Microsoft may have invested over 180 million pounds in Ninja Theory

Source: https://x.com/eXtas1stv/status/2107155338906468610

If it's true that they have generated only 22.9 million pounds, then the situation they're in is more than warranted.

I am sorry to say this, but man, let me tell you something, having that much money and only being able to make a single 5 hour game in years and years is crazy.

We all know that xbox Management didn't have a firm hand over these devs, and a lot of them felt that they had this safety net. So of course, the pressure to make an actual profitable game that's also good is just not there.

I am someone who is a big enjoyer of the senua games. The first game is one of my all-time favorites. The fact that we might never see the 3rd game breaks my heart, but guess what. It's one of the reasons that xbox is where it is right now.

I know this sounds so incredibly cruel, but I personally think that a lot of these devs from the studios affected by the layoffs just got "fat and lazy" (this is not an insult, please don't nuke the post) because they large amounts of money kept coming, they weren't hounded by fear of deadlines, a failed launch and an un profitable game, amd that just resulted in no proficiency at all. A money grinder.

Compare it with an independent studio with a very limited budget and you start seeing the differences.

Take a game like kcd2 (60 mill bucks) or dawnwalker (40 million bucks) to something like South Of midnight (100 million bucks).

Warhorse and rebel wolves knew that if their game sucked and failed, they would probably and most likely have to close. No one in the dev team wanted to.lose their job, so they worked like a horde of highly efficient insync machines to make their best possible games, make a buck, and live to see another day. That whole drive was just not there for most of these xbox games that flopped. This is why I'm hopeful that well see better and more profitable games from now on.