1c24bd No.15715875
>With the next generation of gaming consoles on the horizon, Microsoft Studios has been gobbling up high-profile developers, and it's continuing that trend today with the acquisition of Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian Entertainment and Wasteland 2 company inXile Entertainment.
>Obsidian and inXile represent some of Microsoft Studios' most notable acquisitions yet, especially when taken together. Obsidian is responsible for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, South Park: The Stick of Truth and the Pillars of Eternity series, while inXile is behind Fantastic Contraption, Torment: Tides of Numenera and the upcoming Wasteland 3, which raised more than $3 million via crowdfunding platform Fig in 2016.
>There's rich history between Obsidian and inXile, as both studios are the product of a 2003 developer exodus from original Fallout house Interplay. They have an agreement to share tools and technology with each other, and Obsidian even helped inXile develop Wasteland 2.
It finally happened guys, a bit late though. Obsidian has been pozzed for some time now so I guess nothing of value has been lost
http://web.archive.org/web/20181111064225/https://www.please use archive.is/amp/2018/11/10/microsoft-studios-fallout-new-vegas-wasteland-obsidian-inxile/
1c24bd No.15715879
Fuck, I used the wrong archiving site.
Here's the good one, plz no bully
http://archive.is/yw76Y
5ad03f No.15715893
I don't know any of these developers.
Microsoft can buy up all the nobody companies in the world. They're still gonna be in dead last because they have nothing anybody wants. If they really want to save themselves they need to realize that their pozzed shit doesn't work and they need a complete overhaul from the ground up beginning with firing all the retarded rainbow haired social justice cancer they're internally infested with. But that's never going to happen so this is the hill they're going to die on.
1c24bd No.15715898
>>15715893
>I don't know any of these developers.
Hope you're joking
29a3eb No.15715902
>Microsoft buys hot garbage
>will produce nothing of note as always
1c24bd No.15715925
>>15715904
That can't be Mark, there's no Nintendo branding on his ass
652ffb No.15715997
Sounds like Microsoft is pulling an EA on these fucks. Not that it matters since these companies haydays either never happened or were long ago. I can see microsoft's strategy now
>Release shitload of shit
>Claim it is the best simply because it shat the most
Sure, they might finally lay claim to having exclusives, but it won't be anything good. Certainly not from the studios they are buying.
4d0384 No.15716001
Here's a reminder that inXile employees fancy themselves to be cannibals: https://archive.fo/HVy5g
3ef70a No.15716004
>>15715997
No, they're pulling a "If we get several studios to make exclusives, we'll back on our feet again!". Remember Rare, Lionshead and Ensemble? same shit, wait 4-5 years till they fuck them in the ass and shut them down.
511e97 No.15716011
>>15715893
Lurk the fuck more.
855e62 No.15716027
>>15716001
Thankfully I never bought any inXile shitpiles, otherwise I'd regret it about now tbh.
7ccf10 No.15716034
There isn't any talent left at Obsidian and their recent games; PoE, Tyranny and Deadfire are a proof of that. Their last good game was New Vegas, released on october of 2010, 8 years ago. Microsoft is buying Obsidian name only. The people who made it great either lost their spark or don't work there anymore. Thanks Feargus, you run Obsidian into the ground.
1a5dc0 No.15716071
Obsidian. Like their volcanic counterpart, their only success was when they volcano sharted a molten unfinished buggy mess into the icy waters of the consumer market.
475c84 No.15716082
>>15716034
Just like they did with Rare. MS are the worst at buying companies.
ff4fbe No.15716150
Microsoft problem is that they are only interested in games that can push Xbox Live and microtransactions.
Obsidian will NEVER get the go ahead to make a single player offline RPG.
602db6 No.15716151
>>15715875
good, hopefully the M$ execs will reign in their attempts at subversion.
0e6476 No.15716164
>>15716152
>high profile means incompetent and untalented marxists
>they aren't japanese developers so they don't matter
0/10
7f73cc No.15716308
>>15715875
>Obsidian after all the recent hot garbage
>inXile after tides of numenera
Some poor suit at Microsoft apparently doesn't realise both of those studios were a year or two away from bankrupcy and will never be in black numbers. It won't even work as a marketing ploy - consolefags have no idea what the fuck either of those studios is. The whole decision is pretty baffling, to be honest.
855e62 No.15716316
>>15716308
>Some poor suit at Microsoft apparently doesn't realise both of those studios were a year or two away from bankrupcy
Nah, they knew and bought them real cheap.
c6963b No.15716318
>>15716152
Pay your taxes huenigger
f2bdd7 No.15716325
>>15716152
>torfag makes horrible post
588185 No.15716400
>>15716152
What an abhorrent post
>They aren't japanese developers, so they are not important.
Exactly the opinion i'd expect from someone who uses tor to pretend to be a leet hacker
4ea966 No.15716418
b5da78 No.15716419
>>15716152
Is being retarded a requirement to use tor?
a769f8 No.15716420
>>15716152
>ID is visible when seen from the first page
Hmm
252bf5 No.15716479
Daily reminder that all the talent has left Obsidian. Just like Rare, Microsoft own the company in name alone and does not own anyone who made the company good in the first place.
Microsoft have made some pretty bad decisions. Here's every studio they've purchased so far since e3.
>Undead Labs
>State of Decay 1 & 2, both extremely average games at best.
>Playground Games
>Already made exclusive Forza games for the platform and were at no risk of pulling an Insomniac
>Ninja Theory
>Has released one game that wasn't dogshit, only for everyone to pull a Wayforward on them and forget their entire history of mediocre/shovelware releases. From the bright minds that brought you DmC!
>Compulsion Games
>Kickstarter jews milking their time with a mediocre title, can't wait to play the full release of We Happy Few in 2025!
>The Initiative
>New studio lead by the guy who did the fucking nu-Tomb Raider games
>Obsidian Entertainment
>Made excellent games, Microsoft fucked them over with project North Carolina and they had massive layoffs. Most, if not all their talent has gone and now they're a steaming pile of hot mess. This one's the next Rare.
>inXile Entertainment
>Their roots are in the fucking mobile market and they're still using Unity to this day.
Now imagine if Microsoft had actually spent their money wisely. Instead of 7 mediocre studios with no selling point, that kind of money could buy out studios like From Software or Idea Factory to actually help sell their system in Asia.
9d6b14 No.15716489
Years ago I remember reading the xbox division was bleeding money and shareholders wanted to shut it down, did I get memed on?
736b6d No.15716526
>>15716489
Of course. It's not about making money, it's about brand value. They are trying to build up the Xbox brand even further and make people think good thoughts when they think Xbox, because MS managed to fuck up their image so badly during the announcement and it still sticks today. They're fixing it one step at a time, making the most powerful console out there, giving a pretty good deal with Game Pass and now buying a lot of studios to produce exclusives. Game Pass is crucial here because it's "netflix for games" in a way that actually works, with a company backing it that WILL make it work if all else fails.
Xbox has also been doing decently ever since Phil Spencer took over. Spencer does know what he's doing, despite his faggot "diversity" shit.
252bf5 No.15716529
>>15716489
They'll never shut down the Xbox division, even though it does bleed money.
The amount of R&D the division offers them means they get so many tax credits and incentives in the US that it's cheaper to keep the thing up.
d2ac29 No.15716536
I'd be saddened about Obsidian if they had made anything of worth in the past 7 years.
01eef7 No.15716635
>>15715902
Microsoft could do great things with their Xbox division if they let Phil Spencer do his fucking job.
01eef7 No.15716646
>>15716479
>Microsoft have made some pretty bad decisions.
>Playground Games
They're the ones who made the best Forza games in the last 3 years (the Horizon series). Turn 10 has yet to do something good with their own IP.
From what I've heard Playground Games wants to do an adventure game.
3dcf7c No.15716665
>>15715893
You're some kind of Nugamer then. Obsidian is one of the best studios out there, far better than that Sony and Nintendo shit.
736b6d No.15716678
>>15716665
>best studios out there
<PoE was competent at best
<Tyranny was SJW shit, mediocre
<PoE2 was slightly better, but still mediocre
4efac0 No.15716683
Heh, so Feargus and the other owners finally got bought out like they wanted to, bet their glad they were able to push out Avellone before it happened and get bigger slices for themselves. Not a big loss judging by their recent performance, and it looks like Sawyer won't get to make his historical RPG under the Obsidian name.
395ee7 No.15716712
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>>15716479
>that kind of money could buy out studios like From Software or Idea Factory to actually help sell their system in Asia.
Microsoft can't manage their brand for shit in Asia, so they need to get that fixed while making exclusive deals with JP independent/publishers before they can really consider buying up a first party Japanese studio. I would say that they have an inherently uphill battle since Sony was always going to have the home-ground advantage, but SIE is wholly an American company now and is putting the [[[current year]]] morality screws to Japanese developers. So their brand may end up in one of those weird Japanese floor shitters as well.
6545f6 No.15716724
I actually had a tiny, tiny smidge of hope left for InXile because the first half of Wasteland 2 wasn't utter ass and showed some talent the second half was pretty bad but I powered through. But Tides of Numenera and the new Bard's Tale games were so incredibly shit, I gave up, and I guess this is the nail in the coffin.
0b2f64 No.15716769
>>15715893
You don't know Obsidian? They're shit now but they made New Vegas anon.
>>15716665
Was one of the best. Not so much now.
1c4496 No.15716773
Why do you hurt me so, Fargo?
You were the chosen one.
You were supposed to bring balance to the Force
39e745 No.15716779
>>15716773
This cant be real
d290d6 No.15716788
>>15716665
>the best studio out there can't finish a game to save their life
Well no wonder vidya games are so shit.
606994 No.15716794
>>15716665
Obsidian has literally never made a good game and every time they released a game it was disappointing and it somehow was everyone elses fault according to them and their fans. Then they did a kickstarter and the only one they could blame was themselves. They are pure incompetence given form.
5ff777 No.15716802
>>15715875
>This is the End starts playing
1c4496 No.15716815
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15716779
By the way, here's his speech regarding Microsoft's acquisition of inXile. From what he's saying, I guess he was afraid they couldn't keep up with the industry on crowdfunding budget-wise, so he decided to become Microsoft's bitch instead.
Now, I'm no industry expert myself, but I think this was an unwise decision and it will most likely bite him in the ass. Microsoft is a scummy company.
7a95c5 No.15716817
>>15716712
>they need to get that fixed while making exclusive deals with JP independent/publishers
MS have tried that so many times. Hell, at one point they had the godfather of Final Fantasy, Sakaguchi, and the creator of Dragon Ball, Toriyama, make them their very own exclusive JRPG and it fucking bombed. Hard.
Then Sakaguchi made another JRPG, a more mature one for mature gamers because Xbox is definitely not a brand for try-hard teenagers, and it bombed too.
The fact Sakaguchi is now stuck making mobile shit is fucking depressing.
087b46 No.15716834
>>15716802
>starts playing
The tape has long since come off the reel and made ribbons.
252bf5 No.15716912
>>15716646
Playground Games were at no risk of losing Microsoft's good graces and going multiplatform or working with Sony/Nintendo.
It's a waste of money to buy a studio like that when you can instead give them good graces and maintain their loyalty.
606994 No.15716917
>>15716815
Nah, it's a much wiser decision than being kikestarter's bitch
252bf5 No.15716929
>>15716817
>Get a handful of exclusive games that weren't great to the point of being system sellers
>Give up when it doesn't work out
Microsoft didn't make enough consistent effort. If they continued down the path they were on they might have turned it around, but they gave up after a few games.
08cddb No.15716991
>>15716479
>implying inXile started as a mobileshit studio
The studio's output between The Bard's Tale (2004) and Wasteland 2 is mostly forgotten.
484432 No.15717051
>>15716817
Kind of funny it took Vesperia and Idolmaster 2 being exclusive the system to really get the Japanese to buy into the 360, at least grudgingly. And then got (justifiably) ultra fucking pissed when both got extended ports for the PS3 a year or so after while those that had held out could breathe a sigh or relief.
>The fact Sakaguchi is now stuck making mobile shit is fucking depressing.
How'd The Last Story do in sales? I mean, I guess if he's stuck making mobileshit, probably not that well, but I'd expect being on a Japanese system and not an American one should have helped things a bit natively in Japan, and on the NA side of things was Operation Rainfall. Though I honestly don't see any of the three too often (whether that means they sold badly or are just games people hold onto, I can't say).
7a95c5 No.15717138
>>15716929
>Microsoft didn't make enough consistent effort. If they continued down the path they were on they might have turned it around, but they gave up after a few games.
You're right, the smart thing to do when you're wasting millions of dollars on something that isn't working is to keep doing that same thing.
MS had a bug up their ass about winning in Japan, for whatever reason. They didn't need to. They had the NA market on lock and were making headway into the EU market. Chasing after yellow shekels was never going to end well for them. If they'd established themselves as the dominant force in the west, then Jap third party publishers wanting to publish their games in the west would have had to make Xbox versions of their games, effectively winning them the Jap support they desperately craved.
Instead they chased Japanese games and let Sony get a good grip on Western games, while Sony already had the non-Nintendo nipponese market on lock.
01eef7 No.15717196
>>15716815
>Microsoft is a scummy company
Which company isn't?
395ee7 No.15717221
>>15717138
Not that that really worked out for them either, since you'd have an easier time selling snowballs in Alaska than you would selling Japanese games on the Xbox. They like to bitch and complain about getting no JP support, but the moment they get a bone thrown at them it becomes apparent that the fanbase they've cultured wants no part of it.
What really saved the 360's ass in Japan (if you can call it that) was catering to a niche of bullet hell shooters, 2D games, and Japanese indies that Sony was specifically denying on the PS3 because they wanted games that showed off "the power" of the cell architecture.
The trick isn't to court AAA publishers with millions of dollars of bribe investment - but to culture a more underground stable of unique titles they can't get anywhere else. This next gen, it will be lewd games and VNs if Sony keeps up their censorial policies - and MS would be smart to exploit that, even if only in Japan.
As for their marketing, I still think a big problem is that even when they were as on top of their game as they ever were - they didn't really "get" the image the Japanese public was looking for. Largely, their Japanese ads are just their western ads but with subtitles or dubs. On top of being "uncool", the very name of the brand itself has whole different meaning in Japan. "X-Box" literally means the "Fail Box" or "No/Don't" Box to them. You can't make a cool image out of that, so I'd say they'd be better off taking a page out of their Windows/Server marketing department and make an anime girl mascot, but play on their weakness by making her an undesirable/ungraceful but endearing character - like Tomoko or Vita-Tan. Then use that to market it as a console for outsiders/underdogs/independents. Use the imagery of the trope of the guy getting beaten down and just keeps getting up to his feet and continue fighting you see so much in Japanese media. Coupled with an acceptance of VNs/Lewds/Otaku subculture (which isn't really any more socially acceptable there as it is here) - I think they could make a dent.
They'd basically have to treat the Japanese Xbox as a whole different product line as far as marketing and strategy goes. But they could make it work.
ff4fbe No.15717285
>>15717221
At some point Microsoft just said "fuck it" and decided to focus on North America and Xbox Live. And I guess it does at least make them earn a profit. But they will never beat Sony or Nintendo that way.
736b6d No.15717359
>>15717221
They'd be appealing to too tiny of an audience for something that is extremely risky and hard to pull off. Not to mention that Sony and MS don't make money off of consoles, they make money off of software licensing and subscriptions. It would also get SJWs riled up or just not be greenlit because of how SJW MS themselves are.
638d14 No.15717372
>>15717221
>the very name of the brand itself has whole different meaning in Japan. "X-Box" literally means the "Fail Box" or "No/Don't" Box to them
9a1650 No.15717395
>>15717221
>japanese xbox advertising
a10ebe No.15717417
>>15717395
I like this picture
736b6d No.15717431
>>15717421
HaHa, Epic Meme Bro!
62b4e6 No.15717442
>>15715875
I think there's a bit of talent tied up in those two companies still. Tim Cain is still at Obsidian last I knew. I also kinda feel bad for brother none. He was an NMAutist that just wanted to make good Fallout-like games, now being dragged into the MS machine.
9a1650 No.15717448
>>15717431
After all these years we finally have the counter to the Eternal Macfag
d0b77a No.15717504
so even if they end up making good rpgs again it will locked behind windows store. i'm just about done with video games. everything is going to require ten different accounts to play vidya in the next ten years. what a joke
d2ac29 No.15717511
>>15717431
Is that kid alright? He looks blind in one eye.
5ff777 No.15717559
>>15717511
It's just tears dubman
679865 No.15717563
>>15717511
I'm worried about the skin of his face. It looks like all the grease is trying to evacuate right through it.
19550f No.15717593
So Microsoft is back to buying talent from companies who lost all their talent long ago, again? Are they going to turn into Rare, churn out crap after crap, until they have to get other developers to work on their IPs for them to make them halfway decent?
ebac59 No.15717601
>>15717359
>extremely risky and hard to pull off
Last time people were selling brand new xboxes for 40 dollars or so in Japan, they can't fail any harder than that.
395ee7 No.15717616
>>15717359
>They'd be appealing to too tiny of an audience for something that is extremely risky and hard to pull off. Not to mention that Sony and MS don't make money off of consoles, they make money off of software licensing and subscriptions. It would also get SJWs riled up or just not be greenlit because of how SJW MS themselves are.
The most profitable ventures generally tend to also be the riskiest ones. or the ones that are rigged
45ca75 No.15717624
>>15715875
Good. That reduces chances of either one of them being hired to handle World of Darkness games. Maybe Paradox will hire some Slavs or oWoD fanboys and a decent game will finally be made.
fed51e No.15717632
>>15715875
Studio names mean nothing, only the people responsible for the content made by the studio. Last I heard they've all left these studios.
5c4ebc No.15717645
What cracks me up is these two companies were doing fine. Sure their games were mediocre, but they ran their own show. They were their own boss essentially and aquired their own funding through their own means. Their publishing, management, and distribution was theirs to control and negotiate.
Now they essentially take a pay raise and a funding increase but essentially lose all control to an overseer who now owns whatever they put forth AND possibly what they created while independent (contract dependent). This is essentially what happened with every studio that signed under EA.
The pattern that follows is usually something like this. The upper management of the original company makes a ton of money in the deal. Sells the idea as "guys we're going to be able to make bigger and better games like never before!" Only the real increase is usually in the marketing section. The games are typically safer than ever. Depending on the company, they usually have something crowbarred in, like multiplayer, free-roam open world, and or microtransactions. Eventually the original management leaves, either forced out or burnt out, but not before taking a huge severance package. Meanwhile original development house slaves away as a husk of itself, unrecognizable, churning away IP sequels until shuttered. Look no further than Richard Garriot, who took his EA money and went to space and climbed Everest. Chris Roberts took his money to Hollywood, lost it, and had to Scam Citizen off nostalgia. The creators of Bioware took their money and certainly didn't go back to their former practice. They just brew beer and lament about their matching KOTOR tattoos.
I worked in a family business for about 18 years and through the trade I knew two owners of multimillion dollar business whom both sold their companies and ended up taking controlling shares. They made a ton of dough in the process and went from being the boss to high level slubs within a even bigger machine. They hated it. Their own employees all hated them. Their local businesses of 20-80 years, some multigenerational, were totally destroyed. All their locations were sold and shuttered with 10 years and are at best a memory. The old owners sit at home bored with millions of dollars and thousands of bitter people whom hate them. I honestly think its better the self-destruct like retarded Telltale than to willing sell the creation of your own sweat and blood for a lump sum and then go from boss to employee. I also think its truely hard to understand what its like to be the boss unless you've had some autonomy.
087b46 No.15717661
>>15717645
>What cracks me up is these two companies were doing fine
Obsidian at least was not. Layoffs after layoffs every time a new game came out not to mention Tranny was shown on stage at E3 whatever year it was for Microsoft so in all honestly I'd bet this buyout had been planned for years now. It would explain why all of their independent games half felt so half assed.
9ce738 No.15717672
So what's gonna happen with that Wasteland 3 fig scam?
087b46 No.15717674
>>15717672
Xbox 2 launch title.
8914e0 No.15717678
>>15717672
>>15717674
Even worse: Windows 11 exclusive
f07dde No.15717712
>>15717196
>Which company isn't?
13b5aa No.15717754
>>15717504
Maybe but I'm not sure. Cuphead is on Steam and GOG.
Microsoft knows that their Store is dead.
92151a No.15717783
>>15717754
I think every third party "exclusive" is available outside Windows store. I guess that nobody believes Xbone+Windows Store is actually enough to make money back.
dc6144 No.15717819
d2ac29 No.15717826
>>15717781
Anon, he's looks like he's 16.
172f3d No.15717839
>>15716665
New Vegas was their dying gasp. It's over.
a09c5c No.15717841
>>15717826
Do you honestly think that's going to stop that degenerate?
172f3d No.15717848
>>15717826
>>15717841
It's alright, the kid identifies as a 24 yr old.
fa9936 No.15718534
>>15716034
>There isn't any talent left at Obsidian
Well, there's still Boyarsky and Cain working on that Outer Worlds game.
17c17a No.15718639
>>15715875
>it didnt got bought by EA
what a fucking shame.
087b46 No.15718640
>>15718639
That would be too poetic.
d1eb5b No.15718658
8f9f59 No.15718716
>>15717645
>these two companies were doing fine
both inXile and Obsidian were on the verge of declaring bankruptcy either this year or next year
both had released a series of huge flops
>>15717661
>I'd bet this buyout had been planned for years now
they usually are, buyout agreements are usually done a year prior to announcement due to all the haggling and legal moves
88a8b1 No.15718797
>>15718022
The amount of corporate dick sucking in this thread is annoying, people here really want the crapbox to succeed?? This is good news, two shit game dev companies add more dead weight to a sinking ship. Not that soystation and shitendo are any better.
>>15716479
Fuck you for even suggesting that From Software and Idea Factory be bought by M$ or any retarded publisher for that matter.
3f6f45 No.15718940
So I'm guessing you don't know about github, right?
c39f9e No.15718971
>>15715875
Obsidian made exactly one good game.
CRPGs like Wasteland are time killers, even worse than Diablo-clones.
Nothing worth crying about, Microsoft has never been anywhere as good as SEGA anyway.
6a5fbc No.15719007
>A trash factory buys up other trash factories
Wow, how sad.
592359 No.15719046
>>15719007
I know. I'll have that exact reaction when Disney buys Nintendo, and all the soyboys will be scrambling as if their favorite corporate entity wasn't already a mediocre paypig extraction ponzi scheme with games that cater to the lowest common denominator normalfag and same sad cows that helped keep the eternal status quo of dissapointment in place. Fuck this gay earth.
8f9f59 No.15719075
>>15719043
>nwn2
>good
only MotB could be considered good, the base NWN2 is pretty terrible to mediocre
043519 No.15721595
>>15721565
Unrelated to the thread but I just want to say that you stick out like a sore thumb whenever you post, "impotent" TORfag.
Might as well not even use TOR if everyone can deduce who you are by your shitty nigger tier posting
7dbcbf No.15721717
>>15717826
Gays are pedos.
6d4e56 No.15721810
>Microsoft buys Obsidian and inXile
I think im going to live the rest of my life as a faggot in public
b72915 No.15721872
>I expect some good from this –
Remember Rare?
7dbcbf No.15722443
>>15722412
he doesn't like fishlips entertainment<
1038ed No.15722553
>>15722412
>Abusing Impotent
now you're just trying to fuck with me, aren't you.
7ff146 No.15723505
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
So is Obsidian like Gearbox, where they made some solid stuff ages ago and live solely off of that reputation while being absolute shit?
It's interesting, though. I've seen plenty of anons expect them to step out next generation, but they seem to be buying up companies, These two, plus the five announced at E3.
I don't even know why they try, I guess being a Tax shelter is not profitable enough for the Xbox brand.
Anyway, sort of on topic, here's a very Mexican-filled shitpost I made. Don't forget to buy Gamepass, goyim!
>>15716150
Nowadays it's less about Xbox Live and more about Windows 10 and Gamepass.
>>15716712
>Microsoft can't manage their brand for shit in Asia
But they can in Mexico, apparently.
>>15716815
>Now, I'm no industry expert myself, but I think this was an unwise decision and it will most likely bite him in the ass. Microsoft is a scummy company.
They'll keep making shit games and possibly get merged with another studio MS owns. Either way, they get to shit out games and make a living. It's a matter of job security over self-respect.
a10b14 No.15723619
>>15723505
>But they can in Mexico, apparently.
They have a follow up in Mexico for two things:
1)Every kid that wasn't starving to death had a hacked 360, free games, so it was super popular, those that didn't own it, played coin operated machines that let you play a certain amount of time per coin. Before the 360, the PS2 ruled the homes, but the poor kids had to play on o.g. XboX hueg machines still; these long years of Xbox indoctrination to the rabble did leave their mark, and now xbox is more popular than sony in mexico.
2) when the first Xbox One became a sales failure, it targeted Mexico, nobody was buying the 8th gen because $500 spent on videogame consoles is akin to sacrilege in such a poor country, however the XboX arrived with the discount bin price it had in the US of A, about $300, which was suddenly more appealing, also titles like Black Ops 3 and CoD were readily available which made them wet their pants.
7ff146 No.15723678
>>15723619
Interesting stuff. I guess it's kinda like Sony consoles in Slavland. The PS2 only got big a little bit before the 360's launch (hencewhy I've never seen a non-Slim PS2 here, similar with how I've never seen a non-dualshock PS1 controller here either). Now PS4s are doing pretty well but certainly not "every household"-tier like the PS2 was. The PSP did well here as well, once again due to piracy.
8f9f59 No.15724391
>>15723505
>where they made some solid stuff ages ago
they haven't even done that
they mostly released janky half finished games
f27224 No.15735635
>>15718940
Github was always shit anyway. They removed /tech/'s shitpost years ago.
087b46 No.15737206
How long until there's a bone exclusive King of Fighters?
dfbcb7 No.15737282
>>15737206
Surprisingly enough the KoF fanbase has been greatly diminished in Mexico because it was supposedly extremely hard for newcomers to adjust, mainly because they got their asses handed to them in absurd ways by the elder ones.
And one day said old fanbase stopped playing, and the scrubs went into party games like CoD or Smash, basically killing off the competitive side very quickly.
Doesn't help SNK, or Sony, never promoted nor released the PS2 remastered versions or the new ones from 2013 in the market.
9f055f No.15737297
I just noticed Inxile, I thought they had only bought Obsidian. I can understand buying Obsidian but why Inxile? They don't really have a popular name Windows can use, only people like Codex users even know they exist
087b46 No.15737319
>>15737297
Microsoft will buy a literal turd if it means the competition can't have it.
b8a670 No.15737464
>Microsoft buys Obsidian
Why? Obsidian has done most of it's business thus far with Zenimax and EA. What's Microsoft going to do with them? Produce sequels to licenses they don't own? Produce new IPs? Un-fucking-likely. I wonder if they're not just EA/Activisioning it up by buying up smaller companies just to disembowel them.