Xbox Is An Embarrassment - FOUR Bethesda Studios Shutdown...

Many, including myself, thought the majority of Xbox's layoffs for 2024 had already come and gone. Not only is that not the case, but this is arguably the worst round we've seen as four Bethesda teams have been shutdown in Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Roundhouse Studios, and Alpha Dog Games.

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[ruinvixi]

Xbox got mad that Sony was getting more negative attention with the HD2 situation and had to one up them

[darkdeath]

Tango being their only Japan studio also sends a bad message to that region.

I've seen a lot of people in Japan going "why would we support Xbox if they don't support their own studio"

[zaidabraham]

Matt Booty says "Impressive line-up of games on the horizon", and then 3 of the 4 games he proceeds to mention are DLC's for already existing games

[Black_Makima]

Make a bad game, get shut down. Make a good game, get shut down. What is Xbox doing man

[SlurpyPie]

It infuriates me that they shutdown Tango Gameworks like they made one of the best games last year and Microsoft spits in their face for their work by pulling the plug on the studio. What a fucking joke.

[EdgeBC]

You finally own a creative, Japanese studio that gave us The Evil Within, Ghostwire Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush. And this is what you do with them?

[LuckyFilmer]

The Evil Within is an amazing franchise and to shut down the studio behind it is absolutely disgusting.

[paulhille]

3 TRILLION!!! And still, they can’t keep these studios… man, these executives are just laughably moronic

[BismoFunyunsEver]

I’m sure finishing Hellblade 2 in about 5 hours, after waiting years for it, will make us all feel better. Honestly, it’s time to accept that Microsoft has no idea what they’re doing.

[SoloSlooper]

So what I’m hearing is, “Fallout TV show was a huge success, we cannot wait for the next Fallout or Elder Scrolls, so we are closing these other studios and bringing their best talent to BGS to work on those bigger titles”

[Stiffwood]

It's criminal how Phil Spencer and xbox continue to disregard the gamers who want quality games instead of live service bs

[jaydee]

Everyone who rooted for Xbox acquisitions looking like absolute clowns now

[borachon]

Closing Tango is disgusting. I spend 90% of my gaming time on Xbox. This makes me want to not.

[EastyyBlogspot]

Fallout 4 next gen update is barely an update

[ViWizard]

Hi-fi rush was one of my absolute favorite in 2023. Plus, I think Xbox really needed their own horror franchise, that is the Evil Within, and many gamers were anticipating the Evin Within 3. Crazy to find out such a successful studio was shut down.

[shecklesmack]

It’s just so sleazy and disingenuous how heavily Microsoft leans on Bethesda and their studios when they just bought them last year but still pretending like Microsoft is owed credit for the success of their IPs and part of their legacy . If they hadn’t bought Bethesda their lineup would be absolutely pitiful.

[tommyfaust]

Meanwhile execs will get multi million dollar bonuses this year

[mig]

Big Phils favourite line 'We're listening'. No Phil, you're not.

[merrillmayhemgaming]

Think this proves 2 things:
1. Game Pass can not sustain multiple studios
2. The infinite pockets of Microsoft means NOTHING when it comes to Xbox.

MICROSOFT want MORE money from every division and studio of their company. If you aren't printing money, you're GONE!!

Crazy thing is, how are they measuring success? Additional subscriptions to Game Pass?? If subs don't jump 10 million upon the release of your game, you're gone?? WTH?!

[thegreenpipe]

Matty speaks truth. Microsoft Xbox leadership is irresponsible, incoherent ... and frankly, at this point, incompetent. This company has no idea how to cultivate, curate, or even manage creative talent and game studios. Gamers should fear what MS will do next; I've said this many times before, Microsoft's history is that it uses its money to buy and damage its competition, not outsmart or outmanuever them. MS' strategy here is the same. Rather than succeed by making better games, it's simply here to buy out studios with no intent or vision to care for them.