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

[Bryank75]

I'm gonna be a big fan of xbox podcasts.

To watch the carnage.

Ironlords... Hold the lineeeee

Fucking lol.

 

[Jim Ryan]

 

[Gamernyc78]

Yeah we saw this dumb shit. It was convo in a thread.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Even Palworld doesn't seem to like this trend.

Everything was hijacked by these soulless corporations.

Now even trying to get a job, dating someone or entertaining yourself is some sort of social experiment run to maximize the profits of some business. Just so boring.

All the big tech companies should be nuked out of existence. It just sucks that most consumers don't get it.

All WoW players in 2024 should be locked up for their own safety.

 

[Plextorage]

Yep, COD factory machine has been dismantled greatly

 

[Gamernyc78]

Yep, COD factory machine has been dismantled greatly

I said it before, the degradation of COD had begun.

 

[Bryank75]

Yep, COD factory machine has been dismantled greatly

But they were meant to bring back so many franchises and make a hundred amazing games every year while also making COD skip a year.

There was meant to be new crash and Spyro games...

More proof that the majority of Xbox fans are either deluded or lying to get their way.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Xbox should be forced to accept Series X units for the full $500 price if they quit on discs.

 

[arvfab]

I hope my brother @adamsapple isn't affected

 

[Luffy123]

Everything PlayStation and Actual Gamers have ever said is literally playing out in front of rn

This is hilariously ironic

 

[Entropi]

But they were meant to bring back so many franchises and make a hundred amazing games every year while also making COD skip a year.

There was meant to be new crash and Spyro games...

More proof that the majority of Xbox fans are either deluded or lying to get their way.

All for … bragging rights?

 

[Gods&Monsters]

She's not backing down even after getting attacked months ago.

Even Palworld doesn't seem to like this trend.

I don't see what these bozos are saying. It's probably copy/paste from somewhere anyway

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Phil said he "was not married to the idea that CoD had to be a yearly franchise", so he scoped the studio down 30%.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

I hope my brother @adamsapple isn't affected

I hope @vfxveteran isn't either.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Phil said he "was not married to the idea that CoD had to be a yearly franchise", so he scoped the studio down 30%.

Doesn't even matter these idiots are going to lower the budget and make it worse.

 

[Zzero]

Again, I'm not trying to derail the thread when this is about Microsoft laying off 1900 employees, but what does Japanese users playing games on PC and mobile have to do with PlayStation physical market software sales in that region? Again just look at the leaked data; heavy majority of Japanese PlayStation sales are physical still. It's tradition.

So, it would be incredibly stupid of Sony to not provide some physical disc option for that market, or many other markets, when there is demand for them. Also let's not act like physical media will become niche in two or four years to the point where Sony doesn't bother with a disc add-on when they have justified making and selling the PSVR2, a device more expensive to R&D, produce, and sell to a quite smaller customer base than an optional disc drive would have even 5 years from now.

And I say that as someone who likes & respects the PSVR2 tech, and would like to see Sony/SIE produce a scaled-down affordable VR headset included by default with the PS6. But, anyway, let's keep the thread on track. If you wanna talk about this specific PS & physical topic more we can just DM or make a new thread for it.

Pre-covid physical/digital ratios are worthless, during covid ratios aren't worth much either. You can really only look at 2022 and 2023 for comparisons.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Doesn't even matter these idiots are going to lower the budget and make it worse.

I think we could see this coming from miles away.

They should have kept these teams as separate entities under the xbox umbrella, everything will be broken after their "reorganization".

 

[Gamernyc78]

I think we could see this coming from miles away.

They should have kept these teams as separate entities under the xbox umbrella, everything will be broken after their "reorganization".

It's going to be a travesty.

 

[Jim Ryan]

 

[Bryank75]

So they've cut developers jobs across most of the COD studios and a Sig ificant amount.

Are we still expecting a COD game every year?