Xbox No Longer Has Its Head In The Game

Microsoft & Xbox have shut down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks to lay off more workers, insinuating that they're not in the game anymore.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

They're headless for a long time because closing tango isn't exactly a good move

[PapaBop]

Ever since that cringe Kinect reveal they've never been the same. They used to make some amazing games and do great deals with third parties Early on in the 360 era they had games like Chromehounds and Shadowrun, both well ahead of their time. Now instead of nurturing their studios, they'd rather gaslight gamers and throw billions on pre existing studios. Not sure how Spencer is still in a job, I wouldn't trust him to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

[Father__Merrin]

We've said all along Spencer needs to go. I wish xbox went back to xbox only with new gears fable forza halo releases lots of third party releases

Those early rainbow 6 Vegas days and phantasy star universe are gone forever

[S2Killinit]

MS has its head in the game but the game they are playing is something different from what console gamers expect from a platform. MS’s end game has always been to use the xbox as a trojan horse.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Lol that's funny well this plan they have isn't working homie

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Acquisitions always come with cuts

[1Victor]

“Acquisitions always come with cuts”

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[Tacoboto]

Especially for Microsoft, when Booty pretty much said they didn't know how to handle that many studios.

Why even make the acquisition then.

[-Foxtrot]

Didn’t they make the swipe for Bethesda when Sony wanted like 6 months exclusiveness for Starfield

It’s like…chill, you got Rise of the Tomb Raider for a year.

[romulus23]

Do they always come with senseless cuts becasue that's exactly what cutting Tango was, senseless.

[H9]

Everyone's acting now that game companies care about games and Xbox is committing the Ultimate betrayal, they are all like this and you have just been quiet about it for far too long

[Nuclearmoon]

I wonder if Microsoft do pull out of the console market that it might open the door for valve to relaunch the Steambox. Competition is good for the industry but Microsoft don't even seem to be trying anymore.

[UltimateOwnage]

Steam / Valve are one of the few truly pro-consumer bright spots in gaming right now. Thankfully.

[Jingsing]

From all the money Valve make from Steam they reinvest almost 0 into creating new AAA titles for the PC platform, Absolutely no giving nothing back in that regard. Wake up.

[jwillj2k4]

“Your game has won some pretty significant awards and is a show piece for where we want to go in the future.”

1 hour later.

“We’re gonna have to let you go. You can’t cover our 100 billion dollar acquisition. Oh and take your awards too 👍🏾”

[zaanan]

has it ever tho?

[Flewid638]

I dont recall a moment outside of the brief beginnings of the Xbox360 where they ever had their head in the game.

[TheGamingHounds]

And that was the thing which should have stuck all this time

Unfortunately, Xbox died after 360

Not to mention the advent of Pay for Online and Gamepass. Truly the death of gaming

[Flewid638]

Im fine with subscription services. In fact, thats another good example of how they never had their head in the game.

So far I've had Ubisoft+, PS Premium and GamePass PC. Between the 3, the selection on GamePass has always been the worst. I'm a huge Sci-Fi nerd so Starfield was supposed to be their saving grace. Didn't happen. I say they just give up.

[anast]

The thing is 'you all' thought they were something they weren't and took that as some kind of truth. Only to find out, 'you all' lied to 'yourselves.'

[Knightofelemia]

They never did have their head in the game. Xbox basically has been ran nose first into the ground over the years. And it just keeps getting deeper and deeper nose first into the ground.

[Pyrofire95]

Closing Tango was one of the dumbest things they could have done. And Closing Arkane Austin after they were forced to make a game like Redfall just sucks.

[Psychonaut85]

Head? What head? Oh it’s buried up it’s own ass, that’s why I didn’t see it.

[mandf]

Never did. They thought they would bully or buy there way into being the top dog

[Tankbusta40]

Xbox has been "headless" since the first few years of the 360 era

[jznrpg]

This has been the case half way through Xbox 360. Games stopped coming and Kinect became the focus. Then the Xbox One reveal. Many people have been saying this for a long long time and now the rest of the world is now realizing it? It makes no sense that it took this long as the evidence has been there for many years. Xbox fans just wrote it off as Xbox hate but it was denial of the obvious.

[Crows90]

Of course not!

It's always been up their rear end...

[Dwarrior]

I was one of those people standing in line at midnight, in the cold, sick as a dog, waiting to buy Halo 2.

My, how far we've come.

[Tankbusta40]

I remember driving around at midnight to try and find a copy of Halo 3

[PRIMORDUS]

It's up their ass, if they need to find it.