At least they can use that money they saved for checks notes powering CoPilot no one is asking for.
Why even be in the video game industry?
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 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
~1,900 jobs today, even. :/
gotta make sure phil spencer gets his bonus.
Day’s not over…
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.
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.
This is the likely scenario. They are predicting an incredibly unpredictable consumer market in the next 4-8 years but a very predictable defense industry market in that time.
Maybe the game just sucks?
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.
Didn’t know about that. I’ll have to check it out.
It’s great! But there are some frustrating parts in the game like escort missions. Or janky psychics where a wall don’t blow up because, well I don’t know. It just didn’t one time.
Is it a good port? I really enjoy turok 2 on PS4, would love to play perfect dark on something better than an N64.
Sorry. Im not sure what would make it a good or bad port. Im not familiar with what the differences would be.
It was originally released on N64 and the Switch Online N64 mode seems fine. It feels like the original game.
Yeah, can see that question is vague. Lots of remakes / remasters in recent years, some amazing, and some garbage. Didnt want to invest in this and be pissed off about it.
Watched a few youtube reviews and sounds like something I’d enjoy.
I’m sorry…can we take a minute here to point out that the head of XBOX is named “Matt Booty”? No? Just me?
My niece giggled at that during the Minecraft credits
Well, they are very successful at canceling things!
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.
Good game, and I liked the revolutionary bots you could add to multiplayer to beef up a death match. I like the game but the characters and story never did anything for me
Yeah, Perfect Dark was awesome!
