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@Ajbr8687 as I said my company is doing this already for 130 years. And in the top of multiple markets. We’re a 700 million company. Also, there’s always work for my kind of profession, everywhere in the world.

Not afraid one bit

@itsfoz oof, spoiler warning!

@Savage_Joe you’re savage

Ok, one of the.

How come I didn’t know this?… i blame myself. Tnx for enlightening me!

@Intr1n5ic because these layoffs couldn’t have been prevented some way or another?

For instance: management taking the hit or doing something earlier differently, as Shawn Layden suggested?

Sony isn’t better than Microsoft. Nah, they’re both big corporates where the boards are these days trying mainly to appease shareholders as much as possible and they both should learn how to treat their employees what they’re worth.

@Savage_Joe ah, i stand corrected. It’s the first game Nintendo has developed in the Unreal Engine though.

@somnambulance another reason why Sony should chase smaller games is what Nintendo is doing: they are using smaller games to experiment with specific engines or other stuff on the background while still getting paid for it. They now use Princess Peach Showtime as their first game in Unreal Engine 5, for instance. And they use Kirby games to train new people and gather new gaming ideas in their company.

@koffing you are 100% correct. Getting rid of 8% of the work force is just a quick fix to up the margin for upcoming year, and then what? Even less games.

Not even Nintendo fired 8% of their work force during the Wii U days. Instead, president Iwata took a pay cut. Will we ever see a western CEO do that?

@somnambulance remember when Sony was creating an ‘NFT’ store section on their consoles?

Yeah, good times, good management. It all went downhill after their PS4 period.

Edit: they filed a patent 4 days ago, they are still creating it. With this management, and these greedy shareholders who love to see stupid stuff like a limited edition golden PS5 or a PS5 in a car, Sony is doomed. https://playtoearngames.com/news/playstation-patents-a-new-way-using-nfts

@Vaako007 yes. It’s ‘greedflation’.

@ZhuckelDror Sony should bring their games to switch and xbox to reduce the risk

@ZhuckelDror maybe not for an American company.

But in general, a healthy company would want that margin to be relatively small but steady because it’s out of pocket money towards investors. You want to also invest in your own people/company to keep it healthy, not create a huge profit margin for just a few years which flows out of your company and makes your company susceptible to the winds of the stock market.

But Sony apparently isn’t apparently a company anymore where in general mainly the employees get to see the profits of their work. That profit apparently has to go elsewhere. It’s not a Japanese company anymore.

@ZhuckelDror Even without the comparison 6% profit is more than sustainable.

How is 608 million profit on 10.2 billion revenue ‘razor thin’?

That’s 6%. That’s absolutely not razor thin. I work at an engineering company where we make 3%-4% every year with thousands of employees and that company is standing for more than a century without big layoffs.

The true story is: Shareholders just want more and more. They don’t care about the employees one bit.

@Intr1n5ic nah, it’s exactly the same. It’s just two big corporates wanting to earn as much money for their shareholders as possible.

Very sad to see this news, wish all employees the best!

Microsoft is such an abomination in the gaming industry.

Oh, wait…..

Apparently Sony also absolutely lost their way.

@UltimateOtaku91 metacritic doesn’t matter!

Only Pushsquare, Nintendolife and PureXbox reviews matter 😜

@NattyKing echo.

You’re just providing your ‘idea’. No numbers, just the idea that a multibillion company ‘needs’ a few extra million somewhere.

Don’t confuse that with that Microsoft ‘wants’ a few extra million.

And now I’m fed up with your continuous same same comments.

@NattyKing which is all nothing more than your two cents. They absolutely do not need playstation.

Enjoy yourself in your echo chamber that everything is doom and gloom for xbox. Without hard proof to back it up. Don’t know why you find it so comforting in there.

As if you’re wishing for it to be so.

@NattyKing good for them.

Means xbox makes profit. Because regarding absolute profit otherwise 2x zero would be zero. Or 2x loss would be even worse.

So xbox is fine. You found your source and explanation yourself now.

@nattyking bottom line: Microsoft is the richest company in the world. They absolutely don’t need any other company to keep a specific business afloat. They know what they’re doing and are in the game to earn as much money as possible from wherever they can. Also from Playstation and Nintendo gamers.

@NattyKing i gave you proof that xbox is profitable on its own.

CoD, they weren’t ‘forced’. They also said that it wouldn’t make sense business wide to not put CoD on Playstation. But Jim Ryan made those claims, or that Microsoft would somehow sabotage or whatever. Xbox was like ‘fine, we put it in writing’, because that’s what jurisdiction is about. There was absolutely no ligit claim that Xbox WOULD sabotage or not put CoD on Playstation. All unfounded. It’s just what the Sony community was made afraid about. https://www.mirror.co.uk/gaming/sony-right-worried-call-duty-29448287.amp

Hardware sales being behind xbox one is irrelevant.

You are in your own echo chamber, probably convincing yourself that you’ve ‘made the right choice’ or something that you’re supporting Playstation. Just know that if xbox goes out of the gaming business that you as a consumer are paying the price.

Just be happy you get some extra games to play from Microsoft. They’re not making the anti-consumer decisions that Sony is the last few years. Such as hefty raising subscription prices. Investing mainly in GaaS to squeeze every penny out of consumers. And making big exclusive 3d party release or exclusive content deals.

@NattyKing do you have proof for any of your claims?

Nothing first party. Very lackluster lineup.

@Anthony_Daniels not everything is a console war on the internet.

Looking forward to playing this game! Can’t atm, cause I don’t own a PS5, because everything interesting to me so far was also playable on the PS4. This is the first game that might push me in that direction.

@NattyKing you’re just repeating the same statement over and over again without giving extra information.

They make profit. Yet somehow it’s a dying platform or whatever. They give first party games to other platforms and there’s a 10 year deal with all major platform holders that they’re bringing CoD on par day on date to those platforms, yet somehow they’re taking away CoD from playstation all of a sudden.

If that’s the echo chamber you want to discuss in, be my guest. But you’re making zero sense.

@mvhess i hate big mega corporates for that reason, you are correct. All the money goes to only a few. But Sony is a big mega corporation too that lays off talent (Japan studios) and divisions for the sole reason of infinite growth (the head of sony stated that he’s ‘addicted to growth’).

The only thing that would help us consumers is cross-country lawmaking to curb the infinite growth these companies are striving for. But with the divided world as we know it now I don’t see that happening anytime soon, so we just seem to have to live with it as best as we can for now.

I’m just saying that Microsoft or Xbox don’t ‘need’ playstation to exist.

@NattyKing you, sir, should read more than just headlines.

1) the mail from Matt Booty said the following: ‘We (Microsoft) are in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business’.

That doesn’t mean he wanted to or that they were going to try to. It’s just a statement. A possibility that he’s discussing over the email.

2) the mail about Nintendo you’re referring to comes from Phil Spencer in which he states: ‘At some point, getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both companies’. Again. A personal opinion, not something the company is going for or is able to do at the moment for all we know.

The earnings from xbox are in the link I attached to my previous comment. And I said ‘cloud’, not just ‘cloud gaming’. Microsoft is a software business. They have tons of other parts in the company benefitting from what has been achieved within the gaming divisions. They learn from each other, cross-pollination as it were. Just as Sony is doing with their entertainment division (their hardware, such as their headphones). I’d advice you to start thinking outside of the plastic box beneath your television.

Microsoft absolutely doesn’t ‘need’ Playstation.

@NattyKing they made profit in 2022. Microsoft definitely doesn’t need Playstation revenue. Also because Microsoft uses the gaming studios for other thing besides gaming, such as enhancing mobile, cloud, meta-businesses. But Playstation revenue helps Microsoft to grow more, so why wouldn’t they do it?

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/93375/xbox-profits-revealed-in-new-ftc-leak/index.html

@NattyKing no, it doesn’t need Playstation.

It generates more revenue though, but Microsoft is the richest company in the world. It doesn’t ‘need’ any Playstation sales.

@themightyant ah. You, random poster on this website, are probably more credible than IGN.

Yes. Microsoft has other stuff planned for the next years, that is certain. Most likely the Disney and Marvel stuff will also go elsewhere within a few years. Doesn’t mean that Xbox will release everything on other consoles and that they’re stepping out of the console business as everybody here is hoping for.

Funny how not even a few months ago everybody on here was clamoring doom over consolidation within the console market, yet now using laughing emotes on posts where they make fun of xbox for bringing games to more consoles and people.

@themightyant you haven’t heard anyone credible?

The internet is full of people and organizations saying ‘well, the outcry was for a load of fluff and unnecessary.’

Such as the IGN podcasts
https://youtu.be/AI6qVOvRui8?si=Kx29jDPHLCMwHBLy
https://youtu.be/zCRfBKNziog?si=8YMNJlECi8sa3rWA

@NattyKing all xbox games are released on pc which is the largest platform apart from mobile.

Microsoft doesn’t need the playstation platform. Apart from established franchises such as call of duty (for now).

@Intr1n5ic pentiment and hi-fi rush are smaller AA games. They co-exist on every platform next tot the big blockbuster AAA games. And also take a look at the Switch release window, I think Nintendo’s platform is where most sales will be.

Good sportsmanship. Let’s see if there are more ports this year indeed.

@LordAinsley two games were in the Nintendo Partner Showcase. So they had to remain quiet so they wouldn’t break NDA

@Grumblevolcano @intr1n5ic yes, for this year that’s the lineup. They probably did this at the start of the year while there’s not much competition. And immediately after the actiblizz deal to recoup some costs.

And no, I’m not a summer child.

@AndyKazama it wont, at least for the foreseeable future.

These are the only 4 games for this year that are going to other platforms. Smaller and GaaS games.

@thefourfoldroot1 ‘hundreds of games’ while Sony themselves only lists 69 games.

https://store.playstation.com/nl-nl/category/62c2a3b6-41cf-4808-ba48-1e5581eeea35/1

@VanguardKaiser @geminireign the games being released on psvr2 are so minimal. No first party support, and sales way below expectations.

It’s not really being kept alive. Great piece of tech, but too niche and expensive.

https://www.thegamer.com/sony-is-making-the-same-mistakes-with-the-psvr2-that-it-made-with-the-ps-vita/#:~:text=The%20PSVR2%20has%20not%20been,its%20first%20six%2Dweek%20run.

@thefourfoldroot1 psvr2 is what’s dead unfortunately.

Didn’t survive even a year.

@Korgon they probably aren’t allowed to because of NDA, until the next Nintendo partner showcase

@get2sammyb ‘i am obsessed with growth’ are his own words.

He is one of the reasons of the (creative) downfall of Playstation this generation. Money and GaaS first.

https://www.ft.com/content/50794294-bf67-4a74-bbf9-dc05b617a9ae

Shame really what this business has become. Destroyed like Football. In the hands of Middle eastern, American and Chinese investors.

@get2sammyb it’s a path Sony has chosen themselves though. They could have had studios working on the likes of ape escape or sly cooper or creative smaller games or even remasters to fill gaps, just as Nintendo is doing.

A Pikmin 4 or even a Metroid Prime Remastered kind of release could have worked wonders. I’m thinking of the Twisted metal, Killzone, Syphon Filter, or RPG remasters or remakes Sony could have been doing.

Such a cool implementation / gimmick in the game! I’ll spend hours on this alone. Very much looking forward to this game.

Well, so much for creativity and smaller projects where people are able to learn and experiment on the job

Great to see that many people liked the showing. To each their own.

I don’t like the grim sci-fi interactive storytelling or grim sword-action game focus of Sony anymore. Burnt out on it. And I haven’t seen any ‘fun’ or ‘new’ gameplay this state of play. So this year is not for me unfortunately.

Looking forward to dragons dogma ii and ff7 rebirth though. And curious about the new kojima collaboration.

How does Ariël press the pedal?

I think this happened with all their shin megami tensei games on 3ds, and all their persona games on the more modern systems so far. So not really surprising.

If the game sells 5+ million they might not feel the need to do this? But persona is still a relative niche.

@UltimateOtaku91 they probably will though, a few years down the line on the Switch’s successor.

Great news to me!

Hopefully most live service attempts by Sony will get canned in order for them to return to what they’re known for: single player adventures

@Grimwood have you ever watched the oscars? the oscars dont show 1000 advertisements of upcoming movies. Also, you SHOULD care about the awards, it’s ‘the game awards’.

But yeah, it’s a smirking Keighly ad reel. Where all developers apart from Kojima get treated like dirt. That’s all it is.

Even when thanking your colleagues who passed away during development you get told to ‘wrap it up!’

And most awards are given like ‘award for this: that. Next!’