It’s clear to me that these industry wide layoffs are because the game makers expect AI to do this work for less. Companies that are not struggling and not seeing lower sales are laying people off. It’s not market driven.
Microsoft’s goal is to make money. They are moving toward going full 3rd party in stages. First was having Phil tell Kinda Funny that Xbox can’t win the console wars. Second was having Microsoft’s CFO talk up 3rd party games to investors. The third and current stage is releasing games a 3rd party developer. (Outside of Minecraft and legacy Activision games). The fourth and final step is releasing the whole catalogue on PS5 and Switch.
“He could of put gears on the playstation from the start but he's fanboyness for xbox got in the way”
It has nothing to do with fondness for the Xbox platform. Microsoft paid for exclusivity.
“What I think Phil is doing is setting up some smoke signals that we're thinking very differently”
I’m surprised how slowly Microsoft is moving toward Xbox as a software platform. They usually don’t care so much about upsetting their customers with unpopular changes like they do with every other version of Windows.
I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.
XCloud and PS Now existed last generation. These game streaming services are not new to 2023. I suppose that more people have fiber internet now, but I doubt 2M more of them started streaming using xCloud in the last year. I can see more owners or gaming PCs opting out of Xbox as all Xbox exclusives are now on P.C. Overall, I think this is simply the Xbox brand weakening.
Mostly one year, 2013. Don’t know how Don Mattrick was employable after this.
I’m with OneLove on this. Don’t go begging to fans when you already took Microsoft’s money.
Was this game “journalist” born in 2012?
Pretty sure games like “Everquest” and “World of Warcraft” were doing live service long before Destiny.
Yo, “Killzone Shadowfall”, “Knack”, and “Knack 2”.
Now you know the disappointing PlayStation exclusives.
Titanfall was only disappointing because it was an Xbox One exclusive. Xbox One didn’t have the numbers to generate the critical mass needed for a multiplayer game. In my opinion, the exclusivity of Titanfall hurt Titanfall 2 almost as much as the beta and launch schedule.
“Anything Kinect is a flop.”
“Kinect Party” was great. Forever lost to time.
I don’t know about heard of fan outcry. Fans weren’t happy when Destiny 2 went with 4v4 only and less than a year later, Bungie brought back 6v6. Would love to see some big team battle in Destiny 2. The game does have tanks so that could be interesting in multiplayer. The big problem is peer-to-peer. Destiny still doesn’t have dedicated servers.
I wish this was the Morbius Machine. I could morb so hard over that.
Funny, I was playing a game on PSVR2 earlier this week. Still plenty of games left!
Please, no more “gates”. Even I wasn’t alive during Watergate and I’m an old man here. Vision Pro isn’t even made to be a primary gaming device. We might as well debate the quality of Lenovo ThinkBooks. Go get your hate on Apple in some other forum.
Could be so probably not.
“Ubisoft announced that ‘Skull and Bones’ boasts over four hours of average daily playtime.”
So the few people playing it are spending a lot of time playing it. But there aren’t enough whales to feed this fleet. This game will die like so many other live service money grabs that came before it.
Jedi Survivor for $36 is tempting.