It looks like Sony has settled the technology patent dispute with Columbia University Professor Emerita Gertrude Neumark Rothschild which involved the technology used for basic semiconductor technology used in current Blu-ray players.
"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
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"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
Oo wow... so they did infringe on someone else patent... I really though it was one of those thousands of people just trying to make some quick cash... but this time Sony did try to take someone else work.
Yeah this makes me laugh for all the fanboys who say that MS steals everything and yet Sony never does (sued for BluRay), and nor does Nintendo (sued for rumble).
In the event that more proof were needed, this just shows that they're all as bad as one another, but as a pleasant result we're all better off as gamers as these ideas are allowed to be tinkered and improved beyond the original inventors. :)
As a note it wasn't just Sony that stole the technology, but just about every major electronics manufacturer worldwide including their recently vanquished HD nemesis Toshiba.
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This 1 person would bring down Blu Ray lol.
I wonder what the details of the settlement were...
She probably worked for Microsoft. Every time Sony starts making money. Someone mysteriously comes out saying they patented the idea first. BS freaking freeloader.