Apparently everyone who worked on it left so it wouldn’t have been the same.
dthesupreme200
I never played it but I saw it on my steam deck for sale once.
JackSucks
Was it the biggest hit of 2023? It was acclaimed, but did it sell?
take5b
Maybe it’s ok to have one good of something. We have enough sequels remakes prequels remasters rebirths whatever of every g-damn thing as it is
SweetPuffDaddy
I’ve made the same comment on a few other posts. Everyone forgets that Ghostwire Tokyo didn’t do that great and had a significantly higher budget than Hi-Fi Rush.
smoofus724
“Biggest Xbox hit of 2023” is really not saying much.
Kidnovatex
Just because they shut down that studio doesn’t mean they couldn’t do a sequel if they thought it would sell. They still own the IP.
Logical-Elephant2247
yeah everyone on Reddit are experts in what is profitable for a company and what is not, being a “hit” on gamepass doesn’t mean it was a profitable game, if it was profitable studio wouldn’t shut down. People on the internet know literally nothing about how companies work.
Tao626
It was well received, but:
– It managed 2million players across both sales and Game Pass across Xbox and PC. Who knows how many of those players never directly spent a cent on it through Game Pass, or even played more than an hour. – Psychonauts 2 solid 1.7mil without Game Pass – I can’t find exact figures, but it’s shown that flop exclusive Forspoken outsold Hi-Fi Rush across two platforms, as well as outselling Hi-Fi Rush at points in the Steam charts – PS5 has a much larger install base, but Starfield with its much more mixed, maybe pushing more negative reception with the same Xbox/PC release as Hi-Fi Rush, selling at least 2.5 million copies alongside being on Game Pass
Maybe it just didn’t do well enough in actual sales to be worth continuing. Microsoft aren’t the most trustworthy of companies, but if it sold as poorly as it seems, I also don’t expect them to keep pumping money into it because some people really liked it.
MinimumApricot365
Today is the first I’ve ever heard of this game. Clearly not a very popular title.
365defaultname
ayoo… wtf. I wasn’t aware of this. I thought it was only the studio that made Redfall.
ned_poreyra
We don’t know if it was a hit at all, because copies sold and downloads on Game Pass are counted together. The fact they’re doing this may mean actual sales numbers aren’t that impressive.
AVBforPrez
Hi Fi Rush could be the greatest Saturday morning cartoon about music ever.
You just have a genre villain of the week that Chai and 808 accidentally beat (with support), where the evil scheme is entirely centered around whatever genre they’re trying to force on people.
It’s the most slam dunk concept I can think of in children’s television, and it kills me that it’ll never happen.
Schwiliinker
Hi fi rush was medicore, however the evil within games are god tier horror games
CleverTricksterProd
Is it related to development costs being higher than the revenue, even with a hit?
Shadow_s_Bane
That was pretty much felt like it was going to be the case whether studio was closed on not, it had a One Hit Wonder vibe to it rather than a franchise one, like BB, Sekiro
Brynjir
I also think Shinji Mikami leaving played a large part in the company being shuttered as he was the “star” of the show so to speak.
Mah-nynj
Well not necessarily. I ran into a prototype of a game I loved on the Apple Store. Sometimes think of these games as a mechanic and game mode format posited by workers. There’s nothing that says, if it was popular, that it won’t show up in a different candy shell somewhere down the road.
Fucking SAS zombie assault to me is a perfect browser example
Obility
Oh now people care about Hi-Fi Rush lol. I get the marketing wasn’t the best but where was this energy before? Everytime someone made a post about it on here, they were assumed to be ads by Microsoft. This was my favourite game since maybe Sunset Overdrive and I’m really annoyed that it was rewarded with unemployment.
That being said, the game wasn’t a hit. It was critically acclaimed but did not sell well. One of the reasons why they pushed it to PlayStation. I hope they can absorb some of the devs into other studios but idk how that works. Such a waste.
esmifra
Guess Microsoft is the new EA now… I’ll dread whenever I hear news they are acquiring a studio from now on.
Phyliinx
As a Horror nerd, I hate that Microsoft saw Evil Within 2 and said “fuck you” to the sequel
BearBearJarJar
Shinji Mikami the mastermind behind the studio (and resident Evil founder btw) has left and took many with him.
If you all would read a single article instead of getting your news from reddit post headlines you might see why this actually makes sense.
There was never going to be a Evil within 3 without him
Hifi rush was supposed to be more of a side project that caught much more traction than expected. Its perfectly possible that there will still be a sequel under another studio. There were barely any people who worked on hifi left anyway.
lazzzym
The biggest Xbox hit is such an overreach.
Most critically acclaimed would be more accurate.
GradeOwn5843
I personally think game pass is hurting sales of games
I bought hi fi rush on steam but I don’t know how well the sales were on pc
wowy-lied
Did not make enough money. If it was not financially viable then no reason to keep it alive
Burritolopr1621
we don’t need sequels of everything
Vampyre_Boy
This reminds me of sunset overdrive and that one went over like a lead balloon as well so i can see why there wont be a #2 i bet while it was hyped up it didnt actually sell well at all and probably lost money which supports the shuttering of the dev team by microsoft.
ZebraZealousideal944
Sure let’s forget the big budget multi platform AAA game released by the same studio, which more than likely hugely bombed if the studio is closing…
Tranquil_Neurotic
Tango’s creative leadership had already moved on to greener pastures post and during buyout. There are mid and low level workers but they are not enough to sustain the creative direction of a full fledged studio – someone needs to be at the helm.
Microsoft felt it would be better to dissolve the studio and incorporate the rest of workers with their other teams and let go people who they can’t support.
Same would happen with Arkane as well – their main leaders/creative heavyweights had long left the company – the team remaining was a hollow shell of its former self.
Torracgnik
Idk about this one man, you aren’t seeing the bigger picture I honestly didn’t even know hi fi rush was a thing till today.
RedditAdminFascists
Wrong, there will be another Hi Fi Rush.
djml9
The game was effectively free for like 75% of its players. Then they got shut down for not making enough money. Gamepass is great for players, but not for devs. Ive been banging that drum for a while and everyone denounced it, but if you want all your games for free, expect fewer, smaller, cheaper, lower quality games. It’s not sustainable.
Rand0mBoyo
So the devs ain’t getting paid that much from purchases of this game then unlike Microsoft themselves…
oh tthe seven seas, here I come for I’ve been too late before, now’s my chance to find and experience the treasure of a game
l_______I
What’s more ironic, Hi-Fi Rush is on this month’s Humble Choice.
Standard_Young_201
No one bought it though was on game pass so double Microsoft’s fault
crazeddude64
Never say never….
But probably never.
--InZane--
Ghostwire Tokyo and The Evil Within is also great
PhantomErection
Never heard of it
Pro_XS
Something tells me OP doesn’t know what a quarter is. Cause if they did, they would have put Q2, not Q1
Mountain_Novel2489
So… no more “The Evil Within” and no more “Ghostwire: Tokyo”… Japanese companies should never sell to American ones.
nex2kal
I feel the same 😞😡
FranJJV
And who bought the game?
ambswimmer
My favorite game of 2023 what a shame. I woulda loved just a few dlc levels or something
AwakeSeeker887
Microsoft would’ve just Crackdown 3’d the sequel if they didn’t shut them down
AlternativelySad
Unfortunately the studio wasn’t making enough money.. and on top of that alot of the creative talents behind hifi rush had already left the studio. Rip tango game works 2010-2024.
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Apparently everyone who worked on it left so it wouldn’t have been the same.
I never played it but I saw it on my steam deck for sale once.
Was it the biggest hit of 2023? It was acclaimed, but did it sell?
Maybe it’s ok to have one good of something. We have enough sequels remakes prequels remasters rebirths whatever of every g-damn thing as it is
I’ve made the same comment on a few other posts. Everyone forgets that Ghostwire Tokyo didn’t do that great and had a significantly higher budget than Hi-Fi Rush.
“Biggest Xbox hit of 2023” is really not saying much.
Just because they shut down that studio doesn’t mean they couldn’t do a sequel if they thought it would sell. They still own the IP.
yeah everyone on Reddit are experts in what is profitable for a company and what is not, being a “hit” on gamepass doesn’t mean it was a profitable game, if it was profitable studio wouldn’t shut down. People on the internet know literally nothing about how companies work.
It was well received, but:
– It managed 2million players across both sales and Game Pass across Xbox and PC. Who knows how many of those players never directly spent a cent on it through Game Pass, or even played more than an hour.
– Psychonauts 2 solid 1.7mil without Game Pass
– I can’t find exact figures, but it’s shown that flop exclusive Forspoken outsold Hi-Fi Rush across two platforms, as well as outselling Hi-Fi Rush at points in the Steam charts
– PS5 has a much larger install base, but Starfield with its much more mixed, maybe pushing more negative reception with the same Xbox/PC release as Hi-Fi Rush, selling at least 2.5 million copies alongside being on Game Pass
Maybe it just didn’t do well enough in actual sales to be worth continuing. Microsoft aren’t the most trustworthy of companies, but if it sold as poorly as it seems, I also don’t expect them to keep pumping money into it because some people really liked it.
Today is the first I’ve ever heard of this game. Clearly not a very popular title.
ayoo… wtf. I wasn’t aware of this. I thought it was only the studio that made Redfall.
We don’t know if it was a hit at all, because copies sold and downloads on Game Pass are counted together. The fact they’re doing this may mean actual sales numbers aren’t that impressive.
Hi Fi Rush could be the greatest Saturday morning cartoon about music ever.
You just have a genre villain of the week that Chai and 808 accidentally beat (with support), where the evil scheme is entirely centered around whatever genre they’re trying to force on people.
It’s the most slam dunk concept I can think of in children’s television, and it kills me that it’ll never happen.
Hi fi rush was medicore, however the evil within games are god tier horror games
Is it related to development costs being higher than the revenue, even with a hit?
That was pretty much felt like it was going to be the case whether studio was closed on not, it had a One Hit Wonder vibe to it rather than a franchise one, like BB, Sekiro
I also think Shinji Mikami leaving played a large part in the company being shuttered as he was the “star” of the show so to speak.
Well not necessarily. I ran into a prototype of a game I loved on the Apple Store. Sometimes think of these games as a mechanic and game mode format posited by workers. There’s nothing that says, if it was popular, that it won’t show up in a different candy shell somewhere down the road.
Fucking SAS zombie assault to me is a perfect browser example
Oh now people care about Hi-Fi Rush lol. I get the marketing wasn’t the best but where was this energy before? Everytime someone made a post about it on here, they were assumed to be ads by Microsoft. This was my favourite game since maybe Sunset Overdrive and I’m really annoyed that it was rewarded with unemployment.
That being said, the game wasn’t a hit. It was critically acclaimed but did not sell well. One of the reasons why they pushed it to PlayStation. I hope they can absorb some of the devs into other studios but idk how that works. Such a waste.
Guess Microsoft is the new EA now… I’ll dread whenever I hear news they are acquiring a studio from now on.
As a Horror nerd, I hate that Microsoft saw Evil Within 2 and said “fuck you” to the sequel
Shinji Mikami the mastermind behind the studio (and resident Evil founder btw) has left and took many with him.
If you all would read a single article instead of getting your news from reddit post headlines you might see why this actually makes sense.
There was never going to be a Evil within 3 without him
Hifi rush was supposed to be more of a side project that caught much more traction than expected. Its perfectly possible that there will still be a sequel under another studio. There were barely any people who worked on hifi left anyway.
The biggest Xbox hit is such an overreach.
Most critically acclaimed would be more accurate.
I personally think game pass is hurting sales of games
I bought hi fi rush on steam but I don’t know how well the sales were on pc
Did not make enough money. If it was not financially viable then no reason to keep it alive
we don’t need sequels of everything
This reminds me of sunset overdrive and that one went over like a lead balloon as well so i can see why there wont be a #2 i bet while it was hyped up it didnt actually sell well at all and probably lost money which supports the shuttering of the dev team by microsoft.
Sure let’s forget the big budget multi platform AAA game released by the same studio, which more than likely hugely bombed if the studio is closing…
Tango’s creative leadership had already moved on to greener pastures post and during buyout. There are mid and low level workers but they are not enough to sustain the creative direction of a full fledged studio – someone needs to be at the helm.
Microsoft felt it would be better to dissolve the studio and incorporate the rest of workers with their other teams and let go people who they can’t support.
Same would happen with Arkane as well – their main leaders/creative heavyweights had long left the company – the team remaining was a hollow shell of its former self.
Idk about this one man, you aren’t seeing the bigger picture I honestly didn’t even know hi fi rush was a thing till today.
Wrong, there will be another Hi Fi Rush.
The game was effectively free for like 75% of its players. Then they got shut down for not making enough money. Gamepass is great for players, but not for devs. Ive been banging that drum for a while and everyone denounced it, but if you want all your games for free, expect fewer, smaller, cheaper, lower quality games. It’s not sustainable.
So the devs ain’t getting paid that much from purchases of this game then unlike Microsoft themselves…
oh tthe seven seas, here I come for I’ve been too late before, now’s my chance to find and experience the treasure of a game
What’s more ironic, Hi-Fi Rush is on this month’s Humble Choice.
No one bought it though was on game pass so double Microsoft’s fault
Never say never….
But probably never.
Ghostwire Tokyo and The Evil Within is also great
Never heard of it
Something tells me OP doesn’t know what a quarter is. Cause if they did, they would have put Q2, not Q1
So… no more “The Evil Within” and no more “Ghostwire: Tokyo”… Japanese companies should never sell to American ones.
I feel the same 😞😡
And who bought the game?
My favorite game of 2023 what a shame. I woulda loved just a few dlc levels or something
Microsoft would’ve just Crackdown 3’d the sequel if they didn’t shut them down
Unfortunately the studio wasn’t making enough money.. and on top of that alot of the creative talents behind hifi rush had already left the studio. Rip tango game works 2010-2024.