Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax's new IP, and other unannounced projects
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Microsoft is closing down The Initiative, after 7 years. The partnership with Crystal Dynamics will end, and "Perfect Dark" will be cancelled.
  • lustyargonian@lemmy.zip
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Classic case of how unrestricted money and a hotch potch of talent doesn’t make a studio. It needs to have strong leadership, vision and some constraints.

    Microsoft will never learn that throwing money at the problem isn’t ever the solution.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah it’s so sad seeing studio after studio being closed down. So many commenters thought Microsoft will revive old IPs after buying studio after studio.

      Now it seems like those IPs will just rot at Microsoft in their intellectual property graveyard.

  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
    3·
    13 hours ago

    That was the ONE trailer from this Xbox announcement that I was actually looking forward to. It looked in a fairly playable state, too. I feel like a very broken record, but this is yet another reason why it feels like Microsoft is pulling out of gaming.