| Ryuu96 said: Goddamnit. Big loss for Xbox. I wonder if the combination of working on the mess of Halo Infinite, all that effort to try to fix it, only to watch his entire team be fired contributed to his decision to leave Microsoft as a whole. It certainly feels like it with this timing, I saw his Twitter after the layoffs and all he was focusing on was helping his team find new work. It probably hit him personally. I'll miss him, he was one of the best faces of both XGSP and 343i while he was there. |
Indeed big loss. Now hopefully is the right time to finally put Halo franchise to rest.
| Ryuu96 said: Jez said on Xbox Two Microsoft and Square have bad blood but didn't elaborate, Lol. |
I call this bullshit, especially considering "didn't elaborate" part.
smroadkill15 said:
I doubt it. He may have said some dumb stuff, but nothing that was truly harmful. PlayStation is in a great spot and selling like crazy. There is only so much influence he can have on outside "issues" like the ABK deal. |
Yep. Jim Ryan is far from being Don Mattrick of PlayStation even though he says a lot of dumb things. Even with such person at the top, PlayStation is still far ahead of Xbox. He can say whatever he says, as it doesn't seem to hurt the PlayStation brand at all. Don Mattrick on the other hand, he did damage to Xbox brand that still hasn't been fixed after 10 years. And no way Jim is getting fired over Activision deal going through lol.
| shikamaru317 said: -Convince developers to not release on Xbox at all. We have seen this with Stellar Blade (announced for Xbox under it's original codename, now a PS5 lifetime exclusive), Mihoyo (Genshin Impact still hasn't been ported to Xbox and now their new game isn't coming to Xbox either, even the Switch port of Genshin announced 2+ years ago feels dead in the water thanks to Sony money), Kena (PS5 timed exclusive period has been over for more than 6 months but still no Xbox port), and more. |
I doubt Sony pays to keep Genshin off Xbox. Mobile is where money is. There is simply no motivation for the dev to port the game to Xbox when the 99% of target audience is on mobile or in the worst case PC. Xbox gamers have phones already. They can play this game there.
