If you were one of those lucky kids who had access to the Sega Channel in the mid-1990s, you legitimately have bragging rights as one of the coolest kids ever.
Wccftech interviewed Nathan Yu from Inworld AI to discuss the dynamic NPC tech's applications to games as well as potential issues like costs.
Saad from eXputer: "After Arkane Austin & Tango were shutdown, Xbox President Sarah Bond spoke with Bloomberg in what I believe to be utter corporate fakery."
im not really surprised by that, shes always been more a "let me talk about something else than what u want to know" kinda gal
"Shareholders" I call them cancer, they are already rich to begin with but need more and more. It's like a disease, with no cure.
Yea, it was and it’s insulting that they think we’re dumb enough to fall for this. Look, the truth was you took a gamble on these studios and while they released some games to critical praise and great reception they just aren’t bringing in a ROI. Be transparent, you’re not a politician.
Just tell everyone you spend money on projects big and small and when money isn’t being made you go over the potential of revenue a studio can bring in vs those that can’t and make the hard decision to chop them.
She says this whole thing about “success” doesn’t fit one meaning for each studio. Well yea, a small budget production isn’t going to expect to sell the same as a large budget production.
One thing I wish they did though was let Tango be an independent studio.
disheartening to see no regard for the human cost of business anymore
the bad decisions and judgements of these CEOs severely impact the frontliners
these fake responses are just salt on wounds
imagine havin the audacity to say "we need more games like hifi rush" right after closing the studio that made it lol
followin up with this show of "deflecting every question" was in poor taste
Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon hasn't seen mass layoffs like this in his whole 25-year career.
Alot’s changed in 25 years. We have games with $300 mill budgets, people not interested in games other than Fortnite and Minecraft, the older generation of gamers giving up the hobby or dying off, a period of super bad inflation where the industry decided to hike up prices on games, Gamepass harming game sales, GaaS games being pushed left and right with obnoxious monetization and worse looking/playing (Suicide Squad vs Arkham Knight).
The industry is just shite right now. Games ain’t selling, games cost massive amounts, businesses can’t bleed money and this is what happens. Part of it is on them and part of it is on consumers not buying.
The Sega Channel was awesome. This takes me back.
Good video. I remember it but didn’t ever get to experience it. That’s what i loved about Sega, they were trying to always think outside of the box. The service was way ahead of its time, too bad the marketing for it wasn’t as strong, plus gaming in the 90s was still seen as nerdy so there wasn’t a huge interest in a service like that. To bad because it looked great.
Bring Sega back in place of xbox. Amen. 🙏
It's crazy really sega went from the mega modem (tele genisis) failing and a year later was ready to try online connectivity again with the sega channel.
It's both amazing and eye opening to the sega experience at the time I was a mega drive player with the 32x and mega cd (brought when they were at run out) and I think that had sega just kept working within the confines of the available base hardware the user base may have stuck with them through to the Saturn and Dreamcast but I remember feeling a bit burnt out by segas lack of commitment and jumping over to a PlayStation instead of a Saturn I don't think I'm alone there.
Crazy thing is I'm getting that same 32x feeling from my psVR2 actually a really good and fun peice of hardware screaming out for more quality games
I was there when the cable guy came to hook it up at my cousin house.