CNN's David Williams blogs about his opinions of the lineups he saw at CES this year. Among his loaded statments, he concludes that gamers will have a "Ho-Hum start to 2008" and also that while Nintendo's product line-up is streamlined, Sony's is "bloated and confusing".
This looks like a great way to play.
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"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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I find a couple of his statments humorous, but that's just me.
Sony is an ELECTRONICS/ ENTERTAINMENT company. They have many more divisions aside from SCEI. Movies, music, televisions, etc..
Naturally Nintendo's lineup appears simplified. They make but two things - game hardware and software. That doesn't make their product marquee appear 'streamlined', there's just less to see.
Why you would even compare these companies in such a way is ridiculous really. A better comparison would be Nintendo and SCEI. Journalists are becoming little more than sensationalist mouthpieces nowadays.
Cheers,
- C
The awful start they're having this year is going to continue all the way into 2009 and beyond. The hugely hyped Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom flopped big time, receiving a 3/10 from 1up and Xbox Live has been having some major issues for about 2 weeks now. They had their year in 07 but that was it. Sony and Nintendo will lead the market. Sony just won the format war and they have a killer lineup in store for us PS3 owners this year. And with Home coming, it's the perfect time to go out and buy yourself a PS3.
i dont really mind the "boring" start to 08, considering it's only been 9 days
its been nine days? you got devil may cry 4 next month, then killzone 2 and LBP might be hitting before summer. GTA IV maybe in march. A slow start? whatever