Sure. But that’s different than “Xbox was never meant to make anything of quality.” Their intention is clearly to make quality things, they have just been sucking at it.
In reality, I am sure that the executives making financial decisions have no clue what a quality game is.
They see a game that sells well and that is what they consider quality.
Once a studio sells out to a larger one there should be no expectation of future quality or innovation from that studio. The studio’s new mandate becomes “make more of what sold and don’t change anything” which is pretty much a coffin for that franchise.
Microsoft sees quality that someone else made and it buys it. It works for a bit but they don’t know how to perpetuate quality.
Sure. But that’s different than “Xbox was never meant to make anything of quality.” Their intention is clearly to make quality things, they have just been sucking at it.
In reality, I am sure that the executives making financial decisions have no clue what a quality game is.
They see a game that sells well and that is what they consider quality.
Once a studio sells out to a larger one there should be no expectation of future quality or innovation from that studio. The studio’s new mandate becomes “make more of what sold and don’t change anything” which is pretty much a coffin for that franchise.
You’re describing the entire AAA gaming industry. It was like that before Xbox, and it will be like that after.