I just finished Hellblade in under 6 in a half hours. I was surprised how short the game was for the askingprice. I thought the first game was better and be prepared for a lot of walking

I suspect they are safe in the sense that Microsoft won't want anymore backlash so they will probably RARE'ify them as an asset to avoid headlines. Meaning it will be a slow death over a decade until the only thing that remains is the name.

Maybe not now, but in a close future, unfortunately, ms will shut them down

Nobody that Microsoft buys is safe from Microsoft

Lol, so so silly.

This has got to stop. You can literally put any studio's name in this situation, in the current gaming climate.

Another take on We are sure a company is evil so let's hope it will act like a Saturday morning cartoon villain instead of a company with shareholders.

Here is some simple financial logic (that has already been applied to Sony)

Microsoft won't shut down Ninja Theory simply because they recently made the purchase of that specific studio.
shutting down the studio would mean to Share Holders that:
- They have lost most of the assets they bought (aside from a couple of IPS).
- Xbox is losing faith or is abandoning why they acquired Ninja Theory in the 1st place.
- Xbox can't properly manage the money of shareholders since they would close something they recently purchased.

In the case of Arkane Studio and Tango Framework they were part of Bethesda and bundled in the acquisition.

As I said this can be validated by Sony who recently closed the PlayStation longtime London Studio while making massive cuts to Firesprite (some former members of London Studio).
People should remember that Firesprite was recently acquired so for the same reason, it would have been stupid company-wise to terminate a recent acquisition.

i can't imagine how terryfing must be working for MS right now, you were supposedly safe by working under the protection of a multi billion company, but not anymore, so any studio is at risk, even those with very successful releases like Hifi Rush.

All these negative opinion pieces rising to the top of N4G... The Sony defense force haaaates Microsoft so much.

They took the cheese. Bad on them. They risk their entire studio, their assets and their employees. The gamble comes to bite you and it bites hard. Should have stayed in safe harbor, but you know.... $$$ brings out the greedy and dumb in people. Ninja Theory should have known far better then to get in that bed.

Well yeah I'm sure tango and arkane had something in the pipeline to.
Having a project greenlit doesn't mean safety projects are frequently approved prior to the completion of another game most games are worked on in pre prod prior to the main projects completion.

Ninja theory's saving grace is their size the running cost of the studio is very low compared to other studios.

I'm hopeful they are not shut down because even if I didn't like hb2 from a story and thematic point of view the game was beautiful the animations were nice and overall it could have made for a great game if it was something else the bones of hb2 are perfect the game itself not so much at least not for me.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau