Forbes writes: "Sony may fully take over Bungie if Destiny 2's revenue does not increase and costs do not come down. But what would that look like?"
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.
"While Sony purchased Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022, the company has remained an independent subsidiary since then. However, if Bungie fails to meet certain financial targets, Sony has the power to step in, dissolve the current board, and assume direct control of the company itself "
They need to meet financial goals with Destiny if they want to avoid hostile take over from Sony. Sounds very similar to ABK when they were under them actually. What revenue targets do they need to hit? They over monetize and over charge which runs the community away so the player counts drop. Plus they're overseeing other in house 1st party games at Sony. They're being stretched and spread around.
There's actually allot more goin on at Bungie that recently came out.
Anyway under Sony they'll be more focused. Story implemented content from Destiny, better organization and just generally steer the ship around adding micromanagement tactics. Sucks but they have to that but Bungie has terrible management skills.
Well their Destiny is in their hands…….at least for now.
How about make something other than Destiny?
Seeing as part of what they paid was for employee retention and Bungie execs STILL fired a bunch of people, yea take over, and then fire management cause they clearly ain't doing a good job.
As much as I'm not a big fan of Halo. I did enjoy destiny MP but they seem to be all over the shop with destiny right now.
Like I remember playing and loving destiny 2 when it released. Went back to it when it released on PS5 and it's just different and confusing now. Like what happened to the destiny 2 campaign? It looks like is was replaced with the destiny 1 campaign?
Personally I think if Sony take over. Don't just make them do a single player game. Get them to do a halo inspired single player game but also the MP that they where known for with halo.