Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
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Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#2Anecdotally, as an avid gamer, I, personally do not miss the studios listed
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#3Hi-Fi Rush was a fantastic game, won major awards, showed off the promise of XBox Game Pass… and for their efforts their studio has been shut down. There have multiple instances of this in just the past few weeks; are publishers really going to just bet on their prime AAA titles (Call of Duty, Halo, GTA6, etc) and nothing else? And those games either take a lot of rotating studios and a long development cycle to release. What’s going to fill the gap?
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#4"Thanks for the widely acclaimed mid-budget surprise hit, Tango. Now polish up your resumes, pack up your stuff, and get out."
It's like AAA publishers have no notion of a game studio as an organic thing that can grow. It's all just pieces on a board.
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#5Anecdotally, as an avid gamer, I, personally do not miss the studios listed
Never played Prey 2017?
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#6Hi-Fi Rush was a fantastic game, won major awards, showed off the promise of XBox Game Pass… and for their efforts their studio has been shut down. There have multiple instances of this in just the past few weeks; are publishers really going to just bet on their prime AAA titles (Call of Duty, Halo, GTA6, etc) and nothing else? And those games either take a lot of rotating studios and a long development cycle to rele…
Just as with movies, it seems like we’re witnessing the death of mid-budget (AA) games.
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#7Anecdotally, as an avid gamer, I, personally do not miss the studios listed
I can't say the same, Hi-Fi Rush was incredible and I want so many more genre bending games like it.
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#8Hi-Fi Rush was a fantastic game, won major awards, showed off the promise of XBox Game Pass… and for their efforts their studio has been shut down. There have multiple instances of this in just the past few weeks; are publishers really going to just bet on their prime AAA titles (Call of Duty, Halo, GTA6, etc) and nothing else? And those games either take a lot of rotating studios and a long development cycle to rele…
what do you mean by "just"? millions if not billions of USD profit @ the 3 titles cited between the brackets? people play GTA V till these days, even Skyrim...
either the way, hope it paves the way for more small studios titles...
Re: Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
#9What is extraordinary about the Microsoft games unit and Xbox is how immune their senior staff are to the repercussions of their bad decisions. They're certainly not taking responsibility for the failed gamepass experiment, trashing the Xbox brand, or the acquisitions they now regret since successfully closing Activision.
Failing upwards has never been so conspicuously obvious as it is in modern corporate America thanks to the pervasive use of social media.