they either got rid of the one they made with the Korean studio or the one they were making inhouse
2 horizon GAS games is overkill
PlayStation is laying off around 900 people across the world [Discussion]
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they either got rid of the one they made with the Korean studio or the one they were making inhouse
2 horizon GAS games is overkill
You think they're cutting people working on Horizon 3? Lmao.
This guy taking every and any opportunity to push against exclusives.
He is just incessant.
Jim Ryans on his way out & has been for a while he won't be the one making these kinds of moves
No, it didn't. He fucked up most studios with GaaS push, while nickel and dimed on remasters and remakes of PS4 era. PR and Advertising was nothing but shit, he burned bridges with countless studios and cancelled most shows. He was booted and these lay off are direct consequences of his terrible tenure.
We all know those are the same thing in the eyes of those shareholders. More money being made but not going straight to their pockets is a loss to them.
Sony will probably follow this path an take themselves out of the console business. PS5 is likely their last dominant generation, things are not moving in a positive direction.
Smart people will avoid building a digital library on PlayStation from now on. PC won.
What good is going to come out of this?
The Multiplayer project isn't fully in-house? I don't see them scrapping it especially with the recent NCsoft partnership
You don’t know that. Helldivers is a success and we still have Concord and Fairgames to be released.
When I saw Totoki mentioning they had to address profitability and productivity I thought they were going to have a few firings to cut the fat, but I didn't expect 900 people (8% of their workforce, which was 11250 and now will be 10350) and the proposed closure of London Studio. Sad news.
Over half of the total game revenue is generated by GaaS, and over half of the players are in GaaS titles. It would be retarded and suicidal to move away from GaaS. Sony must continue focused on their traditional non GaaS SP games but also growing in GaaS.
Layoffs have more to do with global post covid economics, tons of years of printing money for no reason causing big inflation and recesion, plus cutting ties in the west with Russia, rising oil prices and costs of hardware components and shipments for hardware, accesories and retail games. On top of that the dollar vs yen exchange keeps getting worse for a Japanese company like Sony.
That also caused sales to grow less than in previous recent years in PS even they grew and achieved new records in many places (in total gaming revenue adding console, PC and mobile remained flat for 2022 and 2023 for the first time of growth since the '80s).
That negatively impacted their profitability and have o reduce costs and maximize revenue, profitability and productivity to compensate. Costs related to recent acquisitions (retention bonuses, new office to help them grow, workforce increase, etc) also negatively impacted on their profitability in recent years, but accordin to Totoki will ease next fiscal year.
On top of all this, many investors are moving away from gaming to invest in other tech industries to invest in AI, where there's way more growth and potential growth.
No, MLB, GT7 and Helldivers 2 are very successful. As pretty likely Concord, Marathon or Fairgame$ and others will.
Over half of the total game revenue is generated by GaaS, and over half of the players are in GaaS titles. It would be retarded and suicidal to move away from GaaS. Sony must continue focused on their traditional non GaaS SP games but also growing in GaaS.
The Horizon MP game they have been working on since 2018 in Guerrilla (it's when they hired back the Killzone 2 MP and Rainbow 6 Siege director to work on it) may be the same that is developed by NC Soft, or may be one AAA focused on console (+maybe PC) and the other one a F2P focused on mobile (+ maybe PC).
There is no reason for this, PS Studios games produce way more revenue and profit now than they did before him, sell more than ever and earn more awards than ever. They have been doing very well, better than ever.
Layoffs have more to do with global post covid economics, tons of years of printing money for no reason causing big inflation and recesion, plus cutting ties in the west with Russia, rising oil prices and costs of hardware components and shipments for hardware, accesories and retail games. On top of that the dollar vs yen exchange keeps getting worse for a Japanese company like Sony.
That also caused sales to grow less than in previous recent years in PS even they grew and achieved new records in many places (in total gaming revenue adding console, PC and mobile remained flat for 2022 and 2023 for the first time of growth since the '80s).
That negatively impacted their profitability and have o reduce costs and maximize revenue, profitability and productivity to compensate. Costs related to recent acquisitions (retention bonuses, new office to help them grow, workforce increase, etc) also negatively impacted on their profitability in recent years, but accordin to Totoki will ease next fiscal year.
On top of all this, many investors are moving away from gaming to invest in other tech industries to invest in AI, where there's way more growth and potential growth.
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people like you then don't understand the reality of the situation and just wetdreaming. not different from what a lot of xbox fanboys were doing.
We can only hope! Should have been axed after the showcase last May.