Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer.
How are they closing the one studio that is making interesting games for them?
Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer.
How are they closing the one studio that is making interesting games for them?
Well Senua 1 was cool but it was back in 2017. After that some VR crap, then a crappy multiplayer battle arena game and Senua 2 was very bad compared to first one... So the Ninja Theory of now has not created anything cool for the past like 9 years...
Best case scenario, this is to get rid of the diversity hires etc. I'm sure they do not make game development easy. Making the games they know will sell well that is.
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boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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You're subscribed to MrCuckyPlays, right? If these massive layoff numbers are confirmed you better shoot him a PM so that he doesn't commit unalive over this
“Today, the mood is different. Xbox is looking to reallocate where it spends money. The company wants to invest in its big franchises, and to do that, it needs to cut from elsewhere. Studios such as Compulsion, Ninja Theory, Double Fine, Obsidian, Undead Labs and others are deep in negotiation with Microsoft to avoid closure. The impact of this will likely reverberate across the business.”
"That is the reality. Even if Obsidian had delivered an incredible year, even if The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed had performed five times the numbers that they did, it wouldn’t have offset the drop on Call of Duty. A game like that, and Candy Crush, and Minecraft, and Warcraft, make a lot of Xbox’s output seem almost insignificant."
Even while not being the biggest fan of nu-wokesidian, in the past two years they put out Avowed, Grounded 2, Pentiment and TOW2. They are the far from the other useless derpelopers burning millions for several years while releasing jack shit (looking at the mongoloids at Bethesda and the useless 343 creatures), so it would be deeply unfair seeing Obsidian getting axed like that
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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.
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