Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio, just 2 years after opening, with big hires like Joseph Staten - via Stephen Totilo

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where is chat gpt in the thread writing a bible sized text about how big tech is a threat to playstation and streaming is the future and sony is right to give up on exclusivity for their console?
 

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Another studio taking Sony Santa Monica employees only to go down in flames. Those guys are cursed.
 
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Were we really expecting good AAA games from the same company that greenlighted and released 2 rebel moon movies. Come on people lets be real this thing was going to flop from day 1. This was Netflix trying to jump on the COVID gaming bubble bandwagon but the dumbasses in corporate did not realize that games cant be produced in 1-2 yrs like TV shows and movies
 
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It's not an easy industry to break into. Whenever these headlines drop I just hope the creatives find a new way.
 

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What did they even do for 2 years, then?

I'm sure the employees don't mind because Netflix probably paid them like other FAANG companies.
I would not be surprised that their 2 year salary was better equal to like 4~ years at their old job.

It was always going to end this way, Netflix cancels so many shows after 1 season. I don't think the corpos over there have the stomach for big 200M+ investments that doesn't materialize itself much later. Especially in a new field where they don't really have the same experience with it.
 

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We all knew this was going to happen. When Raf announced he was leaving God of War to go there I thought he was so stupid.

Do you actually believe Netflix is the next big threat to PlayStation and they need all the support they can get from Valve to fight them? This is what the other Phil wannabe was arguing.

Let Netflix buy publishers as if I care.
 
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We all knew this was going to happen. When Raf announced he was leaving God of War to go there I thought he was so stupid.


Do you actually believe Netflix is the next big threat to PlayStation and they need all the support they can get from Valve to fight them? This is what the other Phil wannabe was arguing.

Let Netflix buy publishers as if I care.
Sony are so big that their competition is playstation.
 

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The term AAA studio has to be earned by producing, you know, AAA content.
Since they didn't they just closed A gaming studio.
AAA my hairy ass.

If companies stopped throwing these hallow terms, AAA might get a meaning again.
Now AAA looks like an indicator of how much money they can throw at a project, not skill and knowhow.

The term AAA lost all meaning. Its an empty shell of a definition.