Sony COO Totoki: "A big problem of SIE is they don't have a deep understanding of how their work is being translated to growth
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This hot take is idiotic imo since after second half of PS3 Playstation has grown to be the face of Sony so they definitely knew how to expand and grow under Hirai. Got to be careful with thinkers like this thts how you get the "Everything third party" situations.
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This guy will kill PlayStation. Studios shouldn't need to concern themselves with that type of thing, they were all massively successful during the PS4 generation and all they needed to do was to keep doing their thing. Even something like Days Gone selling as well as it did would've been seen as a massive success during the PS3 and early PS4 days.
If Sony wanted to expand to PC and GaaS it was on them to massively expand these studios or buy new ones instead of spreading them thin and halting their output to a crawl.
Weirdly enough, during all this, MS, a company that has a console that will be lucky to sell anywhere close to 40m units and a gaming division that doesn't even come close to PlayStation was willing to spend vastly more resources than PlayStation did in an attempt to grow.
Sony senseless dream of being a leader in GaaS and their tunnel focused vision into expanding to other markets like PC and mobile might as well end up costing them their console business. Well deserved.
If Sony wanted to expand to PC and GaaS it was on them to massively expand these studios or buy new ones instead of spreading them thin and halting their output to a crawl.
Weirdly enough, during all this, MS, a company that has a console that will be lucky to sell anywhere close to 40m units and a gaming division that doesn't even come close to PlayStation was willing to spend vastly more resources than PlayStation did in an attempt to grow.
Sony senseless dream of being a leader in GaaS and their tunnel focused vision into expanding to other markets like PC and mobile might as well end up costing them their console business. Well deserved.
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Was going to say isn't Takashi that anti-Sony guy, and the full context here illustrates, yes he is.
If he’s gonna be a PC fanboy then I hate him already. Cant he see past the quick profits means people could leave the platform….
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Best Believe the next successor will be someone who shares his mindset. He won't have it any other way.
What I will say is the western influence within PlayStation needs to be reeled in and so for now I'm happy to see Japan taking back control.
This is the same man who said gaming is niche right before the PS5 launched. He will wreck the business and I fully expect lay offs after April
Wow. There's a lot of flip flopping here. People really don't know what to think.
People: Sony's doing a bad job with organizing, scheduling and keeping the development pace up.
COO: I have looked at PS studios and found they lack organization, have bad scheduling and can't keep the dev pace up.
People: He'll ruin the company!1!11
He's outright saying what you've been complaining about for months now.
As for his growth comment. Don't look too much into it. Whenever you see a CEO talk, it's the same thing. Infinite growth is a wet dream and is not sustainable under any circumstances. Even MS with their huge money bags couldn't pull it off with Xbox.
It's just a typical comment aimed at shareholders. "Yes, you will get more money". I wouldn't take this as any sign we'll see major shifts in their strategy and certainly not going 3rd party. You need to let that idea go. It's not happening, no matter how much xbox shills want it.
People: Sony's doing a bad job with organizing, scheduling and keeping the development pace up.
COO: I have looked at PS studios and found they lack organization, have bad scheduling and can't keep the dev pace up.
People: He'll ruin the company!1!11
He's outright saying what you've been complaining about for months now.
As for his growth comment. Don't look too much into it. Whenever you see a CEO talk, it's the same thing. Infinite growth is a wet dream and is not sustainable under any circumstances. Even MS with their huge money bags couldn't pull it off with Xbox.
It's just a typical comment aimed at shareholders. "Yes, you will get more money". I wouldn't take this as any sign we'll see major shifts in their strategy and certainly not going 3rd party. You need to let that idea go. It's not happening, no matter how much xbox shills want it.
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Sony continuing to ignore mobile money which is high growth and gives gaas profits while thinking PC ports will give the same results is like a sick joke.
They could have their growth and stick to their premium single player strategy if they had just acquired a midsized mobile publisher and grew their output.
They could have their growth and stick to their premium single player strategy if they had just acquired a midsized mobile publisher and grew their output.
What bunch of nonsense, wtf does live streaming has to do with anything?
Games taking longer is not the fault of very motivated studios, Sony lackluster line up is a result of lack of investment, years ago anyone could already tell that games would keep taking longer and longer to be made but since they are pretty much all profitable there was no reason to not simply invest to ensure a lot more were being made.
Sony was even shutting down studios like Evolution that had just released a very successful game (we now have the leaked numbers), all while the PS4 was doing far better than anticipated. The same applies to many of their longtime partnerships.
This is what we get after PlayStation 4 sold about 120m units? So what would've happened had MS not fumbled completely and the had PS4 sold let's say around 85m? Would Sony then be out of the console business?
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It’s too bad Satya Nadella doesn’t say the same thing about Phil Spencer and the people at Xbox.
Maybe Satya Nadella understand that devs are not responsible for the failures of the leadership (he probably doesn't tho since he keep Phil Spencer around).
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At my job without fail everytime we hire someone for a new position or they move up they come with these hot takes and ideas and generally it doesn't end good!
Sony needs to bolster its first party seriously if there’s no new singleplayer this year till march 2025 what a slap in the face also the porting of singleplayer games to PC makes your console less desirable not surprised they didn’t hit they’re 25 million target only 1 first party (SM2) in 2023 & games being ported consumers from Xbox, PS, Nintendo & PC just skipping a PS5 & migrating to PC knowing they could play PS games on other platforms. (Xbox is imploding in itself due to PC releases & here is PS following last place)
Nintendo continue to break records & switch will probably end up selling 150 million all cause it’s has exclusive that won’t be ported to other platforms also Nintendo can release like 4 to 6 first party game every year (even if they’re smaller scale) PS won’t & will never compete w Nintendo if they continue this strategy
Nintendo continue to break records & switch will probably end up selling 150 million all cause it’s has exclusive that won’t be ported to other platforms also Nintendo can release like 4 to 6 first party game every year (even if they’re smaller scale) PS won’t & will never compete w Nintendo if they continue this strategy
Never said it's the fault of the studios themselves and neither did the COO. He didn't mentioned any studios specifically and more than likely meant PS Studios as a whole. I mean, he must know they're not actually independent and dance to daddy Hulst's tune. And I doubt he'll name him specifically.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got the boot. About time too.