Too bad we all just care dark souls-like games now 😮

@@mattmaas5790 it’s not just that but it’s also corporate assholes not understanding the video game industry.

It was a bad game. It peaked at 6100 on steam. Thats horribly low. Another thing horribly low about the game - you can buy it for under $10. Gollum costs more! The game was bad. Only a slim minority wanted to play it. It sold so poorly that the studio deserved to shut down. Hi Fi Rush was not a hit. It was a massive failure.

@@TevyaSmolka Hi Fi Rush lost tons of money. What is there to understand?

Even Ghostwire Tokyo was super fun

Bingo!!! 🎉

They were closed because Microsoft DOES NOT CARE...Besides in reality NO you are not guaranteed to have a job for life and your employers is under no obligation to keep you. They did not care about the studios, they wanted to own Zenimax, they wanted to own Activision Blizzard and EVERYTHING that they own. All MS cared about were the IPs. Helen Keller could see at this point that Xbots don't buy games and Microsoft really wants to go third party publisher with all the properties they now own because Xbots don't buy games. Phildo Sphincter said himself that WelfarePass is not sustainable and not at all profitable. The trillions of dollars that Microsoft makes is on Windows, Windows related products and Azure servers for business. They've never made a penny off of Xbox and the shareholders have been pushing to get rid of the Xbox brand since the 54% failure rate 360 RROD debacle. But they can make money publishing COD, Candy Crush, Fallout, Elder Scrolls on every possible platform and MAYBE if Xbots are lucky they might make a streaming box next gen

​@@lutherheggs451weird take but okay...

They've already announced there will be more cuts happening so I feel Ninja Theory might be dead in the water after Hellblade 2 releases.

​@@JJJBunney001 he's out of line but he's not wrong

@@divinitygaming8673he hit the nail on the head tbh I should sell my series x get a pc and a ps5

Microsoft truly thought there was going to be a playerbase that would manage to pay for ALLLLL of the games that need to make back their budget every month. Game Pass is successful but not THAT successful where new games don't need to be sold anymore. And the gaming industry is raising their expectations practically every year.

Have you considered the idea that its not a good game? If it was a good game people would have bought it. You can get it for less than $10 and nobody is buying it! Hi Fi Rush was shit.

@@thebenc1537 No i haven't considered that a great game is not a good game... But I am considering that you simply have shit opinions and taste in games. And also stupid to not understand how much a shadowdrop with little marketing at all can heavily negatively affect a games sales. If your conclusion is simply "Hi Fi Rush was shit", your not providing much value to any convo. Among the people who played it, it's practically uiniversally praised. Emphasis on people who played it, not some contrarian on the internet that likes to shit on things that others like.

Microsoft just doesn't market their games at all. Hellblade 2 is about to underperform because of it.

@@thebenc1537 User scores and reviews say otherwise, did you even play the game?. It's almost as if a game meant for an audience that isn't part of live service, battle royale , competitive, or super realistic graphics and cinematography won't sell as well in the current era of gaming especially with no extensive marketing to sell it. The only marketing it somewhat got is the reviews and that was literally it.

Hi Fi Rush peaked at only 6100 players on steam. Thats a massive flop. You can get it for under $10 and still nobody wants it.

The low sales was because of Gamepass and zero marketing of it. Simple as that. It was always gonna have low sales. Nothing on Xbox sells except Bethesda games because their fanboys just won't accept the truth. The game would have sold better under Nintendo as a switch game.

​@jimmyv3170 gamepass has its own metrics, it doesn't hurt the games performance

@@jimmyv3170 Whatever the reason, the game sold so poorly it didnt make enough money to keep the studio afloat. I dont think any marketing would have helped. Its a niche game for a small group of people. I can just speak for myself but when I saw it I didnt want to play it. Nothing about the game was attractive to me, especially the quicktime stuff.

You don't need to go full on Indie development, just try and make demos where your strengths are. If you can't do art, just worry on the mechanics and the code. If you can't do code, just worry about making a demo (walking sim probably) with a unique art style. These demos will help you get into a good company and not one like Activision blizzard

@rewpertcone8243 ive already got a few good demos behind my belt, but no major substantial games yet

A furry game designer? Lol

@@heavenlyvirtue8367 A furry made the covid vaccine

@@heavenlyvirtue8367 nonsense comment. The solo dev that made lethal company, the game that outsold call of duty modern warfare 3 last year was also a furry.

Obsidian aren't going anywhere. They have Avowed coming, they are working on Outer Worlds 2 and Grounded is a big hit.

@@Guru316outer worlds 2 not coming out , they working on Fallout spin off / sequel after the show. So they’re good.

Highly unlikely because they personally bought Obsidian in 2018 while these studios they're shutting down were part of the Zenimax purchase for getting Bethesda. Obsidian is their only studio that can release games every 3 years.

Obsidian of today is nothing compared to the old Obsidian that made Kotor 2 and Fallout NV. Chris Avellone and others are long gone. Outer Worlds 1 was not even close to the caliber of Fallout NV. Not saying it was a bad game, I bought and enjoyed it but anyone can clearly see the same level of talent is not there.

Microsoft was nowhere near involved, that was years before the buyout happened. Also that was arkanes last good game, nearly 8 years ago. Everything since has been bad, reviewed badly, sold terribly or all 3. Are you really surprised?

I believe in the Xbox leak last year Dishonoured 3 was stated to be in the works.

Prey may be dead, but I dont see dishonored being killed off. I just dont think prey did that well unfortunately. It is a great game though.

Dishonored wasn’t Arkane Austin

Austin team worked with Lyon on D1 but once split they made Prey ( a great game) and Redfall before 75-80% of their team left due to issues with development on Redfall.

@@theLonelyLemnnby the team who made Redfall… dishonored 3 is cancelled

I think they will do either 4 things, work at other Bethesda studios, create their own studio, join Shinji Mikami, or work at CapCom for Resident Evil.

Starfield had a massive player base. Hi Fi Rush topped off at 6100 on steam. Thats its peak. It sells now for under $10 and still nobody wants it. The game was a huge flop. Starfield sucked but it had a much much larger player count and sales numbers.

@@thebenc1537 Starfield is great and only getting better. 8 out of 10.

@@toshtao1 Umm nahh. But nice try at trolling. Youll get better at it, just keep trying.

Stanfield is a terrible game that sold and performed well on gamepass and pc, HiFi rush wasn't exactly a banger

@@thebenc1537 So because my opinion is different from yours I'm trolling? Look at the reviews and say that again.

Gamepass isn't a black mark against a games sales, they have internal metrics for that

Evil Within SUCKED and it flopped, Evil Within 2 SUCKED even more than the first game and flopped harder. Ghostwire Tokyo was OK at best. HiFI Rush was in development years ago and shelved by Zenimax, it was also finished as a multiplat game before Microsoft bought Zenimax and shelved HiFi Rush until Phildo Sphincter was desperate to put out a game on WelfarePass

​@lutherheggs451 not sure what your problem is but insulting these people and products is just weird. Game pass is an amazing service

What? Games sell on xbox, that or releasing on gamepass

Few corrections. Microsoft is a company VALUED at 3 trillion not a company with 3 trillion. Even still they want to save money, id probably say Microsoft goes out of its way more than smaller companies to save money to satisfy investors. As for sales their games when good do sell well on the Xbox platform(PC and console). I do agree that it was probably settled a long time Go that they would close down certain studios when the time was right. Probably gave them some room to see if they had any good ideas or anything worthwhile to keep them around and decided to cut them.

True, they just want to finish competition.

Last of us 2 came out in 2020. It hasn’t even been 5 years. You know, the average time it takes to make a game? Their new ip, if the rumors are true, is not far away either and we know it’s their next game since they just got an idea of last of us 3 recently. Skyrim released in 2011, that’s 13 years ago and if Elder Scrolls 6 is years away then it will be almost 20 years since that game came out. Fallout 4 came out in 2015, if Fallout 5 is coming after Elder scrolls 6 then that would probably be around 2030-2035. That would almost be 20 years too. That’s ridiculous. Cyberpunk took 10 years since its announcement, and so many other studios take way longer than 5-6 years to make a new game. Naughty dog released a major sequel not even 5 years ago, canceled an online game, are working on a new ip, and released a remake and remaster in the same time that Bethesda released 1 game. A bad game too. It hasn’t even been 5 years since last of us 2 and we’re already hearing rumors of their new ip being announced at the upcoming PlayStation showcase. Sit your ass down.

@jaxsonburch-eo1vz I know man. I'm just grateful that we have 3 versions of the last of us to play and 2 versions of the last of us part 2 to play.....

@@seanbyrne2179Yea it’s almost like there was a version for every generation, wow. 🤩 One second people are complaining about how companies don’t care about game preservation and they can’t play their old games, and the next morons like you are hating when a studio keeps their best titles alive and well. You know Shadow of the colossus got a ps3 remaster, ps4, and a remake? Whats the difference with that? God of war 3 has a ps3 version, a ps4 version, and a remaster. Mass effect has had many remasters through out the years and then they made a remastered collection. It’s barely any different. Halo has one for every game. All Nintendo does is reboot and remake old games. Stop being an idiot and start thinking for yourself. Or maybe don’t. Maybe that’s why everything you type reads like a Reddit post.