and cancel Xbox versions for their future upcoming games
Rumor: Sony leadership feels that Bungie is a failed investment (take with 🧂🧂)
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Yuh I’m starting to think Jim Ryan was actually fired for green lighting buying Bungie Sony biggest investment imploding in itself. Even thoe Jim Ryan performance made Sony the most he’s also made some fuck ups making a 4 billion investment & it shortly imploding & porting PS games potentially putting PS at harm against PC & Nintendo would be a reason to boot em.
I also think Jim Ryan is tired working at Sony for 30 years & no longer wanting to take a trip across Japan, US & EU & dealing w consolidation & making all these back & forth strategic business acquisitions
they probably lost some big billion dollars with this live service strategy, just the amount of cancelled games, The Last Of Us Factions 5 years in development, probably costed 200M+ to make + the Bungie acquisitions for almost 4 billion dollars, it's insane, the results? we have no first party singleplayer games in 2024, pathetic
For Real. Square Enix was the obvious one if they were gonna invest that kind of money anyway. Alot of pillar IPs, back catalogue for Premium, help in Japan Market and overall, they release games every year of quality which would have helped now that their American Studios cant get 1 game out this gen(exclude insomniac). Although the other half of me doesnt want them under American leadership and more Forspoken characters are made
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Live service is important for the future of gaming. Most young gamers are spending most of its time playing live service games. Take 2 found mobile to be important enough to buy Zynga for 15 billion when Take 2 was worth 12 billion.
Whether we like live service or not it’s important for PS to have a strong position in live service or they’ll go day n date to bring in short term profits (but who knows PS might do PC day n date since they seemly dumb enough to buy Bungie for 4 billion & port exclusive singleplayer games to PC harming there storefront, console & killing there competitiveness against PC & Nintendo)
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The media believe their job is to even things out to help the little guy, Xbox. PlayStation success must always be accompanied by some bad vibes news to lower morale.
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To be clear, Jim also inherited many of Shawn Layden’s initiatives, the blockbuster games and big 3rd party exclusives which were what setup PS4 rise. We have just been seeing most of Jim’s implementations now which have been abysmal
Sony messed up when they’ve stop buying studios who worked w PS & instead bought a bunch of no names w no ip no game output just a bunch of talent names.
Acquisition Sony should’ve made in 2020 when MS bought Zenimax & ABK
• Square Enix (japan/legacy w PS)
• Arc system work (fighting/evo)
• Kadokawa/Fromsoft (legacy w PS)
• Hoyoverse (asia/mobile)
• Shift up (asia/mobile)
• LVL5 (japan)
• Kena studio
There’s probably more I’m missing but all of these are no brainer full acquisition or investment. Sony should look to licensing ip to 3rd party to make spin off Ratch & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper & Ape Escape are franchise that could explore new creative spin off in the size of AA. Bring back creative weird PS
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Bungie has been failing their sales targets for the whole 2 years since they got acquired by Sony.
How could Sony's leadership not believe it to be a failed investment?
On top of that, most of the GaaS projects are being cancelled left and right because they finally understood the chances of pulling an Apex Legends or Fortnite are so slim that on average they would just going to be burning money. So Bungie lost like half their purpose here.
Also, turns out taking away content people had already paid for isn't something very popular (wow much strategy) and gamers tend to vote with their wallets.
I for one don't get how people don't get tired of playing the same game over and over for a decade. I played a lot of Destiny 2 with friends back in 2018 and at some point I was just done with the game, no matter how many expansions they threw at it. But that's just me, I guess.
How could Sony's leadership not believe it to be a failed investment?
On top of that, most of the GaaS projects are being cancelled left and right because they finally understood the chances of pulling an Apex Legends or Fortnite are so slim that on average they would just going to be burning money. So Bungie lost like half their purpose here.
Also, turns out taking away content people had already paid for isn't something very popular (wow much strategy) and gamers tend to vote with their wallets.
I for one don't get how people don't get tired of playing the same game over and over for a decade. I played a lot of Destiny 2 with friends back in 2018 and at some point I was just done with the game, no matter how many expansions they threw at it. But that's just me, I guess.
I 100 percent believe this though. Sony has owned them for 2 years and all they’ve made was some dlc. They over paid for them and they’ve been a black hole for 2 years. I bet Sony japan wanted to go after SE but the western side wanted to be on GAAS at the time.
Suddenly the bots love Icon, after trashing it
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I hope Bungie gets gutted and rinsed, for the absolute bullshit they pulled on TLOU Online. Set to be too much Active Player Numbers competition for Marathon, was it?
A grown ass man has "ponies" as an insult on his profile, while using a gangster wannabe pic of himself. Why take pathetic creatures like that seriously?
After this investment do you honestly believe Sony will spend this amount of money on another publisher.
No chance.
Once bitten twice shy.
i'm not saying they will, i'm saying it would be better, back in 2022, to have acquired Square Enix instead of Bungie, or even Capcom, Capcom at the time was like 4B dollars or something
I agree.
Too late now unfortunately.
PlayStation top brass wasted their money on Bungie. No way Sony give them more.
Capcom was always out of the equation. Saudi Savvy group has made investments in them.