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The Perfect Dark reboot is reportedly CANCELLED, and Xbox is laying off 9,000 employees — including entire teams behind games like Everwild and a secret Zenimax MMO. In this video, I break down the latest chaos at Xbox, why the “Woke Chin” Perfect Dark design may have doomed the game, and how Microsoft keeps fumbling its biggest franchises.
We’ll talk about the rise and fall of Xbox Game Studios, Embracer Group’s scorched-earth tactics, and why fans are DONE with fake trailers and broken promises. If you’re an Xbox fan who's fed up with delays, cancellations, and corporate excuses — this one’s for you.
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Perfect Dark is dead. Honestly, good. I
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wasn't exactly lining up to play Woke
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Chin the reboot anyway. But here's the
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kicker. Xbox has also laid off 9,000
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people, canned multiple games on top of
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that, and somehow still can't finish a
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title that they announced four years
0:20
ago. It's like watching a $3 trillion
0:23
tech company speedrun failure. Look, I
0:26
love Xbox, but right now they are
0:29
fumbling so hard it's embarrassing. Are
0:31
they part of the Dallas Cowboys? Cuz it
0:33
seems like it. This week in gaming, it
0:35
feels like a funeral procession, guys.
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Perfect Dark is reportedly cancelled.
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And Rar's Ever Wild is also cancelled.
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And Microsoft is also swinging the axe
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left and right, laying people off. And
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before anyone even says, "But layoffs
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happen. This is part of the business."
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Well, yeah, but when when you're
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actually releasing games is part of it,
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but Xbox has turned into a vaporware
1:00
company somehow, almost like an art
1:03
form. So, let's start with Perfect Dark.
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Okay, remember when Xbox showed it off
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like last year and it was the second
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coming. It was like, oh my god, they
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gave us a flashy trailer and then we had
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the new Joanna Dark design that looked
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like she was styled by a Tumblr mod and
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said, oh look, it's almost done, guys.
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Well, apparently almost done meant not
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even close by. Now, fast forward to now.
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Layoffs are hitting and the game's
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canceled again. And yes, I'm going to
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say it. This is what happens when you
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design games for social media clout
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and you have that big old chin. Instead
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of actually making the game for fans,
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nobody asked for woke chin Joanna. We
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wanted the badass from the N64 and 360
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era days, not a glorified tech demo or
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some kind of like trailer that basically
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doesn't show actual gameplay. Uh, and no
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corporate approved diversity vibes. All
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right, this is what happens. You f
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around, you find out. I had a feeling
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that this game eventually was not going
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to come out. And even though it sucks,
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trust me, I'm with you guys. If you
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played Perfect Dark and you're a retro
2:10
gamer, I'm with you. I get it. It sucks.
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It sucks, man. It sucks. What movie is
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that from? Leave the comment in the
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description down below if you know
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exactly what movie that's from. But
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wait, there's more of this. Remember
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Ever Wild? That game from Rare? It's
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canled. What a shame. Rare can't even
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get its games out. What's the last game
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that Rare made? I remember they made
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that Battle Toads remake and that was
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like it. This thing's been missing in
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action since 2019. They announced Ever
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Wild in 2019, guys. We're going into the
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middle of 2025 now. You couldn't get
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hyped for it even if you wanted to
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because it's literally vaporware. And
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that's that's what it seems like all
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Xbox does now. I'll be amazed if Fable
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even comes out at this point. Zenamax,
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this new MMO that's been in development
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since 2018 that they have coming out,
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that's gone, too. And didn't they spend
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billions on Zenamax? Are we noticing a
3:07
trend here, guys? Xbox announces a game,
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shows us a logo, a coming soon or a year
3:13
date. Everyone claps, and then it
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vanishes for 5 years, and then it
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quietly gets axed while Phil Spencer
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gives us another apology to her on kind
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of funny. I facts again. I wouldn't be
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surprised if Fable doesn't come out, if
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Elder Scrolls 6 doesn't come out, cuz
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literally it's been radio silent for any
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of those games as well. We saw a brief
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trailer, uh, an ugly character or two
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here, and then absolutely nothing.
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And here's the thing, guys. Microsoft
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keeps hiring armies of developers,
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buying up studios to make three trailers
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a year. I swear to God, they've turned
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Xbox Game Studios into a PowerPoint
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factory, cuz that's all we see now is
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trailer, trailer, trailer, trailer.
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That's it. Nothing. No substance. No, no
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games ever coming out. 9,000 people.
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9,000 people, that's a small town, just
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lost their just lost their livelihoods,
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their jobs, and most of them were
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probably working on games that will
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never even see that will never ever come
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out never see the light of day. And
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that's sad. Okay, I am picking fun of it
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and laughing and making jokes, but it is
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sad to see everything that's been
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announced that we'll never see. And and
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don't even get me started on Embracer
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Group, okay? Everybody's favorite
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company. Those guys treat game studios
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like expired yogurt. Okay, Volition got
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nuked after one flop. Crystal Dynamics
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is on thin ice. This isn't the last game
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that's getting cancelled. Perfect Dark
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is probably the first domino out of many
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going on. So, right now, if you look on
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on Twitter, if you look on social media,
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YouTube, fans are melting down. Okay,
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RGT85 made his video talking about it,
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giving his take. He ain't too happy.
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We've also seen Vera Dark, Dreamcast
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guy, you name it. Several people were
5:04
making their videos talking about this.
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I wanted to give my take on it. I think
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I even saw a post about one guy saying
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if Perfect Dark is canceled, he's
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selling every Xbox console that he owns.
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Like, that's the point that we've
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reached where fans are annoyed. And then
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apparently there's other people that are
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saying they've been waiting since 2005
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for this game and they're absolutely
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done. And I'm sorry, guys. Don't hold
5:27
your breath anymore when it comes to
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these companies, especially Microsoft
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and Xbox, okay? They're a corporation.
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They see money. They only care about
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profits. If there's too many losses, if
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they're not making enough uh money in
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return, they're going to cancel and lay
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off people. It's a given. I believe
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their fiscal year just ended. Actually,
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I think Microsoft's fiscal year uh
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starts July 1st. So, they just did the
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report for that. I think their fiscal
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year's different or something. I don't
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know. I heard some kind of rumor or
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speculation on that, which is why
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layoffs are happening. But yeah, Xbox
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has been putting games that are just
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entirely forgettable. Okay, remember
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Redfall, right? Xbox promised the world
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and gave us Redfall, a game that just
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totally flopped. That one was like
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levels of like floppiness that we've
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haven't seen in quite some time. And
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people are asking, how is a trillion
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dollar company like Microsoft, like Xbox
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still not able to make games? You're
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buying all the talent, all the studios
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in the world, and you can't make games.
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And honestly, I don't have a good answer
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for it. If you figure it out, call Phil
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Spencer because there's a problem. If
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you're spending this much money on video
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game studios, you own this many
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properties, this many IPs like Perfect
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Dark, Battle Toads, you name it. all the
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things that they have underneath the
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Zenamax Activision banner and you're
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having trouble making video games,
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there's something wrong. There's a
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leadership issue. There's many probably
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many too many corpos getting involved. I
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don't know at this point. Is it money
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laundering? You tell me guys cuz this
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doesn't make sense at all right here.
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And the problem isn't just delays with
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Xbox, it's trust. Xbox has lost a lot of
7:15
benefit of the doubt with gamers.
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Announcements do not mean anything
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anymore. You could literally just slap a
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logo, make a trailer, and say, "Oh,
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here's an announcement." That Perfect
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Dark trailer last year, guys, was just
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another fake out to keep stockholders
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happy. That's ultimately it. This is how
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you burn your community out, though. You
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got to remember the consumer. Uh
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remember the Knights of the Old Republic
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remake that got nuked into Oblivion the
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second people found out that Sam Mags
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was involved, that activist. Uh, when
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you build your game around a press
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release, like, "Oh, here's a trailer.
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Here's a press release. Here's
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something." Instead of actual gameplay,
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don't be shocked when no one shows up to
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the funeral for it. When nobody cares
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anymore, which is the point that it
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seems like we're getting to right now,
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and embracer, let's not pretend they
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care about us, guys. They invest in
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everything, then they dump it the second
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that it doesn't make five times the
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money. Restructuring is their favorite
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word, but translation is you're fired.
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Right. Zenamax was making a fantasy MMO
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uh code named Blackbird since like 2018.
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And that's gone now, too. Since 2018,
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almost a decade in development. Just
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just gone just like that. And yeah,
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maybe that one would have been cool. Uh
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MMOs can be fun. I know they have big
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followings, but if you spend seven years
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plus almost to a decade making nothing
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anyone can play, anyone can see, I can't
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feel bad when that project gets
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scrapped. Okay, we never had it to begin
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with. It was all vapor wear. And look,
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I'm not trying to dance on the grave of
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canceled games,
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but this is getting a bit much. The
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industry is on fire in my opinion.
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People are losing their jobs and that
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sucks. But Xbox needs to stop
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overpromising and underdelivering.
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That's the problem here. They have no
9:04
structure. Stop hyping up titles 5 years
9:07
early. Okay? If it's not coming out
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anytime soon, don't make a trailer about
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it. Stop turning trailers into lies.
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Don't announce your stuff if it's not
9:15
coming out within the next year or two.
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Okay? Nintendo does a good job not over
9:19
announcing stuff, give or take a Metroid
9:20
Prime 4 or there, but for the most part,
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it's stuff that's coming out that year.
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and Perfect Dark honestly deserve
9:27
better, guys. But if Woke Chin was what
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the final product was gonna be, maybe
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it's for the best. Maybe it's for the
9:34
best, guys. But if you're tired of this
9:37
same cycle where we get trailers, we get
9:39
cancellations after silence, then stick
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around. Hit that subscription button
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right here, guys. I'm going to keep
9:45
calling this stuff out until Xbox or
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Nintendo, Sony, whoever gets it
9:49
together, cuz I I'm I'm equal
9:51
opportunity with calling these companies
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out. Somebody has to. All right, so hit
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that sub button. I'll see you on the
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next video. Thank you so much for
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watching. I'll see you on the next one.
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Peace out.
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