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Those morons just closed their only “indie” Japanese studio.
Xbox is no longer a serious console, just get a PC.
Also Japan still being a market Microsoft has not managed to properly crack wrt games, makes this even more baffling—surely removing a (successful) local presence is only going to make that harder
I owned one Xbox years ago. I just wanted to play games without technical issues. PC games were better but I just wanted to go arcade mode for a while. One of the first games I bought froze at the first loading screen every single time. I tried contacting the publisher, Microsoft, the developer… No one would help, barely even got responses. I exchanged it for another copy at the local store it came from, the new copy did the exact same thing. No refunds on games so I was stuck with a $50 game that didn’t work.
That’s when I realized that consoles have a lot of technical issues too, it’s just not possible for me to fix them like it is on PC. Later that same xbox red ringed.
Fuck consoles.
Not to imply that Xbox was ever a serious console in Japan.
Go read old articles of the xbox console launches in Japan. It is legitimately sad.
Xbox is no longer a serious console, just get a PC.
It’s tragic this effectively means just pivoting to a different division in the same company.
It’s a simple strategy. Make games that are cheaper to develop but are critically acclaimed and make even more money. I’m surprised they didn’t decide to do this sooner.
This is a response to them closing down several studios. Including one that made a smaller game that gave them prestige.
I didn’t know the context, it just sounded funny.
embrace extend extinguish
Are they even bothering with the ‘extend’ bit anymore?
I think big studios are jealous of the success that smaller indy game developers are getting.
From my comment on one of the other threads:
Here, I’ll translate - “We need an undervalued and underpaid studio that we own to pop out a viral sensation we can exploit the shit out of, who we will then treat exactly the same. Repeat ad nauseam”
If Microsoft stopped killing all their smaller studios that make these kind of games, they might actually have some of those
Xbox has no damn clue about how to keep xbox going, it’s very apparent now.
Is no one going to point out that his name is “Booty?”
Does the mean we’ll see another Ori?
Even their character models look tired.
