The Never Ending Decline of Xbox

[@TheActMan]

Break up with basic browsers. Get Opera GX here: operagx.gg/TheActMan3 Xbox recently shut down multiple game studios and they gave the most horrible reasons for doing so. After shutting down Tango Gameworks, the developers behind Hi-Fi Rush, I have no faith in Xbox's ability to release high-quality titles. This is... The Never-Ending Decline of Xbox.

[@ikpjosh4848]

Please do a review on Sunset overdrive🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@thecorbeauxking7342]

Honestly this is a bad take. If the company isn't making money is Microsoft expected to keep them open eternally? Almost every publisher in the industry is seeing some form of economic downturn, why should Microsoft be held to a greater scrutiny?

[@richardgibson2158]

Hi-Fi was great but internally it went way over budget that it cut into the profits. Let's be honest here. I'd love for a second one but financially I don't see the incentive.

[@cheesewrap]

I love spyware! Try Vivaldi instead, who was the original creator of Opera, no China involved.

[@Alphakennyjuan]

I'll just stick with Firefox thanks.

[@royalrainboo6940]

"We acquired Lionhead in 2006 shut it down in 2016, a couple of years later we reflected on that experience" They reflected on how to do it again.

[@weirdochristoffel5285]

so true

[@MrOz1705]

Either that, OR, they learned nothing...

[@unrealhaole]

If Playground flops on Fable 4, Microsoft will have murdered the last of their IP’s that I cared for.

[@ronald3836]

It just felt too good.

[@lordduckofquack]

@@unrealhaoleFable 4 is already DOA

[@DOOMStudios]

the fact that Tango was shut down for wanting a few years of development for Hi Fi Rush 2 is so sad.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Truly, imagine killing an actual good game, that's a new wild low for them in my opinion.

[@StephenYuan]

I don't think that's true. They were shut down because they had no ongoing project, because the key principals had left already, and they would have had to rebuild and staff up again anyway. The truth is this studio was in trouble long before. Ghostwire Tokyo wasn't a hit either.

[@Zxnightmare898]

Feels like Microsoft cares about quantity over quality games.

[@TheActMan]

really speaks to Microsoft's intentions with purchasing studios...

[@lasjames7516]

Hi Fi rush sucked ass. overrated. 0/10 gameplay.

[@brando8408]

Somehow the Red Dead Redemption 2 format you chose for this is a perfect analogy of a once great strong organization spiraling into panic and insanity

[@aidenguzman3510]

Because Xbox is like Dutch.

[@TheActMan]

thanks pardner

[@forsaken841]

Maybe Microsoft was always like this, maybe we just finally seeing the REAL Microsoft.

[@MrNercules]

Why is Red Dead Redemption 2 a masterpiece?, when Actio?

[@db_524]

True

[@emp0rizzle]

"That's one thing Xbox ain't got. It ain't got GAEMES" Chad Warden, Circa 2007.... Almost 20 years later and ain't nothing changed. They still ain't got GAEMES

[@appleleptiker]

The sad thing is that this counts for every platform at this point

[@Milkboy14]

I mean they do own lots of games. They literally own Activision, they choose not to be pricks like Sony and make the largest games in the world exclusive.

[@J05TI]

​@@appleleptiker Except for Switch. Nintendo has put out BANGERS this generation (every generation, really).

[@themangastand8475]

​@@J05TI80% of nintendos games are remasters and shovelware. For example animal crossing is almost identical to new leaf, sport titles, etc

[@J05TI]

@@themangastand8475 How is Animal Crossing similar to sport titles..?

[@askolei]

Ah, Satoru Iwata. Not only was he a compassionate and charismatic leader, he also was a genius programmer who, among other feats, tested and debugged Super Smash Bros Melee in one week (which was all that he had because the game was due), recompressed Pokémon Golden and Silver so well they could include the Kanto region from Red and Blue in the cartridge, and he single-handedly reprogrammed EarthBound from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project at a time when all seemed lost. Mr. Iwata weighted heavily in Nintendo's long term success in every way conceivable. He was the kind of CEO companies only dream they could have. He is a legend, and he is sorely missed.

[@Spike2276]

Iwata wasn't an executive, he was a game dev who got an executive position. That's why he was the GOAT.

[@CoolManCoolMan123]

​@@Spike2276 in his words: "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." Truly one of the greatest people in gaming

[@Spike2276]

@@CoolManCoolMan123 That hits deep because those words came through in his actions.

[@nman551]

He was taken too soon.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

He also told Mr Ito that if he canceled his current build of mother 2, which was half done at the time, to quit everything what you’re doing, and we’ll get this done right within the year. And so, mother 2/Earthbound as we know it was Born.

[@nevermore5073]

I like the Golden Goose analogy. It feels like Xbox doesn't understand that if you let the goose be for a while, it will lay golden eggs and continue to lay golden eggs. Instead what Xbox does is cut the goose open, take the golden egg, discard the carcass, and move on to the next goose.

[@FighTThePower.]

Yup they're like Kanye asking for answers and we as fans have the answers but they refuse to listen

[@slayasloth]

Nah I’d argue the opposite. They let these companies have too much freedom. I think the studios might have just fucked up

[@whiskeyzgaming]

I believe you guys are wrong about the golden goose. If the golden goose was a battle pass system as successful as fortnite yes that's a goose. But the problem is even if games are good they will never make as much money as the trending games now and that's what matters. Alan wake 2 was one of the best game stories ever and rated as such the problem is that the game never made profit. So unless xbox can release a golden goose like fortnite but made by them they will probably never be able to just cook up something good without money in mind

[@onhold1706]

@@slayasloth Then that's on the companies themselves for not reeling in the studios better. There's not giving creative freedom, and there's giving TOO MUCH creative freedom.

[@FighTThePower.]

@@whiskeyzgaming you're delusional bro you are part of the problem if u want a golden goose battle pass system look at deep rock galactic no monetization just a natural battle pass for free

[@Danny___Riot]

“Too big to fail” attitude never works out for any company.

[@diamondheadify-v5i]

Microsoft here be like "let's put that to the test, shall we?"

[@BeersAndBeatsPDX]

It worked for the banks

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

​@@BeersAndBeatsPDX Well, banks are pretty important. Xbox, like the majority of companies, isn't.

[@dr.wolfstar1765]

Works for coke

[@thatnumbersix]

Funnily enough the tutorial boss in Hi-Fi RUSH is a big corporate robot who's theme is literally called "Too Big to Fail" and he gets his shit rocked by Chai.

[@StriderStryker]

I remember when Bill Gates and The Rock introduce the first Xbox console. I don’t know what to feel anymore…

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Well both are definitely unpopular now.

[@WestSide1207]

It's actually a great parallel to the Xbox brand as a whole... Gates and the Rock did have this charismatic energy, albeit from different sides of the spectrum. Yet both were pretty widely liked and admired. Now both are found to be fake, annoying, and just shells of their former selves. Same thing with Xbox.

[@baroquechevalier8516]

​@@JohnKobaRuddy the xbox curse

[@zytr0x108]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@WestSide1207Wait, what happened with The Rock? (I guess I‘ve been living under a rock…).

[@Jay123-yk4pl]

@@zytr0x108the guy is an egomaniac and a douche but he’s still extremely popular and hated

[@thatoneoshawott5826]

“Just one more studio” “There’s always another god damn studio”

[@TheActMan]

LMAOOO

[@amolsolanke5686]

Have some faith 🙏

[@synysterkatz6911]

WE JUST NEED SOME STUDIOS AND SOME GODDAMN FAITH

[@apexhunter935]

But you already have plenty of them, especially after all these acquisitions. Maybe if you stopped shutting them down every other week then you'd get the money and respect that you clearly want and could have.

[@Gary-kn6wb]

All studios have now gone to tahiti heaven 🙏🏻

[@QwixLF]

XBox peaked in high school and is spending it's mid 30's drunk, ranting about how he coulda gone Pro controller.

[@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews]

I just got my Xbox Series L last week, enjoying it so far. I'm thinking about subscribing to Xbox Lame Pass, seems like a good deal, lots of god tier games on there for free on day one.

[@kennypowers1945]

Nothing wrong with peaking in high school cause some people don’t ever peak at all 😂

[@Mizikame]

“I could throw an Xbox Elite Controller clear over those mountains”

[@Shaker1000]

Xbox is Al Bundy?

[@airbornejay4962]

@@kennypowers1945 most

[@SadToffee]

Microsoft is the equivalent of that girl from Finding Nemo, shaking the fish in the bag and then wondering why it isn't moving.

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrin]

Banger comparison

[@LUCAS420BLZ]

Darla?

[@markbalentine-w6d]

expect that Microsoft is killing there own Nemo (not selling VIDEO GAMES)

[@dartfrogger]

I think of it like this... remember how companies in the past were dubbed "too big to fail?" I believe companies like Activision/Blizzard/xbox, or whatever you would like to call it... are "too big to function."

[@Phantom1201]

What I love is now that Act Man finally played Red Dead 2, he has an obligation to put references to the game in every video.

[@TheActMan]

the quotes are now locked in my mental database

[@filipebastos6020]

We need your full review of RD2 😢

[@ragingmcqueen]

Rdr2 was a SNOOZEFEST

[@autovozo5725]

​@@TheActMan We just need MONEH, LOYALTY and an Act Man video on RDR2

[@ExtantPerson]

@@ragingmcqueenYou have the attention span of a goldfish if that’s what you think lmao

[@Wampa842]

Aims at foot. Shoots. "Ouch!" Inspects smoking gun. Ejects magazine. Reloads. Aims at other foot. Shoots. "Why does this keep happening?"

[@fictionforeternity8926]

Their biggest flaw was reloading after one shot unless it’s a musket

[@elbolainas4174]

*inspects by looking directly into the barrel

[@mythicknz8203]

​@@elbolainas4174 Pulls the trigger

[@SLENDERVONBENDER]

I'm utterly shocked and stunned at just how far Xbox has fallen since the introduction of the Xbox One.

[@ChfHappySack]

Microtransactions and 'games as a service' is what destroyed this community that once thrived with creativity and imagination, but most importantly, the FUN aspect. Greed has ruined what we loved.

[@TheActMan]

and maybe we have much further yet to fall!

[@SLENDERVONBENDER]

@@TheActMan Your probably right acting male. It really breaks my heart seeing this company fall when I grew up on games like Halo 3, Halo Reach, Gears of War 3 and Black ops 2 on the Xbox 360 :(

[@njux1871]

​@dasilent15 That's an ignorant take. How is Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Odyssey fun if you literally have to pay to skip "side missions", just stretched out garbage so that people buy skins. Or Bethesda making money off of modder's work in Skyrim now. (No wonder there's no TES VI lol.) Then there's games like Halo Infinite that play it so ridiculously safe that they lose all the momentum of a once phenomenal franchise. Naive people pre-ordering AAA games so that companies can justify putting out hot garbage is just utterly insane behavior. Same kinda people that use your rhetoric. And yes, I have fun with AC Valhalla. But it's not pure fun like with The Witcher 3. It's "inspite of all its greedy shortcomings, it's good a great amosphere" kinda fun. Not fun that I'm willing to pay full price to, and certainly not where I'd like the gaming industry to be. It's like if there's only McDonald's, no good restaurant anywhere else to be seen. I like my shitty burger once in a while, but I'd rather eat nothing but potatoes than to eat at McDonald's more than once a week. If you like that shit and even feel the need to support it, good for you I guess.

[@Dan-qy6zv]

It was kind of the beginning of the end for the brand as a whole for "gaming first". Especially with how hard they pushed TV apps and the Kinect.

[@krelbin]

I’m pretty sure that if you were to show the video of Iwata saying that he would take a pay cut for the betterment of the staff to the executive teams at western AAA developers that their heads would explode in disbelief.

[@flamingosarerad9362]

Pretty poetic that a studio that made a game with themes of corporate greed and overreach gets shut down post said game releasing

[@Xadaj127]

Poetic? The term I would've used would be 'foreboding', but sure...

[@ViperGTS737]

Which game was that?

[@flamingosarerad9362]

@@ViperGTS737 Hifi Rush

[@whiskeybuddha1995]

I don’t think poetic means what you think it does, unless you work for Microsoft that is

[@MK7219000]

I think the word you were looking for was Ironic

[@shazmodeus2795]

As someone that worked in corporate America 10 years ago, this feels just like how it always was when it was time for your annual review and raise, "you've excelled in all areas of your position, exceeded productivity on a daily basis, but we see you made 1 minor error 8 months ago and feel you need to be more careful and do better, as such, we won't be giving you a raise this year."

[@patrickkilduff5272]

or...you just sucked (so does corporate America mind you...both things can be true). The companies suck, the people suck, it all just sucks

[@Generic_Name_1-1]

Or "you outperformed every expectation for your role but our annual revenue report showed only 30% profit growth Year Over Year when last year we did 31% better than the previous, therefore you're fired"

[@jjbanana2774]

Corporatism is what killed America

[@evials9123]

Y’all are making this shit up 😂

[@snakehead404]

​@evials9123 nahh man it's real, though you don't have to believe it

[@NikTek]

I've started to notice this pattern with Microsoft/Xbox: -Buy a small but well known Game Studio -Put all their Games on Game Pass -Do massive layoffs and cuts -Close the Studio

[@danyuzunov]

Niktek!!!

[@HolyknightVader999]

They're basically killers of studios and jobs. Disgusting.

[@Ryzard]

Probably just cheaper to get all the ips and sell off the carcass than to buy the ips individually, if I had to guess

[@jabrark5828]

It's vile fr. They start with the layoffs so the studio can't regroup effectively to start another studio, and only then do they close it.

[@GAYXISAFAG]

You noticing this just now 🤦🏻‍♂️ How do you think MS became the behemoth they are today. Predatory practices.

[@Lamboytroy]

Splatoon is the perfect example for use when talking about sleeper hits. I have been following it for near a decade and Nintendo has handled the franchise beautifully compared to anything Xbox has done with their IP’s

[@jacobross735]

Just because a game is popular doesn’t mean it’s good. It’s a children’s game ffs I would rather play gears 5 which isn’t even all that great over that dogshit

[@gabexyzofficial8307]

@@jacobross735remove your bias

[@iamacatperson7226]

​@@jacobross735why is it a childrens game? Because it's bright and colorful? Who cares, it's a fun series. It's better than garbage like battlefield 2077. You don't have to be an ass about not liking it

[@NerdyDumbProductions]

Found the one with a lack of love in his formative years ​@@jacobross735

[@Jonas-tc8qt]

​@@jacobross735 is it 2009 again? "Only games with death and destruction are for reeeeal gamers"

[@AnakinTheWeird]

18:11 "What makes someone a failure is not the act of failing, but learning nothing from it." damn that's a really good proverb

[@guerrillex]

Oughta been pinned.

[@trumpet12345]

code for microsoft put snniperwolf in charge of game development as a company wide position

[@WestonMattinson]

"I grew up with Xbox, and I don't know what it is anymore" a sad truth

[@glitch200]

Same.

[@Thisguy2532]

For real same grew up with the OG Xbox and 360 then some where along the way I got a PlayStation instead

[@Quliquan8353]

​@@Thisguy2532were telling them what we want and there covering there ears

[@HULKHOGAN1]

Xbox needs to make a console for gamers, including its physical appearance, name and user interface. Such basic elements that they've failed miserably at for 2 generations now.

[@FishFind3000]

@@Thisguy2532I still have my OG Xbox 360 and my 3 year old nephew has been playing the drums on guitar hero. He’s the only one that’s using it now every so often.

[@kresimircosic9035]

As a PS fan, it's sad to see the old rival so messed up. I miss the times when they both busted each other's balls. Healthy competition.

[@asawarai]

Unfortunately if PS has no competition they will become pretty consumer unfriendly. I’m afraid of a sector where PS is the only high end console seller. Hopefully Nintendo’s next system is closer in spec

[@Bojoschannel]

​@@asawaraithey are already really shitty tbf

[@elloco6780]

PS has their own issues but definitely not close to MS. It’s definitely the people in power who have no interest in improving their products. Then hit the old surprised Pikachu when shit isn’t performing. Stop with focusing on microtransactions and live service. And let these studios work, QA is definitely another thing companies need to focus on. Broken on launch should not be a thing

[@crowbarduck1818]

Lol Sony is just as bad

[@Jarekx2007]

@@asawarai Sony is already consumer unfriendly, everyone else has just become consumer hostile, so they don't look as bad.

[@EmberQuill]

"You know, the last year or so in video games, largely the industry's been flat." Imagine saying that about 2023 (widely regarded as one of the best years for gaming in quite a long time, where several big publishers reported record-breaking sales or profits) and the first half of 2024 (which has seen several massive breakout hits already).

[@MonsterDawg79]

Translation: "Investors in big game companies haven't been seeing the growth and returns that they expected."

[@EmberQuill]

@@MonsterDawg79 It's just so weird that "our profits hit record highs" still isn't good enough. Venture capitalism is ruining everything.

[@HarisButt6662169]

dogshit games the past few years. last notable good game that dropped was Cyberpunk 2077.

[@EmberQuill]

@@HarisButt6662169 Objectively speaking, 2023 was the best year on record for a bunch of game companies. No matter whether you liked the games or not, enough other people did to make it an extremely good year for publishers. I didn't like Diablo IV at all, and a lot of other people didn't either, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the fastest-selling Blizzard game of all time and it made 2023 one of their most profitable years ever. And it's not the only one. Spider-Man 2 broke sales records in 2023. Helldivers 2 broke sales records in 2024. Baldur's Gate 3 broke records. Valve called 2023 "a landmark year" because Steam broke so many records. Almost every major game release in 2023 was a huge financial success (except maybe Starfield, lol).

[@gerstein03]

@@HarisButt6662169have you been living under a rock because I can't see how else you missed the cultural phenomenon that is Baldur's Gate 3

[@altepeter52]

I liked your straight A's only to be held back analogy, but I feel like it's more "You got straight A's, so we are going to expell you because you're throwing off the grading curve for the rest of them"

[@gsst6389]

Truuueeeeee

[@gsst6389]

Suffering from suscees. Most F*cling littery 💀

[@EvilParagon4]

"You got straight A's, but the rich kid sitting next to you got D's, so we're going to have to expel you so the teacher can focus on the rich kid."

[@HULKHOGAN1]

No, Act Man's version is more concise and clear. Yours is unnecessarily irritating to read

[@v3prhunterkiller828]

@@HULKHOGAN1 It's literally 1 line's worth of text bozo

[@mbarker_lng]

Being an old dude, I feel like I am watching a replay of EA's strategy in the late 90's. This is the era when they did things like buy Westwood then sent it straight to the graveyard. They took Origin, a studio that had a few worthwhile IPs like Crusader and Wing Commander, reduced it to "UO only" and now its nothing. Anyone else remember Bullfrog? EA acquired them in 95 and it was dead by 01. Then there was Pandemic; makers of SW: Battlefront. Dead. Mythic had a good run, but one misfire (Dungeon Keeper in 2014), and they were killed off. Thats another thing the Act Man could mention- its not remotely fair for a studio to be executed because they had one miss unless it was some kind of "all in" MMO venture. Not every game is going to 'hit'. When I worked at Microprose, we had several 'misses', but the important part was the hits were big enough to cover them (Civilization, X-Com, ect)

[@CyanRooper]

They shut down Black Box, the developer behind the Skate games and the most beloved Need for Speed games during the 2000s, because they couldn't produce successful games anymore. And that was because Black Box was being overworked by EA because they were developing NFS on a yearly basis for every platform along with developing other games like Skate, NBA Homecourt, NHL Hitz etc. Even when the studio has shown that they are capable of producing quality titles they still get laid off and shut down the moment their sales decline.

[@kellywilson137]

I can never forgive what EA did to Command and Conquer.

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@kellywilson137 Personally I hate EA for mismanaging the fuck out of System Shock 2's release, causing it to sell a ghastly 60k copies despite it now being a cult classic, then clutching on to the IP and selling it to some no name fuck-off copyright trolling company, which resulted in us getting no new System Shock games until the excellent remake of the 1st game FINALLY came out a few years ago. We could have been getting games like that the whole time. SS is one of the most influential IPs of all time, basically creating the "immersive sim" genre and it's tragic how badly it was handled.

[@YormanGina]

​@@kellywilson137 honestly, C&C is probably one of the very few franchises that did well under EA. They made the great Generals series, along with the 3rd installments of the Tiberium and Red Alert series, which were good games. They also got good expansions in Kane's Wrath, Commander's Challenge, and Zero Hour. I never played Tiberium Twilight, but I heard enough about it to know that it's best to pretend it doesn't exist. They came away relatively unscathed compared to everyone else.

[@mbarker_lng]

@@CrizzyEyes These were great games. I played both.

[@TheMadRaxX]

Microsoft is turning into the EA of Shutting down Studios, I saw this and I was like "Oh they shut down Tango Gameworks, so Im never getting another The Evil Within Game ever again, thats just great".

[@TheActMan]

yeah its sad t osee

[@newuser5851]

​@TheActMan Do you think we'll see more xbox games come to playstation in the future?

[@weirdochristoffel5285]

sound fimiliar

[@weirdochristoffel5285]

@@newuser5851 wha u think

[@Eledthur]

Agreed. It's such a disappointment that we'll never get to see more Evil Within or Prey, or Dishonored. Just as EA killed the studio that made Dead Space, then made a remake of it, then killed it again. It's the same example here. Reminds me to once again appreciate the fact that Larian refused to be bought by any of these big companies, and chose their own way of making a game, without all this corporate bullshit.

[@RobSpaniel]

Here is the problem with Microsoft: "Damn. I can't afford the latest Ferrari. I have all of them and this will be the only one I can't get. Better axe another gaming studio to rack in another chunk of change."

[@dutchvanderlinde8264]

Phil spencer ain’t cooking

[@TheActMan]

homie threw some uncooked beans on my plate and said "dinners ready"

[@vendibletree109]

ong man really said let’s make a cake and use none of the ingredients for it and call it something good

[@diedforsomemilk7774]

​@TheActMan it's not even beans it's just a single bean.

[@lrobin-is8dg]

He tried making cookies but gave us the flower and called it a done

[@McRibless]

Let’s be real “cooking” isn’t in this man’s vocabulary

[@bubisepulturegd4638]

Bro beats rdr2 and now there's a reference every 2 minutes. I love the new Act Man

[@11111ozzy11111]

this

[@HULKHOGAN1]

The new act man with those pathetic garbage-tier 4 hour gameplay uploads. No thanks

[@JBrotsis1]

@@HULKHOGAN1sounds like you watched them anyways. What a hypocrite.

[@leoncoben6983]

@@HULKHOGAN1 Oh God, a content creator that doesn't crank the unhinged crackhead-like personality meter to 100 and just acts like a normal person instead, what a crime.

[@bubisepulturegd4638]

@@HULKHOGAN1 I would say it's quite a nice change as instead of Him playing the games alone He now plays them in front of an audience killing two birds with one stone: content for viewers and His own time experiencing the game so he can use it to make references later in his videos and play the game for a potential later video about it. Also He still seems quite consistent on His upload schedule even still.

[@rando8831]

They’ve killed their biggest and most successful franchises and have nothing to show for it. So sad how halo and gears of war got done

[@MrKinkysloth]

Exactly; they’re gonna microtranstion them into being boring as fuck

[@gub4941]

@@MrKinkysloththey already did that with halo for almost 10 years

[@nickm5419]

everyone that Jumped off Infinite, go back and play it now; its actually Fire; it just needs more weapons/vehicles. add in the Halo 2 SMGs as the sole dual wield guns, the Reach Grenade Launcher and the Halo 4 Sticky Detonator and SAW

[@gub4941]

@@nickm5419 I’m not playing halo until they take microtransactions out of the game

[@MrVi9rus]

@@gub4941 theyre halfway there, you can work through all 7 or 8 passes off one purchase, for a free game thats not too bad. unfortunately theres still 30$ packs but ya know...

[@phillipschulze3901]

The nostalgia hit from seeing the X360 blades homescreen, so glorious.

[@TheGamer2323]

Ayee lol!! 😂 Some of my viewers mentioned to me you put me in your video. Appreciate it Act Man 👊I know as a fellow Halo fan (or maybe Ex fan at this point) we've seen the DARKEST of dark days for Xbox. Don't know what it's gonna take at this point for them as a brand to get back to their glory days. It's getting pathetic at this point. Great video bruh

[@TheActMan]

Glad you enjoyed it! I liked your video too

[@JordanDCGehl]

GAMER!!!

[@TheColdTomato]

HOLY FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bob_0146]

@@TheColdTomato THIS SUCKA INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Axel-sg9tz]

DA GAMER

[@XDLugia]

The biggest crime wasn't them shutting down a studio. The biggest crime was that the first studio in line to get the axe wasn't 343.

[@googleisevil8958]

I feel like if they did that it would truly be admitting defeating. It would be them announcing loud and clear "We have no idea what the f00k we're doing with gaming."

[@anneyami9317]

​@@googleisevil8958 The already admitted it with their Hi-Fi Rush tweet, "we need more games like Hi-Fi Rush" after they just closed down that studio

[@Fay7666]

Or Turn10, what the actual fuck did they do to Forza Motorsport? When GT7 released with all of that live service crap they handed T10 an easy W for them to deliver their new game, _"BuIlT fRoM tHe GrOuNd Up"_ they said, and they couldn't even deliver a functional rehash of the old games!

[@Mathias_D]

Real

[@Matanumi]

@@googleisevil8958 they still admit that by shutting down tango

[@dewitnow1765]

The glory days of Xbox Live on OG Xbox and 360 will never be topped by Microsoft again

[@WackoMac]

😢

[@Dregomz02]

This gen may be the last Xbox gen. They remind me of the Sega except in reverse where when will make only consoles but with no games.

[@chefref5027]

I think gaming consoles in general will die. If you want a 500$ gaming machine, might as well get a handheld PC.

[@sanguine2552]

Never again will I be called a punk b*tch by a 12 year old that just killed me on halo 3 🥲 I was also probably 12

[@JGr2000]

@@Dregomz02I could see there being one more Xbox generation when the 10th generation comes, but that might be the last Xbox generation ever. I don’t want Xbox to go third party because competition is good for the industry, and I could see Sony jacking up the price of the next PlayStation by at least $200 when Xbox is fully third party, as well as doing another price hike for their games.

[@chrisdodd4014]

Having worked in game development personally, I was disillusioned by the industry years ago. My experience was so bad, I vowed I'd never work in game development again. When I left the studio I was with and got another job, it was like setting down a giant, heavy boulder. I retired a couple of years ago and it's been great. Companies like Microsoft are going to have real problems going forward. The people who make games are very niche talent. Not something everyone can do. When you exhaust that pool of talent, you have no way of producing the products that generate your revenue. For some of these people, they'll go on to work for other studios, work on indie titles, found their own studio, or leave the industry all together. What they most likely won't do is go back to the company that exploited, abused, and threw away like they were worth less than trash.

[@Cristov123]

Having spent the last few years working in a corporate structure, coming from a field technician background, I can tell you exactly why this is happening. Bloated, greedy, bureaucracy, with zero accountability. See, what happens in a company that seems to snowball and crush everything in its path is you hire a few people at the top who have the right credentials/recommendations but suck balls at their job. Those people make some really poor decisions which disrupts the cohesion of the company. But it's just a few bad eggs, right? Wrong. Because those shit bags will piss off a few good guys a level or two lower than them, so they'll leave. Then said shitbags will hire their shit bag friend or cousin to replace them. Those new shitbags will create more disruption down at their level and cause failures, which they'll never actually take responsibility for and will just pass the blame onto something(one) else. This, again, causes good people to leave, which causes further disruption all the way down the chain until suddenly those two or three bad eggs have either ruined or driven away all the good eggs in the company, leaving nothing but a haptic mess in place of what was once a vibrant thriving organization. The guys with the money dont want to face the problems, that's what they hired all these people for, so they put the pressure on the guys at the top to fix an unfixable problem, which causes them to just lash out and create a hostile stress-filled environment that breeds desperation and misery which obviously seeps into their work. It all spirals out of control once you let the wrong people in to high positions and create a culture that seeks to avoid accountability because they cant handle the responsibility of holding people accountable for their failures and inaction.

[@HorseBodyDogMind]

It's the spiral of death of a company; some are fast, some are real slow, but once it starts it's almost impossible to stop it.

[@ward9832]

That's pretty much every structured company nowadays unfortunately.

[@Lazerbadger2]

Yeah I think you pretty much nailed it. I think this ends with Microsoft’s game division just being dissolved.

[@Saifer935]

The truth is painful

[@garygallimore4620]

@@Lazerbadger2 I fail to see how that’s bad at this point. Honestly, the quicker the better. Every good Microsoft game has been good in spite of Microsoft, not because of it. Yeah, companies will loose their massive budgets but with the strength of digital sales I think a lot of companies can self publish and distribute themselves and be fine. A small budget will mean innovation and new ideas. Sequels are cool to good games but taking ideas and putting them in new IPs is way better. Look at how dark souls led to bloodborne and eventually Elden ring.

[@ladyben-nobilityofbome9793]

The funny thing is, Hi-Fi Rush was already developed by a pretty small team, the prototype was put together by two people, John Johanas (the game's director and creator) and Yuji Nakamura (the lead programmer). When they got the greenlight, the game was developed by whoever was available at the time, since Tango's main focus was Ghostwire: Tokyo and the two games were being developed at the same time. Imagine what we could've gotten if Hi-Fi Rush actually had a dedicated development team and budget, yet they get closed down when they ask for it

[@That1Pete]

So if the majority of the studio was busy failing at making a mid-tier game you think that the entire studio would somehow make a better game? It seems more like there are only a few useful employees at Tango.

[@raphaelbrown6314]

@petelupien214 first of all ghostwire isn't really mid at all bro that's just you and Second like wow bro just wow only a few you mean all of the useful people that work for the company that put out decent game with the with effort and care without microtransactions up the ass like most corporations do nowadays like come now You are sounding like how most big companies be doing to there employees where there are good or bad they don't deserve to get shut down and lose their jobs 😑

[@ladyben-nobilityofbome9793]

@@That1Pete I should've added that a lot of the Ghostwire team worked on Hi-Fi Rush, like Shuichi Kobori, who was Hi-Fi's audio director and was working on Ghostwire at the same time. Most people outside of Johanas and Nakamura only worked on the game when they had free time while working on Ghostwire. The main reason the game was successful was because Johanas spent years coming up with a game with a simple and fun premise (that he apparently would often joke about around the Tango office), and Nakamura was able to put together a prototype (that was just the opening mission of the game) and made it easy enough to understand so that anyone who was free could easily pick it up and help out. Not to mention it was a game that everyone in the studio was excited to work on since it allowed them to work on a game in a genre that they weren't used to

[@optimumplatinum2640]

@@That1Pete still far better than 80% of games these days

[@peterk.2108]

@@That1Pete That 'mid' game is also critically acclaimed by everyone, if it had the whole studio behind i bet even you would like it

[@Chertograad]

"These studio shutdowns, isolated, aren't a big deal. It's when you look at the bigger picture that you understand how bad things are right now for Xbox. And you know, I still love Xbox, but... I've been wanting it to get back on track for over a decade. You say you hate disappointing Xbox fans. Well you disappointed me, Phil. And I'll continue to root for you guys and hope you do the right thing. And I'm just one guy... but I grew up with Xbox. And I can't tell you what it is anymore." -The Act Man This was beautiful and hit home. I couldn't have said it better.

[@TheActMan]

🥲

[@ericx6969]

@@TheActMan XBOX NEEDS BUY ALL JAPANESE GAME STUDIOS AND BAN COPYRIGHT IN JAPAN AND ALLOW LOCALIZATION AND STOP WOKE PEOPLE AND FEMINIST

[@Supernoxus]

@@ericx6969 Are you okay?

[@allxtend4005]

A Idiot how he IS a true Xbox fanboy 😂 learn a lesion for your life, live your own life instead for someone else. WHO Care what you grew Up with, If IT IS shit right now then leave

[@apollopham3256]

@@Supernoxusit’s either just trolling or something is very wrong.

[@Elayzee]

This aged beautifully

[@zaneheaston8254]

Until, they have shown they can make high quality games, the statement still stands You can have an awesome trailer for a game, & yet the game still turns out terrible

[@Pay2pray]

​@@brendyn__2244 busy with work and cant keep up, did something change recently? Did they issue a statement?

[@zaneheaston8254]

@@Pay2pray At the 2024 Microsoft press conference, Microsoft announced over a dozen new games would come out within the next 6-12 months, despite the many reports have shown the copious amounts of development hell that Microsoft Studios have been going through Needless to say, I am EXTREMELY suspicious

[@brucewayne404]

Phil Spencer lived long enough to see himself become the villain.

[@acquiredfilms5400]

He was always the villain he just pretended to be on our side.

[@onebear6504]

The community were so desperate they cling to the first sweet words they hear. I don't think he's lived that long to turn to a villain, the skin is just peeling off quicker than expected.

[@et2k166]

Imagine falling for some corporate talking head guy bullshit and thinkin "he's one of us". No suprise the things turned out as they did.

[@cokelife5831]

@@acquiredfilms5400hes xbox best buddy

[@aganbraganca4156]

he is secreatly a sony agent

[@legodude666]

I really think that Don Mattrick unveiling the Xbox One over 11 years ago as a glorified cable box was an ancient curse that set this slow death in motion.

[@anaguma90]

It's crazy Xbox has been irrelevant for over 10 years now

[@wanderingwobb6300]

Thing is no one knows Xbox for being the platform where "you can't play used games" anymore. They know it as the platform that "has no games". They've clearly shaken that curse at this point and if they got some bangers out their reputation wouldn't be in the dumpster anymore.

[@Sleepgarden]

which is amusing cause technically Xbox One was ahead of its time. Now every game console HAS to be able to Apple TV and Netflix and be able to watch WWE events while having my games download in the background. They just came out too early.

[@terrormorphsus8278]

​@@Sleepgarden^ this.

[@Orcawhale1]

The slow death was already in motion before that(Kinect).

[@neilhannan7525]

Back in my day, the Xbox was the best way to play games with your friends , and most people played Black Ops 2 Zombies Halo and more Kids: OK Grandpa

[@DavidFB24]

the good ol times, they are never coming back u.u

[@dennismetzger9287]

Black ops 2 zombies? Man you must have been 2 years old that was soooooo long ago

[@flashback170]

I miss the OG WaW zombies, when me and my little bro unlocked that it blew our mind we had no idea it was a game mode.

[@FleshyMammal430]

That's why everyone says the 360 is their only good console

[@zakheathcock]

@@FleshyMammal430cause it was brother 🥲

[@bu7esan]

I hate ppl aligning themselves to a certain brand or a certain product. If the product is good buy it, if it not buy the better product. Stop defending and trying to carry a banner for a product like you were gifted it for free.

[@emperorfridgethedude]

Everyone: "FIRE 343!" Xbox: *Fires literally everyone but 343.*

[@flarezona9889]

They did fire 343, when they fired bonnie ross

[@POTRG]

The cleaned house at 343 and have all new leadership and are/were hiring new people for the next Halo game. They literally did what you wanted so I don't understand this comment. Also 343 makes boatloads of money so until that stops they are staying right where they are regardless of how people think.

[@zacharybecker8228]

they did it took them like 7 years too long but they did

[@emperorfridgethedude]

@@POTRG They shook up the leadership over a year ago now and Infinite still has an overpriced shop and no new vehicles after two and a half years of being "live service". I guess the next game COULD be good, but 343 has failed four major releases in a row now. It's baffling to me that they weren't fired after Halo 5, let alone Infinite launching with four playlists and universal hate.

[@Wubsy96]

Everyone: "We meant the specific company, not the number of companies!"

[@MrThechuzzler]

Heaven forbid a company can just make a game and sell it to me and be done. Seemed to work just fine for companies my entire childhood. Nowadays it's like they're trying to min-max every penny they can squeeze out of me but they're legally entitled to a disabled parking spot. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get back to playing Animal Crossing New Leaf on my Nintendo 3DS XL.

[@EvilParagon4]

Because investors are only at first happy with profit. But then they want more profit. Then more. And if you dare to say you can't just bring in more, they will pull _all_ of their money out and leave you with less than you started with. The enemy of creativity is not money, it's not profit, it's growth. The second an investor wants a return on his investment that benefits them more than you, that's when the problem starts.

[@HickoryDickory86]

That's why more companies need to go and stay private. Private investors are, more often than not, content with a steady and consistent return on investment. They don't need ever-increasing rates of return, just a consistent and reliable one. And you get consist and reliable rates of return when you, as a company, consistently and reliably provide a good product and/or service to your customers (i.e., making good games that gamers happily buy). This has to be the core of your business model. Sure, you can add more low-risk ventures on top of it like icing on a cake, but you have to have a strong, sound foundation or you're doomed to fail... and Xbox is failing miserably.

[@G360LIVE]

The game industry has changed from what it was during your childhood. The cost of developing a game has gone up and takes longer than before. Meanwhile, the market hasn't grown. Think about it. The PS2 sold 150 million consoles two decades ago, and it's only now that another console, the Switch, is getting near that number. Other than that, the PS3 sold 86 million consoles, the PS4 sold 117 million, and the PS5 is tracking under the PS4 right now. That's not a growing market. In fact, the console market seems to have hit its ceiling almost 20 years ago while the world population has grown from 6.5 billion people in 2005 to 8 billion people now. That means that a lower percentage of people in the world are buying consoles. And that's what investors are looking at. The market isn't growing. That's why publishers are constantly searching for other ways to make money from games, other than sales of games. It's also why Microsoft expanded into the PC space and why Sony is currently expanding to PCs. They're looking for more revenue. And live service games are a part of that; a live service game is a revenue stream. So, that's why the game industry is the way it is right now. Sony and Microsoft need to find ways to make their big games while bringing down the cost to make those games, because the number of people they can sell to is pretty much fixed right now. Although, that number will likely drop as the world economy drops. That's why investors are worried.

[@kotzpenner]

@@EvilParagon4what stock trading does to a mfer. That’s why Valve is insanely successful because they don’t give a f about investors.

[@kotzpenner]

@@G360LIVEcosts mainly increased because of bloated overhead and stuff nobody cares about. Development has never been as efficient as it’s now, with incredibly powerful creative software. That’s also why good indie‘s are possible nowadays.

[@greymoonz1]

Bro, the fact that your run of RDR2 impacted you so hard that now it's a part of your editorial line, I fucking love it. Keep on keeping on !

[@RepugnanciaDulzona]

Hey man, the tip of your nose has a brown smudge in it

[@Dannyb707]

😂​@@RepugnanciaDulzona

[@Seinsmelled]

​@@RepugnanciaDulzona What Does This Mean!

[@knightgallade8431]

​@@Seinsmelledan expression to insinuate that the commenter is kissing ass

[@knightgallade8431]

​​@@SeinsmelledIt means "brown nosing"

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

Microsoft is like one of those fictional corporations that's so cartoonishly evil you can't take them seriously, except real.

[@vincesergi7339]

The fact that they had the balls to go on a press event and claim they really need smaller studios to make more indie titles while also just shutting down 4 indie studios blows my mind.

[@amrrahmy123]

when it's a corporation, and decisions are made by committee instead of vision, any bad decision is one step/meeting away.

[@P_D-px6iv]

What indie studios did they shut down?

[@thomascrohan7810]

Yea, not hypocritical at all! Lol

[@ZeFluffyKnight]

Microsoft wants to be like Valve with Steam without any understanding of why Valve is so wildly successful.

[@kevinle1083]

The CEO of Valve is morally sane compared to these people whose brains are so dead they are wired to one perpetual goal: earn more money and profit than last year.

[@DuecePiece]

Well Microsoft is currently trying to acquire Steam & Valve for 14 Billion 😳

[@davidmalkowski7850]

​@@DuecePieceGabe would rather dissolve Valve as a corporate entity than ever sell to Microsoft considering their history.

[@prim8512]

@@DuecePieceonly 14 billions?

[@PulseOfMe]

Yeah sure buddy lets see how he goes when he sees 14+ bill infront of his face to take. ​@davidmalkowski7850

[@jasondavis8040]

Some months ago, Phil Spencer said, "making great games will not make people buy an Xbox console". That's all you need to hear to know that they have no idea what is important to gamers and to get a good idea where Microsoft is going in the future. Sad times.....

[@ipityplaystationpeasants2305]

U didnt watch the interview just a snippet. The topic was about digital libraries. Basically no matter what Xbox does it still will NOT change the fact that people will abandoned PS and go to XBOX knowing they got 1000 of digital backlog games invested to PS. All this is, is just fake outrage from ppl who didn't even play hifi rush nor redfall, ya just jumping on the next negative xboz news from these drifters who can careless.

[@idakev]

​@@ipityplaystationpeasants2305 Yeah, Actman the hardcore Xbox fan who has made thumbnails making Phil look like a God is definitely a grifter who hates Xbox.

[@reggiesbush9699]

@@ipityplaystationpeasants2305and clearly you didn’t watch the video-where he talked about nearly 10 other games in development hell because XBOX literally does not give a single shit about creating new good games, as long as people pay for gamepass. Its completely fucked, it’s ruining the gaming industry, and if you can’t understand that you’re slow

[@insayno]

I would literally buy an Xbox if they had amazing games.

[@IIIUMlNATI]

Spencers of the same ilk who believes that if you say a lie enough times it becomes the truth.

[@kirbo5397]

This is exactly what is happening with Disney in the film industry. There buying Ips to go on Disney +, but don't follow through and use them to create good content. They just make stuff to have something without making sure it's good.

[@lt.kitkat]

10:10 You see, it's not that the gaming industry isn't growing, it's that Microsoft dumps acid on the plants the grow right as they start to bloom.

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

Microsoft got what Plants crave. It got electrolytes.

[@R-XI_Sulla]

Same with helldivers Still locked 144 countries out of the game And it Shows Major orders are lost en Masse Like we lost 4 doable Orders in a row bc the "nightshift" Is gone

[@TheEDFLegacy]

​@@R-XI_Sulla 😢

[@Rahnonymous]

That, and they give absurdly high budgets that will never financially recoup unless they're a slam dunk like Baldur's Gate 3. History has shown time and time again limitations promote creativity.

[@onrimotiondesign]

"There hasn't been a killer app for the Series X, and if there has, you can play it somewhere else" What a damning indictment of the Series generation, and mostly for the Xbox One, too.

[@mathewhosier9739]

Yes because they release all their games on PC, if you have a PC there's no reason to buy a xbox

[@davidstinger1134]

To be fair, that applies to both Xbox and Sony. The only console that still has actual exclusives is Nintendo, and the Switch can be emulated perfectly.

[@liammcnicholas918]

The PS5 may not have that many exclusive games, but at least it has exclusive games.

[@cerberus00]

Honestly the best thing the Xbox has was that it could do emulation, with relative is on the users end.

[@VonDutchNL]

​@@liammcnicholas918ALL remasters from last gen or 2 generations ago.. to say Sony has exclusives is stretching it.

[@HiddenXperia]

hey that british guy in the intro looks familiar

[@TheActMan]

looks like he enjoys a bit of L O R E

[@Dunkopf]

​@@TheActMan I ship it

[@PacmanPac-m8y]

"guy" hmm, that's a weird way of spelling tasteless lobotomite

[@CaffeineKage]

a bit of F L U D

[@indiana47]

Hello!

[@bhavdeeprehal8827]

As much as people hate on Nintendo, They really are the class of the industry in my opinion. No there aren’t mind bending graphics on state of the art hardware but they don’t do this type of thing. Also, they’ve had a steady stream of quality first party games for the switch’s life cycle and demonstrate an understanding of the game industry development cycles

[@irgendwer3610]

Valve: buys company, does nothing with it Xbox: buys company, kills it Nintendo: doesn't buy company, kills fan company instead

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

EA is a lot worse

[@that80ssongyoulove84]

You forgot Sony: Prevents 177 countries from buying their games.

[@Phoenixguy357]

Valve: hanging onto IP's for later use. Xbox: only cares about profit, ignored the customers, paid the price Nintendo: competed in a capitalist market and won

[@allxtend4005]

​@@RavenGamingOverLord If you dont know then dont Talk, ea IS doi t nothing anymore and they Support small Studios already 😮 meanwhile they ait there and Just get Money Out of ther products they have right now and nothing in the Horizon for them but atleast they do Not buy Studios anymore and kill them, Microsoft IS doing the Same what ea was doing Back then and instead of Killing the CEO payments in Activision Blizzard or Bethesda, they Close good talented Studios 😂 was Always the Problem and will never Change

[@seemyemailadreslookatmyema864]

Close second to EA is ubisoft

[@pandabon2269]

Phil Spencer saying "there's nothing more difficult for me than disappointing the Xbox community" is kinda weird seeing how good he is at it.

[@youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629]

kinda like a bad person saying they are sad they disappoint other people while actively disappointing them.

[@alphagames8737]

😂😂facts

[@siaa7078]

kinda makes more sense, why else would you buy a company like activision or bethesda

[@demosneokleous4877]

And that he and Microsoft have been doing exactly that for the past 20+ years

[@deiradinn]

How has he though? He can't what decisions are made above his head. He literally saved the brand.

[@barkley8285]

"You ever miss what we had?" "Like what? "Halo, Gears of War, The Xbox Arcade, the 360, MW2, Couch co-op splitscreen" "I guess. Do you think we'll ever go back?" "I hope so. Don't you?"

[@Doomguyalsotheslayer]

Playing with my brothers on those games thinking they where fun. Right now select few are good for a couple of weeks and then stop playing (besides Warhammer: Darktide) and even then all my brothers want to play Helldivers, which I definitely agree with. But I like the brotherhood we have in games like Gears.

[@DBLRxyz]

Xenia fills that void somewhat and my favorite Xbox arcade games are on PC at least.

[@QrazyQracker13]

Do you think we'll ever meet them?

[@f.g.5967]

Split screen halo odst was what made my gf get an xbox. Now i am using gamepass for the kids, but i dont expect gamepass to last in the current form too long. We had a good run tho.

[@NickTemperistic]

I see whatchu did there

[@naywahn]

This hits WAY different, after Xbox's 2024 showcase... 👀

[@Yunprek]

By this do you mean the fact that nearly every single one of their “exclusives” will be available day one on PC yet again making owning an Xbox completely pointless?

[@xxargonautxx9790]

This issue is that people are hyping over trailers. Wait till they release. Xbox track record is horrible. Even sony fumbling too. Only Nintendo been killing it and the funny thing is, they’re not fixated on graphics, just bloody fun games for many to play.

[@KingProbherbs]

The guy in charge is named MATT BOOTY!!??? That says everything i need to know

[@VFFP54]

yup. he's an ass.

[@MrREAPERsz]

He only wants dat booty 🍑🍑🏴‍☠️🪙🏴‍☠️

[@denzo3882]

Goofy ass guy with a goofy ass name.

[@TheActMan]

No wonder everything is so ass

[@paparoxo3606]

You cited Satoru Iwata, so let's compare his importance to the video game industry using just one example. He simply wrote the compression algorithm for Pokémon Gold/Silver, which made it possible for players to explore two regions (basically two games) on a 2MB cartridge. Meanwhile, what is Sarah Bond contribution to the game industry?

[@CALAMITY0FHYRULE]

Yeah, let's be honest, things always go better when they are done by someone who has been at the lowest level. Take my school district. They hired a superintendent who has never been a teacher (also from a district where she had been fired and under investigation for fraud on the order of 20000 dollars) and paid her 3 times as much as our MFkng governor. Meanwhile, 130+ teachers in our district get fired.

[@letsgobrandon18920]

lolllll nothing of importance

[@oliverpease6719]

@@CALAMITY0FHYRULEholy shit do we live in the same county or did this exact fucking thing happen here 😭

[@fattestallenalive7148]

By being both black AND a woman!?!? Do you how much of a buff that adds to the comapny and makes the growth 200% more growthy??

[@LilFeralGangrel]

@@fattestallenalive7148 Are we really going to blame this on DEI and not nepotism? The issue would be the same if she were a white man, she's from wealth, that's her only "qualification".

[@IfYouSeekCaveman]

Always remember Iwata. He wasn't some small indie developer. He was the President and CEO of fucking Nintendo, and he was based.

[@damiradoncic]

Truly the GOAT. Even though nintendo can be lil shits they really care about theyre craft. RIP Iwata

[@Dairunt1]

The day Nintendo forgets Iwata will be the day gaming dies.

[@Thrawn90]

ASTRO bot single handedly making me regret buying a xbox. Think I'll be saying good bye to xbox next generation. Been with them since the beginning but the games just aren't cutting it

[@kiranikib42]

I’m more of a PlayStation guy but man this is so dumb. What’s funny is the fact they tweeted out”we need more smaller games like hi-fu rush” when they literally closed the studio 😂

[@The_SafeKeeper]

That's the thing: you don't have to be an Xbox fan to find this infuriating. Closing studios like Tango not only robs Xbox fans, it also robs the fans of other consoles of franchises like Hi-Fi Rush, The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo. The people at Microsoft responsible for this should all be fired, but not before being told just how detested they are by the entire gaming community.

[@RenanMendes-zd8hj]

Maybe because the employees were moved to the other Microsoft studios and there was no reason to maintain it? LOL

[@maxmikester8185]

They want a similar game like Hi Fi rush without paying a studios proper salary, why do you think halo infinite was made with mostly contractors? They are money hoarders and are penny pinching to the maximum

[@onebear6504]

​​@@RenanMendes-zd8hju sure their employees are just moved to another studio of them? And what's the huge complication for in the first place that warrants shutting down the studio anyway? Huge bad press and IPs discontinued from all this even if employees are moved to another studio

[@blackrahk2037]

​@@RenanMendes-zd8hjThe studio tweeted that this wasn't true. They all fired bruh....

[@RevelationOne]

This is why monopolies are illegal, But of course the courts ignore this.

[@ChickenSoupMusic]

Most of the teeth in anti trust law got taken out a while ago

[@fireballs7346]

ok pony

[@bleedingedge9045]

@@fireballs7346?

[@bleedingedge9045]

@@fireballs7346?

[@duffystrings9680]

@@fireballs7346 lol

[@denisruskin348]

Bro pulled a Crowbcat intro on us. And it was glorious.

[@rooskadoodle5952]

nice comparison, you called it perfectly

[@tokendylon9554]

Ironically enough, my older brother once had a teacher who wanted to hold him back even though he had straight A's and B's, and the principal wouldn't let her.

[@trie9443]

I feel like The Act Man was tearing up at the Conclusion. Knowing what he had with Xbox. All the great moments. Great games, the experiences, the faith he had in the console. Only to see it literally be torn apart by greed. I feel the exact same way..

[@Asser1212]

It's like watching a good friend with great potential throw it all away.

[@jesussalcido8721]

Act man is like that guy who gets cheated on but takes them back every time 😂 fool me once shame on you fool me twice can’t put the blame on you

[@kennypowers1945]

@@jesussalcido8721he didn’t take back Xbox tho lol. He knows they are bad

[@Tomreese130]

"Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" "No, sir. " "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." -Grand Admiral Thrawn, Star Wars Heir to the Empire

[@Thanatos2k]

"We're owned by Disney now sir! You no longer exist!" "...."

[@iratepirate3896]

"It was so artfully done" - Xbox bleeding out

[@Flashboy284]

@@Thanatos2k Unfortunately Thrawn does exist in Disney Star Wars. He shows up in Rebels and Ashoka, he's ok in Rebels, but horrible in Ashoka.

[@serpster8701]

this also appeared in my head while watching lol

[@Adam-vm6tc]

Those novels in the early mid 90s were the real star wars, legitimate science fiction writers given freedom to craft stories, before the dark times before the prequels/disney

[@CriticalNobody]

Wait…was the original console called the Xbox because it used DirectX? If so, then I learned something today

[@aarlavaan]

yup. original name was going to be the DirectX box. glad they didn't go with that.

[@NaotaFLCL]

Bro we’re are the videos? 😭

[@Nick-ue7iw]

We are are the videos?

[@fuhrerhosty]

Yo Craig, where have u been? Missing your content, mate. Been a subscriber since the reviewing Splinter Cell vid. Damn that's actually 5 years already 🥲.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Yes my dude

[@burimkllokoqi9265]

That's what some companies still don't undestand. It's not about the hardware, it was never about the hardware. It's about the games. If games are good, people will stick to that console even if it's worse than the competition, if games are bad, that console can be the fastest and provide best graphics available but will still fail.

[@fiftyyardbomb]

9:27 This part is such a good point. Unlike the leaders at Xbox, who got their spot because they need to earn as much money as possible for the company's shareholders, Iwata came up from development. He knew the development process, in and out, and understood what needed to happen to ensure the best product possible. His pay cut, selfless as it was already, was the absolute best of both worlds for Nintendo. It made sure that the net profits were still up, appeasing the shareholders, while making sure their dev teams keep their jobs and continue their work. It's a key example of quality executive leadership that Xbox is sorely missing. He also understood that development takes time. Artists need time and inspiration to create excellent works. When the work is of high quality, the attention gets noticed by the consumer, which drives word of mouth, then drives sales. Microsoft seemingly doesn't get this at all and just expects the product to get out to meet a number on a board, then are surprised when an unfinished product gets released, negative word gets spread, and then decide to just cut jobs to recoup costs. This industry is sorely missing Iwata and what his direction brought. Man was the best executive the gaming industry ever had. RIP.

[@CrizzyEyes]

Nintendo fucks up in several ways, but they're different from the ways in which Microsoft and Sony fuck up. MS and Sony will always be one step behind because they're not gaming companies. Their game division has to answer to the C-level executives above them that just sell electronics or commercial software. They will never truly understand

[@GodsonFPS]

How Phil keeps getting promoted is beyond me…

[@Dregomz02]

He should get promoted as the CEO of janitor team.

[@rickybobbyracing]

Somebody who's willing to be the Fall Guy every single time is a great way to fail upwards at a mega corporation

[@SlimeBlueMS]

He should be promoted some more. That'll surely fix Xbox

[@Skateandcreate9]

Look at every giant corp in America they almost all function the same. Workers get shafted, ceos get all the money.

[@Abigdummy4life]

​@@rickybobbyracingI think you mean "succeed downwards".

[@JakeTheL3mur]

SO I Got 2 Statements on this 1. Hi-Fi RUSH was my Personal GOTY and to see the Studio get Shut Down is Absolutely Heartbreaking 2. Remember when Halo Infinite was Supposed to have a 10 Year Plan and then was Abandon after 3 Years

[@arcticowl1091]

it was abandoned right from the getgo seeing how little care was put into the game even on release

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

So many lies, there was clearly no plan for Infinite

[@SloRush]

And people are getting hyped for the next Halo game like the same exact crap isn't going to happen again.

[@traceyrinaldi4759]

The fact MS has no idea how to run Halo and killed Tango/Evil Within 3 is making me leave the Xbox ecosystem and I own literally thousands of Xbox games. How does one company continuously make stupid decisions? Ffs they've been on a downward trend ever since 2013.

[@gub4941]

@@SloRushnot me man, halo infinite was the final nail in the coffin. Now when I want some halo content ima just replay the bungies and maybe mod them

[@fedej7]

Two weeks later they held the richest showcase since the new generation of consoles came out

[@zaneheaston8254]

Until, they have shown they can make high quality games, the statement still stands You can have an awesome trailer for a game, & yet the game still turns out terrible

[@49HEALTH]

Still one of the best showcases we’ve ever seen. The statement still stands.

[@crimsonmaddog4486]

We may never get an Evil Within 3 now and idk how to cope with that. One of my favorite horror games is now left with a cliffhanger post credit scene that will go nowhere

[@Pyrrhonian]

Unfortunately, even before that, with mikami leaving and being done with horror, not sure it woulda been the same

[@ytnukesme1600]

would've loved a game starring Julie Kidman, she's the Ada Wong of this series.

[@az_street_walker4181]

Call of duty ghosts players still waiting for the games continuation welcome to the boat

[@captainszasz5836]

​@@az_street_walker4181All 5 of them

[@Phoenix-sc6di]

One of the very few non-indie survival horror IPs, probably the only one really.

[@discountdisco2273]

Remember Bobby's last paycheck was enough to sustain Tango and Arkane both for 17 years.

[@badazsasha6989]

I love the fact that after finishing RDR2, act man now fills his videos with clips from it

[@db_524]

Same

[@Thedude1357]

He's entered his Arthur simp phase lol

[@VaultBoy69]

Xbox lost me when they started publishing exclusives on other consoles. I'm seriously considering building a PC just to contribute to the downfall of Xbox sales.

[@PaperBanjo64]

I mean if the exclusives are no longer exclusives what's the point!?

[@Mausso]

I'm reminded of the Hulu business model as described by Mike Stoklasa of RLM: "People pay Hulu. Hulu pays Blumhouse. Blumhouse pays talent...to create a film and in this circle, nobody is consuming this product." Microsoft has a similar business model: Microsoft buys studio, studio makes game for Game Pass, Microsoft shutsdown studio and makes a new one to make games for Game Pass and, in this cycle, everyone is still using their Xbox as the worlds most expensive coffee mug warmer.

[@Fire_Summoner]

XBox precedent: Make a game that fails, studio shut down. Make a successful game, studio shut down. They're sending their employees no good signals.

[@googleisevil8958]

They think every game should be like Halo was at its peak. That's the problem. Even small successes aren't enough to please their shareholders. They're not in it for art, they're in it for money.

[@Zynet_Eseled]

Then the shareholders must understand that they cannot make another halo 3. It is not possible. And if they dont like that fact, then they should just leave immediately. Because that success is never coming back. ​@@googleisevil8958

[@TheBerchie]

Sony swooping in and hiring the staff of Tango Gameworks would be the easiest W that they could have.

[@thegeekfanatic]

Idk with the stupid disease floating around infecting the gaming industry I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to fuck it up somehow.

[@Tenchua917]

Sony sucks ass, i wouldnt trust them either.... Id say neither for sony or microsoft and just go for japanese publishers like capcom or bandai namco

[@grantkeller4634]

Sony only makes movie games

[@efoxneo]

​@@grantkeller4634Yeah, and they're good.

[@Tenchua917]

@@grantkeller4634 and they ban half the worlds population from playing their titles

[@Rightchickenwing]

Love the intro montage!! 😃

[@marcusfenix891]

When I look back at Xbox 360 and PS3 I can’t help but think I lived through the best gaming experience ever.

[@Syldarin]

You didnt. Unless You absolutely only had xboxes from that point on. Pc games, Nintendo games and PlayStation games have evolved like fine Wine.

[@zachdinga6496]

I think the last 5 years gaming has been insanely good🔥

[@B-Kun]

that crowbcat video 🥲

[@Noblepizza]

@@Syldarin Sure, but outside of Nintendo modern AAA games in general are shells of what they used to be

[@Quintessence4444]

@@Syldarin But there's far less of them so unless you like the few games that end up being good at that time you're shit out of luck.

[@TheGCRAZ]

The whole “Xbox having no games” situation is so funny in retrospect when you look back at the Game Awards where Xbox announced they’d be teaming up with Hideo Kojima for a new exclusive horror game and then proceeded to show no gameplay, no fancy CGI trailer, and not even a title. They just had three people in a dark room screaming at the screen and that was it. They’re so desperate to act like they have things under control, it’s honestly really sad.

[@LicoriceLain]

Overdose is the title, but you are right otherwise.

[@memeconnoisseur4620]

I love how Act Man now includes RDR2 into his edits now that he’s actually finished the game

[@elmasheavy89]

Xbox One is where Microsoft screwed up and never recovered.

[@danward1070]

It's strange how all these money hungry ceos don't even seem like they're remotely interested in gaming at all.

[@elbolainas4174]

Unsurprising if you ask me. Apart from golf, they don't play anything else.

[@janky477]

They aren't. All they see is that it is the most profitable form of entertainment and are sponging it.

[@will88TFs4Life]

Not strange, they are suits beholden to a board, they arent creatives. The opposite would be stranger

[@2toottoot]

STOCKS

[@deiradinn]

Phil is definitely a gamer.

[@crishughes9152]

Iwata was the giga chad of the industry and is not even a competition

[@miguelpereira9859]

Iwata was a certified visionary

[@connertaft6332]

“ I grew up with Xbox, but I can’t tell you what it is anymore” hit me so hard😢

[@PaperBanjo64]

At this point I don't expect Everwild to come out...5 years since the announcement and it's still nowhere near release.

[@jackwhite2654]

Microsoft and Disney both have this strange belief that the only way they can make money is with gigantic multi-million dollar projects, and they refuse to make things with a mid to low budget. As a result, they start bleeding money when there gigantic projects underperform. They don't seem to realize that making several hi-fi rushes is safer and more profitable than taking eight years to make one Starfield.

[@bosskey23]

Hifi rush isnt going to move the needle for Xbox. Starfield, Fallout 5, Halo etc will if done right. Doubtful that money was the reason they closed Tango.

[@maxgerrit]

It's really not like that. A failing Starfield is making them more money then a performing Hi-Fi Rush. Knowing that means, they will always do it like that now. For the rest of time.

[@paolo9038]

Starfield is not a bad game. Is the worst game a player could ever play, people who wants great games will learn to avoid xbox

[@MrJakeros]

They also become OBSESSED with what's trending, like gender politics.

[@nickt2822]

this is what happens when you put m@rons in charge and have investors with a "get richer quick" mindset.

[@_ryju_]

Jedi Survivor at 300 million while BG3 at a 5 million estimate was the best joke in this episode

[@BoBurnham69]

Nah, not even close

[@SableBez]

BG3 is so boring and souless. Technicality doesn't make a game fun

[@clonewarsfan777]

​@@SableBezhaving furry romances doesn't make a good game either and I know that's why my friend bought it. I say what a bunch of weirdos

[@thatoneswarmdrone6409]

​@@SableBez Bait used to be believable.

[@urekmazino6800]

​@@SableBeztrash bait

[@whim_tv]

My girlfriend walked by and thought I was watching a video of myself. She said you have the same glasses and dead inside eyes as I do.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Leave

[@lestermoe]

Stop flexing!

[@jordandelosreyes5656]

@@lestermoeDamn I too would grow agitated if I heard someone had lifeless eyes and not me

[@Dwg117]

That edit of Mr Krabs telling the customer to get out was so funny! Caught me completely off guard.

[@deppo436]

If only every CEO had Satoru Iwata's mindset...We lost a brilliant mind way too soon.

[@lutherheggs451]

that wasn't LFAO Iwata's mindset. It was the laws in Japan that protect employees from being laid off

[@deppo436]

@@lutherheggs451 Yeah but I don't think he did that because he had to, more so he chose to. Iwata didn't come off as the kind of businessman who would keep the checks all for himself, the book "Ask Iwata" provided a deeper insight into how he views himself and what he gained from those around him to make him into the man he was, and it really did show that he genuinely valued his peers. And if you're still not convinced that he did it out of his volition, look at the previous president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamuchi who was head from 1949, a few years after The Labor Standards Act was introduced in 1947, the law which is to govern working conditions. It shouldn't have been possible for him to layoff many long time and dedicated employees (as well as a family members) for merely questioning his authority based on the lack of experience, and his age, which would not constitute as a justifiable reason for termination. You can choose to look at it from a surface level and leave it at that, but I don't think it was as black and white as you see it.

[@Vampocrat]

Hopefully Shuntaro Furukawa can be just as good as Iwata was (when he's not too busy sending out the Nintendo Ninjas to take down rom sites for piracy).

[@Vampocrat]

@@deppo436 Yamauchi was like a Yakuza boss in how he did business.

[@xxargonautxx9790]

@@deppo436well that is true, Iwata INSTANTLY went to cutting ceo, exc salary. He could’ve reduced workers pay, hours before him taking the cut. He knew he was at fault. So he and the others would take the hit and not his workers. Plus it keep moral high at Nintendo and look at them now. Completely 180 it.

[@Snowofthewild]

Man the editing on that intro was just so perfect. True craftmanship.

[@Buitronthecrazy]

Uh...tango gameworks just got revived.