Push Square: "Not like this, Shawn Layden! We were starting to really like SCEA's new president, but you absolutely can't walk on stage at a PlayStation press conference wearing a Crash Bandicoot t-shirt if you're not going to… Y'know, at least announce that the orange furred favourite is making a comeback."
How former PlayStation boss views gaming’s tumultuous time!
If you actually read the article it’s really insightful as to the state of the industry. You might not like the way certain things are going, but it’s a good look as to why.
"For single-player games it’s not the same exigency [as Live Service]. But if you’re spending $250 million, you want to be able to sell it to as many people as possible, even if it’s just 10% more."
The most I ever see is a shorter window from PS to PC. I never see Sony releasing on Xbox or Nintendo, even for their GaaS titles.
As it is right now Sony might feel that the cost of making games is not yet so high that they have to expand beyond the platform they have already started expanding on meaning pc.
When the cost becomes beyond $300 million I’m sure more platforms will start to receive something.
Business is business at the end of the day. In the short term I agree with you. The long term???? If you go back just 4-5 years ago, some on here swore that Sony would never go pc or day one. Yet we now have Sony games on the PC and day one courtesy of Helldivers 2.
My point is never say never, because the way everything has been shifting. I don’t think anyone really knows where it’s going to end up.
I agree siny start releasing on pc a lot earlier the big exclusives are fortune to make
The former PlayStation CEO has now explained why he thinks games conglomerates getting bigger and bigger, as a result of buying smaller studios, is bad for the industry.
He currently works for Tencent, the worst offenders of what he's preaching against. That is some serious hypocrisy, Not to mention they are just lackeys for the Chinese government. Hard for me to trust him anymore, in my opinion.
So if your doctor advises that you lose weight you dont take the advise because he is over weight?
"Nobody cares"
Yeah... says the guy who congratulates himself and pats himself on the back for Insomniac´s acquisition, calling it his "biggest achievement" ahead of Playstation.
Though competent, Layden is also narcissist, arrogant and a hypocrite, since his previous actions don´t reflect what he´s preaching now.
How so? He was instrumental to PS4 and part of PS5? He's the last good CEO. I have no clue what you're talking about. He had a ton to offer to PS and the industry.
Delusional, blind fanboys like yourself will always use the false equivalence of trying to compare acquiring studios to acquiring publishers. But I'll exercise my own delusion in trying to get you to understand the following basic concept:
Sony acquires Insomniac and invests in them, Insomniac grows into one of the best developers in the industry right now with cutting edge tech, Sony's biggest IP in Spider-Man and more developers, more jobs, more games. Net win. Insomniac has a long history of developing PlayStation games and their partnerships with EA (Fuse) and Microsoft (Sunset Overdrive) were not remotely as successful as their PlayStation games.
Microsoft acquires Bethesda, an entire publisher, and so far all there is to show for it is less games on PlayStation. Microsoft then acquires Activision. Net result is major franchises leaving PlayStation and I'm willing to bet that not one single franchise will grow or studio will evolve, and instead these games will follow most of Microsoft's other IPs and diminish in quality and audience.
Let's see how it goes then. But the least you can do is activate some of your brain cells.
Also, if you read the quote he says he's concerned about smaller studios being absorbed into larger enterprises making a bigger game, thus losing the smaller studio. Insomniac has become bigger than ever, they didn't disappear into some subsect of another major Sony developer. His concern is about creativity lost.
Insomniac's rep became stronger under Playstation, versus what typically happens after MS buys someone.
Leave him be guys, he told me Bethesda releasing a broken game and MS paying for selective positive reviews to make the game sound competent was somehow "poetic justice" to people like me expecting a working and fun game.
"narcissist, arrogant and a hypocrite"... Obsure, is this a cry for help?
Insomniac has basically been a PlayStation studio for the entirety of their existence. Why would you use that as an example. The nonsense you say on literally every post has to be on purpose. There's no way all that irony is accidental.
A lot of people do care actually. They don't want to see the industry they love be destroyed by corporate greed
I think I'm starting to go beyond caring. Watching Playstation and Xbox now are like watching the snake eat its own tail.
I cant help but feel like the old blood gamers like us are history and being left behind.
I think my days of buying dozens of games a year are over now. Let the big guys Shovel their games as a service shit and I'll enjoy the couple of good games released by studios that still have a passion.
@monkey602,
It's okay, there's still indies and some smaller games that are pretty damn good, there's that if anything.
Obscure
You have to know the history behind it. Sony tried for decade plus trying to acquire them and always being told no. Insomniac left Sony to go try EA and MS before coming back
That’s one studio at 256 million
MS bought many studios and no one complained because many of those studios could use better support and resources. As gamers MS got the heat for buying publishers when Phil himself said he was against keeping games away from others so please don’t compare Shawn buying insomniac who had a long relationship with Sony to MS buying activision and zenimax. Maybe you are forgetting that before buying zenimax MS bought 10 plus studios and didn’t get much backlash
@neutralgamer1992
"You have to know the history behind it. Sony tried for decade plus trying to acquire them and always being told no. Insomniac left Sony to go try EA and MS before coming back"
Thank you for the recap, but I´m very familiar with Insomniac´s history with Sony.
I don´t think you got my point at all.
In no moment in the original story, Layden talks about big publishers acquiring big publishers.
He is now positing himself against big publishers acquisitions of smaller/independent studios, when it´s a well known fact that a few years ago he was congratulating and self-promoting himself, for doing the exact same thing.
It was fine and dandy since he were the one doing, right? Dude´s a hypocrite! Period!
Now, correct me if I wrong.
Didn´t Sony acquired TEN new freaking studios in the last 3 years or so?
Is Layden posting himself against Sony?
Imagine having your username and entire persona revolve around hating Sony, but then trying to act like you don't care.
Absolute sheep.
The guy from Tencent is giving a stern lecture about acquisitions.
"This is bad comedy" - Galvatron
It's hilarious to see how much this guy talks like he had anything to teach anyone, honestly. 😂
But former PlayStation boss is hopeful games businesses can disrupt itself before the likes of Google and Amazon
That's messed up. Why even wear the shirt and get fan's hopes up? There's people that have been waiting on a new Crash game for years
Horrible tease for nothing in the end
Just made the show even more disappointing
Shawn you really did tease us though with that shirt. Maybe it is a tease and we'll see Crash at E3 2016
I find it rather funny peoples jimmies have been rustled by a shirt lol.