>Microsoft just laid off 9,000 employees
>Everwild was canceled
>Perfect Dark canceled
>Gregg Mayles "resigned"
>Nate The Hate just said the rumored Banjo-Kazooie game has likely been canceled

Do you think Gregg was refusing to make a new Banjo, so they fired him for that reason? So they can replace him with someone else? Could actually raise the chances of a new BK but I dunno.... Might lower the chance that any new game is actually gonna be good

The second industry crash is real. Microsoft is pulling out.

CEOs need to fuck off

Vidya has been going under a massive process of undoing it's major AAA hold over gaming and is giving it back to Indies. Microsoft has also set themselves up to only make real profit from AAA games since only they sell game pass.

>>714331869 (OP)
>Hire a fuckton of extra people and buy out smaller companies
>Fire them all 8 months later
Why are corporations like this? Do they just want all the IPs to sit on do nothing with?

>>714333424
yes

>>714333424
Microsoft is cutting cost all over the place and they decide to kill xbox because is the easiest to do so and they just cost the company 70 billon dollars, Activision buy out was the death of xbox

>>714331869 (OP)
>Banjoke deader than ever
>Meanwhile Croc has a fantastic remake
History repeats itself

>>714331869 (OP)
Maybe charging 10 bucks a month to play games day 1 instead of charging full price had a massive impact on the studios revenue for the last 6+ years

>>714333424
revealed preferences suggests yes, since that's what basically all IP holder corpos do. They just squat on these legal monopolies without actually making anything, so no-one can have any games

>>714331869 (OP)
>rumored Banjo-Kazooie
There was a rumored Banjo-Kazooie ?

So how long until Rare flat out gets closed down?

>>714332408
Big dogs realising that investing all their $$$ In to AI instead of games had way better ROI potential and jumping ship, industry will just shift mostly to gachas for the new brainwashed gen A and occasional re-remakes of safe popular IPs for boomers

>>714334920
next 6 months, they not doing right now because the pr hit would just be to great, btu they’re next on the list

>>714334920
Rare wasn't involved with Perfect Dark. Crystal Dynamics was

>Perfect Dark canceled
WAT? YOU BETTER NOT BE JOKING ABOUT THIS ONE

>>714335078
They won't be shut down until Sea of Thieves stops being successful

>>714335171
I'm afraid it's true.

>>714335171
I'm not but the game never existed

>>714334920
"Rare" is just a name at this point, the majority of people who actually made the games you remember no longer work there anymore, or have grown too jaded.

>>714334731
I doubt it any of it was true. People have been making that same "A new banjo game is in development. Banjo is back!" rumor for the past decade and nothing came out of it

>>714335290
>>714335353
GODDAMN SHIT FUCK BAT SHIT FUCKERS FAGGOTS MICROSOFT KEKS DUMBASSES

>Xbox crashing and burning and CEO admitting they will focus more on the Rog Ally and gamepass
>Sony saying they are no longer doing 1st party exclusives and everything will come to PC

If this keeps up Nintendo will be the only console maker left in a decade.

>>714334920
if i ever become millionaire first thing i will do is buy the Jet Force Geminis ip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlgNhPf2aEU&ab_channel=JetForceGemini123

>"Okay fine we'll do another banjo..."
>Microsoft dies before they can make any meaningful progress

if you could mind control everyone in the united states government for a month and forced them to pass a law setting copyright to only 15 years what would happen with public domain Banjo?

>>714331869 (OP)
Preparing to sell the IP's off since their developers hadn't produced the games they were working on for all this time.

>>714331869 (OP)
>>Nate The Hate just said the rumored Banjo-Kazooie game has likely been canceled
Just like the Switch Pro totally existed only to be totally cancelled.

video games got too popular
they have to die again so people fuck off

>>714335171
oh nooooo
we lost a Steller Blade coomer shit game

>>714335808
Truth. As soon as 7th gen opened the flood gates things were fucked.

>>714335857
Unironically, what the fuck are you taking about?

>>714335857
You never played PD? There is a PC port right now, comparing it to SB is fucking blasphemy (and retarded).

microsoft if betting everything on the next World of Warcraft

>>714335157
dafuk I didn't post an image

>>714335458
What they showed at The Game Awards was a scripted in-engine cutscene built for trailer purposes only. There was no game there

>>714331869 (OP)
it doesn't really seem like xbox management know how to make their people make games, so they fire them

>>714335808
This is unironically great for indie devs. Death of two of the big three means the market becomes wide open for a new vidya industry. We haven't seen this kind of sheer opportunity for small studios to grow into true powerhouses in over three decades. It's fucking happening, I can't believe it.

Banjo-keks get what they fucking deserve

>>714336420
I'm sure the devs want to make games, but microsofts bullshit and corporate mandates muck it all up.

>>714335171
it would've been shit, we've lost nothing

>>714331869 (OP)
>Microsoft just laid off 9,000 employees
Good.
>Everwild was canceled
Good.
>Perfect Dark canceled
Good.
>Gregg Mayles "resigned"
Good.
>Nate The Hate
Massive faggot.
>just said the rumored Banjo-Kazooie game has likely been canceled
Good.

>>714335857
>troonface nu-Joanna
>coomer shit

No Tranny Dark?
No Furry Banjo?
9,000 gay artists fired?
It's like Christmas in July.

>>714337182
>>714337070
culture war niggers are not human

>>714337369
sorry, i meant to say trannies are not human, my bad

>>714331869 (OP)
>>Nate The Hate just said the rumored Banjo-Kazooie game has likely been canceled
And nothing of value was lost.

You're Phil Spencer and Compulsion Games presents South of Midnight to you.
Without getting cancelled how do you convince them to change course?

>>714331869 (OP)
Gregg Mayles resigning is probably the best thing that could happen for the future of Banjo-Kazooie, ngl.

>>714335523
Nintendo is eating their own well-deserved spoonful of shit right now over the Switch 2, and handling of MKW.

>>714333424
Yes
As long as they sit on IP, they can be paid to do nothing by people wanting to license it. It's like oil. You sit on it and slowly get rich off it.
No, the fact that nobody likely has any interest in X mid 2000's obscure series does not enter this equation. They're all down there.

>>714340671
Yeah man, they're doing horribly right now, with the record breaking console launch and everything.

>>714333424
Yes. It's basically this.

>>714340827
That's just their loyal fans. We saw how far that alone can carry them during the Wii U. They're burning through a lot of goodwill with arrogance, bad consumer practices, and an overpriced console you "do not own" according to them. All the bad press is gonna bit them back if they keep this up.

I've talked to a lot of normies here in Japan, and many agree the console is too expensive. So we'll see. But Nintendo isn't bulletproof either, and they're doing all the wrong plays right now.

>>714334920
Sea of Thieves keeps them on life support

>>714331869 (OP)
Microshit bought too many studios without having any idea of how to tardwrangle them. As a result they're just pissing away a bunch of money without getting anything done.
I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually manage to kill CoD too.

>>714341130
Riiiight. They're totally doomed this time.

>>714331869 (OP)
>rumored Banjo-Kazooie game
they already desecrated the series' corpse with nuts&bolts. i wonder what other fresh hell they had in store for the bird and bear.

>>714334920
Not soon enough
>>714335416
The Conker VA is fucking insufferable, I get his meltdown today on bsky but nuking his twitter full of old game information because of his TDS is peak clownery
>>714340671
Not to mention the key card bullshit, which might hurt the switch 2 in the long run, especially third party support

@714341210
>tripfag

>>714341249
>"banjo says TRANS RIGHTS!!!"

Nintendo: Doomed since 1889.

MS only cares about money unlike Nintendo and SONY

>>714341450
Put your trip back on, you oversensitive faggot.

>>714341569
Lol
Lmao even
All three are greedy pieces of shit

I'm glad I stopped playing video games

>>714341718
Likewise. I only play hentai games these days. Life has been bliss.

>>714331869 (OP)
>Gregg Mayles resigned
And nothing of value was lost

Microsoft is just a jeetware factory at this point. They are a data monetization company that sells subscriptions instead of products

>

>>714331869 (OP)
Consumers have broadly rejected the project

Put tits and ass back into video games

R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDmzD7KnR4o

I blame weebs for this disappointing news

buzz lightyear bros...
not like this

>>714335857
>Man jaw Joanna Dark
>coomer

Retard

>>714340827
"Fastest selling" and "best selling" are two different metrics. If you study sales shit you should know this. It's possible for Nintendo's to sell crazy well in the beginning (which they are doing right now) but burn goodwill which stall sales in the long run, we've seen this shit happen before.

>>714331869 (OP)
>Perfect Dark canceled
Thanks fucking God. That was a disgrace.

>>714331869 (OP)
Companies over-hired during COVID, then merged after COVID, resulting in a shit-load of redundant positions.

>>714331869 (OP)
That Banjo project is so fucking full of shit, sorry but I cant believe him here even though his track record is good. I only just heard about it too. Im guessing it was a passion project that was never meant to go anywhere, it happens before within studios to potentially pitch a new project.

>>714331869 (OP)
Trump Depression

>>714341210
Shut the fuck up, Fake-Boco. Time will only tell, as you negros said the same thing when the Wii U was flying off the shelves.

>>714342836
They've chased the mass market so hard they've forgotten what made games fun to begin with. Bring back the PS2 era levels of horny, jank, and creativity. I'm tired of playing "cinematic experiences" written by Netflix interns.

>>714331869 (OP)
After years of dedicated research and development, Xbox has broken new ground and found a way to lose the console war.

>>714343996
>>714345210
can't believe it didn't happen sooner, desu. they fucked around with absolutely nothing to show for far, far too long. It shouldn't take damn near a decade for a Perfect Dark game of all things.

Now the real question is if Fable will ever see the light of day. When's the last time we've seen or heard from that team?

>>714331869 (OP)
>Spend near 70 billy on COD
>Still lose
'member when the government was convinced Xbox would have too much of an 'edge' if the merger went through? haha

>>714348262
>'member when the government was convinced Xbox would have too much of an 'edge' if the merger went through? haha
Anon, to acquired ABK they forced MS to go multiplat and to give its streaming licenses for free to Ubisoft (in Europe) and tiny mofos like AntStreaming (which has 'RetroClassics' on GayPass).

They are losing because Microsoft Gayming division is forced to suck fat cock and give its ass for free.

>>714331869 (OP)
Banjo was never good. Just kill every furry game like Banjo, Ratchet, Crash, and Jak. Only Sonic games should be allowed since hes Japanese

>>714348556
>they forced MS to go multiplat
that was for COD only, they brought the rest of their first-party games to other platforms all on their own

>>714335581
I'm honestly surprised MS never tried doing anything with the Jet Force ip that easily could have been a popular shooter on the Xbox dude bro scene.

>>714331869 (OP)
I was watching the Rare Replay documentaries and something in my head started spinning. Rareware were GREAT engineers, BAD game designers. The Nintendo Era games always had something like "Ah yeah, Nintendo gave us some pointers I guess. And that worked great" and then when it came to the Xbox Era it was just "Microsoft left us on our own to create a new game, we had tons of trouble but I think we got it in the end."
This just tells me that Rare always needed someone to put them on the right track, unlike Retro Studios or Next Level Games, two studios that were bought by Nintendo because they didn't have to wrangle them all the time. Yeah, what happened to Everwild sucks but I think that this was a long time coming.

>>714349656
>unlike Retro Studios
Retro Studios has needed major tard wrangling for their entire existence, even after shipping five great games. Look up Harmony.

>>714348985
>that was for COD only
No, that was pure xSaar cope. They were forced to all ABK and their shit too, that's why they are running the humiliation ritual with Forza, Gears and soon Halo on PS5.

>>714349749
uh huh. and I'm sure you can point out the rulings and court docs where they specifically state this

>>714349656
>unlike Retro Studios
Nigga...

Retro Studios needed so much tard wrangling they produced nothing worthwhile for a decade outside of ports, multiple leaked games of theirs went nowhere, only to be thrown back into Metroid Prime 4 pit which will underperform

>>714335171
Sorry chapo

Every fucking day since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts released, Gregg Mayles could have woke up in the morning and thought to himself, "damn I really wanna get started on planning out the next Banjo game so we can continue this IP everyone adores. I would love to make a new game". And he could LITERALLY just start coming up with ideas at his leisure and approach Microsoft whenever he felt comfortable.

For each of those 6,077 mornings, he has failed to do so.

We'll never get Viva Pinata 3, will we

>>714332408
we warned them go woke get broke

>>714354086
The American economy is not currently going up in flames due to WOKE, you stupid fucking retard

>>714354367
If there were never any wokeness there would never be any of these problems.

I'm completely fine with Microsoft getting fucked after decades of corporate cruelty, incompetence and mismanagement. Couldn't have happened to a worse company.

>WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??
CEO pajeet wants to bring in his village family to replace mutts

>>714355151
>He thinks Microsoft is affected
The Xbox brand is a tiny part of their business. This is akin to somebody being stung by a mosquito. It's annoying, but hardly likely to kill them.

>>714343996
Kek

>>714335171
honestly, this is for the best.
that fake "gameplay" trailer they showed was awful and everything indicated this would have been an underwhelming fiasko, worse than PD Zero

the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark game design approach will not be viable in the AAA space until the entire industry changes to actually appreciate game design instead of shitty moviegames that must appeal to normies.

there are people in the indie space making GE/PD clones and that's a good thing

>>714331869 (OP)
>WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??

boom and bust
collocation

a situation in which an economy or industry goes through a period of growth, especially one in which a lot of money is made, followed by a period of little or no growth:

Any chance Nintendo could buy Rare back at this point? I know most of the original talent is long gone, but at least Nintendo would get the IPs back. It's not like Microsoft is doing anything with them.

>>714349656
Rare under Nintendo was an amazing force.
Combine good direction with actually very competent engineers and artists who all had a blue collar work mentality instead of being pretentious artfags, it was a great time to witness

>>714352782
Gregg Mayles sat on Banjo Kazooie out of spot because we didn't love Nus and Bolts, his baby.

>>714355727

>>714357171
>Defend
I'm pointing out facts, anon. Microsoft can go burn in hell for all I care, but I also say that on a computers with Windows on it.

>>714333117
Eat ass, faggot.

>>714334920
Rare is a GaaS slop studio now. It will continue to shit out slop for Sea of Thieves and that's it.
Truly a fate worse than death.

>>714335682
>Microsoft dies before they can make any meaningful progress
Microsoft's gonna be fine. It's XBox that's dying. They can just work with Nintendo to make Banjo.

>>714366864
What makes you think Nintendo gives two shit about Banjo when Mario exists?

>>714366864
Banjo is dead, the general modern consumer do not care for platformers (2D or 3D) and haven't for eons (unless you are Mario adjacent)

what games are Microsoft even making still?

bunch of diversity hires that cannot ship a game in a decade got shitcanned. how is this bad?

>>714367854
>What makes you think Nintendo gives two shit about Banjo when Mario exists?
And now DK. No need for Banjo anymore.