Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success"
Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success"
The Initiative's reboot of Rare's N64 shooter is no more.
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.
Well now my name has some baggage
Microsoft: "We can't compete with such great content. Shut it all down.'
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?
To hold the windows OS monopoly ig
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.
Is it a good port? I really enjoy turok 2 on PS4, would love to play perfect dark on something better than an N64.
You should play the Project64 GEPD project.
A customised emulator setup specifically to run Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark in 60fps, widescreen support, keyboard and mouse controls, support for HD texture packs.
https://github.com/graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest
IMHO it's the definitive way to experience these games on modern hardware. I've tried running both on my steam deck and the controls just don't translate well to a comfortable experience so prefer this.
It feels like they just announced it? Why did they even bother?
I hate to tell you this, but they announced it at TGA in 2020...which was 5 years ago.
But wait….that would be I’m almost 40. Omg you’re right. Time moves too quickly!
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
Imma make a game called Deerfact Park which is a deer simulator where you can do factual things that deers factually do like infiltrate a futuristic company and espionage steal their shit and then imma release it on steam take that corporate bastards.
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world I WON’T LET THEM CANCEL YOU
Well, they are very successful at canceling things!