Microsoft says Starfield is a success: "That's obviously a bunch of bullshit!"
Microsoft says Hi Fi Rush was a success: "That's obviously 100% truth."
Online game community is wild when it comes to just believing whatever the fuck they want.
That being said, I'm sure Hi Fi Rush was a "success" but that doesn't mean it was enough of a success to be worth a damn.
it's incredibly funny for me to see microsoft having a sony moment and people
defend it.
let me put it this way, how did it work out for sony shitting out a big AAA movieslop game every few years? and they even had games, what did microsoft has?
see, "back then" when people said sony was good, was because they had a wide selection of games. they didn't need to be big earners, they didn't even need to make a profit - because they existed
to sell the platform. if a game only attracts 10% of the overall playerbase, that's already 10% more people incentivized to choose your platform over the other. that's why looking how "successful" a game is in a vacuum is exactly the same retardation of nu-sony when they closed japan-studio and went all in with AAA.
this is even more important these days because the western industry simply lacks the competence to produce those games anymore. betting high for a even higher payout is risky in the best of times, you can't force success, but now they employ people that outright work against that. what's the state of halo? what about gears? forza? so ok what else is there to play on xbox? multiplats? games from canceled studios ? oh great they own cod and blizzard now, can't wait what those studios are gonna produce being at the top of their game and all...
trying to apply logic to microsoft or any big corporation is a fools errant, let alone believing them. people consider hifi rush a good game and "success" because it wasn't complete dogshit compared to what the industry and especially micosoft produces. so shutting down the studio of that one not-shit game sure will help xbox overall. especially after they said they want to get bigger in japan, closing your only nip studio sure gonna do that.
Games on game pass only get a bump in revenue for being at the top of the charts for a month due to some funny accounting by Microsoft, then fail to recoup their costs when they inevitably drop off after a month. So even good games like Hi-Fi Rush lose out, and games like Redfall get hit even worse. Because Game Pass has stagnated in growth, the amount of revenue being attributed to games can't keep up with the budgets it takes to make them.
it's not about the revenue, companies are willing to dump millions as long as there's growth and the prospect of a future boom with market dominance. not even microsoft will be retarded enough to think "why is no one buying the games when we make them accessible for a dollar a month?!?!".
