Windows Central: Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax’s IP, and ‘several’ other projects
Windows Central: Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax’s IP, and ‘several’ other projects
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Perfect dark? The game that seemed quite ready a year ago? Whats going on here?
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It’s honestly amazing how inept Microsoft is at running the Xbox brand when it involves anything more than just buying a studio or slapping the Game Pass label on something.
I don’t think Perfect Dark would have been good anyway. They were calling it a “AAAA” game, which gives the opposite impression of what they think it does. Additionally, the trailer they put out looked very bullshot (think Watch_Dogs 1’s E3 trailer), which was a red flag.
So… Did anything good actually come from Xbox hand-off approach?
I was shocked at Perfect Dark, that game looked so good
Lmfao everyone dunks on Sony this generation for cancelling 12 live service games over the span of a few years, meanwhile you got Microsoft likely cancelling that amount this morning 🥲
– Destroy your brand in 2013 and never recover
– Buy every gaming studio because you’re worth trillions
– Realize you overpaid for the studios, and their games are taking time and money
– Lay off thousands and bury the Xbox brand even more
Great job Microsoft 👍🏽
I was waiting for this to happen because the news/rumors for years was that it was rebooted MULTIPLE times and at one point it effectively went from a collab between the initiative and CD to basically being a CD game with a handful of initiative people assisting.
The game’s been mismanaged for so long I’m surprised it’s only now being cancelled. Yet another example of Xbox being unable to manage their studios.
Microsoft CEO and the entire leadership has to go at this point. The amount of mistakes they’ve made in the past decade is beyond forgivable. Unbelievable.
Fuck. Even though that was a heavily scripted vertical slice, the vision looked amazing. Was really looking forward to that. Fucks sake.
Fuck sakes man, Perfect Dark was like one of three games i was hyped for. The Rare buyout really was the end of something special.
Wonder if this is going to affect State of Decay 3 too since it was also announced years ago with nothing but a couple trailers to show for still
Microsoft is the new EA and Phil Spencer is in the running for “worst executive in gaming” alongside Embracer’s Lars Wingefors and Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot.
Man… “Wha Happun?” by Matt McMuscles is gonna have a LOT to cover for the next while.
Wtf is Microsoft doing?… Is Fable going to come out?
We didn’t get a trailer this year.
No idea who’s going to be lining up to buy the next Xbox after this. No hate–really liked my Series X and S but this kills my interest in them. They’re basically just ActiBlizz 2.0 now.
*CEO offering egg in these trying times*
“we want to really give developers, the tools to build their imagination, we want players to play the games they want to play, whenever and wherever. Were committed to creating amazing experiences”
Months later: “you’re fired. You’re fired. Oh you bet your fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. Honestly I’m just gonna send out an email with the fire emoji”
Microsoft as well : “the gaming industry has slowed down, we see layoffs everywhere, we don’t know why.”
Get new management! Nobody should be in fear of working for Microsoft. Nobody should be like “I work for Microsoft, I might get laid off every single day because they’re not making enough money”
Xbox deserves to be buried under the sea
Perfect Dark was one of their only games I was looking forward to :/
I feel lucky I bailed out of the Xbox ecosystem a while ago, and have been spending my money elsewhere.
#JESUS NOT PERFECT DARK!!!
Can’t believe people saw Microsoft buying everything and thought “this will be good for gaming!”
Microsoft has no greater enemy than Microsoft themselves.
**Perfect Dark is kill**
It’s getting increasingly harder to justify staying with Xbox. I swear if not for my existing library and all my friends, I’d have already switched my preferred console to PlayStation.
“CEO’s and shareholders are going to make so much bonus money from all these layoffs, it’ll last forever and ever, yippie. Infinite money glitch” :Some fucking goober who is paid twice their number of braincells.
Phil Spencer be like:
*insert scene of Joker burning a huge stash of money here*
Microsoft’s only move now is to licence out their IP to competent publishers and devs who actually know what they are doing.
PERFECT DARK IS KILLED? Dude 🙁
Microsoft is done innovating and creating anything people want to buy anyway. They’re just going to try to use their current market share to bully people out of their money and steal/sell personal data.
JFC can they not sell the studio and give the devs a chance to finish a game a lot of people have been hyped up for?
oh no
How exactly was this company allowed to purchase activision blizzard? They’ve shown absolute incompetence when it comes to producing games for the past 15 years… You do make games at these game developing studios…right?
guess i can take perfect dark off of my steam wishlist then… has been sitting there for years with release date”TBA”. good one!
To everyone who doubted me when I said Microsoft buying multiple studios was a bad idea, ahem, told you so ~
Oh Ever wild is canceled? Man.
How the fuck does Halo Studios survive any of this shit?
They should’ve been on the chopping block years ago
buy the studios for their IPs then close them down, right off the EA playbook.
Fuck the corpos
It’s all our fault, we didn’t >!watch enough TV on our Xbox. !<