PlayStation is laying off around 900 people across the world [Discussion]

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That’s not how any of this works. They aren’t firing people because the business is posting losses, they are firing people because shareholders want more money.
Yeah exactly this , you've got the totoki guy talking about growth then saying we 'predict' a drop in ps5 sales so the stock value goes down $10 billion & now they've done this 🤦🏻‍♂️
 

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Can we now collectively agree that Jim Ryan was cancer for Playstation?
  • Live service bet failed and backfired, with people being laid-off and studios closing
  • Closed 4 studios (and nuked most of Japan Studio)
  • PC ports that sold peanuts and only served to have people move out of Sony's own ecosystem into a competing platform (competing platform by his own words)
  • Missed PS5 sales projections by 4M at a time their main competitor is selling less than last gen
  • 2024 with ZERO first party single player games (yeah, they are publishing some, but that's it). The worst year for their single party studios in well over a decade!
  • Nothing so far to show for 2025 other than Death Stranding (which is their IP but also a third-party studio)
  • Let their relationships with japanese studios degrade to a point where Xbox is actually getting perks that PS doesn't get (looking at Sega here)
Imagine being the market leader and fucking up so much. It's actually impressive how bad this motherfucker was. If he was Xbox's CEO people would be laughing at his piss poor job.
I thought it was known that for couple of years now. He was awful.
 
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I mean, he's the same dumbfuck that says "PC is a competing platform" and still signs off on PC ports with an email. Terrible CEO.

This seeming contradiction might be worth thinking about a little harder. Maybe calling PC competition isn't as deep as you think it is.
 
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Darth Vader

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Yeah after helldivers 2 crashed and burned they're likely to stop making live service games and stop making PC games.
Man, you are incapable of putting more than two neurons into a comment, probably because you don't have two neurons to spare.

These business decisions are made months in advance, and just because one project succeeded it doesn't mean 12 projects would. A child would understand this, and I mean a child with microcephaly. It was clear as day that this would happen because live service games require entire studios to support them, they can't be little side-projects.

Just read what Naughty Dog said about the TLOU:O cancellation and then sit back and let the adults talk.

This seeming contradiction might be worth thinking about a little harder. Maybe calling PC competition isn't as deep as you think it is.
 

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Would be funny is Phil tweets "see we're not the only ones who laid off employees lol we can buy Sony cash in NASDAQ"


anyways, i wish all the best for the ones who worked on the PC ports only, the dude that printed the 8k logo on the box? not sorry for him tbh
 
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It's all a self fulfilling prophecy. Their vision for their console business sucks and it's time for PlayStation to be replaced.

Waiting them to turn their back on physical media before next gen, then they'll have made my decision for me.

Sad, that PlayStation is under such a shitty company, I wish they would PlayStation into it's own independent company that would not be under Sony.
 

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Just read what Naughty Dog said about the TLOU:O cancellation and then sit back and let the adults talk.

ND said the online game could jeopardize their standing as a single player developer. What was Arrowhead's last big single player game?
 

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Yeah after helldivers 2 crashed and burned they're likely to stop making live service games and stop making PC games.
The issue was to have too many focus in Live Service games.

They had like 4-5 big project live services that probably got cancelled.
The smaller one was probably the one to survive and give really good fruits (Helldrivers 2).

Nobody is against Live Services here.
We are against to make Live Services the focus of PlayStation because not all Live Services games reach success... it is too risk... so you have to have a strong backup with big franchises.

When you are strong with you lineup then you make one or two Live Services to try to be sucessul.
 

Darth Vader

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It's all a self fulfilling prophecy. Their vision for their console business sucks and it's time for PlayStation to be replaced.
Hopefully whoever replaces Jim "bottle job" Bryan can do a better job. Doing a worse one would be really fucking hard.

The issue was to have too many focus in Live Service games.

They had like 4-5 big project live services that probably got cancelled.
The smaller one was probably the one to survive and give really good fruits (Helldrivers 2).
Exactly. They should have had a couple or three external studios (or studios acquired for it, like they did) working on live service, while their main studios continued working on their specialty: Single player games.

But no, they decided Insomniac, ND, Bend, Guerrilla, Sucker Punch, etc, had to be working on that shit instead.
 

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The issue was to have too many focus in Live Service games.

They had like 4-5 big project live services that probably got cancelled.
The smaller one was probably the one to survive and give really good fruits (Helldrivers 2).

Most of the announced live service games are coming from newly acquired studios. If they cancel the project, why acquire the studio in the first place?
 
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It's either they're laying off people attached to Horizon 3 or the Horizon MP game, there's no other option.
I said we dunno if their online game was scrapped and I simply didn't want a back and forth about it.
 

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I know topics like this rile ppl up but some of you need to let other opinions flow and not offend ppl with cursing, disrespectful responses, etc just because they have differing opinions. There are ways to convey your feelings without resulting to caustic language or attacking
 

Darth Vader

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The problem is that it's clear that Totoki will be the guy deciding who is going to replace Jim Ryan. Sony leadership is sabotaging PlayStation again with their stupidity and lack of long term vision.
If that's the case, they will lose clientele. Hopefully he will look at what was working until 2019 and just say "cool, this is what we need to do".