| Spade said: Yeah I totally forgot about the Obsidian comments. Did he really say cancel all of their projects or just Grounded? I know Grounded was involved, but I forgot. |
I think it was Grounded and Outer Worlds 2 he said they should cancel, I seem to recall him saying that both lacked commercial appeal and that they'd be better off working on a new Fallout because it has alot more commercial appeal (I don't recall him including Avowed but maybe he did). While I absolutely think Obsidian needs to be working on a new Fallout asap (especially since Bethesda won't be able to release Fallout 5 until sometime in the 2030's unless Todd Howard gives up on trying to direct every Bethesda himself and instead splits Bethesda and their satellite studios into 3 equal sized teams for each of their 3 IP's), and I agree with Ryan that a new Obsidian developed Fallout has alot more commercial appeal than Grounded or a sequel to The Outer Worlds (first Outer Worlds sold 4m as of 2021, Fallout New Vegas sold over 12m lifetime, and the Fallout IP has grown in popularity since then with Fallout 4 believed to have sold over 20m), it was still a foolish take by Ryan overall, Phil Spencer would be an idiot to force Obsidian to cancel a passion project with lower commercial appeal (Grounded) and a sequel to a mid-tier IP (Outer Worlds 2), just to get a new game in a high-tier IP (Fallout) out faster, they'd be risking massive resignations at Obsidian if they tried a move like that. A head like Phil has to find a good balance between greenlighting lower commercial appeal passion projects (games like Grounded, Pentiment, Project Mara, and HiFi Rush) and getting studios to work on games with high commercial appeal that can move Xbox consoles and Gamepass subs, you can't just tell all studios that they can only work on games with high commercial appeal, not only does that make for an unhappy first party workforce, but it also gives up one of the biggest strengths of Xbox's first party, their genre variety with Xbox first party covering genres that Sony and Nintendo would never touch with their first party.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 09 May 2023
