It's Over. Xbox Is Done.
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- Phil Spencer's master plan has failed.
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If I had a nickel for every company that screwed employees and customers to make the shareholders happy, it would have been taken from me and given to the shareholders.
Crazy fact, but did you know a businesses only purpose is to make money?
Well said.
@@erniecain7957shareholder obligation is a mostly Western obsession. If you want to see the major flaw of American corporatism look at Boeing. And Xbox too I guess.
There are countries that exist who go about business in a much less braindead way.
Not really, the products and services they provide are supposed to improve life for the whole society, money is used as a catalyst. Making people dependend on money ensures they keep providing goods and services.@erniecain7957
I see what you did there.
"Hang tight! There's great games coming to Xbox soon!" *Phil Spencer smile, for the past 10 years*
Snake Oil Spencer 🐍
You not liking the games doesn't mean they don't exist. Any Google search would have told you that there are plenty of games that released over the past 10 years and again, you not liking those games doesn't mean they don't exist.
@@Grimjr7 *Phil Spencer smile*
@@shadowofnoc5760Xbox has Starfield
I worked for Xbox marketing for a number of years, but was unfortunately laid off when they practically gutted the company last year. The whole thing is a mess and internally nobody can agree on where to go. There are way too many cooks in the kitchen at Xbox. It was absolutely maddening dealing with leadership.
Did you get a severance when you got let go? Curious
adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.
Found a new job yet?
Xbox marketing...?that sounds like a joke
Basically the Corporate Gaming industry is turning into that hoarder that lets everything turn to sh** in their yard and refuses to let anyone try and save any of it...
"Im gonna fix that one day" yeah okay buddy
It's been like that for a while. EA started it, the whole "buying studios, make them plop out a couple of games, kill the studio and absorb the fractions to work on bigger AAA titles while letting the other IPs to gather dust"
Basically what everyone feared having big corpos in the mix then tanking the market
MANY older gamers never wanted Microsoft in the gaming space. I see why now.
The only reason PlayStation plus exists is because Sony shareholders wanted the subscription money Xbox was getting from Live!! It's BS we have to pay to play game we own because of Xbox.
The writing was on the wall…like legit, It was no thanks to Microsoft that we, the console owners have to pay for online access to play online games on our preferred gaming console nowadays.
So yeah, Microsoft joining the gaming industry did more damage to the industry in the grand scheme of things.
I personally never had a problem with Microsoft entering the gaming space initially, when they were focused on predominately single-player games that had a multi-player component to them...But I had a huge problem when Microsoft decided to go all in with On-line only games as a service games, which I recognized early on and that's when I was out. And when they tried to go digital only with the X-Box One, I was OUT! Games as a service will never be profitable, as it requires too much investment & too much up-keep & constant flow of content to ever be profitable, forcing these companies to adopt the heavy-handed micro-transactions route, which will never be accepted. Its just a dumb model. But these mega corporations only see the potential for obscene profits and that is ALL they care about. Then they act surprised when they don't make obscene profits. Its utter stupidity but notice that they always manage to fall upwards. The hated Bobby Kotick from Activision recently got a $400+ million severance package from Microsoft, while studios like Tango & Arkane get shuttered just to save a few million. How does this make any sense?
yeah, and some of us, won't even be snarky about being right. The only thing I can take the young people is.... it will get better, things will eventually right themselves, just it won't be fun for a bit
Well the reason why Microsoft joined/got into the video game landscape was from four former microsoft employees comvincing, at the time, Bill Gates, to get into gaming and such. It also was the result of former Sega of America employees whom wanted to get revenge at sony for succeeding with both the PS1 and the PS2, and so by making their own video game console that would continue Sega's console legacy into Microsoft, that's how they got into the gaming sphere. But nowadays, since Microsoft is like "Well, we can't go any further with graphics and specs, we now have to go down the money rabbit hole and do subscriptions and online only stuff". And since the Xbox Three console was introduce (aka Xbox One shown in 2013), Microsoft has never recovered ever since, and they're just on life support at this point.
Again, like yesterday, it’s not just Xbox. It’s Microsoft as a whole. Xbox studios is just a symptom of the entire problem. Former employee accounts on Reddit & Glassdoor describe the whole upper corporate structure as short term gain focused and out of touch.
American business in a nutshell. Capitalism run wild, brother 😑
@@producerevan88
Yup, and Microsoft is like the single GREATEST PERSONIFICATION of all of the WORST ELEMENTS of “capitalism run wild.”
It's not just Microsoft, it's the game industry and to a broader extent the tech sector. The fact that the video displayed a pure lack of not even reading any article on this is wild. Like why are youtubers just making emotional tirade videos that lack any nuance or legitimate information
Late Stage Capitalism
It's hard to believe this claim since people have been saying Xbox is/was dead at the end of the 360 era and start of the Xbox One era. Xbox is still going.
Phill spencer has ran out of good faith from his fans
It’s not really all on him. Their entire corporate structure is a dumpster fire.
@@Bman32xnot really just them, all the gaming AAA industry is doing this stuff. Feel so bad for the developers
The layoffs weren't his decision
@@ZerotheeHeroexactly. Who the hell wants to work in game dev after all this crap? This is going to hurt the future of the industry in more ways than one.
Hope Phil's corporate shuffling finally axes his tired gamer facade. He been lying to gamers faces forever. But he plays a game and wears a t-shirt so he gets a pass somehow😑
Microsoft clearly want to be a third party publisher, yet they won’t commit.
They suck
They want to be everything, and they are.
They realized they own the PC ecosystem, so why have an offshoot.. which is why the Xbox is becoming more and more liked a closed system PC.
@@marbles8641they don’t own the PC ecosystem doofus. Steam doesn’t give a single cent to them
Windows OS is free nowadays
@@Teja They still make millions, to even billions off the Windows OS, just not to the normal consumer.
However, they make a fortune off licensing fees to companies selling computers, and business that use their OS.
As for Steam, it runs on their OS. If they wanted to, they could make it so Steam was banned from their OS, or charge a licensing fee. Both would hurt the free ecosystem they've promoted for years and destroy their company... but it's there.
They don’t want to be 3rd party… their bad financial choices are forcing their hand
Anyone who didn’t see this coming *years* ago simply wasn’t paying attention. Never underestimate Xbox’s ability to disappoint its fans, and never underestimate those same fans’ complacency.
adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.
One must respect the medium they're in. MS has had no respect for any market. They still haven't learned that you EARN your customers' business. Not force it. Not buy it. Sorry, MS, government contracts can not save you from PlayStation or Nintendo.
Make good, quality finished games at launch.
They don't care about games, never had. Live service is way they were always about after the OG Xbox era. First Xbox Live Gold, now Gamepass. Easy long-term money with little effort.
That too.
@@christopherboye5498gamepass is a wrap. CEO of microsoft removed Gamepass tied compensation in October 2023. For 3 years straight Gamepass didn’t hit target. And it only has 32 million subscribers INCLUDING live gold while being available everywhere meanwhile Nintendo and PlayStation have more subs just on their consoles lol
adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.
@@amygirl9500
Whatever helps you sleep at night. This is what I’ve been hearing from Xbox fans about Sony for a decade.
And for a decade, you’ve been wrong. About everything. LITERALLY, everything.
I’m exclusively on PlayStation, but this is bullshit! Those are some great studios
*were
Same, it's a disgrace 😔
Hi-Fi Rush is an amazing game, my personal GOTY last year. You should pick it up if you’re interested at all. I’m deflated knowing we’ll never get a sequel
It’s not, If they don’t generate enough money to pay their bills and investors. They simply bankrupt.
Yall spent a whole year dunking on Red Fall but now they are an amazing studio 😂😂
This somewhat reminds me of what EA was doing a while back that earned them their reputation as a "studio eater"
Buying out a studio, putting them to work on a game and then dissolving them when they don't start making money fast enough
EA... Screw everyone who's at the top of that studio. What they did to American McGee is nothing less than criminally evil. It's one thing to not give a green light for the third installment of his Alice series; but to refuse to sell him the rights to HIS creation is just ruthless.
Microsoft reason is understandable look up the studios instead of assuming EA is still the worst.
@@jonathancunningham8739 What, are you some kind of spokesman for EA's public image? Doesn't change the fact that they literally ROBBED a man of his own f'ckn IP; and wouldn't even SELL it to him, after stating that they weren't even going to do anything with it! That had absolutely NOTHING to do with Microsoft. Do your research like I've done mine.
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PHIL SPENCER THE STUDIO DESTROYER!
So thats roughly 10k+ layoffs altogether now ☹ feel so bad for the devs, their families & livelihoods.
wait until you see how little the community reacts compared to a login requirement for helldivers.
@@Healthy_Tokilol true fake games fake outrage
That whole internal conversation about “we’re not sure we want to put COD on game pass cause it might devalue the brand” just confirms game pass is not viable
People have been irrationally giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt since the start of the Xbox One despite them repeatedly failing to deliver. It's weird.
They bought these companies not for their studios or devs but for the licenses to their back catalog of games for game pass
They've lost the war since the 360 days
turns out the red ring of death was a real omae wa no shindeiru moment
We’ve been winning since the 360 days the Xbox seriesX is the best consoles to get
@@thekjkjkjkjkjkjWinning last prize yes
@samya1231 they've lost nothing as they've never won jack since hitting the scene 23 years ago 😂
@@thekjkjkjkjkjkj I think you meant to post this dumb comment under your twitter account, where you have the Xbox symbol as your profile pic
You have to wonder what is wrong with the executives to get rid of their best game studios. Theyre just throwing the whole xbox in the dirt...sad to even own a xbox . Just to think about jow hard i worked to even get me a xbox series x... Like bro wtf...WT LITERAL F___
Same, have all the consoles, but it always felt like MS was canabilizing itself with both PC and console support. Probably just build me a gaming PC and avoid MS consoles all together moving forward. I can at least justify having a pc if it does other things besides just gaming.
Damn, idk if OP is a teenager but his statement of, “WTF, I had to work so hard just to be able to afford a Series X” REALLY hit me.
It reminded me of when I had to work a WHOLE WEEK (well, like 25-30 hours) as a teenager just to be able to get a paycheck big enough to go out and buy the original XBOX (minimum wage was like $4.75 at the time).
Only difference is: THAT OG XBOX WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY.
@@CleetusVanDamme530 Personally buddy, it's worth getting a gaming PC, because not only you can play new games, as well as use other game launchers made for PC, but you can also emulate video games released on consoles into fan made developed emulators to use, even if the consoles have been discontinued for 20+ years now since their introduction. Been a PC user since I was 3 alongside video game consoles for three generations (5th - 7th generation) until I called it quits in 2010/2011, and never looked back.
@@SuperFlashDriver call me old school, I've been gaming since the 8 bit Nintendo days. I much prefer to be sitting on a couch with a controller in my hands. I also like for each platform to each have their exclusives because I am a strong believer in competition and the growth and innovation that it fosters. I'm willing to get a PC for exclusives, but on the flip side I wish pc players would stop asking for games like Bloodbourne, Zelda, Mario, etc. as these are unique to their respective platforms.
@@CleetusVanDamme530 I see....Yeah, you've been playing years longer than I have so, that's fine and dandy....I mean, I'm fine for games that are exclusive to consoles, but I do think that it can get pretty expensive to have to buy each separate console for specific games released on the system, as well as having to buy full priced or discounted games on those consoles, physically or digitally. I'm a person that tends to like video game consoles that I can also use a computer operating system built into the hardware, as well as being able to play backwards compatible with all games and all consoles, including physical copies of games I can own without DRM or any internet connection required and such. Some games can't be re-released sadly due to licensing, copyright, or even products that once used to be on the market no longer exist. Heck, some gaming studios have went under and trying to buy out the licenses for the games itself is very pricey for a business if no profit for those games is yet to be made for the new generation anyway (hence why I love emulation the most. It allows those whom didn't experience before the 2010s to be able to play video games that they didn't grow up on to experience them just as much as the 1990s, 1980s, and 1970s children did 50/40/30 years ago).
But I mean, go figure, even I use the controller on my PC anyway to play some games, while others I use a keyboard and mouse. It just depends on the video game I'm playing myself and whether or not I can get used to the controls.
Nintendo is watching all of this happening while thinking: What happun?
ahh someone watches mr.mcmuscles
@@ValSempai Looking forward to the inevitable Whu Happun?... even though Microsoft's exit from gaming is still probably a couple of years away.
people always crack jokes about nintendo, but they will never die, and people will always keep playing their consoles and games, if they admit it or not
@Insanemonk11 That's because most of Nintendos games are actually good. They have very few duds
@Insanemonk11 Nintendo will kill themselves off because of how they treat their fans. Eventually, that goodwill will run out. Nintendo is just as scummy as every other Corp they're just forgiven because "Zelda gud"
A few thoughts: Mikami left Tango Gameworks. His 'genius' was the selling point of that studio. Arkane Austin was hollowed out by departures after being forced to make Redfall by their former overlords. The industry is entirely bloated and oversaturated. A firehose of myriad weekly game releases. Endless new game studios being announced. No one has the time and money to purchase and play all of the content, creating a high risk/high reward gamble for ALL studios (including those owned by Microsoft and Sony). The recent attrition is the 'right sizing' of the video games business in its totality.
Not enough conversation about *why* they got shut down. Doesn't matter if the reasons are valid, it's still worth knowing
Thank you for an intelligent remark to this ridiculous clickbait video. Good to see there are people with cooler heads.
I feel like its less to do with oversaturation of the marketplace because there is a growning tread in younger gamers that are going back and playing more classics and enjoying them so I wouldnt exactly count on the whole "people have less time" they're just more concerning about where they put that time.
100% agree with this comment.
I have been an Xbot since the OG Xbox came out. I've had all the other systems as well, but I've always made Xbox my main console for entertainment, multiplatform games, streaming shows, etc. This is the first time I have ever thought to myself: 'I guess it's time to move everything over to my PlayStation.' And considering the BS Sony has been getting up to, no competition for them in the marketplace really scares the crap out of me.
Just go Nintendo and PC.
How ironic that when Jim Ryan said that putting first party games day one on a subscription service like Gamepass would devalue them, XBOX centric commentators decried him as a fossil clinging to the past and laughed him out of the room.
Now they are debating putting Call of Duty on Gamepass because it will devalue it. 😂😂😂
So in short, Microsoft pulled a Sega-esque blunder and will likely be out of the console race soon enough?
Doesn't Hellblade 2 release soon? WHERE THE HELL IS THE ADVERTISING?????? Xbox, no direction!
Well that's what happens when it is a digital exclusive Microsoft is back tracking big time the Digital exclusive that Microsoft wants forgotten it's wrong but it is a reason.
it's next to their gyro and vr. their owners deserve this.
So... they pulled an EA but worse than EA
No Microsoft reasons made sense EA still doesn't look up the studios they were really trimmed fat.
The same thing happened with Rare. They bought it from Nintendo and the studio is just getting dust. They buy studios for the sake of buying them.
Honestly feeling like this might be the end of Xbox as a console-maker. Maaaaaaaybe we’ll get one more console from them, but at this point it looks like they’re Sega 2.0, had some strong IP but they just didn’t know what to do with them
Yeeaaahhhhh They might release a new variant of the console, and probably their fifth and final console, but I don't know what will happen to them in 2025 to 2030/2035 and such. At this point the PC/Mobile market is continuously growing by the day, and will continue to grow for all of mankind. And unfortunately many consoles have become basic computers at this point, with hardware inferior to the actual professional 10,000+ dollar PC dev kit desktops that they devs can work on, but no one can afford a PC over $1,000+ dollars, let alone $500.000 at max. So if they do announce they're retiring from console making, I would laugh knowing they would end up just like how Sega ended up in (considering it was the four employees at Microsoft back in 1999 and former Sega employees wanting revenge on Sony that convinced Microsoft to enter into the gaming market in 2000/2001 in the first place.)
Anybody else find it funny how, after years of what felt like everybody egging on Nintendo to drop out of hardware and go third party, it might actually be Microsoft that throws in the towel first?
Nintendo has been around for 100+ years for a reason.
adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.
Microsoft wanted the back catalog, now they're cutting everything else.
No only two studios stop over reacting.
@jonathancunningham8739 it's 4, I know numbers are hard. Stay at it.
They wanted the IPs only to do absolutely nothing with them.
They seem to be IP hunting with lack of games
Wish Beth was cut as their trash always broke for 1-20 years
Get SEGA'd
Always said their monopoly moves would hurt the industry and that Game pass would never work.
yet they are continued to be allowed to do it, by governments and also customers
adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.
No hi-fi rush sequel or dlc?, xbox you little ******
What the problem, if a studio don’t generate enough money to pay their own bills. They r bankrupt and get closed. Thats how it works
@@philippf8614they had no business buying all these developers then. What a waste of countless IP's.
Shame nay fecker bought it on ps5 then isn’t it?
It’s always the same story with stuff like this. The people at the bottom spend their lives passionately trying to create something amazing while those at the top make all their decisions based off potential future income, and they ruin the game. Then, somehow, they get off Scot free?? They’re the ones that screwed everything up and yet they get to go “Oh well we tried our best.” What about the people you just laid off? Weren’t they trying their best??
People raging over studios that kept releasing poorly sold games. If you all gave a damn to begin with and bought their games they wouldn't be doing this. People quickly forget bungies situation along with the 4 studios sony also closed down this year along with 900 employees
Isn’t Microsoft a $3 *trillion* company? They couldn’t afford to hire more people to oversee all of the development studios no one told them to buy? And why are they raising the prices of game pass again if they just did it less than a year ago? Don’t they know that’s why people canceled subscriptions to Netflix? Hi-Fi Rush would have printed money if it wasn’t released basically for free. I would love to play it after their being rumors it could release on the Switch, but I’d never buy an Xbox and then they shut down the studio for literally no reason so who knows if it’ll ever be available on other platforms. A Japanese studio, their _only_ Japanese studio they purchased after they said they wanted to branch out to the Japanese game market… Makes total sense
Congrats to Xbox and Microsoft to surpassing Sony yet again in being stupid assholes
When Phil said they wanted Japanese game market, what they really meant was the same Japanese AAA support as Sony gets.
So long as they get Sega/Atlus, square Enix’s, capcoms, Konami, Bandai namco. That’s all they really cared about when it comes to that side of the industry.
Phil’s never cared about the lower end Japanese developers in the market imo.
Good, they were stupid before they spent all that money on nothing, and now hopefully they can just go full Sega, and just make games only. Let those other studios get picked up, or get funding, and lets build a new gaming era from these horribly fucking ashes we're currently in
It's ironice considering Sega did something similar where they were on top of the world, and then fell from grace soo badly, they had to switch to being a third party company providing software to other platforms and such...But again, as mentioned to another commenter, anything goes. Unless workers in the company mention how/what has happened in there, and unless Microsoft comes out and tells everyone that what they have been speculating or talking about is the "actual" truth, we can only theorize, predict, or speculate what is going on in these companies....But yeah, if Microsoft leaves the console business, I'm fine with it considering I was never an Xbox person growing, it was always Nintendo+Sony, until I dropped them out around the 7th generation in both 2006 and 2010, and switched to PC that I've been playing games on since the late 1990s early 2000s when I was very young.
@@SuperFlashDriver well unless they want the game part of microsoft to die forever, they will just do the same thing, and make games for Sony, PC, and Nintendo. They should of just focused on PC market anyways, instead of console
@@Insanemonk11 Exactly what Microsoft was originally founded on was PC software & gaming in the 1980s and 1990s (albeit it with some monopolistic control they've been having since the 1990s so, it's no different what they're doing today compared to a few years or the year Windows 95 came out when I was just born). I wonder how the former employees of Microsoft, aka the ones who made Xbox as it was back in 2001, feel about where the brand is now heading towards.
Letting all these great game studios and devs fall into their hands was a grave mistake…
No Tango no Cash
Let’s be honest, xbox hasn’t been in the game industry for awhile now. They absolutely have no exclusives. They have become a controller variant company lol. Only thing going for them is game pass which I’m sure some people like (I don’t) since I like to own my games.
3:11
It’s actually WORSE than that example you used of buying a can of Pringles because at least if you suddenly realize you’re not hungry or you have no place to store them, all that happened was you wasted some of your money and some Pringles.
It’s MORE LIKE if you decided to apply to ADOPT A PUPPY and only AFTER you get the approval and the puppy’s now in your care do you realize that your apartment doesn’t allow pets and you have no money to buy puppy food regularly.
And rather than going, “ehh, whatever, we’ll make it work,” OR POSSIBLY trying to find a family member or friend or WHOEVER that could take care of it, you immediately take that puppy out to a field and “put it down” PERMANENTLY.
I suppose in the future you just have to take every game that comes out from a smaller studio for granted because you don’t know if that’s gonna be the last one from them
They really are shooting themselves in the foot I don't know how they managed it but they did they managed to make themselves a bigger joke than they already are
X-box going down is bad for console games as a whole
Sony needs X-Box as a competitor, to have a rival that makes you have to better yourself and to think up new ideas
Monopolies will cause stagnation
I fully expect Steam is going to be the next true challenger. They’re probably going to upgrade their Steam deck to mimic exactly what the switch does and port over to TVs as well.
Nintendo: *shocked Pikachu face*
@@Bman32xswitch is trash but decent games
Nintendo: *shocked Pikachu face*
@@TheFalcon1542 Nintendo was never a serious competitor of X-Box and PlayStation
Nobody is gonna buy a Switch to play Fallout or DOOM or something like that. You buy a PS or X-Box for that. Same goes for Nintendo games, like Pokemon or Mario
What I mean is, Nintendo just has a different audience and marketing
Microsoft destroys every dev they buy. Just look at Rare
Rare is still around generating a ship load (get it?) Of grog.
@@guitarspud1723 ...... i see what you did there
No they don't EA does Microsoft just trims more fat then is necessary.
I think it's ridiculous that they talk about Hi Fi or even Redfall not meeting sales expectations while putting them on Game Pass day one.
It’s been over
Buying a studio means nothing if the right people leave the studio. You can't buy the people. Furthermore, if you don't let creative people create, then why fund them?
It's getting to a point where if a studio is acquired by a big shareholder, there's no point in even playing the IP anymore.
The fact they are buying all these studios and still don’t have anything to show for it is ridiculous. How the mighty have fallen…..
They only bought them moths ago and the studios they bought take years to make games what did you expect.
@@jonathancunningham8739 my brother in Christ we are almost 5 years into the series x lifespan and there has not been a single must own title that is not also available everywhere else. I don’t need a game to come out tomorrow but they also haven’t given us anything to look forward to! They mention elder scrolls 6 and we have yet to see anything beyond a title reveal fable has had nothing but a cringy office like sitcom cgi trailer my point is I would’ve kept my gears 5 Xbox one console because all their games have been cross gen
If there was social media when Sega stopped making consoles would the discussions be the same?
How long before they make call of duty every 2 years then getting rid of half of the studios who support it
Let's be honest that would be good for cod
Cod needs to die. Years of same game but new shiny graphics, followed by same game but new shiny graphics. The last semi decent game they spewed out was Ghosts. Everything since then is more of the same.
It's like putting sprinkles on a dog turd and calling it cake.
Y'know what it sounds like their problem is? Too much money say, "mine, mine, mine," and not enough money spent maintaining a well paid staff and HUGE staff. A lot of layoffs from companies should instead have been shifting to other companies or departments. Just my personal take.
oh man even more proof an industry wide staff strike in gaming really needs to happen
Yes, this past year publishers have treated developers like crap, worse than normal, or gamers need to strike and not buy games from these companies that treat their developers like expendable work horses
@@ZerotheeHero The customers going on strike wouldn't work cuz they can get plenty of business out of people who don't fully understand what a game is
But that aside I agree
@@badopinionssquid1735 oh ik, thats why games like Madden and NBA2k keep selling so well every year, the percentage of gamers who actually follow industry news and care is so low
@@ZerotheeHeroDon't be ignorant to think that it's just this year. Been a thing for nearly a decade now.
@@ZerotheeHero like any other media industry they only see artists as commodities its so bleak.
Just port Gears of War to the PS5 already.
No. Buy a PC.
@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh half the series isnt on PC either.. unless your fine with MS 1080P compressed to all get out video streaming. Or emu /w a ton of patches/hacks to get it playable.
To be fair, im pretty surethe streamed versions are b/c @ 60fps.. but still look horrible due to the compression and the capped 1080p stream.. also latency.
Why bother? Gears of War is terrible compared to most PS exclusives. Bringing it to PS is a waste of time.
@@thevoicewithin9845That’s your opinion and I respect it, but I’m not about to pretend a lot of people wouldn’t love to play some of those games for the first time if they never had an Xbox console before
I would rather them put money into more of the Killzone series, because it was just as good, if not better.
Won't somebody think of the shareholders?!?!?!
microsoft saw embracer get dragged by an angry mob and went: "me next! me next!"
I loved The Evil Within & have the sequel & Hi-Fi rush & Prey & the Dishonored games in my backlog. Disappointed that these studios are gone. They deserved better.
I’m not surprised the studio that made Redfall got axed, but closing Tango is insane.
People argued that Xbox buying Activision would create a monopoly. Turns out they might be right. Just not the way they thought.
This really isn't good news. I'm not an Xbox fan but competition is necessary for any industry to thrive.
Microsoft sucks so much ass bro
No they don't that would be EA.
Now I think these studios need to get away from MS. I'm especially concerned about Obsidian and InXile.
Please stop giving any sympathy to executives. It's their lack of forsight, hubris and greed costs thousands of people their jobs and careers. Game industry is rotten. Current stage of capitalism is really soul crushing when fun hobby turns into, well, this
I get your point, Whatculture, but I swear this is the 7th or 8th video I've seen with this type of title in the past 4 years.
Being a small developer getting approached by or having to approach a major publisher must be terrifying, because the moment you get acquired you likely have started the clock on the death of your company.
strange thing is, if Prey, dishonored, the evil withing where to be released in 2024 they would be considered huge hits by this year standard
The “we need more games like Hi-Fi Rush” is so tone deaf and disrespectful it’s baffling.
So while I grew up in the 90s mostly playing Nintendo & Sega. I never had a preference for a company. I usually bought whichever system was better suited at the time and then usually a Nintendo system with it. Xbox was the king during the 360 era and I played most of the games on that system because the online was better and the games for the most part played better on it. Then with Xbox One, The system is overpriced and underpower at launch. The PlayStation 4 on the other hand basically just did exactly what the 360 did but better and was more powerful for less money at launch. This generation I bought both the Xbox Series X and PS5 because I still like playing the Halo games on Xbox but arguably the PlayStation 5 has most of my library since I bought a lot of stuff on PS4. The only thing that's keeping me owning an Xbox is the older titles and backwards compatibility. I mean I even just bought Hi-fi rush on PSN because it looks better on PS5 and was on sale. For the record I never bought game pass except for like one time. Being an adult now at 39 means I don't have as much time to play games as I used to, so while game pass was a good value I don't have enough time to play all those games that justify the cost. For me to cheaper options to buy a game and then spend the time playing it and then once I beat it move on to the next thing. It also doesn't help that I have a few comfort games I go back to play from time to time. I already knew Game pass was going to be the downfall of Xbox, It's too good. Like Xbox can make some great games but if they're not making money off of selling the games then it doesn't really matter does it. I mean the proof of that is the fact that a lot of the Xbox games that came over to PlayStation have hit the top of the charts. Xbox has a good games but can't make money off of them because they stagger themselves. Honestly I think PlayStations approach to their membership for the higher tiers is a better plan. Don't put any first party titles out at launch until they run their lifespan and sell the most they can. This way they still make money and then whenever it gets older they put it on the service after it stopped generating revenue. The people on the service still get a benefit from being able to play those games. Like I understand why The higher ups at PlayStation said on Twitter that the game pass is not going to be able to last. It's too good, They should have made it to where Game pass lets you try out Microsoft first party titles at launch for like a 24-hour period to help generate more interest in buying those games but just given them away makes them no money. Now they could give people a discount for owning game pass when buying first party titles at release kind of like how EA play gives discounts to EA titles. Actually now that I think about it and I'm going to hate myself for saying this, I think EA's method is the best method there is for how they handle their games on their EA play service.
The MS purchase of all those studios for 70b has to be one of the most bone headed decisions in business history. 1st...you bought them to make exclusives for your console when your console base is nowhere near what it should be to make any significant money back and being that all your games are now gonna be released on SONY means that the exclusive argument is totally irrelevant. 2nd...Paying that money for a small install base without insuring that a major list of exclusive games means the purchase of those studios was pointless. You could have not spent that money and those games would still have come out on your console. 3rd...You cut your own throat with day and date releases on gamepass insuring that players pay a subscription fee instead of paying full price for a game. 4th...Making gamepass available on PC where more houses have a pc then a game console means you will sell less and less consoles thus shrinking the necessity of having an xbox console meaning the money spent to research and develop new xbox's becomes a waste of money.
It is like xbox is being run by a chicken with it's head cut off. I feel MS has never taken it seriously because they have so much money. They approached it like they could buy their way to the top. They have been relying on the same 3 franchises from the beginning (G.O.W., Halo and Forza) after that, it's been nothing of real note. Maybe a few titles here and there. But when your game library doesn't grow in any respectable manner, gamers will go to the console that gives them a better library with more quality choices.
And with the comments they've made and the actions they have taken over time(must always have an internet connection, that players don't own the games even if they buy them, that players can't just take games to their friends homes and so on) have shown that they have no clue what gamers want and don't want. That does not build consumer confidence. Now, personally, I think xbox is and always has been garbage. I think the only reason they were around when they started is like when people call any soda a coke, all the parent's who didn't know anything about games called every console an xbox cause of all the marketing like the parents when I was a kid called every console a Nintendo when I was a kid. And that's why you see the age gap. However, even with xbox being garbage, Sony needs the competition to keep them progressing and to keep them listening to the gamers. Without xbox or another more adult centered console(sorry Nintendo), Sony will get stale and take advantage of it's gamers because there will be no other option. My hope is that xbox crashes and SEGA comes back.
Xbox lost the console war with the Xbox One. They went for family entertainment system first and gaming console second while the playstation was a gaming console first family entertainment system second.
Xbox spent too much time flaunting things like 'the xbox has voice commands and able to clip gameplay' and every ps4 owner was like 'yeah....so does the ps4 but we didnt need to make it half of the advertising'
Some of my friends got Xbox Ones and I could never get over how non user friendly the dashboard is. Its full of ads and the actual 'Play Game' takes such a small space compared to Store buttons and ads. Sure the playstation has ads but only if you go over the actual store or ps plus tab. Also 1000x more simple to navigate.
Also didnt help gaming community goodwill when Microsoft went on an IP exclusive campaign. Xbox Studios really expected Starfield to be the saving grace but when it wasnt really that good at all it was too late the damage was done.
Just sounds like the corporate side of all these companies have unrealistic expectations and made all these moves without a real plan
The story gets far far worse!
According to insiders, such as Jason Schreier. The reason Tango got the axe was due to them asking for more assets so they could begin developing Hi-Fi Rush 2. Specifically funding and manpower, and after the purchase of Activation, Microsoft doesn't have the cash.
Well back to playstation.
Xbox just needs to go the way of sega at this stage
Buy products from companies that you know are worth supporting and have value for you. Microsoft is getting dangerously close to being a company not worth supporting.
Time to get a playstation.
Every day I grow happier and happier that I switched to just pure PC gaming...more diversity and guessing those will still be around in 20 years
Part of the reason that streaming services failing is that the model can't really support having so many people involved in it. It will really only work if there is one or two of them at least for mainstream content. People aren't going to subscribe to six or seven different services to watch all of the shows they want to see especially if they only have a casual interest.
They also will not keep six or seven of the same type of subscription going indefinitely just because. Gamepass has the same problem. People will have one or two services they will subscribe to, and they will subscribe and unsubscribe as necessary from all others. Even if they put COD into Gamepass at 20usd they wouldn't necessarily get the full 240USD value of a full year subscription since people will probably cancel and restart as they see fit due to life constraints.
They would be putting themselves into a situation where they would need to wait three months to collect 60USD which can easily fall through at any time due to people canceling before 90 days have elapsed.
Streaming services need to be more like old school video rental stores or Gamefly where you can choose either to sign up for the monthly service or rent an individual title and pay a fee as long as that item is checked out. They need to stop hoping for people to just forget that they have these subscriptions enabled.
Who would’ve thunk that making subpar exclusives, and focusing more on buying studios instead of making great games would lead to poor sales and gamepass memberships falling off.
Please close down Activision while you're at thanks 😂
Well I guess no more evil within 3
It was never going to happen after SHINJI left and the second game sold crappily. But that can’t be down to PS fans surely who *always* buy games day one right? Riiiight?
*tumbleweed rolls over image of FF7, Rise of Ramen Noodles and Stella’s arse*
Man.. I loved my 360. it's just absurd and sad how MS completely destroyed everything since them.
Microsoft demonstrating in the clearest way possible that executives and large corporations aren't needed, small studios do better on their own.
Sounds like the gaming industry is pulling a Disney, buying existing companies/IPs with no solid plan and then acting shocked when things don’t work out or the product they make goes against what fans and gamers really want
I have always said the subscription plan wasn't a good business idea, but I enjoy it as a consumer.
Microsoft has always done this. They did this during the 90's/early 2000 on the PC. Bought studios and after one game, shut the studios down.
If Microsoft were to just give or sell the Tango Gameworks IP to John Johanas, I’d feel like this sting would be more bearable.
Microsoft: Our Game Pass sales are stagnating, what can we do to bring more people in?
Also Microsoft: Let’s raise the price! That will surely entice potential users to join, while keeping our current base happy!
Gamers have such a short term memory, look at wild card studios for example, they are the kings of screwing up release dates and delays, they dropped from top 5 sold games on release to one of the least played titles for months! Then when scorched earth finally came out the player base came crawling back. That will happen with this as well. I would bet on it.
I’m one of those people that doesn’t care about game pass I just buy the games I want screw subscriptions besides Xbox live I don’t even pay for GTA plus only when they offer something like a 50 car garage or something like that what I will do is if there’s something from GTA plus that I really want like the 50 car garage from last year they added in the gameI bought it one time and then I cancel the subscription right after I buy it so they don’t keep charging me, but I still get what I want from the from the thing I’ve only done that three times because I don’t really buy into the whole GTA plus thing it’s stupid and with game pass I just don’t care enough to spend the extra money for game pass because you can either get Xbox live regular price or spend a little money more to get game pass plus Xbox live and I just get Xbox live because that’s expensive enough just buy games like I did since the Xbox 360 I’m not going to change and some games I still buy on disc
7 years ago, I recall Microsoft saying the PS4 and Xbox One generation would be the last generation of consoles before they would die out.
Food for thought.
Well they were very wrong and still are today.
Let's not forget, Microsoft, the multi trillion dollar corporation exceeded expectations last year and made $22 billion in profits.
Xbox is not Microsoft on its own profit and loss ledger
@@moosehillmusic So Xbox had 69 Billion on hand for the Activision/Blizzard acquisition?
@@cwfutureboy investments from owners are different things financially
I just realized that this will probably make many developers very wary of being bought out by large platform holders, especially Microsoft. Some might but they'd need to be particularly wary about it.
Everybody who championed these acquisitions. How do you feel now?
Its no better over at Sony....theyve seemed to stop even bothering with making quality first party games and are going the live service route
phil should of been fired years ago. Imagine being in charge of a gaming console and saying "it's not like games sell consoles anyways" ummmm what?¿? That's the only reason people buy consoles. Remember the smart glass?¿? I was like what does that have to do with gaming?¿? Metroid, Mario, Zelda still sell Nintendos, God of War, Spider-Man, Uncharted still sell PlayStations. xbox is like owning a beach with no ocean completely not worth it. xbox has never been able to get me on board, I loved Halo during the bungie days and Gears original trilogy, heck even Fable but xbox doesn't even know what to do with its own ip's anymore, even indie studios sink under them, I say sell the whole company to anyone else cause if you're not going to respect your creations then someone else will. As they say in my generation bye Felicia.
They will stop XBox hardware to be a bad publisher, and they dont understand ALL is about making great game.
Gamepass ruined Xbox. Games are not movies, they were never meant to be part of a subscription based service. Nobody bought games like HiFi, because why would they, when they can play them for free, with the subscription. The gaming industry is built on sales, when you don't get those sales, you don't make enough money to justify your existence.
Not sure what "games aren't movies" implies when the film industry is struggling with parallel issues, many of which were caused or aggravated by streaming aka movies being part of a subscription based service.
Subscription based models are gonna be the death of the industry, just completely unsustainable business model.
If a AAA publisher made a game for 1 million, and it made 500 million the first week. They would be pleased.
When the sequel comes out (again made for 1 million) and makes 500 million the next year within the first 7 days, they will call it a failure, lay off employees and close the studio.