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Aaron Greenberg (Xbox Marketing) said "Nobody cares about Banjo-Kazooie" at a Flight Sim event
diffusionx
Gold Member
I wish he said “nobody cares about flight sim” at a Banjo Kazooie event
SportsFan581
Member
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Whose fault is it if nobody cares about Banjo-Kazooie? Microsoft Xbox and Rare.
Whose fault is it if nobody cares about Forza Motorsport? Microsoft Xbox and Turn 10.
State of Decay? Microsoft Xbox and Undead Labs.
Crackdown, Battletoads, Perfect Dark? Microsoft Xbox.
If nobody cares why try anything that isn’t recently successful?
Whose fault is it if nobody cares about Forza Motorsport? Microsoft Xbox and Turn 10.
State of Decay? Microsoft Xbox and Undead Labs.
Crackdown, Battletoads, Perfect Dark? Microsoft Xbox.
If nobody cares why try anything that isn’t recently successful?
RetroGamingUK
Member
What does this guy get paid for other than instructing the likes of colteastwood what to say on Twitter?
gow3isben
Member
The marketing has nothing to do with the shit decisions Philip and his posse of clowns have made. The marketing has tried to undo the damage but it is impossible. They can’t make a dead situation any worse. Only strive to spin it a different light which they obviously failed at.
gothmog
Gold Member
I mean there is a common denominator in there...
American Culture : If it can't sell a morbillion copies on day 0 , then no one cares about it.
Because the shareholders who bought into it don't want to build up a company or its products, they want to extract as much value from it as possible, make more life changing wealth and then just fucking dip.
Because the shareholders who bought into it don't want to build up a company or its products, they want to extract as much value from it as possible, make more life changing wealth and then just fucking dip.
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Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
He's right
polybius80
Member
maybe he identifies as a black woman and that its how he got the job?
polybius80
Member
yes they are coming back...... in the form of virtual t-shirt's for your character if you get lucky with the loot boxes that you get when you buy the season pass
PeteBull
Member
Edgelord79
Gold Member
To be honest, I’m not sure how many people do care about banjo kazooie beyond really hardcore people. I mean I don’t. This guy says some pretty off the cuff stuff though.
PatientGamer
Member
Aaron Greenberg + Don Mattrick were the two biggest reasons why Xbox One failed.. how he still has a job is unbeknownst to me.
onnextflix5
Member
He’s a moron, a great banjo game will sell bucket loads especially on switch.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Who would have thought so many people would care about something like Astro Bot?
Make a great game, you have a chance.
If what is reported is true and he did say that, it’s a shit attitude.
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Moriarty1889
Member
The man is a total moron and this latest statement only provides further proof. Xbox needs games like that as well as many others they have left to die off. The brand is becoming more irrelevant everyday due to people like Aaron and Phil.
digital_ghost
Member
Except for Nintendo switch users.
Release a new one on switch and it will probably sell gangbusters.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Release a new one on switch and it will probably sell gangbusters.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Sushi_Combo
Member
He needed to be let go like a decade ago.
MacReady13
Member
The only thing Xbox gamers care about is getting “free” games on game pass. With fuckwits like this working at Xbox, it’s really are looking grim.
Team Andromeda
Member
double post sorry
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Team Andromeda
Member
The Crew 2 outsold Astrobot. Let that sink inSoHeisenberg007 already proved you wrong in terms of how well Astrobot did, let's go over your first comment there.
In terms of money, it far more depends on the full budget of the game. Not just development budget but publishing budget as well.
With the tools that are currently out there, a small team could easily make a feature filled Banjo Kazooie 3 that looks graphically pleasing and gameplay fulfilling for less than $5 million. Indie devs do it all the time.
Microsoft has equipment, in-house engines and studios to house the work, so a lot of what some companies need to spend is something they already pay/paid for. A small team of 40 people would take about two years to make a game at $5 million, with publishing cost being about the same. Selling the game at $40 they'd only need to sell a quarter of a million units to break even. Banjo doesn't have the 7 million unit pull it did back on the N64, but the game could easily sell more than 2 million units at full price.
While we don't know Astrobot's budget, it has been said it was a low budget game that took two years to make, so definitely under the $100 million+ games Sony has been producing lately, so lets say it cost $50 million to make and another $50 million to publish. At $60 a unit this game would pass even at 2 million units sold, which the game has passed by this point. That would include the 25% of units sold in stores instead of on the Sony play-store.
as people, they are both equal
Because The Crew 2 was literally being given away for £1/€1 on all 3 platforms. Try harder to backpedal from your nonsense.
DryvBy
Member
I don't even think I'd want another Conker. How do you make a game like that with DEI these days? The reviewers would kill it if it were faithful.
nightmare-slain
Gold Member
you seeing this shit
kanjobazooie
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kanjobazooie
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Did Astrobot rank in the top 10 charts in the UK or not? That was your claim, right?
MaestroMike
Gold Member
Then give the IP back to Nintendo it was built for the nintendo audience not Xbox audience they should’ve left Nintendo banjo they had no use for that IP
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Folks are so hurt lol.
Klayzer
Member
Lol. It’s comical reading the pain Astrobot is causing.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Hypereides
Member
The ugly truth though is that most of these top people think the way Greenberg does. Same probably applies to Sony for that matter. They don't give a shit about an IP unless they see it sell googleplex units (even that probably won't be enough). Its one of the reason the much debated "soul" in AAA gaming is largely absent. Those "games" are formed by big business "techbros" and c-suits. Genuine creative, visionary and bold ideas? Fuck that. "Who gives a shit" is in the mind of these AAA management companies. These management teams are entirely secluded from the gaming community and haven't learned how to filter the good feedback from the noise.
