>have all the money
>buy all the developers
>have all the talent
>give them all the time
>make 0 worthwhile games
>dies
What is the name of this business strategy?

died in 2022, reborn in 2025
welcome back embracer

This is what happens when you give creative free reign. You need actual managers running shit, not former devs. Gaming was much better when the industry wasn't mature enough to have the patients running the asylum. For all the whining about corporate meddling in games during the 2000s, at least we got games worth playing to the average person.

>have all the talent
lmao

>>714490562 (OP)
The Phil Plan

>>714490562 (OP)
the slop is over. these fucking stanic corpšos trying to turn everyone into a retarded two braincel press x slop consumer. it failed sorry but real gamers are back

They need more indian workers

>>714490562 (OP)
>microsoft shuts down two projects that were going nowhere and cuts 50% of a bloated unnecessary studio
>"its over xbox is dead"
>sony releases the biggest entertainment flop of all time shuts down the studios and does even more mass layoffs since then
>"ASTRO BOT GOTY 10/10"

>>714490562 (OP)
>what is money laundering
it's in every industry in the world

We call it the Phil Spencer Effect. See, when you're in Microsoft and you have the mandate of heaven in the company, achieved by everybody above you thinking "he's just a little guy! a little fella! i want to give him some walking around money!", you too can burn hundreds of billions of dollars on an unclear goal.

His immediate predecessor, Don Mattrick, also had this mandate of heaven. But he did the one thing that would actually get it removed from him: advertised the Xbox One as an always online machine with a mandatory camera and no resellable physical games right after the fucking Edward Snowden privacy leaks.

Fortunately Xbox has a very unique American mind poison associated with it that causes Americans to completely ignore the brand dissolving right before their eyes, and instead insist that their health & safety boards being laid off or their complete inability to push out a game without outsourcing *despite the hundreds of fucking BILLIONS ofdollars sunk into acquisitions* are just minor setbacks. You're delusional if you believe any of these are leading to Microsoft Gaming or indeed Xbox itself dissolving as a hardware manufacturer, let alone a developer and publisher.

the layoffs are literally just US AID being turned off
>>714493257
while everyone is doing layoffs, MS has nothing to show for it
playstation will make bank from nu GTA shark cards and genshin for the next 10 years

>>714490562 (OP)
Xbox started spending massive amounts of money in acquisitions which in turn made investors notice that the money pit that is Xbox became a money ravine that was somehow still in third place and worse yet still losing ground.
So now any time Microsoft wants to make investors happy they fire as many people and studios related to Xbox as possible. They'd probably fire more but it's actually beneficial to do it in a slow drip every quarter for investor morale.
Considering all these studios produce shit I approve.

>>714490985
Best games were made without managers dictating shit to everyone.

>>714494907
In fairness most of them produce shit BECAUSE they were acquired. Did you know Microsoft considers you a contractor and will force you out of the company for six months every year and a half to prevent you from getting any kind of seniority benefits or long-term employment benefits? Unless you're a manager at the parent company or higher, in which case this doesn't apply.

Just two more weeks until Xbox is done.

>>714490562 (OP)
it's not a strategy, it's incompetence. the fact that no-one at microsoft can get a game to ship is an embarrassment, not a 5d chess move

the people are microsoft are all just really bad at their jobs and microsoft is a fundamentally rent-seeking org that sucks up free money via government mandated IP monopolies, which allows them to have thousands of unproductive employees with zero output because they don't need to do anything for microsoft to continue to rake in billions by leeching off of society

>>714495069
For sure management is a huge problem. One thing I've seen is that every developer is blindsided. They always say that the higher ups come in, praise everything, then two months later fire everyone.
I'm guessing it's 'company culture' to not be negative but if you aren't they can't fix issues.
For example it's been seven years since state of decay 2, Microsoft is probably furious Undead Labs hasn't shipped a product but I bet they've never even brought it up with them directly.

>>714496371
It's moreso the management scheme is completely incompatible with games being made. Imagine all your staff getting shredded off for six months and it's not only probable but very likely they won't come back, whether because Microsoft has replaced your team with grunts from some other division that will also leave in a year and a half or because you'd have to be retarded to come back to those kinds of purposefully terrible and terrifying working conditions.

For that matter software development in general at Microsoft is incompatible with this work scheme, between the Israeli turbo-blowjobbing and the obsession with human workers being replaced it's little wonder Microsoft is shilling for AI so hard.

>>714490562 (OP)
Vapourware like Perfect Dark and Everwild are simply the result of mismanagement and a lack of rigour owing to Microsoft's off-hands approach. After so long without results, it's only natural that the studios should be shuttered or hit by lay-offs. The same applies for Turn 10, who in spite of being granted a longer period of development for 'Forza Motorsport', only managed to produce a serviceable game that failed critically and commercially. It didn't even hit the core flagship Racing Sim expectation of being an industry-dazzling graphical showcase. Zenimax's new MMO sounds thrilling, but it's also an instance of a game that was looking at a ten-year plus development timeline. It's ridiculous.
The initiative was a studio founded by well-intentioned gaming industry 'veterans'. The proposal was that they would function as an experienced, slick, and streamlined AAA start-up with a strong core idea. The studio nevertheless very quickly devolved in the governing node of a series of supplemental 'support' studios from other publishers. Clearly they were grossly ineffectual in both a developmental and custodial role.
Everwild was a rudderless project from the start with no gameplay focus. It's amazing Microsoft dragged it out so long.
There are several more systemic issues in Microsoft that have almost certainly resulted in their output attaining a reputation for being 'serviceable', but never outstanding. Their devs undoubtedly treat having a behemothic corporate Daddy third-party publisher as an excuse to run their studios like daycares and retirement homes. Everything getting slapped on gamepass means there's no pressure or drive to create genuinely alluring showpieces that can thrive in a competetive marketplace. Microsoft adopted pretty much every lame diversity and inclusion quota into their hiring practices, notoriously promote visionless and lame women into leadership roles, and rely inordinately on third-world support studios.

>>714490562 (OP)
Feels like all of their studios other than whoever the fuck is pushing out the Slop o' Doody games care more about making ugly as fuck political statements more than they care about making good games. There can only be 2 possible explanations for this: this is either a mandate coming from MS - in which case they quite literally did this to themselves or it's coming from the devs. In this latter case MS is to blame for not tard wrangling all the virtue signalling retards who they're paying to develop games.

>>714490562 (OP)
>What is the name of this business strategy?
The Kalergi Plan, you should google it.

>>714495231
bro... they ARE done, like right fucking now it's over.