mediocre stuff. They're better off staying solo.
These new AAA companies take the talented people left at legacy studios, consolidate them with a very vague idea and tell them that there's a fleet of 1500 Indians to help pick up the slack while they workshop a product
Obviously it's unsustainable
>>714321978 (OP)>Microsoft sink a small fortune into them, recruiting staff from big name studios including Insomniac, Sony Santa Monica, Rockstar, Blizzard and the original Kojima ProductionsWhy do these supergroup studios so often go nowhere? Sony had a similar one a few years ago with some ex-Rockstar and Naughty Dog personnel that didn't even get formally unveiled before it was killed
Should've taken the initiative
>>714322361>Why do these supergroup studios so often go nowhere?why would they when they know they can get funded for 10 years to make nothing, and they can just fail sideways or upwards to another company and do it again until they're 60.
>>714322536Would UNRELEASED PROJECT (20XX-20YY) repeatedly not look bad on a resume?
>>714321978 (OP)Hiring entitled and lazy westerners. Thankfully after today that problem is solved.
>>714322969no, because most of the industry has that on their resumes at this point
This just reminds me of that sony studio they bought, made and then closed without even getting a single game out.
Perfect Dark is unironically the main reason I bought an Xbox this gen
But I also was looking forward to Halo Infinite, Starfield, and potentially The Evil Within 3
>>714323542> buying hardware for future softwareI don't understand this mindset.
>>714323542Not to be rude but I don't really know how anyone could be excited for Microsoft's first-party stuff going into this gen considering how badly they bungled the whole eighth gen
This studio is embarassment to be quite honest. Whoever has tenured in the studio should be outright rejected. Microsoft partly to be blamed too for their stupid hands off approach on game development. What a disaster. On top of that, Phil Spencer haven't resign yet???
>>714323747I bought my switch 1 when smt v was announced. It came out like 4 years later (it was not worth the wait)
>>714323747Because you're not mentally challenged.
