The Never Ending Decline of Xbox
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Xbox recently shut down multiple game studios and they gave the most horrible reasons for doing so. After shutting down Tango Gameworks, the developers behind Hi-Fi Rush, I have no faith in Xbox's ability to release high-quality titles. This is... The Never-Ending Decline of Xbox.
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___TIME STAMPS___
Introduction - 0:00
Studio Shutdowns - 4:46
What Xbox USED To Be - 6:12
Why Tango Gameworks? - 8:14
Killing the Goose - 11:31
Microsoft’s Side of the Story - 13:08
Learning Nothing (Shutting Down Lionhead) - 17:51
WHY Tango Gameworks Was Shut Down - 19:08
“Hi-Fi Rush Didn’t Make Enough Money” - 22:07
Is Game Pass Unsustainable? - 24:02
“Worlds Most Powerful Console” - 25:08
The Main Point - 29:04
Conclusion - 30:55
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Xbox recently shut down multiple game studios and they gave the most horrible reasons for doing so. After shutting down Tango Gameworks, the developers behind Hi-Fi Rush, I have no faith in Xbox's ability to release high-quality titles. This is... The Never-Ending Decline of Xbox.
Please do a review on Sunset overdrive🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Honestly this is a bad take. If the company isn't making money is Microsoft expected to keep them open eternally? Almost every publisher in the industry is seeing some form of economic downturn, why should Microsoft be held to a greater scrutiny?
Hi-Fi was great but internally it went way over budget that it cut into the profits. Let's be honest here. I'd love for a second one but financially I don't see the incentive.
I love spyware! Try Vivaldi instead, who was the original creator of Opera, no China involved.
I'll just stick with Firefox thanks.
the fact that Tango was shut down for apparently wanting a few years of development for Hi Fi Rush 2 is so sad.
Truly, imagine killing an actual good game, that's a new wild low for them in my opinion.
I don't think that's true. They were shut down because they had no ongoing project, because the key principals had left already, and they would have had to rebuild and staff up again anyway.
The truth is this studio was in trouble long before. Ghostwire Tokyo wasn't a hit either.
Feels like Microsoft cares about quantity over quality games.
really speaks to Microsoft's intentions with purchasing studios...
Hi Fi rush sucked ass. overrated. 0/10 gameplay.
"We acquired Lionhead in 2006 shut it down in 2016, a couple of years later we reflected on that experience"
They reflected on how to do it again.
so true
Either that, OR, they learned nothing...
If Playground flops on Fable 4, Microsoft will have murdered the last of their IP’s that I cared for.
It just felt too good.
@@unrealhaoleFable 4 is already DOA
Pretty poetic that a studio that made a game with themes of corporate greed and overreach gets shut down post said game releasing
Poetic? The term I would've used would be 'foreboding', but sure...
Which game was that?
@@ViperGTS737 Hifi Rush
I don’t think poetic means what you think it does, unless you work for Microsoft that is
I think the word you were looking for was Ironic
"There hasn't been a killer app for the Series X, and if there has, you can play it somewhere else"
What a damning indictment of the Series generation, and mostly for the Xbox One, too.
Yes because they release all their games on PC, if you have a PC there's no reason to buy a xbox
To be fair, that applies to both Xbox and Sony.
The only console that still has actual exclusives is Nintendo, and the Switch can be emulated perfectly.
The PS5 may not have that many exclusive games, but at least it has exclusive games.
Honestly the best thing the Xbox has was that it could do emulation, with relative is on the users end.
@@liammcnicholas918ALL remasters from last gen or 2 generations ago.. to say Sony has exclusives is stretching it.
XBox peaked in high school and is spending it's mid 30's drunk, ranting about how he coulda gone Pro controller.
I just got my Xbox Series L last week, enjoying it so far. I'm thinking about subscribing to Xbox Lame Pass, seems like a good deal, lots of god tier games on there for free on day one.
Nothing wrong with peaking in high school cause some people don’t ever peak at all 😂
“I could throw an Xbox Elite Controller clear over those mountains”
Xbox is Al Bundy?
@@kennypowers1945 most
“Too big to fail” attitude never works out for any company.
Microsoft here be like "let's put that to the test, shall we?"
It worked for the banks
@@BeersAndBeatsPDX Well, banks are pretty important. Xbox, like the majority of companies, isn't.
Works for coke
Funnily enough the tutorial boss in Hi-Fi RUSH is a big corporate robot who's theme is literally called "Too Big to Fail" and he gets his shit rocked by Chai.
This aged beautifully
Playing “Our Best Selves” from RDR2 is very fitting, considering it plays when the gang is in disarray towards the end of the game.
The version he used in the intro is different than the one in the soundtrack, do you know what it’s called?
“Just one more studio”
“There’s always another god damn studio”
LMAOOO
Have some faith 🙏
WE JUST NEED SOME STUDIOS AND SOME GODDAMN FAITH
But you already have plenty of them, especially after all these acquisitions. Maybe if you stopped shutting them down every other week then you'd get the money and respect that you clearly want and could have.
All studios have now gone to tahiti heaven 🙏🏻
Somehow the Red Dead Redemption 2 format you chose for this is a perfect analogy of a once great strong organization spiraling into panic and insanity
Because Xbox is like Dutch.
thanks pardner
Maybe Microsoft was always like this, maybe we just finally seeing the REAL Microsoft.
Why is Red Dead Redemption 2 a masterpiece?, when Actio?
True
This is why Game Devs need a union.
Yes, as all working people.
They don't already??
@@BrendanJSmithnot in the states, no. You'd think so but it hasn't happened yet
I agree completely 😊
You might not be criticizing game pass, but from a developer's perspective at the higher end of performance no amount of game pass subs can adequately substitute game sales
A similar issue affecting Netflix and Spotify. Streams not translating into sufficient pay for studios/musicians/developers, etc.
Phil spencer ain’t cooking
homie threw some uncooked beans on my plate and said "dinners ready"
ong man really said let’s make a cake and use none of the ingredients for it and call it something good
@TheActMan
it's not even beans it's just a single bean.
He tried making cookies but gave us the flower and called it a done
Let’s be real “cooking” isn’t in this man’s vocabulary
Ah, Satoru Iwata. Not only was he a compassionate and charismatic leader, he also was a genius programmer who, among other feats, tested and debugged Super Smash Bros Melee in one week (which was all that he had because the game was due), recompressed Pokémon Golden and Silver so well they could include the Kanto region from Red and Blue in the cartridge, and he single-handedly reprogrammed EarthBound from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project at a time when all seemed lost. Mr. Iwata weighted heavily in Nintendo's long term success in every way conceivable. He was the kind of CEO companies only dream they could have. He is a legend, and he is sorely missed.
Iwata wasn't an executive, he was a game dev who got an executive position. That's why he was the GOAT.
@@Spike2276 in his words:
"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
Truly one of the greatest people in gaming
@@CoolManCoolMan123 That hits deep because those words came through in his actions.
He was taken too soon.
He also told Mr Ito that if he canceled his current build of mother 2, which was half done at the time, to quit everything what you’re doing, and we’ll get this done right within the year. And so, mother 2/Earthbound as we know it was Born.
The entire video game industry has become a toxic relationship between developers and publishers. I don't think I need to tell you which one needs to be dumped.
That's because it's a combination of greedy publishers and talentless and unoriginal developers, mostly due to the fact that talent retention is non-existant, which is why all studios end up, inevitably, turning to shit, because the good devs get replaced by clueless college kids who care more about showing off on social media how they need 10 pills daily to function in real life than doing their job.
@davidstinger1134 In that case, follow the talent themselves that actually proved they're worth a damn. Look for their names, and not a "household" brand like EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard or any other "high-dollar" symbol.
@@davidstinger1134why do you think talent retention is nonexistent?
It always was like that.
The most jarring thing about Xbox is the initial launch would've failed if it wasn't for Halo, turns out good games sell consoles. How Microsoft seemingly forgot this and is currently letting it happen again, is just astonishing.
The thing is the market changed a lot. Most of the money is in mobile ask Apple
how dare them close studios that don't make money. microsoft shouldn't be a charity. gaming needs a proper recession and most of these half-assed mid-game studios can go.
@@sumomaster5585Your comment makes no sense when Nintendo and Playstation exist.
@@80sForever29 right cuz PS wasn't just closing studios and raising alarms about their margins being barely 6% nor does Apple make the most out of gaming of all companies world wide without wasting a single cent on making games 🤷 Fact is mobile is larger than PC/console gaming by a mile
@@sumomaster5585 mobile gaming might be large and all but mobile games are @ss. They'll always be @ss. How good is Apple's attempt of bring Resident evil and death stranding to mobile going ? The only reason why mobile gaming is even alive is because majority of mobile users happily accept brain rot.
I like the Golden Goose analogy. It feels like Xbox doesn't understand that if you let the goose be for a while, it will lay golden eggs and continue to lay golden eggs. Instead what Xbox does is cut the goose open, take the golden egg, discard the carcass, and move on to the next goose.
Yup they're like Kanye asking for answers and we as fans have the answers but they refuse to listen
Nah I’d argue the opposite. They let these companies have too much freedom. I think the studios might have just fucked up
I believe you guys are wrong about the golden goose. If the golden goose was a battle pass system as successful as fortnite yes that's a goose. But the problem is even if games are good they will never make as much money as the trending games now and that's what matters. Alan wake 2 was one of the best game stories ever and rated as such the problem is that the game never made profit. So unless xbox can release a golden goose like fortnite but made by them they will probably never be able to just cook up something good without money in mind
@@slayasloth Then that's on the companies themselves for not reeling in the studios better. There's not giving creative freedom, and there's giving TOO MUCH creative freedom.
@@whiskeyzgaming you're delusional bro you are part of the problem if u want a golden goose battle pass system look at deep rock galactic no monetization just a natural battle pass for free
Microsoft is the equivalent of that girl from Finding Nemo, shaking the fish in the bag and then wondering why it isn't moving.
Banger comparison
Darla?
expect that Microsoft is killing there own Nemo (not selling VIDEO GAMES)
After the Xbox showcase, do you still think Xbox is in decline?
They will not admit it. Sony owns the press
Until, they have shown they can make high quality games, the statement still stands
You can have an awesome trailer for a game, & yet the game still turns out terrible
Two weeks later they held the richest showcase since the new generation of consoles came out
I've started to notice this pattern with Microsoft/Xbox:
-Buy a small but well known Game Studio
-Put all their Games on Game Pass
-Do massive layoffs and cuts
-Close the Studio
Niktek!!!
They're basically killers of studios and jobs. Disgusting.
Probably just cheaper to get all the ips and sell off the carcass than to buy the ips individually, if I had to guess
It's vile fr. They start with the layoffs so the studio can't regroup effectively to start another studio, and only then do they close it.
You noticing this just now 🤦🏻♂️
How do you think MS became the behemoth they are today. Predatory practices.
As someone that worked in corporate America 10 years ago, this feels just like how it always was when it was time for your annual review and raise, "you've excelled in all areas of your position, exceeded productivity on a daily basis, but we see you made 1 minor error 8 months ago and feel you need to be more careful and do better, as such, we won't be giving you a raise this year."
or...you just sucked (so does corporate America mind you...both things can be true). The companies suck, the people suck, it all just sucks
Or "you outperformed every expectation for your role but our annual revenue report showed only 30% profit growth Year Over Year when last year we did 31% better than the previous, therefore you're fired"
Corporatism is what killed America
Y’all are making this shit up 😂
@evials9123 nahh man it's real, though you don't have to believe it
Seeing this AFTER the Xbox Games Showcase last week is crazy!!!
I'm utterly shocked and stunned at just how far Xbox has fallen since the introduction of the Xbox One.
Microtransactions and 'games as a service' is what destroyed this community that once thrived with creativity and imagination, but most importantly, the FUN aspect.
Greed has ruined what we loved.
and maybe we have much further yet to fall!
@@TheActMan Your probably right acting male. It really breaks my heart seeing this company fall when I grew up on games like Halo 3, Halo Reach, Gears of War 3 and Black ops 2 on the Xbox 360 :(
@@ChfHappySack 🤣🤣🤣 so you cant have fun on xbox because of greed?? buddy just play the video game and youd have fun
@@dasilent15 That's an ignorant take. How is Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Odyssey fun if you literally have to pay to skip "side missions", just stretched out garbage so that people buy skins. Or Bethesda making money off of modder's work in Skyrim now. (No wonder there's no TES VI lol.) Then there's games like Halo Infinite that play it so ridiculously safe that they lose all the momentum of a once phenomenal franchise.
Naive people pre-ordering AAA games so that companies can justify putting out hot garbage is just utterly insane behavior. Same kinda people that use your rhetoric.
And yes, I have fun with AC Valhalla. But it's not pure fun like with The Witcher 3. It's "inspite of all its greedy shortcomings, it's good a great amosphere" kinda fun. Not fun that I'm willing to pay full price to, and certainly not where I'd like the gaming industry to be. It's like if there's only McDonald's, no good restaurant anywhere else to be seen. I like my shitty burger once in a while, but I'd rather eat nothing but potatoes than to eat at McDonald's more than once a week. If you like that shit and even feel the need to support it, good for you I guess.
"I grew up with Xbox, and I don't know what it is anymore" a sad truth
Same.
For real same grew up with the OG Xbox and 360 then some where along the way I got a PlayStation instead
@@Thisguy2532were telling them what we want and there covering there ears
Xbox needs to make a console for gamers, including its physical appearance, name and user interface. Such basic elements that they've failed miserably at for 2 generations now.
@@Thisguy2532I still have my OG Xbox 360 and my 3 year old nephew has been playing the drums on guitar hero. He’s the only one that’s using it now every so often.
I remember when Bill Gates and The Rock introduce the first Xbox console. I don’t know what to feel anymore…
Well both are definitely unpopular now.
I saw a comment the other day stating that “Microsoft doesn’t care about Xbox because they basically own the PC market”
PC market actually brings the money rather than an Xbox. It's like PC is brining $1 per hour, and Xbox brings $1 per month.
Sure. Even hackers pay off@@vonnblagaming984
they nerfed msfs to make it work on xbox.
Microsoft is turning into the EA of Shutting down Studios, I saw this and I was like "Oh they shut down Tango Gameworks, so Im never getting another The Evil Within Game ever again, thats just great".
yeah its sad t osee
@TheActMan Do you think we'll see more xbox games come to playstation in the future?
sound fimiliar
@@newuser5851 wha u think
Agreed. It's such a disappointment that we'll never get to see more Evil Within or Prey, or Dishonored. Just as EA killed the studio that made Dead Space, then made a remake of it, then killed it again. It's the same example here. Reminds me to once again appreciate the fact that Larian refused to be bought by any of these big companies, and chose their own way of making a game, without all this corporate bullshit.
What I love is now that Act Man finally played Red Dead 2, he has an obligation to put references to the game in every video.
the quotes are now locked in my mental database
We need your full review of RD2 😢
Rdr2 was a SNOOZEFEST
@@TheActMan We just need MONEH, LOYALTY and an Act Man video on RDR2
@@ragingmcqueenYou have the attention span of a goldfish if that’s what you think lmao
They’ve barely even used Rare as well
Video aged like milk💀
Lmfao
The biggest crime wasn't them shutting down a studio.
The biggest crime was that the first studio in line to get the axe wasn't 343.
I feel like if they did that it would truly be admitting defeating. It would be them announcing loud and clear "We have no idea what the f00k we're doing with gaming."
@@googleisevil8958 The already admitted it with their Hi-Fi Rush tweet, "we need more games like Hi-Fi Rush" after they just closed down that studio
Or Turn10, what the actual fuck did they do to Forza Motorsport? When GT7 released with all of that live service crap they handed T10 an easy W for them to deliver their new game, _"BuIlT fRoM tHe GrOuNd Up"_ they said, and they couldn't even deliver a functional rehash of the old games!
Real
@@googleisevil8958 they still admit that by shutting down tango
Aims at foot. Shoots. "Ouch!" Inspects smoking gun. Ejects magazine. Reloads. Aims at other foot. Shoots. "Why does this keep happening?"
Their biggest flaw was reloading after one shot unless it’s a musket
*inspects by looking directly into the barrel
@@elbolainas4174 Pulls the trigger
Aaaand two weeks after this video drops xbox has one of the greatest showcases of the decade.
"You know, the last year or so in video games, largely the industry's been flat."
Imagine saying that about 2023 (widely regarded as one of the best years for gaming in quite a long time, where several big publishers reported record-breaking sales or profits) and the first half of 2024 (which has seen several massive breakout hits already).
Translation: "Investors in big game companies haven't been seeing the growth and returns that they expected."
@@MonsterDawg79 It's just so weird that "our profits hit record highs" still isn't good enough.
Venture capitalism is ruining everything.
dogshit games the past few years. last notable good game that dropped was Cyberpunk 2077.
@@HarisButt6662169 Objectively speaking, 2023 was the best year on record for a bunch of game companies. No matter whether you liked the games or not, enough other people did to make it an extremely good year for publishers.
I didn't like Diablo IV at all, and a lot of other people didn't either, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the fastest-selling Blizzard game of all time and it made 2023 one of their most profitable years ever.
And it's not the only one. Spider-Man 2 broke sales records in 2023. Helldivers 2 broke sales records in 2024. Baldur's Gate 3 broke records. Valve called 2023 "a landmark year" because Steam broke so many records. Almost every major game release in 2023 was a huge financial success (except maybe Starfield, lol).
18:11 "What makes someone a failure is not the act of failing, but learning nothing from it."
damn that's a really good proverb
Oughta been pinned.
code for microsoft put snniperwolf in charge of game development as a company wide position
They’ve killed their biggest and most successful franchises and have nothing to show for it. So sad how halo and gears of war got done
Exactly; they’re gonna microtranstion them into being boring as fuck
@@MrKinkysloththey already did that with halo for almost 10 years
everyone that Jumped off Infinite, go back and play it now; its actually Fire; it just needs more weapons/vehicles. add in the Halo 2 SMGs as the sole dual wield guns, the Reach Grenade Launcher and the Halo 4 Sticky Detonator and SAW
@@nickm5419 I’m not playing halo until they take microtransactions out of the game
@@gub4941 theyre halfway there, you can work through all 7 or 8 passes off one purchase, for a free game thats not too bad. unfortunately theres still 30$ packs but ya know...
In 2 weeks this video hasn't aged well.
“Yeah the new xbox showcase is gonna save xbox for sure”
This aged well OMEGALUL
I liked your straight A's only to be held back analogy, but I feel like it's more "You got straight A's, so we are going to expell you because you're throwing off the grading curve for the rest of them"
Truuueeeeee
Suffering from suscees. Most F*cling littery 💀
"You got straight A's, but the rich kid sitting next to you got D's, so we're going to have to expel you so the teacher can focus on the rich kid."
No, Act Man's version is more concise and clear. Yours is unnecessarily irritating to read
@@CrispyHulk1 It's literally 1 line's worth of text bozo
As a PS fan, it's sad to see the old rival so messed up. I miss the times when they both busted each other's balls. Healthy competition.
Unfortunately if PS has no competition they will become pretty consumer unfriendly. I’m afraid of a sector where PS is the only high end console seller. Hopefully Nintendo’s next system is closer in spec
@@asawaraithey are already really shitty tbf
PS has their own issues but definitely not close to MS.
It’s definitely the people in power who have no interest in improving their products. Then hit the old surprised Pikachu when shit isn’t performing.
Stop with focusing on microtransactions and live service. And let these studios work, QA is definitely another thing companies need to focus on. Broken on launch should not be a thing
Lol Sony is just as bad
@@asawarai Sony is already consumer unfriendly, everyone else has just become consumer hostile, so they don't look as bad.
The problem is that the people who are making our videogames now, dont like or even play games themselves.
That's not true. The people *in charge* of the developers don't play or like games, like CEOs, but the individual developers do. In fact, you literally have to play your game to make sure it's functional before using the build for playtesting
Wow that's just not even remotely true? Do you think the execs who make decisions on mtx and other bs are the ones developing the games?
@@heksevillehero And that explains why so many games come out completely broken or with game design so bad that it can only be explained as lacking common sense.
But how does one end up making video games, while not even liking/playing video games?!
@@davidstinger1134 They come out in broken states because *the execs rushed the game and forced in nonsense that deliberately breaks the game to push microtransactions.*
That intro is enough deserves a like!
I am so grateful you experienced red dead redemption as a whole.
The fact that they had the balls to go on a press event and claim they really need smaller studios to make more indie titles while also just shutting down 4 indie studios blows my mind.
when it's a corporation, and decisions are made by committee instead of vision, any bad decision is one step/meeting away.
What indie studios did they shut down?
Yea, not hypocritical at all! Lol
Being an old dude, I feel like I am watching a replay of EA's strategy in the late 90's. This is the era when they did things like buy Westwood then sent it straight to the graveyard. They took Origin, a studio that had a few worthwhile IPs like Crusader and Wing Commander, reduced it to "UO only" and now its nothing. Anyone else remember Bullfrog? EA acquired them in 95 and it was dead by 01. Then there was Pandemic; makers of SW: Battlefront. Dead. Mythic had a good run, but one misfire (Dungeon Keeper in 2014), and they were killed off. Thats another thing the Act Man could mention- its not remotely fair for a studio to be executed because they had one miss unless it was some kind of "all in" MMO venture. Not every game is going to 'hit'. When I worked at Microprose, we had several 'misses', but the important part was the hits were big enough to cover them (Civilization, X-Com, ect)
They shut down Black Box, the developer behind the Skate games and the most beloved Need for Speed games during the 2000s, because they couldn't produce successful games anymore. And that was because Black Box was being overworked by EA because they were developing NFS on a yearly basis for every platform along with developing other games like Skate, NBA Homecourt, NHL Hitz etc. Even when the studio has shown that they are capable of producing quality titles they still get laid off and shut down the moment their sales decline.
I can never forgive what EA did to Command and Conquer.
@@kellywilson137 Personally I hate EA for mismanaging the fuck out of System Shock 2's release, causing it to sell a ghastly 60k copies despite it now being a cult classic, then clutching on to the IP and selling it to some no name fuck-off copyright trolling company, which resulted in us getting no new System Shock games until the excellent remake of the 1st game FINALLY came out a few years ago. We could have been getting games like that the whole time. SS is one of the most influential IPs of all time, basically creating the "immersive sim" genre and it's tragic how badly it was handled.
@@kellywilson137 honestly, C&C is probably one of the very few franchises that did well under EA. They made the great Generals series, along with the 3rd installments of the Tiberium and Red Alert series, which were good games. They also got good expansions in Kane's Wrath, Commander's Challenge, and Zero Hour. I never played Tiberium Twilight, but I heard enough about it to know that it's best to pretend it doesn't exist. They came away relatively unscathed compared to everyone else.
@@CrizzyEyes These were great games. I played both.
Splatoon is the perfect example for use when talking about sleeper hits. I have been following it for near a decade and Nintendo has handled the franchise beautifully compared to anything Xbox has done with their IP’s
I used to work for one of the many tech support teams that Microsoft has. There was a bug in the system that was sending us tickets that were not for our department but we were expected to handle them and get them to the right department at a hit to our own metrics. It got bad enough that Microsoft sent a couple of executives to hear our complaints. After hearing management screened feedback and evidence, one of the executives said to us, "Now that we've heard your complaints, we can agree that Microsoft has moved from perfect to perfect." We were all stunned and nothing was fixed... This was 5 years ago now and I see they still haven't changed.
What do you expect from a company that pushes DEI, ESG and uses rainbows during June?
@@captnwinklewhat? Lol rainbows in June?
The glory days of Xbox Live on OG Xbox and 360 will never be topped by Microsoft again
😢
This gen may be the last Xbox gen. They remind me of the Sega except in reverse where when will make only consoles but with no games.
I think gaming consoles in general will die. If you want a 500$ gaming machine, might as well get a handheld PC.
Never again will I be called a punk b*tch by a 12 year old that just killed me on halo 3 🥲 I was also probably 12
@@Dregomz02I could see there being one more Xbox generation when the 10th generation comes, but that might be the last Xbox generation ever. I don’t want Xbox to go third party because competition is good for the industry, and I could see Sony jacking up the price of the next PlayStation by at least $200 when Xbox is fully third party, as well as doing another price hike for their games.
All these comments aged like milk after The xbox showcase. Don't worry they'll throw you guys some bones.
Having spent the last few years working in a corporate structure, coming from a field technician background, I can tell you exactly why this is happening. Bloated, greedy, bureaucracy, with zero accountability. See, what happens in a company that seems to snowball and crush everything in its path is you hire a few people at the top who have the right credentials/recommendations but suck balls at their job. Those people make some really poor decisions which disrupts the cohesion of the company.
But it's just a few bad eggs, right? Wrong. Because those shit bags will piss off a few good guys a level or two lower than them, so they'll leave. Then said shitbags will hire their shit bag friend or cousin to replace them. Those new shitbags will create more disruption down at their level and cause failures, which they'll never actually take responsibility for and will just pass the blame onto something(one) else. This, again, causes good people to leave, which causes further disruption all the way down the chain until suddenly those two or three bad eggs have either ruined or driven away all the good eggs in the company, leaving nothing but a haptic mess in place of what was once a vibrant thriving organization.
The guys with the money dont want to face the problems, that's what they hired all these people for, so they put the pressure on the guys at the top to fix an unfixable problem, which causes them to just lash out and create a hostile stress-filled environment that breeds desperation and misery which obviously seeps into their work. It all spirals out of control once you let the wrong people in to high positions and create a culture that seeks to avoid accountability because they cant handle the responsibility of holding people accountable for their failures and inaction.
It's the spiral of death of a company; some are fast, some are real slow, but once it starts it's almost impossible to stop it.
That's pretty much every structured company nowadays unfortunately.
Yeah I think you pretty much nailed it. I think this ends with Microsoft’s game division just being dissolved.
The truth is painful
@@Lazerbadger2 I fail to see how that’s bad at this point. Honestly, the quicker the better. Every good Microsoft game has been good in spite of Microsoft, not because of it. Yeah, companies will loose their massive budgets but with the strength of digital sales I think a lot of companies can self publish and distribute themselves and be fine. A small budget will mean innovation and new ideas. Sequels are cool to good games but taking ideas and putting them in new IPs is way better. Look at how dark souls led to bloodborne and eventually Elden ring.
how did i never think about xbox vs ps as america vs japan
Gotta love it they just announced Cod will launch on the game pass now
Back in my day, the Xbox was the best way to play games with your friends , and most people played Black Ops 2 Zombies Halo and more
Kids: OK Grandpa
the good ol times, they are never coming back u.u
Black ops 2 zombies? Man you must have been 2 years old that was soooooo long ago
I miss the OG WaW zombies, when me and my little bro unlocked that it blew our mind we had no idea it was a game mode.
That's why everyone says the 360 is their only good console
@@FleshyMammal430cause it was brother 🥲
I really think that Don Mattrick unveiling the Xbox One over 11 years ago as a glorified cable box was an ancient curse that set this slow death in motion.
It's crazy Xbox has been irrelevant for over 10 years now
Thing is no one knows Xbox for being the platform where "you can't play used games" anymore. They know it as the platform that "has no games". They've clearly shaken that curse at this point and if they got some bangers out their reputation wouldn't be in the dumpster anymore.
which is amusing cause technically Xbox One was ahead of its time. Now every game console HAS to be able to Apple TV and Netflix and be able to watch WWE events while having my games download in the background. They just came out too early.
@@Sleepgarden^ this.
The slow death was already in motion before that(Kinect).
With game pass needing numbers, and the 360 store closing. I feel a easy thing they could do is put a bunch of otherwise lost games exclusively on gamepass
Tenchu z would be cool
Solid point, after solid point, after solid point.
Subscribed.
hey that british guy in the intro looks familiar
looks like he enjoys a bit of L O R E
@@TheActMan I ship it
"guy" hmm, that's a weird way of spelling tasteless lobotomite
a bit of F L U D
Hello!
Phil Spencer lived long enough to see himself become the villain.
He was always the villain he just pretended to be on our side.
The community were so desperate they cling to the first sweet words they hear. I don't think he's lived that long to turn to a villain, the skin is just peeling off quicker than expected.
Imagine falling for some corporate talking head guy bullshit and thinkin "he's one of us". No suprise the things turned out as they did.
@@acquiredfilms5400hes xbox best buddy
he is secreatly a sony agent
And now people are back to blindly praising gamepass after the showcase because the internet has the memory of a goldfish
Intro was gold 😂, W video. Just subbed.
Phil Spencer saying "there's nothing more difficult for me than disappointing the Xbox community" is kinda weird seeing how good he is at it.
kinda like a bad person saying they are sad they disappoint other people while actively disappointing them.
😂😂facts
kinda makes more sense, why else would you buy a company like activision or bethesda
And that he and Microsoft have been doing exactly that for the past 20+ years
How has he though? He can't what decisions are made above his head. He literally saved the brand.
The funny thing is, Hi-Fi Rush was already developed by a pretty small team, the prototype was put together by two people, John Johanas (the game's director and creator) and Yuji Nakamura (the lead programmer). When they got the greenlight, the game was developed by whoever was available at the time, since Tango's main focus was Ghostwire: Tokyo and the two games were being developed at the same time. Imagine what we could've gotten if Hi-Fi Rush actually had a dedicated development team and budget, yet they get closed down when they ask for it
So if the majority of the studio was busy failing at making a mid-tier game you think that the entire studio would somehow make a better game? It seems more like there are only a few useful employees at Tango.
@petelupien214 first of all ghostwire isn't really mid at all bro that's just you and Second like wow bro just wow only a few you mean all of the useful people that work for the company that put out decent game with the with effort and care without microtransactions up the ass like most corporations do nowadays like come now You are sounding like how most big companies be doing to there employees where there are good or bad they don't deserve to get shut down and lose their jobs 😑
@@That1Pete I should've added that a lot of the Ghostwire team worked on Hi-Fi Rush, like Shuichi Kobori, who was Hi-Fi's audio director and was working on Ghostwire at the same time. Most people outside of Johanas and Nakamura only worked on the game when they had free time while working on Ghostwire. The main reason the game was successful was because Johanas spent years coming up with a game with a simple and fun premise (that he apparently would often joke about around the Tango office), and Nakamura was able to put together a prototype (that was just the opening mission of the game) and made it easy enough to understand so that anyone who was free could easily pick it up and help out. Not to mention it was a game that everyone in the studio was excited to work on since it allowed them to work on a game in a genre that they weren't used to
@@That1Pete still far better than 80% of games these days
@@That1Pete That 'mid' game is also critically acclaimed by everyone, if it had the whole studio behind i bet even you would like it
I'm baffled by today's gaming industries. These AAA studios are messing up so hard that they are making toddlers look like a freaking genius.
That was a hell of an intro.
Everyone: "FIRE 343!"
Xbox: *Fires literally everyone but 343.*
They did fire 343, when they fired bonnie ross
The cleaned house at 343 and have all new leadership and are/were hiring new people for the next Halo game. They literally did what you wanted so I don't understand this comment. Also 343 makes boatloads of money so until that stops they are staying right where they are regardless of how people think.
they did it took them like 7 years too long but they did
@@POTRG
They shook up the leadership over a year ago now and Infinite still has an overpriced shop and no new vehicles after two and a half years of being "live service". I guess the next game COULD be good, but 343 has failed four major releases in a row now. It's baffling to me that they weren't fired after Halo 5, let alone Infinite launching with four playlists and universal hate.
Everyone: "We meant the specific company, not the number of companies!"
Some months ago, Phil Spencer said, "making great games will not make people buy an Xbox console". That's all you need to hear to know that they have no idea what is important to gamers and to get a good idea where Microsoft is going in the future. Sad times.....
U didnt watch the interview just a snippet. The topic was about digital libraries. Basically no matter what Xbox does it still will NOT change the fact that people will abandoned PS and go to XBOX knowing they got 1000 of digital backlog games invested to PS. All this is, is just fake outrage from ppl who didn't even play hifi rush nor redfall, ya just jumping on the next negative xboz news from these drifters who can careless.
@@ipityplaystationpeasants2305 Yeah, Actman the hardcore Xbox fan who has made thumbnails making Phil look like a God is definitely a grifter who hates Xbox.
@@ipityplaystationpeasants2305and clearly you didn’t watch the video-where he talked about nearly 10 other games in development hell because XBOX literally does not give a single shit about creating new good games, as long as people pay for gamepass. Its completely fucked, it’s ruining the gaming industry, and if you can’t understand that you’re slow
I would literally buy an Xbox if they had amazing games.
Spencers of the same ilk who believes that if you say a lie enough times it becomes the truth.
Love the intro montage!! 😃
You want more bad news, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 had to reduce its scope because of the Xbox Series S. The game is only 25% larger because of this console and especially because of these 10GB of RAM much slower than that of the Series X and PS5.
These words were said by one of the heads of Warhorse Studios.
I found out about this a few days ago and I'm disgusted because it's a game I've been waiting for years and it's my most anticipated game along with GTA6 and Judas from Ken Levine.
"These studio shutdowns, isolated, aren't a big deal. It's when you look at the bigger picture that you understand how bad things are right now for Xbox. And you know, I still love Xbox, but... I've been wanting it to get back on track for over a decade.
You say you hate disappointing Xbox fans. Well you disappointed me, Phil. And I'll continue to root for you guys and hope you do the right thing. And I'm just one guy... but I grew up with Xbox. And I can't tell you what it is anymore." -The Act Man
This was beautiful and hit home. I couldn't have said it better.
🥲
@@TheActMan XBOX NEEDS BUY ALL JAPANESE GAME STUDIOS AND BAN COPYRIGHT IN JAPAN AND ALLOW LOCALIZATION AND STOP WOKE PEOPLE AND FEMINIST
@@ericx6969 Are you okay?
A Idiot how he IS a true Xbox fanboy 😂 learn a lesion for your life, live your own life instead for someone else. WHO Care what you grew Up with, If IT IS shit right now then leave
@@Supernoxusit’s either just trolling or something is very wrong.
"Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?"
"No, sir. "
"Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
-Grand Admiral Thrawn, Star Wars Heir to the Empire
"We're owned by Disney now sir! You no longer exist!"
"...."
"It was so artfully done"
- Xbox bleeding out
@@Thanatos2k Unfortunately Thrawn does exist in Disney Star Wars. He shows up in Rebels and Ashoka, he's ok in Rebels, but horrible in Ashoka.
this also appeared in my head while watching lol
Those novels in the early mid 90s were the real star wars, legitimate science fiction writers given freedom to craft stories, before the dark times before the prequels/disney
Act man have you ever revisted cyberpunk after 2.0 and phanton liberty? It has become my favorite game ever
whos here AFTER the xbox showcase yesterday? this video didn't age well xD
Microsoft wants to be like Valve with Steam without any understanding of why Valve is so wildly successful.
The CEO of Valve is morally sane compared to these people whose brains are so dead they are wired to one perpetual goal: earn more money and profit than last year.
Well Microsoft is currently trying to acquire Steam & Valve for 14 Billion 😳
@@DuecePieceGabe would rather dissolve Valve as a corporate entity than ever sell to Microsoft considering their history.
@@DuecePieceonly 14 billions?
Yeah sure buddy lets see how he goes when he sees 14+ bill infront of his face to take. @davidmalkowski7850
Heaven forbid a company can just make a game and sell it to me and be done. Seemed to work just fine for companies my entire childhood. Nowadays it's like they're trying to min-max every penny they can squeeze out of me but they're legally entitled to a disabled parking spot. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get back to playing Animal Crossing New Leaf on my Nintendo 3DS XL.
Because investors are only at first happy with profit.
But then they want more profit.
Then more.
And if you dare to say you can't just bring in more, they will pull _all_ of their money out and leave you with less than you started with.
The enemy of creativity is not money, it's not profit, it's growth. The second an investor wants a return on his investment that benefits them more than you, that's when the problem starts.
That's why more companies need to go and stay private. Private investors are, more often than not, content with a steady and consistent return on investment. They don't need ever-increasing rates of return, just a consistent and reliable one.
And you get consist and reliable rates of return when you, as a company, consistently and reliably provide a good product and/or service to your customers (i.e., making good games that gamers happily buy). This has to be the core of your business model. Sure, you can add more low-risk ventures on top of it like icing on a cake, but you have to have a strong, sound foundation or you're doomed to fail... and Xbox is failing miserably.
The game industry has changed from what it was during your childhood. The cost of developing a game has gone up and takes longer than before. Meanwhile, the market hasn't grown. Think about it. The PS2 sold 150 million consoles two decades ago, and it's only now that another console, the Switch, is getting near that number. Other than that, the PS3 sold 86 million consoles, the PS4 sold 117 million, and the PS5 is tracking under the PS4 right now. That's not a growing market. In fact, the console market seems to have hit its ceiling almost 20 years ago while the world population has grown from 6.5 billion people in 2005 to 8 billion people now. That means that a lower percentage of people in the world are buying consoles. And that's what investors are looking at. The market isn't growing. That's why publishers are constantly searching for other ways to make money from games, other than sales of games. It's also why Microsoft expanded into the PC space and why Sony is currently expanding to PCs. They're looking for more revenue. And live service games are a part of that; a live service game is a revenue stream.
So, that's why the game industry is the way it is right now. Sony and Microsoft need to find ways to make their big games while bringing down the cost to make those games, because the number of people they can sell to is pretty much fixed right now. Although, that number will likely drop as the world economy drops. That's why investors are worried.
@@EvilParagon4what stock trading does to a mfer. That’s why Valve is insanely successful because they don’t give a f about investors.
@@G360LIVEcosts mainly increased because of bloated overhead and stuff nobody cares about. Development has never been as efficient as it’s now, with incredibly powerful creative software. That’s also why good indie‘s are possible nowadays.
the suit in a video game themed videos thumbnail is hilarious
As a casual gamer I find it hard to understand how deep youre into this shit dude to be this harshly critical
Bro beats rdr2 and now there's a reference every 2 minutes. I love the new Act Man
this
The new act man with those pathetic garbage-tier 4 hour gameplay uploads. No thanks
@@CrispyHulk1sounds like you watched them anyways. What a hypocrite.
@@CrispyHulk1 Oh God, a content creator that doesn't crank the unhinged crackhead-like personality meter to 100 and just acts like a normal person instead, what a crime.
@@CrispyHulk1 I would say it's quite a nice change as instead of Him playing the games alone He now plays them in front of an audience killing two birds with one stone: content for viewers and His own time experiencing the game so he can use it to make references later in his videos and play the game for a potential later video about it. Also He still seems quite consistent on His upload schedule even still.
10:10 You see, it's not that the gaming industry isn't growing, it's that Microsoft dumps acid on the plants the grow right as they start to bloom.
Microsoft got what Plants crave. It got electrolytes.
Same with helldivers
Still locked 144 countries out of the game
And it Shows
Major orders are lost en Masse
Like we lost 4 doable Orders in a row bc the "nightshift" Is gone
@@R-XI_Sulla 😢
That, and they give absurdly high budgets that will never financially recoup unless they're a slam dunk like Baldur's Gate 3. History has shown time and time again limitations promote creativity.
I’ve been an Xbox guy since forever. The original Xbox. And for the first time in my life, I’m actually wishing I had a PS5. I think I’ll be switching next console. Starfield was the final straw, it was so incredibly disappointing.
My first time in video game CZcams and I come across this dude. This was a great video
The guy in charge is named MATT BOOTY!!??? That says everything i need to know
yup. he's an ass.
He only wants dat booty 🍑🍑🏴☠️🪙🏴☠️
Goofy ass guy with a goofy ass name.
No wonder everything is so ass
Always remember Iwata. He wasn't some small indie developer. He was the President and CEO of fucking Nintendo, and he was based.
Truly the GOAT. Even though nintendo can be lil shits they really care about theyre craft. RIP Iwata
The day Nintendo forgets Iwata will be the day gaming dies.
The majin-buu comparison is so apt and adds a good bit of levity to such a daur topic.
I'm feeling really sorry for Arkane Austin. They were forced to do something out of their usual and everyone laughed at their failure. While the Businessmen and officials responsible for this failure remained unchanged, the poor employees are suffering now. I loved all the games they made previously, especially Prey 2017, it is easily one of the best games I have ever played. I really hope Act Man would review the game.
This is why monopolies are illegal,
But of course the courts ignore this.
Most of the teeth in anti trust law got taken out a while ago
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@@fireballs7346?
@@fireballs7346?
@@fireballs7346 lol
Ayee lol!! 😂 Some of my viewers mentioned to me you put me in your video. Appreciate it Act Man 👊I know as a fellow Halo fan (or maybe Ex fan at this point) we've seen the DARKEST of dark days for Xbox. Don't know what it's gonna take at this point for them as a brand to get back to their glory days. It's getting pathetic at this point. Great video bruh
Glad you enjoyed it! I liked your video too
GAMER!!!
HOLY FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@TheColdTomato THIS SUCKA INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DA GAMER
This has aged well lmfao
Ikr 😂
I've never seen a game company do everything possible except make games. Instead of betting on themselves, they would rather spend $ 69 billion to buy companies that make games. That's enough money to develop 250+ AAA budget titles.
I’m more of a PlayStation guy but man this is so dumb. What’s funny is the fact they tweeted out”we need more smaller games like hi-fu rush” when they literally closed the studio 😂
That's the thing: you don't have to be an Xbox fan to find this infuriating. Closing studios like Tango not only robs Xbox fans, it also robs the fans of other consoles of franchises like Hi-Fi Rush, The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo. The people at Microsoft responsible for this should all be fired, but not before being told just how detested they are by the entire gaming community.
Maybe because the employees were moved to the other Microsoft studios and there was no reason to maintain it? LOL
They want a similar game like Hi Fi rush without paying a studios proper salary, why do you think halo infinite was made with mostly contractors? They are money hoarders and are penny pinching to the maximum
@@RenanMendes-zd8hju sure their employees are just moved to another studio of them? And what's the huge complication for in the first place that warrants shutting down the studio anyway? Huge bad press and IPs discontinued from all this even if employees are moved to another studio
@@RenanMendes-zd8hjThe studio tweeted that this wasn't true. They all fired bruh....
Bro pulled a Crowbcat intro on us. And it was glorious.
nice comparison, you called it perfectly
The Series X / S disparity headache is why I pray to my Gods that Nintendo don't listen to people who say that there should be a 'docked only' version of their next console that is more powerful.
that was a great intro, very impactful.
How Phil keeps getting promoted is beyond me…
He should get promoted as the CEO of janitor team.
Somebody who's willing to be the Fall Guy every single time is a great way to fail upwards at a mega corporation
He should be promoted some more. That'll surely fix Xbox
Look at every giant corp in America they almost all function the same. Workers get shafted, ceos get all the money.
@@rickybobbyracingI think you mean "succeed downwards".
Valve: buys company, does nothing with it
Xbox: buys company, kills it
Nintendo: doesn't buy company, kills fan company instead
EA is a lot worse
You forgot Sony: Prevents 177 countries from buying their games.
Valve: hanging onto IP's for later use.
Xbox: only cares about profit, ignored the customers, paid the price
Nintendo: competed in a capitalist market and won
@@RavenGamingOverLord If you dont know then dont Talk, ea IS doi t nothing anymore and they Support small Studios already 😮 meanwhile they ait there and Just get Money Out of ther products they have right now and nothing in the Horizon for them but atleast they do Not buy Studios anymore and kill them, Microsoft IS doing the Same what ea was doing Back then and instead of Killing the CEO payments in Activision Blizzard or Bethesda, they Close good talented Studios 😂 was Always the Problem and will never Change
Close second to EA is ubisoft
I swear every new video you make just further proves the point of you “Triple A Games Are Getting Worse Video”
Xbox not advertising Hellblade is super funny when Sony was promoting the shit out of Stellar Peak and it's not even from a core studio
Bro, the fact that your run of RDR2 impacted you so hard that now it's a part of your editorial line, I fucking love it.
Keep on keeping on !
Hey man, the tip of your nose has a brown smudge in it
😂@@RepugnanciaDulzona
@@RepugnanciaDulzona What Does This Mean!
@@Jeff_Bidenan expression to insinuate that the commenter is kissing ass
@@Jeff_BidenIt means "brown nosing"
Wait…was the original console called the Xbox because it used DirectX? If so, then I learned something today
yup. original name was going to be the DirectX box. glad they didn't go with that.
Bro we’re are the videos? 😭
We are are the videos?
Yo Craig, where have u been? Missing your content, mate. Been a subscriber since the reviewing Splinter Cell vid. Damn that's actually 5 years already 🥲.
We need to save Xbox
It's easy business. They just sold shares when they were building it up to be extremely reputable and now ruining the company in-order to buy them back for less (so they get to profit the difference). Then they repeat this tactic for the ultimate infinite money glitch.