It seems they are going to start making smaller games or multiplayer games that are more profitable because making Quantum Break hurt the studio, when you remove the PR filter.

I know the are currently co developing a mobile title.
http://www.polygon.com/2016...

Because "longer cycle" strategy obviously didn't worked for them.
They took more than 5 years in making Quantum Break and it bombed. Not to mention with the TV show and hiring good actors and CGI, the budget would have been really really large.

Make few games with short cycles, and then again work your way up to bigger projects (which requires bigger dev cycles). Just like how unfortunate Ready At Dawn developer is doing. No shame in this.

Why would they increase it? Do you think an extra year or 2 would have made Quantum Break much less generic than it is?
Naughty Dog put out a game so much better than Quantum Break and it didn't take them six years to make it either. In fact, ND only released The Last of Us in June 2013, then a DLC follow up 8 months later that won more awards than any full Remedy game to date, then they remastered TLOU on PS4, then helped out a bit with Uncharted Collection for Bluepoint Games and then released a new, incredible, next gen, critically acclaimed game. And all within 3 years.

Because then you get the terrible PC version of QB that was announced only 3 weeks before the game went Gold.

I agree. If it takes so long and then there's an unforeseen delay people just start complaining to the point where it's ridiculous. There are so many games being rushed and shortcutted that the games just plain suck bc of all the bugs or choppy stories. All I want is a good finished product.

I think MS was more behind the early hype than Remedy. MS wanted that big new IP reveal for the X1, and QB was the closest thing they had that seemed "next gen". Crysis was sufficient, but QB was certainly more interesting in the early days. The fact all we saw was live action footage for the reveal should have been a good indicator it wasn't going to be coming any time soon.

I heard that the TV part of the game was really expensive to make.

Their style of game design probably would fit right at home on PS. Other games of similar distinction or design tend to do quite well on PS. Not that they should abandon Xbox, but certainly look to expand their fan base as a whole. PC and Xbox is good and all, but why remove potential buyers unless the console maker themselves are fronting the money.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm