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re: Are we going to talk about Sony laying off people?
Posted on 2/27/24 at 2:54 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Posted on 2/27/24 at 2:54 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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Well they got scammed by Bungie
I'm gonna need an explanation, please?
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Posted on 2/27/24 at 3:01 pm to SaintEB
sony spent like 4 billion on bungie and suddenly they miss revenue projections by 50% 
Posted on 2/27/24 at 3:28 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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sony spent like 4 billion on bungie and suddenly they miss revenue projections by 50%
I'm asking because I honestly don't know, but how is this Bungie's issue? Isn't Bungies biggest thing right now just Destiny 2, and that's pretty much dead?
Posted on 2/27/24 at 4:44 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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suddenly
Posted on 2/27/24 at 4:56 pm to Carson123987
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So they’re cutting back workforce just Iike literally every other tech company that overhired when money was free?
It is more about missing sales targets and having nothing to drive sales before April 2025.
Would they have made the cuts if they did? We will never know, because the missed sales targets.
Inflation is a thing, and the number of people wanting to drop $400+ on a console and/or $70 games has been reduced globally.
Sony needs to evolve the way they look at gaming.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 5:02 pm to DarthRebel
Xbox hate is strong everywhere you look. Go look on X. Half the topics I see is someone bashing Xbox lol
Posted on 2/27/24 at 5:06 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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sony spent like 4 billion on bungie and suddenly they miss revenue projections by 50%
Bungie, without Halo, is not a seller. Destiny isn't Halo. They weren't scammed. They made a bad decision. Simple as that.
Jim Ryan was more concerned with chasing headlines than the bottom line.
This post was edited on 2/27/24 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 2/27/24 at 5:28 pm to j1897
Umm let’s see, Resident evil 3, Dead island 2, the Dead Space remake, Forza Motorsport just to name a few. They are all awesome games and haven’t paid for a one of them. Y’all can say what you want about gamepass but they have been churning out good games lately.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 6:03 pm to chadr07
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Umm let’s see, Resident evil 3, Dead island 2, the Dead Space remake, Forza Motorsport just to name a few. They are all awesome games and haven’t paid for a one of them. Y’all can say what you want about gamepass but they have been churning out good games lately.
Spot on. When this next round of Game Pass expires for me in about 1.5 years, I will have had Game Pass for the last 6 years for maybe around $400 total.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 7:14 pm to Carson123987
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So they’re cutting back workforce just Iike literally every other tech company that overhired when money was free?
Exactly. I don’t like to see people lose their jobs either but it seems like the London Studio served their purpose and no longer were in Sony’s plans.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 8:18 pm to DarthRebel
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Spot on. When this next round of Game Pass expires for me in about 1.5 years, I will have had Game Pass for the last 6 years for maybe around $400 total.
Same boat here, and over that time I've been able to hoard so many Microsoft Rewards points that I'll be able to keep Game Pass for at least 2 more years without paying another dime for it (assuming I don't earn another reward point during that time).
Posted on 2/28/24 at 6:05 am to DarthRebel
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It is more about missing sales targets and having nothing to drive sales before April 2025.
No, it’s more about current monetary policy and economic conditions. Look at every other tech company lol. Cisco just cut 4000, eBay cut 1000, Microsoft cut 2000, PayPal cut 2500, Amazon cut 20,000 last year. The market is correcting itself from the free money environment we just left to the inflationary, high-rate environment we’re in now. It’s a tale as old as time. When rates go up, you cut.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 10:44 am to DarthRebel
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I disagree here, as this is Sony having zero innovation for the future of gaming
That has absolutely zero to do with layoffs. They're closing a non-productive studio and like every single other big tech company, they're laying off after over hiring in the post-COVID hiring boom that the industry had.
Some of the takes in this thread are quite interesting. I've been gone too long and shocked to hear anything positive about MS's "vision" for the gaming space.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 10:46 am to oauron
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they're laying off after over hiring in the post-COVID hiring boom that the industry had.
I really don't understand why people don't believe there was a COVID bubble with tech company hires.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 10:53 am to sicboy
Elon did a good job cleaning up.
This post was edited on 2/28/24 at 10:54 am
Posted on 2/28/24 at 11:16 am to Blitzed
#thatsbaitgif
Posted on 2/28/24 at 11:30 am to DarthRebel
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and the number of people wanting to drop $400+ on a console
This is fine, in my opinion.
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$70 games
frick that. I'll happily wait months for a sale
Posted on 2/28/24 at 11:40 am to chadr07
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Resident evil 3, Dead island 2, the Dead Space remake, Forza Motorsport
A 4 year old game
6 month old game
a year old game(that's actually from 2008)
and another 6 month old game.
I guess aspergers gives ya'll some looooong arse attention spans? That's a sad list my man.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:05 pm to SaintEB
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Are we going to talk about Sony laying off people?
Can we also talk about why Sony hasn't released an all black DualSense Edge? Wtf!
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