BREAKING: Xbox is shutting down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and two other studios.

[GachaMadeMeBroke]

Xbots cheered for acquisitions and how only MS can help the industry and how workers are safe. Man, how Xbots can be truly dumb.

Xbox peeps are acting like spoiled brats whose dad has a huge amount of money and thinks they are untouchable and they can buy all things with money. No wonder why Xbox fandom is so messed up.

I will repeat this to the day I die, Xbots never, ever cared about the industry. They only cared about getting "free" games and winning console war arguments

 

[Entropi]

I will repeat this to the day I die, Xbots never, ever cared about the industry. They only cared about getting "free" games and winning console war arguments

It’s the MS culture infused into their fanatics. MS only cares about “killing the competition” and monopolizing industries. They don’t care about the actual product.

 

[GachaMadeMeBroke]

It’s MS culture infused to their fanatics. MS only cares about “killing the competition” and monopolizing industries. They don’t care much for the product.

Exactly. When the leaked emails came out that they wanted to completely destroy the competition and Xbox fans didn't bat an eye. They never cared. And I promise you they'll still cheer for them to buy Sega. Xbox and their cult makes me sick

 

[Gediminas]

This was my suspicion that is now confirmed.
I wonder if the game would have been a sales success had it not been thrown into the massive pool of gamepass AAA titles on day one.





If Hellblade 2 isn't a big success, these are next in the chopping block for sure.

H2 has pretty much 0 marketing and is on Gameshitpass. It will flop.

 

[Shmunter]

Fucking outrageous

 

[Jim Ryan]

Of course... Downplaying it.

 

[Gediminas]

Welcome to the club. We’ve been looking through MS and Xbox’ BS and lies for over a decade now.

Oh, so making faulty shit for clout in the name of equality was good to farm, but now, it is where he draw the line? Fuck off.

 

[Nhomnhom]

If there was a single decent journalist in the game industry, one of them would've already asked Phil Spencer on an interview if he feels ashamed for the poor for he has done over at Xbox for so many years.

I said it many years ago, this due has been far worse than Don Mattrik. Don Mattrick biggest mistake was trusting this lying sack of shit. 99% of the blame for Xbox being what it is today goes to Phil Spencer, it's a shame that the dude was able to make so much money while being so bad at his job.

 

[Jim Ryan]

Is it actually self sabotage? This can't be a mistake!

 

[quest4441]

Half of Zenimax is gone only 3 years after Microsoft acquisition.

Machine games is next after Indiana Jones. id will be safe because they are good and know how to make good games, zenimax is gaas studio so will continue to exist. Bethesda is dependent upon ES6 and how many lies Todd can get away with for that game.

 

[CHILEANPLAYER]

I'm afraid the next one could be Ninja Theory. I don't think Microsoft is going to spend 4-5 years paying salaries for the studio to do more than make great technical feats but mediocre games that will barely move hardware and subscriptions. The only thing that could save the studio is a hypothetical port to PS5 (although not even that). I fear the same with Sony's Media Molecule.

 

[JAHGamer]

Of course... Downplaying it.

This guy is just straight up trash

 

[Summer Nightmares]

Noooo Tango! I loved The Evil Within... Ghostwire Tokyo was pretty meh, but still amazing to get a game like that on times like these. I still have to buy Hifi Rush.

 

[KvallyX]

Canceling my Hellblade 2 pre-order. Gonna just wait for it to hit our PS5.

 

[Entropi]

I'm afraid the next one could be Ninja Theory. I don't think Microsoft is going to spend 4-5 years paying salaries for the studio to do more than make great technical feats but mediocre games that will barely move hardware and subscriptions. The only thing that could save the studio is a hypothetical port to PS5 (although not even that). I fear the same with Sony's Media Molecule.

If Hellblade 2 doesn’t resurrect Xbox’ corpse NT is gone for sure.

 

[Gediminas]

Half of Zenimax is gone only 3 years after Microsoft acquisition.

Machinegames next if IJ doesn't hit the homerun.

 

[AllBizness]

Well I mean even Stevie Wonder saw this coming. Interesting how their fans somehow did not think the rules of capitalism doesn't apply to Xbox.

 

[dddooozzz9]

Hi-Fi Rush is the game I enjoyed. Sad to see Tango closed.

Same old XBOX 'hold my beer' moment.

 

[Gediminas]

I feel sorry for the people who lost their jobs. I think any devs from Japan would think twice getting into bed with MS. Hi-Fi Rush was sent out to die and overperformed in spite of the non promotion. MS will close companies based on their own failures, not the devs. I can't wait to see what the ashes of Tango produces, hopefully also on a Playstation platform.

Yeah, it is pity. We can shit on m$ rightfully so, but so many lost their jobs

 

[quest4441]

This is almost exactly what I said before in this thread:

I feel like with the time it takes to release games these days, any AAA studio won't get more than 2 chances. If 2 games flop then that studio will be unprofitable for nearly 10 years nowadays. Using someone else's money brings these caveats unfortunately