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Earlier this week, it was reported that Microsoft was planning to close, or spin out, Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and potential other studios as part of a round of layoffs and studio closures. Now, a report suggests that Microsoft knew it planned to close Ninja Theory before the studio announced its new Hellblade game, Senua, during the Xbox Games Showcase just ten days ago.
According to Stephen Totilo’s Game File, Microsoft “had already planned to sunset or split” with Ninja Theory by the time Senua’s trailer debuted, thinking that a newly announced game would “draw investor interest.”
Totilo notes that it’s unclear whether anyone in Ninja Theory’s leadership team was involved with, or even aware of, that plan.
The report follows a bumper interview that Xbox Wire published about Senua, in which it said, “The original Hellblade famously ended with the line, ‘There are more stories to tell.’ Senua feels like Ninja Theory has expanded that to a philosophy of, ‘There are new kinds of games to make.'”
Ninja Theory studio head Dom Matthews also noted that the gap between Hellblade 2 and Senua being small is deliberate. “It’s not about rushing something out the door–we would never do that–but
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