For now

I don't think canceling everything is a good business strategy but hey I am neither exec nor shareholder so what would I know

wrong Microsoft is bad AT the video game industry too

I believe both statements work.

Next month, they’ve been spacing out the cancellations to ease the anger.

microsoft did not buy avalanche studio

Ok, but it doesn’t mean that spending all that money to acquire other studios didn’t affect them and those that were laid off or shut down. It still had an affect.

Im not really getting the sense that the acquisition of activision has anything to do with the cancellation of a game announced in 2021 that has been radio silent since.

99% of exclusive games suck anyway

You wouldn't be saying that if the Xbox had exclusives.

I have a PC. Those games just don’t interest me and wouldn’t factor into a purchase

They did cancel a bunch of games throughout their history, including games that have gone gold (such as Star Fox 2). The thing is that they don't announce them beforehand, but we have several insider stories about unannounced games being cancelled. It's quite normal, unfortunately.

The Perfect Dark one is wild to me. I think back to Metroid Prime 4 and how Nintendo didn't like the direction it was going so they took it from one dev and gave it to another. Years of development time. To straight up cancel Perfect Dark tells me things are worse at Xbox than we probably realize.

If by worse you mean dumping loads of money into a useless sector like AI, then sure. They could easily bankroll all of these projects if they actually wanted to.

I get the sentiment, Microsoft is an awful company, but Xbox has put out more games than anyone in the past couple of years with probably 10+ more next year.

The guy, he moved or something

You might be the only person in existence who was still interested in Contraband

Moreso the Perfect Dark & Everwild cancellations, but just add another on the pile here. What a mess they're in over there.

It sucks, i hate it, but they still have over 40 games in active development so I don't know that it's a 'mess'

It certainly seems like Microsoft is killing off the Xbox brand, they just haven't admitted as much yet. There are contracts that need to be fulfilled before they can do so is my guess. There is zero reason to buy an Xbox ever again. What a sad way to go out: sacrificed to pay for middling AI.

I've always favoured their console and online infrastructure and focus on multiplayer games. Without that, they're hopeless and I may as well buy a PC and attach it to the TV. Gamepass still makes a lot of sense to me, so Playstation wouldn't be a good replacement. Maybe it's what they want.

thats one way to force people to adopt windows 11 and keep those billions of users constantly growing i guess 🫠

Helldivers 2 took 8 years. Metroid Prime 4 has taken at least 8 years. GTA6 started development roughly 300 years ago, according to social media's feelings of how long it has taken. Dev time doesn't mean wasted time.

I don't use my PS5 much (at least atm, GTA VI will change that) but given how Nintendo positions itself and how much Xbox is floundering it doesn't even feel like the console market exists anymore.

I've actually moved quite a bit to Switch since getting a Switch 2. Mostly for games that aren't really graphic heavy and don't benefit from the PS5 Pro (my main console now). Plus I love the ease of going from the TV to portable. And I have less concerns about games running well on Switch 2.