Submitted 5 days ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Always remember when there is a massive leadership shakeup - you are not safe. They have their own people, they are there because the last person fucked up (in their eyes). Never believe anything they say, you are not safe in your position.
They won’t do it immediately. The first 90 days is them only observing, then at 6 months they have a plan. 6-12 months they’ll be implementing their new plans. Never feel safe because “they’ve been here a couple of months and it’s fine”.
Heh,I learned this one the hard way. Thought I was safe because I cooperated and provided them all kinds of info, and I was rising up through management. But nope, they didn’t give a damn about loyalty or anything, they just wanted a fresh slate and cut all kinds of people.
I feel you, I had a similar case. At the end of the day you’re a line in a spreadsheet. Taught myself early that no matter how connected you are with a company, it doesn’t matter at all. Family, friends, they matter. Work to live, because work will throw you away tomorrow if they want to. Your family will always be there.
Like, whenever I hear a company mention layoffs, I always feel I shouldn't trust their aims. It won't help their situation if they aren't firing at full cylinders, it's hard to turn around a sinking ship when you have so few crew to do so.
I agree with you, but generally the purpose is to get back to a small enough group that without that many moving parts you can seriously focus on the areas that still work to keep yourself alive while also rebuilding on the things you need help or want to pivot to. Ive seen it work in my company when i also had my doubts and its kind of crazy.
This CEO sounds worse than the last. With a declining brand, making games exclusive is only going to make the brand tank harder.
Their next system needs to be free, or nearly free (~$100), but with a required subscription. Game pass needs to switch to a model that has a lowest tier at $10 or $15 per month that allows 3 games per month (from the whole catalog, you pick the game and it uses 1 credit, resets at end of every month) up to a premium tier at $35 per month that has unlimited play. Free console with 3 year subscription to the premium tier.
Console specs should be 4k at 60 Hz. $900 without subscription. Announce this the day after Sony announces the PS6. Sony would be screwed, especially because they are already releasing most of their games to all consoles simultaneously (per the most recent summer games fest).
In 3 years, raise the price of the lowest tier to $20 with 5 credits per month. Offer a 6 month discount on a 1 year contract for any accounts which have completed their 3 year subscription.
Thankfully you aren’t CEO then because this is the worst take I’ve heard about consoles.
MS just spent the entire generation proving exclusives matter and are reversing course now. Sony are also reversing course on going multiplatform with their major single player focused releases. If titles are all multiplatform they will go PC if they have it as it multi purpose and lots of people have dreams of being a successful streamer, or they stick with the platform that they already have to not lose their library which is overwhelmingly Sony.
Aim for 60hz 4k at what quality? Next Gen? Current Gen can barely do it for the biggest AAA titles. Meanwhile hardware costs are exploding and you’ll get that 1k ish worth of hardware paid back on 10 then 20 bucks per month? So people rent your console for 6-8 years, the average span of a generation basically at cost?
It might be cool for an end user but it doesn’t make an ounce of business sense, and you’re naive if you think it would be a surprise to Sony if they did go ahead with it.
The problem with the model of exclusives driving console purchases is that it only worked when people could afford multiple consoles. The combination of consoles and games being more expensive and them trying to double dip by requiring subscriptions for online play means most people are going to pick a platform instead of getting several like they used to.
You summed it up pretty well. Consoles are basically dead at this point. Sony is hurting too.
Both companies badly mismanaged this last generation and there’s a significant sentiment that the value of the consoles wasn’t justified. Why would consumers want to buy another one?
Sony should have done the subscription model in the last generation. They would have buried Xbox.
Xbox has a chance now if they become a competitor to the steam machine, but the price will have to be much better than that system. If it isn’t free, then it will need to offer steam as a marketplace.
The only way either system could survive any other way is if they went handheld like steam deck or switch, but that might be even harder.
How many of those positions will be refilled in India?
The CEO is an LLM shill. So, none. They’ll pivot to their “ai”, then crash and burn because the mbas don’t understand that the tech they keep pushing doesn’t work
I mean in my layoffs they laid off our entire team once the AI was ready and they hired a few people with the same job title in india to check the output. These are not incompatible.
And when it does they’ll pivot to ai again, but this time, actual Indians
Hard to say, but at least by next quarter they’ll turn a bigger profit, and that’s all that matters is the shortsightedness of next quarter’s gains.
@ampersandrew I just hope my darling #DOUBLEFINE survives!
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Came to say the same! The better not fucking touch it!
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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