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.

follow up to the last post just a few hours ago that they were negotiating with xbox. who knows what will happen to the other studios mentioned.

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Lmao the AAA industry does not and has not taken risks in at least 15 years. They exclusively follow focus group and investor trends while turning down any innovation or risk.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Tell that to every publisher constantly flipping a coin on Live Services that are expensive, risky, likely to fail/underperform... but could make them oodles of revenue.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's trend chasing lol. They're just trying to get their own version of things that already exist or if they already have a grade A live service then they create a template from that and apply it to literally everything they touch. They keep failing simply because they are too dumb to understand saturated markets not because they're taking risks and falling short on something.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    That is still explicitly a risk that they are taking. That risk doesn't conflate to bravery, innovation, or a good idea. It is still a risk they take because either their new service flops and they write it off, or their new service makes crazy amounts of money.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Producing literally any product whatsoever is a risk, the term becomes meaningless when used in the way that you are using it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I am just going to have to disagree with you, conflating the idea of risk with the things you're associating it is not appropriate in my eyes. But we can leave it there at this point.

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