Hi-fi Rush is too good a game to be shut down

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.

[z2g]

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.

[Lightning77]

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.

[Cacabunga]

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 🤮

[TwoPicklesGood]

Uhh Sony has laid more % of people off than MS…

[notachance]

this MS employee goes around every posts about MS studio closure and made deflecting comments in all of them lmao

[Kaii]

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

[jznrpg]

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.

[Plague-Doctor27]

The problem is it did seem to hit their targets

https://x.com/aarongreenber...

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Hifi is good but Microsoft dislikes risk I guess.

[purple101]

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

[Crows90]

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.

[Asplundh]

They developed the highest rated game Xbox has had as a exclusive in years and they shut them down? Doesn't make much sense.

[jznrpg]

Makes sense to me. They still have the IP the studios mean nothing to MS

[EazyC]

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.

[TwoPicklesGood]

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.

[Asplundh]

"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.

[Plague-Doctor27]

You can't give your games away for free and then shut down studios when they don't sell. Extremely idiotic thinking

[purple101]

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

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I'm pissed about this. I loved Tango Gameworks.

[Futureshark]

Spencer et all are now probably going to blame PlayStation owners for closing the studio due to not buying enough copies of Hi-fi Rush.

[TheProfessional]

Fantastic game. Really underrated.

[Eonjay]

Except... it not underrated at all. The reviews are glowing. It was the only Xbox game in recent memory to win a GOTY award too.

[jznrpg]

They don’t care about the studio. They own the IPs. They will fire more devs and close more studios and have a few studios handle all of the IP. They don’t care who made the games only that they own them.

[Plague-Doctor27]

Uhh they wont have enough manpower at the remaining studios to do anything with that IP. At this rate they're gonna be left with Forza, Gears, Halo, COD, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

And that's exactly what they want given Matt Booty's email to staff.

[Crows90]

When are people going to understand that Xbox is anti gamer. The success of a game doesn't matter to them....they don't care about a single studio they've purchased...they have so many now that they also don't care about gears or halo anymore.

[anast]

The Steam numbers were low. The success was manufactured.

The Oracle has spoken.

[rlow1]

Agree , it’s the worst decision I’ve ever seen.

A celebrated studio that was a bright spot when Xbox really needed it and were rewarded by email that they were terminated. Pathetic

[Yui_Suzumiya]

This is a real head scratcher to me. What the hell are the Microsoft execs huffing over there?

[Terry_B]

Just like Evil Dead 1+2.

[DefaultComment]

I agree, that game has proven good games can still be done withou being truple A cinematics etc. Tango did good and sales were good IDK what Microsof has been smokin' but clearly they are wong.
I really hope this franchise doesn't die.

[EazyC]

Zombie industry. The only AAA products that will live are those based around the monetisation model.

[Flewid638]

Its fun for like 5 minutes.

[Zeref]

I hate how only now this game is getting the attention it deserved in the first place