Nintendo Insider writes:
Nintendo of America's Krysta Yang has announced her decision to leave the company after more than 14 years.
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
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.
“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.
One modder produced an unofficial, modern-day take on the Game Gear.
Good luck in her future endevours.
Not surprised unlike her co-host in the picture all she seemed to do was the Nintendo Minute segments. Once that ended there probably wasn't much need for her to continue to work there any longer. Either way she had a good run.
I always liked watching these two. Hopefully she finds something she new and exciting going forward.
Personally, I found Kit and Krysta to be too saccharine for my tastes, however I appreciate that was probably what Nintendo insisted on. But in my opinion, this drive to be so sweet and jolly at all times led to the videos coming across as quite insincere and essentially, quite staged. I think it did hamper the natural chemistry between the pair, it was like watching Barney and friends but without the cool dinosaur costume 😂
Obviously catering for a younger audience is worthwhile for Nintendo, no other company courts young children as effectively as Nintendo does with their consoles and first party, but I think Nintendo do sometimes loose track of the fact that a huge percentage of their audience are adults who have grown up loving their games and Nintendo often fail to cater to that audience with their PR and advertising.