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Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

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Forza is bread and butter for Microsoft, just like Halo and Gears. They really are shooting themselves in the foot with this. Forza originally got me on Xbox, and to be honest, it is a huge reason I am still on it as my main console.
- It may be, and I feel for Turn10, but they really dropped the ball with the latest motorsport. It only has like a few hundred players on steam, after two years of essentially live service game. Of course the game itself is fine, it's the "update trickles" and "grind to own" philosophies that are at fault and those were probably decisions also pushed by MS, but here we are. I really hope that Playground doesn't screw up their next Forza, because rhey might meet the same fate. Then again these days success doesn't guarantee you're not getting the axe.
  
  I totally get what you're saying, but using steam numbers to judge how active an Xbox game is not fair. Steam isn't the native player base. It's far more active on console and still draws solid numbers.
  I do agree with the grind being a bit much on the latest, though.
- Halo hasn't been bread and butter since Bungie developed Reach.
  343 has not done Halo any favors, and 343 With A Mustache "Halo Studios" is going to be exactly the same.
I like Forza because I can play it on PC, unlike Gran Turismo. Shame.
Forza Motorsport coming out real mid was a huge surprise. It for so long was solidly competitive with Gran Turismo and then the last one just seems to have disappointed so many
Good grief, I hope all affected people will be able to land on their feet quickly enough.
Microsoft is canceling its new Perfect Dark game that it announced in 2020, according to an internal memo from Xbox president of game content and studios Matt Booty. The company showed off gameplay during the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, but at the time, didn’t provide a release window for the game.
I'm sure there'll be more cancellations announced soon enough...
- at this rate they might as well just cancel xbox.
  
  Pretty sure that's on the cards. My money's on Xbox the brand becoming just Game Pass eventually.
  
  For the sake of people that want PlayStation to be actually affordable, I certainly hope not.
I'm more disappointed to see Perfect Dark getting canned tbh.

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