True, there are some things that could be positive now or in the future... never nice to see people lose jobs though.
PlayStation is laying off around 900 people across the world [Discussion]
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True, there are some things that could be positive now or in the future... never nice to see people lose jobs though.
Yep especially when some are on work visas.
Heard visas get cancelled the moment you lose your job.
Sad to see.
I was at the office today with barely any internet so I missed all the conversation but besides the shocking "900 layoffs" headline it doesn't seem like gamers lost anything worthwhile?
People were mocking that London game since it was announced, nobody wanted it. We never saw anything of Twisted Metal, it might as well not exist. The Insomniac MP was already cancelled months ago. We were not getting it anyway.
It's almost like Jim and Hermen were reading the forum and just did what people were asking lol
Exactly.
The same people who were complaining about the shift towards GaaS games are now complaining about these cancellations and layoffs.
The majority were probably working on these cancelled GaaS games.
Like clockwork they bring Japan Studios back into the discussion.
These ones are the loudest, yes. And i became dumb because of them
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We know he's the interim SIE CEO, meaning he is only CEO temporally during the transition between CEOs. Jimbo quitted last year, but since these companies do everything per fiscal year, he stays until the end of the fiscal year, also helping to do the transition. And then in the start of the new fiscal year they promote (or hire) the next CEO.
As a bridge, during this transition there's an interim CEO. Someone who in normal conditions manages the transition from a CEO to anoher and normally doesn't make important changes during that period (like to fire 8% of the workforce shutting down an entire studio).
Normally the transition doesn't only is a change of CEO. Normally the new CEO makes also some changes in the vicepresidents, senior vice presidents, people in charge of some subsidiaries etc. to build a team he's comfortable with. The interim CEO also takes part in that process.
As an example if the next CEO is Eric Lempel they'll have to replace him as SVP of marketing promoting someone else there, and that person also with another one etc. And maybe he decides to replace someone like Hermen, or other vice presidents etc.
Pretty likely they already did part of this process and the next CEO will start working April 1, but sometimes it takes a few weeks. I assume Totoki won't be there a month.
What's with all these people wanting to have their accounts banned?
You people can't have some basic discussion with out going all Postel.
GET A HOLD OF YOUR BLOODY EMOTIONS AND Stop being so Fucking over- Dramatic, you bunch of bloody DRAMA Queens.
I am leaving too now.
@Bryank75 can you please contact me in the morning to see if i still want to be here, thanks
You people can't have some basic discussion with out going all Postel.
GET A HOLD OF YOUR BLOODY EMOTIONS AND Stop being so Fucking over- Dramatic, you bunch of bloody DRAMA Queens.
I am leaving too now.
@Bryank75 can you please contact me in the morning to see if i still want to be here, thanks
you are not leaving....What's with all these people wanting to have their accounts banned?
You people can't have some basic discussion with out going all Postel.
GET A HOLD OF YOUR BLOODY EMOTIONS AND Stop being so Fucking over- Dramatic, you bunch of bloody DRAMA Queens.
I am leaving too now.
@Bryank75 can you please contact me in the morning to see if i still want to be here, thanks
you will be fried...
Don't ban the accont. Everybody has a bad day, and to day is a pretty sad day that continues several weeks/months with bad turbulen news in all sides, so everybody is unusually tense.
My point was that PC hasn't been that lucrative investment they thought it would be. All the profit they made still can't even fund one of the major games that putting back money in the bank to fund these useless PC ports..
Seeing plenty of this on X. Like it all pointing to the GAAS strategy and Sony reeling it back big time yet the folks that hated the GAAS strategy from the start somehow aren't realizing that the canceled games are the games that they've been telling PS to get away from. Wild stuff. Lol.Funny shit, isn't it.
They were flops, they can’t even do 10% of the revenue with way more time. And the ports have only sold worse since then.Those 3 wasn't flop per se, but whole initiativ was.
Plus, they sold it's identity which wasn't worth 50 or 100M extra, especially when they said themselves that they aren't investing those money back to studios or Playstation, those going to mobile etc..
Plus porting to competing platform, Jimbo was brightest
35x?
that sounds good until you realize it’s a measly few million. Again, if a product is worth over a billion dollars, and you sell it for 40 million, that will always be horrible. It’s 4%, literal pennies. I don’t care if it’s 35x or 600x, trading the benefits of exclusivity for a measly 4% is braindead. They’re going to lose a minimum of 25% from pursuing PC, and that’s being generous.
And my tinfoil hat theory is Totoki and investors had Jim graciously step down to avoid a PR disaster and tank the stocks. Totoki will stick around temporary grooming someone while he bends the knee to his overlords and get Playstation on a tight budget leash.
Why would what's going on in the gaming world make you "unusually tense"? Unless of course you work in the industry and it's directly affecting you. It's a hobby, I disagree with ppl in here sometimes but I don't take it personal unless it's a personal attack but I could care less if someone disagrees with me. Some ppl just need to accept others do not think like they do and it's OK for ppl to think differently and have different opinions. Sony isn't paying my rent nor is any other Corp so I give two shits what ppl say about them
it is kinda good. when you have tighter leash, you starting to avaluet what was working and what wasn't etc.. so i hope, that will help them back to the roots.
Back to roots? That idiot Totoki is the one pushing pc, mobile, cloud, and gaas
Back to roots? That idiot Totoki is the one pushing pc, mobile, cloud, and gaas
That push started several years ago. Totoki has just reconfirmed it.
You can't do that under tighter leash as you have no budget for that, and they aren't going to gamble on pc and mobile. Unless they are nuts or just stupid.Back to roots? That idiot Totoki is the one pushing pc, mobile, cloud, and gaas
IKR? Shows they either haven't been paying attention to other GaaS-related scale backs at SIE the past few months, or can't correlate relevant points together between that and seeing how many big GaaS titles crashed & burned in just the last couple of months.
For every Helldivers 2 and Palworld, there's been 10x as many GaaS failures in the same span of time, if not more.