It should be interesting to see what he will say in June after the show. But it really won’t matter in the end. It won’t bring back these studios.
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The time of 2a first party is gone. I’m worried about double fine, compulsion and somehow ninja theory.
For me it’s Ok to close more studio that do not make impactful big titles, however I hope MS to acquire more big studios if MS really wants to be a 3a focused publisher.
Conducting business as usual for unrelated business segments also doesn’t hurt anyone either. Should MS also delay the release of any games releasing today as well?
Some of you just want to be mad all the time about everything. There is no way it is healthy.
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It’s just a controller.
And most of the people are not mad, just disappointed.
maybe because I’m just a boring CoD-Assassin’s creed like games enthusiast
Yes. Its just a controller. And you have somehow managed to lump it in with a handful of studio closures.
Whatever makes you feel better.
If this is about huge profit margins then Call of Duty is never touching Game Pass… at least not day and date imo
This chat about to erupt over a controller
It has nothing to do with feeling good or bad. It’s about this bizarre need for people, like yourself, to run to twitter and find more things to be mad about. There was already something legitimate and worthy of everyone’s attention and compassion. But then that rage dopamine started fleeting and it needs to be sustained. Off to twitter to get upset some more. About a controller.
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That was probably the idea when they thought Game Pass would have 70M subs because cloud gaming exploded.
God knows what pie in the sky numbers they’re pushing with AI that’s going to bite them in the ass.
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Not mad at the controller, just mocking the timing for the announcement.
You really need to chill and stop projecting stuff into things without knowing the person.
It’s so over. Microsoft was the only western company that I trusted to release AA games regularly and with these studio closures they’re going all in on AAA. That’s not bad in a vacuum but they come out every 6+ years and that makes for big gaps. Good luck to those who lost their jobs.
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Maybe if we hadn’t gotten all those “how to cancel GP” articles from every outlet over the last few years, and they hadn’t been doing everything in their power to convince gamers not to invest in Xbox, things would have gone that way.
This, and all these situations, are more complex and require nuance that very few seem to appreciate… or even want to admit.
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Everything that doomed these studios was before the acquisition. If MS made a bad financial decision, it was not to immediately close these studios when the deal closed. They were losing money then, and continued to do so. MS gave them more time and chances to make more games, and none of them did well. Not sure what else they could have done other than radically change what the studios worked on, but at that point, why not just close the studio?
You really blaming the media that about 1% of gamers read for the failure of gamepass.
Jesus.
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Thanks for completely missing the point here: clues were “complex” and “nuance”.
It’s a component for the lack of GP’s exponential growth, not a singular reason; spare me the 1% nonsense when that same garbage is shared ad nauseam across social media platforms.
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https://twitter.com/Andy_VGC/status/1787845704183922947?t=3c82GK8UGh3P03zBNuI1tA&s=19
Just checked and Mighty Doom has already been pulled from the Google Play Store.
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The singular reason for gamepass not being what it is, is directly because of Phil and the team.
They’ve devalued the only platform that has people who actually care to sign up for gamepass.
I’m not sure any platform knows exactly what they’re doing at this point. Only thing we can hope for is more unionization for these poor workers.
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