XBOX SUCKS!! Microsoft SHUTS DOWN the BEST Bethesda Studios!! Tango and Arcade DEAD!!
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Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm.
Alpha Dog Studios, maker of mobile game Mighty Doom, will also close. Roundhouse Games will be absorbed by The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios. Microsoft did not say how many staff will lose their jobs, but significant layoffs are inevitable. IGN has asked Bethesda and Microsoft for comment.
On Redfall, the disastrous vampire co-op game will now not receive promised updates as Microsoft has ended all development on the game. Microsoft said Redfall will remain online to play, and it will provide a "make-good" offer for those who bought the Hero DLC.
Arkane Lyon, which is working on Marvel's Blade, survives the cull, as does Bethesda Game Studios (Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Starfield), and Machine Games (Indiana Jones and The Great Circle). Doom developer id Software is also unaffected.
In an email to staff sent by Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, Microsoft blamed the cuts on a “reprioritization of titles and resources”. The email, verified by IGN, is below:
Today I’m sharing changes we are making to our Bethesda and ZeniMax teams. These changes are grounded in prioritizing high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games and beloved worlds which you have nurtured over many decades.
To double down on these franchises and invest to build new ones requires us to look across the business to identify the opportunities that are best positioned for success. This reprioritization of titles and resources means a few teams will be realigned to others and that some of our colleagues will be leaving us.
Here are the changes going into effect:
Arkane Austin - This studio will close with some members of the team joining other studios to work on projects across Bethesda. Arkane Austin has a history of making impactful and innovative games and it is a pedigree that everyone should be proud of. Redfall’s previous update will be its last as we end all development on the game. The game and its servers will remain online for players to enjoy and we will provide make-good offers to players who purchased the Hero DLC.
Alpha Dog Studios - This studio will also close. We appreciate the team’s creativity in bringing Doom to new players. Mighty Doom will be sunset on August 7 and we will be turning off the ability for players to make any purchases in the game.
Tango Gameworks - Tango Gameworks will also close. We are thankful for their contributions to Bethesda and players around the world. Hi-Fi Rush will continue to be available to players on the platforms it is today.
Roundhouse Games - The team at Roundhouse Games will be joining ZeniMax Online Studios (ZOS). Roundhouse has played a key role in many of our recent game launches and bringing them into ZOS to work on The Elder Scrolls Online will mean we can do even more to grow the world that millions of players call home.
With this consolidation of our Bethesda studio teams, so that we can invest more deeply in our portfolio of games and new IP, a small number of roles across select Bethesda publishing and corporate teams will also be eliminated.
Those whose roles will be impacted will be notified today, and we ask that you please treat your departing colleagues with respect and compassion. We will provide our full support to those who are impacted in today’s notifications and through their transitions, including severance benefits informed by local laws.
Bethesda remains one of the key pillars of Xbox with a strong portfolio of amazing games and thriving communities. As we look to the future, there is an impressive line-up of games on the horizon. In 2024 alone we have Starfield Shattered Space, Fallout 76 Skyline Valley, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and The Elder Scrolls Online’s Golden Road. As we align our plans and resources to best set ourselves up for success in this complex and changing industry, our teams across Arkane Lyon, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, MachineGames, ZeniMax Online Studios and the Bethesda publishing and corporate teams will be well-positioned to build new IP, explore new game concepts, and expand on our existing franchises.
- Matt - Hry
This is why you don't celebrate a monopoly, folks.
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...
There are people who are literally asking for the big 3 to become a giant monopoly/conglomerate because it's just easier for them. Not realizing what they are asking for.
@@nfbk123 You just keep spewing hate and piss poor opinions. MS shuts down and ruins everything. Been with them 2 decades and have seen it through that time
@@nfbk123 Hi Fi Rush had great reviews and did well what are you talking about. Microsoft is just pathetic
@@konuka_ameThere is no reasoning with the damage control crew. They will eat any amount of shit that Microsoft plops down on their plate.
Should be illegal to buy your competition and then fire them all. This merger should have never been allowed
Highly agree
tango is your leftover games we sent to PS this year... ARCADE was REDFALL.....
letting them go.. is LOSING ALL BETHESDA = ?? wtf??? firing all Bethesda? Where did Starfield come from.. Where is ESVI from? where is FALLOUT 5 from? Where is ESO from, where is FUTURE Bethesda main-line games from. not. just those two somewhat smaller divisions.
Blame the people who sell their companies. You work for a company that gets sold you should already be looking for a new job. Because you will be let go at some point.
@slavche yet those games were actually good. Hi-fi rush beat another AAA developed game.
@@slavche ea bought and killed countless studios so i dont see why you would defend the practice. Bathesda and zenimax were making games just fine before being purchased. It was in no way a benefit to the gamers to have m$ buy them out. They will be liquidated as soon as they are seen as not serving the shareholders after the ms shareholders sabotage all their efforts. Just wait and see
Where are the smart people who wanted them to buy Sega?
Phil wants to buy Nintendo which will never happen.
@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2ncyup. Most disgusting thing Phil ever said
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...😊
@@nfbk123 Hi-Fi Rush is far from a terrible game
@@Owen01 It's a niche within a niche. Should've made evil within 3. Terrible leadership
Shuting down Tango is so insane
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...
Bro, I literally completed Hi-Fi Rush just a couple of days ago and loved it and now this happens. I cannot believe it.
@@nfbk123 It's still stupid.
Ghostwire Tokyo also ass@@nfbk123
They were one of the best within Bethesda. No wonder after this why Shinji Mikami left them...he already knew something.
Microsoft ruined rareware who were untouchable in the 90s and early 2000s and now closed down the best immersive sim studio aswell? This is just depressing.
Well, Xboxers said Rare is working on Sea of Thieves and that game is a success according to them
That's not microsoft fault most of the guy who made Rare great quit, when they understand that Nintendo wouldn't buy them and it would be Microsoft instead.... oh wait
as bad as dat was, can't be worse than what Disney had been doin' for years...
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...😊
Eh, Arkane Austin wasn't that great. Sure, Prey was a critical success, but it was a commercial disaster. Redfall was just a complete disaster. So if the only 2 games a Studio made were failure, it's really hard to justify keeping it open. And besides, 70% of the Prey team was already gone by last year, so chances of another good immersive sim from Austin was pretty low.
But people said Microsoft Xbox acquiring every gaming studio was a good thing.
All those people really wanted was to be chosen to have Phil Spencer take a dump on their chest.
Exactly. All these dumbass xbots drank the koolaid saying shit like “oh wow now these studios can make what they Want to make cos GaMePaSs means you don’t need SalEs” 😂
Now as expected, shutting down all these studios even though they made good games 😂
Same story with ABK, dumb bots were thinking COD slave labour studios will be relieved or Toys for Bob and made to ‘unless their creativity’ but what actually happened? Still slaving on COD and
shutdown blizzard new ip multiplayer game 😂
Xbots r dumb af
Ponies have calling this for YEARS and we were right in everything. Sales MATTER. ALWAYS.
Microsoft is buying these studios for IP To go 3rd party, not to save these studios to ‘empower’ these studios to go make their own passion project games 🤣
Well those are the same people that believed for the past 10 years that xbox has changed with philspencer on the helm, where xbox hasn't won an NPD game of the year for over 10 years, where majority of them don't support games for full price and go to game pass, then acting suprised when games on there don't make money and isn't sustainable. The same people that has been told to "wait the games are coming" after each acquisition with nothing to show for it. Delusion after delusion I rest my case.
Such a shame.
lol Exactly. Microsoft's greed and the Xbox fanboys will run every decent studio into the ground.
Microsoft is where game companies go to die or become shells of their former selves.
So true! Rare are now bee keepers apparently 😂 what a joke
Like EA hey. A graveyard
@@CMONCMON007still mad about pandemic studios
Aaa industry in general is where games go to die and become shells of their formal selves. Almost all these companies suck.
For the past few years since 2022 I've seen the reality of them. They speak half truths and are money hungry. Supporters will say that's what a company does. But a company does not destroy brands.
Sony: *screws up with Helldivers 2*
MS: hold my beer
The “screw up” with hell divers is not that big of a deal at all Sony stopped doing it so if anybody holds a grudge against that move on cause Sony doesn’t care. This story is permanent.
At least Sony Coarse Corrected with that decision before it can even make an impact but what MS is doing is unfortunately Permanent
lol Sony had to take back what they did. They didn’t do it because they felt bad about it.
Sony fixed all that
@@1kbmahannot that big of a deal? Is your brain cooked bro? They tried to steal from hundreds of thousands of people who already bought the game! Then arrogantly pulled the game from sale and continued on the path to rob them of something they purchased. They only backtracked because it got media coverage! That is literally illegal. Xbox can do as they please with their assets. You’re talking about Sony literally fucking stealing from consumers compared to consolidating game studios. Delusional fanboys out here man.
Things like this are why older gamers never wanted Microsoft to enter the gaming space.
Exactly!
The fact they tried to buy Nintendo back then shows their own hubris and gow they don't understand the industry back then and even now.
But 343I fucks up for over a decade and they still are around!?!?
Well Microsoft formed that dev for specfically Halo only games. So unless they don't want Halo anymore, they keep them around....
Close down their first-party studios for Xbox...
Goes on a spending spree to acquire new studios...
Shuts down new studios...
That's the Microsoft way!
The ip's are what they bought. Everything else can be replaced.
Mikami understood where this was going. It’s funny that after he left, people said that everything would be fine with the studio, Mikami was not needed.
Mikami's last game was Evil Within 1 which was nothing earth shattering. He had little to do with EW2 and HiFi which are excellent games.
the people who are getting laid off are gonna be rushing to mikamis new studio. he know tango was closing!
@@MathieuaccYeah, and you were there and observed everything, so that later you could tell what influence he had in the company. Blah blah blah.
@@ram5683 No I just know how to read articles. Look it up.
@@ram5683 No, I have reading capabilities. Look it up.
😤 I AM FURIOUS!! I WAS LITERALLY TELLING EVERYONE THAT MS WAS A STUDIO-KILLER AND NOW LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS! Nobody ever listens until it’s already over. FUCK! 😒
yet the hired "consultants" companies are still collecting there millions.
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...
@@nfbk123 hi fi rush is a great game.
@@eppy5630 lies It's a niche within a niche. Should've made evil within 3. Terrible leadership.
@@nfbk123 exactly a nice little niche rhythm game not every game has to be a blockbuster AAAA game like KTJL or skull and bones.
@@nfbk123so being niche means bad? Are you stupid? Based on the fact you keep spamming the same message to every comment even when it's completely unrelated screams desperation for attention and said stupidity
They did Tango so dirty. Microsoft finally had a solid Japanese studios and they shut them down after they made a great game. I was not in favor of the Bethesda buy out but it worked out far worse then I ever could have imagined.
shinji mikami saw the writing on the wall once xbox acquired his studio, no wonder he left immediately after
This is why no one trusted Microsoft to develop the talent they spent billions for...
@@singingseph7179
They NEVER HAVE.
The SADDEST PART is: Microsoft has SO MANY RESOURCES at their disposal yet they’re too goddamn IMPATIENT to allow any of the “GREATNESS” that finds itself within their confines possibly blossom and FLOURISH.
Try buying games next time instead of leeching with Gamepass.
Maybe they hate Asians.
After the success of the Fallout TV show, I bet they're shutting down the studios and moving their workforce to make more fallout games.
Todd Howard dodges another bullet. Now the next fallout game will have 2% less bugs than f76 and 128000 times the detail
Brand/IP fatigue incoming
Unlikely
Todd will oppose any other studio making fallout games especially Obsidian.
So that won't happen.
It doesn't seem Phil Spencer has the guts to force Todd to do anything Todd doesn't want to do.
Yeah a new fallout game, a new LIVE SERVICE fallout game!!
@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc They could roll this staff directly into the existing fallout team under the leadership of Todd.
I'm completely stunned that Starfield and HFR being on GP didn't give Microsoft enough money to keep these studios afloat...(heavy sarcasm)
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...
@@nfbk123 Whoa, if HFR is TERRIBLE when are we finally packing Todd and his jolly band of merry men into their long overdue mausoleum?
Their last 2 games sure reviewed worse (so much worse, even) and took a ton more resources to make and promote than HFR!
@@nfbk123 HiFi rush beaten a triple A game, plus it did well. Red fall is what happens you forced a developing team that makes single player, story driven and thrilling games, to develop a live online game? The publisher kills a good developer. Hell Microsoft is on terms with EA in killing developers. Both known for terminating potentially good games in development.
Starfield actually didn’t sell good cause they spent a lot of money on it
Who would have guessed a major corporation buying up a bunch of dev studios, not interested in selling software but subscriptions would have exploded.
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...
It makes sense redfall was terrible game same as hi fi rush. Defiantly no sales. Once you make a objectively bad game there studio is gone. This is the gaming industry...
Bro is a true xbot
@@Hardhead456xD
I get called a Sony fanboy because I am against industry consolidation. THIS is the result of it, no matter who does it.
Just remember that Sony isn’t your friend. They also want all the money as all corporations do.
@ShanL2604 you clearly misunderstood the comment
@@ShanL2604 That's true, but out of the three big video game console companies, Sony is by far the better of the three (and I'm NOT 100% honoring them because they do a lot of horrible crap. The Stellar Blade censorship and the Helldivers 2 link attempt being two of them. However, compared to Nintendo and Microsoft, Sony are saints and at least they can be reasoned with so stuff like the Helldivers 2 link crap can be reversed). Nintendo is very "LAWYER happy" and takes close to a decade to lower the price of their first party games and they can NOT be reasoned with and Microsoft is the worse with how they are self destructing their Xbox brand. Competition is healthy, which is why I strongly support Playstation vs Nintendo and hope a third console company can step in (I don't see Xbox lasting into next decade. There is Evercade, but Evercade is in a VERY distant fourth place, but they could potentially get bigger in some years from now) and also have Steam vs Epic vs GOG in the PC arena. I like Sony, but I would NEVER want them having a monopoly because I know they would get greedy and start doing some very shady things.
@@ShanL2604 "no matter who does it"
I think I'm actually done with Microsoft. I know that sounds over dramatic but I'm telling you, I've loved the Xbox brand for so long, but since the Xbox One days It's just been shattered hope after shattered hope. Microsoft has been in a sorry state for so long, and their ONE glimmer of tangible hope has been destroyed. I loved Hi-Fi Rush so much, I was begging Microsoft to foster Tango...And they get axed. Look, Sony and Nintendo have their awful moments, but they give us reasons to stick around, reasons to support the brand....Xbox has legitimately done NOTHING but burn bridges.
Thats nice, but Halo is the greatest first party series to exist that is serious, Sony only churns out bad games, excluding FF7 HOWEVEr its not a Playstation exclusive.
@@Luigiplaya246 Proof?
@@Luigiplaya246 Ok bot
@@lancer737 no wonder why you like your own comment
@@lancer737 Keep crying, Xbot, because don't have any PS exclusive games for Xbot. Same goes for FF
Damn it , there goes our hope for *THE EVIL WITHIN 3* out of the window
.... no Shinji-involvement, anyway 🤷♂️
It's so disappointing, at the very least I'm glad the second game had a pretty satisfying ending
There goes dishonored 3
@@c0v3rt59 …satisfying? How? Like literally no character got happy ending in TEW2, except Kidman…
@@well-being2608 I mean Sebastian rescued his daughter and was able to have some closure with his wife at the end.
The thing that fucking infuriates me the most is that they shutdown Tango Gameworks. Last year they made one of the best games of that year and now Microsoft spits in their face for their work and cuts off their life support, What a fucking joke.
Xbox is dead... I'll sell my series x to buy new games on ps5.. Xbox is so disappointing...
Not really, Halo is the greatest 1st party series that is serious to exist. You are insane to think Xbox is dead when Sony has zero good exclusive games. Before you mention Final Fantasy 7, we have just about all of them on Xbox, also 14, and the remake is also not a Playstation exclusive.
@@lancer737 zero exclusive? I played halo but sorry stellar is far more fun and cinematic are far more crazy and story is far better than any halo. And rate about 90 percent? ... So Sony has nothing? That's why Sony continues and Microsoft will be a third party like Sega soon. And Sega is far more better than any Microsoft game for me. Ho sorry Star fail and red fail are the best game of history 😂. Sony has nothing... I think you have money from Microsoft right?
@@lancer737 dude stop it , u shouldn't be sticking up for this joke of a company after this as a gaming fan right now im pissed off with xbox as everyone should be
@@james160382
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dude stop it , u shouldn't be sticking up for this joke of a company after this as a gaming fan right now im pissed off with xbox as everyone should be
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Look around at the economy, its not just Xbox doing this, Sony is also, its also why Sony exclusive crap like FF14 are now on the Xbox.
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zero exclusive?
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Yes ZERO! They had good exclusives on PS1 and after that they wrecked their franchise and never made a good one after.
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sorry stellar is far more fun and cinematic are far more crazy and story is far better than any halo.
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Oh is that why Stellar has an epic live action movie, novels, comics, along with the games themselves that are constantly talked about even by non-gamers?
Oh wait, it doesnt. You are kidding yourself trying to over hype a bobs game that was censored day one.
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So Sony has nothing? That's why Sony continues
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I would argue its because most the Sony players are dumb as all hell. Their whole Network, even when it was just PS3 has been hacked over and over and over and over and over and over AND OVER AND OVER, with the last time beingt he worst as not just every single, EVERY SINGLE playstation users data being taken but Sony product owners themesleves.
That doesnt happen on Xbox, and by the time Playstation Network had a critical hack on the PS4 you people should have jumped ship. I can probably guess your political affiliation just from Playing Playstation exclusively despite said hacks.
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Microsoft will be a third party like Sega soon
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Most the Helldiver player base is on PC and now Sony is having their junk exclusive Final Fantasy games ported on the Xbox, like 14. Even the Remake of 7 is not a Sony exclusive, all the FF7 games just about are on the Xbox.
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And Sega is far more better than any Microsoft game for me.
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How many head injuries have you had this year alone?
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Ho sorry Star fail and red fail are the best game of history
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How is "No Mans Sky" working out for you? Unfortunately your exclusive works better on Xbox.
None of those games even hold a candle to Halo though, so keep cooping with that.
So wtf is going to happen with the redfall dlc they were supposed to release for those who paid 100$ for extra content 🤔 now that's another question to ask. Smh sounds like a lawsuit coming.
Indeed it does you can't just sell something and then backtrack without consequences
It's finnne. Those people will get a month free of Game Pass and Phil Spencer will make a totally sincere apology tweet.
the people who paid an extra $100 on redfail, deserve everything they had coming. who tf in their right mind would pay extra after seeing the state of that "game"
@fattiger6957 surely hope somebody will get a law firm to look into this. I hope if nothing is done I can search for one myself . I feel like those who paid the 100$ are getting robbed and giving gamepasses away shouldn't be the solution. That's not what we paid for. These corporations literally do what they please disgusting .
Yeah that is probably like 10 people, but yes I hear you. For them it sucks
I was told that it was great that microsoft consolidated the industry and this monopolization wouldnt result in lost jobs. Whoops that didnt last long
Those people are delusional fanboys who have never seen the light and let's face it never will. Even when Xbox shuts down completely they'll ask " what went wrong ". Too much meatriding and no scrutiny over at team green.
If someone tells you monopolization is a good thing you probably shouldn’t be listening to them
That was claimed by the Xbox fanboys who always said that Microsoft HQ doesn't care about Xbox actually making a profit and could just blow billions every year.
Exactly. Every single Sony fanboy has been saying this. But no, all these xbots and spineless media was cheering them.
Watch Microsoft annihilate ABK studios except COD studios next year
Bro Sony fanboys and Xbox fanboys are delusional this literally been happening all over the gaming industry, and more studios will close by the end of the year don’t matter if it’s Xbox or PlayStation.
This is the reign of Phil Spencer the 'savior' of Xbox, his legacy is lies, deception and disappointment.
This is WHAT I FEARED and could not, for the life of me, UNDERSTAND how ANYONE who was an ACTUAL LEGITIMATE FAN OF GAMING could stand there on the sidelines and cheerlead LOUDLY for Microsoft to “hoover up” all these beloved games studios.
Microsoft is where creative and innovative endeavors go to DIE.
Facts
Meanwhile Phil spencer getting paid 10 million each year to fuck up a brand
Not only do U Getta Like, but Also🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He should be fired I don't know y Microsoft is not doing anything abt him and matt booty
Yeah, but Phil still has millions of fanboys who worship him like a saint.
@@fattiger6957 you know it's bad when colteastwood is getting tired of his sh*t
The cult leaders are always rich, it’s The Green frogs 🐸 who need mental asylum 😂
Now i understand why Phil Spencer said that good games don't sell consoles. Their strategy is to close all studios so that there is no need for consoles. Brillaint.
It's the Microsoft strategy. Buy out all competition so you can decide what is good
Thats awful but also is not surprising... Gaming isn't about art of games anymore, it's about money and money only
Anyone remember Rare? Microsoft never learns. They can buy companies but they can't buy the talent.
I remember Nintendo drain every bit of ambition from Rare that is why the sold their 50% in the studio , A google search will tell you they didn't see any value in the studio for the future
I loved The Evil Within games. This makes me really sad. Makes me feel less bitter about them turning my beloved Rare into just a Sea of Thieves studio a live service studio as at least they didn't close them. I hope we still get an Evil Within 3.
WORMS PFP
Hi-Fi Rush was one of the few Xbox games that actually got positive attention for the company and they go and close them. Microsoft sucks and Phil Spencer is trash.
I absolutely despise studio closures.
Well maybe they shouldn’t churning out slop then they won’t.
@@centrevezgaming4862Redfall
was the only “slop” that any of these studios put out. They have made great games in the past
@@JGr2000I would like to point out that with Arkane the whole studio wasn’t shut down just the arkane❤ Austin which were the team that spear headed Redfall and had a part to play with dis1 and other projects ware as arkane Lyon is the core studio
then stop championing the kinds of acquisitions that microsoft, tencent, and embracer are making
@@kingstrojek9937 well at least that makes this situation a little less shitty
Why are people still surprised by this? It’s a cycle, big company buys studio, most of the talent leaves, big company loses money due to poor games, big company starts laying off staff. Sometimes they skip some of this and just lay off people anyway or force them to make a game that’s completely different to what they are good at. Once a big company buys these studios I lose all faith in that studio ever being the same.
Does this surprise anyone? Mega corporation Microsoft Buys a ton of Developers Basically just to IP farm, What's the best way to get rid of your competition? First buy them and then fire them 😂😂😂
Exactly, People should have understood this last year. Honestly if the employees didn't start looking for a new job after hearing they were sold, they were just very naive.
@@lastwolflord Your absolutely right And of course Microsoft is all about the money , They will keep the best most capable people and move them to other studios And just get rid of the dead weight, Studios come and go, Creative people will always end up together create a new studio And put out some amazing indie games Before a huge corporation comes along to gobble them up again, It's the sad circle of life and greed
@@marcgoesblindgaming2076 Why should people who are not good at their jobs keep them? Your argument is insane.
@@lancer737 Where did I say people that are not good at their jobs should keep them? Don't believe I did And it wasn't a argument just an opinion
@@lancer737 Even if you're good at your job, a company can fire you no matter what, even More so you don't get a transfer
And the irony here is that Tango made their only real hit in the last few years Hi Fi Rush. Yeah, kill the studio that made you money....
Actually, HiFi Rush made no money. Mainly because of Gamepass
It wasn’t a hit like you think it was. They knew it and that’s why they cut their losses, same goes for the studio that made redfall.
Whatever you flaming baguette....
@@SK_FalchionPC sales were solid so that don't add up.
@@TrapZeroEXYou don't remember late last year when they were saying HiFi Rush didn't sell well. That's a big reason it went to PS5
Sony: *messed up with Helldivers, took a massive L*
Microsoft: not fair! *messed up with Bethesda, took a massive L*
if they are not homies, idk what it can be.
AAA game experience 2024
Meanwhile Nintendo laughs in the corner.
@@w12266 Yuzu emulator shut down 😅
@@w12266 Nintendo is just busy doing their own thing tough they keep puzzling me with their decitions. And yet in this week they just announce switch sucessor
The cost of being too big is job loss. A monopoly isn't good for anyone except for them.
Prey is up there as one of my favorite games of all time, and Evil Within being buried as a result is also a travesty. Honestly Sony should pick these up if XBox doesn’t want them. These are great legacy developers, something XBox desparately needs right now and it’s kind of insane. I love XBox, I play on all platforms, but I also buy all my games. If GP is crumbling and corporate wants a better return for ABK this is going to be a disaster. This is one of the dumbest moves XBox has made since they burned Remedy as a third party exclusive developer.
You mean second party....
@@bobtom1495 yah, but usually when I use that term there are always 10 people arguing about it’s meaning so this is usually easier. Lol
Shutting down Arkane is absurd. No prey sequel?! The prey reboot was an, all around, excellently received game while being criminally underrated at the same time.
You ask them to make a coop live service (something their not comfortable making and outside of their wheelhouse), it fails, and you punish them for the decisions that you made on an executive level.
Microsoft needs to turn their attention to the people making the calls on what games studios are to make and axe them, not the studios themselves.
Those team members left years ago. Arkane Austin is just a name.
@jankmedia1985 A meme? Why? Because Microsoft execs forced Arkane to develop a game they weren't comfortable with making? Arkane is a immerive sim single player studio. Having them make a live service is so out in left field.
"If we cant have a future NOBODY CAN" -Microsoft.
Just a small correction that Arkane Austin made Prey and Redfall and assisted Arkane Lyon on Dishonored and Deathloop.
The Arkane Lyon studio head may have put his job in jeopardy.
He dropped an f bomb about the closures and layoffs and criticized the company for doing it.
All games nobody cares about.
Arkane was/is the only 'mainstream' studio doing anything interesting with immersive sims, this is sad
Arcane Austin made prey and redfall. Arcane lyon made deathloop and dishonored. Don't think either should have been shut down. Tango game works was a gem, videogame industry is in a bad way right now.
You'd think buying Bethesda plus the lackluster linup for the past 10 years, and not making a lot of money on gamepass and console sales they'd push for more games that the fans love. What is Phil Spencer doing at xbox....
Phil is lining his pockets for the inevitable day when the Microsoft board finally replaces him.
You really think Phil Spencer made this decision 🙄 he’s not the one who cuts the check over at Microsoft you do know that right?
Phill is trying to transform the games industry into a live service where nobody owns nothing and where you don't have any rights.
That's what i've been saying to people for the last 20 years that xbox was trying to monopolise gaming.
They tried to do it with PC gaming, they got sued.
They tried to buy nintendo, they got laughed out of the boardroom.
They tried to monopolise the console bussiness with the xbox and xbox360 by buying 27 game titles that were playstation exclsuive before or were multplatform.
Then they came with drmbox one and it allways online "features" where you couldn't share or sell your game or console because they were tied to your account.
And then when Phill came along they are now trying to live service the entire games industry with gamepass.
I've been warning people for years.
Like konrad Curze once said:
"Death is nothing compared to vindication"
Y'all don't buy games. That's the problem.
The Dishonored and Deathloop games have been developed by Arkane Lyon and not Arkane Austin.
Sad truth: when game studios sell their souls to outside financial investors, or get assimilated by a bigger corp, the game studio is as good as dead.
just because they are closing studios doesn't mean the IPs made by said studios will stop being used, nor does it mean all of the employees are getting fired or laid off
why would they shut these studios down just to rehire the same people? these studios are being shut down for money.
why would anyone at a studio in japan move to the US after being shut down?
microsoft can't even handle their own IP like Fable, Halo, Banjo, etc etc, and you expect them to keep using Hi Fi Rush and Prey in an effective manner
holy shit. Well Shinji Mikami left to start his own studio(again). These large companies who go on large acquisition sprees end up vomiting them up eventually. They're too big for their own good. They just buy and hope profits keep going up forever as they can't actually create a product, they just use money. Microsoft closing Japanese studios is a bad idea. They need japanese games. Japanese created games are reasons why we buy Sony.
The problem is Japanese games sell horribly on Xbox because people who are fans of Japanese games don't buy Xbox consoles. That's because many Japanese games (particularly the smaller budget games) are made for Japanese people first and foremost and Japanese people tend to stick to domestic companies (with rare exceptions like Apple)
@fattiger6957 - .... yet I clearly remember all the fake news that XBSX was outselling PS5 in Japan, early on. M$ and their 🤖 army online always pushing fake news. Where are all those shills that grief poor DCG on all his videos in the comments how he's such a pOnY? They got deactivated for this one 🤔
Sadly, Sony got rid of japan studios.
I wonder if Activision is shocked right now, they could be next
Crash? The entire tech stock surge is bursting like a watermelon on pavement.
The problem is that MS spent all those BILLIONS and the Publishers they acquired they overpaid for. Shinji Mikami is like 58 now, so he built a new studio, but he’s not going to have a lot of games developed from here out and it doesn’t seem like he’s all that funded.
Hopefully, Sony will come in and rebuild some of these studios to expand the budgets a little.
Well he did say that great games don't sell consoles so he's truly living up to that bold statement.
Hi fi rush got shut down it seems. That game would have sold way better under sony or been third party since the beginning
Arkane austin only made prey, wolfenstein youngblood, and redfall. Arkane Lyon does dishonored and everything else. Just wanna let you know dreeeeeaaaammmcastguy
I love Microsoft saying they want to focus on “high impact games” when they launched Halo, Redfall, and Starfield in varying degrees of a underbaked status. They remind me of EA in the early 2000s buying up great studios and gutting them and then wondering why their games outside of Madden stopped selling.
They closed Lionhead Studio and many others that make the best classics in the 2000s, why the surprise.
The video game crash already happened with triple A and push for esports, it is now recovering with BG3, Helldivers 2, Palworld etc.
I remember the video game crash back in 1996. And its sequel in 97. And warped. And crash team racing. Good times. Happy birthday guy 🎉
I hope Sony hires the talented developers.
You want them to go from one shit company to another?
This would be like scaping from prison and ending up in another
They already fired thousands of devs even Playstation 5 is selling well but then they clear house
We need Tango Gameworks devs back!
Sony closed Japan studio, London studio and others. They aren't free from this, they've closed plenty of great studios and developers.
Happy Birthday my dude! Thanks for all the great content, been watching you for years!
Is limited run games still releasing Hi-Fi Rush on physical, they just announce it 3 or 4 months ago 😭
Happy Birthday DreamcastGuy!! Closing Tango Gameworks is indeed terrible and makes no sense whatsoever. That studio made 4 games in 8 years and all of them good! Wow what an awesome production rate - meanwhile other Xbox studios have trouble getting one game out in that time seemingly. Plus Hi Fi Rush was one of my favorite games of recent years - it was fun, had a lot of heart, beautiful art, and was really funny. Plus it's amazing that that studio was capable of pivoting from horror (Evil Within) to action-comedy (Hi Fi Rush) and did both well... That was one of Microsoft's top 3 studios easily, if not THE best since it was the only one to win an award at the Game Awards. Now closed due to corporate retardation - what can you do... 😂
This hurts so much Dishonored is one of my favorite franchises ever I was looking forward to the leaked dishonored 3 but this arkane austin not lyon so they might still be making that along with Blade
Yea lyon and the blade projects are still around and Dis3 if rumors are still to be believed
Two different studios. One made prey other made dishonored. Dishonored team is working on blade.
@@raven80wolfx2 Austin team was apparently involved with dis 1
Someone please confirm for me if dishonored 3 is still gonna happen or not? 2 days ago i decided to see if there was any news about it. A few times there wasn't in the past but 2 day's ago my heart jumped because it seems like it was actually getting confirmed. Now i see this.. plesse tell me its still possible
Arkane Austin developed Prey!!! Why are they doing this?? 🙀
Nintendo Switch successor + June direct confirmed, and now meanwhile at Microsoft studios for Xbox are shutting down. What a morning it has been for news!
Xbox Please leave the gaming industry
honestly at this point ps and xbox can both leave , i'm about done with both
Happy Birthday DCG and we hope you have many more 😎
They set up Tango to fail, they shadow dropped Hi Fi as a new IP, and it’s part of a subscription service as well.
Microsoft dosent give a damn about games or developers
Feels like Microsoft has buyers remorse.
No, they bought ip's. Everything else wasn't needed. And the people working at Bethesda should have been looking for new work last year when they heard they were sold. This is normal behavior for buying any company.
Throwing on that cape for a company who doesn't even know you exist and only care for the investors I see.
If Sony was clever, they'd pull up to Tango's offices, and offer a 1-2 game, 2nd party contract like they did with Kojima.
They are a small, cheap to finance team that might not bring the sales, but bring prestige and awards.
Yeah now you would buy evil within 😂
Happy Birthday DG. Love your videos .Have a great day
Gamepass is NOT sustainable.. maybe if Hi Fi Rush had sold actual units on xbox instead of being on Gamepass, Tango Gameworks would still be alive. I think Phil knew Tango Gameworks was in trouble and brought it to playstation as a last attempt to sell actual units. But Microsoft could have bailed them out but of course business doesn't work like that.
Gamepass sounds good on paper but in reality no, and im sure its a good business model for maybe 3 out of 10 games but damn it sucks to have to be one of the 7 other games.. RIP Tango Gameworks
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So is that why they are making lots of money from it?
@@lancer737 Have they ever released profit margins?
@@lancer737 we all can agree that Hi Fi Rush was pretty popular on xbox and I'm sure the one time up front check Microsoft cut was big but firstly if the game wasn't on gamepass it wouldn't be as popular as it was AND if by some chance it wasn't on gamepass AND it was as popular as it was then I'm sure Tango Gameworks would have rather had the money they would have gotten from units sold and I could be wrong but just saying
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Not really, its also not Halo good.
@@nielsmichiels1939 We can see the Tie Ratio, its doing good, it might not be 1st place this gen, but people take that to mean its sinking when its is making a good profit.
Tango Gameworks is the only real loss here.
Agreed....
Nah, Arkane Austin made Prey (2017) and that was a great game
@@ishe_we_zimbabwe Sure, but just because a studio made a good game 7+ years ago doesn't mean anything today. The staff responsible for that are likely long-gone. We're better off looking at their most recent project (REDFALL) to gauge the quality of the staff there.
No major loss.
Facts.
Man, no Prey 2 that hurts 😢
Do we know for certain if everyone there was laid off? I have a theory they shut down all these random side studios to funnel more manpower towards fast tracking another fallout, especially since howard hinted at wanting to do that
"bUy sEGa!"
Sega doesn't want to be bought. They are fine where they are.
@@raven80wolfx2 I know, we all know, I wrote that as the quote I'm constantly hearing from xbots.
Rocksteady will probably be next :( by the looks of it.
This is why you don't allow a buy out of your company.
Arkane Austin didn't do Dishonored or Deathloop - that was the Lyon studio (which is still alive as they're doing Blade). Austin only did Prey and Redfall
The only reason for me to buy an Xbox was The evil within 3 ....rip i guess.
So fucking sad dude... Rip
Underrated game honestly.
@@misterpainwell7821 i still have PTSD from getting chased by the keeper lol amazing times.
@@Horzydood The Keeper,The shade,Laura,The guardian. Might replay those games for ol' time's sake. I can't believe Microsoft is gonna axe some of the most unique franchises.
@@misterpainwell7821 it makes absolute no sense. Imo tangos gameworks makes great games. So dumb.
Arkane Austin made Redfall and Prey. Dishonored and Deathloop were made by Arkane Lyon in France and are currently working on Blade.
Happy bday bro thank you for your content !
Ghostwire, Deathloop, Redfall, I mean.. You need games that sell, and none of these games did. They really didn't sell. Even Hi-Fi Rush did not sell enough, sadly.
So Microsoft is doing it again with Bethesda. The fate of Ratewear is happening to them. Xbox wants a IP bank and nothing more
Xbox is taking a massive L, compared to Sony, even with the bad censorship sony does, at least they took the jump with a new IP like Stellar Blade, as well as backtrack on psn account being mandatory on Steam for helldivers 2. Unlike the Evil Within Studio being permanently shut down which can't be taken back.
They also shut down Lionhead, the developer behind Fable, years ago. I bet they are looking at their stable of studios in Activision for who is expendable.
activision studio closures are coming soon too, give it some time. about 6-12 months delayed compared to bethesda
@@fattiger6957 well the day Call of Duty fails we know what will happens next
Ghostwire Tokyo was amazing. Such a sleeper hit.
"Microsoft: Where great studios go to die." A phrase that should be emblazoned BIG and BOLD on the outside of their headquarters.
Happy Birthday Bro 😃👍
Love the channel
I can't believe they closed the closest thing they had to a japanese studio, xbox is a joke
So Many L’s this week lmao the gaming industry can’t win for once’s
In case you missed it
The gaming industry is crashing since 2023
Happy birthday Dude!! Hope you celebrate the entire week!
On the one hand, Arkane Austin shutting down isn't surprising; Prey was a financial disappointment, while Redfall was an unmitigated disaster. Tango works though, that one was unexpected. After all, Hi-Fi Rush was the only 2023 Xbox title to be universally praised and was just ported to PS5. I'm guessing it too was a commercial disappointment, following the disappointments of Ghostwire and possibly EW2. That said, due to the mismanagement around "day one Gamepass" its almost impossible to see how 90% of Xbox games can turn a profit. I think that's going to be more and more of a problem as time goes on; Microsoft will either have to continue to slice jobs and budgets across the board or drop "day one" for their brand new games.
the irony of dreamcast calling other people fanboys when he is the largest playstation shill on the platform.
This relates to Microsoft’s ineptitude and mismanagement of studios how?
Idk to me Xbox has always been the kid in the corner at the school dance while Sony and Nintendo were on the dance floor with all the girls
Yeah, but Xbox has the rich dad...
@@fattiger6957The rich kid who people are nice to so he'll share his money with them lmao
You’re going to have your hands out though when Elder Scrolls 6 is released
@@oldmanretro949 Lol the guys who made Stanfield?
Xbox has always been a troubled kid in the school that always bailed by his rich Parents
Happy birthday Max. Mine was this last Sunday, yes, I was born on Cinco de Mayo, but I’m so old that it wasn’t really a thing until I was like 25. Hope you are having a great birthday and keeeeeeeep dreaming!
Just yesterday i saw a video from LukeStephens about no Redfall DLC yet and today this happens. 😅😅
Bro did you just rip a hot rail before filming this
I just checked out Hi-Fi Rush last night and that game rocks! What Microsoft did was absolutely scummy and they should be ashamed of themselves! Happy B-Day, btw!
They arent losing the IP and absolutely nothing is stopping them from making a sequel.
@@Mathieuacc They are losing all the people who made the first game. Therefore, a sequel at the very least won't be the same.
@@fattiger6957 You don't know that. Most people from Tango are leaving but its also very likely that key employees will be transfered. With the engine already established, and the successbthe first one had, I would be suprised if they wouldn't make a sequel.
@@MathieuaccI wish they would lose the ip. That way the studio had the ability to go independent. This makes me sick that Microsoft buys ip and shuts a studio down that made great games.
@@raven80wolfx2 I agree that Tango closing sucks. I don't think there is a reason to believe that Microsoft would use these IPs poorly in the future.
Didn’t Sony close down their PlayStation studio that made them vr games? 😂
Roundhouse Studios the who made the original Prey gone saddens me. Prey 2006 holds a place in my heart because it was part of my childhood. At least they still can still work games just a different studio.