All that talk about how Xbox is investing in the Japanese market and then they close the one prominent Japanese studio that they own. The same one that, as the article points out, made Hi-Fi Rush which was "a break out hit". What the hell, Microsoft.
Tango closed cause it was the one of the only studios under Zenimax that wasn't currently making a game with "executive producer: Todd Howard" squirted all over it
Arkane Austin is understandable; nobody bought Prey and Redfall was a disaster.
it's a shame because Prey was one of the best games of the decade.
Hell even the super successful Baldur 3 is apparently not successful enough to have further development.
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Larion Studios is still doing fine. They’ve decided to pursue their own IP rather than continue to work with a 3rd party’s.
Larion Studios is still doing fine.
Maybe, or maybe not.
They’ve decided
I don't believe that, half of Baldur success was because it was Baldur and gained massive hype for that. Larian's credit was delivering to that hype (mostly), but if you were following the development, literally the main fear from fanbase was precisely because it was Larian making that - Divinity 2 was very far from universal acclaim in the niche. And this here look extremely suspicous even if it was just about the next game, but no DLC, no expansions, not to mention that continuing the success is an 1st iron commandment in entire industry, nobody stops doing that unless there is no possibility.
There's a lot going inside we don't know because no company would just release such turbulences publicly.
I think the company sees this as an opportunity to use the spotlight they now have to publicize their own IP. I suppose we can only wait and see what they do next.
