Larian Studios' CEO explained it best in his GDC speech. These big companies keep losing oceans of talent, institutional knowledge and experience each time they feel like laying off tons of developers to earn an extra penny. Its a losing strategy and everybody has to pay except the ones actually responsible for their horrendous decisions
The same company and ceo who sold their souls to HASBRO MATTEL and DEI agenda to get money to produce BG3 is talking bulls about others? Hold my beer [maybe hold MY BEAR?]r: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... My gosh Larian CEO is the most hypocritical being in the gamer world!
The industry is in a great place, actually. Amazing indie games, amazing single player games, amazing mp/live service games.... but that will change if a company like Microsoft is allowed to monopolize it.
@@DownBelowNagrindNo. Dishonored 1 started in Austin with Rafael Colantonio and Harvey Smith. It was the pillar of the game/level design, while Lyon was the pillar of the art direction. Then Smith moved to Lyon, and that's where Dishonored 2 was made while Austin was building Prey with Colantonio at its head.
There’s a reason why game devs didn’t want to put their games on Game Pass. They know it’s not financially sustainable. It was a bad idea from the start and gamers don’t want to admit it.
I mean I might be in the minority but I actually really liked game pass when I had it. I never would have played celeste, Ori, or hollow knight which are some of mt favorite games I’ve ever played. After I moved to pc I bought them cuz I wanted to replay them. I also played doom eternal, halo infinite, Minecraft’s dungeons which are games that I never really want to playa again but I’m glad that I did
That's the reason why I don't want it, if it can be appealing at first I know that eventually game pass is going to be way more expensive, and turn like Netflix by making the borriest content ever created just to target a larger audience, terrible idea
Rocksteady shouldn't be included in the list of studios who were forced to go live service, because they wanted to make that game, and approached Warner Bros. with the idea of making a live service multiplayer game. It sucked, but they weren't forced by Big Business to make a game no one but shareholders wanted. They took their shot and shot themselves in the foot. No one but Rocksteady is to blame for that.
Hearing “Not Like Us” in the vid gave me a culture shellshock I never thought I’d have. I’d ask if you’re pro Kdot or Drake, but then I remember you’re a commentary youtuber, not a minecraft youtuber
@@GDKF0238 If you have bad taste just say that. Section80, Good kid maad city, To Pimp a Butterfly, and Damn are all classic albums. Mr Morale was a therapy album so I understand why people don't like it, but it's still objectively good. Drake's best album was Take Care, and he didn't even write most of the songs on the album.
The whole good guy Microsoft shtick wasn't for the customers. It was for the Activision acquisition deal. Them looking very consumer friendly definitely helped tipped the scales in their favor during that acquisition. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that they were actively sabotaging their own games to improve their chances. Edit: with Activision they don't need to make good games. People give that company billions for trash. That and wow is coming back to China so it is effectively an infinite money glitch (I didn't even mention all the mobile games they get from King).
Yeah of course it isn't for the customers. Nothing is. The reason they did it is completely wrong too. They realized that they make more money by selling games than consoles, so they just gave them away. Sony and Nintendo are too stuck up to give away games, so Microsoft is just labelled as the nice guy.
@bearpoop720 because 343 games make alot of money Not a single Tango Gameworks game or Arkane Austin game sold well (less than 5m copies sold per game) Halo comparatively almost always sell over 5M copies and upwards of 10M+ Halo also grew gamepass subs Maybe if TEW 1 & 2 didnt barely sell around 2m copies each & HiFi Rush didn't sell a measly 2-3M copies Tango wouldn't have been shut down
They closed the studios but have the rights to the IP’s. They can now fold those into whatever dev company they want to make and pay some cheap contractors to put out.
@@bellissimo4520 agreed, and why I don’t get attached to an IP. And judge the content on its own merits. Branding is stupid and should not be what consumers follow. There is wayyy to much easy to access information to be blind buyer like we were in the 90’s. Take the 10 minutes look up what you are about to purchase. And stop buying things off of the work a previous team did.
The main good thing microsoft has done lately has been bringing their games to PC. I can't think of anything else, I am pissed about the closure of Tango Gameworks cause Hi Fi Rush was incredible.
hi fi rush was a very safe game though, like it was trying so hard to not offend anyone, even the main character has like this generic style you come up with in 3 seconds.
@@MGrey-qb5xz To me it was the best character action game I have enjoyed since Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I don't play games based on if they're "safe" or not, I play them based on if they're fun or not. Sometimes this results in me playing games that aren't "safe", sometimes it does. No offense but a critique of the art style doesn't hold water to me when it's animated very well and the game itself is really enjoyable and hype.
I think not closing most of the Xbox division and game pass is a nice thing for the 20 million plus people out there on either side of that. Considering this whole thing is basically pocket change for a three trillion dollar corpo, they could have viewed this whole venture as a complete waste of time at any point and pulled the plug like google did with Stadia.
To be fair, consoles have been known to be financial losses for the company that sells them, but it is the games that make the profit, which makes gamepass even worse as they effectively remove most potential profit from consoles. The best thing Microsoft could do is use the fact they own windows and create their own game seller and launcher pre installed.
Exactly, Microsoft is trash, they always ruin the games they buy, also Sony and Nintendo makes games with amazing graphics and story lines, Microsoft never makes anything good lol. the only reason i need pc for gaming more
Honestly most of gaming has felt like a droute for the past 10 years, I never realized how spoiled I was growing up, it was golden from n64 to xbox 360. Then it quickly dried up around 2014-2015
DoubleFine was able to FINALLY make Psychonauts 2, partly because of Xbox's acquisition of them - but now this entire situation with Tango has me worried for their future, and i REALLY dont wanna see my favorite studio get shut down for stupid reasons
Correction, all the studios that were closed were under Bethesda / Zenimax. Microsoft was told by them that these studios are the ones holding them back financially. They are the executioner yes, but Bethesda are the ones who sent them to the gallows.
An easier and most likely solution instead of just "make better games" would be cuts on the higher ups salaries and a change in the management focus from making shareholder happy. Actually this is less likely to ever happen.
You forgot to consider the fact Sony and Nintendo also have proprietary media platforms Sony has their latest Blu-ray disc's and Nintendo has their proprietary cartridges Sony owning blu-ray has always f*cked over Microsoft since the Xbox 360 when it comes to physical media
"But despite being enjoyed and likeable, the studio has now been closed" 5:17 For reasons my brain won't understand, historically that's the default. So that should be "because" instead of "despite" I guess.
Starfield killed AAA gaming for me. Last game I will ever preorder. I knew it was a bad idea, I’d heard the grumblings and rumors that it was bad before release. I just really, really wanted to be proven wrong. You can also buy 3-10 indie games for the price of one AAA and get more enjoyable gameplay hours out of them even if they’re each pretty short lol.
Remember when the OG Xbox was treated as alien technology, and everyone(including children for the latter) played Halo Reach and Call of Duty during the Xbox 360 era? That was back when we gave a shit about Microsoft in the game industry. Two bad signs for their downfall was the infamous Red Ring of Death error for the Xbox 360 and the disdained Xbox One showcase at E3 2013, then it got worse from there with the console's launch. Also, fuck Microsoft for killing Tango Gameworks after Hi-Fi Rush was both a commercial and critical success one year later. Phil Spencer doesn't care about developers that make good games, he and Microsoft only care about money, and now I'm genuinely concerned for Rare and to a lesser extent Activision-Blizzard... If the latter had the absolute worst downfall out of a third-party developer(even originating from the PC market now considered 'retro' with Bethesda, which were both acquired by Microsoft).
Tango Gameworks being shut down genuinely broke my heart. Hi-fi Rush was one of the best games I’ve played in my entire life. Now i don’t know what will happen to the Hi-fi Rush IP
Microsoft suddenly understood that Activision- Blizzard deal was a disaster. And now will reverse this disaster on us. Phil Spencer almost certainly will lose it position.
what's crazy is before all this, I was actually considering getting an xbox as my next console. I love Arkane and Obsidian, and probably would have gotten the console to be able to keep playing their games. Now? no way. What guarantee is there that either studio is going to be around three years from now?
Microsoft is not in the best of times right now. People hated their decisions of the Xbox brand, and Windows 11 is being used by mostly no one right now.
The only thing I disagree with is the watchdogs take. Watch dogs 1 was fun. It wasn't perfect but it was good. I did not enjoy watch dogs 2. Good thing I got it for free, too.
Was kinda hoping that Game Pass was going to fuel a boom in the AA games coming out.. Giving us more Palworld, Helldivers sized games to enjoy doesn't seem the case so far. Tango could have been in that AA pocket nicely and absolutely crushed it.. But no, we are clearly not allowed nice things.
Tangos games were made with AAA budgets but barely made AA level profits and most AA games barely break even in terms of revenue so you can imagine the price to sales ratio for their games
@@P_D-px6iv xbox need some quantity right now. And quality, but if we can't get that.. quantity will do. They want to be the netflix of gaming, if there is only 1 show on netflix people like.. it's not going to convince people to stick around. If there is a number of interesting things, people will try out lots of different things. It's the buffet vs restaurant analogy. At a buffet you don't need amazing dishes. You need lots of variety and things to be 'pretty good' Helldivers 2 is a great example. A few maps that are not crazy over designed, not much variety, but the gameplay loop is awesome and really enjoyable. No campaign, no endgame, no 'but what's next' questions.. Just fun drop in shoot things and try to get out alive. If xbox can have a number of these kinds of game. Then they'll be doing pretty good. Even sea of thieves fits this mould.
@@P_D-px6iv if tango games don't sell that's on MS for handicapping them by strapping them to a dying subscription service instead of letting them be sold
What baffles my mind is how a few months ago, we all believed Xbox was going to stop making Consoles for a week after they were making some games go Multiplatform. When they said "No, we're not going out of business", you'd think they wouldn't do something to make them look stupid after spending $70 Billion on Studios
Microsoft's idea to get more Game Pass subs was to try getting the service on Nintendo and PlayStation and they both told Microsoft to screw off. Microsoft so desperate to get Xbox relevant in Japan rather than giving up on Japan, they haven't moved on from trying to acquire Nintendo after being laughed at 2 decades ago prompting them to buy Rare, thinking that they could damage Nintendo's since Rare wouldn't be making games for Nintendo and they'd get Donkey Kong, which neither happened. Do you think Nintendo would be better being owned by Microsoft after news came out that Microsoft 4 closed studios? Despite Nintendo's console being underpowered the Xbox is in 3rd place, and completely irrelevant in Japan.
always feels good to see appreciation for Gears.. Absolutely loved and still do love the series, it's neuron activation whenever I hear it said these days
kendrick made all his disstracks against drake copyright free, metro boomin made his beat free, so reaction channels and people who are afraid of cc can still use their music against drake with no trouble of a boogeymen taking a cut or all of it
I love that you used so many Kendrick tracks in this video, you're a real one. Anywho, the Xbox 360 days are over boys. Microsoft is literally killing itself with Game Pass and everyone was saying it. "But it's such a good value for money!" Yeah, it was. Until it wasn't. Now studios are closing and nearly every game has been mediocre besides Hi-Fi Rush and Forza. I'm starting to hate Microsoft so much as a whole that I learned Linux just to get off of Windows, and I am teaching all of my friends how to use it too. Oh and my favorite Xbox game is probably Halo 2. I haven't liked a single Xbox exclusive since that.
Its crazy how they changed, phil spencer reallyoutlived his usefulness when he made the claim that exclusives dont sell consoles now we see microsoft buying other studios looks like a mistake
The idea, in theory, is that the more the gaming market expands, the more games there should be coming out because companies and their studios have more money to work on more projects at one time. Yet, confusingly, these executives who are supposed to understand supply and demand, decide they should be producing less games, that each cost way more money to make, and way more money to buy? It's not just putting all your eggs in one basket. The basket is overflowing and now there's salmonella all over the floor.
This guy is a professional Halo Infinite hater (I kinda respect it). My favorite Xbox games? Well I actually really like Infinite, but my favorite has got to be Hi-Fi Rush. Incredible experience.
Microsoft has done wonders for maintaining and even revitalizing old established titles like age of Empiers and Warcraft.... could give a shit about modern generation of games because there nothing more than cash grabs
Also no doubt this is coming from dropping $70 billion on Activision-Blizzard, and Bobby getting a nice $400 million parachute. GamePass isnt going to foot that ridiculous bill
In the outro, I heard Tyler, the Creator and I was surprised Skipper threw Sorry, Not Sorry in the video despite 96.7% songs being from Kendrick Lamar.
One thing Game Pass gets right is being better than piracy. Brazil LOVES Game Pass because games are too expensive for the average person. People here also defend Epic Games, y’know, because free games, but I don’t associate with them.
They haven't been able to damage control since the leaked email from Phil Spencer about not moving on from trying to buy Nintendo after Microsoft got laughed at by Nintendo. Now they're in 3rd place behind Nintendo and desperate for that Japanese Yen which they'll never get because Japanese consumers aren't interested in western hardware.
At the very least all the creatively bankrupt studios have lead to their creative devs leaving and creating their own studios There’s quite a few games that are looking promising from ex-Bethesda devs. There’s a studio made up entirely of ex-devs from BioWare, Bethesda and a few others There’s at least hope that the devs that go away can make games that really show their talent and passion
arkane didn't just make the dishonored games & prey 2017 they also worked on great games like dark messiah of might & magic, and arx fatalis but yeah modern gaming is a joke that's why i still only play old school games
It sucks we keep seeing such "safe" subpar games. It takes a handful of yrs for each game to get released nowadays. We're lucky if 2 decent games are released on consoles each year. Why are most games lacking quality, depth & creativity to the games overall fun factor? Games from the late 90's early 00's possessed more depth to their gameplay mechanics and they were dealing with hardware limitations.. Even tho games take a handful of years nowadays to come out; We are genuinely seeing the most paper thin quality to overall game quality..? Also these paper thin games are costing ABSURD amounts of money. Taking up stupid amounts of memory storage space. For What? It's so messed up we are dealing with this depressing chapter in modern gaming.. It's very demotivating.. Why can't we just embrace the approach and design we had during the PS2 era or the 360 era? I took so much for granted.. I was a dumb teenager tho and had no clue.. I just loved gaming and never could have guessed gaming would have gotten to this point even tho technology and hardware capabilities have advanced so far...
The thing is xbox's money is in the service, not the console. Gamepass is windows exclusive, meaning they get the licensing fee (which is higher than the margins on an xbox console) They're so big they don't care about xbox consoles
I am still amazed that 343 managed to waste 500 million dollars and after 5 years of development still managed to make one of the worst halo games that somehow looked worse than a game that was almost 15 years old at the time(halo 3). If Microsoft was looking to save money they could have closed 343 and given a halo to Sledgehammer or even ID, saved a lot of money, and would still be viewed as good by the general public because everyone understands just how incompetent 343 is.
I am probably going to upgrade to a PS5 of some breed now, as more games are becoming current gen only so it makes sense from angle...But also because PS has exclusive games on current gen ie Helldivers 2 and Demon Souls Remake for example. Why would I want an Xbox when everything will just come to PC?
Something this video didnt cover but i think should be talked about is the future of gamepass. Because right now its a great deal and i see people be way too nice to microsoft because of it, but as stated microsoft is a business. Gamepass is only so great right now because its an investment. Microsoft is gonna keep buying and buying gaming companies because ITS LIKE 20000 TIMES THE SIZE OF SONY LOOK IT UP THIS IS REAL! And if we keep supporting this were personally helping them create a monopoly, YIPPEE!
whats your favorite xbox game? Mavs in 6
Halo 3
Halo CE
gta 3
gears 2
Crimson Skies High Road to Revenge
Larian Studios' CEO explained it best in his GDC speech.
These big companies keep losing oceans of talent, institutional knowledge and experience each time they feel like laying off tons of developers to earn an extra penny.
Its a losing strategy and everybody has to pay except the ones actually responsible for their horrendous decisions
The same company and ceo who sold their souls to HASBRO MATTEL and DEI agenda to get money to produce BG3 is talking bulls about others? Hold my beer [maybe hold MY BEAR?]r: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... My gosh Larian CEO is the most hypocritical being in the gamer world!
Well… that’s what happens when people who don’t care about art are actually in control of the art.
It’s crazy cos the Microsoft ceo has more money than you will in your life
@@awesomeadam2611Wtf does that have to do with anything?
@@omegaxtrigun lol Congrats you triggered a fan boy😂😂
@@awesomeadam2611 thats the most cringe shit I keep reading, people bragging about microsoft money as if it was theirs smh
@@awesomeadam2611 What are you? Six?
xbox changed my life and now i can't see myself buying one ever again, the industry is in the worst place it's ever been
How much more meat can u fit in ur mouth ?
Worst than 1983?!
Facts
@@volt8gethis audience doesn’t remember 1983.
The industry is in a great place, actually. Amazing indie games, amazing single player games, amazing mp/live service games.... but that will change if a company like Microsoft is allowed to monopolize it.
Losing the studio that made Prey is tragic
and Dishonored bruh
i was expecting a new game after MS buy it and now the series is dead
@@smashfam1 Arkane Lyon is still around. For now. They were the branch of the studio that did the Dishonored series.
@@DownBelowNagrindNo.
Dishonored 1 started in Austin with Rafael Colantonio and Harvey Smith. It was the pillar of the game/level design, while Lyon was the pillar of the art direction.
Then Smith moved to Lyon, and that's where Dishonored 2 was made while Austin was building Prey with Colantonio at its head.
They didn't make those games, all the talent left years ago
There’s a reason why game devs didn’t want to put their games on Game Pass. They know it’s not financially sustainable. It was a bad idea from the start and gamers don’t want to admit it.
More like "Xbox fanboy won't admit it", a lot of gamers don't like it because you don't owned the game
I mean I might be in the minority but I actually really liked game pass when I had it. I never would have played celeste, Ori, or hollow knight which are some of mt favorite games I’ve ever played. After I moved to pc I bought them cuz I wanted to replay them. I also played doom eternal, halo infinite, Minecraft’s dungeons which are games that I never really want to playa again but I’m glad that I did
That's the reason why I don't want it, if it can be appealing at first I know that eventually game pass is going to be way more expensive, and turn like Netflix by making the borriest content ever created just to target a larger audience, terrible idea
@@QuickBread Same here, it opened me up to all kinds of games I never would have. But even I have to admit that it's hurting Xbox.
@@riakriak7270 oh yeah xbox is done. lmao
How dare you criticize phil Spencer! He's so awesome and racist!
this made me laugh so hard. wtf
I legimately laughed my freaking ass off, espacially for the racist part!
Everyone laughing but do they know that patreon subscription gonna put u in debt after 2 months?
@@awesomeadam2611 I'm not a broke boy. so I'm gonna be fine!
And a murd- oh that's Spector
It still blows my mind how badly Xbox shit themselves with the Xbox One.
It’s what happens when you have MBAs with corporate brainrot who have never played video games, much less develop them, running video game companies.
And yet 343 industries is still open after three shit games this is bullshit
you mean 4
@@ahmedmaklad6527 what’s the fourth one, oh yeah they made those two mobile games
If it makes you feel better, the og 343 got removed
@@vps31Kiki wolfkill, Unyshek, etc are still in 343
You mean 3 great games?! They are kings!
Rocksteady shouldn't be included in the list of studios who were forced to go live service, because they wanted to make that game, and approached Warner Bros. with the idea of making a live service multiplayer game. It sucked, but they weren't forced by Big Business to make a game no one but shareholders wanted. They took their shot and shot themselves in the foot. No one but Rocksteady is to blame for that.
Live services aren't automatically bad. They made a bad game. Hell Divers 2 is a great live service, eat me.
they approached them with a superman game, WB turned it into suicide squad.
Hearing “Not Like Us” in the vid gave me a culture shellshock I never thought I’d have.
I’d ask if you’re pro Kdot or Drake, but then I remember you’re a commentary youtuber, not a minecraft youtuber
One is an antisemite and one’s an accused pedophilic groomer. Both equally suck lmao
Also each only have one album as good as people make it out to be
@@GDKF0238Kendrick’s throwaway album (untitled unmastered) is still better than any Drake project
@@GDKF0238 If you have bad taste just say that. Section80, Good kid maad city, To Pimp a Butterfly, and Damn are all classic albums. Mr Morale was a therapy album so I understand why people don't like it, but it's still objectively good. Drake's best album was Take Care, and he didn't even write most of the songs on the album.
i don’t know how i feel about your pfp.
Every day that passes is another day I regret spending money on the Halo Infinite item shop
The whole good guy Microsoft shtick wasn't for the customers.
It was for the Activision acquisition deal. Them looking very consumer friendly definitely helped tipped the scales in their favor during that acquisition.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that they were actively sabotaging their own games to improve their chances.
Edit: with Activision they don't need to make good games. People give that company billions for trash. That and wow is coming back to China so it is effectively an infinite money glitch (I didn't even mention all the mobile games they get from King).
Yeah of course it isn't for the customers. Nothing is. The reason they did it is completely wrong too. They realized that they make more money by selling games than consoles, so they just gave them away. Sony and Nintendo are too stuck up to give away games, so Microsoft is just labelled as the nice guy.
They should have let the studios go independent instead of closing them down
I don't get why they didn't just sell off the studios. Other publishers would have bought them.
But then they wouldn't have the IP's to sit on and do nothing with.
That would simply be unacceptable
they want the Ips, the blood sucking vampires that never made anything creative want to hoard IPS like dragons hoarding gold
Toys for bob
Then they can't hoard the IPs.
I got an Assassin's creed Shadows ad....holy shit, i really hate youtube.
UA-cam Premium, or Ad blockers, are your friend.
The fact that 343 just gets to sit all of this out after destroying one of Xbox’s biggest IPs is actually astounding
why don't they close 343 instead of Tango and Arkane.
@bearpoop720 because 343 games make alot of money
Not a single Tango Gameworks game or Arkane Austin game sold well (less than 5m copies sold per game)
Halo comparatively almost always sell over 5M copies and upwards of 10M+
Halo also grew gamepass subs
Maybe if TEW 1 & 2 didnt barely sell around 2m copies each & HiFi Rush didn't sell a measly 2-3M copies Tango wouldn't have been shut down
Bro likes smiling friends
And?
@@Rhettroizms Bro asked, "And?"
Bro asked, " Bro asked,"
We all do
@@BaltazarRules8bro asked, "we all do"
She bill the gates until i got that fortnite battlepass
They closed the studios but have the rights to the IP’s. They can now fold those into whatever dev company they want to make and pay some cheap contractors to put out.
thats the thing its most likely be bad they arent looking for quality there looking for a product to be pumped out
Those "cheap contractors" will only deliver more crap. Good games require both competence and passion.
@@bellissimo4520 agreed, and why I don’t get attached to an IP. And judge the content on its own merits. Branding is stupid and should not be what consumers follow. There is wayyy to much easy to access information to be blind buyer like we were in the 90’s. Take the 10 minutes look up what you are about to purchase. And stop buying things off of the work a previous team did.
@@bellissimo4520 Obsidian was a cheap contractor that made Fallout New Vegas and Knights of the Old Republic two lol
As an old halo fan....Fuck Microsoft!
The main good thing microsoft has done lately has been bringing their games to PC. I can't think of anything else, I am pissed about the closure of Tango Gameworks cause Hi Fi Rush was incredible.
hi fi rush was a very safe game though, like it was trying so hard to not offend anyone, even the main character has like this generic style you come up with in 3 seconds.
@@MGrey-qb5xz To me it was the best character action game I have enjoyed since Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I don't play games based on if they're "safe" or not, I play them based on if they're fun or not. Sometimes this results in me playing games that aren't "safe", sometimes it does. No offense but a critique of the art style doesn't hold water to me when it's animated very well and the game itself is really enjoyable and hype.
@@WMan37 didn't say it was a poor quality game, just that there was no reason to rid of it that "edge"
@@MGrey-qb5xz Games don't have to have "edge", they just have to be fun. Hi-Fi Rush was fun.
I think not closing most of the Xbox division and game pass is a nice thing for the 20 million plus people out there on either side of that. Considering this whole thing is basically pocket change for a three trillion dollar corpo, they could have viewed this whole venture as a complete waste of time at any point and pulled the plug like google did with Stadia.
Bying the Series X instead of the PS5 at launch turned out to be a terrible mistake
nintendo
To be fair, consoles have been known to be financial losses for the company that sells them, but it is the games that make the profit, which makes gamepass even worse as they effectively remove most potential profit from consoles. The best thing Microsoft could do is use the fact they own windows and create their own game seller and launcher pre installed.
Yes, Microsoft does indeed suck. A main reason why I game on Linux. Microsoft puts the kiss of death on the game companies that it buys. So sad.
Exactly, Microsoft is trash, they always ruin the games they buy, also Sony and Nintendo makes games with amazing graphics and story lines, Microsoft never makes anything good lol.
the only reason i need pc for gaming more
You know what, I’m that’s a good point, Doc. I’m cancelling Game Pass. This is the push I needed
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I would say, Forza Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 were some of the best open world racers
Microsoft and Sony have gone so far downhill.
Blows my mind some folks still defend either company.
Every merger needs to get undone and have the executives jailed.
What crime did they commit exactly. You might not like them, and neither do I, but pissing people off isn't a crime.
Honestly most of gaming has felt like a droute for the past 10 years, I never realized how spoiled I was growing up, it was golden from n64 to xbox 360. Then it quickly dried up around 2014-2015
Great video, the talent at tango to make- the evil within, ghost wire , and hifi rush that studio had RANGE!
How would Sony even close Arrowhead? They're an independent developer
DoubleFine was able to FINALLY make Psychonauts 2, partly because of Xbox's acquisition of them - but now this entire situation with Tango has me worried for their future, and i REALLY dont wanna see my favorite studio get shut down for stupid reasons
Correction, all the studios that were closed were under Bethesda / Zenimax. Microsoft was told by them that these studios are the ones holding them back financially. They are the executioner yes, but Bethesda are the ones who sent them to the gallows.
“Erm correction 🤓” talking like Gandalf but how many girls find you desirable ?
I think the owner of the company, (that just celebrated a 70 billion purchase & are worth 3 trillion) can maybe have a say in who gets chopped
Any source for that? Or is this a "trust me bro" situation? Cuz I haven't heard ANYONE else make that claim
Sounds like some XBOX fanatic made up headcannon to me... What's the source on that ?
An easier and most likely solution instead of just "make better games" would be cuts on the higher ups salaries and a change in the management focus from making shareholder happy.
Actually this is less likely to ever happen.
The good thing about sony/Nintendo are they still gave out physical copy and not having "own nothing, be happy" mentality
You forgot to consider the fact Sony and Nintendo also have proprietary media platforms
Sony has their latest Blu-ray disc's and Nintendo has their proprietary cartridges
Sony owning blu-ray has always f*cked over Microsoft since the Xbox 360 when it comes to physical media
i put my xbox in the hallway closet and i moved to nintendo switch and it feels great playing mario kart!
If they made a dead rising remake, dead rising 2 remake or finally another dead rising, they would make so much money
"But despite being enjoyed and likeable, the studio has now been closed" 5:17
For reasons my brain won't understand, historically that's the default. So that should be "because" instead of "despite" I guess.
BBL Drizzy outro goes hard please keep this lmao
why the song selections for this video so good. tyler, ye, kendrick? subbing just for that.
Starfield killed AAA gaming for me. Last game I will ever preorder. I knew it was a bad idea, I’d heard the grumblings and rumors that it was bad before release. I just really, really wanted to be proven wrong.
You can also buy 3-10 indie games for the price of one AAA and get more enjoyable gameplay hours out of them even if they’re each pretty short lol.
Remember when the OG Xbox was treated as alien technology, and everyone(including children for the latter) played Halo Reach and Call of Duty during the Xbox 360 era? That was back when we gave a shit about Microsoft in the game industry. Two bad signs for their downfall was the infamous Red Ring of Death error for the Xbox 360 and the disdained Xbox One showcase at E3 2013, then it got worse from there with the console's launch. Also, fuck Microsoft for killing Tango Gameworks after Hi-Fi Rush was both a commercial and critical success one year later. Phil Spencer doesn't care about developers that make good games, he and Microsoft only care about money, and now I'm genuinely concerned for Rare and to a lesser extent Activision-Blizzard... If the latter had the absolute worst downfall out of a third-party developer(even originating from the PC market now considered 'retro' with Bethesda, which were both acquired by Microsoft).
Hifi rush was a commercial flop
@@P_D-px6iv Phil is the last person you would want to lick the boots off.
Tango Gameworks being shut down genuinely broke my heart. Hi-fi Rush was one of the best games I’ve played in my entire life. Now i don’t know what will happen to the Hi-fi Rush IP
Microsoft suddenly understood that Activision- Blizzard deal was a disaster. And now will reverse this disaster on us. Phil Spencer almost certainly will lose it position.
what's crazy is before all this, I was actually considering getting an xbox as my next console. I love Arkane and Obsidian, and probably would have gotten the console to be able to keep playing their games. Now? no way. What guarantee is there that either studio is going to be around three years from now?
Microsoft is not in the best of times right now. People hated their decisions of the Xbox brand, and Windows 11 is being used by mostly no one right now.
Its rumoured Rocksteady actually wanted to make Suicide Squad a live service game, it's not the same studio that made the Arkham games
I literally cant watch the video without getting confused from something new happening on screen every 3 seconds.
The editing must have been back breaking, dang dude.
He copied me
@@awesomeadam2611 How so?
Pay no attention to them. They're commenting bait so people can check out their shitty channel.@youngman850
@@awesomeadam2611 you wish
@@youngman850 don't listen to him. hes acoustic
No company ever gets my praise. They want praise, then I want the higher ups take paycuts to save, not only their employees, but their industry.
Your channel is underrated bro. Jhst remember me when you hit a million subs, ive been here since like 40k
The only thing I disagree with is the watchdogs take. Watch dogs 1 was fun. It wasn't perfect but it was good. I did not enjoy watch dogs 2. Good thing I got it for free, too.
Was kinda hoping that Game Pass was going to fuel a boom in the AA games coming out.. Giving us more Palworld, Helldivers sized games to enjoy doesn't seem the case so far.
Tango could have been in that AA pocket nicely and absolutely crushed it.. But no, we are clearly not allowed nice things.
Tangos games were made with AAA budgets but barely made AA level profits and most AA games barely break even in terms of revenue so you can imagine the price to sales ratio for their games
@@P_D-px6iv xbox need some quantity right now. And quality, but if we can't get that.. quantity will do. They want to be the netflix of gaming, if there is only 1 show on netflix people like.. it's not going to convince people to stick around. If there is a number of interesting things, people will try out lots of different things. It's the buffet vs restaurant analogy. At a buffet you don't need amazing dishes. You need lots of variety and things to be 'pretty good'
Helldivers 2 is a great example. A few maps that are not crazy over designed, not much variety, but the gameplay loop is awesome and really enjoyable. No campaign, no endgame, no 'but what's next' questions.. Just fun drop in shoot things and try to get out alive. If xbox can have a number of these kinds of game. Then they'll be doing pretty good. Even sea of thieves fits this mould.
@@P_D-px6iv if tango games don't sell that's on MS for handicapping them by strapping them to a dying subscription service instead of letting them be sold
What baffles my mind is how a few months ago, we all believed Xbox was going to stop making Consoles for a week after they were making some games go Multiplatform.
When they said "No, we're not going out of business", you'd think they wouldn't do something to make them look stupid after spending $70 Billion on Studios
5:28 is that Somewhat Damaged by NIN I hear?
Microsoft's idea to get more Game Pass subs was to try getting the service on Nintendo and PlayStation and they both told Microsoft to screw off. Microsoft so desperate to get Xbox relevant in Japan rather than giving up on Japan, they haven't moved on from trying to acquire Nintendo after being laughed at 2 decades ago prompting them to buy Rare, thinking that they could damage Nintendo's since Rare wouldn't be making games for Nintendo and they'd get Donkey Kong, which neither happened. Do you think Nintendo would be better being owned by Microsoft after news came out that Microsoft 4 closed studios? Despite Nintendo's console being underpowered the Xbox is in 3rd place, and completely irrelevant in Japan.
Nice video - and crazy editing... must have taken a lot of time! :)
always feels good to see appreciation for Gears..
Absolutely loved and still do love the series, it's neuron activation whenever I hear it said these days
How do you use copyrighted music and backing tracks bro?
kendrick made all his disstracks against drake copyright free, metro boomin made his beat free, so reaction channels and people who are afraid of cc can still use their music against drake with no trouble of a boogeymen taking a cut or all of it
That's true when it comes to the songs you talking about yeah but many of his other vids have copyrighted music in as well @@rroy1985
Sony now makes money from porting to pc while not making new games.
Microsoft has become the AI of gaming: it pretends to make art, but ends up with the same cute face while fucking up the hands every time.
I love that you used so many Kendrick tracks in this video, you're a real one. Anywho, the Xbox 360 days are over boys. Microsoft is literally killing itself with Game Pass and everyone was saying it. "But it's such a good value for money!" Yeah, it was. Until it wasn't. Now studios are closing and nearly every game has been mediocre besides Hi-Fi Rush and Forza. I'm starting to hate Microsoft so much as a whole that I learned Linux just to get off of Windows, and I am teaching all of my friends how to use it too.
Oh and my favorite Xbox game is probably Halo 2. I haven't liked a single Xbox exclusive since that.
Its crazy how they changed, phil spencer reallyoutlived his usefulness when he made the claim that exclusives dont sell consoles now we see microsoft buying other studios looks like a mistake
Skipper deserves 100k views on his vids again 😔
Totally unrelated but I don't remember this scene from The Batman 5:43 can anyone shine some light on this ? Pls and thx
eyo new docktorskipper video alert baby
Meanwhile at Nintendo HQ: (KC and the Sunshine Band - Celebration)
I see you using whiplash music, a truly cultured man
The idea, in theory, is that the more the gaming market expands, the more games there should be coming out because companies and their studios have more money to work on more projects at one time. Yet, confusingly, these executives who are supposed to understand supply and demand, decide they should be producing less games, that each cost way more money to make, and way more money to buy?
It's not just putting all your eggs in one basket. The basket is overflowing and now there's salmonella all over the floor.
This guy is a professional Halo Infinite hater (I kinda respect it). My favorite Xbox games? Well I actually really like Infinite, but my favorite has got to be Hi-Fi Rush. Incredible experience.
How is Sony struggling? Ps5 sales are bound to go down in sales as they become more available and more people have them
Does anyone know the song playing in the background at 4:45 ?
Naaahhhh really i had no idea???!!!?!
I’ll send a video of me busting my Xbox . To hell with Microsoft
0:23 what thats frame from guy with shining shades
I'm pretty sure That's James Lee. he's an animator with a super cool style.he made Tar Boy back in the days that's how you might know him
I swear using the music from whiplash is a staple of these kinda videos
Microsoft has done wonders for maintaining and even revitalizing old established titles like age of Empiers and Warcraft.... could give a shit about modern generation of games because there nothing more than cash grabs
Also no doubt this is coming from dropping $70 billion on Activision-Blizzard, and Bobby getting a nice $400 million parachute. GamePass isnt going to foot that ridiculous bill
In the outro, I heard Tyler, the Creator and I was surprised Skipper threw Sorry, Not Sorry in the video despite 96.7% songs being from Kendrick Lamar.
One thing Game Pass gets right is being better than piracy. Brazil LOVES Game Pass because games are too expensive for the average person. People here also defend Epic Games, y’know, because free games, but I don’t associate with them.
2:12 this is just sad
It's going to suck when Microsoft puts Bethesda out of business due to company "cutbacks"
All the Xbox fanboys been quiet since Starfield failed. Fuck these mega corps buying up smaller companies to “compete.”
They haven't been able to damage control since the leaked email from Phil Spencer about not moving on from trying to buy Nintendo after Microsoft got laughed at by Nintendo. Now they're in 3rd place behind Nintendo and desperate for that Japanese Yen which they'll never get because Japanese consumers aren't interested in western hardware.
Or when they fired a bunch of people
I'm fine with Hi fi rush devs going into zenimax. Ecstatic, even. Maybe now Fallout will be good again.
4:22 song?
Fun fact Starfield was outsourced to Indian and Chinese devs with two of the companies they used being directly linked to human trafficking
At the very least all the creatively bankrupt studios have lead to their creative devs leaving and creating their own studios
There’s quite a few games that are looking promising from ex-Bethesda devs. There’s a studio made up entirely of ex-devs from BioWare, Bethesda and a few others
There’s at least hope that the devs that go away can make games that really show their talent and passion
6:04 Rocksteady was not forced to make anything, they chose to make that awful game.
I only have xbox because its was cheap and readily available, also i had many friends on the platform 😅
Best Background music in a video essay
arkane didn't just make the dishonored games & prey 2017 they also worked on great games like dark messiah of might & magic, and arx fatalis but yeah modern gaming is a joke that's why i still only play old school games
Gamepass is incredibly bad for the industry
Xbox has spent 20+ years being bad for the industry
Inb4 your video gets ad restricted for playing a split second clip of PDFile
Does this mean you're gonna cover the Forza games next?
It sucks we keep seeing such "safe" subpar games. It takes a handful of yrs for each game to get released nowadays. We're lucky if 2 decent games are released on consoles each year. Why are most games lacking quality, depth & creativity to the games overall fun factor? Games from the late 90's early 00's possessed more depth to their gameplay mechanics and they were dealing with hardware limitations.. Even tho games take a handful of years nowadays to come out; We are genuinely seeing the most paper thin quality to overall game quality..? Also these paper thin games are costing ABSURD amounts of money. Taking up stupid amounts of memory storage space. For What? It's so messed up we are dealing with this depressing chapter in modern gaming.. It's very demotivating.. Why can't we just embrace the approach and design we had during the PS2 era or the 360 era? I took so much for granted.. I was a dumb teenager tho and had no clue.. I just loved gaming and never could have guessed gaming would have gotten to this point even tho technology and hardware capabilities have advanced so far...
The thing is xbox's money is in the service, not the console.
Gamepass is windows exclusive, meaning they get the licensing fee (which is higher than the margins on an xbox console)
They're so big they don't care about xbox consoles
I am still amazed that 343 managed to waste 500 million dollars and after 5 years of development still managed to make one of the worst halo games that somehow looked worse than a game that was almost 15 years old at the time(halo 3). If Microsoft was looking to save money they could have closed 343 and given a halo to Sledgehammer or even ID, saved a lot of money, and would still be viewed as good by the general public because everyone understands just how incompetent 343 is.
It’s who you hire bro
One guy wants money one way.. The other wants money the publisher waves at them.
Them shutting down tango made me so mad
I am probably going to upgrade to a PS5 of some breed now, as more games are becoming current gen only so it makes sense from angle...But also because PS has exclusive games on current gen ie Helldivers 2 and Demon Souls Remake for example. Why would I want an Xbox when everything will just come to PC?
Something this video didnt cover but i think should be talked about is the future of gamepass. Because right now its a great deal and i see people be way too nice to microsoft because of it, but as stated microsoft is a business. Gamepass is only so great right now because its an investment. Microsoft is gonna keep buying and buying gaming companies because ITS LIKE 20000 TIMES THE SIZE OF SONY LOOK IT UP THIS IS REAL! And if we keep supporting this were personally helping them create a monopoly, YIPPEE!