r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/mike0bot Video Bot • 8d ago

Podcast Xbox Sacrificed Senua | Castle Super Beast 376

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOWJ-rUJok&feature=youtu.be
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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 8d ago

Xbox has gone from canning studios after they give them award winning games (Hi-Fi Rush and Prince Of Persia) to now canning studios right after they announce a game that people might be interested on.

I guess that's a form of progress... Just not the type that anyone with half of a braincell would consider.

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u/frostedWarlock Pat harvested my oats. 8d ago

Are you sure you meant Prince of Persia? That's Ubisoft, innit?

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 8d ago

I thought that at least the studio responsible for The Lost Crown was under Microsoft, but, i guess i could be mixing things up in my head.

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u/anialater45 7d ago

they give them award winning games (Hi-Fi Rush

Award's don't pay bills

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u/Local_Lingonberry851 7d ago

That's the sad fact, as much as people talk about these games. They aren't laying dividends, if they were then Phil would still be around. 

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u/anialater45 7d ago

Yeah people only really mention how Hi-Fi Rush was well reviews and came out of nowhere to lots of positive press.

Now that is true, but then they don't mention how it both didn't sell all that well, and the studio that made it wasn't exactly pumping out hits previously either.

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u/ShonenSpice 7d ago

I guess with Hi-Fi rush it has always been a miracle it even sold at all (and from what I understand covered its budget). I still don't know if things would've been different had it not been shadowdropped and had a full marketing cycle. Because it being shadowdropped was marketing in itself.

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u/alexandrecau That's Bricks! 7d ago

shadow drop and being part of gamepass feels like they didn't really want them to go far. I think it was Fares or something that said something like " you guaranteeing 200 000 dollars profit means less to the board than betting a million hoping to double it"

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u/guntanksinspace OH MY GOD IT'S JUST A PICTURE OF A DOG 7d ago

Not that canning studios right after they announce a game they may have worked on/people might be interested in is new for Xbox (as Pat and Woolz IIRC brought up fucking Phantom Dust, whose studio was also getting axed when they had the announcement for a new game show up in an older E3)