Yeah and I don’t think the blame is only on 343 either. But Xbox as well. We can only hope that things improve significantly from here and that after this wave of bad things start to look up for Xbox overall again. But I have faith it will, two shows coming up soon, big games, but overall at Xbox should hopefully learn from this.
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Flag me if you must and I apologize in advance, but you know, not all lay-off can only happen to good people.
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Yeah, hate seeing these layoffs in tech, but reset may be needed for studios. Hopefully learned from mistakes. I think 343 provided an excellent start with core gameplay. I think many may not want to hear this but I would put halo on ice and reboot possibly without master chief tbh. I think 343 put themselves in Star Wars revival trap by focusing kn original trilogy but feel they both should move away . Anyways, I think franchise needs to breathe then have a grand return.
I just hope they continue supporting the multiplayer since I still enjoy it
When Schreier was asked what they were doing he did say they were figuring out what to do next (alongside providing post-launch support for Infinites campaign). So it’s not as if there was nothing done towards campaign content I guess?
Yeah I posted it earlier today in general chat, but edited it out later. It shows what kind of clowns work at that site, that is for sure.
Imagine saying this about the Xbox fanbase, just…lol.
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Crazy if true.
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While I don’t expect them to explain behind the scene, I do think an explanation of its future is necessary, mainly it’s public and everyone got the wind. Not to mention, many of current employees practically acknowledged it, so fans would need a clear view instead of flat out saying this or that.
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Like hearing school is closed forever as a kid, one would say, “I’m fine with that.” Not me, but that’s how I see in the comments.
Sad for the employees
But purely as a consumer, can’t say I’m bothered about no VR
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One would have to wonder, how did Microsoft choose the one to get hit.
This guy is apparently a known Sony fan boy. It sucks that a mainstream, multi platform publication would hire some one like this. Go work for dual shockers or something. Every Xbox article he writes will have a huge asterix next to it.
Likely hitting departments that bring in little to no revenue while not needed for strategic growth. With the military contracts for HoloLens being canned and industrial pickup of MixedReality/HoloLens being limited, its understandable that it was an area impacted.
As to normal VR, Microsoft can still move into console VR through using and supporting third party headsets like they do in the PC space.
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By that logic, this sounds like a way to “refresh” 343 then. Unfortunate for those who didn’t deserve it, but it is what it is sadly.
VR has proven so far to be on a kind of chicken flight, I keep laughing at the evangelists thinking it should be the next mandatory play style after all these gimmicks succeding for two years and then falling hard. Facebook was losing a lot of money for each Oculus sold and raised its price after seeing the division making billions of losses every year.
Even Half Life Alyx faded out quickly because it requires VR, I dunno where the hell people went out with the “Valve always create new styles to play” they for sure did with the most affordable way possible, Half Lifes weren’t demanding by their time, you could run HL 2 in a 2001 PC with a GeForce 2 while Doom 3 required a GF3 to run at somewhat decent level.
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Someone pointed out, that VR department that was closed down was supposedly the one working on 1v100 so hopefully that’s still a thing
Hey Bones, whats the status of VR and the Metaverse?
Gone like 3D TV.
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I enjoy my VR headset once in a while, but honestly I’m far from wanting it to become my main method of playing. It’s good for small bursts of play time, plus all the motion sickness stuff means it will never be useable by everyone.
They should just do something like add support for the Quest on Xbox which would right away bring a huge community over without having to develop any hardware and you’d already have millions of users as potential customers to your console.
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It’s times like this that I miss Satoru Iwata. He cut his own pay to help prevent lay offs at Nintendo during the last recession. Meanwhile Nadella recently took home a 55 million dollar bonus only for him to lay off thousands because of his decision to grow too large during the pandemic.
Screw capitalism, screw pleasing investors, and every leader at Microsoft should be beyond ashamed at how they’ve handled this situation.
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If you take Satya’s 54 million bonus and split it between those 10k employees it’s only 5400$ a head, that’s not what will make the difference. Then you have to account for recurring fees like pensions, insurance, the yearly salaries, etc for all those employees. I doubt Nintendo was anywhere near the size of MS as well.
Capitalism sucks, but it is what made these companies get to where they are today, not by giving out free passes and money to anyone that needs a job. Businesses are cutthroat, but sometimes that’s just the nature of the beast. It sucks that everyone’s beloved Halo is being hit a bit right now, but everyone else at XGS seems fine for the time being with few positions here and there being cut, and it’s most likely the shakeup that 343 needed in order to rise from the ashes later on.
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