Video game companies are bad | Phoenix Labs sack circa 100 staff
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They don’t have a clue do they?
rinks wrote:Doom-mongers already predicting the demise of Ninja Theory, on the basis that MS aren't promoting Hellblade 2 enough.
https://www.eurogamer.net/hellblade-2-i ... more-noise
7 years to make, by the studios admission, a short game (which I will add, is not a bad thing at all in the age of humongous games becoming the norm) isn’t exactly great form, I’m sure it’ll be amazing and it’ll be a visual treat, but it’s a long time to work on one short game, I think one of the things that might save them this time around is that they were probably a very cheap studio to buy compared to a lot of the others, have a small amount of staff etc. Of course they could still get axed, which would be a shame.
Edit, I would like to add that taking 7 years to make the game they want isn’t a bad thing, if they were an independent studio, but being owned by Microsoft when they’re culling studios, 1 game in 7 years isn’t a lot.