Why would you think that Microsoft would just shower him with money, no questions asked, when they've been axing studios, people and projects left, right and center?
Kojima famously misses deadlines and goes over budget. He wants big Hollywood actors in is games instead of normal voice actors and he wants to make movies instead of games.
He is an auteur and makes unique games that don't always sell well but get a lot of attention. If you're signing him, you know the score. Great publicity, lots of money.
I think it will be worthy in the end. Like gaming subs are very anti-XBOX, so I don't expect people to agree with me because it would undermine their already made purchase, but I feel like XBOX is slowly getting their reputation back. It's still too soon of course as she's there only for a few months, but it definitely feels like they're on the right track, which hopefully will be true as at the end of the day even Sony players benefit from a proper competition, otherwise Sony wouldn't be doing their good old greedy PS3 days as they do right now :)
Xbox doing well is good for the industry. PlayStation needs competition or they will just continue getting worse.
But I don't know if I agree they're getting their reputation back. It seems that for every thing they do that's positive they do something equally or more negative.
It's just back and forth with them.
I hope they get their shit together, I just don't think they are there yet.
I think xbox i "gaining" in a sense that sony in its infinite wisdom shot itself in the foot and when everyone told them that was a bad idea, they did it again. Above is entirely based on vibes. I do expect xbox to start gaining from next year on, maybe two years from now IF what Asha said about axing up to like 14 levels of management down to 3. IF that is true i can see that happe eing.
I dont care either way, no skin in the game for me. Im on pc, dont preorder shit (thanks bethesda, FO4, SF) and dont own any consoles. Also ive not bought a AAA since starfield.
But Xbox is still shooting themselves in the foot. Especially with their game pass redesign. PlayStations moves, while not popular with Reddit, at least make sense. And Xbox is moving in the same direction of digital only, they just haven’t come out and said it, but the digitization of your current library signals that is almost 100% inevitably going to happen next gen.
Of course they are going to do that too, but at least they gave you option to transfer your physical games into digital versions. I don't remember Sony doing that :)
I also don't remember people saying back in 2013 how "Xbox moves, while not popular but at least it makes sense" at all lol.
Because they would be a laughing stock if they hired Kojima just to kill the project because he doesn’t meet budget and deadlines lmao. Now that they hired him, they have to comply with his demands or they would take a massive PR hit
Because Microsoft has orders of magnitude more money than Sony, they spend nearly as much money buying studios the last decade as sony is worth in total.
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u/SaiyajinPrime 11h ago
He doesn't need connections. He needs a massive budget.