Yup and it got games officially until 2007 (in Japan)

I have 3 of them 2 of them hooked up and one to the HDTV with a HDMI box. It sucked hard when SEGA bowed out but it wasn't the end all. Xbox was launching and SEGA fans adopted it initially. Esp with Jet Set and Shenmue early on. Only helped when Panzer Dragoon Orta came over. So SEGA fans still had a ton of amazing games to look forward to. A console they identified as closest to Dreamcast. Only SEGA's business end sucked in the late 90s to DC's discontinuation but SEGA never stopped making amazing games in that era.

What is happening with Xbox feels far worse. It's not just seeing a brand die but they own so many studios they could just take down with them and the industry as a whole is doing the same thing. Buying everyone up then firing everyone.

Matt Booty is an utter moron.

Read someone say that ABK purchased Xbox not the other way around and now I can’t unthink it 🙃

Phil Spencer

This is essentially what has happened, Microsoft execs have seen ABK's profit margins and said "We want that across all divisions" and want Activision to remain a COD factory, Zenimax to turn into a Fallout/Elder Scrolls factory. They might as well rehire Bobby Kotick at this point if they no longer care about public perception and only care about infinite growth.

I disagree but it only depends on who actually get cut and who does not.  I think people look at a studio and think of an independent development studio but to be honest, it's just another division of the main company.  Meaning that if I have separate teams for marking, HR, operations and other jobs that is duplicated throughout the company that is a lot of redundant positions.  You can literally just remove those business units and combine all of the relevant staff as different teams within the same company.  You do not need to have multiple studios.  So, it really comes down to exactly how is MS is consolidating these studios into Bethesda.  While MS closed those studios, did they offer staff jobs on teams within Bethesda or did they get rid of all the development staff along with the other positions.  Since I have not looked into who stayed and who goes, it's not yet determined how the restructure is going but I actually do agree that just having a bunch of separate studios isn't always the best setup as we can look at embracers to see how well that goes.

Vampire survivors Contra DLC is out today (no achievements tho-

Is SteamDeck 2 rumoured or anything? Any information on if it's happening? When it could happen?

How does SteamDeck compare with ASUS Ally in terms of resolution and framerate?

What are your reviews on SteamDeck and ASUS Ally?