Game looked awful. Time for Microsoft to buy EA and shut down Maxis for ruining The Sims too

Didn’t see this coming…

What it feels like Microsoft are doing for ~2 years now:

Cutting down the investments in the Series generation, even cancelling games like Everwild and Perfect Dark now, because the D1 GP feature is scratching on Xbox Division's bones or bone marrow already.

Everwild would not have been a 94 MC|OC mega hit. The same with Perfect Dark, if it even was playable at any time.

And even if both were going to be critically acclaimed mega hits:

The Series generation would not have taken off again.

Yet they would have had to put both D1 in GP - and probably even on Playstation to recoup at least some development costs.

My guesses:

• Fable will likely be delayed again.
• The game with Kojima will be cancelled.
• Gears of War E-Day will be on Playstation.
• ... as every other still to be released (and not yet cancelled) Series exclusive game will be, too.

They are preparing to exit X|S.

There's no need to work on Everwild, Perfect Dark or even a new Forza and burn money anymore.

They're done.

Unacceptable, wtf is going on with the world. My job been doing bs too that make no sense. All these companies acting like they're going broke when they're profiting big money.

People jumping on sony about canceled games and the money wasted. How much million were lost on everwind in 7 years and perfect dark in 5 years?

Is the perfect dark gameplay is fake?

Where’s that one guy who is always spewing extreme positivity of Microsoft and their ability to out perform anything that is known to man? What was his name again? O_O

I do hate this for this team, and I can understand his frustration.
I think Rare was better fitted with Nintendo and I hope this guy and team can find a nice landing place, or new studio with collaboration with Nintendo.

"Looks like another one"

Neverwild

And there are people who think they should drop out the console race and become a publisher. They've shut down a good chunk of studios they've purchased since their goal was to own the big AAA stuff. They haven't been particularly easy to work with in the past either. Ya know what… Yea they should become a publisher, they're basically EA at this point but worse, you're absolutely right. Buying up studios just to turn em into husks and eventually shut them down, basically EA.

This was a very big argument with the FTC during opposition to the Activision buyout. Microsoft denied that they were going to do anything like this.. but once again, mega corporations like this do commit and ask for forgiveness later.
Buy up existing profitable companies to extend their reach in markets and then don’t know how to manage and then ultimately closing them down. Microsoft has done this time and time again, not just in the gaming industry.

No way! Not MS?

I blame the idiots and the judges. The ones that jumped in the air to be brought out and for the judges for allowing to all go though. I don't blame the devs I blame them and the ones that owned or running the studios before being brought out. Greed after greed

I don’t think anyone intentionally wants to kill off studios when acquisitions happen.

Must be some tax evasion process all these companies have a scheme on.

kill off games and fire staff the save money while at the same time spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on cheating warzone streamers to win at tournaments. Microsoft really has its priorities straight.

i mean, thats exactly what we said bk then, but the gaming media was so hyped for this, and the ones that Actually play these games and follow that stuff, hated it.

not much difference to Sony really, (or any other company that does it) look how many devs they've shut down, buy the dev, fund the game, close them down...