A little more than a year ago, in the fall of 2011, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 business was basking in the glow of the “Kinect Effect”.
Interest in the motion controller was driving record sales of the Xbox 360 a full six years after its release — a whopping 8.2 million units sold for the 2011 holiday quarter. Microsoft’s console would go on to top the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii for the first time in head-to-head worldwide annual sales.
Fast-forward to present day, and that effect is hard to see.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
its a sucess for Microsoft but thankfully its not selling that well anymore...
i dont want that casual trash on my games, i want only core games with all the money they waste on those kinect and move sh** they could make more Core IPS for us.
Kinect already did what MS set it to do and that was to extend (breath new) the life into the system. It brought in new players as well as diversify it's library what a lot of people on this site were claiming there was a lack of.
People jumped on the motion band wagon a while back but I think its appeal has been drawn out. Hopefully for the next consoles we will see a more thought out and immersive or better implemented approach for this idea.
With the rumors of the nextbox having more power behind it the Kinect 2 should be able to work as well as they originally attended.
We'll have to see.
kleenex effect i'd say
It was a FAD....once the casual fad chasers get their fill they will move on to the next FAD.
But if this casual gaming boom changes non games into core games then it may have been worth it in the long run
Natal tech demos lol hahahah blasphemy and i feel sorry for the ppl that were duped.