Final week, Microsoft laid off 1000’s of staff throughout the corporate, together with main Xbox studio cuts and even a studio closure. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has said that the cuts have been needed and that Xbox must be a sustainable enterprise. Now, Raphael Colantonio–one of the co-founders of Arcane Studios–has reacted to the wave of layoffs and argued that Microsoft’s Sport Move technique is “unsustainable” and unhealthy for the business’s long-term well being.
“I feel (Sport Move) is an unsustainable mannequin that has been more and more damaging the business for a decade, sponsored by MS’s ‘infinite cash,'” write Colantonio on X. “However sooner or later actuality has to hit. I do not assume GP can coexist with different fashions. They will both kill everybody else, or quit.”
Colantonio added that he’s additionally “fed up” with Microsoft’s assertions that Sport Move does not have an effect on the gross sales of video games. In a later submitColantonio wrote that he can clarify at size “why the (math does not) work for many publishers/devs, nor for Xbox as soon as they cease investing.”
Raccoon Logic studio head Alex Hutchinson spoke out about Sport Move devaluing video games earlier this yr after his sport Revenge of the Savage Planet was a day-one title on Xbox Sport Move. Conversely, Rise up touted the launch of Atomfall on Sport Move as an enormous success for the corporate. Earlier this yr, Id Software program co-founder John Romero endorsed Sport Move because the Netflix for players. Romero’s studio had funding pulled from its challenge simply final week, with many inferring Microsoft was accountable. It is unclear if the studio will proceed to function in any capability.
Regardless, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford not too long ago said that it’s going to in all probability be years earlier than Borderlands 4 hits Sport Move. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has particularly stated day-one launches on Sport Move don’t make sense for the corporate.
