Xbox Game Studios + Bethesda + ABK |OT30| Why So Series X|S?
- Thread starter Andrei Rublev
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bethesda was ready to take PS5-timed exclusivity deals for the rest of their lifetime (with Deathloop, Tokyo Ghostwire and even Starfield) because they were struggling financially and weren't getting any hits so the money for making their games exclusive was helping them.
Their last hit was Fallout 4 at the time and that was a very long time ago.
Fucking clowns.LMAAAAAAAOOOO WHAT IS GOING OOOOOOOON
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.www.theverge.com
HFR wasn't the whole of Tango but it was like double the size of Pentiment's team (maybe more). It was "small" to us but maybe they don't consider it small internally. Who knows.
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.
What does he want to achieve by saying that a day after he closes the studio that made the game he's using as an example?
i actually have! it's the less worse of them. i just don't really like handheld gaming overall.
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.
Lol
Just. Lol
How tone deaf.
Tango was literally perfect for this.
I was trying to guess at this too. It's so easy to take a clip of a quote like this out of the total context.
However, in light of everything else, it looks terrible no matter what. Xbox sucks at messaging, sucks at managing portfolios and well just plain sucks right now.
They consolidated all of the leadership positions and put Jill Braff in charge of the entire ZeniMax organization in December. If they don't have leadership at Bethesda and it's too much for a lean team to handle, Microsoft only has themselves to blame because they keep doing corporate restructurings every few months that put less and less people in charge and expand those few people's responsibilities. Why is Matt Booty managing 25 studios (XGS, Activision, Blizzard AND King) for example instead of having different roles for the teams? Pure incompetence.
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.
Xbox are not serious. That much is clear.
I would imagine that is what it was taken out of context, yes.
Damn good question. It was always too much and I don't know why they didn't keep Booty over just XGS.
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.
what the actual fuck.
Same way as Square Enix.
DOOM Eternal was a big hit, ESO was bringing a lot of revenues, even 76 was profitable, and (unlike XGS and Microsoft with Halo) they managed to make sure the Fallout TV show was at the expected level of quality. When the deal closed, they still had a lot of cash on hand.
Redfall was the sole notable miss really (but we don't know what Bethesda would have decided about it if they remained independant).
It's understood your position on BGS. I don't think most would agree.
Redfall, Tokyo Ghostwire, Deathloop, HiFi Rush, PREY, RAGE 2 and Starfield did not meet sales expectations. Fallout 76 is successful now but had an awful launch in the beginning.
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.
Do we know that about Starfield for a fact? It was still one of the best selling games of the year and the only new IP to break into the top conversations.
baffling that executive leadership at BGS is so admired by him when they were known trash that fucked up all of their publishing partners so they could buy the studios for a cheap price. (arkane, human head, more). the human head story (the prey reboot devs) is a horror story. absolutely fucked up stuff.
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
There seems to be some confusion here.
Hopefully this means Xbox isn't giving up on small-ish non High Impact games
I'd like to update my previous statement from "hey you should reconsider having a game pass subscription" to "actually on second thought you just shouldn't give another dollar to Microsoft until something changes"
it's asinine
it's asinine
I think this list highlights that Zenimax also didn't know what to do with some of these studios. I still don't think they should have been closed but it's not like they were in good spots. They were starting a get them all on GaaS after all.
lol I made a similar joke yesterday
I'll keep Game Pass and not give them a dollar. Best of both worlds.I'd like to update my previous statement from "hey you should reconsider having a game pass subscription" to "actually on second thought you just shouldn't give another dollar to Microsoft until something changes"
it's asinine
why the fuck was someone from microsoft casual games put into position to oversee zenimax to begin with let's start there
edit: she was the deal lead on the Zenimax integration and was hired specifically for that so I guess this is an extension of that actually. seems like you could've had someone from the Zenimax cultural side be your representative but idk!!!
edit: she was the deal lead on the Zenimax integration and was hired specifically for that so I guess this is an extension of that actually. seems like you could've had someone from the Zenimax cultural side be your representative but idk!!!
Technically they became BGS Austin so they weren't shuttered.
How could Starfield meet sales expectation when it's locked on a console hardware that Microsoft is unable to promote and make attractive and releasing day one in Game Pass because Microsoft decided it. Even then, Starfield has been a lot more successful (both in terms of revenues and players) than any other Microsoft property on PC for instance (besides Minecraft).
Same way they put Matt Booty to oversee Bethesda despite his absymal trackrecord at XGS.
Nah, I've never paid a dime for it. I just bought all my third party games on Xbox. No more tho.
He/She's not good because she's not good, not because where the person from
Reggie was working at Pizza Hut before joining Nintendo
Well, Peter Moore was working at game company before joining Liverpool lol
Remember the hit Wolfenstein: Youngblood, consequence of Zenimax's push for games with microtransactions?
unless you have free gamepass someone is paying dollars for it lol
I have free Game Pass through MS Rewards.
One of the few Beth games I simply quit.Remember the hit Wolfenstein: Youngblood, consequence of Zenimax's push for games with microtransactions?
Meanwhile I've got Outlaws and Space Marine 2 preordered and I'm poised to preorder Dragon Age and AC Red lol
Maybe I'm part of the problem lol
I don't think you should feel any way at all about it. It's your money!
And Wolfenstein Cyberpilot, which was also critically and commercially panned.Remember the hit Wolfenstein: Youngblood, consequence of Zenimax's push for games with microtransactions?
Same. They have my favorite devs ransom. Thank God for GFN.
Pete Hines was probably the person they had in mind for that role, specially if you look at how he was moved to "Head of Publishing" for Bethesda Softworks when he was their Marketing & Comms guy for decades.