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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.
No excuses for MS. I guess Hi Fi didn't do as well as we all thought. So Much the for fun Little experiences that MS has been wanting games of all sizes. The thing is MS are so predictable this year they say "oh we want to prioritize bigger games." Next year they'll have more shut downs and say oh well these ballooning budgets of AAA blah, blah, blah. Even though a year prior they said they want more bigger games. When are gonna admit MS can't do or won't do gaming right? It's always waiting for this and that. String you along while destroying ppls jobs. Year in and year out.
MS’ aren’t gamers they are businessmen.. they prefer a terrible game that sells and makes money to a great game with potential and can be used to grow a wider fanbase.. a bunch of crooks 🤮
this MS employee goes around every posts about MS studio closure and made deflecting comments in all of them lmao
Yet MS made a company-wide profit of $22 billion.
In my eyes releasing this on gamepass was a double edged sword approach, received extremely well, but didn't hit w.e batshit insane sales target MS had In mind
Nothing will sell well when they have trained their fanbase to rely on GamePass. (There could be a unicorn every decade or something like that) The price has to go up a lot or more than likely they close a lot of studios to get upkeep way down and have few studios handle all of the IP and still raise gamepass price just not as much as necessary to keep those doors open for all of the devs that created the IPs MS now owns.
The problem is it did seem to hit their targets
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have all the people saying m$ 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
It sucks to be right sometimes. Love tango works games with evil within. Also huge fan of prey...if redfall had been a single player story driven title I bet your ass they could've done wonders with freaking vampires.
They developed the highest rated game Xbox has had as a exclusive in years and they shut them down? Doesn't make much sense.
That just shows how backwards their philosophy is. Studios are the ones creating the magic, you can't just chop and change them on a dime.
It does when it was a nice Indy time that didn’t make money. Unlike you, they think as a business and if the studio made enough money it would have been safe. One of the biggest companies in the world knows not then you, me, or any other random no matter what you abt to believe.
"Unlike you, they think as a busines"
Yeah a very poorly ran business, the brand has been going down the toilet for over a decade. With all the dumb decision making, it's not suprising why they're going 3rd party.
You can't give your games away for free and then shut down studios when they don't sell. Extremely idiotic thinking
Funny we buy art though, we don’t buy money.
So they should start “thinking” more like creators of art l, rather than creators of money, and as a side bonus, guess what, they might get more money
I get what your saying though, even any scraped some projects recently
Hi-Fi Rush for the Nintendo Switch has received a PEGI 12 rating in anticipation of its release. This is even though the game hasn't been officially announced.
I wouldn't play this on Switch, unless it can run at 60fps on it. I don't see that happening. Hope I'm wrong.
If players are willing to play Doom at 30fps on the Switch, I suppose it wouldn't be a problem for them to play Hi-Fi Rush at 30fps.
I suspect it will also get a Switch 2 version/patch.
Fantastic game though. Stands up there with Returnal as being one of the more unique, high quality games this gen with a still somewhat sizable budget.
I would argue that Hi-Fi Rush at 30fps is a much worse experience than Doom. It is a rhythm game at the end of the day, so extremely reliant on your input latency, which is directly connected to your refresh rate and frame rate.
It's likely not unplayable or anything close to that, but it's going to be a case where for the Switch version, not only the visuals are impacted, but so is the quality of the gameplay.
"First Hi-Fi Rush and now Beat Slayer, I'm convinced the rhythm-action genre has a ton of potential just waiting to be explored," writes Hanzala from eXputer.
HiFi Rush surprised 6k people out of millions of gamers..They just have to shoehorn Xbox stuff in there.
For me it was hunt showdown. Had it so long but didn't play it till a few months ago. Holy crap what an immersive game with the best gunplay ive ever experienced.