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Problem: Large studios aren’t winning awards, because their products aren’t as creative as smaller studios.
Microsoft solution: If you buy up all the small studios and close them down, then the awards will have to go to large studios, because there are no small studios.
Result: Line go up stonks.
Those morons just closed their only “indie” Japanese studio.
Xbox is no longer a serious console, just get a PC.
XBox peaked at the 360.
That was one hell of a peak though
Yeah, they really blew it.
I owned one Xbox years ago. I just wanted to play games without technical issues. PC games were better but I just wanted to go arcade mode for a while. One of the first games I bought froze at the first loading screen every single time. I tried contacting the publisher, Microsoft, the developer… No one would help, barely even got responses. I exchanged it for another copy at the local store it came from, the new copy did the exact same thing. No refunds on games so I was stuck with a $50 game that didn’t work.
That’s when I realized that consoles have a lot of technical issues too, it’s just not possible for me to fix them like it is on PC. Later that same xbox red ringed.
Fuck consoles.
Also Japan still being a market Microsoft has not managed to properly crack wrt games, makes this even more baffling—surely removing a (successful) local presence is only going to make that harder
Xbox is no longer a serious console, just get a PC.
It’s tragic this effectively means just pivoting to a different division in the same company.
From my comment on one of the other threads:
Here, I’ll translate - “We need an undervalued and underpaid studio that we own to pop out a viral sensation we can exploit the shit out of, who we will then treat exactly the same. Repeat ad nauseam”
While your translation really drives that point home it’s ridiculous that it’s barely even necessary. Like, he’s just saying it outright.
It’s not “we need to invest in indie studios to build our reputation in that sector” it’s “we want prestige and awards”. The wording is slight but obvious. Business people are such wastes of time and energy.
The way you get prestige and awards is having the occasional experimental flop, though. You don’t get either of those for making Generic Military Shooter #98749372, even if that’s where the money is. Prestige is something that takes a long time to build.
Yes? I didn’t say otherwise.
Heh. Booty.
It’s a simple strategy. Make games that are cheaper to develop but are critically acclaimed and make even more money. I’m surprised they didn’t decide to do this sooner.
This is a response to them closing down several studios. Including one that made a smaller game that gave them prestige.
Step 1: Destroy studios making good games.
(They forgot about a Step 2)
Is no one going to point out that his name is “Booty?”
Came to comment, Booty lol
He doesn’t deserve it.
Xbox has no damn clue about how to keep xbox going, it’s very apparent now.
embrace extend extinguish
Are they even bothering with the ‘extend’ bit anymore?
