shikamaru317 said:
I agree with you that the closure of Tango is infuriating, but I doubt it has anything to do with race, they kept Activision Shanghai, they'd surely close it also if they were merely racist against Asians. I'm skeptical that it even has anything to do with money, as both HiFi and Ghostwire should have turned a profit as lower budget games that sold reasonably well (HiFi steam sales are estimated between 500k-1m by 4 different 3rd party Steam trackers, plus Xbox and Playstation sales, while Ghostwire is estimated at 1-2m on Steam by 2 different 3rd party trackers, plus Xbox and PS sales, and both also did well on Subscription services, hitting 3m and 7m players respectively at last official update over a half a year ago). There has to be some behind the scenes reason for closing Tango specifically that we're just not seeing. Maybe alot of their developers left when Mikami did and they were struggling to hire talented replacements? Maybe Tango just didn't want to make whatever game Xbox wanted them to make next (Xbox pushing for Evil Within 3 perhaps, while the studio was pushing for HiFi and Ghostwire sequels since Evil Within was Mikami's baby)? I really don't know, but I do doubt race factored into it, or at least I hope it didnt. |
If you believe Xbox's excuse it is literally "Tango is the only studio located in Japan and we were too spread thin and had to streamline operations" which sounds like bullshit but I don't discount it as being impossible to be true, all their current studios are in America or Europe. Aside from regional specific offices like Xbox Japan, Mojang Japan, Activision Shanghai, etc. It flies in the face of them saying they want to expand in Japan but when the cuts come down, I think there is an shitty logistical business argument to be made that the single Japanese studio should be the one to go. I hate it, I'm not saying I agree with it, but I think from a soulless executive standpoint it's not an impossibility.
