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im not really surprised by that, shes always been more a "let me talk about something else than what u want to know" kinda gal
"Shareholders" I call them cancer, they are already rich to begin with but need more and more. It's like a disease, with no cure.
If you have a pension then you are likely to be a shareholder in these big tech companies yourself. To demonize them as 'heartless rich people' shows you have no idea what you're talking about.
@Y2
Of course, it isn't about that. You are attempting to set up a self-righteous strawman to stir up some kind of ignorant mob mentality.
And by the way, most everyone is a touch heartless or we wouldn't be able to consume the products we do knowing very well how they are made. People have to be this way because of self-preservation and convenience.
@anast please explain to me how what i said is self righteous or a strawman. I simply pointed out that categorizing all shareholders as cancer is ridiculous.
I own shares in game companies. I'm not anything near a major share holder. I just want them to make good games and be successful because of that. I think it's the senior management that's the problem. They are the ones that should be making it clear to the shareholders what creates growth and ensures a future of their business. Not this weasle words garbage that she did on the interview. It was horrific. I don't know a shareholder that would be happy with any of them for this.
Same and I'm not rich by any stretch like most people's I'm just trying to keep my head above water these days most company's shareholders are made up of everyday people it's amazing how companies think we want something but the reality is we don't.
Disney are probably the worse at the moment it's shareholders voted on ending a lot of the crap and outing the current execs the execs turned around and said no we disagree with the shareholder vote
I meant at the rich fucks who have millions in the bank already. They are making so much per year, that if they don't make what they are expecting they go into a panic, when in reality it will not even hurt them at all. Those are greedy assholes.
"you have a pension then you are likely to be a shareholder"
Pensioners don't make any decisions about anything. Obviously that is not what this is about.
Yea, it was and it’s insulting that they think we’re dumb enough to fall for this. Look, the truth was you took a gamble on these studios and while they released some games to critical praise and great reception they just aren’t bringing in a ROI. Be transparent, you’re not a politician.
Just tell everyone you spend money on projects big and small and when money isn’t being made you go over the potential of revenue a studio can bring in vs those that can’t and make the hard decision to chop them.
She says this whole thing about “success” doesn’t fit one meaning for each studio. Well yea, a small budget production isn’t going to expect to sell the same as a large budget production.
One thing I wish they did though was let Tango be an independent studio.
disheartening to see no regard for the human cost of business anymore
the bad decisions and judgements of these CEOs severely impact the frontliners
these fake responses are just salt on wounds
imagine havin the audacity to say "we need more games like hifi rush" right after closing the studio that made it lol
followin up with this show of "deflecting every question" was in poor taste
What they are saying makes no sense. They say the reason they announced it is because they want developers to think of the vision they can create with Scorpio but then say there is no exclusives and it's really just for 4K, but then go on to say scaling is what developers are use to. Why announce it early then?
That makes no sense.
On top of that, the part about VR exclusives on Scorpio is painful and again makes no absolutely no sense. He pretty much says current systems aren't powerful enough for good VR and then the Guardian calls him out on the "no exclusives on Scorpio stuff" and he just gives a non answer saying we're committed to Xbox One gamers. All while downplaying VR, even though they announced it for Scorpio at E3.
Something is seriously wrong with this whole situation, none of it makes any sense and it honestly comes off as a bunch of lies.
“From this summer’s update, PC titles like League of Legends, Dota and XCOM 2 are coming to Xbox Live and will have hubs on the console.”
This is news to me. Are these games coming to console?
[The seven-year cycle is dead
What’s clear is that the old console model – the seven-year cycle – is dead for Microsoft and Sony. PlayStation Neo will do some of the same stuff as Xbox One S, bringing HDR and 4K compatibility as well as other tweaks – this is all happening halfway through the normal lifespan. Ybarra is unambiguous about where the inspiration for this tick-tock approach comes from]
We know exactly where it comes from...the Media!
Here is the next Part:
[“In the phone market, people are more used to upgrading fast and wanting the latest of everything,” he says. “But with phones, your new apps had better work on that phone and the next one. According to what they’re telling us, the consumer expectation is: games and apps had better work even if I upgrade. We’re looking at the console business and asking how do we provide that choice to users? It resonates with them because other devices are doing that.”]
So let me get this straight, no different than the PC market.. a new hardware comes out ; again development moves to that new hardware and does not continue to take advantage of the previous hardware.
I mean the best example of this is UWP and the standard PC development studios building games and or apps but again does not take advantage of the hardware.
Microsoft's release Xbox one S and discontinue the current Xbox one.
Sony releases Neo and the current PS4 will sit right next to the Neo.
Microsoft discontinued xbox360, Sony still produces the PS3 and continued support for the PS3.
Key point is this claim:
[The seven-year cycle is dead
What’s clear is that the old console model – the seven-year cycle – is dead for Microsoft and Sony]
No look at above at the actions of each company. And you can see which of the two want the 7 year console cycle to go away.
Hint: It is not Sony.
Sony like the ,7 to 10 year support cycle.
Again I see the disagreement, on what the actions of the companies themselves has done.
The xbox360 has now been discontinued, while the PS3 has not..those are indeed facts.
So again the disagreement is of course valid for yourselves, but at least come up with a reason to claim something that is factual is not true.