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The DEATH of Xbox is Here & Microsoft Killed It
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- Microsoft has shown a vast level of incompetence recently with shutting down successful studios like Hi-Fi Rush's Tango Gameworks, but now even Xbox founders are saying the brand is dead.
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Its still foul for them to say "We need games like Hi-Fi Rush" the day after announcing they are shutting down the studio
They really said that? Damn that's diabolical
@@darknesswave100 To make it worse, the director of hi-fi rush retweeted it with an image of Peppermint giving a blank stare.
Probably it was not their decisión and he was calling out higher ups
@@007GoldenLion no it was a higher up that said that.
Month after the press of xbox was posting positive about tango to
There are very few things less classy then shutting down a Japanese company right after Golden Week! Congratulations, Microsoft! And that's just the tip of the iceberg in this situation.
Xbox and Microsoft are absolutely clueless and moronic.
I think the lack of marketing for hellblade 2 is incredibly strange and also worrisome
They don't have time to promote games, they need to prepare for pride month.
@@kpsk8031 That's a very weird thing to say.
@@kpsk8031you definitely have an agenda
@@kpsk8031 Wait, what?!
its obvious because they are planning to close it down soon so dont want to waste marketing for it
"Its all about our long term commitment"
So you shut down a studio that made a fantastic game in Hi Fi Rush? Thats literally the opposite of long term commitment 😂
It’s what corporations do, lie, lie and lie some more
@ShotgunWizard for real you could tell that lady who didn't even bother answering the question was fumbling and lying through her teeth
I work in PR and I can say there’s no shot they sent her out there without proper preparation to address every single one of those questions - but sometimes execs think they know better and like to go off script.
Xbox leadership is so out of touch. They have no idea what they’re doing.
They never knew. The sports e3 event basically signaled that. It's always been that way. Out of touch. US companies like M$ and Google got no clue.
Lol spoken like a true politician. Basically didn't answer the question
Basically spoke without saying anything
This is the same company who a year ago we found out wanted to take over the board and buy Nintendo. Good riddance.
"we".............. the vast majority was against the ABK purchase because they already predicted this sh1t, the fanboys think that Microsoft can just buy everything without consequences and THAT IS THE RESULT
Microsoft: Hey, I have Idea. Lets spend billions and millions of dollars on game studios . . . so we can later on destroy them😎
Common Sense: I'm in a coma.
Microsoft CEO: vaccines make me more money.
To be fair, I'm sure some of these studios would collapse regardless. Why else would they sell off to Microsoft. Activision/Blizzard was doing pretty poorly and only being held up by King. Bethesda was too focused on having all their studios do live service games even if they have no experience.
The thing is I remember telling someone 3 years ago about how Microsoft bought Nokia and then destroy it but noo everyone claim I was wrong I told them we will comeback yo the argument 3 years fto. Now and here we are
Xbox should have just returned to the 360 philosophy. You know the one that always seems to work. Seems to work for PS2, for Switch, for PS4 etc. Games games games.
All these fancy tricks trying to win the ‘console war’ and beating everyone else is shooting them in the foot. No one cares about the platform media service with Xbox One. And no one cares about Game Pass except for the cheap shit it gives them temporary.
Games is where its at. Everyone owns a PC, Switch, PS5 or a combination of some of those. Why is that?
Right, "cheap shit".
The SAME cheap shit INCLUDES hit 360 games.
You know, that thing you PRETEND is important.
gAmeZ GaMe$ GAMES, right?!
Obviously that bs 360 philosophy does NOT include "red ring of death". 🤨
Literally what is needed is the ORIGINAL Xbox "philosophy" 🙄, you know, the thing only the FOUNDERS of Xbox would know...as mentioned.in.the.video.
(Disclaimer: the Xbox founders were mentioned in the video, not that elephant $hit about PHILOSOPHY)
Edit) "cheap shit it gives THEM temporary", you probably don't even HAVE Game Pass or know anything about it.
Game Pass has games that go all the way back to the original Xbox.
Your comment got over ten likes, SO overated. 👉💩🤡
Edit 2) projector projecting "Everyone owns a PC, Switch, PS5", like you do right?
There's Xbox PC Game Pass, I don't even have a PC and yet I know about it.😒
Right, "cheap shit".
The SAME "cs" INCLUDES hit 360 games.
You know, the thing you PRETEND is important.
gAmeZ, gaMe$, GAMES, right?!
Obviously that bs 360 game philosophy does NOT include "red ring of death".
Literally what is needed is the ORIGINAL Xbox "philosophy" you know the thing only the FOUNDERS of Xbox would know...as . mentioned . in . the . video.
(Disclaimer: the Xbox founders were mentioned in the video not that elephant feces about PHILOSOPHY)
"Cheap s it gives THEM temporary", you don't even HAVE Game Pass or know anything about it.
Game Pass has games that go all the way back to the original Xbox.
Cheap SH!T
Projector projecting about EVERYONE owning PC, Switch and PS5 or a combo of both.
Like you do right?
I don't even have a PC and know that Xbox Game Pass is on it.
20 likes, SO overrated.
After Xbox One, we saw where MS wanted to take things. They wanted the console be the center of home entertainment and do, more or less, everything. It wasn't enough to just be a game console and appeal to gamers. They wanted to attract the mainstream consumer like the PS2 did with the DVD player.
@@kgjung2310 Exactly, they got greedy and cocky and forgot what they were when they were succesfull.
@@RangerZero47 And thats a fine strategy. But if it doesn't work you're standing there with nothing. So far their output is abysmal and devs don't like the idea of working on a new game for years and then giving it away for free. Only indie developers kinda sorta like that.
I kinda feel like American companies are just bad at games lately
They have lost their mojo
not fair that people bad at their job get to keep their job while the talented people don't
They got Sarah out there on that "My dog stepped on a bee" type energy.
Crazy how one single E3 from 11 years ago lead directly on the death of the Xbox brand today
???
@@johnmacleod7656probably talking about Xbox One announcement
It’s honestly sad. The 360 was such a great console and if they had just kept their focus on quality games and interesting new/prev existing IPs we would be in a much different place today. It makes me worried that if Xbox goes the way of SEGA, Sony and Nintendo won’t have as much reason to innovate.
I could literally feel how uncomfortable she was with the question by just looking at her body language.
It's because she has to lie.
@@sean7221 Agreed. She was definitely trying to come up with a response... and failing the entire time. Awkwaaaard
Hi-fi rush was the one and only reason why I even considered getting a xbox I knew Hi-fi rush was too good for an xbox game 🤦🏾♂️
Hi fi Rush is on playstation too
@@MarcosPereira-gi8gn I was talking abt when it was an exclusive lol😅
The studio got fired right after completing the PS5 version, too. MS is a disgrace.
Shinji mikami left a while before they shut down tango also, he saw the writing on the wall.
Tbf he said he's wanted to leave for 8 years, but he felt a sense of responsibility for the ongoing projects he had set up.
I think it was likely half way through evil within 2 as he is always saying he wants to move away from survival horror.
She clearly doesnt believe in anything she said.
"a....variety of.....(use big words use big words) factooooooors (nailed it - they won't be able to comprehend now)"
You know, the whole XBOX debacle kinda reminds me of the downfall of Sega as a console manufacturer in the 90's and early 2000's.
Sega's downfall was very quick. The same thing would have happened to Xbox had they not had the backing of a trillion dollar company.
@@fattiger6957 Oh, true, but it also came from their own stupidity. Like releasing the 32X directly around the same time they released the Saturn.
Also: I suspect that Ninja Theory will be shuttered in the near future.
Based on what I've heard, Xbox is giving Hellblade 2 practically zero promotion. Seems like Xbox is setting the game up to fail, then use it as the excuse for closing the studio.
Please don’t say that 😭
I mean ninja theory should of been shut down after that God awful dmc reboot
I remember when my cousin told me that one day Xbox was going to outperform Sony and here we are 😂
9:35 Pretty much. Something similar happened with Sonic 06’s development when Yuji Naka left Sonic Team a year before the game released.
At this point Phil Spencer may very well be worse than Don Matrick
Don Mattrick had a clear vision, that Xbox would be the primary source of entertainment in every household. You can say whatever you about how he hoped to achieve that, but you can't deny that he wanted to sell an Xbox to everyone. Spencer couldn't care less if you do buy an Xbox. He pushed the brand towards peddling an unsustainable subscription service.
@@Penance2277don mattrick's vision is what got xbox in this position in the first place
@@simonjeremy1776 nope it's how they conducted themselves that was the nail in the coffin. The strategy is literally the same, it's just that Phil spencer took the honeypot approach and wasted 10 long years of your time in the process.
Don Mattrick was straight up and Phil is a weasel. I'll take the dude that talks straight anyday.
When my Xbox one died a couple of years ago, I canceled Gamepass and bought a PS5. Stuff like this makes me happy I did. I refuse to give M$ anymore of my money.
You traded a douche for a turd
PS may not be perfect on all fronts but you gotta hand it to them, they care about quality, pushing boundaries and actually nurturing their studios.
@shalindelta7 yeah I've always been a playstation guy but they defintely aren't perfect. Course when Microsoft sets the bar as low as they do anything by comparison is gonna look better
Microsoft thought that they could pay to win just because they have money. Not in this game, thankfully.
They could've if they had proper oversight of the new studios they got that were part of publishers that were having big issues and replaced the problem bosses that caused the problems.
Just more proof that you can't solve a problem just by throwing money at it without a solid plan and competent leadership.
Never put new games into game pass.
The only studios that do are smaller ones who want a quick payday. There's a reason every AAA publisher waited a couple years before they took that Game Pass check.
Xbox has been mid since the glory days of Halo and Gears anyway so not surprised i feel bad for the loyal Xbox gamers but PlayStation will welcome them with open arms😅
Even if they go to PC or Nintendo, I am happy for them to get out of that toxic relationship with Xbox (who cultivated and encouraged a manipulative, parasocial relationship with their players for years)
I really liked the Xbox 360 although I never played many of their first party games. For the sake of competition and innovation in the industry though, I hope they don’t crumble, or hopefully another competitor arises out of nowhere (unlikely imo.)
They really did Tango Gameworks dirty, I was hoping for Evil Within 3, that 14th anniversary celebration really hit harder.
As a sony/nintendo only player.... Let microsoft do the stuff theyre doing. Its microsoft, they will bounce back. Look at how bad both sony and nintendo have had failures before. Itll work out
Of course Microsoft will be fine. They are a trillion dollar company. The fate of the Xbox division is what's in question here. I'm pretty certain their days as a console maker is coming to an end. I'm sure MS will keep them around as a games publisher, whether they retain the Xbox name or just call it Microsoft Games.
It's a shame that these studios are gone and the top of the companies don't care at Microsoft and SEGA (for context on SEGA, SEGA disbanded the Hatsune Miku Project Diva development team and i'm still reeling on that one, all they've done is release Project Diva Arcade on consoles since 2017 in Europe) why is it that even when they make great games, it is not enough, i hate the modern game industry, games are getting too high budget right now, it's not sustainable
Games don't need to be expensive. The current mid-budget AA games look and play as well as the AAA games from not that long ago.
Not saying there is no place for big-budget AAA games, but publishers should diversify their games with more smaller budget games they can make in a reasonable amount of time. Despite all the issues I have with Square-Enix, they do develop a lot of smaller budget games (like Live-A-Live, Star Ocean, the recent Valkyrie Profile game, the Bravely series, etc)
Would love to hear more gaming news outside your typical content like this. Really enjoy your takes!
Good to hear! Was experimenting with this, didn’t know how it would be received.
At the beginning i thought Sarah Bond was good but that lasted 6 months. They hired because she is black end of story.
Coming from a black man I agree
They hired her because she fits right it with Phil and Matt, their only concern is the satisfaction of their shareholders and lining up their personal pockets.
Meanwhile Apple is pro emulation :-)
This is called "Enshitification" and every large platform seems to be going through this cycle: Start out making it valuable for consumers (ie. almost free games), and consumers will flock to the service. Companies will then hop on to take advantage of the large market and it works well for everyone. Eventually the consumers will become dependent on the platform and not want to leave. From there, creators will also be pressured to rely on the platform to market their product, also becoming dependent. That's when the platform owner starts tightening the screws. The consumers and creators are both captured, so the owner starts extracting more money out of them while offering worse services: Tiered subscriptions, hidden fees, more ads, fewer promotions, the list goes on.
Here's my conjecture: first of all, Microsoft, long ago, abandoned the whole "console wars" thing. They had made that decision even before releasing the Xbox Series X/S. Their focus is squarely on live services and the whole "games as a service" (GaaS) model to generate perpetuating growth income (honestly, the stock market expectation of never ending exponential growth is an unsustainable prospect that will lead to self-destruction, but that is a rant for another day). It would not surprise me that buying and killing studios is a means of methodically eliminating future competition in the form of alternatives to live services and GaaS. Essentially, such maneuvers are a business investment to ensure that they have the only game development capacity and capability in existence, and that capacity and capability is dedicated, entirely, to the development of Microsoft owned live-services and GaaS-based games. Don’t be surprised to one day find Gamepass existing even on PlayStation.
There's really only one thing that can ever stop all this nonsense, and it's the one power that gamers, as consumers, have always had, even if they have often failed to exercise it. JUST STOP BUYING IT! These companies chase money; it's the only thing they know and understand. A company hears and understands PRECISELY TWO SOUNDS, the creak of your wallet opening and the slap of your wallet closing. ALL OTHER sounds ARE NOISE to be ignored.
I always did agree with what Jim Ryan said before when he said that Game Pass doesn't make sense for them and is unsustainable.
It was blaringly obvious to anyone who even had a basic understanding on how the video game business works that Game Pass was never going to work. But the Saint Phil manipulated the fanboys into attacking everyone who disagreed with him. Remember a few years ago when they were all regurgitating the buzzword Phil fed to them, "pro-consumer"?
You gotta be no less than a trillion dollar company to sustain a loss of that magnitude. And even they need to bring out the axe when push comes to a little more push.
Look at her eyes as she "answers" the question.
Looking up and away, excessive blinking, giving generic long form ambiguous responses not really answering the question.
All signs of a LIER!
You forgot another DOWNFALL Microsoft is doing. Jez corden says they want to port ALL 1st party games to Playstation. And I'm willing to believe that to. The Head of Microsoft said last June that he has NO LOVE for exclusive games, and the company is ALSO pushing for a NO Red Line in what games to port to PS5. Basically ANYTHING goes.
Also l find something else HILARIOUS to. Xbots don't want to buy their games and want everything to be on GamePass day1 so they could play it for FREE. But then if they port games to PS5 to try and make some money they start crying their eyes out about it, but they NEVER even supported those games in the first place lmao
Good, I've hated XBox for years, im not a Sony bro or Nintendo fanboy or even PC elitist, i just want good games at reasonable prices.
I'm worried about Double Fine now.
Same here. Also fearing for Obsidian, Inexile, Ninja Theory, heck even Id Software might not be safe.
Hi-Fi Rush 2 T_T I hope we get some sort of spiritual successor though
NSP nuclear mode is really the feedback MS needs right now
Oh god, now I'm worried about Rare.
Simple solution give Rare back to Nintendo!
@@RetrodudeG Knowing Microsoft, that's not going to happen anytime soon. Unless Rare does what Toys for Bob did and go independent.
RIP Xbox. In regards to competition for Sony, there's still computer gaming out there...?
Sony doesn't consider PC a true competitor since they release their games to Steam. Console gaming tends to be geared towards casuals who want a simpler, plug and play experience. PC gaming requires more setup and fiddling with settings than the average person would probably be into.
Ah yes because Nintendo apparently doesn't exist. And please spare me with the "they a different market blah blah". Last time I checked they both make and sell gaming hardware and software
Good thing Sony and Nintendo will be forever competitors. They can't fuse or absorb each other due to anti-monopoly laws
@@joed5150 Well, they are a different market blah blah - not gonna spare you because it's 100% true.
@@fattiger6957 Ah, well then, I guess no competition for Sony then.
That tweet bragging about 3 million players for HiFi was trying to be a flex but those not being real sales totally doomed Tango. It's unforgivable Microsoft killed off Tango because they were not a super profitable studio.
I don't think Hi-Fi Rush met the success long term. If it met metrics, then they would have kept the studio. A good game does not guarantee sales and sales is the only thing that matters to a business. I know it's an obvious statement but I feel like people just keep forgetting. We may all love Hi-Fi Rush, but for Microsoft, it did not make the profit they were looking for. This is a multi trillion dollar company, just making profit is not enough, the profit itself needs to be up to MS standards.
I’m sure that march event was more or less a publicity stunt for investors. If investors sell due to hearing Xbox not doing well then that would only cascade a fall for MSFT.
Microsoft will be fine if they lose Xbox. They can resell Activision, what's left of Bethesda and swallow the other losses. MS is a multi-trillion dollar company. Xbox is lucky to bring in $15B in revenue (not profit) a year.
At this rate, Vert is gonna die for real in the next Neptunia game.
Nuuuuuuuuuuu
At least Blanc won't have to envy her anymore.
This Bond girl is completely clueless.
She reminds of that woman who said "they are not loot boxes, they are surprise mechanics"
Worst Bond girl ever.
The acquisition of Tango Gameworks was "supposed" to be Microsoft's way of establishing a foothold in the Japanese market and saying... Yes We want JRPGs on their consoles. An actual Japanese company developing Japanese Games... And Microsoft closed them. They sent a message loud and clear that They don't. Its heartbreaking and a Middle finger to Eastern Game Development companies and Microsoft's own player base and their "Ecosystem." Sure Microsoft will have Deals with companies from Japan, China, Korea... But no company will want to be bought by them. Hell... If it happened to Tango Gameworks... It could easily happen to Square Einix... Not that Square would ever allow Microsoft to buy them now...
Hopefully Square Enix doesn't sell to them... The Night Sky Prince ... Would rally the fan base to buy it and turn it into a protected company... Owned by the player .. making games for the player on every platform, console and pc😂
Xbox is DEAD. Only PlayStation and Nintendo remain. Its time for a Sega Redemption arc in the console market if you ask me.
As soon as heard that "ya know ..." I knew that we weren't getting a straight answer. And it's unfortunate because she was just recently made CEO, so that makes her the face of all the BS that a board of directors does.
That was such a politicians answer, “I’m going to answer that question…by not answering the question”
It's crazy to see that even all the Xbox fan accounts on Twitter are against them. The worst possible timeline for them.
Sony fumbled out the gate with the $599 pricetag for the PS3. It was a doozy at launch and hurt Sony for a few years until 2009 when Killzone 2, inFamous, and Uncharted 2 sold systems. The latter detail added would be the $299 price tag. It took Sony till E3 2013 to completely change everything. All it took was Microsoft trying to force people to go with shoddy DRM practices and only able to use the game and share it with 10 people and the pricetag that changed the gaming industry on its head "$399, and you can keep and share your games, sell it,or keep it forever."
That E3 Sony nuked TF outta Xbox and hilariously humiliated the Microsoft company only to have Phil Spencer reverse the DRM decision 10 days later.
I can perfectly describe this situation with that one scene from Goop Videos' Despicable Me YTP: "Way to go, Microsoft!"
Hypocritical of them to tell the world "We need more games like Hi-Fi Rush" after shutting down Tango Gameworks. It's like burning down a building via arson, and blaming the businessman from a nearby office for the damage, despite him doing nothing wrong. 🤦♀️
Now I'm concerned for the future of Rare and Activision-Blizzard...
M$ is literally psyduck. all that goes on it its head is: *???????*
I like the way Playstation handles subscription (except the recent price increase) releasing older games that are no longer making alot of money and small indie games at release that boost the company and "sales" of that game (stray)
NSP in this video: "Lol, fuck this."
I'm not surprised in the slightest that this is happening.
For game pass, why don't they get rid of day one release on game pass and put them on game pass after a few months. That way the studios still make their money and then its available on game pass. I think the most promising thing about game pass is the library of games that it has. I think getting rid of day one releases on it won't affect numbers that much and gets rid of the chance of new releases not doing well financially because game pass sucked it all up.
Only way I can see them gaining atleast a small percentage of trust back here is if they walk back the studio closures, but I don't think they care enough to do that.
Hi-Fi Rush was my favorite game of last year. Yes, I know, Baldur's Gate 3. But HFR was something very, very special. It gave me faith in microsoft and their acquisitions.
Nope. Gone.
This proves I’m not a big Xbox fan not saying Sony are the best company to go for either cause Sony PlayStation also have done some scummy stuff too nobody can deny that:/ I mean honestly guys shoot for PC gaming if you want to continue video games that’s all I’m saying
Microsoft: omg this awful disease called "Success" is making me look good UUUUUUUUUURGGGGGHH
This also applies to alot of companies.
Thank god for tons of Indie devs around the world.
These people legitimately don't give a shit about video games. Western gaming has fallen.
All that's left is indie games, select Japanese developers, and budding Korean studios.
Everything that goes mainstream ends up a soulless turd in the end.
I stopped having any expectations in Xbox when they canceled Scalebound.
Plus years of no ports for games like Lost Odyssey.
This is just what Microsoft does. They buy studios that have loads of potential or solid reputations and squander that potential or kill them off at bizzare times. They are the Fox network of the gaming industry
I think blaming hi fi rush to not have micro transactions farm and make redfall a failure not even arkane fault(that's not why they shutdown arkane, but still), doing a very poor job on making their games x box console exclusive, not separating more of their games from gamepass, putting good games on gamepass and buying studios for 43 BILLION dollars. It should not conclude on shutting them down and only make games that are micro transactions farms like fallout 76 and cod like they say.
In my opinion, i never spent a dime on in-game currencies and I'd rather play single player games. Its more refreshing than playing the same game multiple times.
69 billion
Call me whatever you want i don't care, but sony literally did the exact same thing months ago. Is it the end for them to or do we just make excuses again?
The Microsoft Rep trying to fill the void with an empty response. They just don't want to say its helps them because it precarize devs, so that they don't ask more.
This is all so disgusting. I'm just really sorry for all the talented and hard working people that lost their jobs literally by no fault of their own.
This is honestly what happens when you put people in high profile positions who obviously do not know what they’re doing.
You can clearly tell that this woman is not qualified for her job just by hearing her speak. But I’m willing to bet that she was hired based on her skin color and gender in order to meet a DEI quota and not based on experience or qualifications.
So here we are.
That response reminds me of the movie with Jim Carrey where they set him up to be the fall guy after his company fires a lot of people.
Imagine failing after buying Activision lol
If Microsoft decides to go the way of Sega and go all in as a 3rd party publisher, then I think another company needs to throw their hat in the ring as a third console maker. It can't just be only Nintendo and Sony. Personally, I wouldn't mind Apple, but all of their products are really expensive - on second thought maybe not.
It would need to be a massive company like Apple or Samsung. It now takes billions to R&D, market and release a console. Not to mention enough staff to support an ecosystem as well as make deals with developers and publishers.
That's why it was ridiculous that anyone thought Ouya or (modern) Atari could compete with the big three. Even Google messed up their gaming venture.
Great video as always NSP!!
This is just my personal opinion... but I believe most "average" gamers would be better off not as games pass subscribers. Like I get everybody says it's a great value for the consumer, but I'm just not certain that's true for most people. Sometimes it's easy to forget that most people don't have as big of an interest in a huge variety of games that people in the "youtube sphere" would. Most people don't buy/play enough games to make it worth it. Furthermore, not every game you're going to want to play is going to be on games pass (although for a while it seemed like that was Microsoft's goal). When you start thinking about how many people love free to play games and the ability to buy many games on huge sales throughout the year, I just think games pass loses a ton of its supposed value. As with all subscription services, it's easy to forget to how much it adds up to on a yearly basis. I do consider myself a pretty hardcore gamer (PC, PS5, Switch) so maybe I'm too overloaded as a working adult to take advantage of the games pass value but that's just my random thoughts!
Sony is shooting itself in the foot with the Helldivers 2 situation and the requirement for PSN account to play or even buy their games on PC. Honestly, a crash is coming.
I wonder what the bar is for Microsoft to consider a studio successful enough to keep going.
Also, here's my theory as to why they shuttered those studios: Activision and Game Pass. More specifically, the combination of spending THAT much money on not only acquiring Actibision Blizzard, but also the legal fees that surrounded that purchase, AND the cost of maintaining Game Pass, must have drained the finances so much that Microsoft noticed.
What I mean by that is that before all these shenanigans, the Xbox branch was... profitable. Not enormously so compared to the rest of the company, but it wasn't losing that much money either, so it was left alone. But now that they spent an ungodly amount of money acquiring studios, ESPECIALLY Activision, the proverbial Eye of Sauron is on their asses, because now they have cost so much money at Microsoft that they need to make up for it, and make up fast. So, sure, for the Xbox branch, Hi Fi Rush was a success, but if you think about just how much money they have to recuperate from that buyout spree they had... it may just be that it was never going to be enough.... for Microsoft. Not just the Xbox branch.
Be that as it may though, it still doesn't excuse anything. If anything, they fucked up when they decided to purchase those studios, thinking that name recognition alone would grant them success. A combination of horrible marketing decisions (Game Pass. Again), subpar games (Redfall, arguably Starfield, among others), and the fact that they probably would need to break record sales after record sales to recoup on the buyout spree means that they put themselves in a lose-lose situation, which means the studios lose, not the execs.
Tango games were even going to PITCH a SEQUEL as well...
We were so fucking CLOSE... I had hopes for this! When it came to PS5, I had hopes that this game would reach more markets!
Now Microsoft killed all that hope.
I haven’t had an Xbox since the original, and I continually feel like I’m not missing anything from Bill Gates’s money funnel.
I didn’t get to play Hi-Fi Rush until it recently dropped on PS5, and absolutely loved the game top to bottom. If Microsoft doesn’t appreciate Tango, maybe they’ll find their way over as a Sony collaborative studio.
This is quite a disturbing time for the video game industry right now. I’m still looking forward to hellblade 2 despite all odds and I hope it does well. I really enjoyed the first game, but it’s just not looking good for Xbox at all.
70 dollar games for low monthly crap. So it never covers it's cost, small brain idea guys.
Tango completed work on the PS5 version of Hi Fi only to get immediately fired. What a disgrace. MS is the worst thing to happen to games. I can't wait for them to fail completely and go away to sell Excel or whatever.
Remember when Frosk said PlayStation was doomed, and that Xbox was going to dominate the market before she attacked the fans ? Pepperidge Farm remembers. 😂
How they handled tango right after golden week no less just means more japanese studios will be more arms length when it comes to xbox lol
Also they pretty much basically lied to regulators promising and boosting how they could fund and support all these studios but here they are mass layoffs and shut downs with rumors of more coming.
Sony and Xbox always got to outdo each other in every way possible, including destroying their own company and reputation.
Of course you're not making enough money from your games if you're giving them all away in a package for a subscription fee vs $60 for EACH game sold. It was never going to work. Closing amazing studios is not going to help
Nsp: Microsoft do better.
Me: before it's too late.
The XBox division has lost its mind. The fact they closed a studio that made such a good game makes me lose ALL faith in them to the point I saw myself never investing in the XBox ecosystem. The comments have made after just cements it times ten. They are idiots. I'm now very worried about every studio they own. I really wish they hadn't purchased Bethesda.
I imagine Sony will also have layoffs, considering they spend years on over budgeted games like Spiderman 2 which still hasn't reached profit.
The gaming industry as a whole is in bad shape, outside of Nintendo.
Spiderman 2 already get more than 75 millions dollar in profit after sold more than 10 millions copy, u can search in google
HiFi rush is an unbelievably good game. “Happy for many more” that’s BRUTAL
Couldn’t say it better yourself, Microsoft, do better!
imagine being a grown man and being this emotionally invested in a multi billion dollar company's product that is also available on PC to play at your leisure🤣
Like me!!!!!
If xbox ever dies, hopefully there will be a console from another company to replace it so sony doesn't get complacent.
This needs to Happen. The Gaming Industry has flying to close to the sun and disregarding the will of gamers.
Great video NSP! You said all of what I had in mind. The way X Box is going about this doesn't make sense to me. Things clearly doesn't add up. I was eagerly awaiting the release of Hi Fi Rush on the Nintendo platform...but now I don't even know if it will end up there.
Guess I'll buy it on PS5 along with Ghostwire Tokyo. I feel so bad for them. None of them deserved the backstabbing treatment XBox did.💔😓
If big corporate companies think going on like this is the best way, they are going to end up sinking. This is exactly what the head of Larian Studios Swen Vinke, mentioned in his speech.
It's never a great idea to join a mega corporation as a video game Studio.
Thank you NSP!💕🙌🏽