A new division called Xbox XP will take the lead on “film and television, consumer products, strategic partnerships, and live experiences,” with a focus “on how people experience our franchises beyond the games themselves.”
Sigh…
I don’t think movies don’t bring in as much
moneyattention as they used to.I haven’t been in a theatre in years, I can’t be bothered to watch most movies anyway, most are boring, I guess the writers strike really had a bigger effect than anticipated.
I actually haven’t even finished, took 4 attempts and gave up, project hail mary even though a lot of people liked it. And as It’s implied, I couldn’t finish it even sitting at my desk with it being free.
I could understand doing this if your brand was thriving, but this just feels like trying to squeeze money out of a sinking business instead of fixing the problems that are sinking it.
Their C-suites are in panic and know fuck all about games but they probably have seen one or two movies and have heard of Netflix. They probably proposed this because it‘s the only thing that makes sense to them in a foreign world that confuses them. It can only fail and will likely churn out AI slop nobody wants to watch.
People making the decisions are removed from how work gets done, how users engage with the product, and any real consequences. But they keep most the profits despite contributing minimally.
They may also think Disney or Skydance will buy them and theyll get to sail out the window on their golden parachutes.
C suite execs and defenestration… you may be onto something!
You have to remember that literally none of the executives making these decisions play video games. Or any games. They literally can’t fundamentally understand that playing a game that you don’t win is still fun, because they are toxic narcissists.
It makes sense when you realize they paid bank for a bunch of IPs over the last 5 years and want to squeeze more out of it.
This is just them looking to make codblops the movie.
I’m pretty sure they’re in liquidation mode right now. Everything at Microsoft is being sacrificed on the altar of AI
Then they will not release movies to get tax breaks. Bunch of geniuses.
Microsoft getting into the movie biz when many are no longer watching movies. Genius! Those who watch the Microsoft movies…will they need to purchase new hardware? /s
won’t be able to afford the next-gen consoles anyway.
Wow, so, Nintendo is winning the console war by suicide? Sony jumped off the console cliff out of nowhere, and now Xbox is eating a rat poison cake for fun.
Still standing : the indie scene, the PC gaming master race, the retrogaming scene, Nintendon’t.
I hope Valve won’t die by autoerotic asphyxia. I don’t like them THAT MUCH (like, Newel is building cunt yachts instead of funding cool studios for cool new games), but they’re still on the good side of history.
We’ll still have GOG, though.
PC gaming might be standing but it’s costing an arm and a leg to do so.
At least with PC gaming it’s possible to buy an old computer or laptop and have a massive library. It’s not like we’re restricted to the current generation, I could go and play Wasteland on my modern PC with no issue if I wanted to install a couple megabytes.
Adding on this, all those old multiplayer games you think nobody plays anymore? Yeah, there’s a Discord somewhere just for people to organize play times for that game. For example, the whole arena FPS subgenre still lives on that way, all the way back to Doom and Quake. You can play that old game you love again. Maybe not the instant you try, but you can. You haven’t played for the last time if you’re willing to go look and ask around.
Also if you’ve got old hardware you can still play the new games, just at much lower settings.
If you’ve got a PS4 you can’t just play PS5 games at lower settings.
Well when I was saying older my brain was thinking decades older like 06, because I’m a Redneck with access to Linux and will see how well it works. Usually it’s surprisingly functional even if I do have to get some weird ass RAM to do mild upgrades, you’d be surprised how many things used to run on 1GB.
GOG tried to kill itself with the Nazi symbols sent in emails, that they never really apologized for. They are lucky people have short memories.
The what now?
I saw a post on blusky that summarized it: Microsoft never wanted to consolidate studios. They wanted to consolidate IP.
That was always the case. Nobody cares about workers from other companies. There is a reason why people fear for their jobs in buyouts/mergers.
Xbox now has some of the best IP in gaming.
I think they’ve really underestimated just how little consumers care about IP when the product attached to it is trash.
20 years ago, Halo was one of the most beloved gaming IPs. Now, after a decade of garbage, hardly anyone gives a shit about it.
Don’t video game sales make magnitudes more money than movies. Sounds like a another brilliant Xbox move.
yeah this is bullshit move. copying PlayStation, which didn’t even do great with films.
but i guess part of the reason is that since hardware prices keeping going up and up, they don’t expect many ppl to buy future consoles or handhelds.
and movies/tv don’t require audience to buy any hardware upgrades, for the most part.
New Halo TV show! Yay!
The bargain bins are full of once-great brands that haven’t produced anything in decades, but will let any old cheap factory slap their name on a product for a few bucks.
This is basically the same thing, but with stories instead of hardware.
Now that everyone hates the IP, let’s ruin them further with movies
They are absolutely fucked
Oh, yeah, this will work. Why didn’t anyone else think of this?
/s
They should make Uwe Boll head of that department.
Looking at the Halo show that might even be an improvement. Maybe I have some weird rose tinted glasses but I remember Boll movies being like bad fanfic, which would be a step up from what the Halo show was.
I’ve taken to calling that show “Master Cheeks”
