No telling where this goes, that’s for anything gaming and tech related as well. AI, tariffs, etc, is giving these companies excuses for their mismanagement and oversight. If projections are correct and hardware costs more than double within the span of 6 months…. Yikes.
Making money in gaming has shifted too. Million dollar games can sell well and still not hit the mark, while free to play budget titles might strike gold and sell billions in in-game bs. Just a volatile market and industry right now. Monopoly mobile has made billions of dollars lol.
Yea it’s a toss up with f2p games. Candy crush is declining which is also contributing to xbox poor financials. Like we maybe aren’t even here if candy crush does better and BO7 wasn’t a terrible bomb.
Xbox made a bunch of solid AA games, people didn't buy them. It didn't drive more GamePass subs.
That’s why they most likely have nothing to lose.
The bigger issue is the game was bad. You can’t raise the price and expect people to show up for a bad game.
People weren’t buying games anyway. When people say oh they a rent buying games they aren’t talking about annual madden or 2k. They are talking about the random game from Ubisoft or square enix. Indie games have been dead on console for ages now. Gamepass worked because people still bought their 2 games a year but they also subbed and you extracted monthly money out of them.
Those games bomb too and also you can’t get that budget in the US unfortunately. That’s why they are closing these studios because even an AA game in North America will still prob hit 100mill in budget
