Microsoft: We are in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business

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With PC policy and releases, GAAS policy, acquisitions advice, general advice and recommendations I'm sure he does. Herman is allegory for other non-public faces as well around Jim.
Fair enough, I took your post to mean about this matter in particular (MS acquisitions and public messaging), not the state of PS as a whole
 
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As a whole. This is just one instance. SIE's marketing is known to be dogshit for a while now, with its current head being a stiff non-entity.

Take for example the LeBron console. Sure LeQuit can sell consoles for a particular target market but there are gaming influencers out there with a much more curated, targeted market pull, much cheaper too. Going for LA sports stars is the most shoed in shit you can think off. Tick the box, freshman class marketing 101 type of initiative.
 

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r/gamingleaksandrumours have decided that too many members are posting FTC vs. MSFT related information, and are today removing information like Matt Booty's email and list of potential Xbox acquisitions.

Massive damage control everywhere.

Edit: They have since created a megathread in response to the question "Why now?"
 
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r/gamingleaksandrumours have decided that too many members are posting FTC vs. MSFT related information, and are today removing information like Matt Booty's email and list of potential Xbox acquisitions.

Massive damage control everywhere.
Imagine m$ bills..
 

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As a whole. This is just one instance. SIE's marketing is known to be dogshit for a while now, with its current head being a stiff non-entity.

Take for example the LeBron console. Sure LeQuit can sell consoles for a particular target market but there are gaming influencers out there with a much more curated, targeted market pull, much cheaper too. Going for LA sports stars is the most shoed in shit you can think off. Tick the box, freshman class marketing 101 type of initiative.
Lebron fans would have bought a Playstation either way as well. The PS marketing has been awful post Ghost of Tsushima
 
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Lebron fans would have bought a Playstation either way as well. The PS marketing has been awful post Ghost of Tsushima
Awful post Andrew House and Shu.

Phil Spencer fake "good guy" persona is entirely modeled after PS3/early PS4 Shu.
 

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Funny how they didn't seem to care when the flood of information was pro-xbox

Yeah. The timing is clearly influenced by the volume of unflattering material emerging. They have since created a curated megathread in response to complaints. One in which they get to spin the titles.
 

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The mask is off. If that judge at the FTC trial don't give them the injunction she's corrupted to the core.

They are going with Sega next, in their way to monopolize the industry as we said years ago.
They sabotaged sega since the dreamcast. With that bullshit windows OS. That let everyone bootleg their games. The original Xbox was a sega device rebranded. 100%.

Over years MS sent execs over at Sega. Just like they sent execs at Blizzard. And leak the sex cases to press. MS have already dismantled sega. Sega already sold their offices. Sega has been broken up.

Bottom line is Sega are just goofies. Always have been. Always scrambling for money after poor decisions.And their retarded beef with Sony has always cost them. Can't help stupid.
 
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Ain't gonna lie, if M$ comes to me a big wad of cash, I ain't saying no.

My DM's are open.
 
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Definitely awful post Andrew and Layden... Shu is still around. I have many issues with Shu, so I won't sing him many praises
Shu was demoted right after Andrew House left. His indie role doesn't even compare to the power Herm,en has as Head of PlayStation Studios.

Layden was much better than what we have today but already a step down.
 

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They should bring back Andrew House and replace Hermen with Shuhei Yoshida and make Adam Boyes their new indie guy.

The people in charge of their communication and social media should be replaced.
Adam Boyes needs Hermen Job
 
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Xbox gona sucks every life force out of every videogame company....turns it into gamepass machine..and slowly degrades the quality of the game...until it become a husk of it former self..

Kinda like Unicron did in transformers movie...
 

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Shu was demoted right after Andrew House left. His indie role doesn't even compare to the power Herm,en has as Head of PlayStation Studios.
He wasn't demoted? It was his choice as he was actually considering retiring until VR came about... And that's what he wanted to focus on along with Indies... HENCE Jim built a entire division around him. He reports to Jim Ryan by the way not Hermen.
 
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He wasn't demoted? It was his choice as he was actually considering retiring until VR came about... And that's what he wanted to focus on along with Indies... HENCE Jim built a entire division around him. He reports to Jim Ryan by the way not Hermen.
Are you actually that naive? He has drastically less power now, a demotion by definition.
 

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This is the smoking gun in FTC and CMA’s case against Microsoft. Everything we’ve been saying about MS trying to gobble up the industry was right all along. Anyone denying MS’ true intentions at this point is being either delusional or a shill. Waiting for the corporate shills to swarm in this thread to damage control this email and tell us what our eyes are seeing here is untrue.
 
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