Returnal is an excellent game and Sony should wisen up and snatch up its developer, Housemarque. After all, the two have collaborated for well over a decade.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Back when the Xbox 360 launched, Microsoft pushed the big budget game as a differentiator. Following all the recent layoffs, it’s clear this strategy has run its course.
The Microsoft shill take on the Microsoft causing the death of big budget gaming...
The whole driving force for growth in gaming both technologically, creatively and financially was all nonsense, and it was definitely not because Microsoft ran the industry into the ground with obviously bad decisions and creating an unprofitable business model that massively disrupted consumer spending habits. /s
LOL, this article is a big pile of dog crap...
Spencer has been constantly telling ppl that NO they would not go the route of having games like TLOU, Uncharted, etc because Playstation exists and prefers to focus on a diverse portfolio.
How many years have we seen Xbox as no game and we don't want small games like ORI, Pentiment, Grounded, etc.?
That's the real tragedy and why lots of gamers are mad at MS right now
because they have been championing smaller titles and yet fired the ppl delivering exactly what they were proning about.
So no the only nonsense is that MS seems now to be going BACK to AAA popular titles..sorry, I meant refocusing effort on core established IP where broken GAAS might be rewarded versus praised and rewarded work.
Following the closure of 4 studios, many are now worried for the future of Ninja Theory once Hellblade 2 is released.
Because they're next come next year. HB2 won't hit some impossible metric within MS so they're getting axed in 2025. Leave gaming now MS.
Every xbox studio is in danger now because there’s just no way they’re gonna rake in big money from game sales because of gamepass, even CoD was rumored to not come to gamepass because it would canibalize their sales number.
Ninja theory games were never big sellers. I could be wrong, but I doubt hellblade 2 will sell millions. I would rather they go independent and make heavenly sword 2.
Stop it with these "buy developer studios that are doing perfectly fine without being bought up and aren't stuck developing for just one platform."
Totally agree. Housemarque and Sony have a long relationship as Insomniac and Bluepoint. After the amazing surprise that is Returnal, Sony should buy this talented developer immediately.
I agree I think Sony should snap these up. Right now it seems like it's a free for all with studios and even publishers are getting bought up. I wouldn't like seeing housemarque getting bought up my Microsoft.
I'm not crapping on MS here. But if MS owned Housemarque we wouldn't be getting games like Returnal. This is just my opinion.
It seems like a logical step if Housemarque are up for it. They have a good relationship with Sony, wouldn't be particularly expensive and have a good track record - and Returnal shows they have the versatility to do more than just arcade shooters - and do it well.
I can see this happen and they would buy Housemarque for peanuts compared to truckload of gold 7 billion bucks Microsoft bought Bethesda.