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A few weeks ago we learned the bad news of the announcement of the closure of several Xbox studios, including the one in charge of development, Redfall, Arkane Austin and Tango Gamerworks, creators of The Evil Within. The closure of both studios was very loud and, in a way, a blow to those who were waiting for a new game from one of them.
Since the closure was announced, we have not had many public statements from Phil Spencer, the most responsible for Xbox. Once the closures were announced, we learned some details of the decisions from other members of the Xbox team, but not from Phil Spencer, which has broken his silence in a recent interview for IGN after finishing the Xbox Showcase.
Phil Spencer on the closure of Arkane and Tango
The closure of any team is hard… Now is the time to focus on the team and the people, because it is obviously very hard for them. I have said time and time again that I have to make difficult decisions to run a sustainable business.
As you can read in the quote above, Phil Spencer does not seem happy with the decision, but he is firm about having to take this type of path to make the business sustainable. At the moment, it does not seem that there are more studies in danger, Microsoft made the decision to close these to centralize their projects, so although it is painful, today, Xbox has the largest number of developments in the industry.
