Tango Gameworks has been acquired by Krafton Inc. (PUBG), as well as Hi-Fi Rush IP
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I'm wondering if keeping those IPs is simply to keep feeding the Game Pass machine. I doubt they'll do anything with them and certainly can't be trusted to do anything good with them anyway. Just throw the games on their crappy sub service and call it a day.
Did Krafton even want those IPs? Ghostwire is completely worthless, The Evil Within is a little better but probably they want to focus only on Hi-Fi Rush.
Glad for the team. <3
Personally I really disliked Hi-Fi Rush. I am a huge fan of Jet Set Radio since day one, same for the Future. Thought it would be in the same style... But not at all, I found the gameplay very bad, you don't feel anything...
The Evil Within 1 & 2 were both huge disappointment for me. My both favorite genres are JRPGs and Survival Horror, of course I love Mikami, but TEW 1 and 2... Eeeew... The monsters design ewww, the gameplay soso... the plot I hated it... I bought them both on day one, same for the DLCs, so nobody can say I didn't try, I finished all, but really so so for me.
I hope I'll like their next game, and yeah anyway I am happy for the team who can keep doing what they like.
Personally I really disliked Hi-Fi Rush. I am a huge fan of Jet Set Radio since day one, same for the Future. Thought it would be in the same style... But not at all, I found the gameplay very bad, you don't feel anything...
The Evil Within 1 & 2 were both huge disappointment for me. My both favorite genres are JRPGs and Survival Horror, of course I love Mikami, but TEW 1 and 2... Eeeew... The monsters design ewww, the gameplay soso... the plot I hated it... I bought them both on day one, same for the DLCs, so nobody can say I didn't try, I finished all, but really so so for me.
I hope I'll like their next game, and yeah anyway I am happy for the team who can keep doing what they like.
Didn't all the staff already leave?
Then this will be all new talent or are they hiring back everyone who was laid off?
Then this will be all new talent or are they hiring back everyone who was laid off?
Perhaps thinking of the Calisto Protocol dev Striking Distance? They lost 32 employees including the Dead Space director. Not sure if they are owned by Krafton.
Tango is probably meant to replenish the talent loss after Callisto Protocol flopped. No way it’s for the IPs lols but to me this is telegraphing a HiFi rush sequel coming right away.
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That's been my worry, too. Is MS trying to establish a soft power with companies they'd otherwise be unable to acquire through consolidation, using assets they've already acquired?
Like, it Krafton acquiring Tango basically means MS retains Western publishing rights of Tango games but also gets exclusive Western localization & publishing rights to select Krafton games, isn't that just them leveraging a purchased asset to partially lock down another through some sort of exclusivity agreement?
Most gamers are dumb, they only think of exclusivity WRT games being on just one platform. But there's a whole other world of exclusivity in the BTS sense; if something like this is how Microsoft gets Krafton or other South Korean/Asian devs & pubs to enter "strategic partnerships" i.e like the one they have (had?) with SEGA/Atlus, that's just increasing Microsoft's sphere of influence.
And I don't care what others want to say, you can't increase your sphere of influence in a space without chipping away at another's. In this case that means Sony/SIE. Even if all of these games still come to PlayStation, it just makes SIE more dependent on a single large & growing once-rival-still-sorta?-rival-now-games-publisher in Microsoft. That's a growing amount of sway & influence a single publisher has in the affairs of a platform holder's well-being.
But hey, Kenichirio & Satya are probably singing in unified praise of these developments. Don't drink too much, fellas!
This is not happening unfortunately since Microsoft still owns the IP along with Ghostwire
I'm happy for the employees. I still haven't played Hifi Rush yet, I was more interested in The Evil Within and Ghostwire Tokyo but great news nonetheless.
