It feels like they just announced it? Why did they even bother?
I hate to tell you this, but they announced it at TGA in 2020…which was 5 years ago.
Time has been repealed. Everything took place 16 years ago earlier this afternoon.
Well now my name has some baggage
Apparently Microsoft views success as Quarterly Profits, and long term planning for the future has taken a backseat.
They’ve been floundering for a while. Eliminating 9,000 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
Even when people were saying that MS turned a new leaf and that they are better at managing all the studios that they buy, and that they’ll make more better games for Game Pass to be a success, I knew that this was coming. Microsoft has been nothing but consistent in this one thing: it’ll pivot hard in one direction, pour tons of green into it, hire the best people, and then fire everyone and abandon the idea forever.
Zune, Windows Phones, Kinect, and now I guess XBOX. Well, looks like it lived long enough.
~1,900 jobs today, even. :/
gotta make sure phil spencer gets his bonus.
Day’s not over…
Long term planning in general has been on a steep decline for a long time now.
They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.
Eliminating 9,000 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
Maybe. Microsoft’s biggest revenue stream has historically been government contracts. I don’t see that failing them anytime in the next decade.
But retail consumer spending? That’s something that could seriously take a few hits in the next big downturn. I can see a company putting its finger to the wind and betting a '08 style recession will kill the market for console gaming in another two or three years.
Why even be in the video game industry?
I’m sorry but perfect dark will always just be “that game that got made cause Rare couldn’t make a sequel to goldeneye” it was a good game but didn’t age super well and the character and world just seems a bit cheese for 2025
Dude, after goldeneye it hit the spot hard. Loved perfect dark.
Well, they are very successful at canceling things!
Honestly, its probably a good thing they canceled it. They were going to butcher that perfect game.
But also FYI, Perfect Dark is available on Nintendo Switch Online as a Nintendo 64 +17 Mature title, along with Turok and Turok 2
The best way to play it is with mouse & KB using the 1964 emulator GEPD version, imo.
The decomp port is nice too.
