AJS News - Xbox SHUTS DOWN 4 STUDIOS WTH?!, Joker BACK, Nintendo & Capcom Success, GW Price Increase

[@AngryJoeShow]

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[@jameswood240]

Good shit dudes a legend

[@WigneyR]

Nah, add timestamps/chapters.

[@coreymckee4844]

No

[@carminedies3481]

1:30 Warhammer Mini Price Increase 4:58 Joker Coming To Multiversus 7:10 Profit Rises 10:40 Microsoft Studio Shutdowns 16:55 Microsoft Response To Tango Closure

[@krakentortoise7531]

W timestamp guy

[@JohnSmith-wr7lg]

We love you timestamp guy!

[@Yukiwodashite]

Thank you time stamp guy!

[@ayushgupta1823]

❤

[@DeadwaveCarrier-oc1wo]

The XBox news goes on for almost 18 minutes? Jeez. I'm 10 minutes into it.

[@therandom802]

Corporate greed is 70% of what’s wrong with our country.

[@gr-8166]

That happened because government made it happen. Same with healthcare, housing, and subsidizing of goods from government actions. All of these started by the politicians to oppress the little guys and allow the abuse… It’s not even a capitalist ideology anymore, controlling a market isn’t exactly free.

[@grgamer8470]

Its a global thing

[@tradesmanbear9738]

The other 30% is greed from the consumer

[@Eledthur]

The ones that keep buying CoD, FIFA every year, and all that slop are equally responsible. The ones that keep pre-ordering, buying DLC's, lootboxes, the ones that buy super, mega ultimate editions are also right there with them. If you encourage scummy behavior, what you'll get is more of the same, or worse.

[@Nile-oz2go]

we could try to fix it if we really wanted to but corporations run the country

[@JachymorDota]

Profits are privatized, losses are socialized. Doesn't matter if you deal in tech or plastic toys.

[@blazeaglory]

How? Corps are public companies

[@FrostedNut]

Public owned by WHO? Bet that’s a short list m…

[@JachymorDota]

@@blazeaglory Publicly traded maybe. My snappy slogan refers to how the workforce is cut down or doesn't receive paycheck increases when it comes to protect the "bottom line" of the company. And who has to step in to protect the workforce? Social wellfare, paid by everyone.

[@donaldthompson7766]

What are you talking about? This isn't a FPL company.

[@ousou78]

Same in France. France had many State owned companies very profitable but they had to be privatised in the name of "fair competion". Of course once privatised, the CEOs and Investor were explaining that too much tax is unfair and how the State should mind his own business. But when a big companie start to go Bankrupt, they cry for the help of the State.

[@matthewthesecond]

The problem with Microsoft and Google is that they don’t want to invest time and money to properly nurture their gaming talent. They want instant gratification. It took Sony and Nintendo decades to get to where they are. This version of Microsoft thinks it can buy its way into success.

[@thecasualsperspective]

They just want to buy the ideas of these studios and throw away the people who made them, then give these studio IPs to more proven dev teams. They wanted Arkane's IPs and probably had to make the owner of Arkane believe they weren't going to just get sacked upon acquisition so they signed up for 1 game then sacked the studio like they always planned on. Microsoft and Sony are in a race to see who can own the most big name IPs so they can pivot to just selling the ability to use these IPs to other studios to develop games and then charge them to publish the game globally. They dont want to make the games profitable... but if they are that's beneficial to them. They have larger goals though as being publishers because selling hardware is a thing of the past when streaming services are getting better and better and better. In the near future everyone will be gaming on something like a Raspberry Pi with steamOS or something, with a 5G SIM in their game console that fits in our pocket. Xbox and Sony know this and don't want to hinge their future on hardware sales anymore.

[@ppsarrakis]

one would say its impossible to pull it off nowdays,most big franchises are built upon lowpayed dreamer naive devs that smoked too much pot and created magic

[@riotman3579]

And the success they buy them for they completely ruin what made it successful

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Still better then EA owning Bethesda.

[@Lipidwave]

It's crazy because Microsoft had a taste of that success with the 360 era. They just threw everything down the drain when the One released.

[@jakedizzle]

Instead of spending billions to buy studios they should’ve invested that money on making their own studios and games.

[@the13thjoker]

Microsoft creating 343 studio to create halo after Bungie left and they suck at it.

[@DragonHeart613]

​@@the13thjokerIt makes me really angry to think that Tango Gameworks can make such fun games like The Evil Within 1 & 2, Ghostwire Tokyo & the highly acclaimed Hi-Fi Rush and they still get shut down yet 343 who has consistently flopped with their handling of the Halo IP are allowed to remain in business. What the actual f@$k xbox!!!

[@NightWanderer31415]

This 1000%. Don't gatekeep value, create it.

[@G360LIVE]

If Microsoft wanted to win this generation and get a big advantage at the start of next generation, they should've given $10 billion to Rockstar to make GTA6 a forever Xbox exclusive. Xbox Series X/S consoles would be flying off the shelves, and the next gen Xbox would get an instant boost from people wanting the inevitable GTA6 next gen upgrade release. And Microsoft still could've spent another $60 billion to create studios and fund games. But no, we got Activision and COD. Good job, Phil.

[@jase276]

First thing i said, but naaaah everyone was sucking the glass y'know. Applauding Microsoft like seals. Sony and Nintendo are not perfect by any margin BUT they actually vetted and nurtured their studios and as a result they get hits after hits. Microsoft doesn't do that and their console has been turds for 2 gens now.

[@superrazor7617]

1:34 warhammer minuature increases price 4:58 mark hamill as joker in multiversus 7:13 nintendo profits rises 7:38 capcom be making money 10:40 bunch of microsof xbox higher up problem mumbo jumbo rants and stuff((basically the whole rest of the video))

[@ruick78]

23 mins of xbox ranting, you saved so much time

[@superrazor7617]

@@ruick78you are welcome :)

[@keijijohnson9754]

​@@ruick78At least it's more tolerable than when he kept on rambling about some wrestling match not many of his viewers have watched or cared about. 🙄

[@Sirriffsalot]

08:24 nope, we still need code Veronica, re1, 0, 5, and 6 as a re-imagined story that’s scrapped and made a canon entry.

[@Ka0t1c]

*miniature

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

The last couple of weeks really hit home how the glory days of the 360 and PS3 are long behind us. Back when games were feature complete and the hits kept on hitting. What has this generation of gaming given us? Incomplete garbage fires and executives who spew cinnamon and sugary and softly, spoken lies. At least the indie scene has been ripping and tearing like there's no tomorrow.

[@kallemetsahalme5701]

frankly that gen was the start of this. starting from horse armor it started to get worse and worse. like the whole angry joe thing wouldnt have been invented in ps2 gen but ps3 gen standardized on-disc dlc, preorder bonuses, cosmetics, pathetic story modes under dead online multiplayer and more. well license games were crap since atari times so thats something he could complain about

[@Japaneseanimeguy]

Square is probably the one that hurts the most for me, since I love single player and rpg stuff. Their tendency to make bad decisions seems to have them shoot themselves in the foot every time a good game let's them recover from the last time they did it. The difficulty in learning from past mistakes has them at risk and they could do with a few mid-tier titles to keep the company afloat between massive aaa entries in major franchises, but they continue chasing stupid trends instead.

[@mrwubwubz9714]

Ff and stellar feel like complete games

[@heroicgangster9981]

the reason why people remakes and remasters are the trend these days is because they truly do remind us of better times when companies didn't TRY TOO HARD to satisfy their shareholders. back when great sales of games indicated success. nowadays, a lot of companies have to show ENDLESS growth and data engagement numbers nonsense

[@rasengdori13]

I agree but don’t forget that remakes provide a blueprint that speeds up the preproduction of games immensely.

[@Mikalos]

​@@Smawllzlmfao "wrong"

[@rasengdori13]

@@Smawllz little bro saw gender neutral bathrooms in a sci-fi game and lost their mind

[@Deliveredmean42]

@@rasengdori13 Well, if they follow said blueprint that is.

[@harukakonoha7330]

For me I'm ok with make remakes and remasters on old games but on new games? That's fcking ridiculous alot of playstation fans wants horizon zero dawn to get a remastered like wtf? That game already good on ps4 why are they want that to get remake there's plenty of games to be making that is good to get remake like dino crisis or maybe other psone era games not on previous playstation

[@MTTT19]

Basically if you don’t make Online Multiplayer Shooters then Microsoft will shut your studio down. Hey, Microsoft! Those games suck! It’s no wonder PlayStation is doing better. Single Player Story Driven games are far superior!

[@MLPIceberg]

I'd rather not fall asleep during an hour long cutscene after pressing one button. I'll take games on Xbox (and PC) that actually know how to keep a player engaged. If I wanna watch a movie, I'll pop a disk in a Blu-Ray player or Xbox disk drive and watch a movie.

[@winterpeterson2822]

Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo a long time ago and their executives laughed them out of the office. I still remember when Microsoft bought Rare and turned them into a shell of their former self. Why anyone is surprised that they shut these studios down is beyond me.

[@TheBeautynerd]

I’m shocked about Tango Softworks. Hi-Fi Rush was a fun and good game plus was nominared a lot (but ignored by Bethesda for promotions, focused on Starfield instead). I mean their loss I guess

[@maxpheby7287]

In the past companies were mainly for providing a service or a product for customers and employment for its workers and as a secondary provide profits for the owners. These days they are for providing ever greater profit for a tiny subset of the owners and nothing else.

[@lotterwinner6474]

Funnel money into the top brass and shareholders and nobody else.

[@von4297]

Sad thing is Hi Fi Rush’s sales may have been even greater, but many (myself included) were waiting for the physical release that was announced by Limited Run Games. The physical release is still coming, but it’s unfortunate that it won’t help Tango. In this current culture of digital content getting pulled, physical is the only safe bet. I myself, was waiting for the physical Hi Fi Rush. Opinions on the LRG business model aside, these companies do at least provide an outlet for reasonably priced physical games to be produced

[@ZephrusPrime]

Almost all of the talent that was at Arcane that made all the good games and built the image left the company awhile ago because they did not want to work on Redfall.

[@dakota237]

Make a bad game you get fired Make a good game you get fired Whats even the point of trying anymore?

[@the13thjoker]

What they after is a game that make tons of money

[@PrayForDeath90]

4 bads 1 good deserves to be fired

[@Herowebcomics]

They have no point! And that's bad!😐

[@voidox]

that games need to make money for the money put into their development? that's how the world works kiddo: if you release a game and it bombs, then every game you release doesn't sell either then you aren't going to be around for much longer. Arkane Austin had Redfall that was in development before MS bought them, it was a disaster + their past game in Prey didn't sell well. Tango's games all sold poorly... and for both studios a lot of devs left the studio already, so there are many reasons why they were closed. look up facts before going on with a dumb narrative please.

[@Bodwaizer]

Make DEI slop = get promoted, because that's how giant mega-corps work

[@Zylo82]

The person that created Tango Gameworks was Shinji Mikami. The creator of Resident Evil. Main reason why he even started Tango was to make The Evil Whitin. He's the one that left hoping that the studio was in good hands. .... nope. No they weren't.

[@HexonineGames]

It is really sad what the latest developments from Joe tell us. We are rooting for those who have lost their jobs to bounce back and find better opportunities. These issues are usually caught by management early on and this is the result of problems piling up for a long time. Good luck to everyone in the upcoming days.

[@DubsBrown]

Imagine how much more money they would have saved if they shut down 343i (who deserves it) instead of Tango.

[@podunk3202]

i feel sorry for Ninja Theory. Their new game Hellblade 2 is coming and there has been ABSOLUTELY no market blitz for the game. The devs might as well start packing up right now to save time

[@oliverclytus7559]

Bruh facts, that’s the thing that hurts the most. People sacrifice their time and family to make these games. They positive reviews and awards and yet still get shut down, why? Because a bunch of idiots in suits said it wasn’t good enough. Smh you can’t make this sh*t up

[@CaptainPupu]

​@oliverclytus7559 it's capitalism what are you complaining for? It's what the world wants. For 200 years it's been the norm. Tell and teach the public from childhood that this system is good, normalize the getting taken advantage of long enough and people will defend the system without understanding it. Look at Americans defending democracy to the bone when they can't even explain what socialism is. It's ignorance. It's control. They control the public and now they defend it themselves. Why does Bobby dickhead need 20 million $? No human being should have that much money. Meanwhile you work from 8-8pm from 20 till 65 and best you can get is a modest house and mortgage. The system works because we let it work. Imagine a world where there are no shareholders. Where everyone and everything is a collectivist society, not working on greed and materialism but on collective benefit.

[@ServantBerserkerZero]

Day 1 Game Pass is a big mistake. What's the point of making quality games if the customers can access it only for less than $20 per month? It doesn't make sense. Hellblade 2 probably gonna be great, but how do you track its success if nobody buys it?

[@CaptainPupu]

@@oliverclytus7559 ​@oliverclytus7559 it's capitalism what are you complaining for? It's what the world wants. For 200 years it's been the norm. Tell and teach the public from childhood that this system is good, normalize the getting taken advantage of long enough and people will defend the system without understanding it. Look at Americans defending democracy to the bone when they can't even explain what socialism is. It's ignorance. It's control. They control the public and now they defend it themselves. Why does Bobby dickhead need 20 million $? No human being should have that much money. Meanwhile you work from 8-8pm from 20 till 65 and best you can get is a modest house and mortgage. The system works because we let it work. Imagine a world where there are no shareholders. Where everyone and everything is a collectivist society, not working on greed and materialism but on collective benefit.

[@CaptainPupu]

​@oliverclytus7559 it's capitalism what are you complaining for? It's what the world wants. For 200 years it's been the norm. Tell and teach the public from childhood that this system is good, normalize the getting taken advantage of long enough and people will defend the system without understanding it. Look at Americans defending democracy to the bone when they can't even explain what socialism is. It's ignorance. It's control. They control the public and now they defend it themselves. Why does Bobby dickhead need 20 million $? No human being should have that much money. Meanwhile you work from 8-8pm from 20 till 65 and best you can get is a modest house and mortgage. The system works because we let it work. Imagine a world where there are no shareholders. Where everyone and everything is a collectivist society, not working on greed and materialism but on collective benefit.

[@t-rexreximus359]

So short sighted shutting down Tango! Hi-Fi Rush 2 - with proper marketing this time - could have done really well commercially! Particularly if they got an animated Netflix series commissioned alongside it The original Hi-Fi Rush was stealth launched & still won awards & made profit. Imagine what Hi-Fi Rush 2 could have done if they had invested in it

[@Quintessence4444]

It's almost like shareholders are bribing the executives with ridiculous amounts of money to ensure all the money goes to them.

[@michaelh878]

They don't have to bribe them. It is illegal to not put shareholders first.

[@damazywlodarczyk]

Closing Tango was absurd. Ghostwire Tokyo sold 6 million copies, and the game wasn't bad. Certainly unique.

[@kurtschaaf2165]

Plus hi fi rush was awesome

[@jimmymac2292]

Game sales are far less important to companies now. Sony even stated they are moving towards a more play time model on how they evaluate success. If games don't retain gamers, then they become less a priority

[@vallejomach6721]

'Ghostwire Tokyo sold 6 million copies' - Reached 6 million players...was the claim, not sales. It's on gamepass...and also been given away on Amazon Prime and EGS. Although the EGS giveaway might have been after the 6 million figure.

[@joeslickback]

27:00 That was Satoru Iwata, and he took 50% pay cut PS everyone, ignore Walt_Xander94 He's clearly a troll seeking attention

[@Walt_Xander94]

And it means nothing. Im tired of people bringing that up. Japanese companies are actually SUPPOSED to do that.

[@blackcatbooks64]

@@Walt_Xander94this cope is hilarious. Japanese companies get rid of people all the time. Square Enix just laid off a bunch of people in their North American division.

[@Walt_Xander94]

@@blackcatbooks64 You really want to spout that pathetic shit. Nintendo these days are up there with EA & the rest. They just did it slowly, leading to fanboys wasting $70 on a Zelda game that damn well isn't 9th Gen, and helping Pokémon Scarlet & Violet sell, even though they were rushed out & Nintendo has pulled a CoD/Madden with Pokemon. Yearly releases for 7 or 8 years straight. Thats especially why the tiresome Iwata card means nothing. Nintendo doesn't care about their employees. And what's funny is that with all these layoffs going around, Nintendo might not be able to avoid it this time because theyre taking too damn long to release the Switch 2. Relying on nostalgia wont be enough.

[@Walt_Xander94]

@@blackcatbooks64 Also, Square sold their Western assets if I recall. I didn't know they still had American substidaries. And thats just it, AMERICAN. I don't see their main, Japanese teams getting layoffs. And I just did a Google Search. I almost forgot to mention Japan's insane work culture. Hell, layoffs in Japan are actually rare because of worker protections. We in the US definitely dont got that. Nintendo on the other hand, does. So again, the Iwata card means nothing.

[@samzilla567]

@@Walt_Xander94 No, it means that a CEO was willing to sacrifice his bloated paycheck to save the jobs of devs in the company. The failure of the Wii U wasn't on them and Iwata owned up to this, because he firmly believed that the fear of losing your job won't instill confidence in developers to make games. The fact that western game companies still do not understand what is why we're mocking them.

[@MrPrincepop]

Agreed, AJ an Angry rant about the President of Xbox Microsoft Sarah Bond's dismal interview is a missed opportunity! We would have loved it!

[@armyoftodd2693]

Ghostwire wasn't amazing but it was different and dove deep into a mythology we usually only get surface level stuff on. It was a new IP in a bloated genre but managed to be different enough. I was really looking forward to a 2nd part and the improvements they would've made.

[@creativeusername7951]

If you like building figures, try the Gundam ones from Bandai. They're great, and while they can be very expensive, you can get certain complexity grades and models for cheaper and still get something that's very well made. They're not used for anything though, it's just the figures.

[@MLPIceberg]

I actually have a few Master Grades. In fact... I need to build the 3 Zaku II's I have and make a "battle scarred" unit out of them. One with the typical machine gun, one with the bazooka and one with the Cracker Grenade with the arm in a throwing motion. Aside from that plan, I gotta build them and give them the "scarred" look.

[@footofgork1]

GW raises price on models and then turns around and reduces the amount of models they sell for pre orders. They are fucked in the next few years, I have friends who have 3D printing down to almost identical models at this point. I am currently getting $70 models for about $10 with my friends printer at this point...only down side is how long it takes to produce large numbers of models

[@Dorelaxen]

Hamill will also be voicing Joker in part 3 of Crisis on Infinite Earths, as it was Conroy's very last voice work before he died.

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

I thought his last recording was for Kill The Justice League

[@schwartzy65]

​@@AlejoConejo-vb8lnluckily it wasnt... Part 3 look nice with the btas animation style too :)

[@kallemetsahalme5701]

kevin wanted hamill to retire so bad he decided to die. hamill said after arkham city thats it but how many joker roles he actually has done after it

[@pensologohesito]

I haven’t been very angry with the gaming company for a long time. But the debacle with Tango closing after the brilliant game like Hi-Fi Rush, I’m beyond angry. FUCK ALL THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE.

[@vallejomach6721]

Shinji Mikami left two or three months ago...and had said 8 years ago that he wanted out, but stuck around due to ongoing projects. Now the main dude's gone from that company why keep it open? Aside from some success with Hi-Fi rush, Ghostwire Tokyo was just average and repetitive...and then the only other games they've made in the last decade and a half almost are the Evil Within 1 & 2...pretty decent but not massive sellers. I don' think it's all that surprising of a closure.

[@tehbeernerd]

Tango Gameworks and Arcane Austin get closed, but The Initiative (working on a “AAAA” Perfect Dark game) gets to stay open. Cool.

[@nuclear_caliber-we3pc]

The gaming industry has acquisitioned itself into oblivion.

[@LTV746]

It’s called corporate consolidation and it’s as bad as you say

[@nuclear_caliber-we3pc]

@@LTV746 In Capitalism first you make a profit, then to maintain making profit you must cut costs, after you can no longer cut costs you must consolidate and merge with other business. This grows and grows until there is monopoly or oligopoly. Works well. Just look at the film industry.

[@LTV746]

@@nuclear_caliber-we3pc geez did you Google that? I’ll use my phd here; that’s in completely FREE MARKET CAPITALISM. And fyi monopolies are less likely to occur naturally than oligopolies. If you think oligopolies are good for the consumer you are insane.

[@jimmymac2292]

Nintendo's president even said this is the way because of how long and complexed modern games are to make. It's easy when you aren't on the inside looking out to be a Monday morning quarterback

[@vallejomach6721]

It's not that big a deal as many are making out. Tango Gameworks...sure...that's arguably the most surprising BUT, when you consider that Shnjni Mikami already left and said he wanted out years ago, that changes the colour of it a bit. Plus, at the end of the day, in the last 15 years they've made Evil Within 1&2, which are decent, but not massive sellers...Ghostwire Tokyo, that went straight on gamepass, thus did not do massive sales numbers...and has subsequently been given away free twice, once on Prime and once on EGS so you would presume sale for that are now done. And Hi-Fi Rush being a recent surprise, but, as mentioned...as far as anyone knows Shinji Mikami had already probably decided to leave anyway by the time that came out. Arkane Austin...Unless they've done support work for Lyon...all they produced in 6 years was a massive turkey of a failure in Redfall...and pretty sure most of the people involved with Prey have long, long gone. (70% of devs that worked on Prey had left by the time Redfall came out). So they were pretty much dead. Roundhouse Games - A name change from their previous moniker that brought the stunningly terrible 'The Quiet Man' to the world...and literally nothing else of value either. Alpha Dog - literally done next to nothing except some free to play mobile trash nobody has ever heard of...or played. None of these are surprising closures.

[@chuckbittner8704]

Please do an angry rant on the woman, speaking as corporate commander. That double speak that they use in business needs to be exposed. Please put them on blast. Dissect her BS and her dodging. Please Joe and little Joe and grumpy old Alex.

[@truecaliber1995]

Sarah Bond, I think is her name. Then, there's Aaron Greenberg, Matt Booty, and Phil Spencer, to my knowledge. 👍

[@KingTairun]

Arcane Austin made Red fall! and all the good devs left during that development Bethesda killed Arcane Austin not Microsoft and you cant say we hope our game to get canceled and expect no backfire

[@Mojaveknight17]

75 percent not all of them

[@KingTairun]

@@Mojaveknight17 75 percent of the seasoned vets who made Prey is more than enough the studio is just a shell I understand why MS closed it. Bethesda caused this with forcing this crap live service Red fall

[@Mojaveknight17]

@@KingTairun yeah 😎

[@gamerdudeforlife101]

My grandpa used to say. The more poeple you fire. The bigger your check is. After all, firing means your saving the company money......sigh

[@joffy9373]

Timestamp guy, where are you

[@Mojaveknight17]

He's watching the videos

[@whatdoesthisthingdo]

If you want a timestamp guy be a timestamp guy.

[@incredidude101]

Right below your comment 😮😮😮

[@Joanlow1440p]

​@@whatdoesthisthingdo he is too lazy for that, that is why he is looking for it. 😂

[@MrDrunkNFunky]

He got layed off

[@edwintaco]

God bless the people that go out of their way to timestamp these videos!

[@Rew123]

It's because the AJS is lazy

[@megamawile8540]

I was having a blast with Multiversus. Excited for its return. Tony had it pulled out of love for the project. I think it will do what it needs to at the end of the day

[@ramonmolina9136]

I want a Dino Crisis Game so bad they should go for it.

[@flip8966]

And a onimusha got damnit

[@heroicgangster9981]

I need Dead Rising to come back someday as well! I know there are the good Japanese devs. the 20th anniversary is getting close by, and dead rising really holds one of the most unique and fun and engaging gameplay formulas in gaming

[@flip8966]

@heroicgangster9981 right now I feel like they just only investing with monster hunter and resident evil games I miss the old Capcom

[@brandonjohnson441]

I'm hoping Capcom will start remaking Dino Crisis once they're caught up on RE remakes.

[@ramonmolina9136]

It’s understandable they are going with their most known games but now they made the money,let’s start getting crazy with OG Content and Old classics.

[@EnolaGay15]

games workshop has this insane idea to keep raising prices, the more people that stop buying their products. The constant price hikes should have stopped in 2007.

[@0o-0o694]

I mean u can just 3d print the figures......

[@markdexter6338]

Alex and AJ are always the best in making the news sound soo interesting! Stay awesome team!

[@ziggy2metalx720]

Crazy to think how resident evil is doing really well right now meanwhile old juggernauts like Halo and Gears of war are non existent at this point.

[@kleberson777]

it basically got reversed

[@franknova987]

To be fair, Warhammer Orks has an excuse of you using other toys and stuff as miniatures cause they scrap and rebuild anything they can get their hands on so, thats in lore

[@WingusJones]

Ayo good vibes on this one boys, last episode was a bit depressing but I can tell you guys care.

[@cwalser544]

Fun fact about Starfield, if you play on Xbox Game Pass Cloud, NONE OF TODD'S UPDATES ARE THERE. only installed versions 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Lycan3303]

Games Workshop: "we are increasing our prices" (me looking at my 3D printer)

[@Herowebcomics]

That's what increaseing their prices does!😡

[@ccgod]

except if you play in official tournaments and such you can't print your own.

[@Patrick-y4d1z]

@@ccgod Hmm, play in only friendly tournaments and save thousands with superior 3D printed models, or support GW and bankrupt myself...Hard choice.

[@ccgod]

@@Patrick-y4d1z That is the better choice just saying if you want to do official things you can only use the official stuff.

[@nongmar8783]

What’s the % of players actually doing official tournaments? I imagine over 90% of people are casual players in a local store or at home.

[@bradyoung1714]

This is the industrial revolution of video games and its gotten to the sweat shop stage. hopefully things change

[@Kratoseum]

Such a great analogy. Unfortunately, as a gamedev myselfI dont see it really changing... fortunately I believe Its now more than ever about who you work with, for, and who you make your game to that will make the différence. If you work at the ground level for the McDonald's of the games industry then yeah its not gonna go in your favor.

[@papasalvo]

Additional context to the Microsoft thing. Reporteedly basically everyone who worked on prey or dishonored left the Arcane Austin years ago and additionally thanks to non competes being aboloished for non C-Suite employees the ones who got fired could potentially come together and make an indie studio now without the fear of being sued so heres hoping

[@Sgt_Pepper13]

Joe is one Second Thought video away from understanding all his gripes with the gaming industry

[@TLSH12]

part of CEO pay is taking the blame for decisions made for the board/stock price/stockholders, at the cost of the company, employees and consumers. that is a huge reason why CEO's get paid to lead a "failing" company

[@einstien2409]

Hi-Fi rush was one of their most successful game on gamepass in 2023. The studio got shut down. This proves what Sony said that the business is not sustainable to put hundred mullion dollar games day one on gamepass. Hi-fi rush wasn't even 10 million to make.

[@TheL1arL1ar]

Even though I have gamepass I still purchased hi fi and a bunch of other games through Steam.

[@Unreal_L3gend]

@@TheL1arL1ar unfortunately though, another 100 didn’t

[@einstien2409]

@@TheL1arL1ar millions didnt.

[@SibrenFetter]

I think you are missing something here. Hifi Rush was profitable, won tons of prizes and was greatly received. There is simply no good reason for Tango to go

[@blueboy5090]

27:10 That was Satoru Iwata when the Wii U under performed. So much respect to him for doing that.

[@Uldihaa]

Microsoft's problems are, at the core, two-fold. The first is that they are a product and service corporation, not entertainment. They make products like Windows and Excel that are all about function and usefulness, not fun and entertainment. Until they made the original Xbox, MS had virtually zero entertainment experience. Meanwhile, Sony has decades of experience in the entertainment sector, with music and movie divisions. Nintendo has _always_ been entertainment focused since their founding as a hanafuda making companyin the late 1800s; hanafuda is a Japanese card game. The overall CEOs of both Japanese companies know and understand that in order to make good games that make them money, they need to hire division VPs and managers that are entertainment focused and experienced. Yes, both will occasionally overstep, but eventually they backtrack and return to their 'lane'. Their investors know that you can't expect the returns for entertainment that you get with say cars or other products. It's much more feast-to-famine than product-focused investments. Microsoft's second core issue is that they have the institutional mindset of 'if you can't beat them, buy them'. This goes all the way back to its founding; there's a reason MS lost anti-trust lawsuits. That mindset still influences them today. There was no real reason to buy Zenimax except to make those IPs Microsoft exclusives (that went well with Starfield, didn't it?). Then just a few years later, they buy ActiBlizz. Now they have _at least_ a $70 *billion* dollar hole in their finances; it's actually probably way more than that, since I think that figure is based on just their ActiBlizz acquisition. A spin-off issue to one is putting so many of their eggs in Game Pass (remember what I said about services being a major focus?). Game Pass has plateaued and isn't growing nearly as fast as MS _needs it to grow_ so even that is hurting them. MS Xbox division overestimated its game sales and vastly overestimated and overutilized Game Pass. Xbox Games aren't doing the sales numbers they need because Game Pass is eating them, but Game Pass itself isn't growing fast enough.

[@Khaozreigns]

17:25 Damn, I was hoping for The Evil Within 3, I loved both of those games :(

[@GuiiBrazil]

Mentioning Capcom without mentioning Monster Hunter Wilds is.... wild.

[@MechAleXtreme]

Whats thinner than a skeleron crew... calcium crew?

[@MLPIceberg]

Nah, Fossil Fuel.

[@dragonknight1560]

At least Kevin and Mark's last role together was Multiverse. Could be worse. Also the power of Greed always wins and it destroys lives.

[@LeeFeather]

8:39 They did start on RE2 Remake & not RE0 & RE1😅

[@shawngaetz8161]

People seem to forget that WE have the power... (our wallets) we should start a gaming revolution and stop buying anything gaming until all the current CEOs have to step down. Then pool all the tallent into new studios with rights. VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET!

[@MLPIceberg]

So basically privately shared companies? maybe... but I dunno. I feel a second gaming market crash would do more. Maybe even destroy it completely so it can be rebuilt from the ground up.

[@awesomehpt8938]

Oh look other joe has gone back to normal again!

[@Cadmus9501]

24:22 Greed is not meant to make sense and it's never ending.

[@newagecinematics]

pro tip for War hammer, you might as well invest in a 3D pr mfer as you can 3d print all of the models they would normally charger you for and you can literally make exact replicas

[@EyeXombie]

Ravaged Star! Better mini's more for your money and they are already assembled.

[@brennanwn]

10:40 - 11:12 TRULY AN EPIC FAIL 🤯🤯

[@Dungeon00X]

My brother sold all of his Warhammer 40K models, even the special one that he paid over $100 for.

[@SonGokuSann]

Thank you for uploading every week reliable gaming news!!! Dinner, a coffee, and AJS NEWS after work!!

[@user-yx3wu8vt2w]

Thank you Joe for speaking about devs living a nightmare in this hellish industry...Just so that the investors can be lazy in their villa whilst devs have to find ways to stay afloat.

[@michaelmonstar4276]

You know, about the Warhammer figures: I'm not into that, but as far as I can find, they can cost from like 30-60 USD per basic figure?... - Recently, I suddenly got into model-building in terms of plastic kits for cars, the smaller to medium scale, basically a Warhammer mini figure would almost fit inside it, that kind of size. - But anyway, I was worried that perhaps over the last few years it would be another hobby that got cost-inflated due to the pandemic or whatever. But I was happy to see that it doesn't seem to be the case. I pulled an old kit from my childhood (that is the mid-90s) from storage and the price sticker shows that it would've been like... I don't know, 15-20 USD. Then I hesitantly looked up the prices in shops today and... it's actually not much different and you can have kits for anywhere between 20 and 50 USD (mostly at like 25-35) as well, but that's not a tiny figure and rather a whole kit of around 100 pieces. - So, yea, that Warhammer-franchise is ripping you off hard. - Also, I get that it's for boardgames and whatnot, but come on, it's unreasonable. I'd much rather recommend just building models if you're gonna paint figures. Or... I don't know, play boardgames without needing the figures or at least other franchises like Joe recommended (before they blow up as well).

[@MrRobeStern64]

5:58 it was originally in open beta now it’s a full launch

[@Eledthur]

I still cannot believe the way Tango was treated. What a shitshow, truly. If you do not assure your dev studios of their safety, why would they even work for you? If you're going to get shut down even if you do well, what's the point of even developing games for these companies/publishers? There's no trust, there's no respect, not even a guarantee that these hardworking, talented people will even get to keep their jobs even if they release a successful game, let alone a bonus, or increase in pay. At this point, I can't decide which company is worse. It's like they're competing with each other. And they even have the shamelessness to ask their devs to make more games like HI-FI, right after shutting down the studio that made one. That is just something else, man. I was speechless after reading that.

[@t-rexreximus359]

Imagine how boring the next gen Xbox games will be if devs are now too scared to take any creative risks with new IP. Tango won awards & were profitable with an awesome new IP & they still got shut down! The irony is that chasing live service commercial trends is what resulted in the Redfall disaster. Crippling creativity is really going to backfire on Microsoft in the long term

[@richardbritten492]

Talking about GW - I remember in 2nd edition (?) 40K when the main boxset came with a flat cardboard Ork Dreadnought. That would not happen today.

[@richardgibson2158]

Why are people crying about Arkane? The veterans no longer were employed there and Redfall was garbage. I absolutely loved Prey but no one bought it.

[@TheHenners1981]

Went into a little independent PC shop the other week. He was also selling GW starter sets. The genius owner had stocked the the GW stuff next to all of the 3d printer goods. That guy is a retail god 🤣

[@RYLTREE]

Love my Monday routine. Never beaten the time stamp guy before lmao

[@gamesmovienation3516]

The time stamp guy he’s always hard to beat to the punch he’s always ahead of the curb

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

I want a new X-Men vs street fighter game

[@ArlindoBuriti]

Capcom could make a Resident evil using raccon city as a sand box where events triggers using the lore of the game with dates and stuff... you can do whatever the fuck you want, but there is a canon ending. you can follow leon, leon can die, you can follow jill but she can die, again is a sand box using the map... it would be great to see how the city becomes worst and worst over time and you participate on it.

[@blakefenslerjr4858]

Please don't make them ruin resident evil with multiplayer bullshit 🙄

[@MLPIceberg]

1) No. Multiplayer in Resident Evil is like trying to fist fight someone while jumping on a trampoline. 2) No more Racoon City. It's dead, let it fucking stay that way and MOVE ON. It was great before, but now it's just irritating to hear "RaCoOn CiTy" on repeat. Kinda like listening to your favorite track 16 times in a row and realizing how shit it is after the 16th time. You wanna relive Leon, Claire, Carlos and Jill's time there? Go play the damn games that exist and shut the hell up.

[@johnmcshane4463]

A relevant point to this is looking inside the actual game dev cycles inside microsoft and the studios. A video by one of forza motorsports past 3d modelers details what their experience was like working for them. A big point made is how ms treats their employees like cattle, where before 18 months, many employees are shuffled around to different projects and some are let go, to keep them categorized as contractors, part time, or non permanent, to avoid all of the extra benefits they would have to give. This leaves a lot of projects with newer less experienced employees that are given way too much to do with not enough people, experienced or otherwise. At the same time, many of the employees that do stay in the company are forced to train their replacements, a process that could take weeks to months, taking away even more dev time, before their replacements have to do the same.

[@jameswood240]

For anyone interested the tutorial for painting 40k in the background is TableTopReady great channel really helpful

[@Red9_Channel]

Wow. Didn't expect to see @TableTopReady in the background in the Warhammer topic

[@Ferret0418]

Bethesda has been mismanaged for a long time. 13+ years between releases in their most popular franchise is ridiculous. I'm not surprised Microsoft brought the hammer down.

[@XxWolfxWaRioRxX]

Microsoft have been mismanaged since the Xbox one so stop trying to put the blame elsewhere because you sound like a stupid fanboy

[@heroicgangster9981]

bethesda gets too much trust working on a game for 13+ years, they're not cooking, it's just incompetence being hidden underneath the guise of being master creatives and artists.

[@stevenbaksh5545]

And also Starfield failed

[@BFG100]

GTA almost as bad will be at least 12 years

[@Raytheus]

There is no one to keep Sony in check anymore. Competition breeds competence.

[@daironpower]

PAPA ROANOKE'S Spidey sense are tingling!

[@Vim88PL]

Just clarify - vast majority of Warhammer tournament doesn't require official GW miniature. Usually, if you can tell what's what, you can bring, conversion, 3d prints, alternative model etc. Only tournament done by GW and by some local store would require official model. But most doesn't. I am not sure, what is number in USA, but in my country is 99% tournaments (and all big ones) allows you to 3D print entire armies.

[@Vim88PL]

And, yes I once even seen paper models (but to be honest, they were work of art)

[@sofaking1627]

AJ is the ambassador of the ultimate Pay 2 Win game

[@LTV746]

21:00 the first time AJ has been the voice of reason for Alex

[@belltolls1984]

Ninja Theory is next up I bet.

[@AlexRoivas]

Double Fine as well. All the smaller studios that MS owns are done for because their games do not sell COD numbers.

[@White_Tiger93]

The last couple of weeks really hit home how the glory days of the 360 and PS3 are long behind us. Back when games were feature complete and the hits kept on hitting. What has this generation of gaming given us? Incomplete garbage fires and executives who spew cinnamon and sugary and softly, spoken lies. At least the indie scene has been ripping and tearing like there's no tomorrow.

[@adamstockley3569]

I despise Microsoft for shutting down Tango and Arcane Austin 🤬

[@jjc5871]

There need to be far more layoffs at the right companies. Overpriced games are overpriced because of far too many unnecessary, and unskilled if I’m being honest, developers.

[@Joshua-lg3th]

people that go to the xbox showcase you need to boo Phill spencer if he shows up on stage

[@DanteMasaru]

It's really interesting to see three cheerleaders of the ABK deal who were dismissive towards ANY push back in regards to it are now holding Microsoft in contempt. This very thing currently going on at Microsoft was one of the concerns the FTC addressed and a common response from you three regarding any rebuttal from the FTC was: "FTC doesn't know that the fuck they are talking about." Turns out the labor concerns of the FTC was well warranted. Results of these closures is less talent, thus less potential games in the industry and that's not exactly "consumer friendly" now, is it? Studios on the Activision/Blizzard side are in Microsoft's sights now. On another note, Hi-Fi Rush: a SHADOW-DROPPED GAMEPASS game 'not meeting sales expectations' (XBOX platform) as the reasoning behind Tango's shutdown. What the hell did they expect? What makes this excuse even more asinine is that it's the best game Microsoft has had in years and is performing well on PlayStation and is slated for a Switch (and/or Switch 2) release and it will sell well on that platform as well.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

The fact that they and the other cheerleaders tried to justify it by saying well Sony bought Bungie and Insomniac, as if them buying development studios is the same thing as buying major publishers was laughable at best…I guess all that mattered to the guys is the games, but as we’ve seen, MS still can’t get out of their own way, and now it’s more likely they’ll force Bethesda to start pumping out ES and FO games every other year like Madden or 2K

[@Henbot]

It’s true. AJ was one of the most disgraceful simping entities for MS when everyone was raising who had a brain.

[@JayTraversJT]

Studio closures obviously suck but the fact 343 still exists and they don’t is an absolute mystery to me.

[@VampireNoblesse]

Zenimax pushed for F76 & Redfall, NOT BETHESDA!

[@MLPIceberg]

Of course, but you see, most people are stupid and blame everyone else but those responsible. There's no reasoning with stupid.

[@derekstein6193]

28:42-28:46 My sentiments exactly. If there are no meaningful consequences, there will be no positive change.

[@zacrollins3333]

Thank you AJ for correcting Alex on calling all of Bethesda's game garbage.

[@FlukasMcDoogle]

Joe, the Nintendo CEO that took a pay cut was not by his choice. It was by Japanese law. They have better labor protections. Just look at Square Enix laying ppl off. They just laid off a bunch of ppl in Europe and USA, but not Japan. If they could get away with it in Japan, they would.

[@damirmethadzovic3254]

“TimeSavers” (FREE.99) 0:16 - Sponsor WarHammer Figure Price Increase - 1:33 4:57 - Hamill’s back as Joker Nintendo/ Capcom Success - 7:11 10:31 - Xbox Layoffs

[@zeveron862]

Hey Joe, do you still have that 'Bs translator" fax machine or whatever printer looking thing that was?