Simon Munk writes:
"Rockstar Games have announced a new mystery franchise, exclusive to PS3. Sony, unsurprisingly, have been quick to trumpet that Rockstar could only do the game on PS3, saying on their US official blog: "Rockstar really wanted to make a game that you can truly only do on PS3, harnessing the power of CELL and Blu-ray disc." Yeah, right...
Excuse me for my cynicism, but lest we forget Rockstar have a deal in place with Microsoft, so that for the next Grand Theft Auto game extra downloadable content will exclusively be available on the Xbox 360 only. A deal which Rockstar itself says means that for the "complete experience" you need to buy Grand Theft Auto IV on the Xbox 360, not the PS3. And, in recent Rockstar history the company has bet a lot of money on a game that is effectively banned anywhere pretty much outside Norway: Manhunt 2, of course. So Rockstar are clearly in a vulnerable financial state and can't afford to excessively annoy Sony. Nor can it afford to upset Microsoft for that matter."
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
While many gaming layoffs are cruel, Tango Gameworks being culled after Hi-Fi Rush doesn't even make sense.
Good read. I think the point is important. Cuz the message it sends is, make a bad game? Well shut you down. Make a good game? We still might shut you down. How the fuck are you supposed to feel any sense of job security under those conditions. The level of core incompetence at play in the upper levels of this industry is staggering. This is common sense shit. You can’t chase trends on a 2 year cycle when games take fucking 6-8 years to make. Just let artists fucking art for gods sake. They don’t understand the basic principle that they’re all haggling for the same slice of fucking pie and the market will not bear it. Find a different fucking pie.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Like soo many different versions of the same thing today, amazing...
But maybe RS are saying sorry. Them and sony go wayyyyyyyyyy back!!! I just wonder how this happened. Oh wait '''MONEY''' hahaha. Yep. RS games go after the money more than any other developer or should i say take 2?
i thought the deal was R* makes GTA multiplat and Sony gets the next great exclusive from R*
R*, Sony or MS don't announce deals it doesn't mean deals haven't been done or finalised a long time ago behind closed doors. Announcements are for us, the punter, not for them. So I do not think R* are saying sorry to Sony. It was written
Who are you referring to????