Moon Studios CEO\u00a0Thomas Mahler (Ori and the Blind Forest,\u00a0Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and No Rest for the Wicked)\u00a0has commented on the recent turbulence at Xbox. The Ori games were previously published by Xbox Game Studios, but Moon Studios remained independent and started work on No Rest for the Wicked shortly after the second Ori game was released.<\/p>\n
In his informed opinion, Mahler has claimed that Xbox\u2019s troubles began years ago when it decided to focus on legacy IP instead of cultivating the next generation of games and developers.<\/p>\n
It looks like bad news for the studios that fall under Xbox’s first-party developer umbrella. As part of its “reset” under new Xbox boss Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s gaming division is reportedly planning to cut costs by laying off staff and closing studios<\/a>\u00a0like Compulsion Games<\/a>, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory. While those studios might spin off from Microsoft<\/a> and strike out on their own, one developer with a long history of working with Xbox says that he’s not surprised by the recent turbulence occurring at the company.<\/p>\n “Xbox has struggled for a long time to identify, empower, and protect the key creative people and teams who could have kept the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moon Studios CEO\u00a0Thomas Mahler (Ori and the Blind Forest,\u00a0Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and No Rest for the Wicked)\u00a0has commented on the recent turbulence at Xbox. The Ori games were previously published by Xbox Game Studios, but Moon Studios remained independent and started work on No Rest for the Wicked shortly after the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":84564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84565,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562\/revisions\/84565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}