The standard reply will be “it was true at the time, but circumstances changed”. Management is the same all over. They’re better off saying nothing at all
Todd Howard’s passion over his projects is one thing but a whole gaming company lying to its community then leaving hundreds without jobs is just downright sadistic
Not really. Sure, he's not the end all be all, but he is the head of Xbox. If Microsoft was thinking of canning studios Phil could fight for him, and if he did do so, but failed, he'd probably make it known that he tried, but since he hasn't, it's safe to assume he either didn't care, agreed with Microsoft, or came up with the idea himself.
@stormmare doesn't change the fact that Phil and Xbox lied to and betrayed it's employs and consumers. As CEO it doesn't matter if a lower exec made the decision, he's the top of tower.
Their only job is to make more money for their investors, and the investors don't understand what happens when you destroy your communities faith in the product you want so much profit from.
Xbox is in its Death Throes rn, and it’s been heading that way for years. Microsoft studios will survive, maybe even thrive, but XBOX as a platform and a console is dying. Probably for the best at this point.
Phil Spencer wasn't the one who closed the studio somebody in the higher-ups were the one who close the studios. You? Wanna make a presence in Japan and he close that studios, and people really think that was phil Spencer's doing.
True but wow what a studio to close. Xbox was making small but important strides in Japan. Now they're back to zero and with bad juju. No japanese creative studio will seek a partnership with Xbox in the future because, if they can close down the creators of Evil Within and HiFi Rush, they can close down anyone. Xbox is in big trouble. Gamepass is still very likely to implode. In fact, it's still a mathematical guarantee. So if they don't pull off a magic trick by 2026, Xbox might be the modern age Sega.
@@DARKSHREK000 you can't compare Sega with Microsoft, Microsoft has way more money, it will take more than just closing a couple small studios, although it's a step back in Japan Tango games it's nothing without Mikami
Phil also said in that interview he’s ok with dropping games that are 6’s like Minecraft legends and that they looked at redfall as if it was in a launch state that was comparable to what’s happening in the industry and said it was ready to ship.
Nintendo has no real competition that’s why they stay on top. They’re a family friendly game studio, the only one of their kind. Bc of that they appeal to a very large audience.
Companies are fueled by Greed, Narcissism/Vanity, Hypocrisy and Prayers. Greed for the pursuit of ever-increasing profits. Narcissism, every company believe their brand is the greatest. Hypocrisy, The video tells it all. Prayers, because they pray for the people they rely on, us consumers don't abandon them.
@@SactoShaneI think Xbox downfall began the moment those 50%+ of every Xbox 360 was affected by the red ring of death issue. The Xbox One launch was the final nail in the coffin.
@@diegomedina9637 but here’s the thing the 360 out sold the PS3 up till the end of the 7th gen though. It was really with the Xbox one announcement with the whole TV, Kinect, the All was on line, and no treading games. Then on top of that you had heads of Xbox doubling down and try to defend it. The true death nail in my book was PS E3 2013 and the whole “How to Tread your Games”
State of decay 3, perfect dark remake, fable reboot and even senua saga 2 is still not out after years in development. Why haven't they been shut down? Or will they be?
That was Phil's vision...but remember Satia is now changing all for more profit and AT THE END they and the investors have the FINAL WORD. So Phil's new speech has to go MORE with the new trend because investors' PROFIT rules over ALL!!!
Calling it now: Microsoft bought Activision only to become the next Activision. Microsoft is gonna gut their entire games division down to mobile and a small handful of popular / "high impact" games like Minecraft, Call of Duty, Bethesda, etc., with EVERY DEV STUDIO working in service of those goals, and all of it will be under the "Game Pass" service. Tl'dr - prepare for Microsoft to close Double Fine or turn it into a support studio for Call of Duty. No joke.
I’ve had a preference to Xbox since the 360. Jumped to ps4 because of the Xbox one Kinect/tv fiasco but was happy to come back for series x and game pass. If rumors about raising price for game pass come to fruition I’m out. There is nothing first party that is keeping me in their ecosystem.
@@WildHart_z for starters, Cross-Generation Releases, Pre-Order Process, DualShock Compatibility, Backwards Compatibility not to mention the censorship on Stellar Blade, if you need more examples look them up yourself 😬
Tbf most of the staff at Tango had already left for different projects. Their current development team is essentially a skeleton crew that lacks almost everyone who was actually involved in the process of making games like Evil Within 2 and Hi-Fi Rush. Remember Shinji left the studio with much of the veteran talent when he made a new company. Not saying its still the right thing to do but this isn't really the Tango that just made Hi-Fi Rush and it seems that thats the only real reason why people are actually angry about this and not just bc a lot of people lost their jobs.
NO???? You're thinking of Arkane. The only person who left Tango was Mikami, and he himself said he was barely involved in the direction of the game's at Tango. He left solely to start his own studio and help propel new, up and coming game developers.
Love games journalism posting reactionary stuff for views, we don’t even know the true reason they have chosen to shut the studios. Obviously it would be a great time for Microsoft to dispel the heresy and elaborate further on the reasons but either way the media and fans will crucify them.
Arkane Austin didn't want to make Redfall, that was mandated for them to do. It's well known that the team didn't want to do it nor did they enjoy making it. It was Xbox trying to cash in on trends and it didn't work. Austin was actually trying to pitch a new single player game similar to Dishonored or Prey and THAT'S when they were shut down.
And he was there making the game When it was barely over a year old. Like how long you think it takes a kid to make a game like hy fy rush from scratch
Crazy how y'all are overlooking that this was more than likely a Satya Nadella decision and not Phil. So many youtubers out here that use better critical thinking than these IGN journalists 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
What’s the point of having a Head of Xbox if Nadella is going to close Xbox studios? What was the point of spending billions for these studios and then shutting them down a year later when they haven’t even had a proper chance to release a game under Microsoft? Terrible stuff.
@@jimbridge64 they said they close it down an turn it into asobi which it's totally different since most of the master minds behind it left like Fumito Ueda
@@soultaf There was a lot of complaints. That said Sony closed 1 studio while MS closed multiple. Including the one that made the very well received Hi Fi Rush game. And before Austin studios can complete the update for Redfall including the offline mode for people to keep playing the game.
Yeah, because Xbox is the only company to lay employees off. Phil did what Microsoft told him to do. Layoffs happen. They're part of life and business.
He let them make the game they wanted to make, where is the foul here? Then people say they had that arkane studio make a game they really didn’t want to make, and Phil apologized for not getting more involved
All the studios that got shut down made crap games anyways. I’m excited that Xbox is clearly seeing that small artistic but boring as hell games aren’t what the majority want. You reading this may like them, but most people don’t. It’s time for Xbox to start pumping out AAA games that push the limits of the hardware.
No reason other than the best subscription service, the best interface, the best value, the best multiplayer, etc. Buy what you want, but I'm just saying Microsoft isn't losing money on people like this. Because if you have an issue with no exclusives, then Sony isn't better. So you're either going with Nintendo, or more likely a PC. And guess what? Windows is by far the most popular OS for gamers. Not saying it's the best, but it's definitely the most popular. And that money goes right back to Microsoft.
Maybe phil Spencer is an actual employee and is in jeopardy himself...u dont know maybe he really meant what he wanted and Microsoft is butting in. Hes xbox, not Microsoft...but Microsoft has the last say
Disappointed we will probably never get an evil within 3. Such a talented studio
😢
Evil within was one of my favorite horror game series growing up.
Or a hi fi rush sequel, although how do you follow up such a unique game.
Evil within 2 is one of my favorite ps4 games
@@dieselrichardson9055Growing up? The series is only ten years old.
Ah yes the sheer amount of
"So, that was a fcking lie"
Lies of Phil
This guy duped MILLIONS of people into buying an Xbox by hyping up games they still havent released. Imagine getting excited for Fable in 2020 :D
Sally, it's not just them
@@chrism8860 Shirley you can't be serious
@@lamipalma We Believe in generations...
dont forget the never released Perfect Dark
@@jhnyjoejoe69When was that announced? Like 2018?
The standard reply will be “it was true at the time, but circumstances changed”. Management is the same all over. They’re better off saying nothing at all
The only way to make them listen is with your pockets. Nothing will change if we just keep feeding the greed.
Why would anyone trust a CEO?
When goof-up-prone IGN calls you up on your goof-ups, you know you goofed up.
Well looks like phil is learning the todd howard way of doing media covers lol
Phil has been doing this long before they bought ZeniMax.
@@liquidtruth7954 you are completely right
Todd Howard’s passion over his projects is one thing but a whole gaming company lying to its community then leaving hundreds without jobs is just downright sadistic
@@PhewzGlory but both lying toward the same player base is dissapointing
It's just sad. Since 2017 they have not delivered on a single new exclusive IP apart from Hi-Fi rush... and the studio is closed.
Ori and the Blind Forest is on Switch. Xbox should go third party. Release Gamepass on as many platforms as they can.
What Phil wants to do and is told what to do by Microsoft. Is 2 different things
Not really.
Sure, he's not the end all be all, but he is the head of Xbox.
If Microsoft was thinking of canning studios Phil could fight for him, and if he did do so, but failed, he'd probably make it known that he tried, but since he hasn't, it's safe to assume he either didn't care, agreed with Microsoft, or came up with the idea himself.
@@Sir_Slimbread If the CFO asks you to cut , you cut or they find someone who will
@stormmare doesn't change the fact that Phil and Xbox lied to and betrayed it's employs and consumers. As CEO it doesn't matter if a lower exec made the decision, he's the top of tower.
Phil Spencer has always lied
Wait, are you suggesting that executives for large corporations _might_ be full of sh!t? …. 😮
Seems like Microsoft is taking over the xbox brand
Phil spencer made us clowns
solution: Playstation
Sony should buy Tango gameworks now!!!!
Nintendo would be the one in a place to.
They can't buy Tango... The best they can do is create a studio and hire the fired team... But they won't Sony also only wants big blockbuster games
If only Microsoft "sold" Tango instead of just dissolving / destroying them.
Xbox officially lost
Even Phil isn't above the shareholders. Microsoft is a publicly traded company. Their only job is to make more money for their investors.
Their only job is to make more money for their investors, and the investors don't understand what happens when you destroy your communities faith in the product you want so much profit from.
Xbox losing it's brand reputation... Customers/gamers and amongst developers themselves.
Ah yes...
The Lies of P(hil)
Xbox is in its Death Throes rn, and it’s been heading that way for years. Microsoft studios will survive, maybe even thrive, but XBOX as a platform and a console is dying. Probably for the best at this point.
They want out of Hardware so bad they can taste it. It's like they are sinking the hardware on purpose to say we at least tried.
Phil Spencer wasn't the one who closed the studio somebody in the higher-ups were the one who close the studios. You?
Wanna make a presence in Japan and he close that studios, and people really think that was phil Spencer's doing.
I'm not defending anyone, but what happened isn't a direct opposite of what he said, so why are you comparing that statement with these events?
You are correct. Just leaving a comment to boost your comment upward.
@@phillloyd6248 thank you Gordon
True but wow what a studio to close. Xbox was making small but important strides in Japan. Now they're back to zero and with bad juju. No japanese creative studio will seek a partnership with Xbox in the future because, if they can close down the creators of Evil Within and HiFi Rush, they can close down anyone. Xbox is in big trouble. Gamepass is still very likely to implode. In fact, it's still a mathematical guarantee. So if they don't pull off a magic trick by 2026, Xbox might be the modern age Sega.
@@DARKSHREK000 you can't compare Sega with Microsoft, Microsoft has way more money, it will take more than just closing a couple small studios, although it's a step back in Japan Tango games it's nothing without Mikami
Disgraceful! People need to cancel their game pass!
IT barely supports itself as is.
Things can change, but that certainly doesn’t make this OK.
Phil also said in that interview he’s ok with dropping games that are 6’s like Minecraft legends and that they looked at redfall as if it was in a launch state that was comparable to what’s happening in the industry and said it was ready to ship.
Now it’s IGN’s owner doing the layoffs
How in the world is Nintendo so effortlessly in the best position?
Been doing it since 1889 💪
By being behind graphically, their games cost less to develop.
Because they are an ACTUAL game company who understands gaming.
Nintendo has no real competition that’s why they stay on top. They’re a family friendly game studio, the only one of their kind. Bc of that they appeal to a very large audience.
Because they actually make GAMES and care about their customers. They don’t put every single game on Nintendo Switch online like Gamepass does.
Honestly this is the first time im actually glad about the gaming community and journalists coming together and going against the lies.
Companies are fueled by Greed, Narcissism/Vanity, Hypocrisy and Prayers.
Greed for the pursuit of ever-increasing profits.
Narcissism, every company believe their brand is the greatest.
Hypocrisy, The video tells it all.
Prayers, because they pray for the people they rely on, us consumers don't abandon them.
Phil Spencer has always talked out of both sides of his mouth. You can always expect some lies in his interviews.
And they say Jim ryan was a lier
Fire phil xbox is losing the console war no games= no players
Xbox has lost that fight back in 2013 with the Xbox one launch. That screwed them so bad that they have never really recovered from it
@@SactoShaneI think Xbox downfall began the moment those 50%+ of every Xbox 360 was affected by the red ring of death issue. The Xbox One launch was the final nail in the coffin.
@@diegomedina9637 but here’s the thing the 360 out sold the PS3 up till the end of the 7th gen though. It was really with the Xbox one announcement with the whole TV, Kinect, the All was on line, and no treading games. Then on top of that you had heads of Xbox doubling down and try to defend it. The true death nail in my book was PS E3 2013 and the whole “How to Tread your Games”
Xbox feels like Sega atm😢
Sega ran out of money not talent. This seems to be the opposite.
@@deonredexactly!
@@deonred but Sega made some dumb decisions going back to the 32X and Sega CD that led to their eventual demise
This new direction has got ms all over it
State of decay 3, perfect dark remake, fable reboot and even senua saga 2 is still not out after years in development. Why haven't they been shut down? Or will they be?
Guess the honey moon is over 😂
That was Phil's vision...but remember Satia is now changing all for more profit and AT THE END they and the investors have the FINAL WORD. So Phil's new speech has to go MORE with the new trend because investors' PROFIT rules over ALL!!!
Double talk, pure and simple.
The game didn't sell well so they canned the studio. So theyre cutting costs courtesy of Santi Nadella.
Phil Spencer just be saying anything in the moment bro😂
Vince McMahon of gaming.
Only pushing his creations and firing those who got over by themselves.
Who has vince fired that got over?
@@davidinassIdk, perhaps the current WWE champion, Cody Rhodes lol
He never believed in him
@@davidinass Zack Ryder is the most prominent that comes to mind.
More like todd howard
Phil you lied to us 😡
So this has taught most of us to be more than just sceptical, when a charismatic leader talks.
Boycott gamepass#
Might it be possible to support the boycott but still keep my game pass
No
Amen
Hell no
Gladly. Nothing on Gamepass is what I'd prefer to spend my time playing anyways.
Phil Spencer is the worst thing to have happened to Xbox.
He just lived long enough to become a villain. Don Mattrick was the worst ever.
Phil was the one that pitched the idea to save Xbox when Microsoft wanted to close the division
@@DeathcoreManiacYeah and look at them now... Hilariously enough Sega is in a better position than Xbox is.
But he seemed so cool as though he's all about great games.
Tbf when Phil said that it was xbox games, it's now Microsoft games and you can see Phil is not calling the shots anymore.
Calling it now: Microsoft bought Activision only to become the next Activision.
Microsoft is gonna gut their entire games division down to mobile and a small handful of popular / "high impact" games like Minecraft, Call of Duty, Bethesda, etc., with EVERY DEV STUDIO working in service of those goals, and all of it will be under the "Game Pass" service.
Tl'dr - prepare for Microsoft to close Double Fine or turn it into a support studio for Call of Duty. No joke.
Sad days for gaming 😢
Xbox is coming to a true end
You shouldn't say something that you don't mean
Phil Spencer being a complete fuckin liar...damn who woulda saw that comin
he's like Todd Howard in terms of lying
This gen had more layoffs that games✌️
People are still believing those marketing bla bla….
Phil & Todd sittin in a tree…
Oh millionaires lie? That hurts and is a completely new revelation to me. 😅
he and bond will get a raised after closing this studios
I’ve had a preference to Xbox since the 360. Jumped to ps4 because of the Xbox one Kinect/tv fiasco but was happy to come back for series x and game pass.
If rumors about raising price for game pass come to fruition I’m out. There is nothing first party that is keeping me in their ecosystem.
Its simply just "BUSINESS". Nothing more, nothing less. People will still buy XBOX.
Sure of that? The botched launch of the Xbox One nearly buried the brand on the spot. People were not happy with what they saw.
Guys. Everything is nonsense when Spencer opens his mouth. Always has been ans always will be 😂😂😂
Now do what Sony said they would never do, that video would be long AF
Such as?
@@WildHart_z for starters, Cross-Generation Releases, Pre-Order Process, DualShock Compatibility, Backwards Compatibility not to mention the censorship on Stellar Blade, if you need more examples look them up yourself 😬
Dude looks like the cross eyed guy from Grown Ups
Tbf most of the staff at Tango had already left for different projects. Their current development team is essentially a skeleton crew that lacks almost everyone who was actually involved in the process of making games like Evil Within 2 and Hi-Fi Rush. Remember Shinji left the studio with much of the veteran talent when he made a new company. Not saying its still the right thing to do but this isn't really the Tango that just made Hi-Fi Rush and it seems that thats the only real reason why people are actually angry about this and not just bc a lot of people lost their jobs.
NO???? You're thinking of Arkane. The only person who left Tango was Mikami, and he himself said he was barely involved in the direction of the game's at Tango. He left solely to start his own studio and help propel new, up and coming game developers.
Phil spencer only looks trust worthy
Love games journalism posting reactionary stuff for views, we don’t even know the true reason they have chosen to shut the studios.
Obviously it would be a great time for Microsoft to dispel the heresy and elaborate further on the reasons but either way the media and fans will crucify them.
Well, I'm not a fan of Xbox anymore.
Now I'm a PC fan
well, then you're still supporting microsoft and indirectly xbox.
@@jimbridge64 not if he aquires microsoft games via alternative means which given it's current state could be argued to be morally correct
What size of a PC fan are you ? 120mm ?
Phil should resign
People who made redfall deserves to be fired but hifi rush devs really?
Arkane Austin didn't want to make Redfall, that was mandated for them to do. It's well known that the team didn't want to do it nor did they enjoy making it. It was Xbox trying to cash in on trends and it didn't work. Austin was actually trying to pitch a new single player game similar to Dishonored or Prey and THAT'S when they were shut down.
Aged like milk.
Phil has always been sketchy, just look at his face.
Y’all gotta let the guitar man game go… they bit that idea off the kid from tik tok anyway.
HiFi Rush started development in 2018... What TikTok kid did they steal it from? 🤔
The app was barely over a year old at that point. 😂
And he was there making the game When it was barely over a year old. Like how long you think it takes a kid to make a game like hy fy rush from scratch
I've never played HIFI, but it was a success right? Why did they shut it down?
Because Mikami left the studio is one of the reasons
Crazy how y'all are overlooking that this was more than likely a Satya Nadella decision and not Phil. So many youtubers out here that use better critical thinking than these IGN journalists 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
What’s the point of having a Head of Xbox if Nadella is going to close Xbox studios? What was the point of spending billions for these studios and then shutting them down a year later when they haven’t even had a proper chance to release a game under Microsoft? Terrible stuff.
I’m sorry, what was Phil’s job? Show up on events, give high hopes, set expectations, tell people what they wanted to hear?
Remember scalebound?
Hifi is Japanese?
Will xbox finally come up an end? Find out on the next episode of ign.
Did everyone forget the comment Bill Gates once made? "You will own nothing, and you will be happy."
That wasn't Bill Gates my man that was the World Economic Forum
The gaming industry went to 💩 when activists started becoming journalists and making games.
So from the start of gaming?
The video game industry is dying
They should of done evil within 3 😂
Pointless knowledge of the day: *This RUclips short is exactly 57 seconds long*
Microsoft will spend billions on anything except making high-quality games. Baby face Spencer is just the face of all the lies.
There is a gigantic reason nobody trust ign
Exactly where was this kind of reels when Sony closed Japan studios?
@@soultafsony did that before?
@@soultaf didn't they just turn japan studios into asobi studio? i'd say closing sony london studio is worse.
@@jimbridge64 they said they close it down an turn it into asobi which it's totally different since most of the master minds behind it left like Fumito Ueda
@@soultaf There was a lot of complaints. That said Sony closed 1 studio while MS closed multiple. Including the one that made the very well received Hi Fi Rush game. And before Austin studios can complete the update for Redfall including the offline mode for people to keep playing the game.
Yeah, because Xbox is the only company to lay employees off. Phil did what Microsoft told him to do. Layoffs happen. They're part of life and business.
Hifi rush was meh
He let them make the game they wanted to make, where is the foul here?
Then people say they had that arkane studio make a game they really didn’t want to make, and Phil apologized for not getting more involved
The whole studio got let go, after releasing their most acclaimed game...
All the studios that got shut down made crap games anyways.
I’m excited that Xbox is clearly seeing that small artistic but boring as hell games aren’t what the majority want.
You reading this may like them, but most people don’t. It’s time for Xbox to start pumping out AAA games that push the limits of the hardware.
There's zero reason to buy xbox console again.. And this coming from hc xbox console guy who sold it 2months ago.. No exclusives, nothing..
No reason other than the best subscription service, the best interface, the best value, the best multiplayer, etc.
Buy what you want, but I'm just saying Microsoft isn't losing money on people like this. Because if you have an issue with no exclusives, then Sony isn't better. So you're either going with Nintendo, or more likely a PC.
And guess what? Windows is by far the most popular OS for gamers. Not saying it's the best, but it's definitely the most popular. And that money goes right back to Microsoft.
I've played ps1, 2, 3 and 5 along with Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox one & series x.
Bought a ps5 and returned it the next day.
Maybe phil Spencer is an actual employee and is in jeopardy himself...u dont know maybe he really meant what he wanted and Microsoft is butting in. Hes xbox, not Microsoft...but Microsoft has the last say
This is why I’ll never get an Xbox
We might be seeing the death of Xbox right now
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Phil is a used car salesman
xbox is dead
Back then Microsoft and Sony competed to see who could create a better console but now they are competing to see who can be the worst company
The Xbox tax is real.
Phil is the IRS! Lol
24th
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