A brand new report claims that Hellblade developer Ninja Idea is protected from ongoing and upcoming Xbox layoffs and closures. After Microsoft shut down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, there was some concern that Ninja Idea would finally meet the identical destiny because the studio has not made a commercially profitable sport since its acquisition.
Will Hellblade 2 save Ninja Idea from impending Xbox cuts?
Prior studies have prompt that Microsoft is contemplating releasing Hellblade 2 on PS5 finally as its video games aren’t producing income from day-one launches on Xbox Sport Cross. On condition that Tango Gameworks launched the critically-acclaimed Hello-Fi Rush throughout all platforms earlier than it was unceremoniously shut down, many questioned if Ninja Idea was set to fulfill the identical destiny.
Nevertheless, in keeping with Home windows Central’s Jez Corden, “There are not any plans in anyway to shut the studio any time quickly.” Moreover, he claims that Microsoft has greenlit the studio’s subsequent sport (aside from Undertaking: Mara).
Following a second spherical of mass layoffs throughout Xbox, which noticed Bethesda gutted, studies emerged that Microsoft’s gaming division is about to go a 3rd spherical of cuts within the close to future. Whether or not that occurs or not, Ninja Idea appears protected… at the least for the foreseeable future.
