Today Daniel Cook donated his Xbox 360 Elite to Goodwill. It represented a time in his life as a developer that he's not overly proud about living.
Daniel Cook worked for a couple years designing games at Microsoft. It is honestly difficult to say the exact group Daniel Cook was in since the organization was hit regularly by massive reorgs and general management failure.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Daniel Cook from Treehouse? We need to hear what Emily Yeung thinks of this!!!
for those that don't want to read the long blog: Ex-Microsoft employee exposes how the company rejects most nonviolent game pitches, and how it intentionally caters to "chimpboy", frat-bro gamers.
Direct Quote:
"Xbox put machismo, ultra-violence and chimpboys with backwards caps in the spotlight." This embodies exactly how I felt about Xbox360. The original Xbox occupied a space between PC and console, and it was at its worst arguably somewhat redundant.
The Xbox360 however, sets a terrible precedent on almost every front. Appealing to the lowest common denominator by advertising on Mountain Dew cans, with Doritos, etc. Nickel and dimming their consumers with online fees. It felt very cheap and dirty."
Largely knew that by the way they actively avoided JRPGs at first.
Bad idea giving away his offline Xbox. Something he will regret in the future...
Smart kid & u wont regret it.