Lack of royalties after Heavenly Sword removed the safety net.
UK indie outfit Ninja Theory claims it was on the precipice of studio closure after the release of its PS3 launch title.
Company co-founder Tameem Antoniades said the situation was “difficult” after the 2007 launch of PS3 exclusive Heavenly Sword.
Ninja Theory might have games in the pipeline, but that doesn't mean Xbox won't close it for no reason
Alot of speculation on their part. Ninja Theory has two games that have been green lighted and are in the works. Yes it’s always a possibility they could be closed but no matter how you feel about the Senua games. They do make a quality game. I personally think MS is going lay low for a bit, after the firestorm they experienced last week.
It's not for no reason.
The reason is they made two games that were underwhelming (Bleeding Edge) and didn't/aren't going to grow the user base for game pass.
They spent 5-7 years and this was what they produced, it's easy to see how they would be on the short list for termination at this point.
Apparently Ninja Theory is safe From being closed down https://www.gamespot.com/ar...
Already working on a new game. They are a 80 person team and relatively inexpensive I suppose to any other publisher
Buuuuut.
Yeaah sorry this is MS, I don't believe anything MS says. They have to be joking if they think anyone will believe them besides gullible Xbox fanboys. Once again MS needs to earn my trust back. Just when they earn some trust back, they always seem to destroy it and have to work to get it back. I still think they're getting shut down and canceling whatever game they're making because the game won't sell, again MS fault for not advertising it.. This company man...
I don't see Microsoft shutting off the lights to Ninja Theory. As a studio they actually have talent and have released some decent games. I love Enslaved maybe a sleeper hit but it's one of my favorites. Only way I see Microsoft shutting off the lights is if Ninja Theory releases games that sink faster then a lead weight. And there are fans of Ninja Theory one thing I would hate to see is Ninja Theory ending up like Bioware. Loosing all their talent and being a former shell of what they use to be.
It was just announced that MS gave NT the greenlight for its next game. I just hope it's not another Hellblade. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/...
Ninja Theory's latest trailer for their highly anticipated narrative action-adventure Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is absolute cinema.
Like I said before, buying Ninja Theory was one of the smartest moves by Microsoft. Games looks incredible.
badass. already installed via gamepass. if its as great as the first one I will pay for the whole game.
LOL! Didn't send any shivers down my spine but I'll demo it after midnight tonight through Gamepass to see what it's giving.
It looks amazing, I’m hoping the reviews are solid. You can tell the studio really poured their heart and soul into this one.
Following the closure of 4 studios, many are now worried for the future of Ninja Theory once Hellblade 2 is released.
Because they're next come next year. HB2 won't hit some impossible metric within MS so they're getting axed in 2025. Leave gaming now MS.
Every xbox studio is in danger now because there’s just no way they’re gonna rake in big money from game sales because of gamepass, even CoD was rumored to not come to gamepass because it would canibalize their sales number.
Ninja theory games were never big sellers. I could be wrong, but I doubt hellblade 2 will sell millions. I would rather they go independent and make heavenly sword 2.
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Good luck to them & Enslaved then.
Hoping they would be successful & develops Heavenly Sword 2 and / or other new games.
Seriously how many times are they going to talk about Heavenly Sword
They probably should have made a game longer than 6 hrs. Also, the sad thing is that an HS2 would probably sell better than Enslaved; it's facing very tough competition this year. If they made HS2 they would have had access to sony's internal studios' resources too. Imagine HS2 on the GOW3 engine.
I hope they delay Enslaved because it will be overshadowed this year
They bitching AGAIN?! This is getting beyond boring. Every other day they're talking about Heavenly Sword and how it being a PS3 exclusive supposedly butt raped their studio.
Well no games on PS3 made much money back in 2007 at launch. If they were to come out now with something I'm sure it would sell alot more but yeah I'm tired of hearing how they got no money for the game. Its like they are on a world tour to tell everyone how broke they are. Talk about your new game. I've hears really no new info on the game just this.