The Xbox Situation Is About To Get Worse
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I guess we don't have to worry about them becoming a monopoly. Turns out you actually need to be half way competent for that to be a thing.
Yea. I think what is happening is xbox relied too much on microsofts money.
I saw this video breaking down how profitable the xbox brand is and compared to microsofts other areas. Its one of the weakest. The xbox one wasnt as succesful as the 360 and the series consoles have not done well as they focus on game pass.
Which game pass itself is burning money
So i think all of this was fine since agian microsoft has money to burn. But it became an issue when they aquired activision and bethesda.
Now they burned mountains of money that microsoft has to get involved now and keep an eye on them and make decisions for them.
It sucks that the regular person is taking the hit for this.
@@israelruiz8706 Which is funny because theyre getting rid of things thatd absolutely make them money plus the whole Gamepass problem.
Monopoly or not, MS should not be allowed to acquire anymore studios. Their incompetency in this industry is crazy!
@@yanayana5408 The problem is that from Microsoft's perspective their competence is measured in 'shareholder value' not in how many good products they release.
If the Microsoft pc game store was actually functional game pass would probably be doing better. But previously their was clearly minimal allowance for Xbox to get actual stuff done on windows.
That could've been reluctance on the Xbox side or the msft side. Unfortunately now the full msft board have taken more control so Xbox is going to be cannibalised for Microsoft games
The reason xbox is always in last place is the same reason DCU loses to Marvel, trying to chase instant success instead of building and investing time into something. They don't want to fail first and get better, they want to buy success but fail to understand you can't sustain success if you haven't earned it.
Speaking of Marvel, they came to both Sony and MS and offered to make a game about ANY superhero from their roster. Sony asked Insomniac and they chose Spider-Man and MS declined the offer.
@@vault29a yea too much risk and work smh
@vault29a As much as that offer seems like a no-brainer in hindsight given that 2018s Spiderman was so good, in Microsoft's defense back when that game first started development, a Spiderman game was definitely not a sure success. The Amazing Spiderman games had recently been released in 2012 and 2014 and they didn't generate much success or excitement from gamers.
And look at how well Marvel is doing in 2024.....
But I do agree with you, just seems like they spoil it by flogging the soon to be dead horse.
@@reddeviluk Well the same thing is kind of happening, Sony will flood people with their IPs and it will feel stale
So Xbox acquires all those studios... just for them to shut them down??
WTF??
They didn't want the studios. They wanted the big money makers, like Call of Duty.
@@bannensstuff6278This and also there’s an element of buying up the competition and controlling it.
@@bannensstuff6278then it doesn't really make sense to buy them in the first place?
If you wanted the games, then they are acknowledging they wanted the money the games brought in. If that is the case then why not keep the studio open to allow them to keep making new games?
If they don't value the awards or the teams behind these titles, then why buy them in the first place? Why deny these people their jobs? Why deny us as consumers.the potential for what they could produce?
The decisions just don't make sense to me.
I have never seen a company destroy every shred of goodwill they had so quickly.
It's honestly impressive.
@@chuckchan4127
Even Sega didn’t it that quickly, that took them a few years.
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You must not have been here for the Xbox One reveal when they tanked everything the 360 built up?
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Even Sega didn’t do it that quickly
@@SmashBrosAssemble Sega at least did:
Mega drive
Genesis
Random crap for Genesis
Saturn
Dreamcast
Before they crashed and burned.
Any game studio in Microsoft’s umbrella that has shipped a game now has a target on their back.
If I don’t see a single game to look forward to this June showcase I’m selling my Xbox
Hellblade 2 is definitely not gonna be a system seller
Most games aren't system sellers. Even Sony's best games, when you look at the number of copies sold to the number of systems sold, do not equate to moving the majority of systems. I think the best selling 1st party game still sold less than 20% of systems sold, and the *vast* majority of those game sales were to people that already owned the hardware.
@@davidandrew6855 Nintendo is the only one
Not a single exclusive has sold me a series or ps5. Through all generations of both consoles, I really struggle to name 10 combined total that I actually like. I got a ps5 because I had a huge digi library from previous gens. I got a series x because I missed having a xbox(only owned a original previously) & after using it awhile, actually prefer the controller type now.
@@whosaidthat84 I would say that of the big 3, Nintendo would be the one that has games just for their system. But then Nintendo marches to a different beat, and rally isn't in competition with Sony or Microsoft, that could change though if handheld rumors are true.
Gamepass is killing MS.
Theory: Laying people off ready for AI coming in
AI is going to happen. That doesn't mean the layoffs right now are directly related to that.
Or game development is expensive and we're in a recession right now and a multi million dollar investment that may or may not return investment is to much of a gamble right now
Wouldn’t shock me in the slightest but I’m of the mindset that if your going to lay off devs to do that then there’s no need to have people like Phil Spencer as well lol
@@zimattack9994 Who's we? The US is still not in a recession.
To a point, layoffs are for shareholders and padding profit margins
Are we able to watch the full podcast somewhere? or just audio on spotify/etc??
Honestly this one is just a news video that we shot in the podcast studio… and ended up being much longer than we thought haha. No plans to do the pods as full vids at the moment, just as audio releases!
Honestly how do Phil Spencer Matt Booty & Aaron Greenberg still have jobs? Like how? They have completely, utterly failed Xbox, they’ve all but killed the brand.
Microsoft are gonna go multi platform, it’s gonna happen, Xbox as a console is finished.
They're rebranding as _Ex-box._
To give them the benefit of the doubt, Xbox is not Microsoft. Microsoft might want Xbox to go in a different direction.
They still have jobs because the layoffs are good for business. It saves money. I think while Xbox hasn’t grown in sales, digital growth (money from activision, etc) grew slightly. So in terms of doing their job (making money) they are sort of doing their job. Next quarter, with these layoffs, any negative in revenue shouldn’t be as bad with less staff. They’ll continue to cut so they still in the positive. Their job isn’t to make sure staff have jobs, esp when the majority of the money makers come from digital services like call of duty, candy crush, Minecraft etc. Sucks but that’s how it is with big businesses.
It's NOT PHIL that's doing this!... Ffs.. It's the higher ups
@@Shikmusikhigher ups are acting, cos Phil is useless. 10 years and $100 billion later with NOTHING to show for it. Literally had 2 generations back to back disasters. Meanwhile Nintendo Switch came in 2017 followed WiiU which was 10x colossal disaster than Xbone.
Phil is also the only executive in gaming history who had ZERO exclusives on a BRAND NEW CONSOLE LAUNCH, utter loser he is
Scary part of Hellblade 2 is that it is a Mature rated game and the original game was lauded, deservedly so, for having a truly wonderful and unique development. I hope it does well because I absolutely loved the original, but it is a niche-type game. I am really worried for Ninja Theory as, like mentioned, they have less than a week to release and no PR is out there for the game.
MS should just leave the game business and sell the game division! I purchased the Series X like a total FOOL! I will no longer buy any console made by MS .
But who can afford Xbox division? Activision is alone very expensive
My prediction is Ninja Theory and Double Fine getting closed next
Absolutely!, Hellblade 2 come's out next week and not a stitch of marketing or talk about the game, the game is probably awful and ms has no choice but to release it
@@johncapone8843 I think the game will be good but I wouldn't be surprised the lack of advertising is due to them not trying to put too much more money into the studio as they cut their loses and move on
Everyone thinks this oh well 🥶
100%.
Ninja Theory would easily be grabbed by Sony, or at least help them produce
I think we're seeing the weakness of the subscription model. With the size of Microsoft Games right now, it's spread too thin. Smaller companies just can't survive in that environment, I think that's why Tango was cut. It seems they want to go the "go big or go home" approach and I just don't think that's the right call at this time with the current economy. It's going to get worse before it gets better, that's for sure.
Why are you buying these studios? Just to shut them down?
they wont dont listen to this clown channel very great news coming from xbox with big showcase those clowns will shut up
And horde away their IP's to never see the light of day again.
From 2001 to 2013 Microsoft built the Xbox and it's brand to be one of the top in gaming, head to head with the Sony Playstation. They were renowed for their innovation in their consoles by doing things like being the first to have a built in hard drive along with Ethernet support for Lan & Online play, and the amazing multi-player service of Xbox Live. They continued this throughout the 360 Era with things like "Xbox Live Arcade" which showcased some of the best Indie games and developers we have seen to this day. People forget that even on the original Xbox, they had great Exclusives like Chronicles of Riddick, Ninja Gaiden was initially exclusive, and the Original Splinter Cell was initially exclusive. People forget that Mass Effect was initially exclusive to the Xbox 360. Then, post Xbox One, the number of innovative titles, features, and just plain good games have freaking plummeted despite buying up massive numbers of developers. People in the industry always make excuses for Phil Spencer, but Xbox as a brand has literally tanked since he was put in charge. It has been completely run into the ground under his leadership 🤷🏾♂️.
The entire idea of Gamepass still is predicated on you making GOOD GAMES for it to be of value. $20 a Month may not seem like a lot but that is $240 a year. And at about $60 per game, that means that for gamepass to be of value, you need to have at least 4 great games per year on it, minimum. Technically it needs to be more than that cause at least if I buy it outright, I own it, whereas titles come and go off Gamepass monthly. So IMO it needs to have at least 6 great games a year I would have purchased for it to be remotely worth the financial cost, and Xbox over the last decade has STRUGGLED to get out at least ONE great game a year for the last DECADE. Meahwhile Sony last Gen dropped Last of Us Remastered, Last of Us Part 2, BloodBorne, Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4, Uncharted Lost Legacy, God of War, Death Stranding, Final Fantasy Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet & Clank, Spider-Man, etc. And This generation they have released Spider-Man Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2, God of War Ragnorock, Horizon Forbidden West, Final Fantasy XVI, Final Fantasy Rebirth, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Returnal, Demon Souls Remake, and this year already have two hits in HellDivers 2 and Stellar Blade.
Meanwhile Microsoft even killed the hype for their greatesr series in Halo with that absolute DUMPSTER FIRE of an initial showing that had Xbox360 graphics so bad they had to delay the game for over a year, on what you were advertising as, "The most powerful gaming system EVER", and it didn’t even look as good as the titles Sony had on their Previous Gen PS4 at the time. Yeah, if they are changing things to "Microsoft Gaming", put a nail in the coffin of Xbox, it is DONE.
Im mostly a Sony/Nintedo guy but I do not want to see MS go down. Packaging Kinect with the XB1 was a dire mistake.
I am legitimately asking and not throwing shade or anything but did game developers have to stop working during the pandemic instead of working from home? It comes up in almost any video about how games are getting delayed or don’t come out after 9 years of development and I don’t know how that process works and how the pandemic actually impacted the work
Some couldn't because they didn't have the tools (hardware, software, data, infrastructure, etc) available to them from home. Some could but it takes time and training to go from working in office to working remote. So either way, there's going to be a delay and adjustment period.
I've heard it used as an excuse for this gane more than every other combined, so I didn't swallow it.
If you don't have the procedures and infrastructure in place for the whole team to work from home you can't change that on a week's notice. Plus there most likely was some reluctance in the beginning to make drastic changes as they needed to see how that pandemic plays out.
xbox will just end up being a third party publisher that's the only way they can give Microsoft the numbers they want to see
What bothers me about Phil is that he thinks nobody is going to buy an xbox that has a playstation at this point. If you head over the starfield subreddit and look at old posts, you’ll see people who bought an xbox cos of starfield. Not everyone wants to build a pc. There are people who will buy an xbox if a game that they wanna play is being made for it.
Hellblade 2 is a loss, no matter what. The only time that game was important was when Series X was announced, that's it. The game won't sell, it won't move consoles, and won't increase Game Pass subscriptions. So what is there left for it? It was used as marketing, and now it will be just a nice add to their bulk of GP content, and that will be the extent of it. It's obvious, it's simple, and unfortunate.
Pains me to admit it but you're spot on. Hellblade itself was pretty niche.
Tech demo basically.
100% right. It’s funny that Xbox used it so heavily towards marketing the Series consoles years ago but now that the game is releasing they haven’t marketed the game whatsoever
They could release it on PlayStation and get more sales from it, I’d buy it!
@@CodyWhiteMusic they probably will but it’ll be a year or two and won’t really help. Sure it’ll get them some money back but it won’t help untarnish the Xbox brand. At this point they need to worry less about the money and more about the brand. If they fix the Xbox brand the money will come
Maybe the devs could collect returnable bottles and cans during their lunch breaks for the company to help make back those $70/100bn.
Should’ve made scalebound .
Blame PlatinumGames for that. Not Xbox. Hideki Kamiya took the blame.
Nope blame Microsoft they could of helped make the game.
@@Megablueliner1 it was miscommunication on both sides. They never saw eye to eye
They make us pay more for games, Dlc, and Xbox Live and PSN which makes them more money, then they start closing more studios
I’m sure Hellblade will be good. But it won’t be a system seller, and it won’t sell because of gamepass.
Luke stephens had chatgpt respond to a question asked by the interviewer and the ai gave a response almost word for word like Sarah bond.
Doubt that.
@Gearrion look up luke stephens chatgpt there's video proof
Goodbye Ninja Theory. You will be missed.
Phil has pulled the fortnite kid with parents credit card maneuver now that i think of it in a saddening light
As you said it is coming up to the end of their financial year. Layoffs give a nice short term boost that looks good to executives and shareholders. Five will get you ten that in little while they'll be scrambling to rehire all the people they laid off.
I just got a new series X yesterday and I swear I’m not even sure why
Hellblade is not a system seller. And I enjoyed the first one.
Yeah, the problem is that the console space really doesn't have a space for 'art house' style games to just 'be' right now.
I wonder if the closure of Tango and Arkane Austin was out of Spencer's hands and his silence is him refusing to accept the blame for it.
All we're seeing is Booty, Bond and Greenberg making some sort of dance around how they really feel about it.
Make me think it was a higher up at MS that has forced it through post the Activision buyout.
I'm glad we are all on the same page.
Sarah was made a scapegoat...no more, no less. This could lead to even worse market stats for Xbox...a dumb move made even dumber.
I feel like we have been living through an arms race in the game world and it wasn’t even remotely sustainable. Now we get to see the aftermath of overspending, poor investments, and bad ideas as all those developers hired to make the next big thing are let go regardless of success since those bloated budgets can no longer be justified when the most popular games in the last year have been Lethal Company, Palworld, and Helldivers 2.
Tango Gameworks had an estimated worth of around 10.5 million give or take. Matt Booty himself is Estimated to make 13.5 million a year plus bonus's... just saying.
My suspicion is the reason why other studios weren’t affected such as Double Fine or 343 with the closures is that these are in active development of new games which probably have already had large amount of funds being pumped into them.
Closing the other studios which were either supporting a game or beginning the development of another would be much easier to close
The sooner everyone wakes up to the fact that companies exist solely to make money, the sooner everyone will understand that the only way to make a company change any policy is to speak to them though their wallets.
Gamers and also game devs will continue to be treated in these deplorable ways until we care enough about protecting ourselves and the art of game creation, to unite and with a collective voice, say no more gamer abuse.
Unfortunately companies, like Ubisoft and Sony, use the fact that gamers do not see anything that doesn't directly hurt their particular region of the gaming space as a problem. Which leads to further erosion of the perceived limits of what companies can get away with while still taking our hard earned money. Helldivers 2 is a perfect example of how the total apathy of gamers to issues affecting other aspects of gaming, like console and pc not seeing how issues hurting one, apathy which is only emboldening further abuse, hurts the other as well...
This apparent total lack of awareness is being used by companies to get away with immoral business practices and outright gamer abuse. Looking objectively and honestly, if we're not able to open our collective eyes and notice we're being taken advantage of, we kind of deserve it and further more have no right to complain about things we allow to occur...
I think the reality of GP is that is just isn’t financially viable for what they want.
5 years for a 7 hour, maybe 8 hour game...which is mostly cutscenes .... Yeah HB 2
will not sell consoles and it doesnt have to as its definitely coming to ps5 in a short time frame...watch and see
That thumbnail is pure nightmare fuel. 💀
I think the problem is you all keep expecting games on GP day one. Call of Duty development cost is around 300Million that means you need to sell 4.4 million copies at $70 to break-even. Daily active users on Xbox rounded 5 million. They are needed at the 70 dollar price point so PC and PS make profit. Because if we say those 5 million users will pay GP, unless they stay 5 months and don't download another game during that period it is unsustainable.
The issue with the "best value on gaming" is that it has proven a huge burden to Xbox and the industry.
Even success doesn't guarantee safety sadly
We went from "XBOX doesn't have any games," to "XBOX has games, but they don't market them."
Xbox has games . . . then they lit them on fire.
Hellblade 2 will probably be a critical darling. The first one was a great game however it's kind of a niche game. It won't be a system seller or a gamepass booster so I fear for the future of the studio.
I mis the Xbox to halfway through the 360 Xbox. That was the last time I really trusted them.
I think I'll be trading my series X in before it literally becomes worthless...
All of my money is on "all of this is because Halo infinite was a failure at launch"
Why close studios ? Sell them to anyone else instead of closing with ip they made
They didn't talk about Forza because it was a huge step backwards.
Surely Hellblade isn't going to sell a bunch, it's just not that sort of game. It may be a fantastic game, but it will never sell big numbers. The Dead Space remake was well received but wasn't big enough, Alan Wake 2 was great and hasn't made it's money back yet, even the mighty Final Fantasy isn't able to being to make it's money back. Ultimate fact is, games are too expensive to make now and the publishers/owners will want to keep their shareholders happy, which means culling staff and reducing the amount of large AAA (or even AAAA games ;) ) game development.
It's almost like they've raised the price of video games to being detrimental to their own ecosystem. They've chased away all the casual gamers they picked up during the pandemic. And those that are left can wait for a deep sale because buying day one only gets you a broken game that you can only play a year after release anyway.
I think these games will become classics and make ton of money in the long run. There are so many games and most games are 30 plus hours type of games; some games are even 100 hours plus. People have huge backlogs and people wait until games come out on sale
Alan wake lost at least 2 million copies going only digital.
Xbox; soon to be an ex-box.
If Hellblade 2 is their big game for 2024 then it's going to be another disappointing year. I don't know a single person who's waiting for this game or planning to buy an Xbox or even sign up to Gamepass to play it. Hellblade just isn't close to being a big enough deal for them to hang their hat on. They clearly know this too since they're not hyping its release.
I really hope Fable is what turns Xbox around. I love those games
My wife wants a new Fable game
Everybody keeps talking tough until Microsoft drops the new COD or the next system. Then every gamer will forget they hate them 🤦🏽♂️
The beginning of the birth of Activision-XBox.
What's happening in the industry is a brush fire that is going on. Unfortunately it's has to happen to make the industry healthier and stronger. It's sucks and I feel terrible for all the people that lost their jobs. It's the end of AAA games and lot of those who just lost their jobs will create new indy studios , change the industry, move forward and become stronger. I don't want this to happen to these people.
That last time this happened was the game crash in the 80's. I think you're right, some of this stuff has to come crumbling down before it can get better. In my opinion, there are too many games out there and many of them aren't worth the time. Also, with the prominence of smart phones, apps, and streaming services, everyone is trying to get your time. Games are competing against these things, so it seems like it's harder than ever to sell games (not to mention the price hikes).
Crazy times
With the recent popularity of Fallout due to the TV Show, if only Microsoft had a team that had experience with making a Fallout game and could develop a new title in about 18 months to cash in on this....
Yea, Microsoft isn't making the best decisions of late...
I'm not just here to stick up for Xbox, but I do want to say, there are other reasons to close studios other than money and output. There could is most likely something behind the scenes that gave Microsoft reason to close Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games. On the surface, a company releasing and bad game or a good game could make a difference whether to keep or close, but it is far from the only factor. Without knowing the all the details of how those developers operated and how that fit with the company's vision or direction, all that can be done is speculate. Which is all any of this is. There is a really good chance that Microsoft didn't want to close a studio who gave them a sleeper hit that won accolades, but some other factor led to the closure of the studio. These decisions, contrary to popular belief, aren't generally made on a whim. I do see the appeal of looking at the big bad corporation and wanting to defend the little guy though.
I think the other reasons would have come out by now. It looks like X box is changing their strategy and will just focus on main Bethesda games, Actvision Blizzard, and mobile gaming at the expense of smaller creative type games. Either way this is a public relations fiasco and their leaders Spencer, Bond, and especially Booty have been poor at their job communicating what's going on.
Obsidian is probably not long for this world...
Avowed wont be skyrim level, and their last two games was a small weird one and a okay survival game. it just sucks that after almost 2 decades of being fucked over by publishers and being reliant on crowdfunding, they will most likely die in what should be their perfect spot
Obsidian will be fine. They’re probably one of only a few studios at Xbox that won’t have a target on their back
...well, well, well...if it isn't Shanty Man himself...lol...
They don’t want awards they want money an endless stream of money
If nothing else, this channel is certainly helping to talk me out trying to get back into gaming.
I'm pretty sure Hellblade 2 will be better then the first one, but I don't think it will be a console sale mover, I can look back at the first one, and see things they could of done differently
Game Pass does not sell games, it kills them.
This really just sounds like hyperbole around what's happening industry wide.
It's not industry wide. It is only companies that are losing. Xbox isn't the industry. They have always tried to control the narrative by saying it's industry wide. They tried to change the narrative on buying games by saying gamepass is the future of gaming. Wrong.
@@bishopsmith3796so all the other companies closing studies and doing layoffs aren’t doing that?
@@javierfhi62 layoffs and closures are always happening, even before many here were even born. Any and every industry goes through it. However the Xbox situation is more nuanced. Unfortunately everything is always the end of something, and a collapse or disaster. So there's no room to understand the specifics. Xbox issue, has nothing to do with the issues that are wide and normal. Has to do with them changing the distribution model, and making investments that need recouping, as per the parent company and investor. Again, not the end of the world or the industry. This is not the 80s, and gaming is not going anywhere. There will be changes, and that is nothing new.
Studios closed. Learn what hyperbole means.
@@TheNotSure Was referring to the hyperbole of WhatCulture saying the situation at XBox is about to get worse as it's industry wide, learn to read
I just want to know how is it an Xbox problem when other companies having the same issues like Square Enix and even Nintendo says that mergers and acquisitions are the future of gaming?
Yet again I have to say because Microsoft is moving most of there funds into AI research, and hiring top people in AI research to beat Apple and google to the punch and corner the market. There gaming division is going to be cut to the bone and what there spending is going to be funneled into AI research going forward so enjoy your Xbox gaming experience while you have it.
Xbox showcase on June 9 will be make or break
The video game industry situation is about to get better.
All platforms are one killer app away from greatness.
Hellblade 2 is going to be the game Sony wanted The Order 1886 to be, but with a fraction of the marketing push so Xbox will shut it down.
How many of those layoffs are in useless Marketing, PR, and DEI positions I wonder...
The whole Tango situation gets really weird especially when, if you exclude everything with the super success of Hi Fi Rush and them saying they should get more games like that after the fact...if you ignore all that, one thing thats really weird about them axing that studio is how Xbox has been trying to break into the Japanese market for a long time with very little success, and here you have a very successful Japanese studio and you let them go...
And then Xbox/Microsoft Gaming is making all these moves and trying to justify their own actions, but at the same time, its hard to believe anything when you cut a bunch of jobs from people who make said games for you, but at the same time are using said money to buy up companies, studios, IPs, and hiring new execs and paying them a single base salary that equals an entire studios annual salary. But yeah, at the same time you have to make "cuts" and reshuffle things around. Right.
Microsofts biggest issue right now, is that they have so many studios and only a handful are known to be actually working on stuff, and some of the known stuff thats being worked on is in a messy state or in limbo. Other than they, a bulk of their own studios arent really known to be working on anything and they are mostly just buying up studios that are already working on stuff rather than working on stuff themselves.
I miss the old 360 days Microsoft and the original Xbox. You did not have to change anything. Make a new console keep bringing out the good games that was it. That 2013 was so embarrassed I didn't know what was going on, started talking about TV shows and movies. I was here for some games.X box 360 was favorite system and kill it, because you can't beat it.
I guess activasion accuired microsoft not the other way around
This really sounds like Microsoft is telling Xbox which direction to go. IMO these decisions are being made over Phil's head and it's either go along or get lost.
That may be but Phil has had over a decade to pull Xbox’s head out of its own ass and he’s completely failed to do so. Of course after Phil spending over $80 billion in a year’s time that Microsoft would start paying more attention. Phil blew through essentially 4 years worth of Microsoft’s profits with absolutely nothing to show for it
@@danieleberly9629 This comment is so illogical and utter nonsense I don't know where to begin. You don't really believe that it was Phil that made the $74B Activison deal on his own authority do you? This was certainly reviewed and approved by the CEO of Microsoft, the executive board and the vote rights shareholders as well.
There is plenty that will be shown for it, now that those IPs from Activison start selling under the Xbox Studios banner. For instance MW3 made over $800M in just 3 days and over $1B in 10 days. So how do you justify _"nothing to show for it"_
Now don't get me wrong, I game mostly on PC now and PS5, and I don't agree with all of Microsoft's strategy, but I think your comment is a bit disingenuous, considering the state of the gaming industry at the moment.
Then the activision blizzard acquisition should have never happened if it was too expensive
@@derekgella1722 What else are companies supposed to do with their MEGABUX?
That would be kind of weird if a 6 hour demo like Hellblade 2 wins any awards causes it is really just a long demo
The way this is going, the only survivor will be nintendo. The little plumber looks like hes going to win lol
MS has released more first-party studios than they've released first-games. And that's not hyperbole.
Luckily that doesn't face me because I was always a PlayStation guy.😊
Nah this could affect you even if you don't think it could.
@@jcdenton41100 I didn't watch the video, so i have no idea what you talking about.😁
That's a very short-sighted way of seeing things...
If all this happens to be true, it'd take effect in the whole industry.
@@alaneduardomartinezg.8930 then we're all probably fcked.😁
Oh it does buddy. If you're a game this will affect you
The problem with success for this games is that they dont have a market to make it
Am I the only one who doesn't care anymore it seems like gaming is becoming a cesspool of bullshit. Time to hit the reset button on gaming.
Nintendo seems to be doing fine.
Plenty of good PC series are releasing new games like Homeworld 3, or Sins of the solar empire 2. Nintendo has good games. It's really just Microsoft and Sony that have turned stale and boring. It doesn't help they both decided that every game needs to be a cash shop first, and a game second. I intentionally try to avoid Live service titles and it seems both of these companies want to do almost only them.
@@canadianguy1955 Rule of thumb is to stay under the radar. Don't attract the eager eye of the venture vultures.
@@Bustermachine Look how Sony has treated Arrowhead (Helldivers 2). One of the only successful live service games they've got launched. They then stifle it's success intentionally in over 180 countries by stopping sales. All because they want you to have a PSN account. A horrible business decision.
After all the firing and studio closing over at Microsoft. I would feel real worried about my job if I was a Ninja Theory employee. Microsoft purchased them, forced them to do a Hellblade sequel a niche game that was successful mainly do to it's lower price point of $40. Now they want to sell the new one that is just as short of a game for $70 while offering it on gamepass. Meaning it's going to get horrible sales. The fact they haven't been advertising this game says a lot. Ninja Theory is next on the chopping block.
Don't just avoid the Venture Vultures. Companies need to be weary about even being part of the big main console brands at this point. They are horribly managed this console generation. So much so that I don't even own any of the current consoles, and have no intention of getting any of them.
let Josh host!
I'm so happy about this. Lol
Gaming isn't what it used to be. This is just ridiculous that all they do is buy company's and then just shut them down bc of what reason....sales?? What happens to creative sprit fun and entertainment? Instead of putting faith in something that works they just shut it down. So sad really for all the teams and developers. Shame on corporate B's and greed.
Hellblade 2 is going to flop hard. It's already forecasted to be largely a flop. Microsoft's promotion in Europe right now is a chance to play the game for 2 hours to complete 50% of the game. Yeah, 2 hours to get halfway through the game. 7 years of development. For 5 hours. Of a walking simulator. /)_
Oh of course it is. Every price gouging tactic is just going to drive more and more players away. Everyone I know is switching to offline gaming because they are sick of this and more and more people are abandoning so-called AAA games because they cost far to much to buy initially and with all the loot boxes and micro transactions they simply cannot afford it.
We are in one of the worst economies since The Great Depression and people do not have expendable income anymore. 50% of Canadians for example barely make it to the end of each month, they don't have to money to pay for these games.
So many industries are jacking up prices and losing more and more customers because of it.
Bethesda's main studio has 1 game every 4 years and half the time they aren't even great Fallout 76, Starfield. A lot of people disliked Fallout 4. Sure Skyrim and Fallout 3 were great so when they are good they are great but 2 games in 20 years. With these smaller studios ya could get more frequent good games coming rather than get 1 great game every 10 years
This happens all the fuckin time the gaming community shits on xbox so hard saying theyre dead they are clos9ng down they are loosing money and rinse and repeat. Sony does something similar its eh.the bias and double standard is just blowing my mind
If this industry focused on selling fun instead of fueling addictions, it would be in a much better place.
And people crap on Nintendo for focusing on fun instead of pretty graphics with no heart
N-NO I- I cant take it anymore AHHHHH
Game pass and current leadership need to go ASAP. That’s a step in the right direction.
Microsoft is just showing what a great company it is and I’ll never understand why devs are the ones that have to go we need a change their for sure like executives and ceo take a damn pay cut because it’s their leadership is what causes these lay offs
This entire industry needs the Thanos treatment. I know. It sucks for all the workers and artists out there but unfortunately their continued employment means gaming continues down this path. Better that everyone goes belly up, those @$#&ing ghouls ruining everything get their golden parachutes... then another tiny company springs up from the ashes and brings about another golden gaming era.
Why get better yourself when you can destroy other better, but smaller, companies.
I take it Microsoft is going the way of Sega as far as the so-called "Console Wars"?
I wonder how many Larian Stuidos hired?
Want to make award winning games and be treated well?