Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty has said Microsoft 'could have done a better job of onboarding' Redfall developer Arkane...
Head of Xbox Games Studios Matt Booty has reflected on the launch of Redfall, saying Microsoft"could have done a better job of onboarding" Arkane.launched on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass in May to a lackluster reception. During a recent interview, head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty spoke about Redfall and what he would do differently when adding Arkane Austin as a first-party studio.
during a recent interview, head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty was asked if he would do anything differently if he could go back in time to when Redfall first entered development."If I were to look back, where I feel a little remiss on the Redfall thing, that project was started before we acquired Zenimax, and I think we could have done a better job of onboarding them," Booty said.
Microsoft's acquisition of Arkane's parent company, ZeniMax, was completed in 2020 and saw the likes of Bethesda Game Studios, Arkane Austin, id Software, and more join the ranks of Microsoft's first-party studios. Unlike Microsoft's other first-party studios, though, the company has taken a hands-off approach to the Bethesda studios, and Booty counts that and Arkane developers suffering from"tunnel vision" as factors as to why Redfall flopped.
“Sometimes, a team can just get a little bit of tunnel vision around their game, and sometimes management can have the opposite problem where maybe they’re zoomed a little too far out," Booty said."And it was a case of us having indicators that the game was going to perform a certain way...we had people play the game, we had reviews, we do mock reviews, we just had indicators that it was going to perform better than it did.
Ultimately, Booty says that Arkane's developers aren't to blame for Redfall, and that it's himself and ZeniMax head James Leder that are accountable."If you’re working for Arkane, you’ve spent years working on Redfall," he says."To me, I just feel for the people that spent all their time working on that, and are coming under all this fire for their game.
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