Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off.

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they close Double Fine I’ll… well, I won’t be surprised, but I’ll be sad.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me too. They don’t put out a ton of games, but what they do make is really fun (I haven’t tried Kiln yet but it looks fun, same with Keeper/the lighthouse one).

    Both Psychonauts games are absolute masterpieces and deserve to be preserved for future generations.

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    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sad I’ll never get a psychonauts 3 but can’t say I’m surprised. They cleared don’t make enough money to continue to be San Francisco paid devs. They have a large catalog that move people have never heard of or played.

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• ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Didn’t they just buy all those studios? Is anyone in upper management listing losing job over such gross incompetence?

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well yeah, sort of. Phil Spencer got replaced.

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• hazard_iguana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a sinking ship because they don’t want to do the right thing to build trust with the consumer. It’s just over and over they do something good and then they jam the price of ultimate up and ruins the good will of all the good things they do.

  Short term stock market quarterly brain rot.

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• KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Considering the average time for game development nowadays, these studios barely had time under the Microsoft umbrella. It’s just ridiculous they’re getting shut down already.

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  • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These studios have all released at least one game under Microsoft and those games just didn’t perform.

    I love double fine, but let’s be realistic, Kiln and Keeper… Just weren’t that great. I wanted to love keeper, but it was a very shallow game in the end.

    Game Development is brutal, most studios out there can’t afford a single miss or they are done.

    I hope Microsoft does the right thing and lets those studios go independent again. I want a scrappy double fine again.

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• Stupendous@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Should have just gone the route of abandoning the hardware business and being a video game software company. Spin off from Microsoft

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They gotta be good at making games for that to work… They collected top AAA studios like infinity stones but can’t figure out how to put them together.

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    • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For really. Imagine owning Blizzard and Bethesda and putting out what like 2 new non-COD games? Isn’t it just Diablo 4 and Starfield?

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Played Sega gt 2002 on my (real) XBOX the other day. So fun.

  I think its best to ignore they ever made anything else.

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Xbox is a sinking ship, as foretold by Satya Nadella.

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• lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Double Fine on Bluesky: “😅”

  bsky.app/profile/doublefine.com/…/3moet26oza22o

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