Game Scoop! 769: It's a Little Hard to Believe in Xbox Right Now 

Love this cast, but a guest appearance by Ryan would've been perfect for this week's Scoop

The Tango closure hurts not only because of the potential the studio had, (which was enormous) but because of the way they got closed. They barely wrapped up the production of the Hi Fi PS5 port and got immediately fired.

Mark needs to watch LOTR and give us his review of each movie for the coming 3 weeks.

Thought Arkane lyon made dishonored? Arkane Austin helped sure but they was formed in 2006 as a support studio to lyon.

Agree with the Goose Camp crew on Xbox. Sarah Bond recently talking about different measures of success speaks to the quandary the ABK deal has made for Microsoft. In buying ABK, Xbox is suddenly stuck having to be ABK - focused entirely on AAA, billion dollar selling games which runs totally contrary to GamePass' business model. The two cannot coexist.

Imagine XBox offering you work now, or an XBox subsidiary company. If you had ANY other possible employment, you would run for that. What a crazy message to their employees. You are not safe, we will fire you without warning. No matter the quality of the work. I'd be amazed if every single employee wasn't sorting their resume and looking for work now to beat the rush. It's crazy. What an appalling way for a multi billion dollar company to treat it's staff.

Loving the various Perfect Dark theme music interjecting between clips! 💪🤘

Why have the previews been so low res and 15fps recently?

Right now? They’ve been untrustworthy for years!!!

For some reason the Animal Well video was a much earlier version of the game. It looks so much better as the final product.

Daemon, Justin and Mark laughing at 2D Shooty (tooty shooty) @53:49 was hilarious

It almost feels like top tier bespoke Single player games will be a rare commodity soon, we may get the one of hits like Elden Ring from big studios every so often... But the majority of the magic will come from indie studios.

During the 16 & 32bit era the systems was different enough that developers had to make different game, with hardware being so similar it has diluted the real creativity. I'm glad Nintendo bunks mainstream hardware expectations.

Music track before 20 questions?

It’s starting to feel Xbox spent all this money and now they’re expecting 1 to 2 titles to see the return and if that doesn’t happen you’re axed

Sadly with Arkane over 70% of the devs who made Prey left because they were forced to make Redfall - So they were already a shell of what they were... MS had a chance to save them and re-boot Redfall - So in any case its all on MS...

Nintendo is the king of milking IP and most gamers love it.

If you watch the Hobbit making of, the quality of those films (or lack of quality) was truly the producers' fault. It's a miracle Jackson even got them made.

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Love this show!

What's up with the echo this week

Mark needs to visit the Camp more often. Mark it, Dude.

There’s definitely romance in Hades

Ufff, another Mark Medina episode 🥲

Check out Justin, digging on the pipeweed! 😜

Xbox is toast. Microsoft should turn the next one into a Steam Box. That means supporting just one environment and provides access to thousands of games already available. While that concept never got going previously, the Steam Deck has laid a template to ensure broad and enduring compatible for future games for a Steam Box.

Completely in agreement with you, Justin -- leave the LoTR universe alone, aside from maybe the Silmarillion. It does feel a tad disrespectful toward the original Tolkien vision, and a $ grab. These studios need to focus way, way more on creating wholly new content as opposed to rehashes and expansions of existing universes (including Marvel). Lazy!

A colt following doesn't mean sales

Mark only comes on when there’s controversial Xbox news.

That was the worst description of Animal Well Ive ever heard. "theres no jumping" wtf are you wafflin about 😂

99% of gamers dont care, they just buy games the like and have zero interest in what these businesses do behind closed doors

If they don’t release cod on gamepass, they are toast.

Ya think?

The honest truth is Microsoft having 10,000 employees. Its upkeep cost of 400 million to 500 million per month.

Love will fix it all

Slashy, shooty jumpy

Y'all need the stop mentioning LOTR if Sam is on.

GameS co-op

The Gollum ending is like 100 times better than Cap America's or Iron Man's ones imo. 😅 Just not a fan of the MCU in general

Joe Bert?

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Will you please make a 2-D Shooty shirt?

Can Microsoft let Xbox be third party already. Over a decade of struggle.

2D(Tooty) Shooty for a 2D shooter where you shoot notes from a Trumpet 🎺 would sell like pancakes

All they have to do is go back and do what made them successful in the first place, make a great Halo (get rid of 343), a great Gears ( bring it back to the horror focused, gritty style and bring back Cliffy), and a great PGR or Forza on par with Gran Turismo. Give us free online play and Gamepass as an option.

What is going on with the b roll and audio echo? Normally a well produced podcast, but it feels like some of the crew were high🤔

All of Xbox leadership has got to go. Microsoft does not need to let it die, it can bleed for a lot longer if they still are serious about hardware - Microsoft basically has infinite money - but if they want Xbox to be dug out of the grave that Phil, Tom, Sarah, Matt, and Aaron, among others, have thrown Xbox into, Microsoft is gonna have to clean house at the top.

LOTR is better viewed as standard for the first time and then extended on subsequent viewings. There's a part in LOTR3 that works MUCH better in standard edition because it's a reveal that happens during a climax of the movie, but in the extended edition, they give that part away too early so when the "reveal" happens during the climax, it's much less impactful.

All star cast today

B roll is still a mess across ign video podcasts

Xbox just needs to go 3rd party, they basically already are

Don't beat them buy up everything SMH

What is it with the broll in the background being 15fps and low-res? It’s very distracting

Yes Playstation had four games but as of May till end of the year... we've got nada. Only a showcase will give us more into the unknown release schedule of Sony.

If you don’t like FPS games or Forza there is no reason to own an XBox. They really don’t care about variety, and they don’t understand they will never grow the fan base for Gamepass. And you can see them dropping out of the console race. Nintendo has the right business plan, and the rest of the gaming world should follow their example.

!poocs

Double Scoop!!

Dishonored made no money but was immediately dishonored.The song, too, was also a media darling. This made no money for the parent company Arcane leon makes money for the parent company High five rush What's a media darling And so three million copies It still cost seventeen million to make It broke even Put the Also immediately But just Broke even It's gonna take Five years to make a new game save the money and put it somewhere else

SO GLAD SAM DOESNT REVIEW MORE GAMES! WOW that was tough hard to HEAR! The trailer said much more.

The very fact that the console business is based on trust that these companies will give us quality products as a buyer of this console is unpredictable now. These companies have become investor satisfying online multiplayer stations who rarely listen to the consumer's woes. Pc all day because not one person can control the PC market and that way there is a balance and harmony instead. 😅

We should acknowledge that we don't have all the information about Microsoft's decision, and that any explanation that assumes we're better at making profit than Microsoft's leadership is very unlikely.

Xbox is playing the real life Fallout game, where they nuke their brand into irrelevance

Nervous laughter

Video game industry crash 2023 2024

Yeah Mark, really should have done your homework before talking about the Xbox stuff lol. Alpha dog is the studio that made mighty doom and Roundhouse is the one that's being merged into elder scrolls online. Also don't boast about the fact you haven't seen Lord of the Rings, doesn't make you look any better. That's just weird.

No games for the 1st 2yrs, then Halo, Redfall, more of the same with motorsport, the overhype for Starfield.....failure after failure...now yall "starting" to doubt xbox ??? Be sure to pickup the new controller xbots

Justin “like like like like like like” Davis

Xbox in my opinion have only had 2 hits in the last 10 years. Forza and sea of thieves

Unpopular opinion but Microsoft is taking necessary action. They have provided enough carrot, now it's time for some stick.

Gamepass can't succeed without cannibalizing Xbox and the Xbox user base refuses to see this. Unfortunately, the average consumer is very shortsighted. We want everything for nothing. Even though everyone was saying that the model was unsustainable, the Xbox consumers ignored it because they thought their glorified rental service was something to brag about.

Microsoft, stop bringing new games to gamepass, bring them after 2 years. Problem solved!!!

Yes, leadership is the problem. But not in the way people think. Its not poor choices but a lack of accountability. Studio leads are more at fault than executives. Of course investors are the ultimate problem but nothing can be done about that.

Why do people say xyj has to go? You realy think this is just someones fault? Ever imagined that this was kind of the plan from start on?

Xbox is waving the white flag. They lost the war.

Xbox is cooked.

Microsoft is the Disney of video games. It's where great properties go to die

Phil is the worst one of all....said all the right things over the years but could barley ever deliver. He told me a bunch of games were coming the past 10 years

THIS "CHANNEL" ATTACKS PSVR2 YET LETS THIS CRAP SLIDE FOR A DECADE - adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.

The Xbox show will make people forget about all of this. They have the most studios rn.

Noocely Jorb!

Because Sony is trustworthy. Nintendo has not been anti consumer at all either. 🤦🏻‍♂️ MS is a corporation. They’re not your friends. If they want your money, then they need to earn it.

thats what happens when you believe in video game companies, believe in jesus our lord and savior not in xbox playstation nintendo google stadia and alikes

Fire Phil

I’m very confused by why this is upsetting people so much. It’s their studios, and their assets. How can they ever improve if they don’t make changes. Sony meanwhile tried to literally steal from customers a week ago and we’ve completely forgotten about it…imo that was far more important to gamers than closing studios that haven’t really been producing. Redfall was bad, Hi Fi rush was great but it kind of depends on what they asked for budget wise for the sequel, and Ghostwire Tokyo was their other game and it ran like absolute crap on Series X. That’s not exactly a great track record.

Its a little hard to believe that the most pro consumer/ eco system gets this amount of hate ...im legitimately dumbfounded.....does anyone just play video games anymore?....or do we just like the clicks ? .....this whole week has been a garbage pile of speculation of the "media" looking for engagement....do your homework

Hate to say it but should have closed Rare

microsoft/xbox ist ok , calm down, there is no reason to worry

Sony dropped to 95 billion market cap... Thats over 10 more billion. Hows psvr2 doin? Easy to believe in sony, right?

Ffs, obnoxious Mark Medina again. Not gonna watch this one. Bye!

Who cares what Microsoft does to run their company. Let’s play and talk about the games.

Well IGN have been biased against xbox for years so hardly a shock, this is their take.

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