Recently, we got to interview Hi-Fi Rush director John Johanas, and he shared lots of interesting details about the game's development.
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Tango Gameworks was working on new The Evil Within content & had a 6 months old prototype of Hi-Fi Rush 2 in the works prior to closure.
...they didn't close, they changed owners. As far as i know HFR2 is still in the works.
Hifi 2 is still in development. The devs themselves said what they wanted to do with the sequel.
The Evil Within Anniversary Edition?
Good God. We were robbed.
I would imagine they would have improved the graphics and animations to bring them more in line with the second game. Wishful thinking but it would have been really cool if they redid the voice lines from the first game aswell with the same actors from the second, I felt they had more personality in the sequel. The only person I thought gave it a bit more than the others was Jennifer Carpenter as Kidman but the sequels voice actress did a great job aswell.
Microsoft is going to do f*** all with the IP and we'll never see a second Ruvik and Seb showdown.
I hope Krafton goes back and gets it after Hi-Fi Rush 2 if it was only because they didn't want the initial purchase to get complicated.
I wasn't really making a point at what game was overall better, just the voices were so flat in the first one and it would be nice if the animations and the like would be improved upon.
I really got to get around to playing the first one, I really liked the second game.
It hurts so bad knowing that there might have been new content for Evil Within..love those games
What a stupid, short sided move by Microsoft. Comparatively it would have been cheap for them to hang onto their only Japanese studio, with actually good games that people want to play. I struggle to understand how Phil Spencer is still employed. At this point it is Kathleen Kennedy levels of failure.
Well said about him being Microsoft's version of Kathleen Kennedy.
All he has been doing is to destroy Xbox and it is unbelievable he falls upwards.
Krafton CEO : 'It's a team that should be encouraged to create something new and continue their journey.'
Original title : 'We don't think Hi-Fi Rush 2 is going to make us money:' Krafton CEO says Tango Gameworks acquisition is about legacy
I’m wonder if Microsoft fully sold the Hi-Fi Rush IP. They kept the publishing rights of the original game. I don’t even understand why the IP was sold. MS could have had another of its menagerie of studios do another Hi-Fi game, despite such a thing being unlikely.
It was given for free on gamepass. It didn’t sell well. Look at starfield it only sold 2.5 million because of gamepass
Starfield did $235 million in revenue on Steam alone from Sept-December 2023. So I’m sure it sold considerably more than 2.5 million copies.
https://www.gamingbible.com...
Yes, it did sell well. GP version has a fraction of the reviews that the Deluxe Edition (more expensive purchase version of original) has. If anything, it shows that more people actually bought the Deluxe version than played the GP version, on Xbox at least.
Hi-Fi Rush on the Switch 2 at launch would probably sell a good amount.
That's good imo because the game is more fun for it.