Yep, the Bungie acquisition was a colossal waste of money with no exclusive benefits for Playstation players and a GAAS mandate from developers who apparently can't even keep all their employees.
Your spin on everthing Sony has been negative so I'll let them tell me when it's a waste of money. They have professionals that decide tht and I doubt for them having the devs who have a highly popular mp game and helped create Halo and know alot about FPS shooters is a waste of money for them.
It wasn't a waste of money. They are good developers. Lays off is happening everywhere. It will be sensationalized because they are now Playstation aligned but they will be shining bright in the next coming years... Just wait.
How is this his fault or GaaS related? Unfortunately the entire industry is facing this problem. And we should be more worried about the bigger picture than just Jim Ryan currently.
Uh oh ... "just wait" has been the refrain of another platform holder, and I don't think that's worked out too well for them.
Jim Ryan gone(good), Connie Booth gone, layoffs at Media Molecule, layoffs at Visual Arts studios, layoffs at Naughty Dog, layoffs at Bungie. Something is uniquely going wrong with playstation within these last few months.Your spin on everthing Sony has been negative so I'll let them tell me when it's a waste of money. They have professionals that decide tht and I doubt for them having the devs who have a highly popular mp game and helped create Halo and know alot about FPS shooters is a waste of money for them.
In the last couple of years again Activision, Nintendo, other Sony Studios, Ubisoft, Epic, Microsoft, etc all have had layoffs. They all a waste of money
It could be I'm not saying it's not. I just know the industry as a whole is experiencing layoffs.
It’s a tremendous egg on face moment that they bought bungie in part to teach them how to do gaas only for them to pivot away from it and fire people from said company you hired to help you. Jim Ryan and gaas has been a disaster. Almost all of Sonys studios have seen layoffs and it’s only Monday. Canceled projects, studio closures, lay offs. Jim Ryan was asleep at the wheel.
Judging by the fact that layoffs followed game delays in both naughty dog and bungie, everyone seems pretty damn essential. No justification for layoffs when they can't even get their projects out of the door with the amount of people they already have.
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