The head of Microsoft's video game unit tells CNET the new console is VR-capable. Spencer told CNET on Tuesday that the Xbox One X fully supports virtual reality and that their commitment to it hasn't changed.
Microsoft & Xbox have shut down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks to lay off more workers, insinuating that they're not in the game anymore.
They're headless for a long time because closing tango isn't exactly a good move
“Acquisitions always come with cuts”
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Especially for Microsoft, when Booty pretty much said they didn't know how to handle that many studios.
Why even make the acquisition then.
Didn’t they make the swipe for Bethesda when Sony wanted like 6 months exclusiveness for Starfield
It’s like…chill, you got Rise of the Tomb Raider for a year.
Do they always come with senseless cuts becasue that's exactly what cutting Tango was, senseless.
Everyone's acting now that game companies care about games and Xbox is committing the Ultimate betrayal, they are all like this and you have just been quiet about it for far too long
I wonder if Microsoft do pull out of the console market that it might open the door for valve to relaunch the Steambox. Competition is good for the industry but Microsoft don't even seem to be trying anymore.
Steam / Valve are one of the few truly pro-consumer bright spots in gaming right now. Thankfully.
“Your game has won some pretty significant awards and is a show piece for where we want to go in the future.”
1 hour later.
“We’re gonna have to let you go. You can’t cover our 100 billion dollar acquisition. Oh and take your awards too 👍🏾”
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.
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I'm certain that it's all in the wording. MS Is pushing Mixed Reality so that is why the marketing guy said no to VR.
Microsoft should just say there waiting for mixed reality headsets.
Avoid any form of confusion.
I think they aren't trying to promote because they won't be making games for VR. But games for mixed reality.
The marketing guy was probably told to keep things under wraps until an announcement is ready.
Anyway, it was funny on the latest bombcast Jeff Gerstman said it was rough going back to psvr after playing Vive and Rift. Lol
It's actually pretty easy to figure out what's going on at Microsoft when you look at it objectively sans what console you support.
While everyone else is doing VR (oculus/vive/psvr), Microsoft wants to play the middle with MR. But, no one else is doing AR. So, it would have to be VR ports to the MR headset. Would there be enough game sales to justify developers porting games and make back a profit on a small user base? You think it's bad waiting for developers to make big games for VR(and that's about 2 million with oculus/vive/PSVR), do you think they'll spend money porting games for a headset just starting out at zero? Similar example would be Xbox one Japanese support in Japan.
Microsoft needs to gather support for it first. Sony waited a year and tested it at multiple functions before saying "let's go for it." Same with HTC/Valve and Oculus/Facebook. They built a following, then went for it. What's the potential market on Xbox? Is Microsoft gathering that data? Maybe they did and decided to just go with PC for now. If 1 million out of 60 million have PSVR, what's the potential number of headset sales for a smaller Xbox One X base *without* Xbox One S getting it?
What about Vive? Could definitely work. But, is Microsoft really going to support a headset that they don't own and can't control? Not likely. And as for Steam VR game support, do you think Microsoft is interested in HTC/Valve getting all the VR game profits on Xbox one x? Do you think HTC/Valve will share Steam VR profits? Nope.
Oculus? Could work. If it survives the lawsuits with Zenimax. You can see Zenimax already smacking Facebook/Oculus in the face with lack of Bethesda Doom VFR and Fallout 4 VR being on Oculus. But they're coming to PSVR(Doom vfr) and Vive. Does Microsoft want to jump into the middle of a Hatfield's and McCoy's dispute when it might not end well? Nope. Not even with that Xbox controller support they did.
So instead, Microsoft are going to to flood the PC market with MR headsets that do both AR and VR with windows 10 support and supported by most PC hardware manufactures. Which are cheaper than Oculus and Vive. If they can take the lead on PC since sales aren't that far ahead, they will not only be in driver's seat in leading both markets, it will have their OS and developers would have no choice but to choose their headsets going forward. Which would dwarf PSVR sales overtime. And help future Hololens support. Which would help any future Xbox VR in support.
It's what I'd do if I were a monopolistic company like Microsoft. It's a chess game. Reasonable. Logical.