Hi-Fi RUSH Is Getting One Final Patch As Tango Gameworks Thanks Fans For Support

They should put an "fu ms" easter egg in it

Sucks they are gonna be gone, but hopefully someone there can find some funding, start a new studio, and hire everyone back. They certainly went out with a bang with Hi-Fi Rush.

hold on! this child game gets a patch after the ax and redfall wont get the offline patch that was ready?????

@rustyduck “child game” and yet it’s 100% a better game. Hi-Fi Rush was a fantastic game, Redfall was passible at its best.

@rustyduck I enjoyed Redfall too.

Do you think Microsoft will just have another one of their studios to make hi-fi rush 2?

@Rickyl yeps…though they’ll just have a support studio create “hi-fi rush” mode for COD instead of Zombie mode

Hall of Tortured Souls revisited.

So sad what a disgusting move from Microsoft really doesn't suprise me with Phil Spencer I Hope tango best of luck in finding another home 🙏

Microsoft letting go the "talent"... Helping me let go of Microsoft. Among many other failures since the launch of the Xbox Series consoles. Clearly Microsoft pulled the old Wizard of Oz trick on the fanbase. The smoke and mirrors cleaned up and it's just phil spencer with a fog machine and mirrors.

Still doesn't set right with me. Microsoft had a fantastic Japan based studio, just to shudder it pretty much after the ink dried in their next purchase.

@Dan1283 Y'all really confuse me with Spencer.

Y'all wanna worship Spencer when something good happens and demonish him when something negative happens.

When in actuality he is a just a managerial figure head with all decisions being made by a board.

@iplaygamesnstuff Spencer is the smoke and mirrors. Always has been. A friendly personality while the board behind the scenes makes the decision.

While he didn't directly fill the position, he is essentially Major Nelson's replacement with a manager title attached.

@InterceptorAlpha yes I suppose so it's just so sad see a great studio get treated like that and it's always sad see people lose there jobs

Even though I'll personally probably never play it again, I hope they let Arkane Austin finish and release the offline patch they were working on for Redfall.

@rustyduck "Child Game" 😂😂😂

Does anyone know if I buy the physical edition from LR if any of the money will go to the team that made it?

@InterceptorAlpha

"While he didn't directly fill the position, he is essentially Major Nelson's replacement with a manager title attached."

I do NOT think that is accurate.

Of course, Spencer needs Satya and board approval for large purchases like ABK and even Bethesda. Otherwise, I think he is afforded a fair amount of latitude in recent years. The situation that led to these studio closures is a confluence of issues. Chances are the Xbox team were ultimately directed or put under significant pressure.

Phil Spencer has probably been chugging Pepto for a while.

Honestly, how many of the people in an uproar bought or at least played through Hi-Fi Rush or GWT on any platform? The Evil Within 1 or 2? I bought and completed TEW 1 & 2 on PC near release. I completed Hi-Fi Rush on Series X Game Pass. GWT is a game I waited the year for not just for it to hit Xbox, but for improvements to the PC version that never came. I still have not made the time to play it.

Maybe Sony can snatch up the talent that made this game and make a spiritual successor Walkman Dash.

@Odium hey hi fy rush is perfect for the children yes.

@__jamiie No. The team doesn't exist. They got paid to make the game, there's no "royalties" for making a game, they were MS employees, they got their paychecks at the time to make it. They wouldn't get royalties even if the team did still exist, beyond good sales furthering their budgets for a sequel. Nope, just pads MS and LRG and maybe bolsters the IP for some other team to make a sequel. (Toys For Bob lol)

@iplaygamesnstuff Honestly, mad as I am at MS in general, I think both PS and XB mostly pulled smoke and mirrors. What has either platform done since launch to warrant support? Release a VR headset that costs more than the console that was abandoned as soon as it launched? Or release a streaming-only handheld that doesn't support their own streaming service (or bluetooth headphones) that they also seem to have abandoned after launch even though it sells well. Both culled their better studios and short changed good teams in favor of "teh blockbusters", both are moving down the same rate hikes for recurring fees path, and ironically Sony is acting like they own the PC platfrom, while Microsoft does own the PC platform and acts like they don't care (Why is Windows store empty? It's missing like 70% of the games on Xbox store, and it's a shame because the Windows store is, IMO better than Steam if only it had games on it?)

The only difference between PS and Xbox this gen is that PS came with built in loyalty and public appeal and Xbox didn't. PS hasn't really behaved any better than MS this gen. That, and Sony has new management that seems like it's better while Xbox has....ABK people.

@rustyduck Notice the patch is mostly for PS5.......

The irony is so thick

@theduckofdeath @InterceptorAlpha I believe that description fits Phil NOW. I don't think it fit him before. Up until ABK, Xbox appeared to have been allowed to act as an almost autonomous unit of MS. Not a main player in their core businesses, and operated kind of on its own. During that time I think Phil had full control, and that's what built the Xbox we liked. Now after ABK I agree, I think he's the new Major Nelson, decisions come from above, as they reverse everything he'd done to that point.

I still don't know what their direction will be, because I think they don't know what their direction will be. I think they're watching what happens with sales and different "tests" and will decide later. For customer that means we keep investing and then they decide if our investment is enough or they cut us loose. I don't like being used as a prouduct test dummy on my dime, but at the same time I don't want to be holding the PS-only hot potato if MS dips out because that's not going to be a fun platform at all unchallenged.

Who decided to push for the ABK deal? Was it Phil Spencer? I think that's the root of all these problems. They have an almost 70 Billion price tag that they need to try to recuperate as much as possible as soon as possible, with a sector that Phil has admitted sees only a single digit profit margin. That will take years!
I don't think we've seen the end of their studio shut downs and layoffs.

@Utena-mobile Amy Hood. She did it for the mobile.

The way I see it Microsoft Corp decided the trade their barely profitable Xbox division as a cash sale to buy immediate footprint in the far more lucrative mobile market they were the only big tech player missing out on. Everything else is acceptable losses. But they also want to keep running Xbox too kind of.

My sense is that Phil and his people (Bond etc) have been at war with Microsoft More than they have been with Sony for the past 3 years.

@NEStalgia That's so sad... Everything they worked for thrown out the window for Candy Crush...

@rustyduck ah, that must be why it was so critically acclaimed and reviewed so highly by users, just like Redfall … Oh right …

Hey, if you like Redfall, that’s great, to each their own, but Hi-Fi Rush had fun gameplay, a good story, fantastic sound and level design, and it was genuinely funny. Just because it’s got a more cartoon esthetic and is more kid friendly doesn’t make it “childish” by any stretch of the word.

@Utena-mobile It truly is. And it's painful as a customer watching everything we bought in for get unwound for Candy Crush while they don't tell us what they're doing. Hood is also the one that testified that they were moving to bring Xbox (now MS Gaming) revenue more in line with their other divisions (Windows, Azure, Office.)

OTOH Candy Crush produces more profit annually than Bethesda's entire catalogue produces over a generation. In some ways it's a miracle anyone makes "big" games and consoles or even GPUs at all anymore. Shutting it all down and telling everyone the future of games is match-3 on your phone would make every investor in gaming 10x the profit.

If you notice, Microsoft was all about cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud cloud for the first half of the Series lifespan. They stopped talking Series after year 1 and talked only about cloud, cloud, cloud. Ever since ABK went through we've basically not heard a single thing about cloud once. Except for Bond saying in that Bloomberg interview that they've seen tremendous growth in cloud. Which is less than one year after she herself testified under oath that cloud is basically unused, used mostly for people waiting to download games on consoles, and in countries like the UK they can barely support more than a few thousand users at once.

What changed? The cloud push was throwing their entire datacenter capacity at trying to get into that mobile market by putting Game Pass on the cloud. Now that they have Candy Crush and Clash of Clans, they don't need it anymore. They have their mobile market. Cloud can wait forever. Cloud is on ice now indefinitely. Kind of feels like corporate had decided after year 1 of the Series that getting onto mobile was all that really mattered.

I'll take Sataya's job and reverse everything lol and actively say make any games you want and let's fill up GP, but don't make half arsed crap like asking for Microtransaction's for every other level

This game made me an Xbox fan, the closure of this studio made me loose all hope on Xbox.

@Odium I always thought they should’ve a prince adaption after this instalment with his music .. probably would’ve been a hit with the whole purple guitar too lol

@TheSimulator that would have made such a great DLC!

I wouldn't think about it as xbox bought Tango only to reverse course and close them. Tango,arkane austin, and the other two were merely an inclusion of what they really wanted to purchase (Id, BGS, machine games, zenimax online, etc.).

Bethesda had a major reckoning coming their way if the purchase didnt happen as well. It's likely this pales in comparison to what would have happened.

@InterceptorAlpha Lol. Major Nelson and Phil Spencer are NOT the same. You're giving Major Nelson too much credit. Phil is CEO of Microsoft Gaming, which is completely different than a program director for Xbox Live. Phil oversees all of Microsoft Gaming.

@Lanmanna If you didn't read my comment, why did you respond? That's not what I said at all. 😂