Industry and Video game layoff thread |OT| Any future layoff info please place in here.

Ezekiel

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Their shill network can no longer contain the truth.

It's all spilling over.

They're done.
 

ethomaz

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This is the type of fanbase they cultivated.
Nah they go lower on metal issues.

 

Nhomnhom

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Despite this site being ps-centric I'd wager that the vast majority of posters here currently own or have owned xboxes in the past and have been burned by Microsoft's utter ineptitude.
I gave up on the 360, it sucked compared to the PS3 and it was their best console ever.
 
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AshHunter216

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Not sure if it will be the case.

The percentage of digital vs phisical sales keeps increasing. In this chart they keep the same for CY25 and 26, but makes more sense that in CY25-28 will continue decreasing to become almost zero or just a couple billions, mostly from Nintendo where the % of digital sales way bigger.

Physical game sales are being replaced by digital sales. And game sales are being replaced by addon (GaaS/F2P) sales.

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Physical is still the majority in some countries, and you don't sacrifice one avenue of profit for another when you can have both. The people pushing for digital only are really short-sighted and dumb imo.
 
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Physical is still the majority in some countries, and you don't sacrifice one avenue of profit for another when you can have both. The people pushing for digital only are really short-sighted and dumb imo.
The Xbox all digital console is coming soon, it's all coming together! No Hellblade physical, the rumors of all digital console for last few years and the physical retail dept being shuttered.
 

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Despite this site being ps-centric I'd wager that the vast majority of posters here currently own or have owned xboxes in the past and have been burned by Microsoft's utter ineptitude.

I bought one for Starfield. Now it sits inside its boxing lol
 
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I bought one for Starfield. Now it sits inside its boxing lol

I bought one for Starfield. Now it sits inside its boxing lol
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One of the few mistakes I've made in life After playing Halo Mp and seeing how mediocre it was and Gears mp not being special I never played it again.

It now is a discarded paperweight. And I won't make tht mistake again.
 
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Kinda funny how the mods are so concerned with console warring now when people can dunk on PlayStation and shitpost about it as much as they want without incident.

One thing I'm curious about, I know the PlayStation community has been greatly suppressed on there, but what about the Nintendo community?

It's gotten pretty rough for them too of late because of the Palworld stuff. A lot of the usual Xbox suspects treating it as a defacto console exclusive and piggybacking off the Steam momentum, dismissing the blatant Pokemon ripoffs and pratically asset theft (yes, TRACING over a pre-existing model near 1:1 and making slight changes to avoid immediate copyright infringements is still illegal when done without the consent of the original owner. It at very least should be looked down upon like tracing in the art community is).

But people like Transistor, Judge, Jawmuncher etc. have leaned in on weaponizing Nintendo fans by proxy against pro-PlayStation news on the forum, so they don't want to piss the Nintendo people off TOO much. Hence they're more lenient with them.

Weird i thought i had that dude blocked, does he run multiple peterovo accts?

Yep. Even has his own gaming website 🤣
 

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Physical is still the majority in some countries.
Impossible, and if there would be some exception in some tiny country would be totally irrelevant.

In CY22 only $9B of the $55B generated by console games was in physical sales:

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The people pushing for digital only are really short-sighted and dumb imo.
No, physical game sales revenue keep getting replaced by digital game sales+addons+subs revenue. Which means that in the long term physical sales will dissapear or become a tiny niche, pretty likely for collector editions only which may no longer include the disk.

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Let's be fair here.
Working in game for 6 years and being still not close to launch is really not good for game/team.
Blaming the engine is another issue... why did not choose another one? You have a lot of time to change it after all.
 
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