| Persistantthug said: Let's keep it real here, shall we? |
i hope you realized that there closed like 100 other studios as well which were good in the 80s or 90s in the last decade without microsoft. it is the entertainment branch, just because a company is good for a decade doesn't automatically mean that they will be good one decade later if they don't get fucked up by microsoft. and if they aren't profitable for some time, maybe it just doesn't make sense to let them stay alive.
just last year, we saw game republic, bizzare, black rock and whatever shutting down. and they all made some great games. did you see what thq alone did last year with some studios? or what happened with the whole company? or recently zipper interactive?
last ten years were a hard time for gaming studios. most needed help not to die, many died without help and some got bought and got shut down just to get the licences or whatever. but without a purchase and shut down they wouldn't be there anymore neither.
@sal.paradise
thx for your post! at least someone who had some informations why it maybe doesn't work with rare and microsoft as good as it worked before with nintendo and rare
