Steve Wright, Stevivor -- "I started my interview with Shannon Loftis, General Manager, Global Games Publishing at Microsoft, with a gut punch: Kinect."
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
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
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
Could have been a contender. But now, no longer a "trender."
I'll say at least the tech lives on in inside out tracking. But that fastest selling, Guinness book of world records product is now in the bargain bin. With not one big game to show for it.
If only Sony would have bought prime sense before Microsoft money bags did during PS2 days. And not from under Dr Marks nose and used it for 360. Sony bought Softkinetic but aren't using them for games on PS4. Too late to be used after the PS camera.
"The interesting thing about Kinect is it didn’t start necessarily from a gaming place. It started from a place of like, ‘hey, most people are not born knowing how to navigate 3D space using a controller with two analogue sticks, 16 buttons, two bumpers and triggers.’ You know?
“It was fun to eradicate ABXY[-button] thinking and to teach a team to eradicate ABXY thinking.
“It was fun to eradicate ABXY[-button] thinking and to teach a team to eradicate ABXY thinking. And, then build a culture where we held each other accountable for that kind of thinking.”
So, basically the Kinect was a postmodern thought exercise. It was more about challenging the norm than it was about delivering an experience anyone actually wanted. To paraphrase that one Jurassic Park quote, they spent so much time thinking about if they could that they never stopped to ask if they should.
Is this the same person who shared a post from her Kitchen about Crackdown? I think it is.
Xbox = Dead...