Tango Gameworks employee shares pictures from the Xbox studio's final day

The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush studio has closed its doors.

[Einhander1972]

This shouldn't have happened.

Who's next..

[JEECE]

Ninja Theory, most likely.

[tay8701]

Ninja theory. Others will follow as well. The smaller studios MS owns should all be worried. Maybe MS will try and release some of their games day and date on ps5 to save some of these studios.

[jznrpg]

I can see Ninja Theory. At least Tango made a game that was reviewed well. Ninja Theory spent a lot of years to release a tech demo that didn’t do well at all.

[repsahj]

I get it that Hellblade 2 is a boring game, but I hope they are not the next to be closed.

[ABizzel1]

@repssahj

Ninja Theory is likely on the chopping block too. They released Bleeding Edge which bombed, took 4 years to release Hellbalde 2 which doesn’t seem to be doing well, and still have Project Mara in limbo. They’re high on the chopping block.

MS was likely expecting their God of War / Uncharted quality game from NT based on Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, DmC, and to an extent Hellblade 1, but NT hasn’t delivered since Hellblade 1 which was 7 years ago.

[Sonic1881]

And Obsidian after Avowed releases

[Petebloodyonion]

I rarely agree with you but on this I do!

[darthv72]

.... https://youtu.be/JQqGGgEJHq...

[PRIMORDUS]

3 trillion MS is worth, yet they do this, well Phil the shit bag did. No studio needed to be let go, when you are worth this much.

[S2Killinit]

They had good games.

[TwoPicklesGood]

😭❤️

[anast]

Sad, but I see characters and posters of either less than average or barely average games.

[LoveSpuds]

Have to disagree here duder, with respect. Evil Within was a good game and the sequel was fantastic, as was HiFi Rush. I'd concede Ghostwire was pretty average but regardless, shuttering a studio which just put out MS best game in donkeys years was complete shithousery on XBox' part.

[Einhander1972]

Microsoft paid 8B to buy Zenimax then fired well over 1000 people from Zenimax between the time they closed the deal and they announced these shut downs.

People talk about the 1900 they fired most recently, but that was only one wave of three sets of layoffs from their gaming division so far this generation totalling around 5000 people this generation. Not counting the dozen plus studios they canned last gen including Lionhead the original Fable developers.

[anast]

By every real metric HiFi was an average game. I don't see an Evil within poster in the thumb, which is a shame, because if they threw their weight behind that IP, they might have still been around.

[LoveSpuds]

I don't understand how you can say it was average in every metric when it garnered the reviews it did?

[Fonsecap]

Working people paying the price for leadership bad decisions, so unfair...

[PRIMORDUS]

I hope your proud Phil you fucking shit bag Spencer. Why would he care he's rich and so is MS. Should have a cardboard cutout of Phil, bring it out back and post a video of it burning.

[ZwVw]

Homelander (Phil Spencer) should NEVER be forgiven for literally throwing Tango under the bus.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

Ok, lol I'll bite.

Why homelander? ...I just don't see the connection other than the boys just coming out....but that isn't connected to Phil or MS ...so I'm real curious

[ZwVw]

Does it really need an explanation? A lovable person in the public eye but a slimeball otherwise.

[repsahj]

So unfair! Goodbye Tango Gameworks!

[Chocoburger]

Their only Japanese studio, this is the studio they should have protected, and I've always preferred Japanese style games. Phil killing off Tango shows how out of touch he truly is.

Phil should have been sacked the moment he decided to cancel Scalebound.

[Demetrius]

My heart goes out to those people who especially didnt expect to get laid off, probably even had good convos with their kids about working at a game studio, life has hit them and some were most likely so excited going to work, mentioning games in convos while driving to work, then boom the bs happen, thing is I always notice at whatever company that has lay offs u always see the same ole bosses, ceo reps or whatever lil title makes em feel "important" they'll still have their position still getting bonuses, nice salary smh alot of greedy weirdos thinking they will live forever, that shhi pisses me off so mf much yo

[Relientk77]

Thank you Tango for making great games consistently. Sorry that Microsoft is stupid and made the nonsensical decision to close you with no good actual reason.

[LoveSpuds]

Yet the Xbox extremists will still buy any bullshit from Spencer about attracting Japanese developers.