i fear for turn10
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If anything it would make more sense for Turn10 and Playground to merge considering Turn10 develop the engine which Playground use.
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They’re a big part of Forza Horizon which is one of the biggest franchises for them, I’d think that they would be one of the safer teams.
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I think they needed to be a bitnmore patient. Take loss now for more gain later. Never gave any of their acquisitions time.
Redfall might have started chain reaction.
Yeah and focus on Forza Horizon 6
Forza must have done absymally last year. Didnt chart anywhere and gamrpass numbers werent at the level youd expect.
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Holy shit
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Mat booty probably shouldnt say anything. Guy is absolutely clueless on PR.
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Tango was not staffed like a small game studio. Side projects are great when they’re a side thing. The fact that the main games failed is what doomed them.
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If tango had only ever been the Hifi team, they’d be working on a sequel. Instead that were a studio with a game with twice as many people on it being made during most of Hifis time. Tango closing had nothing to do with Hifi. If the Hifi team was almost anywhere else, they’d be fine.
I’m going to say something, and I hope this won’t be the case, just a few days ago or maybe a week ago now there was talk about speeding up the release of Fallout, what is to say Microsoft thinks it will do better than The Outer Worlds, so they make Obsidian work on that instead.
There was earlier in this topic a post about how Microsoft is going to focus more on established titles, over lesser-known ones and moving on from a stage 1 developer that is trying different stuff to a stage 2 developer that goes all in on the popular IPs.
With people saying Obsidian should be worried, is that even a possibility? That game is still several years away, yet I honestly can see The Outer Worlds 2 being Fallout in space and successful, yet if the higher ups think Fallout will do more, what is to say that can’t happen.
We all played the first game, enjoyed it and wanted a sequel that was larger and a bigger world to explore, so with Microsoft’s funding, it should be possible.
Let’s be honest Fallout the game series is great, yet after the tv series blew up in popularity, people want a new game sooner, than later.
If anything, instead of making Obsidian drop work on The Outer Worlds 2, they should start up a tv show, that can come out around the time the sequel comes out.
The first game had good humor and there is potential for it to be a blast, just like Fallout was.
Then trim it down to the Hi-Fi team. Why throw out the whole thing, with the talent and output that you’re trying to get more of? Makes no sense. Fuck him.
And the way Halo Infinite, Forza Motorsport and Everwild all happened was on his watch. How he failed upward is beyond me.
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TOW2 is likely a 2025 game. I don’t know why people are worried about Obsidian, they deliver consistently and their projects are scoped properly.
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How’d we end up right back in the same situation as 2016-2017 when it felt like Xbox wasn’t green lighting anything other than the tent poles and the cheapest games possible?
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Jesus, they really have zero clue what they are doing.
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I think the amount that this resonates with among the core are about as bad if not worse and you’ve got influencers with huge followings and social media. Phil Spencer was trending throughout yesterday even Kendrick Lamar called him out. I do like your calmness but this is quite big. I would say Satya and others probably did take notice. I was just hoping that I wouldn’t wake up hearing thier is a new Xbox management like 2013. I think Phil and his team need to have a serious talk with all their studios on many things like release schedules and just where Microsoft is at in their thoughts. I sincerely hope Phil can make a case for non-interference from Microsoft for a at least 3 to 5 years.
Now that team has to bear a greater percentage of the burden of the support staff and building. Needs to sell more. And who knows if they even want or or able to make that move happen. An AA game being made under the wing of a AAA studio works far better. An AA studio is okay. An AA studio in the corpse of a AAA studio doesn’t work at all.
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1788356295667466320
just SHUT UP!
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That seems a little quickish to me, with Avowed coming out this year, but you’re right, they are managed well. With Grounded still being worked on, Avowed coming out soon, they definitely shouldn’t be on the chopping block.
That being said no one else should have been let go.
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What in the absolute fucking hell?
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We didnt. The concern was “When is Xbox going to build a first party”. Now its panic merchants fretting over closing down a couple of studios - which Sony does annually- and pretending game pass is unsustainable.
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