“We need smaller games that give prestige and rewards,” says Xbox exec after shutting down Hi-Fi Rush studio, its most successful game of 2023, Hi-Fi Rush.

The month of May is quite controversial. Not only did we start the month with a fight between Sony and the HellDivers 2 community, but we also continued it with the Xbox shutting down four studios. Among them we find Tango Gameworks, a small team that, after a few ups and downs, unexpectedly propelled Hi-Fi Rush to the forefront. Now, after the closure of the Japanese studio, Matt Bootydirector of Xbox Game Studios, came to the fore, noting that the decision was taken For working on small games that bring prestige, all after clipping the wings of 2023’s most awarded Xbox game.

Although the game is John Johannas considered one of the greatest forgotten last year at GOTY 2023, the action and rhythm game with Yuji Nakamura in programming won awards Best Audio, Audio design or Animation at other awards ceremonies; the last one was almost a month ago. So the shock of the Japanese team’s demise was unexpected, much less Matt Booty’s reaction just 24 hours later.

As we mentioned, the American executive spoke with The Verge following last Tuesday’s announcement, and of course, questions revolved around the oddity of a well-known studio like this closing. However, Buti hinted that although the decision is difficult, overall the decision was made with the aim of “create smaller games that will give us prestige and prizes“, which Hi-Fi Rush himself has already done.

In fact, after these words, John Yohanas himself took to Twitter to express his surprise and accompanied The Verge’s publication with a telling image of Hi-Fi Rush. The game, which, by the way, although it was launched unexpectedly as one of drop of shadow The most successful in recent years, it has also been confirmed that the Japanese team is working on a sequel with the goal of releasing it in the future.

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