It shouldn't have to be an 'either or' situation. Its okay to have both.
Maybe a cheaper model and a premium model on launch day.
I have been paying attention for past 11 years. That's why I made my fully accurate above post.
You're the one who hasn't, thus you made that completely worthless post.
- I don't care about a rental service for mid-tier (or any tier) games.
- I don't care about streaming services, I play on actual hardware.
- What is Perfect Dark at this point? Its just a name trying to have an easy win with nostal...
I've been complaining about these very issues for the past 15 years, but people brushed me off all the time. No one wanted to see the very obvious snowball effect it was going to have.
There are still good games being released, but its mostly in the mid to small budgets tiers. Only a small number of big budget games are worth even thinking about these days. These days I mostly play older console generations from the NES through PS3.
Many Activision employees will be on the chopping block later this year or next year.
The only good news about seeing MS firing developers is now that they're free from MS's grip and can start a new company, such as what Mikami will likely do soon, and finally get back to making GOOD games again, which is almost impossible under Philly Spency.
Anyone with a shred of talent wants to get away from MS, so getting fired is a roundabout way to have it ...
Hopefully the devs join Mikami at a new studio, and then get a similar deal with Sony, where they remain independent like what Kojima got back in 2016. That would mean we get to see a happy ending and a new beginning for Tango Gameworks (under a new name).
Microsoft is trash for sure, but there are companies out there that have continuously committed human atrocities. Which I would grade as worse than firing people.
"Right now"?
But not 11 years ago with the disastrous Xbox One reveal which they NEVER recovered from?
Man are you slow on the uptake.
Never forget Scalebound.
Never forget that Spencer claimed canceling Scalebound "would be good for Xbox."
Let's think back since that cancellation happened. Xbox has been in the toilet since then. Yeah, Philly, its been real 'good'.
Its hard for companies out side of Japan to purchase a Japanese company. MS had ONE Japanese studio that made good games, and in their infinite wisdom shut it down. Idiotic behavior if I've ever seen it. Now it'll be extremely difficult to get anymore Japanese talent, especially when they can look back and remember how Tango was treated.
At this point, only an ignorant moron would want to sell their company to Microsoft, do it only if you want to see your company cr...
Couldn't the same have been said about Mattrick? He did what his bosses wanted him to do? Yet he was given the boot.
Its more likely that the MS executives don't know who to replace him with, that's the only reason this failure still has his job.
Sony and Nintendo appreciate his 'hard work', though. They don't want to see him fired!
Yet another reason not to sell yourselves to a major corporation. But what did these people expect when the game flopped so hard? They should have seen it coming.
Expect more studios to close in the not-too-distance future.
They're offering credit instead of a cash refund. Yeesh.
More proof people need to stop pre-ordering games which end up releasing unfinished, need to stop supporting live service trash, and need to stop buying Battle Passes before the content is even made. If there ever was a time to learn these lessons, now would be the time.
There's always room for more, the sub-genres has been quite barren for nearly a decade now. One game isn't enough. Or two if you want to count the Splinter Cell remake, which is probably suffering from development hell because they're trying to take the classic game and 'Ubify it' turning it into a boring grindy slog of worthless filler trash.
Plenty of Activision employees will be looking for a new job next year. Well over 1000 total from multiple cuts throughout the year.
Be Phil Spencer, he's been failing upwards for 10 years now. This is the result of his endless mismanagement.
Nintendo really trying to squeeze every last drop of sales from the Switch. One last holiday season before their big announcement.
Let's hope that every Switch successor is an OLED model going forward. And it would be nice to have more than 64 GB of on-board storage, but we likely won't see that due to them being the biggest cheapskates in the industry.
You're not getting any of that because executives and marketers run the industry completely now. They need top end visuals similar to how all these big budget action movies need top end special effects and CG in order to get the dumb and causal masses interested in their product.
They have to appeal to them to maximize profits, and thusly game developers have no choice but to focus on the most shallow elements of gaming these days.
Not the 32x? Jaguar CD? Or even the Xbox One SAD?
No! Its the PS5 receiving a massive GPU boost thats the most useless hardware update in history!
Written by a person who doesn't know gaming history at all, of course. Yet he types with such cool and collected confidence. The sign of intelligence if I've ever seen it.
The gamer community is doing that, the Xbox brand has been sinking year on year.