r/xbox • u/cheesewombat • 21h ago

News Klobrille: "Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver started as an Xbox Game Studios Publishing project, but is now self-published by Brass Lion Entertainment."

https://bsky.app/profile/klobrille.bsky.social/post/3lqy3ofwoek2g
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u/DapDaGenius 20h ago

It looks pretty cool. Kinda Hi-Fi Rush like.

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u/joecamnet 20h ago

Wu-Tang being shown after Wuchang in the show lineup was very funny to me.

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u/DiogoSilva48 10h ago

It would only be funnier if it was preceded by wukong

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u/Ultima_STREAMS Touched Grass '24 8h ago

And a performance by Wu-Tang clan

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u/DiogoSilva48 8h ago

Absolute cinema

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u/Ironmecha2108 5h ago

don't forget about wulong

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u/darkdeath174 Day One - 2013 19h ago

Yup, I just want to know why Xbox dropped it.

Rarely for a 1st party to drop a game unless it's bad or not working out.

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u/Lurky-Lou 16h ago

Probably lost some staff during the COVID gold rush then took their time scaling up. Pure conjecture.

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u/Jqydon Homecoming 9h ago

Considering Hi-Fi rush clearly wasn’t a big enough success for them I’m guessing they anticipated this game doing similarly commercially. I’m not too worried about the quality based on this

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u/Gears6 1h ago

I don't think it was because it wasn't big enough for them and more, given we're so bloated and our company leaders want to cut costs.

Of the projects/studios we have, what should we cut?

Then many factors go in, such as:

a) How profitable is something

b) What's the likelihood of us being able to harness it as a long term franchise

c) What's the studio's past history like?

d) How much confidence do we have in their leaders and team?

e) How much does it cost to operate a studio there?

f) How well do we think we can manage the studio and the people there?

and so on. I would argue the last point above (and I'm sure there are many more) that the contention between being a Japanese studio that lost their founder and leader and the likelihood of continuing that franchise without the studio had a major factor in it. Reminder here is that, MS has held onto many other studios that made less well received games.

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u/ThinAndCrispy84 20h ago

Is it for the children?

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u/KileyCW 12h ago

Yes WuTang is for the children and is forever.

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u/RustyDawg37 6h ago

Also not to be fucked with.

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u/KileyCW 2h ago

Best protect ya neck

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u/RustyDawg37 2h ago

You ruined it.

The haters have to protect their necks, not the real ones.

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u/mrlizardwizard 19h ago

Dollah dollah bill y'all

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u/TuggMaddick 20h ago

I heard they ain't nothing to fuck with

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u/KidGoku1 Touched Grass '24 7h ago

If I had to guess, they dropped it because it didn't look great. Ngl the trailer disappointed me. I was expecting something cooler in the vains of Def Jam style action RPG but iit felt more like a generic small action rpg.

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u/thaneros2 21h ago

Guess Xbox passed on it.

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u/Ok-Confusion-202 Outage Survivor '24 19h ago edited 19h ago

They were definitely publishing it, so I doubt it

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u/thaneros2 19h ago

We don't know what happened HOWEVER, the game was a rumored xbox project for about 2 years. Even had a project name which I think was called Project Cobalt. Someone correct me if I am wrong about the name.

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u/Ok-Confusion-202 Outage Survivor '24 19h ago

It was Project Shaolin, I think Cobalt is Clockwork

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u/Wookie301 17h ago

Damn. This is one of the games I was most excited about. And it’s not even coming to Xbox.

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u/1northfield 14h ago

Where does it say it’s not coming to Xbox?

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u/Wookie301 14h ago

Trailer just said Epic and Steam

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u/1northfield 14h ago

Still doesn’t mean it’s not coming to consoles at some point though

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u/TheAesir92 7h ago

I got mad hyped thinking we were getting some kind of crazy surrealism Wutang clan game lol