Sony Is Taking Steps To Prevent Another Concord Situation From Happening - Luke Reacts

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[@llamatronian101]

When your accountant is starting to tell you how to make games, something has gone very wrong.

[@utrak]

accountant: you really should spend more time with your family. Like 100% of your time. CEO: gulp

[@andrew8168]

As an accountant, I could do better than Sony, Bioware, and most other AAA companies.

[@aqlanimations4822]

@@andrew8168 Well when your crowd is usually more straight men, and your like no, I am going to target people that live on Reddit lol. The one's that believe every thing should be free ,and have nothing but stuff about pirating on Reddit ,and your like that's the crowd I want, but want them to buy the game as much as the Normies lol. You have two crowds one that actually buy and play games, your telling them their evil and hate their race lol. Your telling the group on Reddit, that has 7 million imaginary idea's and believes the game should be free, and screaming how star bucks went up a dollar each month, and think that's the crowd I want lol. Well I saw Corcord numbers, and something recent, it's not as large of a crowd as you need. Sony, hold my beer, let's Assassins Creed this b****, SW Outlaws, Dragon Age WineGuard, which now is losing a lot of money, remember this game has a budget of 250 million lol, push 250 advertising budget lol so 500 million, and on day one of steam 80k which is close to 6 million, but Steam gets a cut lol usually 20-35 percent lol.

[@willdall4]

That's probably because you are an accountant that loves games, which is the part that most of the games industry seems to have forgotten as an important part of it all​@@andrew8168

[@anantrawat2311]

​@@andrew8168as a business man i can do better than an accountant 😂😂😂

[@flamingburitto]

Oh now I am even more pumped to see how "Fairgame$" turns out XD

[@jimjones9631]

I was coming just to say this and you beat me to it. I can not wait. The whole steal from the rich thing they have going on when they themselves seem to forget how they ripped helldivers from countries that didn't have psn to sell the engagement numbers to investors for more money. absolutely love it

[@icyflame1956]

Cant wait to see how bad it is

[@herpderp9394]

@@icyflame1956 too early to say that now. Unless they are stupid, they probably wont follow concord steps.

[@Xx1devilgod1xX]

@@herpderp9394 they're too deep into development for that to change, I believe.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

@@herpderp9394 let's be honest, it's probably not gonna do too well.

[@pacman1187]

They don’t need more user tests, they just need to LISTEN to the testers they already used.

[@bellissimo4520]

Are you sure they used any for Concord? At all?

[@Tyrannosaur6265]

“A little alien wearing a human mask, Jim Ryan “😂😂😂

[@youwayo]

9:26

[@JaelaOrdo]

Stop thinking the “modern audience” is a thing and just try to make good games. This shouldn’t be hard for these companies to understand.

[@christonchev9762]

remember what they said about why they ported Uncharted 4 to PC but not Uncharted 1-3? cause we wouldn't have bought those old games,well Uncharted 4 sold only 2k copies on PC

[@heroicgangster9981]

the modern audience is there, but all they have to do is make a game with attractive characters that make the gays want to see the male characters make love. That’s what Overwatch did at launch ^O^”

[@heroicgangster9981]

@@christonchev9762playstation is cowardly of porting games than are older than the ps4

[@djaesir]

@@christonchev9762Well uncharted 4 is one the better games of the franchise. I can see why they did that

[@wanchaiphukerd3422]

@@christonchev9762 I plan to buy evert Unchart game if they port 1 - 3 too. Start with 4. Nah.

[@SilverKitten10000]

They canceled The Last Of Us Online and a multiplayer Spider-Man game in exchange for Concord and Fairgame$. Like, FOR REAL???

[@marielcarey4288]

They'll probably cancel Fairgame$ and reskin it to The Last Of Us and people will eat it up🧐

[@trahapace150]

Last of us online wasn't going to fxking go anywhere, and they spiderman dlc wasn't sure to make back what it would cost.....spiderman 2 was already incredibly expensive

[@dragonslayer4747]

Also Twisted Metal. Also also the other projects they cancel after their GAAS started to fail.

[@dondahighhh12]

Sony cancelled LOU2 Online and Spiderman multiplayer because they were projects that already spent at least $100 million in the hole and would need millions more to complete. In addition, the monetization strategy wasn't clear with those projects.

[@SilverKitten10000]

@@dondahighhh12 Why doesn’t Sony make a new studio for these games then?

[@Blast1314]

How about making games that people want, like the massive backlog or IP’s that PlayStation hasn’t touched in Years, give people a new Ape Escape or Jack And Daxter, you could make multiple of those games for the same price as Concord and actually make money

[@derpherp7432]

An open world Jak and Daxter like Jak and daxter 2&3 but taking inspiration from Tears of the Kingdom and focusing on dynamics and physics rather than graphics. Astrobot is Sony's mario, Jak and daxter could be Sony's zelda hmmm

[@eurothejii7328]

I like survival games.more of those, thank you.

[@Tex_actual]

STOP MAKING SENSE! some one might hear you.

[@RenegadeVash]

Also fire anyone who attacks your customers.

[@Blast1314]

@@RenegadeVash Indeed, attacking a potential customer is stupid

[@megamandrn001]

Every live service game is just high stakes gambling, and Sony has to be cut off at this point.

[@BlueBD]

They claim they are... By doubling down on the Very same garbage. Its all a damn lie.

[@SWOTHDRA]

Yup

[@OneFingerYT]

I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to mess with American culture deliberately, as revenge for the nukes.

[@kidnamedfinger2840]

Hilarious how so many gullible people actually take their word for it lol

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

Lol big company is slow into making their change it take aleast a year for change to tricking down to product

[@ttrev007]

while i think it is a good idea to have some checks, but the real problem is that the people in charge don't know what a good game looks like. The wrong people are running the studio, at the end of the day you need the people who are creating the game to have good vision of what makes a good game for the customer base.

[@christonchev9762]

while Jim Ryan might be at fault for them buying Firework Studio remember that its not him who decided to cont with Concord and nto delay it or not him making PS5 Console just for Concord or porting a Until Dawn PC port that is DS and ppl saying the OG is better

[@XBluDiamondX]

@@christonchev9762 The problem is Sony purchased an unproven developer. I'm not even sure why they thought that developer was worth a single penny. Makes me pretty suspicious of their previous owner. They made a business out of concocting stupid ideas for a video game, establish studios for those IPs, and then look for someone to buy that studio with the IP. I'm not sure why idiot company execs think buying an entity that hasn't developed a single cent worth of value is a good idea.

[@KaoKacique]

The reaction of the new CEO when he realized that Sony was neither being economic nor focusing on the quality of their works must have been crazy. Sony managed to 1) Spend excessively with no regard for returns 2) No focus on quality 3) Nor focus on quantity. Usually companies sacrifice quality to release more games (Ubisoft) or quality to be more economic (EA), but only Jim Ryan's Sony could spend their ass only to release very mid or low quality games (with a few good ones in-between but definitely not enough considering how long the PS5 has been around)

[@jesusblanco7657]

This like the 7th time Luke explains margins lol

[@ScottyDo3sntKnow]

7th time this week 😂

[@noamias4897]

There are a handful of topics and themes that certainly are repeated on this channel

[@NegitoroIsBestShip]

@@jesusblanco7657 Not every person watches every video, every content creators knows this, going over the cliff notes of a greater point is pretty normal.

[@jesusblanco7657]

@@NegitoroIsBestShip ok?

[@NegitoroIsBestShip]

@@jesusblanco7657 So, what’s your point that it’s the 7th time?

[@damnyoukira]

There are two categories of PlayStation owners. Those who want buy games because they are on PlayStation and those who want to buy games because they are good. Hiroki realizes that the second group while being quieter online is actually much bigger.

[@kaytee7607]

I was arguing on Reddit about this topic. The first group are clueless. They think console and software sales means Sony is doing good…and completely ignore how bad song exclusives are doing.

[@Kristyybug]

Something I have been saying for years is I don’t the companies do play tests anymore. They do in house tests and that is just to make sure some aspects run correctly.

[@nicknevco215]

They have $120 premium beta early access The CEO would look at you confused

[@jonahhekmatyar]

No amount of play tests would have help concord. The problem with the game is cultural, not technical. But the current game dev culture will not accept that, even if people within the organization had reservations about the narrative and art direction.

[@RandomPerson-cf3gt]

And it's the current game environment in hero shooters/class based shooters and live service games in general. There's a lot of them and many who play and spend money on live service games already have a game they like.

[@RandomPerson-cf3gt]

Most of their competition is f2p like tf2, overwatch and valorant

[@mqlmohale5830]

What culture are they not adhering to?

[@onedog9652]

He saw bungie slopping around in the office with Destiny.

[@LazerBeam69]

"Concord's Dead, Concords Dead" 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@anantrawat2311]

Here's to many more to come from Sony 🥂

[@Scheifen1]

it still amazes me someone named a game after a plane that was banned from flight for being too loud and overly expensive to operate.

[@browncoatkevin]

Not quite. That was the Concorde (pronounced the same). "Concord" by itself means "harmony" - gamer reactions were rather concordant in disliking it.

[@nhaskell]

Seems likely that Jim Ryan was freaking out about losing Call of Duty to the Microsoft xBox acquisition and was desperately searching for a potential long term replacement with Bungie and Firewalk purchases.

[@cardassa]

I knew it!! JIM Ryan messed up Sonys funds to high hell when he made that contract to release 15 live service titles.

[@kaytee7607]

I was so happy when he left. I knew he was ass at his job…

[@shuang7877]

It seems Luke has some finance background - it’s rare that I listen to an influencer without rolling my eyes. He’s quite factual and does his research. Props to you!

[@Krypto1211]

Just make good games. That's all we're asking for. Concord would have been better received if it was a single player Mass Effect style squad shooter where you either issued commands to your party, or got to control those characters in well designed levels that led into the story they wanted to tell. Character models aside with some of them, it could have been a really solid title but the live service hero shooter focus killed it before it even launched.

[@Wizinja]

Sony "We listen". Also Sony "Mandatory PSN accounts for PC releases, for your safety." Sony again "We have a fudiciary responsibility to our shareholders." And once more Sony "We won't allow games we publish to be sold in 170 country's that don't allow for PSN." Hypocrisy is Sony's M.O. Like every other corp I guess.

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

They wasted money making bad games. Jim Ryan wasted money. Greenlighted bad games they could not sell. I dont understand why they insist on the PS signing where people in a lot of countries can't play games there because of this. They should make it easy for anyone everywhere to buy and play their games. It's a travesty they won't do that.

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

Cause it is easier to present to share holder than projection. You thinking as a consumer you not thinking like the marketing department

[@utrak]

That Hiroki Totoki dude looks like he's used to dishing out some good old fashioned japanese verbal beatdowns, while the underling victims are groveling on the floor, apologizing profusely. SONY'S "RETURN TO FORM" PERHAPS??

[@SWOTHDRA]

No, he needs to move playstation back to Japan.

[@anantrawat2311]

Lmao no, he's just going to shut down more of your beloved games the moment they make lesser profit. People seldom are what they seem to be

[@utrak]

@@anantrawat2311 Honestly there are way too many good games, I already have a backlog on pc to last the next several years. Sony could disappear off the face of the Earth and I probably wouldn't notice. Saying this as a HUGE former playstation fan. Psx, ps2, ps3, ps4, psp all had killer apps, that's why I bought them. These days? Nah, Playstation is cooked , but they had an good run

[@anantrawat2311]

@@utrak i prefer independent studios with smaller fanbases, there are still plenty of those around who make good games to play with friends, and Indies don't need to tend to investors or stupid CEOs. There is always one good AA or indie game for 10 failed AAA garbage 😂😂

[@KaoKacique]

@@anantrawat2311 There's barely any beloved games for him to shut down. Of the hundreds of beloved IP that playstation has created between the PS1 to PS4 era, Sony only uses 3 (God of War, Horizon and TLOU). ....Which really says a lot of how much Sony is screwing up

[@joshuadavis2175]

Imagine Sony invested just a couple million into helldivers instead of Concord..

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

Then it won't be helldivers anymore.

[@smackthejokers]

Game developers are at the middle of a mini- economy that includes high priced PC sales and console sales. They need to be mindful that good games are at the center of all that.

[@SoldierBoy3064]

The stupidest thing Sony did was cancel that multiplayer spiderman game but they did it because the marvel license only pays for itself if the game sells 14 million and they are trash at making post launch content Superman 2 has zero post launch content but there's a million comic books

[@AreYouTriggered24]

$400 million will make you question a bunch of decisions 😂

[@Odog78]

8 years too.... Isn't that like an entire generation now?

[@AreYouTriggered24]

@ that’s what most rumors say, though some are saying 6 years

[@nicknevco215]

Wonder what the larger series plan was Was there going to be a movie as there was never a way to make that back on one game alone Unless you can con a StarCitizen

[@Planets965]

Someone being named Hiroki Totoki is like someone being named Ronald McDonald

[@StrikeNoir105E]

The craziest thing about Concord to me is that Sony was so confident of its success that they spent to have a Concord episode in the upcoming Secret Level anthology... and now it's going to air without a game to show for it. I think a lot of these aspiring new IP's have the issue of putting the horse before the cart, where they think that the game being a multi-million dollar success is a foregone conclusion, and so create this expansive work like they're already an established successful franchise, instead of waiting to see whether the base product they're releasing is actually any good. This is the same kind of thinking as to why Live Services also fail, and the survivors are often the games that either already had a good franchise foundation to support it (like Fate/Grand Order), or started out small and just grew organically (e.g. Genshin Impact), instead of going out of the gate with their "10 year lifetime plan".

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

How about you just make fun games fast. They don’t all need to be 100+ million dollar AAA experiences they just need to be fun and make money. That’s Nintendo’s model and it works for them pretty well.

[@anantrawat2311]

People seem to forget that there's never going to be anything "fun" from a AAA game ever again, because a AAA game isn't made out of passion, it's made by employees who worry more about putting food on plate rather than the craft they are putting out, a AAA game today in most cases is a soulless cash grab made by overworked and underutilized developers, and then it fails to deliver and the studio goes bye bye 👋👋

[@JordiAran]

I'm very sure Herman Hulst only still has a job because he wasnt in charge when they decided to buy Firewalk and it looks really bad to investors when you change CEOs too much in a short time frame

[@kaytee7607]

He also needs to go…PlayStation software been going down hill when he was hired…

[@VioletElite4]

Dude, I'm so glad you talked about that Armada of the Damned game. I think that's why I ended up liking the Middle Earth Shadow games, because I felt it kind of had that Armada of the Damned vibe. Spinoff title based on licensed movies, but more of a darker tone that would appeal to more mature audiences. I'm sad it didn't work out for this one. It does make me appreciate AC Black Flag a bit more though. This also makes Skull & Bones seem way worse now...

[@SilverSpectre266]

Even if Switch isn't as powerful as the other consoles by a wide margin, and they don't have nearly the amount of games. The fact they were willing to sell their console at such a lose is why the Switch has sold nearly 3x as much as the Ps5, and the 3rd ranked most highest selling console.

[@silashinton6873]

I don't know what you mean. The switch had more games year 1 than the PS5 has 4 years into its lifecycle.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

The switch has way more exclusives than the PS5 that’s the big difference. Also it’s expected to pass the PS2 in the best selling console of all time.

[@nicknevco215]

@@THEONETRUEOVERLORD Feel the similarity to smartphone gaming for portability helps it Also most is targeted to a wider audience from 5 years old to 40 year old women Not just us gamers

[@barsham7881]

well no shit, sony had fuck all games, they they announced concord, i regret buying the ps5 at this point waste of money

[@gabrieljohnson136]

@@barsham7881 same

[@esotericchungusism]

Why? Xbox hasn't had any good exclusives either and is a worse system performance wise.

[@Odog78]

​​@@esotericchungusism If only there were more options other than Xbox and PS.

[@lukekinder4959]

Stellar Blade. Its worth it

[@youwayo]

@@esotericchungusismwhataboutism

[@MisterNightfish]

All they would need to do is post the concept art publicly. Everyone would have told them that the concord designs were irredeemable.

[@palehorseriderx]

I keep saying this whenever this comes up, but moving Sony HQ to the west was their biggest mistake, and possible start of their eventual downfall.

[@kbthegoat824]

Their best studios are western studios.

[@palehorseriderx]

@kbthegoat824 studios and headquarters are two entirely different things.

[@ashroskell]

More games testing, huh? . . . Like, “Quality Assurance Testers,” perhaps? Usually the very first thing to go, when the publisher wants to save costs, or, “generate value” for their investors?

[@JordiAran]

The Sony CFO must have been breathing fire through the whole Concord ordeal

[@ValorDucky]

Not gonna lie. I really like the presentation and soundtrack of the game. It felt like a premium game with lots of potential. But the clown cast of characters and the live service aspect absolutely killed it.

[@madarasoun3018]

Move HQ out of California if they're serious abt fixing Playstation.

[@nicknevco215]

Hollyweird wants deduction from Boston for some reason Maybe a place for game development cost saving some where

[@grayfox6518]

Sony: We fired a lot of our staff, we sat around in a board room for a few hours, gave our executives some raises. We are going to do better. Gamers: Riiiiiiight, sure you are.

[@limbicnode3342]

Dear corpos, it is easier for us to not buy the product than it is for you to sell an agenda.

[@mqlmohale5830]

What agenda are they selling?

[@MaxIronsThird]

The Switch was NEVER sold at a loss

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

Nintendo has only sold a console at a loss once… it was the WiiU

[@UndrAttack]

@@THEONETRUEOVERLORDThe Virtual Boy might say otherwise.

[@abrammill9365]

One of the main problems with live service games is that they demand you only play that game for long periods everyday. If Sony wants multiple live service games that they are funding, they need to realize that their games will literally be competing with themselves.

[@kbthegoat824]

Too worried about making profits than making quality games. The downfall of the gaming industry, business men having their way, hurting the passion of making legacy franchises.

[@blz267]

i don't think Jim Ryan was fired from his position, in Japanese companies even here in Japan where i work there's a change in the presidency of the company every 5 years and that's what happened with him, he was the CEO for 5 years and was replaced by the dude who hates japanese games Hermen something according to David Jaffe

[@fr0ck360]

Sony should be grateful that Helldivers 2 carried its ass off. That game went through plenty of hurdles

[@jasonnchuleft894]

The healthy margin range begins at 20% and ideally around the time you reach market consolidation you should be ~50% at the minimum. That's the point where investment into increasing the market share hits diminishing returns and minimal investment is required to stabilize it. Ideally you hit that point at or around half of the planned lifetime of the product. The PS5 released 4 years ago, the PS4 had a lifespan of ~11years. So if we assume the same span we're a bit more than 1/3 of the way. Yeah 6% at this point is beyond unacceptable and points at either massive overspending or a far too small market share. Playstation somehow manages to have both problems at the same time.

[@1tzRay.mp4]

don't forget that blizzard canceled that survivor game as well that was in production for 6 years now too .

[@onslaught147]

Watching the other video now. I had no idea we could have had a pirate game! I was probably better off not knowing, but now I need to get all the details.

[@forsaken841]

I bet the stuff they cancel was actually the quality games that woulda taken off. They didnt think helldivers would do well. They cant tell the difference between good and bad games. They only look at things through identity politics. Helldivers: manly violent game about stomping bugs: "oh, this is gonna suck." Concord: modern pronouns: "oh this is gonna be the biggest thing ever." That is literally their thought process.

[@johnmoloney1996]

@@forsaken841 what the fuck are you talking about?

[@kurikuraconkuritas]

and they don't buy the identity politics either. they think it is hip for the kids. like a fad, a very lame fad

[@MatiZ815]

Or they just thought that hero shooters are more popular than coop shooters. Which they are.

[@dondahighhh12]

this isnt true...😂 Sony DOUBLED Helldivers 2 budget once they saw how good it was in beta and prototype. They helped fund games like FF7 remakes, Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong. in the case of Wukong I believe it was technical support. they axed Concord after 1 week instead of letting it limp around like Suicide Squad

[@Shirou_Emiya380]

@@dondahighhh12 After investing 8 years into Concord LMAO

[@DaniM2002]

i just had an unskippable 2:10 ad wtf

[@staticshock4239]

Honestly i think a new Twisted Metal, Ape Escape, Wipeout, and Sly Cooper would do well. They're games that Sony has had for a long time but haven't really done anything with them. They're also IPs people really like.

[@reezwave]

I'm sorry Luke but that Microsoft Paint jumpscare almost blind my eyes😭😭

[@marcosramos5117]

Herman needs to go down with the studio behind Concord, he’s going to keep making the same mistakes. For some reason I get the feeling he’s behind Fairgame$ as well and if he is then that’s just another example of him making poor janky ass decisions.

[@NegitoroIsBestShip]

It’s crazy if true that TLOU online was canned because it just wasn’t good. The online mode in the ps3 TLOU was tense and unique at the time. Even today, crafting or going through inventories is normal in battle royals but TLOU was this tiny CoD like map in small teams where someone could be on you any second. It really seems like a simple slam dunk to copy the combat mechanics into small curated maps with regular updates.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

The main reason is because Naughty dog didn’t want to become a live service studio. We saw what happened when Rockstar did that and now we only get one game a decade. Naughty dog didn’t want that.

[@arc7695]

I’m still mad about scalebound

[@svenjorgensen5]

The fact the focus group tests to get user feedback were not already done just astounds me. I assumed this was always done.

[@paulconnolly4483]

16:35 yet the Sony executive that made the decision to buy firewalk and continue the investment into concord, he gets a promotion to CO CEO ?? Absolutely insane

[@ifstatementifstatement2704]

More user tests? They should stop making live service games. They are not real games. They are the minimum effort in level and gameplay, and maximum cosmetics to milk the whales.

[@beprf]

I just thought user group tests were the standard. I literally wondered how concord had passed those. Now I know.

[@justinle8787]

Never hire someone who don't love and enjoy what they make, especially as a CEO. Common sense 101

[@IVIisery]

Fire the activists and bring back the actual developers. Seems pretty cut and dry.

[@jeremyburch2707]

The whole idea to me that "They canceled it internally guys it must have been horrible" is stupid because these people are morons. They are obsessed with inclusion and things similar to it. I have seen projects that would have made untold amounts of money be canceled because someone with a bent against certain majority groups told them that it wouldn't succussed. Those people that tell them this by the way are only associated with mediocre at best games. There are things that they think they have to push and it's causing them to crash and burn.

[@jeremyburch2707]

Just to add on to the point. These businesspeople outsourcer their opinions on nearly everything because they say they don't have time for it. That mentality of we don't have time for it is what is costing the major gaming industry nearly everything.

[@moonstrobe]

Gamers are not obligated to buy games. People in charge seem to forget this.

[@JustAGroundhog]

Yeah, I imagine they are. Sony's gotta be having heads roll for shit like this. They've gotta be fucking pissed over there.

[@flyingplantwhale545]

Here’s an idea. Hold your developers accountable and hire them based on MERIT.

[@Cellardoorkidd]

Killzone game in the style of Helldivers would make a billion

[@INFPeace-]

This whole Concord disaster makes you wonder: just how low are the executives’ IQ? 😂

[@TheShepherd_7]

I wonder if Concord would have seen more success without marketing and was simply shadow dropped.

[@svenskhund3603]

After seeing who the creative director for Veilguard was, i could tell these companies care more about catering to a vocal minority of players that they always assume is the "modern audience" than just making a good game.

[@kushuaishuai318]

Jim Ryan is the Don Mattrick of Sony

[@danteyoda]

I'm not sure how Sony can prevent customers from buying their bad games?

[@mrbluebell2735]

What's to be done? Scrap all the narcissistic self inserts. Can map who they were in Concord. Herman Hulst was Star child. Ryan Ellis is Lennox and Jon Wiesnewsky is Daw. How is criticism possible when it's the face of your employer.

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

14:00 I can answer that: it was a multiplayer golf game.

[@rolypoky]

Bungie and Firewalk were the two biggest duds Sony acquired. Hopefully they will turn the corner after the Concord debacle.

[@MrJesseray06]

They should make a Warhawk remake and make it a live service game.

[@igrvks]

Bloodborne remake with day one PC + Bringing back the Getaway franchise with Guy Ritchie at the helm and set in the 90's, oh look they are massively popular who would had thought

[@Azrael178]

How the hell did we get to the point where gamers and greedy numbers guys at studios are on the same side regarding the bs developers pull off? What a bizzar and terrifying reality wherewe have to rely on greed of some suit to get good games instead of geniuent desire of people working on them to provide a good product

[@weplayvrgames]

If they don't want a repeat of the situation they need to scrap fairgames and marathon asap

[@flashpoint5292]

I think you can easily make a good multiplayer game like how the last of us' multiplayer portion was. It likely still has a couple thousand players and it's not a live service and was very successful

[@muhammadadambinazhar2867]

Couldve just take a look at deadlock and how people are okay with it and modeled it after that

[@dantealighieri4543]

They should fire Hermen Hulst, right away.

[@Chovieisin08]

Its already happening again with that abysmal overwatch clone that Valve are developing.

[@browncoatkevin]

Except Deadlock actually has players. Five digits' worth. Despite its invite-only test status. That bodes well for its future.

[@Chovieisin08]

@@browncoatkevin does it? when i tried it once i had to wait 20 minutes for a game, it was absolutely tripe gameplay and it got uninstalled

[@markkipanga1933]

Look now or then any publisher will make a bad game, the difference here being that everyone else didn't throw 300 million dollars at a new brand ip. I mean even ubi and EA are not dumb enough for that, and we all know those two aint the sharpest.

[@clickbaitable6320]

I don’t trust them. All these corporations lie about their intentions behind releasing a game like sports games and live service and them being there for micro transactions and gambling, the advertising/marketing of games where Ubisoft/EA/Activision+Blizzard always lie about features and never make the game the way it’s advertised, the marketing speak they lie to get you in the door for gambling and or buying cosmetics. Companies never want to be anything but cheap and fraudulent about games these days. That’s why most games I don’t buy. I buy what I know I’ll love and play for years.

[@Ihearvoicez]

He is not a good manager he is pushing to repeat EA's mistake of making their own store on PC because "If people are buying games digitally then if we make our own store they will just buy it there and we don't have to pay Steam" This idiot is going to completely cripple Sony on PC for years repeating the mistakes of EA, EGS and Ubisoft. He is effectively telling PC gamers "We don't want your money anymore" I'm more than happy to accommodate him on that though. I do worry though they'll try the EGS route of forcing 3rd party exclusives onto their store like the next Final Fantasy 7 game in some stupid white powder fueled craze of thinking "People really want this so they'll come to us right?"

[@Onedepressedgamer]

The half billion pot hole in the back of the company

[@carston101]

Thank you to the live chatter defending Star Wars 1313. Still upset about that one

[@hobabo9703]

I honestly don't believe that the scrapped games would have been bad. If they were willing to put out Concord instead of The Last of Us Multiplayer and the Spiderman game, I just think the higher-ups may have garbage tastes

[@alricSAMA]

They had so many layups this year too. Hogwarts legacy DLC or Spider-Man DLC would’ve flown off the shelf if PS5 would’ve been on these developers neck instead of working on Concord

[@MeltonCrest]

Soyny can "take steps" all they want they don't get to make that decision, we do.

[@heroicgangster9981]

I think Sony was crying they weren’t gonna make much revenue from Marvel Rivals and is the reason why they desperately advertised Concord in the same stream as Marvel Rivals…. But like… Concord was never going to look better so idk why they tried

[@cernunnos_lives]

I cry for you Concordia. ...well not really, but I did think they were too big to quit that fast. I'm so curious as to what else was out there?

[@Cifer77]

Console production is about to get a lot more expensive once these Chinese tariffs from the US hit

[@nicknevco215]

No we need more companies beside Ubisoft to mock and ridicule When the games they make are not catastrophically bad It just mid and no one wins

[@Allerka]

Heh, speaking of cancelled games, it is nice to occasionally fire up Starcraft: Ghost on my development Xbox, lol

[@SilverSpectre266]

The thing the execs nerd to understand about games, is that you need a good game first and foremost. That should be the seller. Give it something that's original, fun, and has an identity of its own. They're just making "this is our version of that thing that already exists." And Fortnite is always brought up as a prime example of GAAS that's making oodles of money. But what they often forget is that Fortnite started as a single player game, and carved out its own unique identity with its on the fly base building concept. THEN, they transitioned to battle royale after PUBG and they brought the originality of their single player version to that. And even still, there aren't many GAAS titles doing what they did. All these other competitors are just making a basic PUBG clone with no originality outside of a theme for the game and art direction.