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Ok but have you considered that women with blue hair are the REAL reason that the industry is struggling

I’ve had a hypothesis for some years that Microsoft has always been a shitty company and that they essentially lucked out being at the right time and place with Windows and Office. Outside of Azure, I don’t know of anything else that they’ve done well.

Both Sony and Konami booted him for being over budget and behind schedule, there's no way Microsoft will let that slide either.

I can't help but imagine Dutch van der Linde standing on that cliff rambling about how CoPilot's just about to turn a profit next year...

We heard you like Halo. So we’re gonna make a new studio dedicated to Halo. Oh what’s this? That studio was ran poorly? Surely running it back with those same execs will fix everything! Oh it didn’t? Ok. Let’s hand it off to Activision for some reason then. That’ll work! Totally!

Oh also halo campaign evolved was apparently barely made by 343 halo whatever studios, they outsourced to like 20 other companies

They said it was coming in 2027

Apparently they did that to make themselves a more attractive prospect for another publisher to buy them. Not that it meant anything regardless as MS announced they had a buyer before the deal was actually solid, it seems.

The “is this good” lever but they’re looking exclusively at finance

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ROFL! Are you joking? They announced that more layoffs were coming months ago. That and what's the tragedy here. Ninja Theory has made some bad games that didn't sell, Double Fine as well. Halo Studios is a disaster that released the worst game in the franchise. What's the loss here?

I remember from some podcast I was listening to where yeah this current Xbox they will make decisions the day of or very close and announce shit there is no prep or long term planning going on they 100% made this decision at the earliest yesterday

This is the second part of the plan they announced at the beginning of the year is it not? Isn’t that kind of the definition of a “plan”? Everyone who thinks that Microsoft should’ve just kept doing what they were doing under Phil is either dumb or works for Sony.

I get it, playing online is addictive, so the addict in you rejects what Im saying completely........ If nobody's buying their new bullshit because everyone's grabbing up the old shit, it shows Microsoft where the real money is AND exposes their need to calm tf down, gamers didnt ask for this shit

Nice to see that video game companies are taking notes from American politics

Kojima announces the cancellation of Physint pushed to 2029

Giving Halo to Activision just screams "I don't know anything about Halo, but Activision makes shooters that sell, so let's give it to them"

It's why I'm not worried about having to boycott the new new NEW new version of Starcraft Ghost they're working on; don't have to try very hard to avoid a buying something that doesn't exist.

I did that stupid fucking “9 games that defined you” thing but hadn’t uploaded the image and I put Halo 3 as one of those games lmao. God.

There will be games still after the crash, it's just that nobody's going to be able to make anything above the scope of Big Walk until 2035.

how would the AI bubble bursting not affect japan when the japanese game companies are using AI just as much if not more than the americans?

Sony isn't exactly blameless here either, MS and Sony have been the grim reapers of this industry for a while now

guys who are hogging ai at bigger levels, banned unions and been eating shit due to monopolies for 100 years nonstop? yeah, im sure theyre about to own aa slop like wolverine by making third drakengard gacha.

There are thousands of games released by hundreds of developers every year. What the fuck are you talking about?

doing what they did to creative assemblies and the others but instead of being over a several year period it's like 4 times in a year

And also a bunch of european studios iirc

We said similar, especially when people were dismissing that maybe they'd not really do anything about the endemic problems at Activision and Blizzard. (Beyond removing Kotick, which at one point they weren't even gonna do, they haven't. *Sighs.*)

this is still no example of an acceptable, let alone "good" game being made by AI much in the way there is no example of an AI film that lasts more than 10 seconds before collapsing under its own discontinuity

If they can replace all devs with AI it'll be good for stonks, which is the only product of a publicly traded company

Extremely well said. I hate this timeline

I think the coin's still in the air, they just grabbed it up and we dont really know where kojima's at on the timeline. Im not saying it definitely will release, but i dont think its certain that its not tbh.

I got this dreadful feeling that Death Stranding 2 is probably Kojima’s last game. He might be forced into retirement if Xbox cancels both Physint and OD, I just can’t see him going back to Konami after what they did

I think there is a plan but it's greedy and wildly upsetting. When they are done raising everything to the ground... there might also be a plan... but since its coming from the same people who are laying everyone off it will surely be a very terrible plan.

the constant changes and lack of transparency on xbox's end makes it hard to believe anything they say is serious. it's like they're trying to keep the whole thing in a perpetual state of flux to keep investors and analysts off balance.

Kind crazy to me that because of Sonys fumbles, people are praising Xbox helping Kojima and making it seem like Xbox is now the hero. But for real its obviously just a desperate hail mary to gain favour (it worked). They probably would have shut down Kojima themselves if the tables were flipped.

You could feel how muted the hype behind Diablo 5 and Starcraft 2030 during Blizzcon because of all this. Even with Diablo 4 allegedly being a money printing machine I have no optimism for D5 and Starcraft was sent out to die.

"Yeah yeah yeah...but Kojima though."

Because PCs don't exist and if you dont buy it they hold you at gunpoint......

I think XBLA was a neat way to get indie games in front of an audience who plays on console. And at least to me, the real product in paying for online was moderation. The value prop was that you pay them and reported players would get banned. Kaillera was 10x more toxic than original XBox online

but but but they post good!

there's a boykott over a GENOCIDE and people are falling over themselves to kiss the ground that fucking vaporware stands on