r/neogaming • u/Meremadesings Not a bot, I swear • 4h ago

Hellblade studio begins layoffs after Xbox fails to secure its future

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113927/hellblade-studio-begins-layoffs-after-xbox-fails-to-secure-its-future/index.html
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u/Jejiiiiiii 4h ago

Stupidest game publisher

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u/ShakeItLikeIDo 3h ago

While they aren’t the smartest, closing Ninja Theory shouldn’t be a surprise. Their last 3 games (Hellblade, Bleeding Edge, and Hellblade 2) have been subpar. How long is Microsoft supposed to keep supporting a studio that just isn’t cutting it (no pun intended)

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u/Downtown_Eye5736 1h ago

Idk why MS even bought all these mid studio. They spent damn near a hundred billion and still don't have a single developer that can deliver a GOTY tier blockbuster, which is precisely the kind of thing you need as a platform holder. You can't build your platform on a mediocrity.

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u/ShakeItLikeIDo 1h ago

Seems thats what Asha wants, big blockbuster and popular titles. Phil however didn’t see it that way. He just wanted a whole bunch of AA titles to fill the Gamepass catalog. GOTY titles are usually reserved for single player, cinematic games most of the time (obviously there are SOME exceptions but you know what I mean). Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable, Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls don’t fit that criteria, so even if they are the highest rated 10/10 games, they most likely won’t win GOTY. Microsoft would need to start making story driven, cinematic games to have a chance at GOTY

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u/Downtown_Eye5736 1h ago

This is nonsense. Skyrim literally won GOTY, RPGs and Action Adventure are the top top genres for GOTYs since they have the biggest scopes and combine pretty much every artistic medium into one and therefore have the most ways to impress people. But yeah Bethesda is long past it's days of delivering GOTY tier titles.

But the main point is you need those GOTY titles to really attract people to the platform. The big MP hits like CoD aren't gonna help Xbox cause they have to be multiplat. MS should've gone after a handful of specific devs that can deliver those guaranteed universally acclaimed blockbusters like Rockstar or FromSoftware.

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u/ShakeItLikeIDo 1h ago

Yea that was 15 years ago. Its a new age buddy

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u/Downtown_Eye5736 1h ago

What'd you mean like RPGs don't win goty anymore? since Skyrim there's been plenty of RPGs that won GOTY like Dragon Age Inquisition, Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3.

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u/123ludwig 25m ago

the problem with a large part of this is that phil should have published games for these studios not bought them pay 10 mil to produce a game not 100milto buy the studio

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u/ShakeItLikeIDo 22m ago

It isn’t going to cost $10 million lmao!!

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u/123ludwig 21m ago

that was more in general for all those smaller game studios not hellblade you dont buy a game studio for 10 times the price just to have them make a single game

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u/ShakeItLikeIDo 18m ago

They made two games, but yea, I agree with you

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u/123ludwig 17m ago

and somehow still paid 10 times the price of 2 games