What developer will be shut down by Microsoft next?

What next developer will be shut down by Microsoft?

  • Rare

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • 343

    Votes: 3 5.1%
  • Zenimax

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Activision Blizzard

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Ninja Theory

    Votes: 35 59.3%
  • Bethsda

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Coalition

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ID Software

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • The Initiative

    Votes: 17 28.8%
  • Machine Games

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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quest4441

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I don't know whether to praise Jim Ryan or hate him, under him the pc porting shenanigans have gained more ground but the guy has absolutely delivered on beating xbox into submission, He delayed the merger for a whole frickin year and still walked away with CoD for 10 yrs. He derailed xbox plans and put them on the backfoot the whole generation since day 1 but his gaas initiatives seems to have faltered a lot. I don't know whether to champion him for destroying xbox or hate him for going to PC
 

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But we will look like clowns if Sony announces layoffs next week before their shareholder meeting on the 23rd. Maybe the success of helldivers and Stellar Blade put a stop more layoffs.

Only is Sony shuts down Insomniac or Bend or something like that.
 

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Ninja Theory short of Hellblade 2 being a show stopping sales success

All the signs are there, most prominent being the exit of their founder
 
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Tbh I could see the Coalition ditching the Gears franchise after Gears 6 & working on a COD spin off that’s 3rd person that could be interesting ngl. Or the Coalition can act as a support studio helping Treyarch work on Zombies since Coalition has some PVE experience
 

xollowsob

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Obsidian and Inexile.

Microsoft are dumb, so they'll close down the studios that have the best potential to reach the type of gamers they desperately need.
 

Petekilla

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Obsidian and Inexile.

Microsoft are dumb, so they'll close down the studios that have the best potential to reach the type of gamers they desperately need.
I don’t think they would close Obsidian. They’ll probably use Obsidian as a Bethesda support studio, or a studio to make Fallout spin-offs.
 
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Lmao an hour ago. Same source;

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We wont have to wait long then : p
 
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quest4441

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Lmao an hour ago. Same source;

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We wont have to wait long then : p
What about Compulsion, I always thought they were a mediocre dev and xbox buying them was a scraping the bottom of a barrel type of purchase
 
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I think The Initiative are the guys most at risk because after 6 years they have nothing to show and they're supposedly made up of industry veterans from other franchises (i.e. they're all pretty expensive), but then again they're a relatively small studio.

On the other hand, Ninja Theory seems to be going exactly the same way as Tango.
 
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I think The Initiative are the guys most at risk because after 6 years they have nothing to show and they're supposedly made up of industry veterans from other franchises (i.e. they're all pretty expensive), but then again they're a relatively small studio.

On the other hand, Ninja Theory seems to be going exactly the same way as Tango.
Yeah damn wtf is initiatives game!
 

Nhomnhom

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Turn 10 is the most obvious, but there are many other prime candidates. The Initiative, Rare, 343, Ninja Theory, Machine Games, Double Fine, inXile, Undead Labs, none of those would be surprising and most of them will likelly be shut down in the next few years at this rate.
 
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It’s gonna be the initiative.

343 is possible but they probably still want to continuously try with halo and just gut the entire studio with each failed game.
 
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