TOW2 has evidently been in the works since 2019 and has a dedicated team. But yeah we won’t know for sure until we see more.
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Then minimise the studio and have them work on some niche jrpg or other japanese game
Not tangos fault Bethesda took a paycheck to make ghostwire a ps5 and fucking EPIC exclusive only the completely fuck the game over
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Those deals probably made more money than the sales of the game ever did. Nobody liked the concept.
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If that is true, that is good news. If you were to take out two of those years for the lockdown, you’d have a minimum of four years of development time and that is a good amount of development time. Thanks for letting me know that by the way.
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Short term sure…but you cant take that deal then bitch about sales. Long term these deals hurt your games
Especially the fucking epic store
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Sarah still has a lot of potential and ill give her longer in the new role but Matt has been a complete disaster
Even when xbox was doing well early gen this guy wasnt producing and the halo infinite debacle is on him.
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Think about it this way- without those deals, Tango gets shut down before the acquisition happens. They didn’t do the deal for fun. They had to make a bottom line.
Sometimes I wonder how Xbox can be this stupid.
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https://x.com/aarongreenberg/status/1788369899729133683?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
I want to bring it here because earlier today, I have seen nothing but high emotion reaction to anything I mean anything. Case in point, earlier Xbox post HB2 image and everyone including Jez said that’s all their marketing budget. Look, you all have every right to express your self and I can understand the feeling. That said be thoughtful like before.
It’s like you telling me I’m wasting money by opening a soda can that we already owned. One step at a time. Don’t take it on everything when at this time, the topic is on developers. Everything else as of right now remain the same until actual news like yesterday happens. Don’t take it on other people who is no different from developers alas marketing guys or anyone who worked their ass for you guys. Be respectful.
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I’m just gonna say this. This is a bad article, with a misleading headline and a single line of text with zero context around it. Hi-Fi Rush is not a “small” game, it was 5 years of dev with far more devs than something like Pentiment or Grounded.
I typically like The Verge, but in this case I think this article is not well written and unprofessional. We do not know in what way this line was said, the entire article puts that quote out there and never explains it, instead leading readers in the way the author wanted them to think.
Also, yelling “shut up” when it’s a single quote taken from an internal meeting is ridiculous, be better.
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Xbox is in a basketball game against home team. Home team got all the momentum and no one is calling a timeout. In other words, the attack is running wild.
I was just gonna say something similar. I like Tom but unfortunately this seem like sensationalism.
This just fits the anti corpo narrative better but critical and nuanced thinking would show it was fiscally justified just not socio-politically.
This was written by Ash Paris, Tom retweeted it.
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I stand corrected on the author but my opinion on the exercise stays the same.
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Regarding COD/Game Pass -
If it means no more layoffs, studio closures, cancellations and keeps Game Pass at $11/$17 respectively, then by all means sell the fucking game for $70 which is what it will be everywhere else anyway. I would easily and gladly accept this trade off. And when I say sell COD for $70, I mean every year for as long as it exists.
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How will those smaller titles that take less than 4 years to develop bring in awards and Prestige? It Will do exactly the opposite IMO. AA titles still take a lot of time I dont think Matt Booty knew very well what he was talking about or confused some aspects of it.
What are you talking about, they literally had one with Pentiment. Palworld just released and was an 8 million dollar budget but made far more than that. He wants huge ROI and less AA sized games that rarely hit the way we’d think they do. Again, that quote has zero context to it, and the article is written in a way to lead you into what it means. It’s shitty
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I wasnt talking about budget I was talking about development time because that’s what booty said , palworld took 5 years to get to early access that’s why it cost 8 million dollar and most of it was developed on devs free time from college.
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I’ll tell you one thing. Whether you get back that old feeling or not down the road, I have seen many true colors and there’s no going back. Hell, the leaker or at least I think he is, the guy who covers RE games, flat out going to be biased on Xbox. So don’t be surprise if you hear things like “RE9 was going to be exclusive, but Xbox cried like babies to release.”
Fortunately, there’s still cooler heads out there. Again, you have every right to be upset at the news, but some of them act like an anime character that becomes edgelord.