@Donnie81

I don't have to tell you anything. Just look at MS's track record this gen and it speaks for it'self. Contrary to popular belief, I don't hate MS. I buy the new xbox every gen, but this has been a crappy gen. Just hate their ways, and I don't see how they keep getting away with the stuff they get away with.

@Spurg

Why are they just now doing this? Something they should have done in the first freaking place? I guess they finally figured out their billions isn't going to buy them the love that they want, and they have to put some actual work into something and earn some people's respect.

Jade should go indy, if anything. It seems like she has some good ideas that she needs to get out, and even though it's risky, that would probably be a risk that pays off for her.

@Donnie

Because MS has a track record. Their current push to be better hasn't provided proven results, nor is there anything to say that they will support any of those studios for the long term. They may be around for a while, but MS is still working to prove themselves.

Phil was in charge of 1st party studios before he took over Mattrick's job, and during that time, those studios were unable to produce enough to warrant keeping open, and couldn't keep Molyneux in check.

So....despite all of the current PR bluster, what will he do better this time, when he couldn't manage them properly the first time?

Their biggest studios. Bungie...wanted to go back to indie to do what they wanted.

Gears of War success was with a 2nd party, where MS didn't really have any input on their direction. The Koalition had their new IP cancelled to work on the new Gears, which wasn't as good as the Epic games.

Playground was a 2nd party, and it was their work that put them on top, as MS wasn't in charge of their studio.

Lionhead was a clusterf*** because they let Molyneux do his own thing, and couldn't keep him in check. They managed to put out good Fable games, but they failed to live up to expectations, only to end up making a crappy Fable game after Molyneux left, to be shut down.

Turn 10 is their oldest and most consistent studio. They manage it alright, but they make the same game over and over again, usually just adding onto the last one, with the occasional full upgrade. They have been surpassed by Playground....a 2nd party indie studio, which is now owned by MS.

Double Helix was an indie studio, acquired later by Amazon, and don't even work on Killer Instinct anymore and that is done by Iron Galaxy, an indie company.

Remedy had success with MS, but MS didn't manage their studio. But with Quantum Break, they let the studio get way to ahead of what they were capable of, and they couldn't manage to keep the games scope in check. This led to a fairly lukewarm reception, and now the studio has gone full indie and won't get anywhere near the kind of support MS gave them...but MS never gave them the best support anyways.

Insomniac, kings of creativity, under MS, made a great game, but with generic focus tested concepts that seem more about what MS wanted, than something you'd see from an Insomniac game...the same problem they had with EA.

P*, with Scalebound, they couldn't manage the studio to get a job done. But like with Insomniac, you have this hugely creative talented director, who is notoriously a pain in the ass, not able to finish a game, and seems to have a lot of generic focus tested aspects to it which make people go WTF.

So...is my explanation as sheepish as the idea that going to MS will just suddenly be good because good guy Phil says they're doing better.

Because they need EXCLUSIVES!

How is xbox itself the problem? Such an ignorant statement, I'm not even gonna continue to address it, lol.

@No Way

"She should give up the game industry, and join the porn industry.

I'd pay for that."

Don't even act like someone else's comment is dumb when you're making comments like this.

GTFOOH.

Sony is not known for managing studios well either.

BigBig studios: Founded in 2001, acquired by Sony in 2007, closed by Sony just 5 years later in 2012.

Evolution Studios: Founded 1999, bought by Sony in 2007, closed by Sony in 2016.

Millenium Interactive, Founded in 1989, bought by Sony in 1997, renamed Guerrilla Cambridge, closed in 2017.

Incognito Entertainment, Founded in 1999, lost all their staff, closed in 2009.

Zipper Interactive, Founded in 1995, bought by Sony in 2006, closed just 6 years later in 2012.

Psygnosis, Founded in 1985, 2005 Psygnosis brand was dropped and renamed to SCE Studio Liverpool, closed just 4 1/2 years later in January 2010

@Dirty

yeah, but Sony has more instances of success with studios as well. They also have several studios they brought which have been raised up well beyond their more humble origins. MS, for the time being, has more instances of not managing well, and only one instance of managing to make a studio a prolonged success....which they eventually shut down because they couldn't manage the head of that studio's ambitions, so he eventually left leading to studio that had absolutely no direction.

In any case, why bring up Sony? I wasn't suggesting that she go to Sony. Just that saying people are sheep because they don't just think MS will be awesome for her is wrong, because its apparent that if you aren't a sheep, and look into it, MS still needs to prove itself.

@Donnie81
Because the madia says so??? That has to be one of the dumbest things I have seen posted in a long time. The way things stand now Sony doesnt need the corrupt media's help, their games do all the talking.

There is one comment above yours advocating joining Microsoft. One.

"Why are they just now doing this?"

Literally because of the change in leadership. Like, literally. The newest head of Microsoft: Nadella, recognizes them as and fully supports them as a gaming division under Microsoft along with Microsoft's other devices (they were literally added to that list only a few years ago). This is why Spencer is now head of the Xbox division, why they're receiving funds like this to create and acquire studios, and there isn't anyone over him other than Nadella obviously. So, Spencer only has to report to Nadella himself rather than through the executives above him to even reach Ballmer years back and why Matt Booty was promoted to work along side him.

The Microsoft now Under Nadella is vastly different from the Microsoft that was under Balmer as their visions are surprisingly polar opposites. What you are seeing now is an unchained gaming division with a decent guy running it who doesn't have to compromise with, battle with/ answer to anyone other than a boss who is all about interconnectivity, branching hardware/services, etc., not to mention actually fully supporting the division.

That's not to sound dramatic, it's really just how it is.

A lot of people only talk about Spencer and Mattrick, but there's so much more to it along the lines of how the chain of command works.

Wanted to add that I can understand the concerns, but some of you are stuck way back in 2014 honestly.

I'd imagine most of you don't know much about the change in the division because you don't care for xbox and only really follow the controversial news about it and then proceed to paint that news in the already negative view you've had for them for years without knowing much more, but the constant framing of the division as the same as they were in 2014 is wild. Rainslacker seems like that type of person.