IGN writes: "Tango Gameworks’ music-based action game launched first on Xbox and PC, but arrives on PlayStation 5 on March 18 as part of Microsoft’s new multiplatform push, signaled by Xbox boss Phil Spencer last week during Microsoft's Xbox business update. There is no word on Hi-Fi Rush also coming to Nintendo Switch."
Amid the studio’s shutdown, a Tango Gameworks developer has questioned whether its many awards were not enough for the Xbox management.
I'm sorry but I'm going for cringe *insert madara got betrayed by black zetsu here* but fr tango it's never enough for Microsoft. Microsoft are cannibals imo
You have talent but MS is IP hoarding so only the biggest IP's will survive, a few new ones might slip through but if they don't sell like the big titles like COD or Fallout then bye bye and thanks for the money we'll make from continuing to sell your games.
This is legitimately heartbreaking, you pour all you got into your craft, you're recognized for it, you're successful... Just to be discarded like leftovers
Hopefully they can move on and continue, whether forming their own studio, or getting a job elsewhere. This dev is exactly right.
Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi Rush has received a surge of positive reviews on Steam after the announcement of the studio's shutdown.
I mean.... okay. While I can appreciate the virtue-signaling of it all, this along with the recent Helldivers 2 debacle is only proving that Metacritic scores really can't be trusted and are just something that can be used to manipulate. If a game/movie/etc is not rated solely on its own merit, what good are the reviews to a consumer actually looking to make the best choice in selecting a piece of entertainment?
It's a great game, it shouldn't have taken the studios closure to receive a surge of positive reviews.
Wish we could start a gofundme for the Tango employees, but I have no confidence the money would actually get to them.
That's XBox for you... Promote the shit out of Star field and shadow drop good game like Hi Fi Rush... they simply don't know what is a good game. HI-Fi Rush proved that you don't need huge budget for games, you just need to know what make a game fun.
The games for Humble Choice Bundle for the month of May, 2024, have begun to be revealed, and they include Hi-Fi Rush.
This game really benefits from a low input latency and high frame rate. Maybe those are hurdles the switch version still needs to overcome? Its cool its coming to the PS5. Such a great rhythm game.
No Switch version is a let down, but maybe they save it for Switch 2 due to performance issues.
So, seems that thus far at least, Hi-Fi Rush and potentially Sea of Thieves are PS5 only, Grounded and Pentiment potentially switch only.
So MS spends billions to ban Bethesda releasing games on it's most profitable console platform, fires thousands of devs and has to put games on PlayStation anyway because of the weak Xbox performance... just think, if MS made it's own games and left multiplatform publishers alone none of this would've happened.
Keep it