Microsoft is one of the richest corporations on Earth. They have no excuse.

@sarkaztik3228

Ай бұрын

Of course they do. "We simply don't care."

@Javier64691

Ай бұрын

Is not about having money, is about filling a $70 billion dollar hole that no studio besides Bethesda, Activision and a few others can.

@ashroskell

Ай бұрын

How do you think they got so rich? It sure wasn’t by giving a damn about their employees. Phil Spencer, in that clip, was actively gaslighting fans, claiming he wants to, “foster creativity,” by, “allowing,” studios to make games of a type they don’t usually make. Half of the team that made Redfall, including all of its founders, had already left the company by the time that game was published. Those brave enough to speak out about why they left all said it was because they were being, “forced,” to make a live service game, which they had no experience making. Then Spencer flipped and said it would be a single player narrative, when they were already near completion, forcing them to rework the entire project, with the results we all saw. They had pleaded with Spencer not to force them out of their lane in the first place, into a type of game they didn’t like or believe in ethically, let alone artistically. But their pleas fell on deaf ears, until the Microsoft higher ups changed their minds, when it was already too late. They pleaded even louder with Spencer for more time, but again, deaf ears. He KNEW the game wasn’t ready, yet he outright lied in his softball Q&A sessions, saying he was getting great feedback from all the testers. He had simply calculated that the game would flop but, by releasing it in an incomplete state, he could still watch the calendar for when those quarterly payouts to the shareholders were due and guarantee their payoffs. And how could he guarantee them? Glad you asked. By knowing that he could still make savings at the other end, by firing staff. As long as the shareholders (who don’t play video games or know anything about them) get their money come pay day, everything is fine. And the investors probably don’t even know about these disasters in the community. All they know is that the first day they don’t get their LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE promised payouts, they will move on into another industry and gut that. Which is why, to the public, Spencer says the direct opposite of the truth and gaslights us players about what the studios actually wanted. Most of these people are bound by NDA’s, so the fact that we hear anything contradicting him, or even just challenging his basic assumptions, at all is as a result of brave individuals taking big risks.

@GarrusN7

Ай бұрын

You guys need to learn how money works. Microsoft's valuation has nothing to do with revenue and profit. MS had 227B in revenue last year and a profit of 101B. The Xbox division can't spend 10's of billions to acquire studios and operate in the red. Whoever came up with gamepass royally fucked up because now they have to make cuts to cover those acquisitions.

@graye2799

Ай бұрын

@@GarrusN7 oh no. ONLY 101 billion!!! That's more than enough you dolt.

> buys game studio > enforce game studio insane policies on how to make game and art > doubles down despite buyers opinions > shut down more studios than released games

@lucasfragoso7634

Ай бұрын

>Doesn't advertise new games

@ipot399

Ай бұрын

Literally EA from 15 years ago

@ironhell813

Ай бұрын

> buys up ip property and just holds on to it instead of giving indies a chance. >consolidates studios to help them and then fires everyone for the ip holdings >only work with studios from certain countries as a form of political gate keeping

@RAM_845

Ай бұрын

> Draconian measures in chat lobbies whether chat or voice chat, set of rules and you cannot say certain words otherwise A.I will flag you or ban you. > doesn't like pretty women i.e. D31

@danniton9831

Ай бұрын

This is practically EA playbook right here.

Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo Wii was the golden age of gaming. Triple A titles were absolutely exceptional at reasonable prices and no scummy Microtransactions. Now what happened.

@gamecubeplayer

Ай бұрын

the original wii rvl-001 was really good because it's backwards compatible with gamecube games

@shiro3146

Ай бұрын

yeah 2000 to 2010 was peak gaming sad tosee them go,not even vr gaming able to replicate it

@anukjayawardana8113

Ай бұрын

@@gamecubeplayer Its the same model I own and absolutely adored ever since I was a kid

@anukjayawardana8113

Ай бұрын

@@shiro3146 😥

@MarkyV83

Ай бұрын

It must be an age thing but you've just disregarded the NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo, PS1, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, GameCube etc etc. Also golden age of gaming

It's still crazy to me that Microsoft’s genius idea was to build the Xbox One around cable television right after streaming started taking over

@joshallen128

26 күн бұрын

hdmi passthru and streaming apps

Xbox really said "We need more games like Hi-Fi Rush" the day after they closed down the studio. Kinda reminds me of that one Eric Andre meme where he shot the guy in the couch then pulled a surprised Pikachu face

@paulypipes3082

Ай бұрын

See the problem is HiFi Rush didn't make xbox any money..... Because that's the problem with gamepass. U subscribe to this service and Microsoft won't make a profit from this game, they'll just get people to buy into their service which has nothing to do with the game. Honestly they should've never made a deal with the devil and maybe released on Sony. This company would've sold a banger with millions of copies

@jimmymac2292

Ай бұрын

Bruh, Tango was in shambles internally. Shinji Mikami left over creative direction in February and is likely a major factor on why the studio was consolidated

@MajimaNightlord

Ай бұрын

Who killed Hannibal?

@kannyboy1847

Ай бұрын

​@@jimmymac2292 What do you get from lying? Mikami has been a supervisor for over a decade, creating studios where he can coach younger talent and give them opportunities, so when he feels they don't need him anymore he leaves and creates a new studio with the same idea for new people, He left Platinum after starting it because he believed they didn't need him and he left Tango for the same reason.

@The_Primary_Axiom

Ай бұрын

It’s gamepass man. It’s gamepass. I told people game pass is destructive years ago. It is detrimental to studios who want to sell games. People just pay a few bucks play their $30- $60 game and then cancel.

I do miss the physicality of gaming. Showing up in line with perfect strangers and having conversations around game releases and consoles.

@fSergius

Ай бұрын

Physicality in general is decreasing…

@jase276

Ай бұрын

That's pretty much only been a Gamestop thing and it rarely happens anymore if even. The last time I lined up for a midnight release was for Red Dead Redemption 2 and it was great. Couple of us in line talked to pass the time and we recommended a bunch of games for each other

@logicstone1661

Ай бұрын

It will happen again with GTA6

@xvxvcaspervxvx

Ай бұрын

@@jase276 RDR2 was my last midnight release as well! A few people actually dressed up like John Marston and outlaws! But that game was 100% worth it! It's still my favorite game by far!

@joshuasterling2144

Ай бұрын

@@jase276 I am sure it can still happen, but probably less than five titles a generation.

Companies: Make worse games. People: Buy said worse games. Companies: Make even worse games. People: Buy said even worse games. Companies: Make absolute garbage. People: Wait, what happened to the industry?! Why are games like this?!

@nick1512

Ай бұрын

Pretty much summed it up. I wait a good while before I buy a new game because I do not trust these companies to buy it on day one.

@Battleguy02

28 күн бұрын

Bingo.

@Clooger-

25 күн бұрын

It's honestly scary how quickly ldiots will shovel money into these corporations pockets. Critical thinking and patience are dead.

@sacredsecrecy9620

20 күн бұрын

Yep, shit like that is turning me into a misanthrope, because ppl are just plain dumb, always moving in herds and never question anything until it's too damn late.

@thebiggestmonkey9172

18 күн бұрын

2k, gacha, and COD killed gaming

Tango GW: 4 games, 4 masterpieces, shutdown 343 I: 3 games, 3 disappointments, still alive and kicking

@kevinle1083

Ай бұрын

Well they made Halo but the newer games just suck from what I’ve heard.

@kuyagab4444

Ай бұрын

Tango Gameworks needs to build their own studio. They're the worst option to get rid of.

@stachesheriff9200

Ай бұрын

Truth, but Ghostwire was mediocre though

@alexcastillo463

Ай бұрын

Infinite wasn’t that bad tbh

@Blazuchan

29 күн бұрын

@@kuyagab4444 can they restablished as the same company again (but indie)?

The worst part about these shut downs is that 343 wasn't one of them

@NoNameTaken117

Ай бұрын

What did 343 do?

@TurtleMan2023

Ай бұрын

Fr

@burntdog

Ай бұрын

​@@NoNameTaken117 absolutely nothing notable since they took over halo, so they should of been one of the 1st to go

@TurtleMan2023

Ай бұрын

@@NoNameTaken117 they ruined the Halo series

@Kiviluvu

Ай бұрын

@@NoNameTaken117 they attempted to make halo 4, halo 5, MCC and halo infinite. Right now it is rumored we are being threatened by another halo game from them

Once companies realized how profitable the gaming industry is, all they saw was dollar signs and stopped turning out quality products. We've seen this with other industries before

@kman9884

Ай бұрын

Blame dev companies for having spineless ceos and even more spineless devs.

@muhhtayoo4892

Ай бұрын

DEI quotas ruined gaming.

@kevo300

Ай бұрын

*American companies

@700gsteak

Ай бұрын

microsoft always rests on its laurels when its at the top. and when it actually has to compete it doesnt know how to.

@chaseray7321

Ай бұрын

Suits ruin everything

Does anyone else feel like the world has been declining as a whole? Quality of life and quality of products etc etc

@nick1512

Ай бұрын

yep, and it doesn't look likes it's going to get better.

@bumslightrail2382

29 күн бұрын

Man this is the truth!!! My homie literally just told me yesterday “bro you have been seeming a little depressed” I’m just like how can you not be life is just bullshit nowadays

@1stCMcook

28 күн бұрын

Capitalism.

@VeggietalesConnoisseur-qx4ge

28 күн бұрын

⁠@@1stCMcook shut up, communism would lead to worse circumstances. like it always has in history. we need a new system entirely if youre gonna $hit on capitalism

@badbuddha2359

25 күн бұрын

It's called late stages of capitalism..

Reading several comments that share similar thoughts on the state of gaming today. Honestly I’ve been finding myself playing through older games over again because I’m more excited about those than anything that’s come out recently. Really hoping something changes soon and we can get back to “good ol days” so to speak.

Xbox 360/PlayStation 3/Wii was the peak of gaming.

@lucienmoolman8017

Ай бұрын

Playing crysis 2 on the Xbox 360 was an unforgettable experience

@susstevedev

Ай бұрын

Can't wait for Gen Alpha to say the same thing about the Xbox one And series X.

@googleisevil8958

Ай бұрын

God of War 3... Halo 3... Legende of Zelda Twilight Princess... We didn't realize just how good we had it back then.

@Enigmalake

Ай бұрын

I remember people during that time saying snes/genesis was. Legit people have nostalgia rose glasses

@fossilfern

Ай бұрын

LMAO no it wasn’t. It was the beginning of the absolute state the industry is in.

The current state of the AAA gaming scene is indeed quite appalling. Major companies favoring profit over quality, closing studios and alienating loyal user bases. It's definitely an eye-opening call for more support for developers who truly care for the community and the art of gaming.

@SL4PSH0CK

Ай бұрын

oh man, unfortunately AA studios are more affected RIP

@coltyt9529

Ай бұрын

BlameTruth couldn't be anymore right abt his

@coltyt9529

Ай бұрын

This*

@GMOTP5738

Ай бұрын

Its why indie devs are the future over these greedy companies

@Rman1228

Ай бұрын

Meanwhile Nintendo:

Xbox destroy everything they touch. They ruined Halo ffs, Halo. Tell anyone back during the H3 times what halo would become, they wouldn’t believe you.

@idipped2521

29 күн бұрын

Back then everybody was talking about halo 4 all the time and looking for clues in the game then Microsoft took a massive shit on the franchise

Internet went down this morning and man I'm feeeeelin this videos summary so much right now. Just wanted to play some games on my day off and I'm just stuck watching vids on my phone

@kosmas173

Ай бұрын

A few years ago I had awful internet that would also shut down randomly so I got used to the idea that internet is something that I can't rely on for everything so I would spend extra money buying all my games physically and I still do to this day.

Microsoft actually gave Tango, Arkane employes who were laid off yesterday a bunch of Xbox merchandise as a parting gift, you can't make that shit up.

@user-jh1jt9lo7i

Ай бұрын

better than nothing

@ghostlyswat12

Ай бұрын

Worst case maybe you could sell it online lol

@jimmymac2292

Ай бұрын

They gave them severance packages lol. Do you think that's just xbox swag lmao

@betag24cn

Ай бұрын

​@@user-jh1jt9lo7ixbox is bothing, that is what they got

@SomaCruz500

Ай бұрын

“Sorry we’re firing you, play our console still tho? UwU”

It's not a coincidence that almost most indie companies that were brought by a AAA company end up not making good games, where as those who remain independent still pumping out high quality games.

@kevinle1083

Ай бұрын

Well, it’s self explanatory. Indie devs make good games; AAA release predatory, micro-transaction filled slop

They closed Tango instead of 343... they really need to fire management instead.

Used to watercool the 360s to prevent the red ring of death to cope with gaming marathons during a hot aussie summer. Miss those days! Fond memories and its sad to see microsoft's direction

TLDR: Gamepass doesn’t produce new game revenue and to attract new subscriptions so they close the studios. Well duh. Subscription services are not sustainable.

@FlamespeedyAMV

Ай бұрын

They never will be either. Cloud gaming, game pass and all these sub models need to die if anything

@sonofillahee937

Ай бұрын

One of their biggest mistakes was getting rid of xbox live gold, forcing people to pay monthly instead of annually for online.

@tiago.suares

Ай бұрын

​@@FlamespeedyAMVNo. For now they serve a purpose, hardware is unbelievably expensive right now to certain economies, a 4060 is two months of my salary and i work in college degree level. Gamepass and GeForce Now are 2% of my salary.

@minisculex3

Ай бұрын

​@@tiago.suares from the sound of it, u could easily just go for lan cafe and will still be fine and also supporting ur local , the reason why the gamepass is bad is because you do not own any of the games, issue with netlfix and spotify is that you dun own any of the song or the movies once u paid the subscription fee.

@calculator91

Ай бұрын

​@@FlamespeedyAMVIt's either sub models or micro transactions. I prefer the former.

2024 feels like the worst year for gaming and we are only halfway in for the year lol

@Ag3nt-MC

Ай бұрын

But we have hades 2, so it single handedly balances everything out

@Anderson-Gaming

Ай бұрын

😢

@Jericco8

Ай бұрын

more like 2024 feels like the worst gaming year for microsoft

@KnowThatIDontKnowYou

Ай бұрын

Yeah the AAA industry is imploading…

@riatorex8722

Ай бұрын

The annoying thing is, some of them (like Helldivers or Dragon's Dogma 2) are legit good, it's just the suits at the top that had to ruin everything

I guess we needed a new generation of young adults to learn what kind of company Microsoft is and always has been. Never saddle up with Microsoft. They will stab you in the back eventually.

@idipped2521

29 күн бұрын

Microsoft is pure evil

Starting to think Sony had a point when they said that Gamepass with day one releases is unsustainable. Like these games cost 100s of millions and added onto the fact that they acquired both Activision and Bethesda for like 75 billion dollars seem to make things worst for them

To add fuel to the fire, Tango and Arkane Austin were in early talks for developing Hi-Fi Rush 2 and Dishonored 3 respectively.

@joshallen128

Ай бұрын

maybe their spirtual successor devs will work on them still

@ostanki

Ай бұрын

​@@joshallen128 yeah but given xbox track record on continuing franchises without the og devs I wouldn't be so sure.

@joshallen128

Ай бұрын

@@ostanki what was to be seen is now gone, what was to be had is now empty. i think a good franchise moves around every company you know ive contemplated doing a gathering of publishers joke where the ip is owned by multiple companies. instead of publishing rights its developer rights insteasd

@mmrchive

Ай бұрын

We still have Arkane Lyon but who knows if they'll still be able to work on Dishonored 3. I wish I could say the same for Tango Gameworks, but with the whole studio axed, we'll never get to see new IPs or installments from them. I thought they'd be alright if it was just Mikami who left, but the whole studio followed after.

@Gurka9999

Ай бұрын

Arkane Lyon is the studio that made the Dishonored games. Arkane Austin made Prey and Redfall. One niche hit and one massive failure.

Booting up the OG Xbox was like jacking into the Matrix

@ggmgoodgamingmichael7706

Ай бұрын

@FlamespeedyAMV

Ай бұрын

Ironically the new Xbox console makes you feel like you are in a dystopian future

@ctg4818

Ай бұрын

Except the Matrix wouldn't take 10 minutes to boot.

@Battered_Fanny

Ай бұрын

@@FlamespeedyAMVI hate the series S even it’s controllers are crappy

@spooderman33334

Ай бұрын

that's what I loved about the original xbox

Playing 4 person split screen of Halo with the big controllers was a life changing experience. Got my own with fable. Now the consoles seem like more of a designer product

@UnflushedTurd

12 күн бұрын

Designer like a Porsche or Aston Martin.

Meet my best friend on Skate 3 on the 360 back in 2011, we are still friends

Phil Spencer talking about not forcing studios to work on a game they don't want to is so rich when you consider that it was revealed that Arkane Austin was forced to work on Redfall. ( Edited Tim to Phil. I must've been high)

@tentinquarantino876

Ай бұрын

Phil* Also, not to defend Xbox, but they probably were forced by Bethesda, not Spencer himself, since Redfall was in development before they bought ZeniMax.

@SuperSikarlo

Ай бұрын

Phil

@vonnblagaming984

Ай бұрын

@@tentinquarantino876Devs thought that when they got acquired MS will listen to the devs and cancel the game. So I still blame MS and Bethesda

@MrRaccoon879

Ай бұрын

​@@tentinquarantino876 Phil Howard and Todd Spencer.

@Jeez001

Ай бұрын

Actually Microsoft approved continued development of Redfall it was supposed to be canned when they got purchased and Arkane Austin wanted to work something else.

It’s so fucking sad man. I hate what’s becoming of our hobby.

@ambiarock590

Ай бұрын

I don't game nearly as much as I used to, and it's a shame seeing where gaming is going. Microtransactions, studios being shut down, loot boxes, etc; it's so sad.

@xxgothicprincessxx

Ай бұрын

​@@ambiarock590 honestly i havent been gaming as much because of how bad the greed has gotten, i cant dedicate so much money to play a game the same amount as i used to when it was a one-and-done purchase game go play deal

@youtubewanderer3347

Ай бұрын

​@@ambiarock590loot boxes are fricking extinct already. 2023 was one of the best years gaming has ever had, and 2024 is also being insane. I do not understand this wild gamer doomerism.

@daSEGAfanatic

Ай бұрын

What we're seeing has always been the the goal to some extent, probably wouldve been worse if people didnt give some pushback sometimes, but the pushback is always only temporary, and these big companies will find sneakier ways to fuck us (the consumer) over, and them (the developers) all to max out profit projections to please their real customers (the share holders, invested paries like tencent, and other corporate suits) with little actual effort on their end. sucking any creativity out of creating games too, since the only time they truly succeed is if they follow the trends of making the consumers trickle money out for each game past buying the product while hoping we're too dumb to notice. Being a trend, a pattern that has to be learned, its only a matter of time before one of these big publishers start using AI to generate games as well. as has happened already in other professions where creatives are being kicked out. ...Yeah, so it kinda fuckn sucks

@dragoon1090

Ай бұрын

I've been playing retro games because modern games are too shitty.

Xbox 360 and the Gears of War series taught me how to play shooter with a controller. And the split screen co-op campaigns are some of my most fond memories.

Isn't there a Simpsons episode where Bill Gates 'buys out' Homer from his internet business, by destroying it? "I didn't get rich by writing alot of cheques!"

The evil within 2 is the most overlooked game of last gen. A true survival horror modern classic

@talhasaqib3098

Ай бұрын

yup, it was a really nice game.

@carbagehealth9634

Ай бұрын

The first game had sooo many problems, but still loved it for what it was. But damn evil within 2 was such a leap and became one of my favourite survival horror games ever, no one ever really talks about the 2 games which is sad.

@liquidocelot4885

Ай бұрын

@@carbagehealth9634 agreed, while I like the first game I don't think it's anywhere near as polished of an experience. The second game imo is one of the best this genre has to offer. Any fan of survival horror should at least try it even if they were put off by the first game.

@engagingweirdo

Ай бұрын

Sadly the 3rd one won’t happen, both games felt like a Constantine movie. Hopefully we get something similar to it for a AA game. If I had to choose which survival horror is my favorite I’d go with either re2 or evil within 1

@Qwedfjcjjs

Ай бұрын

Uninstalled because sebastrian is too slow

I had no clue Hellblade 2 was about to come out until I watched this video. I thought it was still years away.

@idukry

Ай бұрын

Yeah I thought it was a 2025 title.

@LG555

Ай бұрын

Fans are begging Microsoft to actually advertise Hellblade 2 on Twitter. PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR ADS.

@Indie_Better_than_AAA

Ай бұрын

Microsoft enemy of gaming

sheesh have a feeling you will have my tool in ya vids again lol, recently found ways to give folks strikes quicker and have them working within the ban hammer as well so linking the two together will ban anyone now 100%

I have very fond memories of going to midnight releases for games and consoles. The buzz that used to be in the air was brilliant. Strangers queueing up and talking with each other over our excitement about whatever it is that is about to release.

This is why we shouldn't have monopolies, they clearly cannot handle massive amounts of money. Small businesses and studios are more manageable and practical for long term success.

@JuniortheDerp

Ай бұрын

Agreed 1000%! Competition breeds quality, so once some of the biggest studios (like Blizzard!!!) started to have to bow down before their supreme over lords.... it signaled the end of an age coming to pass. And, sadly; I feel it will be a very, very long time before the revival of gaming actually comes a pass, as these big studio conglomerates continue trying to dig deeper into their customers' pockets. All i see is epically failing releases..... Since anything worth playing is going to just be endless cash grabs, as they are so out of touch with their customers that they don't even know what makes a good game anymore. All they know now are different formulas to milk more money out of the people who are still willing to actually play their crap... Sad times indeed. I miss WoW...

@WeebBountyHunter

Ай бұрын

Just look at Sony they aquire more smaller studios because they're easier to manage

@noahmcarthur5955

Ай бұрын

We just gotta somehow get congress to break up xbox and its studios even tho its a herculean task

@lucasfragoso7634

Ай бұрын

​@noahmcarthur5955 don't worry. There is another. The EU hates monopolies and loves flexing its muscles.

@WeebBountyHunter

Ай бұрын

@@lucasfragoso7634 can't forget when EU had spit on Apple

I can understand why they close the other 3 studios, but Tango was the biggest scratch in the head for me.

@KnowThatIDontKnowYou

Ай бұрын

The verge published a report that choice was based on studios that has nothing in the works at the moment…

@SL4PSH0CK

Ай бұрын

@@KnowThatIDontKnowYou -heard the previous devs already left as soon as Shinji Mikami left the studio since last year(?)-

@deathringer1003

Ай бұрын

​@@SL4PSH0CK that was supposedly debunked

@yeolemillinial8295

Ай бұрын

Lol gta6 might compete with 5 if SBI don't kill it lmao

@yeolemillinial8295

Ай бұрын

Any way these companies can sue to due to arbitrarily killing their former company

I really miss when games were realized being really excited and going out to try and find that copy of the game you were looking for everywhere. I just remember the feeling of how excited I was when I finally got my hands on that game. Now it kind of just sucks the joy out of it when clicking a button and it’s bought.

What about la rush is it gonna be backwards compatibility on Xbox series x?

Xbox died with the disastrous E3 2013 reveal. That was such a train wreck it completely killed the brand.

@Itsgone99

Ай бұрын

Which sucks cause Xbox from performance standpoint is better, even after Sony had a nice bath in our greenbacks...

@thepews1511

Ай бұрын

I always say it was like they got hit in the jaw and never got up they got the spaghetti legs

@donfanucci1766

Ай бұрын

it;s all gamepass's fault.. microsoft went all in on cheap budget little unpolished games.. they really thought that was gonna pique people's interest.. look at it now.. gamepass is the reason people are losing their jobs

@STOPPEDINCOLORADO

Ай бұрын

Yeah they never really recovered after that. It’s so confusing too… they had no real reason to go in the direction they did.

@STOPPEDINCOLORADO

Ай бұрын

@@donfanucci1766To be fair, game pass to some degree makes sense from a profit and consumer standpoint. The issue is that this pay model grossly mirrors the music and movie industry now, where everyone wins except for the people actually making the content.

It's crazy how the console war is being dissolved by both Sony and Microsoft making horrible decisions.

@BladerKev

Ай бұрын

Seems like Nintendo’s winning this one.

@MrProg-ey3tl

Ай бұрын

@@BladerKev Valve too

@BladerKev

Ай бұрын

@@MrProg-ey3tl Actually Valve is beating Nintendo ever so slightly.

@sarkaztik3228

Ай бұрын

​@@BladerKevNintendo? The company that actively hates every one of its fans and is so anti-consumer that only smoothbrains are still handing them money? No, they are the absolute worst of this shit pie.

@mutalix

Ай бұрын

How is PS losing the console war?

When nintendo do ads seriously, you see them on the street, tv ads, reseller ads, internet ads. What is xbox doing?

Thanks mutta. Its a breathe of fresh air to hear you say these things. I got a buddy that is a die hard xbox fanboy and hes the only one i can talk to about the companies news lately...his response is always the same to all the problems. He always says "dude theyre fine" without any other explanation.

It’s funny in hindsight how many late 2000s/early 2010s executives thought “games are dead, the future of consoles is access to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu” as if internet connectivity wasn’t coming to a billion different devices and becoming so completely ubiquitous as to be trivial, a solved problem that nobody was going to spend $400 on a console for. When everything can stream it turns out that the killer app for your “games console” is actually…ummmm…the games.

@vrozombie3004

Ай бұрын

Yeah seeing the Xbox could play KZread moved me about as much as seeing a Samsung touch screen fridge. They act like people don’t own phones.

@RusticRonnie

Ай бұрын

They didn’t think games were dead, they thought that they could get your grandma to buy an xbox. Similar to PS2 and DVD or PS3 to Blu-Ray its not games are dead its trying to branch to other markets But funny enough by the time Xbone came out I already had a roku tv that cost me like $400 so there was no way they would get not gamers to buy the system.

@RichardKincses

Ай бұрын

The idea of streaming of games was dead from the start, when 90% of the world doesnt have access to normal internet speeds, let alone low latency. You can put an Xbox into someones apartment and let them play games, but you cannot defy the laws of physics and just make picture go faster to someones home on thousands of kilometers long wires when there is like a billion of devices that could interupt that experience...

I hate subscription services because it is literally just customers paying a monthly wage with most of that money going to the CEO and board members.

@danialyousaf6456

Ай бұрын

It's why I prefer paying for the full game over buying a subscription service to play the same game.

@thisemptyworm4677

Ай бұрын

I do wish old Xbox back then was free to play online...

@ghostlyswat12

Ай бұрын

⁠@@danialyousaf6456I’d rather save myself 50£ for a potentially bad game

@Skelterbane69

Ай бұрын

Piracy is your friend.

@ambiarock590

Ай бұрын

I make sure to keep the number I have low. Subscription services are garbage.

Thinking of making another Dishonored game but now shut down? This absolutely sucks.

Layoffs are happening everywhere, as someone who is at university right now in the UK and seeing just how many are being made redundant just across the board, no matter what field they are in, it is terrifying.

Man, why does it seem like such a death sentence to be acquired by publishers? isn’t that supposed to HELP your company with having more money as well as advertising and not result in your company being shut down after such massive success like the Hi Fi Rush team? And the fact that publishers will milk every cent they humanly can out of games is insane. Gearbox acquired the Risk of Rain franchise and one of the first things they did was start making a mobile gacha game with it. It just seems like such a bad idea to work with publishers.

@frylad

Ай бұрын

It used to be that publishers help with Marketing and Distribution of games, which was really important pre-youtube becoming mainstream and when physical copies of games were the main wah they were purchased. After KZread and other video sharing sites became popular it became a lot easier to generate excitement for a game as long as it looked good by sending out review copies to popular creators. Once physical media started rapidly being replaced by digital downloads it massively reduced the upfront cost needed to actually sell the game, and with the rising popularity of Steam it became extremely easy to self-publish. The only reason I can think of to want a publisher in the current environment is if they act as an investor to allow you to hire more staff. There's almost no reason to have one for marketing or distribution anymore but because of how long they were necessary most of the popular IP's are already owned by a studio or publisher.

@augustaseptemberova5664

Ай бұрын

yea, and by now you'd think people / game studios would've noticed the ever repeating pattern, and stay away from it.

@fillsbury8304

Ай бұрын

Because in a lot of these cases of takeovers, it's a package deal. Microsoft wanted Bethesda, well, to get Bethesda, they also needed every other studio that was under the Zenimax umbrella. Too bad for them, Microsoft had probably already decided to axe them long ago.

@ironhell813

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately money is the only thing a lot of studios care about. And we’ll be seeing a lot more ip gatekeeping/goldhoarding in the future.

@subject122

Ай бұрын

that’s how it always goes. music distribution companies and record labels, massive movie studios nowadays, etc

The fact that they shutdown Tango Gameworks that made Hi-Fi Rush made me so pissed. Wtf Microsoft.

@robotizedcyborg7788

Ай бұрын

Damn, Microsoft be making the worst possible decisions so that Sony can be ahead with its recent PSN drama with Helldivers 2.

@cosmancho2959

Ай бұрын

Idaf about hi fi rush but Evil Within was fking great. Too bad we won't see evil within 3.

@mariobadia4553

Ай бұрын

The fact that you have no idea that they made ghostwire. Tokyo a repetitive game that was a major flop Speaks wonders about how much of a failure that game actually was . I Also look up the achievement data. Most people did not even make it past 30 minutes of Hi-fi Rush

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd

Ай бұрын

@@mariobadia4553 ghostwire tokyo came before hi-fi. They had one unsuccessful game out of 4 and that game wasn't even received that poorly.

@mariobadia4553

Ай бұрын

​​@@DanielFerreira-ez8qdNope, beyond good and evil 2 Also did poorly sales wise. Despite the awards and heighype, the majority of people that played hifi rush did not make it past the first 30 minutes before dropping it According to achievement data..

That’s one thing I do not like about modern gaming. Everything is either online, god forbid you are visually impaired and you can’t just look at the button map to see what to do so you click each button to see what each does😂. Then there’s the whole thing about looking around to see what is where and all that. I’ve had so many people just be assholes because they could and most were adults! And then I have had kids you could tell or under the age of 12 or so be so kind when I tell them I’m vision impaired, and currently just trying to figure things out. It’s actually really sad that children are more mature about it than adults. The kids just think it’s cool that someone with limited vision likes to game. I have several disabilities that make me kind of isolated. And gaming is one of the few things that allows me to interact with people on a daily basis. As someone with disabilities, you were sort of skirted around by society because they don’t understand it, put on the pedestal because you can do things that they can do and they are shocked, or treated like a child which is really annoying. 😂 so it’s nice to just chill and have fun with other people I used to love playing, even one player games, especially because it was a small win. Every time I was able to do something that a fully sided person could do in gaming. Daily tasks are easy.😂 the one thing I really do love is the attention, Microsoft has paid to those of us with disability, understanding it might be our only form of socialization because society exists.

I have such amazing memories of the og xbox. It’s sad what Xbox has become. And what halo has become.

Imagine laying off more studios in one year than you had games made in the same year

@ironhell813

Ай бұрын

Gatekeeping and goldhoarding. It’s all about gate keeping the ips

They ruined it when they made xbox enforcement able to suspend you for saying fuck 🤣

@NFSBeast2365

Ай бұрын

SMH

@HipMrBLANK

Ай бұрын

Fr

@Battered_Fanny

Ай бұрын

I got com banned for 6 months for saying fuck in a message

@user-hn78i8so8c

Ай бұрын

To be fair, the word should probably not be allowed. But yeah, they take it way to far over a cuss word.

It’s nice to have movies and TV shows on the consul but you know it’s usually better just to have a streaming service The only movie I bought on my Xbox is the Deadpool Christmas special

Quick correction: Firefight was added to Halo Infinite last Fall, including Forge support so that players could also make their own Firefight maps & PvE scenarios. Some ppl have even used Forge to re-create entire missions from previous Halo games. Halo Infinite's biggest flaw is not having most of these features on launch, a real shame it took over 2 years to become a complete game.

You live long enough to see yourself become the villain Phil Spencer

@whichDude

Ай бұрын

I mean he was never a hero. He had great charisma, but he never did anything positive for Xbox all this time. Just constantly shut down projects, let 343 continue butcher Halo, and never pushes for any new games.

@monki9941

Ай бұрын

@@whichDude I mean gamepass, backwards compatibility, ensuring Bethesda games stay on xbox. Rare and Obsidian are free to make games they're passionate about which are both successes. Im not disagreeing with what you said but to say he never did anything positive for xbox is simply not true

@zelohendricks51

Ай бұрын

​@@monki9941Gamepass isnt what Id call good. Its a step in the direction of gamers owning nothing

@FlamespeedyAMV

Ай бұрын

He hasn't done anything to be a HERO either!

@slipperyquark3885

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@zelohendricks51 I disagree. No one’s who has it is told or assumes that they own the games under Game Pass by buying a subscription. Unlike buying a game digitally. I personally use it to try/discover games that interest me. If it’s not for me I move on. No money wasted. If I end up beating the game and/or really enjoy it I go and buy a physical copy. It’s dope. I also think backwards comparability is pretty huge, though. I can currently play every Xbox game I’ve ever owned from Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on my Series X just by popping in the disc and I don’t need to subscribe to an additional service. On top of that all of the games play/look better than they did on their original consoles. Like the guy you responded to I’m not disagreeing with what they said, but again to say he didn’t do anything positive for Xbox is blatantly untrue.

the thing about saying "layoffs are happening all over the world" is funny because all of these companies are also posting record profits

@calculator91

Ай бұрын

I don't wanna make some central banking tangent but as long as currencies are continually added to the economy you should expect profits for larger corporations to go up but the buying power of those profits are reduced.

@Bananazz.z

Ай бұрын

They lie

@vietimports

Ай бұрын

@@Bananazz.z you think these multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies are lying?

@vietimports

Ай бұрын

@@Bananazz.z you think these multi-billion dollar publicly trade companies are lying?

@vietimports

Ай бұрын

@@Bananazz.z you think a publicly traded company is lying?

I feel like Bethesda messed up with Starfield, and now the smaller devs within their umbrella are paying.

Loved that you mentioned the differences between splinter cell.

The Xbox 360 was with me my entire teenage years. I remember talking sht on Gears of War and Halo 3. I hate seeing what it is now. It hurts.

@Battered_Fanny

Ай бұрын

The indie/arcade section of the 360 can’t be forgotten

@dineshn

Ай бұрын

All they had to do is update gears and halo to modern times

@Mizikame

Ай бұрын

You can still find Gears of War 1 Online Matches on X360

@craigsampson3386

Ай бұрын

Imagine... just imagine being an Xbox 360 owner during its golden years, being able to look into the future and seeing just how badly the following generations of Xbox consoles have become. Yikes!

@Battered_Fanny

Ай бұрын

@@dineshn that’s exactly what they did and it was the problem

Dreamcast was ahead of its time.

@Enigmalake

Ай бұрын

And legit killed Sega hardware 🤣

@embracerodusk2537

Ай бұрын

@@Enigmalake Nah, the 32x & the Saturn killed SEGA.

@user-pf4sn4oz8r

Ай бұрын

@@embracerodusk2537 Sega Saturn was my first console, my so-called friend talked me into getting one instead of a Playstation cos he had a Saturn and he wanted to be able to borrow games from me, I still haven't forgiven him, God I hated Sega Saturn literally the lamest console ever and the lamest games ever, I have never hated a game as much as I hated Sega rally.

@RealestKneeGrow

Ай бұрын

Nah people are always just behind and close minded. It was right where it should be

@STOPPEDINCOLORADO

Ай бұрын

@@RealestKneeGrowWhy can’t everyone think like this?

“You will own nothing and you will like” - Klaus Schwab

3:55 voice crack was crazy

NGL, pretty happy the industry is collapsing, i mean, its shit for the good companies and creators going down with the ship but you absolutely, categorically can't deny the industry needs a restart

@FlamespeedyAMV

Ай бұрын

The restart is controlled, it won't be in our favour. Unless Microsoft, Sony, EA, Ubisoft all get shutdown. Gaming wont return

@ricky9311

Ай бұрын

Gotta go evil a.i. mode and save it by destroying it

@fillsbury8304

Ай бұрын

The industry is far from collapsing, it's restructuring, in a very bad way. The video game industry at this point, is literally too big to fail, the video game industry brings in more money annually than the movie and music industry combined. The problem is, the games that are bringing in those huge profits are the few unicorn games like WoW, Minecraft, War Thunder, CS, LoL, and so on, games that have successfully become live service games, and every company is chasing a piece of that pie. I say this as someone who works in the industry.

@Sarahm2261

Ай бұрын

​@fillsbury8304 oh well, why don't you play some metal max return on the snes since that won't disappear and is a better open world game then far cry somehow

@fricklinkfate360

Ай бұрын

Yeah man just fuck everything up let’s go back to the Stone Age since we like restarting everything.

It's quite disappointing to see how Microsoft has adopted and is maintaining a non-challant attitude towards marketing their games. The result is a failure of smaller studios and absence of any healthy competition.

@wheredaboof6492

Ай бұрын

Nonchalant

@Drogas3653

26 күн бұрын

This is exactly what u Xbox fanboys get 😂😂 PS5 will always be superior. You bought all these companies just to run them into the ground. They should’ve stuck with Sony, now those same companies are going bankrupt lmaooo

@dusermiginte4647

25 күн бұрын

They started marketing af now though..

@dusermiginte4647

25 күн бұрын

​@@Drogas3653the ABK deal is the final nail in pisstations coffin.. Wonder why Square Enix is going to Xbox.. hmmmmm 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Drogas3653

25 күн бұрын

@@dusermiginte4647 if you think the ABK deal was a bad one, then you don’t know what you’re talking about 😂 what activison exclusives are coming out in the next 4 years? Overwatch 3? A spyro game? They have nothing to offer, while COD is GUARANTEED profit. Sony won again and gave Microsoft the scraps lmaoo. You have 0 good exclusives

The reason Game Pass and PlayStation Plus aren't growing is because they keep drastically raising the prices. Also when there is a a sale it's always for new subscribers while the long term users are not offered the same discounts!

@TheRealNintendoKid

Ай бұрын

They could make it cost $1 a month, and I still wouldn't do it.

Thank you! Finally someone is acknowledging how great the OG Xbox was.

It's only time when Xbox eventually suffers the same fate as Sega

@betag24cn

Ай бұрын

it is worse, because some still care about sonic and similar sega related games once xbox disapears, no one will care, all is somewhere else already, almost since year one, like halo on pc

@RayGun4200

Ай бұрын

​@@betag24cnI mean anything is possible at this point it's possible gaming as a whole is gonna be gone one day gaming just hasn't been the same anymore compared to back in the day etc That's actually not true because I grew with Xbox so if it's gone one day I'll definitely care and be sad just like many others will just cause you don't doesn't mean everyone will forget or not care about Xbox so thats a false statement

@betag24cn

Ай бұрын

@@RayGun4200 based on number of sales, quality of games, ammount of burned houses and billions lost, no one will drop a tear if you have fond memories with it, i bet you didnt had rrod, i had it, 6 times that is how it went

@daSEGAfanatic

Ай бұрын

Except SEGA was strictly a games company, and when they lost power in the games industry as fast as it did, they lost it all and have been trying to claw their way back to major relevancy since 1999 when they had to dip out of home console sales. In fact Sega would not exist today if not for their merger with SAMMY co., a gambling arcade machine manufacture. which is why today Sega is actually known as SEGA/SAMMY. Microsoft (and Xbox by extension) are literally to big to fail, and in the event that Xbox does fail, Microsoft can and will go on like nothing happened. Same with Sony.

@betag24cn

Ай бұрын

@@daSEGAfanatic sega did both, in fact, they made 3 tjings, arcade, consoles and develop games, i still miss the old dreamcast, it was a impressive console

Xbox has all the resources to be successful. The truth of the matter is, they just don’t give a shit. That’s it. Microsoft bought the companies but they’re not trying to push any innovation or artistic merit or something that’s just decent.

@betag24cn

Ай бұрын

they do care, but 25 years of failures, it is not 1% of what microsoft gets per year, it is the end

@ipot399

Ай бұрын

It's weird. They're buying the studios not to sell Xboxes, but to sell Game Pass subscriptions. And it's not working, and it shows they have no confidence in their hardware. Xbox is going to die if they don't support it with real games. This current crop of executives do not understand what consoles are and why they exist.

Brazilian game channels are stealing your content like there's no tomorrow 😂 You're doing great.

We do have firefight in infinite now but huge miss on launch. Normalize delays to only release complete games. I'd rather wait for the complete experience rather than being disappointed with a lack of content and waiting for devs to fix.

Thanks to Microsoft I switched from console to PC in 2014.

@arcrod8201

Ай бұрын

What a sage man 😎

Gamers knew from the start that consolidation of studios and IPs was a bad idea. This is just proving that true

@xstonedsoberx

Ай бұрын

No they didnt which is why nobody pissed and moaned at all when sony aquired like 15 studios over the years, nobody batted an eye when embracer group started buying up until they started closing recently. Gamers have an extremely short memory and only are now recently saying its bad. I guarantee if sony had bought bethesda or activision and closed studios there would not be very much outcry.

@riven4121

Ай бұрын

@@xstonedsoberx There's a big difference between acquiring independent studios and buying ENTIRE holding companies. Sony's acquisitions are nowhere near the same level as Microsoft's. Near enough all of their studio acquisitions were studios mostly made PlayStation exclusive games aside from Insomiac whose catalogue is again mostly PS exclusives and Housemarque who by the time Sony acquired them were making nothing but PS exclusives.

@upon-fe2720

Ай бұрын

​@@xstonedsoberxSony acquired small STUDIOS, yes... Often building them up to be much bigger and better than they were, some VR studios have been closed recently but nothing has ever been as drastic as Xbox buying entire publishers up and shutting down studios as a result, gamepass being the main consolidation problem in gaming. Both Sony and Microsoft are arseholes, corporations built on self preservation at any cost - however, one is moving very very differently to the other. Microsoft in general are an extremely dangerous company when it comes to monopolizing and consolidation, they've been doing it far longer than Xbox has existed and only now are they implementing that strategy into Xbox for the reasons Muta explained - Xbox is now a noticable division in Microsoft's armoury. Sonys biggest purchase is 1/25th the size of Xbox's biggest purchase. The difference is astronomical.

@BigBird629

Ай бұрын

@@xstonedsoberxsony didnt acquire juggernauts like xbox (bethesda and blizzard), buying small studios isnt bad when they are actually making games that are good

@700gsteak

Ай бұрын

Sony doesnt buy big franchises to deny them from the competition. Thats what microsoft and epic games does.

Firefight actually is in Halo Infinite, which has been since September of last year! Best version of it too, you can integrate it with Forge maps!

0:35 look at the dashboard bro 🔥

completely unrelated but I still remember packing a PS2 slim in my jacket pocket over to my friends constantly, we played tf out of all kinds of games that I still think about to this day

@lexzeyfercronus

Ай бұрын

Those were the days

@Stefantius

Ай бұрын

@lexzeyfercronus seriously man, it was an era

@joshallen128

26 күн бұрын

did you bring it? xbox? yeah lets do halo co op 4 player couch the xbox live had voice masking which was funny

Microsoft bought Mojang too and they did some shitty things like the switch from the Mojang access to having to use a Microsoft account to login.

@sarkaztik3228

Ай бұрын

This happens with a majority of companies and take-overs... nothing new or out of the ordinary.

@flats6666

Ай бұрын

@@sarkaztik3228still ass though

@captainsober

Ай бұрын

The whole "If you don't migrate your account we will delete it :)" thing was one of the most criminal things I have ever seen happen in gaming history.

@yak-machining

Ай бұрын

I spend more than a HOUR to properly set up a Nintendo/Mojang account on my niece's switch just to play Minecraft online. I sweared so much Infront of her because how ridiculously hard it is 😂

@Zombiexm

Ай бұрын

Don't forget how Monjang still does that crapy "vote on this new mob" for us to add.. instead of just adding al three which wouldnt take much at all to do. Let alone how many years have they had to add basic QOL stuff many mods already do?

I’ve only seen “Hellblade” advertised on my Xbox home

I feel you man, I was really championing for an Evil Within 3.

Something that the 360 doesn't get alot of recognition for was the fact i could take my Burned CDs and put the tracks on my 360 as a custom BGM for my games. Oblivion and Skyrim was peak when i could have the heavy metal sound track in the background

@bubbap89

Ай бұрын

Xbox original also had that for games like tony hawk and burnout. Such a fuckin cool feature

@MrMurMC

Ай бұрын

Yup original xbox did it first. I used to rip a ton of cd's to my og xbox and then while I was cruising around on vice city, I could play my custom tracks on the radio in game in any car. So damn cool!!😀

@Sleptrock

Ай бұрын

Ok. I thought OG xbox had that too but the OG and 360 years of my life kinda blend together so i wasn't 100% sure.

@LRK-GT

Ай бұрын

Funny. As a PC gamer since toddlerhood, that feature stood out to me. First time I recall playing on a friend's 360, being able to play your own music was the closest thing to 'feature parity' I'd noted (between PC and Console)

What sucks the most is people losing their jobs all because Phill wants to give his higher ups a extra paycheck..

Still have that, mostly still works, where as we got the newer modle later and it died after a bit.

Damn I was really looking forward to ghostwire Tokyo 2 Hey if these studio closed down, can they reopen under a new name and continue their franchise?

Somehow they let 343 do whatever they wanted for over 10 years while they were killing the Halo IP before even considering to fire the inept leadership, meanwhile tango gets executed after dropping a banger

@Darizzard93

Ай бұрын

Hear hear

Phil Spencer: we dont want to stop creativity Phil Spencer: lets shut them down

@kevinle1083

Ай бұрын

Just general corporate dumbassery.

I guess all those matches of firefight i played on halo infinite's official playlist didn't happen then 14:50

Great video and on point!!!

Man being the security guard here at zenimax Austin the lost of arkane is weird is so quiet in here now sad to see so many good people go

Said it before and I’ll say it again: Absolutely NO ONE told these companies that they needed to spend this much money on development. I don’t know why so many developers think it’s a good idea to gamble a quarter billion dollars on game that may not be successful, and then be spiteful towards gamers who didn’t buy it.

Realistically speaking as people who own Microsoft and a strong percent of the PC market. It was a surprise they came out with a console in the first place vs just making stronger computers. They could be just trying to transition out of the gaming sphere?

I game a decent amount and I had never even heard of hifi rush until two days ago. people may have liked it a lot but if casuals like me never hear about it, its gonna fail in sales

Big Business 101: Garner good faith and a consumer base with quality products ✅ Stick it to your loyal consumer base ✅

I feel that we are in the midst of a golden age of indies in dark time of AAA gaming. The wider industry is currently a sinking ship and the indies are the ones on the life rafts

Ya boi looking smooth with that cut

So, this sucks, BUT, its a studio closure, is it possible MS is consolidating studios, and moving IPs and the devs to their other studios? Closing an office, and reducing the administrative burden would save a ton of money on the MS Games books. I have no idea, just a thought. Checking out linked-in on the top talent at these studios would probably be a good indicator if they were laid-off or just shuffled to another office, if so, they are all under the same MS Games umbrella, so its really more like re-organizing a department within a company. Also for your main question in the description, game development is quite difficult, it needs the perfect storm of talent and management, and any weaknesses really come through, and with the sheer size of these teams you have to consider the management overheard, when you need managers to mange managers things get shitty fast.. I really think this is why most small teams make more interesting games, where large teams pump out pretty games with already established formula and audience.

Looking back, forced online DRM in 2014 was truly insane. It’d be controversial even today but ten years ago? Like that was a very valid concern lmao how stupid are they

I fucking hate Satya Nadella, the Xbox brand's downfall started when he went into power as Microsoft's CEO

@jessegar94

Ай бұрын

Same here. He is controlling Xbox and would rather take profits from GAAS games and COD rather than unique titles.

@Indie_Better_than_AAA

Ай бұрын

I would rather trust Apple now 😢

@fab_81

Ай бұрын

@@Indie_Better_than_AAA i wouldn't trust any company to be honest, considering that anyone can take that approach if they see it works in terms of profit

@fuzzylogic3017

Ай бұрын

In fairness to Satya Nadella, he gave Phil Spencer plenty of time, money and authority to turn Xbox round. But Phil failed and here we are.

Aight bro, just give the management of Xbox to me at this point. I am a kid but cause I am a gamer who actually plays games and knows what’s needed and what’s not in this industry, I will handle the company (atleast where to invest) so much better.

Do you remember the Microsoft smartphone or Skype? Microsoft knows very little on how to be competitive. Their prior successes and more over, their market power has made them complacent. They've always had the luxury of resting on laurels and monopoly power.