It’s hard to be part of the game industry (or report on it) and not feel unrelenting despair at the state of things. Earlier this week, announced it was shuttering several studios under the umbrella, including , Tango Gameworks, and more. All of the studios were attained in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:$7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda parent company , which it kꦫickstarted after hearing that Starfi♋eld might be a exclusive.

The studios being shuttered have produced some excellent games: , , and were developed by Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, the two losses most bemoaned by the𒅌 gaming community. They were also developing the most interesting games – while Arkane’s latest game was a swing and a miss, Hi-Fi Rush was very well received by players and largely lauded by critics as being one of the best recent Xbox exclusives.

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It’s been revealed that during the closures, 🍸head of Xbox Studios Matt Booty told the affected stuﷺdios, “These changes are grounded in prioritising high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blo♈ckbuster games.” Looking at what’s left of Bethesda’s studios and what we know to be in the works, it seems like Booty is referring to the main Bethesda team working on the and games, which are the company’s most popular franchises.

Tango Gameworks, in particular, was in the process of pitching a sequel to the beloved Hi-Fi Rush, and would have needed to hire more staff to develop the game. Arkane seemed to also be hiring for future projects, possibly pitching a new single player title that may have been a new Dishonored game.

According to ZeniMax head Jill Braff, the company was overwhelmed by the number of projects in devel﷽opment over the nine studios, and decided to shut down studios it deemed extraneous. Considering that Bethesda seems to now work exclusively on massive, decade-long projects – Fallout 4 released in 2015, Skyrim in 2011, and Starfield took about a decade to make ꦦ– you’d think that Bethesda would want to keep studios that are making smaller games, in shorter time frames, that players actually like. Its “blockbuster games” require a lot more resources, much more time, and can be incredible money sinks if they’re not received well.

Starfield is one such example – a decade in development and $200 million were put into a new IP that ultimately turned out to be widely considered just okay. Studios investing only in blockbusters are making huge, ill-advised bets, keeping all their eggs in one basket while closing down studios doing perfectly good, no⛦t to mention unique and interesting, wor﷽k. Every company seems to be doing this, making the market more hostile to games that take chances and aren’t “blockbuster games”.

So yes, while it’s easy to focus on the inhumanity it takes to put hundreds of talented employees out of work for wanting to make more critically lauded games, we also need to remember that it’s also stupid. It’s bad business strategy to be focusing only on the big projects, and yet here we are, watching one of the biggest gaming companies in the world do just that. We can only hope that the employees of these studios land on their feet and go on to continue making cool games, because the industry will be worse o♛ff without them.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Xbox Game Studios

Date Founded

🅘 March 1, 2000

CEO

ℱ Phil Spencer 🥀

Parent Company

ܫ Microsof✃t, Microsoft Game Studios

Subsidiaries

🅘 Mojang Studios, Obsidian Enterไtainment, Playground Games, 343 Industries, Zenimax Media

Consoles

Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox One X, Xbox ꦛSeires X

Accessories

✤ 🦩 Xbox Elite Controller Series 2, Xbox Series S Paper, Xbox Adaptive Controller

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