Nat Brown Write: I was a founder of the original xBox project at Microsoft and gave it its name. Almost 14 years after the painful, pointless, and idiotic internal cage-match to get it started and funded, the hard selling of a compelling and lucrative living-room product to Bill (and then Steve as he began to take over), a product that consumers would want and love and demand...
But the past 5 years, and the last year in particular, have been simply painful to watch. Coasting on past momentum. Failing to innovate and failing to capitalize on innovations like Kinect. Touting strategic and market success when you’re just experiencing your competitor’s stumbling failure (yes, Sony, Nintendo – you are, I’m afraid, stumbling failures). A complete lack of tactical versus strategic understanding of the long game of the living room. It culminated for me in recent coverage of....a new LA xBox studio to create interactive content.
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 ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
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.
Wow, the rage...so palpable.
"yes, Sony, Nintendo - you are, I'm afraid, stumbling failures".
I'm sorry, but if this dude is indeed focusing more on the past year he is SORELY mistaken with that comment.
Sony has turned things around so much these past 2-3 years. I bought a PS3 when they first launched, and even I had to admit they had basically no games and their service wasn't that great. However lately, with PS+, tons of wonderful exclusives, a re-branding and unification of its services, Sony has really done a wonderful job as opposed to when they started out this generation.
Nintendo is really picking things up as well. The Wii U launch wasn't so hot, but with titles like X, Fire Emblem/Shin Megami, Wind Waker HD, etc., it appears as though they're really starting to try appealing to hardcore fans in the near future. I may not own a Wii U, but I'm excited for those that do, and look forward to its future (which is one I'm seriously considering investing in now.)
So I'm sorry buddy, but after that comment he made, it's kind of hard to take him seriously... Obviously he isn't paying attention to what's going on lately.
He's so bitter.
Good luck getting another job in the industry.
What a nob. screaming at the moon.
This guy doesn't understand universal UI design. All those things he complains about may annoy him, but are necessary for the common person and help to inform users of changes that they may have accidentally have performed. It's a "Better Safe Than Sorry" UI design.