PC G*mer Link: President of Xbox asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing

@ 4:00 is the question

>Then Bond is asked about Tango Gameworks, and fires back an answer that seems both off-the-cuff and completely deflective.

>"One of the things I really love about the games industry is it's a creative artform, and it means that the situation—and what success [means] for each game and studio is also really unique," Bond begins. "There's no 'one-size fits all' to it for us. And so we look at each studio, each game team, and we look at a whole variety of factors when we're faced with making decisions and trade-offs like that."

>Bond adds: "But it all comes back to our long-term commitment to the games we create, the devices we build, the services—and ensuring that we're setting ourselves up to be able to deliver on those promises." That's it, next question. No elaboration.

It's painful watching the video. It's 17 minutes of spitting out buzzwords fed to her by her team. There's nothing of substance or iota of care about gaming. She's clueless about the industry she makes executive decisions on, the livelihoods of thousands and the passions of millions. I had no idea of her background and the caricatures are true - she really is a Harvard MBA.

Edit: I watched the video again. If you pay attention really closely, she's just whispering under her breath the words “shareholder value” for 17 minutes.

I wonder does she talk in this way in all parts of life, because conversation with her would be impossible.

Imagine being her husband and asking her "How was your day, honey?" and then just getting bombarded with buzzwords and corp-speak that says absolutely nothing, let alone answer the question.

Bonnie Ross vibes (who?? )

its this everyone of these guys from Xbox are MBA drones on $500k or more none of them are g*mers, none of them have ever picked up a controller, all of them have a placeholder Xbox g*mer account with token acheivements etc. yusuf mehdi, mr. tv tv tv tv - they're all the same.... slick slimy advertising buttholes and this is why xbox is always going to be #3 i think at least nintendo and to some extent, playstation has some dedicated folks at the reins... ie. mark cerny seems to be a great h/w person and theres people like Kaz Yamauchi.... truly... savants and yet if you look at other MS alumni like Panos Panay, I'm not sure its better if you throw it to them... was it different with peter moore j. allard behind the wheel? well yeah. the current staff going back to mattrick makes me not want to spend money on xbox

She's the president? lol. Xbox is fricked

McKinsey word salad

some good fighting among redditeurs

They really have no idea what they're doing

If only they had experts like the ones in reddit, theyd be successful.

If only they had more white knights like you to guard them

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but when a studio releases Hi-Fi Rush, it receives insane reviews, great sales, and GOTY nominations/awards, is praised by the publisher, then is immediately shut down, then the publisher comes out and says "we need smaller games that win awards"... I mean yes like I said I'm no expert BUT COME THE FRICK ON. They clearly have no idea what they're doing. I'm no expert but I know that Nintendo doesn't just fire a bunch of people after their game sells like crazy, and that company has been making games WAY longer than Microsoft. It doesn't take an expert to see that Microsoft has no idea how to manage game publishing.

Did it have great sales tho? It's not like it was an indie game that cost nothing to make and it was only sold at $30.

It's hard to find hard numbers on it because it's digital only but according to the wiki it has had over 3,000,000 players between both sales and Game Pass and it's now releasing on Playstation and Switch. I'd say it's been a financial success.

I seriously doubt it had “great sales”. It probably had the opposite of that for Microsoft to shut them down. I seriously doubt Microsoft were like “this studio is making us truck load of money let's close them”. Great user and critic reviews isn't going to save a studio at the end of the day if no one bought the game. And this is not the first game that underpowered from them. Ghostwyre Tokyo failed financially too and that was marketed by Sony and launched on Ps5/PC.

Over 3,000,000 players across sales and Game Pass. And even if sales were low that falls on the publisher for not advertising the game correctly. When all the critics and fans say the game is a 10/10 then the developers did their job flawlessly. Microsoft should've advertised it more if sales were down.

3m players doesn't tell us much. I am making this up but let's say 90% of them have played the game for 1 hour on gamepass. Then that fails in generating gamepass engagement and low sales and you have a game that just underperforms. We don't know the revenue, costs and profit of the game. Microsoft does know that. There is no world in which the game makes them truckload of money and they shut it down. You guys yourself said it - they care all about the bottom line. Advertising the game heavily costs money. Which you then need to make up through hopefully higher sales and end up being ahead. I suspect Microsoft didn't think it's worth doing it. Some games are more niche and inevitably have lower sales. Hi fi rush is likely one of them. We have seen this time and time again with great games undeperofmring financially. Nothing new here. This was the case with HI Fi rush and their previous game - ghostwire Tokyo which was promoted by Sony.

goes on and on

>Bro she was basically fondeling investor balls the entire time. Someone gave her the wrong script and she had bing summarize it for her.

!g*mers

It apparently started when SNOY started mandating linking PSN accounts to steam/PC version of the game

/r/PCGaming: Helldivers 2 to require linking Steam account to a Playstation account starting on May 6th. It was previously optional due to technical issues at launch

/r/Games : HELLDIVERS 2 Account Linking Update

The revolution begins

Aftermath:

/r/steam : Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly

PCGaming :

• Helldivers 2 received over 14,000 negative reviews today due to an update that will require PSN accounts next week.

• Helldivers 2 has now received 84,000 negative reviews in the past day.

ENTIRE /r/Helldivers

Devs trying to put out the fire

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1ck0o8k/helldivers_2_community_manager_gives_update_on/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjyll7/some_groomercord_updates/?sort=controversial

Apparently some countries can't create PSN accounts like Sri Lanka and they can't play the game they bought now because they can't create a PSN account

!g*mers !personalarmy

Just lastweek they were dunking on Tarkov, the irony

Just looking for something for the weekend. Preferably something short. These games have been good to me:

• Bioshock Infinite

• GTA 4

• He Fricked The Girl Out Of Me

• Jusant

• Max Payne 2

• Neverending Nightmares

• Quantum Break

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider

• Tell Me Why

• Goodbye Volcnao High

• Mirror's Edge

Is Pentiment any good? It looks cool.

I have never made a more desperate plea that what I am about to say right now. @riotgames @RiotSupport I need you guys to fucking do something. I am an incredibly strong person and I have been streaming for a very, very long time. But absolutely nothing prepares you for someone… pic.twitter.com/Gr77uBsBrT

— TaylorMorgan (@TaylorMorganS_) May 13, 2024

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— no context memes (@weirddalle) May 13, 2024

Update I will no longer be checking out stellaris https://t.co/hJgHpQmD1F pic.twitter.com/P7styCjsxt

— Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin 🐀 (@VoicesByZane) May 10, 2024

It's fundamentally disrespectful to artists

that's exactly why people are pro AI

Please CA, do it

LMAO

Like they added that jrpg with hidjab foid but of course didn't added that certain Korean game. I kinda liked SAGA scarlet but in emerald that hidjab foid kills all the immersion

!g*mers

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1cnymzy/suicide_squad_cost_warner_bros_200_million_in/?sort=controversial !g*mers

AND YET WB IS FRICKING DOUBLING DOWN ON THE LIVESERVICEFORTNITESLOP

ZASLAV-SAMA, I KNEEL

@RWBY

>Force company that doesn't want to do game as service to do a game as service, games fails fire them

BREAKING: Microsoft is closing Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and Alpha Dog Studios. Story to come here: https://t.co/Bz415HE1hX pic.twitter.com/3jWrb9MySL

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 7, 2024

Basically confirms the rumor last year that HFR sold poorly. Shame 'cause it was my personal GOTY 2023

Console players will call it whining

PC players call it winning

It's why they have the better perks. Deeper discounts, free games without subscriptions. No payments for online multiplayer. More games. More features. Fewer restrictions

You were lied to and mislead. And I… pic.twitter.com/FkwRh2TzRX

— THE RED DRAGON (@TWTHEREDDRAGON) May 6, 2024

New Major Order just dropped!!

PLEASE HELLDIVERS, REVERSE THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS, THIS GAME HAS HUGE POTENTIAL TO BE GOTY 2024

As of right now, It's the best-selling game in 2024 🔥#Helldivers2 pic.twitter.com/qTRHIDkRas

— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) May 6, 2024

Not content with forcing their values on games, Sony has once again shown off their prude side with the PS4 English release of the Tsukihime remake, censoring two images that come in the Limited Edition extra artbook showing off design drafts.

Two of the images in the artbook will be altered according to Aniplex, while the Nintendo Switch version will remain uncensored, showing off just how fragile Sony is. The game itself has no changes made to either version, which raises questions as to what is being censored.

Some people have speculated that it is an image of Ciel mostly naked, while others brought up two images that show off panties on a petite girl, which surely would raise alarm bells with those who can't differentiate reality from fiction:

Like neighbors I had no idea this game exist or what it is

So I googled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukihime

So it's some obscure porn franchises from 2000

This image will get censored

I mean why would you buy porn game on ps if you can pirate on p… I mean buy on steam than install uncensored patch.

It's quite interesting that the good plot japanese games have porn in it

There were no memes about this. I never once encountered someone discussing the skin color or intellect of Erudites they were simply another race to pick from especially if you wanted to cap your INT stat.

This was 1999 and for the next decade remained immune to whatever racial dialogue was going on outside the world of gaming. We were just nerds having fun in the best MMORPG ever created.

!nonchuds what happened to the internet since then?

Enjoy this banger login music from back in the day.

!coomers the box art for these games was .

Her name is Firiona Vie.