Even when people were saying that MS turned a new leaf and that they are better at managing all the studios that they buy, and that they’ll make more better games for Game Pass to be a success, I knew that this was coming. Microsoft has been nothing but consistent in this one thing: it’ll pivot hard in one direction, pour tons of green into it, hire the best people, and then fire everyone and abandon the idea forever.
Zune, Windows Phones, Kinect, and now I guess XBOX. Well, looks like it lived long enough.
Well, it isn’t like he hasn’t earned it at this point… How the fuck are you gonna spend the better part of a decade buying up a shit ton of studios - ostensibly to make you a competitive stable of console moving exclusives - to have almost all of them release what are arguably their worst games time and time again… So to compensate, they shutter studios who’ve just produced games almost universally lauded by critics and crowd alike, and then just say fuck it, we never even believed in exclusives to begin with, yet decided not to take a stand on it until… now for… reasons…? 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Eliminating 9,000 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
Maybe. Microsoft’s biggest revenue stream has historically been government contracts. I don’t see that failing them anytime in the next decade.
But retail consumer spending? That’s something that could seriously take a few hits in the next big downturn. I can see a company putting its finger to the wind and betting a '08 style recession will kill the market for console gaming in another two or three years.
I’m sorry but perfect dark will always just be “that game that got made cause Rare couldn’t make a sequel to goldeneye” it was a good game but didn’t age super well and the character and world just seems a bit cheese for 2025
Good game, and I liked the revolutionary bots you could add to multiplayer to beef up a death match. I like the game but the characters and story never did anything for me
A customised emulator setup specifically to run Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark in 60fps, widescreen support, keyboard and mouse controls, support for HD texture packs.
IMHO it’s the definitive way to experience these games on modern hardware. I’ve tried running both on my steam deck and the controls just don’t translate well to a comfortable experience so prefer this.
It’s great! But there are some frustrating parts in the game like escort missions. Or janky psychics where a wall don’t blow up because, well I don’t know. It just didn’t one time.
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It feels like they just announced it? Why did they even bother?
I hate to tell you this, but they announced it at TGA in 2020…which was 5 years ago.
Time has been repealed. Everything took place 16 years ago earlier this afternoon.
Well now my name has some baggage
Microsoft: "We can’t compete with such great content. Shut it all down.’
Apparently Microsoft views success as Quarterly Profits, and long term planning for the future has taken a backseat.
They’ve been floundering for a while. Eliminating 9,000 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
Long term planning in general has been on a steep decline for a long time now.
They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.
Even when people were saying that MS turned a new leaf and that they are better at managing all the studios that they buy, and that they’ll make more better games for Game Pass to be a success, I knew that this was coming. Microsoft has been nothing but consistent in this one thing: it’ll pivot hard in one direction, pour tons of green into it, hire the best people, and then fire everyone and abandon the idea forever.
Zune, Windows Phones, Kinect, and now I guess XBOX. Well, looks like it lived long enough.
~1,900 jobs today, even. :/
gotta make sure phil spencer gets his bonus.
Day’s not over…
Sounds like he’s on the way out too
Well, it isn’t like he hasn’t earned it at this point… How the fuck are you gonna spend the better part of a decade buying up a shit ton of studios - ostensibly to make you a competitive stable of console moving exclusives - to have almost all of them release what are arguably their worst games time and time again… So to compensate, they shutter studios who’ve just produced games almost universally lauded by critics and crowd alike, and then just say fuck it, we never even believed in exclusives to begin with, yet decided not to take a stand on it until… now for… reasons…? 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Maybe the game just sucks?
Maybe. Microsoft’s biggest revenue stream has historically been government contracts. I don’t see that failing them anytime in the next decade.
But retail consumer spending? That’s something that could seriously take a few hits in the next big downturn. I can see a company putting its finger to the wind and betting a '08 style recession will kill the market for console gaming in another two or three years.
I’m sorry but perfect dark will always just be “that game that got made cause Rare couldn’t make a sequel to goldeneye” it was a good game but didn’t age super well and the character and world just seems a bit cheese for 2025
I completely disagree. Perfect Dark holds up extremely well. I still play it occasionally. Of course the framerate is atrocious at times.
Dude, after goldeneye it hit the spot hard. Loved perfect dark.
Good game, and I liked the revolutionary bots you could add to multiplayer to beef up a death match. I like the game but the characters and story never did anything for me
Yeah, Perfect Dark was awesome!
Honestly, its probably a good thing they canceled it. They were going to butcher that perfect game.
But also FYI, Perfect Dark is available on Nintendo Switch Online as a Nintendo 64 +17 Mature title, along with Turok and Turok 2
Is it a good port? I really enjoy turok 2 on PS4, would love to play perfect dark on something better than an N64.
You should play the Project64 GEPD project.
A customised emulator setup specifically to run Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark in 60fps, widescreen support, keyboard and mouse controls, support for HD texture packs.
https://github.com/graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest
IMHO it’s the definitive way to experience these games on modern hardware. I’ve tried running both on my steam deck and the controls just don’t translate well to a comfortable experience so prefer this.
Sorry. Im not sure what would make it a good or bad port. Im not familiar with what the differences would be.
It was originally released on N64 and the Switch Online N64 mode seems fine. It feels like the original game.
The best way to play it is with mouse & KB using the 1964 emulator GEPD version, imo.
https://github.com/graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest
The decomp port is nice too.
Didn’t know about that. I’ll have to check it out.
It’s great! But there are some frustrating parts in the game like escort missions. Or janky psychics where a wall don’t blow up because, well I don’t know. It just didn’t one time.
I’m sorry…can we take a minute here to point out that the head of XBOX is named “Matt Booty”? No? Just me?
My niece giggled at that during the Minecraft credits
Well, they are very successful at canceling things!