What are you talking about Cacabunga? The Xbox faithful insisted that Microsoft has infinite money, and after Activision they should buy Square Enix and Capcom before Sony does. There was no chance ever that Microsoft would do this. They would use their infinite millions and Bitcoins to invest in 50 new IP and beat everyone.
Yes, as reiterated many times, their plan is to increase their profits through ownership revenue of big IP that release on other platforms, consolidate their portfolio by cutting any superfluous or unwanted excess (in their minds) and double down on the Game Pass trash. To you and me, Hi Fi Rush matters, to them it's a blip on the larger Bethesda and Activision acquisition. To you and me, investing in new IP matters, to them it's unwanted risk. To you and me, investing in studios matt...
Phil and team knew it was coming and planned for it. It's not even a conspiracy, it's simply the business of cutting costs and superfluous studios after a major acquisition. They don't give a damn about Tango Gameworks or other small creative studios that won't recoup their losses. They don't care about investing in this industry. They have no interest in risky and expensive new IP. They are only interested in profiting off ownership of Bethesda IP, Call of Duty and Candy...
Stop, just goddamn stop the spin. The future is EXACTLY what we all said it would be from the time the worms at Microsoft bought Bethesda and then went on for Activision. This is NOT gaming's future.
This is Microsoft's hubris.
Tango Gameworks did NOT close because their game wasn't successful or failed to meet sales targets. It closed down because Microsoft needs to recoup costs and consolidate after splashing billions on publisher acquisitio...
Hey Obscure Observer, here's your spin.
It's inevitable. Watch this space. There's no way Ninja Theory is part of MS' future plans. Their games have a niche audience.
We'll see Ninja Theory go independent in future.
Actually Foxtrot, I don't find it weird. When last has Microsoft thrown advertising weight behind one of their releases? Long gone are the days where their games had the sheer presence of Halo 3 or Gears of War 2. It's all been replaced with "play it day one on Games Pass."
Why spend millions on marketing a product when you aren't SELLING it? The Xbox faithful aren't going to buy it, they're just going to see it on the splash page of Game Pass....
This should not be surprising to any of you. We have been saying for MONTHS that Game Pass is not sustainable and that these acquisitions will come at a massive cost to the industry. People refused to grasp the difference between buying and investing in a developer like Insomniac or Housemarque, and buying the entire publisher. People refused to accept that spending billions to acquire the biggest publishers in gaming means you have to RECOUP those costs, and you aren't going to do it wit...
Yes he's such a nice guy. The nicest suit who ever suited. Just the best damn gaming dude who wears gaming tees, not like those other corporates. The Philsopher of the modern era, subs before games, acquire before create. His feelings are so hurt and his tissues are so wet from tears at this totally unforseen consequence of needing to consolidate after splashing billions on devouring publishers and studios within and then being forced to start releasing multi platform to eat profits where...
Don't worry, we'll hear how many bullets were fired across how many hours from Call of Duty players who downloaded the game on Games Pass next year. Hashtag "success"
Obscure is working on his thesis on how to spin this.
Hahahahahahaha! xD Legendary comment.
I get it, you need to detract from all the terrible news going on about Microsoft.
The Helldivers 2 issue is over, fans have already dropped 200k positive reviews on the game as an acceptance that the mistake was rectified. There is no fumbling as the game hasn't failed yet.
Stellar Blade...that's yesterday's news. Try to keep up.
Well purple101 you'd have to convince Observer and the other Xbox faithful that these studio closures and the fallout from the acquisitions is a bad thing and a sign of what's to come, and I don't think you're going to do that.
Nobody has managed that feat.
Why? He turns Microsoft a profit and Xbox fans get all their "value" out of games pass while contributing nothing to the success and growth of developers, just like MS.
Win for corporates, lose for everybody else, which is what Microsoft is all about isn't it?
I'd say judging by the metrics Xbox and the fanbase has been supporting since the end of the 360 era, Phil is a winner. /s
Oh, and right now they're develop...
I don't mean to dumb this down and remove all the context of what brought us here, but maybe also invoke some agency and buy and support better games?
Hades
Slay the Princess
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Inscryption
Tales of Arise
Spider-Man 2
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Ghost Runner
These are all games I've played recently between PC and PS5 and they all fit your description and came with no b...
I dig this story, honestly. Fans called out a bad practice, Sony and Arrowhead fixed it, and now the fans are undoing their damage as opposed to just leaving the game review bombed for an issue that has been corrected.
Everyone wins here, really awesome from the community and game makers.
Welcome to the future under Microsoft as they work to consolidate and recoup their massive costs on buying publishers. Everyone who was against MS' acquisitions saw this coming, all the idiots who praised it as good for competition are now acting surprised.
Game Pass is NOT sustainable. Get it through your heads.
Microsoft will focus on a handful of core IP that will sell, but over time they're going to degrade just like Starfield and Redfall bec...
Great post. I went for a Nvidia RTX 3060Ti which was insane value for money when I look at the fidelity and frame rates I can push in most games including new releases. Can't justify spending 3 times what my card cost at the time to get marginal better returns or the big sell of "ray tracing", which is a nice to have feature but hardly essential given what it costs to maintain.
No one with any sober brain cell left is buying this crap. You don't want these games or need them, and you've never supported them. A game like Returnal, and Hi Fi Rush, will die on Xbox. All you want is ownership, which is why in ten years there isn't a single game or studio or new IP Microsoft has nurtured or developed.