sealhaslupus

@sealhaslupus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  creatives who are successful want more money to fund bigger projects and increase the scope of their art.

  capitalists want studios to make money to line their pockets at the expense of creativity and eventually kill them when the games become just another vector to funnel cash to the wrong places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pol Pot was right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This Is Unbelievably Scummy' - GTA 6 Fans Are Annoyed By Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’ll be ripped from netflix and put on youtube anyway. that’s just how modern content works.

  be annoyed/angry at the right things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i was referring to physical games as a whole and not necessarily tied to Playstation games or their discs.

  They’ve been transitioning this specific manufacturing division since 2024. It can’t be a “double down” because they’re not going to revert two years of already re-trained staff and re-purposed equipment because of online forum talk.

  Messages to shareholders like this is pretty standard. They’re basically saying:

  • decision is final
  • components manufacturing is more lucrative than disc manufacturing
  • we will distribute our IP

  So they’re hedging their bets on what their future could be. If they lose out on gaming they’ll make back on microlenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony didn’t really “double down”. The decision to wind down their physical games category was made years ago. Everything after the initial public announcement is to manage public relations.

  Not sure many outside Japan realise but Sony are a conglomerate that dip their fingers into unrelated industries. This to them is clearly just a line through a smaller category on the balance sheet.

  There’s a discussion to be had about ownership and physical games but i think that market is going to re-emerge in the future in perhaps a more bespoke way, like the resurgence of music vinyls.

  To me, Sony seems to be interested in just managing the distribution of IP opposed to “gaming” itself. They’re not true custodians in that space or if they were, then they’re not now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZA/UM laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  pretty sure the original devs from disco elysium had split years ago from za/um. the studio is now just a name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thats right, the average ‘gamer’ is casual. they’ll purchase a couple games per year and maybe a handful more on special.

  gaming itself is a leisure activity so when other aspects of life starts getting expensive or free time is reduced then what gets dropped first is an overpriced subscription service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  technically on par for a dystopian game