The Never Ending Decline of Xbox

Break up with basic browsers. Get Opera GX here: operagx.gg/TheActMan3 Xbox recently shut down multiple game studios and they gave the most horrible reasons for doing so. After shutting down Tango Gameworks, the developers behind Hi-Fi Rush, I have no faith in Xbox's ability to release high-quality titles. This is... The Never-Ending Decline of Xbox.

the fact that Tango was shut down for apparently wanting a few years of development for Hi Fi Rush 2 is so sad.

"We acquired Lionhead in 2006 shut it down in 2016, a couple of years later we reflected on that experience" They reflected on how to do it again.

Pretty poetic that a studio that made a game with themes of corporate greed and overreach gets shut down post said game releasing

"There hasn't been a killer app for the Series X, and if there has, you can play it somewhere else" What a damning indictment of the Series generation, and mostly for the Xbox One, too.

XBox peaked in high school and is spending it's mid 30's drunk, ranting about how he coulda gone Pro controller.

“Too big to fail” attitude never works out for any company.

This aged beautifully

This is why Game Devs need a union.

Ah, Satoru Iwata. Not only was he a compassionate and charismatic leader, he also was a genius programmer who, among other feats, tested and debugged Super Smash Bros Melee in one week (which was all that he had because the game was due), recompressed Pokémon Golden and Silver so well they could include the Kanto region from Red and Blue in the cartridge, and he single-handedly reprogrammed EarthBound from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project at a time when all seemed lost. Mr. Iwata weighted heavily in Nintendo's long term success in every way conceivable. He was the kind of CEO companies only dream they could have. He is a legend, and he is sorely missed.

“Just one more studio” “There’s always another god damn studio”

The most jarring thing about Xbox is the initial launch would've failed if it wasn't for Halo, turns out good games sell consoles. How Microsoft seemingly forgot this and is currently letting it happen again, is just astonishing.

The entire video game industry has become a toxic relationship between developers and publishers. I don't think I need to tell you which one needs to be dumped.

I like the Golden Goose analogy. It feels like Xbox doesn't understand that if you let the goose be for a while, it will lay golden eggs and continue to lay golden eggs. Instead what Xbox does is cut the goose open, take the golden egg, discard the carcass, and move on to the next goose.

Somehow the Red Dead Redemption 2 format you chose for this is a perfect analogy of a once great strong organization spiraling into panic and insanity

You might not be criticizing game pass, but from a developer's perspective at the higher end of performance no amount of game pass subs can adequately substitute game sales

Playing “Our Best Selves” from RDR2 is very fitting, considering it plays when the gang is in disarray towards the end of the game.

Microsoft is the equivalent of that girl from Finding Nemo, shaking the fish in the bag and then wondering why it isn't moving.

I'm utterly shocked and stunned at just how far Xbox has fallen since the introduction of the Xbox One.

After the Xbox showcase, do you still think Xbox is in decline?