Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer weighs in on why Japanese game developers typically skip the Xbox platform: 'Sometimes teams don't have a connection to Xbox'
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Larry writes: "As many of you have been with me during my career in gaming, I'd like to share personal news. Like many in the gaming space recently, I've been laid off from @Unity"
That’s some major layoffs best of luck to him and the rest that got laid off. It always hurt specially more before or during holidays.
Met Larry a couple times. Sucks to hear he got laid off. Real standup guy who just loves gaming and the industry.
Dude finally got laid at 58 years old. Bit of a weird flex but im still happy for the guy!🥂
"We see DRM as something which can make the life of a legal customer more difficult," says Michał Kiciński, "so there is no reason to keep it alive."
Because it's by far the third least popular console worldwide and isn't even a blip on the radar in Japan.
Perhaps make those connections?
PR bullshit.
They didn't invest in Japan so Japan didn't invest in Xbox. That's just the reality. It's not selling there as well because of lack of effort.
They didn't build any studios over there to give Japanese gamers games to play. Even though they have billions to do so. They only gave Japanese gamers what they wanted them to have. Which wasn't much.
Japanese companies aren't warming up to them. It's only because Phil travels to Japan with a checkbook. They are receiving a check to release games on the Xbox platform because porting games is too high risk when a lot of the Xbox community don't buy games but spit out the same, "Is it on game pass?" "I'll wait until it's on game pass." Nonsense.
Not to compare but look, Sony has worldwide studios. Because it makes sense to have different game development perspectives. Sony even has English developers that put in the work and research to make a Japanese game in Ghost of Tsushima. Getting high praise from the location. Sony released PlayStation in China and has projects that cultivate Chinese development talent. They are doing the same in India. You don't see one of the largest companies on the planet doing that.
Whatever Phil says is bullshit. If Xbox was rocking, Japanese developers would be falling over themselves to release games on their system. But Microsoft doesn't care about console sales, has a subscription services that cannibalizes game sales and Microsoft puts no effort into changing things. Only real work they have put in is in buying up third parties. We see many articles on the amount of effort to get Activision. What effort have we seen in them creating Japanese studios or making Japanese games?
Don't bullshit me Phil. You're lying again.
Maybe it's a 'creative decision' eh Phil?
What happened to decades of promises to get support from Japanese developers?