Game Freak is to blame for how bad Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are performing, even if Nintendo should upgrade the Switch soon too.
The Outerhaven writes: With multiple gaming studios, including Tango Gameworks, closing, the editor-in-chief of The Outerhaven shares his thoughts on the matter.
Honestly I was looking back and at the launch of the Xbox 1. With Don Matrick at the helm I was disappointed but therevwas something else. That fighting spirit of Xbox at its inception was lost. They stopped innovating, I lost excitement on what the next big new surprise was, because their weren’t any. Not like Halo 2 and Gears launch. You couldn’t really brag about it anymore.
So here we are and corporate MS has ruined what was a beautiful renegade project.
"Right now"?
But not 11 years ago with the disastrous Xbox One reveal which they NEVER recovered from?
Man are you slow on the uptake.
I imagine smaller ABK studios like toys for bob and beenox are now feeling uncertain about their futures
It was announced today that Tango Gameworks, the studio behind Hi-Fi Rush, will be shut down, which casts doubt on the future of the game.
I’m sure the support and franchise will live on due to its success. They may even keep some ppl and roll them into other studios. There are layoffs across the map tho in the game/tech industries in general tho including Sony, Facebook and more. My personal family has been affected by them.
Yet MS made a company-wide profit of $22 billion.
In my eyes releasing this on gamepass was a double edged sword approach, received extremely well, but didn't hit w.e batshit insane sales target MS had In mind
have all the people saying m$ buying all those companies, been proved correct yet,
they said more games, more choice, but ended up
less choice, less games, in reality... we were right
They developed the highest rated game Xbox has had as a exclusive in years and they shut them down? Doesn't make much sense.
Developers at Arkane Studios are reacting to the announcement of the shutdown of Arkane Austin, calling it "absolutely terrible".
I get it, but frankly, AA failed pretty badly on Redfall. The XBOX production team is also to blame (they are safe as usual) for releasing a game this hyped in a sorry state. There are lots of fail points on Redfall, but only Arkane bears the pain.
"Welcome to the Xbox family, graveyard is out back, what should we put on your epitaph?" Microsoft turning into this generation's EA, spend all those billions on Activision while closing studios they've run into the ground.
Why I’m really disappointed in Xbox and MS at large. At the same time let’s not pretend that somehow this isn’t an industry issue. Theirs a graveyard behind every major publisher. The only company I haven’t seen canning people is Nintendo and let’s hope that trend continues.
Sad thing is because people blindly buy these games resulting in the sales being huge for them launch wise, they will never change.
I just find it hilarious most of these big gaming sites are generously giving it a 7 or 8 when the technical issues are pretty in your face obvious among other things. Imagine if other exclusives from Microsoft or Sony did this, they'd be ripped apart limb by limb
I am wondering why it took so long for people to realize this, Game Freak are some of the laziest devs in the Industry and because of the money they have no intention to change, what makes it more absurd is people blaming the switch, if Monster Hunter Rise and Xenoblade were mostly stable then there's absolutely no reason for this not to be, it's just laziness
Maybe Nintendo should devote some extra resources and help Game Freak out a little more, considering Pokemon games are big system sellers for them. That and Game Freak are clearly struggling since development jumped to the Switch.
On Latest DF Direct Weekly John Linneman didn't hold back criticising the game's poor performance and basic buggy graphics even calling it a game technically came from 2001.
Shocking that this still happened to one of the most popular and profitable IP ever and it better be since they appear to spent peanuts on R&D of their 3D games.
Seeing stuff like Monster Hunter Stories 2, I think Capcom would do far better on Pokemon 3D games than Game Freak themselves.
The game is garbage and Nintendo and Gamefreak should not be able to repeatedly get away way it.
Expect and demand better.
The reviews on websites have been so disingenious with their reviews as well. If any Sony or MS game had even a few of these issues they would get absolutely dragged for it.