Perfect Dark Cancelled, The Initiative Shut Down

At this point I'm still surprised that anyone bothers with Xbox. It's pretty clear that making literally anything else your main gaming platform would be a smart move.
It's quite literally insane, those people are the only reason Microsoft is even bothering with making that dumb, $1000 console/PC hybrid system.
 
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One month ago. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/podcast...showcase-interview-the-official-xbox-podcast/
 
I think might be the lack of masculinity, so they have to resort to man-up females.
There's definitely something to that. I remember when being metrosexual was kinda cool back in 2007. Little did we know it would turn a generation of dudes into a bunch of pussies.
 
KIDS BOP MUSIC, BRINGING YOU THE GREATEST HITS!!*

*except replace 'Kids Bop' with 'Microsoft' and replace 'greatest hits' with 'back-to-back shooting of one's foot'
 
As cool as the latest trailer looked, it was clear they had no idea where the hell they were taking this thing. I doubt there was much of a game besides the little slice we saw
 
WTF, this and with the news of COD studios getting hit as well, like what's going on over there? The idea was to keep going as Third Party MS, not to keep shrinking till you have COD, whatever is left to milk from Bethesda, Candy Crush and nothing else 🤦‍♂️
 
seriously, after the past 10+ years, how the fuck are Spencer and Booty still employed?
They've been extremely successful on making BLOPS4 a massive hit last year. They're not going anywhere, but recent events should give anyone a clue of where things are going.
 
Sell the banjo kazooie IP and most of rares ip to someone else please, crash also……. M$ is a mess, record profits, multiplat strategy, and just gutting the original Xbox vision.
 
They've been extremely successful on making BLOPS4 a massive hit last year. They're not going anywhere, but recent events should give anyone a clue of where things are going.

You really think they deserve credit for BLOPS4?
 
the trailer looked and ran terrible...been cooking for too long yet the vertical slice was not good enough
 
HAHAHAHHAAH I fucking knew it they wouldn't be able to pull it off. Besides nobody was interested in a new Perfect Dark. MS' biggest problem is that they greenlit games nobody cares about.
It wasn't a bad choice as an IP but unfortunately the developer was unable to deliver. They'd been given more than enough time and help.
 
You really think they deserve credit for BLOPS4?
Obviously no, but it definitely adds into their portfolio. Which is why upper MS leadership doesn't really care about any of this, hell, the sooner they get into an <<optimized>> production workflow where the only shit allowed is the same bunch of high-performing IPs (most of them GaaS, btw) we know from XGS/Zenimax/ABK (Forza Horizon, Sea of Thieves, The Elder Scrolls, Call of Duty, etc.), the better for them.
 
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At this point I'm still surprised that anyone bothers with Xbox. It's pretty clear that making literally anything else your main gaming platform would be a smart move.
Yep. I got the first Xbox day one and did the same for every console they put out since, but I'm pretty much done now.

I got my first PlayStation last April, and there's absolutely Bob Hope of me buying the next Xbox, if there even is one. It's shocking how bad the brand and the actual games have declined since 360. Mismanagement of an epic scale.
 
Western development is a mess.

MS =/= Western Games development.

MS have been incompetent long before Western Games Development started collapsing due to wokeness.

In fact, when it comes to development and publishing incompetence, MS is in a league of their own. They're now decades long in their history of studio mismanagement, cancelled games, fake trailers that hide back-end development chaos and studio closures.

There's really no-one else more uniquely shit at making and shipping great games (or even any games for that matter) as MS. It's not even close.
 
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