Apparently the game industry thinks none of you deserve rest

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9:18 Yeah can someone EXPLAIN to me that? Why the top people don’t get punished but the developers who were obeying what they were TOLD do.

Josh, this is actually great! Maybe do more of these in the future.

That is how xbox fanboys are. They always played mental gymnastics

@@michaelmacorso4479 facts bro

Pretending things are ok and ignoring the problems is ironically more detrimental to Xbox fans, it's almost funny.

@nerobiblios4086 it is funny but sad at the same time. Their rebuttal is but but sony

@@michaelmacorso4479but but Sony sucks ass 🤣🤣🤣

This is why Genshin Impact is so popular. Genshin was a huge gamble for them had it failed they would have been bankrupt. The devs behind it refused to be sold and choose to remain privately owned meaning they have no shareholders breathing down their necks and their gamble paid off. They recently released Honkai Star Rail and they have upcoming new game on the horizon as well and they are now one of the biggest privately owned company out there in terms of profit.

False advertising (even)

If anything, BECAUSE THEY’RE A BIGGER COMPANY, it should be EVEN GREATER CAUSE FOR CONCERN (which is what I TRIED to EXPLAIN to people but bots stay huffing that “hopium” 24/7, 365 days a year).

They told court they won't shut down everything they lied

@@ViveLaResistance11011 I think you had a point in there SOMEWHERE, but you LOST ME.

If i recall correctly you might want to double check the spelling of the late ceos name i may also be mistaken im still half asleep but just a heads up

Well, they could always fire you in the shadows without anybody knowing it and then bring pizza…. PS:. Nintendo success whenever Microsoft is falling and viceversa. The video game industry needs to survive: so please Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo: you can do so much better than this!

Other corporations: lies and BS The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." With respect to the franchises that don't have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential that can meet our objectives of over time becoming $100 million plus franchises, that's a strategy that has worked well for us." - Bobby Kotick

@@ViveLaResistance11011unfortunately, Nintendo is NOT Nintendo of America. Their corporate management and shareholders are not the same and they do not manage their staff the same. NOA and Microsoft as a whole are much more run like a republican conservative corporation where worker bee employees are laid off right before quarterly earnings meetings to announce “record profits” so executives can maintain their salaries, shares & their multiple seasonal homes.

@@kevingame3198 I miss the 90’s in that matter. You went to your local store, buy a game based on their cover, and suddenly you were at your house playing Banjo Kazooie 😳

Right. They had a great track record, good variety and were really finding their footing. Such BS that they were closed.

They honestly had a great track record here's hoping sony will help them

I'm still hoping for Hi-Fi Rush 2

@@Zandaa29 Sony can’t even help themselves 🤣🤣🤣

@@Zandaa29 If Sony is smart they do and we get a Tokyo Ghostwire VR. That would be a dream game for me

100% 🎯

Why would they need onions bro -.^

Exactly. Do you still need to buy batteries for the controller? 😂 I haven't touched an Xbox since the 360.

@@cyanpile7874 Yea, unless you buy one of the newer model controllers which I THINK ACTUALLY INCLUDE a rechargeable battery? Meanwhile, Xbox dudes are a whole different level of stupid since they’ve been damage-controlling the FREAKIN’ batteries for YEARS as “giving the consumer CHOICES.”

I mean, he had a good send-off, so he is at peace.

That's not how Gamepass works, the devs get a budget for said game(s), get paid to make them/make profit for the next game (if it does well), everyone signs for it and knows what's happening.. Gamepass subs pay for the monthly fee at around 400-450M per month,, between subs and hours played everyone gets paid, but sure they've shut down studios like every other gaming studio in history, that's normal, doesn't mean it's good tho.

@Mark-mu4pj exactly everyone gets paid but there is a big difference in selling a full priced game and getting a miniscule cut of a monthly subscription

@@jesselewis9748 True they haven't been selling as many games and GP certainly has something to do with that, to be fair, if they're going to put new games on Gamepass, people may as well take it for the monthly fee and not care about sales, at the end of the day, these are billion/trillion dollar companies we shouldn't 'care" (we should in a way) but them having more money than entire countries/Lifetimes, we shouldn't as much, if they fail that's on them not the consumer.

@@jesselewis9748 Not sure what happened to my other comment, seems to have disappeared, KZfaq is weird lol.

He has taken accountability, unfortunately Phils job is to make profits since he works for a corporation, and this isnt a Phil/Xbox thing since literally all the major AAA studios are going thru this

Microsoft might not have been making nearly as many cuts had the deal gone through on time, ABK was an argument without law to stop it, it HAD to go through regardless of hurt feelings, new laws are needed and they need immediate enforcement, but you cannot waste money as an agency fighting corporations on cases you cannot win.

@@michaellane5381 Time has nothing to do with it. Layoffs and downsizing are par for the course on consolidations of this scale, regardless. What's stupid about this particular liquidation is the shutdown of Tango Gameworks, a studio that practically developed the BEST game Microsoft has had in recent memory. Of course a SHADOWDROPPED Gamepass game isn't going to meet sales expectations on the XBOX platform. What did they expect? Whether or not Microsoft actually know what they are doing is continuously becoming more questionable.

@@DanteMasaru timing in this case has almost EVERYTHING to do with it though. Yes downsizing was inevitable but the deal went over 12 months over schedule and cost Microsoft serious legal fees, that is about 4 quarters of "disappointment" based on income and progress into games that would never be released that ABK wanted and 4 quarters not doing games Microsoft would have wanted. AKA "development hell" if a company gets mad at minimum wage workers wasting hours of effort you bet your ass a developer with multiple programmers doing something at developer pay that never gets released for a year will effect the bottom line. Plus like I said elsewhere if this had happened back when Tango released HFR it would be far more obvious they should have shuttered something like 343 instead.

@@michaellane5381 Yes, exactly my point. You said it yourself: "downsizing is inevitable", thus, how long the deal took to go through is irrelevant. Furthermore, the games developed/published by ABK were games headed to market anyway.

@@DanteMasaru but "downsizing" is not the same as "closing studios" given time studios could have been sold, or just faced layoffs or conversion into a different studio. The only people they were guaranteed to fire was the marketing/PR/HR redundancies, executive redundancy, etc. But full studio closures without selling IP or business assets was not likely.

I....dont want to set the world....on fire....~

Nintendo is doing just fine. Xbox is on fire and Sony has some smoke emitting

Mobile is doing fine too

The Western part of the games industry will crash. Why? We focus way too much on short-term gains over longer-term viability which is why so many of our markets end up in “bubbles” that eventually burst. It also doesn’t help that the executive class that oversees all this LITERALLY never has to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY so they’ll run an industry, company, or market into the ground as they extract as much lavish wealth from it as possible and then just gently float away on their golden parachutes while the entire edifice crashes and burns BEHIND THEM. People think I’m talking crap or being xenophobic or something, but keep in mind, the ONE OTHER TIME in history that we had a major video game crash was when the West controlled the “lion’s share” of the market.

@@jaythomas468 It is coming,just wonder when it will be over.

I don't see how this recent studio shutdown is the consumer's responsibility. And a lot of what you're telling consumers NOT to do is what is actually keeping many studios open. The way a market generally works is like this: A company produces a product, consumers buy that product, the company then makes profit that enables them to continue producing more of said product.

@@DanteMasaru there is a failure in that argument. If Sega would still making video game consoles, probably videogames would cost USD$50 and not USD$70. Greediness and quiet monopolies are studies closed, people fired, money burned, anti-client policies and a los of disenchantment. Once upon a time Electronic Arts wasn’t a meme, they mean it

@@ViveLaResistance11011 Actually, Sega are still making video games. Sega's failure in the console space was their own undoing due to repeated poor marketing tactics with Saturn AND the Dreamcast. Just search for any video on the history of Sega for more details that led Sega into becoming a publisher. Yeah, greed is a thing in the corporate world; that can't be denied. However, that is what so many default to whenever there is a price increase and whatnot. Things like currency going down in certain regions or, for a more recent example, the costs of producing video games actually getting more expensive is something that's not often considered. Increased prices is just unfortunate reality in the market. Consider the following: does a company raise the cost of what they are selling or do they axe off their labor in an effort to meet rising costs, thus preventing the company as a whole shutting down? Though many of the recent layoffs in the tech space are due the over-hiring that took place in 2020. Regardless it still sucks and is another unfortunate market reality. You may find this hard to believe, but given the long interval of price increases in the video game space (last price increase was in 2006), gamers have it pretty good compared to some other industries. Also, the market dictates whether or not a price like $60 or $70 being acceptable.

@@DanteMasaru I understand what you are saying, about Sega is a matter of competition and about hardware (competition a precept of capitalism that is in practice a fantasy. You cannot compete if you don’t pay the entering fee, and even though , you don’t have the right shoes for running) The only thing I could say is, instead of buying a AAA, one should buy 5 indies (10, if you take in consideration the market you are buying) if the industry is failing, it’s fair a new industry would born from it ashes. If Latin America m Africa, mid west, Oceania, etc would have their own EAs and CDPRs, the market price of a AAA video game should be lesser (my salary is equivalent to the one of a peasant in the US, and I’m a senior willing to become software architect soon) I know we are all concerned, maybe I’m wrong, but if it were up to me, I would reshape the industry. Big tech companies are surviving by their past achievements, make me think innovation is a thing of the past, nothing is working but there is low effort in making a true change, we are constantly bombarded with the idea “the other is my enemy”, thus, many dialogues are underestimated and we are building bubbles: a “console war”make us think that everything is perfect about my Gamesphere. In the information era subdemocracies are rising, the shareholders are missing if they are against the public. Capitalism needs a RE2 kind of reboot, but in the south we are having a Super Mario 3D All Stars and in the north a Banjo Kazooie emulated in a custom n64 emulator at Switch Online

Straight facts. Been saying to speak with our wallets for years. People get mad about Microtransactions but still fork out money for it. So why would a studio stop doing something that makes them money?

personally I think that Satya Nadella basically took over Xbox about 6 months ago and at this point Phil is just the messenger, gamepass subs have kinda plateaued and they spent so much on developers, clearly Phil has not taken Xbox to the place investors want and Nadella is probably gonna move more towards being a publisher

That comes down to the developers/publishers allowances. They want to make money so removing a game before a majority can finish it might make people buy it. Removing the first game while getting a paycheck from Xbox for a sequel on gamepass might also go back and get sales for the first etc. all these publisher's are doing the math to decide how to try and use game pass to their own profits

@@Kaifighter Totally if you can have something on game pass or PS+ & have it go viral you’ll probably gain more sales in the long run. As not everyone will play it whilst it is free. Some will want a copy of their own etc. Or even the people on a different platform will want etc.

​@jingomort8955 I think that's exactly what's happening, develop games like Palworld/Helldivers 2 and see what reaction they get from their subs/sales, then do more of that type of thing between indies, AA, AAA games, trying to make a "perfect" game people will buy/spend time in.

@@Kaifighter ngl i genuinely didn't think of that make sense

Whatttt? Someone who can admit the game was good and also admit they love Microsoft and also admit Microsoft screwed up I never thought id see it lol.

@@jcdenton41100 sometimes real needs to recognize real. I'm not giving Microsoft a pass on this they fucked up and they need to be called out on it. I have no loyalty when it comes to companies taking money out of people's pockets and food off their table

They always do. But but sony is all they keep saying. It's pathetic to see them simp for a 3 trillion company.

This generation of gaming has been so bad. It took so long for games to even come out that finally left the previous generation behind. Remakes/remasters everywhere. Sony barely has their act together, and Xbox has absolutely no idea what they're doing. How do you have so many studios and nothing out there...except one of the best games on the Series X/S that they turn around and close the studio that made it.

This generation has definite problems but I had a laugh at anything being worse than the WiiU which failed literally because of its name and what it even was. Everyone thought it was a peripheral not a console lol nothing in modern times failed as hard as that thing in titles, sales etc I'm more worried about the relationship between media, ai and watching/listening to what we do while we play more than anything else but jeez if companies aren't being shortsighted nowadays

the only point i dont get here is the sony lineup being slower than the ps4 haha? the ps4 launched with barely anything, i got it at launch and didnt have much to play. the ps5 launched with i think it was either 9 or 11 exclusives, some really big ones aswell like a demon souls remake and a new spiderman game, a free exclusive with astro playroom which was great, a new little big planet, bugsnax became a huge meme on twitter and was a solid indie game ive put a fair amount of hours into. plus the control was a big jump from the ps4 control with stuff like haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, for the games that use it its great and really increases immersion. your other points are all spot on though haha.

They obviously can afford to keep them, but if the games aren’t selling, then you gotta cut them loose. It’s called business.

​@@xbotLifethey literally told court 1 year ago they won't do this. Court was worried of Microsoft doing this. They lied to government

They bought Zenimax for Bethesda, all those other studios that came with them don’t matter to them at all. Shame is that they now also high jacked the IPs. So even if the devs start a new studio they can’t continue with their own IP

@@xbotLife Hi Fi Rush sold and yet the studio was closed. Some of these studios were closed before they even got a chance to put out games. Your argument doesn't make sense in this case. Closing studios before they have been given a chance to earn you money is a stupid business decision. And studios with great track records that maybe put out one dud because they were forced to make a game that didn't suit their skills is also dumb. Give them a chance to do what they are good at and they would have been profitable.

@@murray821 this makes me so effing sad.

Typically smaller companies end up needing a publisher or something along those lines. The break down for what the devs get after the stores (physical and digital) take their cut, and the publisher's take their cut, and any other piece of the pie that comes out doesn't usually leave much for the development studio. At a certain point there is an appeal to getting scooped by a bigger company. Usually you get a larger portion of the revenue because the publisher takes a smaller percentage because they own you. In theory being owned by a bigger company should also provide a safety net for anything that comes up unseen which you don't have with an independent studio. Smaller companies used to join them for safety and years ago that was a fine idea. Not anymore though.

@@zanezet thanks for the explanation.

Not unless sony steps to save it but I think Microsoft own the ip

That is $143.44 today.

@@CurtisMiller1995 $100 is really a low-end figure I think publishers are willing to make. Remember, movie tickets were $4 when Jurassic Park came out.

EA's had an immaculate track record lately though? The Dead Space Remake, NFS Unbound, the Mass Effect remasters, etc The only EA games people should really be avoiding is their sports games imho

yes I liked youngblood

Youngblood hurt my heart. After The New Order and New Colossus, a follow up deserved to be so much better.

​@@louisebrown103 if liked it thats okay. Now, look at the evidence regarding its reception and let me tell Numbers never lie. Theres a reason why that was the Black Sheep of the reboots

The reason why Redfall failed is because Todd Howard took developers from that game and Starfield (who were still working on them) and had them working on Fallout 76

@@GaryTurbo and it paid off because look at the fallout franchise and 76 now 😁

Ninja Theory, Obsidian and Double Fine have to all be on the cutting block as well, most of Hi Fi Rush's players were on Gamepass, shareholders don't even want just profit, they want growth, I think something like 12 million people played Starfield but only 3 million bought it and a bunch of those were the gamepass upgrade option, it's gotta be a hard sell to shareholders to hold that off PS5 where it would sell another 3-5 million