Thekingslayer.com's senior editor " Make no mistake the Playstation 4 Pro is an upgrade over the Playstation 4. Yes, marginal, but the console is really meant for new Playstation 4 customers. It's an ecosystem upgrade that doesn't give it time nor marketing potential to stop the stronger Xbox Scorpio. With Microsoft's release and success of Xbox One S, Play Anywhere, and slow 4K adoption. The Playstation 4 is a year too early, and too underpowered for what the Xbox Scorpio is intended to deliver as a true next gen upgrade to the Xbox One ecosystem. Time is not the Playstation 4 Pro's secret weapon. Time is its achilles heel.
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Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
This is exactly what many people said would happen including the CMA and FTC. Lies lies and more lies and they allowed a $69 billion buy out to happen.
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You can't be serious, right?
Do you think that MS thought they would make 80bill in a year & Half? They haven't even released titles under MS yet, lol.
But in fact, that A/B revenue is already paying off, look at the last earnings call. That $80 billion is long-term money, my guy, no sane person/company would think they would make that back in any short-term situation, it's a long-term investment.
Let's play silly then. If MS's reason for laying off staff and closing studios was due(which it really was not) to the A/B deal, tell me what Sony's reason was for past studio closures, the recent 900-person layoffs, closing Sony London, shutting down Dreams, and closing Japan Studio? Zipper? Psygnosis? cuts at all their internal studios.
Keep in mind, you are claiming MS's reason is because of the A/B deal; please explain Sony's reason.
this is not a sony vs MS debate. dont make it something it isnt.
and of course not, but im pretty sure they thought they'd make more money after the deal. they didnt, and closed off some studios.
its pretty insane to think there is any other reason for the closure of studios in this case.
(It really was) due to the Activision Blizzard deal and the loss of physical sales due to gamepass. You keep bringing up Sony in all your posts about this, stop deflecting and trying to change the topic, this is about MS and what they are doing.
once in a while you see someone too invested in their make-believe console war that everything happened has to be connected to said war…
a bit of banter between fans is normal, this crusade you’re doing now isn’t.
Wow idiotic. You bring up very old closures not that there haven't been recent ones from Playstations, but, seriously stop deflecting. This has NOTHING to do with Playstation.
Does Playstation got $3 trillion behind them and daddies wallet? No they don't so stop making a fool of yourself.
Xbox has never been profitable really and they just keep losing money so between their worst hardware sales, terrible 3rd party sales and now terrible 1st party sales.
Gamepass numbers that are no longer being announced shows their numbers after 3 years of missed targets has flatlined. Plus their recent gains up to 34 million were ONLY because they folded Gold members in too. Absolutely take your idiotic rhetoric out of here. Keep on topic without deflecting.
They are going to use AI for a large portion of the game development process. Upper management need bonuses and the shareholders need more money. So, people will lose their jobs.
Maybe they were already using AI to make business decisions, which would explain why they closed Hi-Fi Rush's studio, then said they need more games like Hi-Fi Rush not long after that announcement.
They shouldn't have bought any studios. Some is okay...but they went on a shopping spree...stupid
The better question is why did Microsoft buy publishers for a service they were subsidizing they knew couldn't support.
And why are so many websites trying to make people feel sorry for Microsoft instead of truly criticizing the fact they are closing studios and killing jobs that would have been fine if Microsoft themselves hadn't gotten involved.
Quit feeling sorry for Microsoft and start feeling sorry for the industry and the all the gamers who are actually losing out.
THIS IS MICROSOFTS FAULT.
The first thing that happens after any major acquisition or merger is a consolidation of the whole new portfolio, which includes cutting any excess, bloat or portfolios that don't fit the larger MO of the big boy. So far, it's been par for the course with Microsoft and that's why gamers have been so against this acquisition. Tango Gameworks is the beginning. You think Microsoft wants to pay to keep small timers like Ninja Theory in business?
There is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that Microsoft will improve any of these studios, but plenty to suggest that they will get rid of what they don't need and hold onto the IP. The real agenda of the acquisition was always to acquire The Elder Scrolls, Diablo, Fallout, Call of Duty, Candy Crush etc. that will create millions in passive revenue stream for Microsoft regardless of where the games release. Microsoft simply wants their cut.
Because of Games Pass Microsoft has no interest in investing in new IP which is risky and requires creative talent they can neither nurture nor manage. Game Pass has also not grown in the way Microsoft expected it to, even post acquisitions. Therefore the logical thing to do, without serious money makers to release, is to cut as much cost as possible.
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In a full year millions of consoles can be sold and there's price reduction too. And if the difference between PS4 and Pro is only "marginal" then imagine the difference between Pro and Scorpio which is even less... There is no amount of marketing that will make Scorpio sell better over a less than marginal edge on performance at the cost of a potentially higher price tag.
I think this was a very poorly thought blog entry.
Do you actually believe what you just typed? Time is definitely on Sony's side. But let's step back a minute and see the failures before I respond.
Microsoft's quest for the most powerful system has NEVER won them a console race. Xbox was more powerful than PS2. And it meant absolutely nothing.I enjoy it though.Nfl2k,ninja gaiden,otogi,crimson skies,spiderman,outrun, etc, etc look and play great. But Sony still won.
Wii was the less powerful system and Nintendo dominated Xbox 360 and PS3 for awhile. Had nothing to do with power. But between Sony and Microsoft, it was launching early and sales leading to 360 being lead for platform development.
PS4 is dominating because it was just well made and didn't repeat PS3 mistakes. It just happens that the system is more powerful. Second, Sony built a worldwide set of studios. Something Microsoft still hasn't done and thinks throwing money at third parties is the solution. Sony's solution was "if you need something done, do it yourself." And Sony's first parties deliver.
We have seen secret chip rumors for 3x the power fail, esram fail,kinect power release fail,DX 12 fail, cloud power fail. All we keep hearing is power, power, power. But we don't hear about new IPs,new studios to create new IPs. If Microsoft spent as much money on new studios as they spend on the Forza teams, then there would be an actual competition between in house studios. But bungie and epic aren't there. And it shows. When you look at Sony's list of games, there's just no comparison.
Even if they say there will be no compromises, there WILL be COMPROMISES. it's a closed environment. That makes it compromised to fit cost, size and heat into the equation. Also, it has to sell worldwide. Something Microsoft is struggling to do against PlayStation. And whatever VR games you think you will get, they will come to PlayStation just as they are now. Because Sony has sold millions of systems. That makes it lead platform by default. Sony didn't launch VR without developing it and testing it for a year on the public. They already know the pitfalls. And it means the PC VR ports will look that much better. Giving developers reason to continue making PS4 VR games because of Pro.
You think power is Microsoft's weapon when time and time again, they never won a trophy.. Oops.. Achievement. While Sony's weapon has always been games. And it looks like they are about to win a 3RD trophy
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Time sure isn't on the Scorpio's side.
By the time it launches, the gap with the PS4 will be far bigger than it is now
It has no weapons. Scorpio layed the smackdown on not only the ps4 but any console previously made.
The ps3-xbox 360 would beg to differ. Also when ps4 launched before xone.