Xbox Game Studios Stupidity Hate Thread Game Pass Edition

[Agares]

Was it an option? I read it was a stipulation by Valve that all the machines had to be capable of dual-booting Windows, maybe because they were aware SteamOS still wasn't ready for prime time.

For the Alienware ones, yeah but apparently that version of the Alpha wasn’t branded as a Steam machine. The hardware was completely identical to the Steam one, minus the logo though.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I facepalmed when they raised prices too, and on a console that should be getting cheaper.

Even if the hardware market returns to post-AI sanity, you can still look forward to this being the new normal as die shrinks no longer automatically make chips dramatically cheaper the way they have for half a century. Sony could afford to sell the revised PSOne for $99 because the bill of materials in 2000 was a fraction of what it had been in 1994.

 

[Love Is Blue]

Retards
Update 10:43 a.m.: Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has posted to Bluesky, “Despite a report this morning, I can confirm that Obsidian is not in negotiations to avoid shutting down. Plenty of details are still up in the air surrounding the layoffs (picture will be clear on Monday), but Xbox is keeping Obsidian, according to people familiar with the situation.”

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

obsidian have already said that they dont want to make ambitous games anymore and are happy in releasing worthless faggotry games timely.

 

[Anon88]

Obsidian took a combined 14 years on avowed and outer worlds 2, made no money on either of them and get to stay around? I bet they're going to have big layoffs and be turned into a besethda side studio to help with fallout and elder scroll titles. There's going to be a punishment for wasting this much dev time even if it's not a shutdown.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Obsidian took a combined 14 years on avowed and outer worlds 2, made no money on either of them and get to stay around? I bet they're going to have big layoffs and be turned into a besethda side studio to help with fallout and elder scroll titles. There's going to be a punishment for wasting this much dev time even if it's not a shutdown.

While I'm calling bullshit with you that they make money as a studio, they also put out games regularly, unlike almost all of the other studios MS owns that are content to fuck around and suck tranny cock or whatever the fuck they do other than doing the work they're paid for. Whipping Obsidian into shape to make good games is easier than making a gaggle of retards and faggots who fail at making any games.

 

[Agares]

Obsidian took a combined 14 years on avowed and outer worlds 2, made no money on either of them and get to stay around? I bet they're going to have big layoffs and be turned into a besethda side studio to help with fallout and elder scroll titles. There's going to be a punishment for wasting this much dev time even if it's not a shutdown.

I googled Outer Worlds 2 sales out of curiosity and it didn't even sell a million copies. That's on PS4, Xbox and Steam combined.

Turns out reddit tier writing and mediocrity don't sell.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Obsidian took a combined 14 years on avowed and outer worlds 2, made no money on either of them and get to stay around? I bet they're going to have big layoffs and be turned into a besethda side studio to help with fallout and elder scroll titles. There's going to be a punishment for wasting this much dev time even if it's not a shutdown.

They've released 7 games in 8 years - even if it's all Gamepass slop - that's clearly what MS wanted.

There are studios that have released 0 games in 8 years and they clearly need to go first.

 

[moocow]

Retards
Update 10:43 a.m.: Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has posted to Bluesky, “Despite a report this morning, I can confirm that Obsidian is not in negotiations to avoid shutting down. Plenty of details are still up in the air surrounding the layoffs (picture will be clear on Monday), but Xbox is keeping Obsidian, according to people familiar with the situation.”

Oh well if Mister "Triple-D tiddies on a 16-year-old means you're a pedo" Schreier says it's true (without revealing his sources, of course) says it's true, well then it must be true!

 

[Oliver Onions]

Obsidian took a combined 14 years on avowed and outer worlds 2, made no money on either of them and get to stay around?

They must be inside the same circle of protection spell as Bioware, who've dodged the axe consistently despite a solid decade and counting of failed (and extremely expensive) AAA flops.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Xbox helix won't have physical disks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1ukq887/windows_central_project_helix_will_be_dropping/

I thought that leaked a few years back when some slides of their nExT gEn console was used in the ABK acquisition?

 

[Agares]

They must be inside the same circle of protection spell as Bioware, who've dodged the axe consistently despite a solid decade and counting of failed (and extremely expensive) AAA flops.

BioWare isn’t even a zombie studio anymore. It’s little more than a reanimated skeleton shambling for its necromancer.

 

[Jace on ice]

They must be inside the same circle of protection spell as Bioware, who've dodged the axe consistently despite a solid decade and counting of failed (and extremely expensive) AAA flops.

Starfield allegedly lost somewhere between 120 and 160 million dollars, it was an incredibly expressive flop for Microsoft.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Rare is fucked then, I don't see how they survive this.

 

[Adolf Von Merkel]

Rare is fucked then, I don't see how they survive this.

Both Rare and Obsidian will suffer a fate worse than dead.
The former will be the Sea of Thieves studio and the later the grounded sequels studio.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Just for the sake of discussion - this is AI generated and I didn't double check it but generally a list of all of the studios, what they've released and if they have anything expressly stated to release inside of 2 years. On a side note but AI is completely retarded and I had to re-gen the list like 10 times so take it with a grain of salt.

Xbox Game Studios Division​

Studio	Latest Release (Game 1)	Game 2	Game 3	Upcoming Release (Next 2 Years)
Halo Studios (Formerly 343)	Halo Infinite (2021)	Halo: TMCC - PC Release (2019)	Halo Fireteam Raven (2018)	TBA (Next mainline Halo in development)
The Coalition	Gears Tactics (2020)	Gears 5 (2019)	Gears of War 4 (2016)	Gears of War: E-Day (Confirmed: October 6, 2026)
Playground Games	Forza Horizon 5 (2021)	Forza Horizon 4 (2018)	Forza Horizon 3 (2016)	Fable (Confirmed: February 23, 2027)
Turn 10 Studios	Forza Motorsport (2023)	Forza Motorsport 7 (2017)	Forza Motorsport 6 (2015)	None announced
Obsidian Entertainment	The Outer Worlds 2 (2025)	Avowed (2025)	Pentiment (2022)	None announced
Ninja Theory	Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (2024)	Bleeding Edge (2020)	Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017)	Project: Mara (In development)
Double Fine	Psychonauts 2 (2021)	Rad (2019)	Grim Fandango - Switch Port (2018)	Unannounced projects
Mojang Studios	Minecraft Legends (2023)	Minecraft Dungeons (2020)	Minecraft Earth (2019)	Continuous Minecraft live-ops
Rare	Sea of Thieves (2018)	Rare Replay (2015)	Kinect Sports Rivals (2014)	Everwild (In development / No date)
inXile Entertainment	Wasteland 3 (2020)	The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut (2019)	The Bard's Tale Remastered (2020)	Clockwork Revolution (Confirmed: 2027)
Compulsion Games	South of Midnight (2025)	We Happy Few (2018)	Contrast (2013)	None announced
Undead Labs	State of Decay 2 (2018)	State of Decay: YOSE (2015)	State of Decay (2013)	State of Decay 3 (Confirmed: 2027)
World's Edge	Age of Mythology: Retold (2024)	Age of Empires IV (2021)	Age of Empires III: Definitive Ed. (2020)	Franchise management

ZeniMax Media (Bethesda) Division​

Studio	Latest Release (Game 1)	Game 2	Game 3	Upcoming Release (Next 2 Years)
id Software	DOOM: The Dark Ages (2025)	Doom Eternal (2020)	Rage 2 (2019)	Unannounced project
Bethesda Game Studios	Starfield (2023)	The Elder Scrolls: Blades (2019)	Fallout 76 (2018)	The Elder Scrolls VI (Long-term development)
Arkane Studios (Lyon)	Deathloop (2021)	Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2019)	Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)	Marvel's Blade (Targeted: Late 2027)
MachineGames	Indiana Jones & The Great Circle (2024)	Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2019)	Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017)	Unannounced project
ZeniMax Online	TESO: Gold Road (2024 Expansion)	TESO: Necrom (2023 Expansion)	TESO: High Isle (2022 Expansion)	Annual expansions

Activision Blizzard Division​

Studio	Latest Release (Game 1)	Game 2	Game 3	Upcoming Release (Next 2 Years)
Blizzard Entertainment	Diablo IV (2023)	Warcraft Rumble (2023)	Overwatch 2 (2022)	Continuous WoW & Diablo expansions
Infinity Ward	CoD: Modern Warfare III (2023)	CoD: Modern Warfare II (2022)	Call of Duty: Warzone (2020)	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (Confirmed: October 23, 2026)
Treyarch	Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (2025)	Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024)	Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021 - Support)	Ongoing franchise support
Sledgehammer Games	CoD: Modern Warfare III (2023)	Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021)	Call of Duty: WWII (2017)	Call of Duty 2027 (In development)
King	Candy Crush 3D (2024)	Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! (2021)	Candy Crush Friends Saga (2018)	Live-ops mobile tracki

I think that any COD studio, Mojang, King, and Bethesda are safe - even if they lose support studios. Obsidian is safe just from throughput of a steady stream of 6/10 games. I think the Gears Studio (The Coalition) is fine, strictly for now, until E-Day comes out.

I do wonder if Microsoft re-considers the two and three studio approach for Call of Duty and for Forza.

I think Arkane is done, I think Undead Labs is done (although they may be able to stall out and get SOD3 out the door and then get layoffed down to a support crew), I think Rare is hyper done, I think Double Fine is done.

I think it would be justified (and hilarious) to kill off Blizzard and equally hilarious if 343/Halo Studios also were killed.

 

[Oliver Onions]

BioWare isn’t even a zombie studio anymore. It’s little more than a reanimated skeleton shambling for its necromancer.

Mass Effect 5 will save the company, bro. Just try one more Mass Effect game bro, please, I promise it will work this time. Remember Bioware Magic™ bro?

Starfield allegedly lost somewhere between 120 and 160 million dollars, it was an incredibly expressive flop for Microsoft.

That was Bethesda, not Bioware, and they're probably one of the only safe studios at Microsoft because Fallout and Elder Scrolls are still popular IPs despite neither producing a good new game in over a decade.

Fun Fact: If Elder Scrolls VI doesn't release by 2028 there will officially have been more time between it and Skyrim than between Skyrim and Elder Scrolls I (1994-2011, 17 years).

Fable (Confirmed: February 23, 2027)

They delayed this shit again?! That game is so doomed, there is no fucking way. Xbox might be dead as a brand before it finally releases.

 

[Anon88]

They've released 7 games in 8 years - even if it's all Gamepass slop - that's clearly what MS wanted.

There are studios that have released 0 games in 8 years and they clearly need to go first.

You're probably right about this. It's sad that Xbox is at the point where just releasing games puts you near the top in the company regardless of quality.

They must be inside the same circle of protection spell as Bioware, who've dodged the axe consistently despite a solid decade and counting of failed (and extremely expensive) AAA flops.

But Veilgaurd and Mass Effect Andromeda are so good. Don't you remember fan favorite characters like Taash and PeeBee? Its the fans who had it wrong not Bioware.

equally hilarious if 343/Halo Studios also were killed.

They 100% should be. 343 exist solely to make Halo games and has failed to make a single one as good as the older ones to the point where Halo isn't even that big of a IP anymore. They can't do their jobs and nobody likes them so what reason do they have to exist for? At this point you might as well give the IP to one of your other companies or outsource it because you can't get much worse then what they're been pumping out the last bunch of years. If anything its crazy they didn't get shut down years ago once it was noticeable the fans where starting to lose interest.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I think Rare, Doublefine, Machine, Undead, Ninja Theory, and a ton of Blizzard are finito. The other Forza team is cooked too.

 

[Product Placement]

Rare is fucked then, I don't see how they survive this.

ms will just make them do sea of thives 2 with no hope of doing any other ip ever again