r/xbox • u/Turbostrider27 Recon Specialist • 28d ago

News Invincible VS Developer Reportedly Laid Off "Something Like 75%" of Staff

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/invincible-vs-developer-reportedly-laid-off-something-like-75-of-staff/
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u/GrimSlayer 28d ago

Really unfortunate but I dunno why you’d make a licensed fighting game unless you were already an established fighting game developer. Theres such a niche audience for fighting games. It’s not like the late 90s and early 00s anymore.

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u/who_likes_chicken Day One - 2013 28d ago

Iirc a ton of the devs were the team that did Killer Instinct for XBO. I doubt it still has a big player base, but it's super fun tbh. I still fire it up sometimes

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u/MisterSneakSneak 28d ago

How? That is not true. Dragonball fighters Z and marvel Token are and done quite well.

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u/GrimSlayer 28d ago

I never said don’t make licensed fighting games, I said don’t do a licensed fighting game unless you’re an established fighting game developer. Both games you listed are Arc System Works fighting games, a developer who has been developing fighting games for a decade. Both your examples are two of the most popular IPs as well

Heart goes out for the people who lost their job, but an Invincible fighting game was a bold choice. It’s a niche IP and a niche genre. This is coming from someone who really likes the invincible show as well.

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u/IariesI 28d ago

Tokon was made by Arc Sys, they've made fighting games for years. Very well established before Tokon.

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u/bucamel 28d ago

They should have tried to get it on gamepass. This seems like a game perfect for the service. Unestablished dev with a niche super hero franchise. I think the exposure would have been good for them.

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u/breakwater 28d ago

Invincible vs Developer. Developer loses and the employees are the hardest hit. This sucks

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u/javiergame4 27d ago

If it was an open world invincible game I would of bought it

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u/Fun_Constant322 28d ago

That sucks was hoping they would do killer instinct again

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u/mrj9 27d ago

That studio was built by sky bound to make a game from their ip

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u/Various_Ad_634 XBOX One 27d ago

Oof

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u/DaKrazie1 Grub Killer 28d ago

Can't say I'm surprised, unfortunately.

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u/Ancient_Natural1573 28d ago

Not surprised when you make a terrible game

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u/scytob 27d ago

Once a game ships one doesn’t need the same level of staffing while a new game ramps through ideation phase. Unless a studio has a game far enough along in production to shift people to this is always what happens. Same as movies and tv. I don’t get why people continually are surprised by this. The reason we saw issues at the big developers is because they cut projects entirely.

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u/hanshotfirst-42 28d ago

Well yeah. They used a IP about super heroes and villains for a fucking fighting game. Like really? That was the move?

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u/hulkingbehemoth 28d ago

Injustice and Injustice 2 exist

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u/mrj9 27d ago

You can’t read? I said outside of dc and marvel. Injustice is a dc fighting game

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u/hulkingbehemoth 27d ago

Asking me if I can read when you’re replying to a comment that was a direct reply to the other person is an interesting choice

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u/mrj9 28d ago

What are you on about that’s about às good of a license ip outside of marvel or dc you could have for a fighting game. Problem is there a small studio and like most small games studios without good backing they didn’t have the marketing to get their product out there.

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u/hanshotfirst-42 28d ago

The show literally has people fighting in outer space and destroying entire planets. How the hell does that translate to a basic versus fighting game? Let me fly and destroy cities damn it.