Once again, VR has surfaced in the news in connection to the Nintendo Switch. VR on Nintendo's current platform would only harm its current success.
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The cuts are expected to be announced next week.
Microsoft is also planning thousands of job cuts that will impact other parts of it businesses
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MFs has been beating their chests over great quarterly results and big profits to shareholders while firing people by the thousands just like Sony.
I wonder if at the top of those rumored layoffs they´ll also cancel upcoming or unannounced games while shutting down more studios as well.
Always got to throw shade at Sony smh.
Yes we get it,
MS good Sony bad
MS bad Sony is also bad lmao
F* them both!
Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares.
@Blacktiger
Im not offended , that’s just his formula lol
He can’t help help himself, he needs to bring Sony down when the topic involves MS.
Whether is good news for MS or bad, it some how leads to Sony doing bad lmao.
It’s actually hilarious.
He's not wrong but im tracking what youre saying. In this case is should just be MS bad. Thats a lot of people fired
"just like Sony"
Gosh you're insufferable, not everything needs to be both-sides'd. Sony's had layoffs, but nothing like what Microsoft has been doing and is continuing to do.
I mean, no offense, but this is why you’re not some corporate business person running a major corporation. Big profits don’t mean jobs are safe. Do you understand why things like this happen:
Cutting jobs to maintain or increase profitability, especially in underperforming divisions like parts of Xbox like other gaming divisions.
Corporate restructuring and relocating resources for strategic stability in ever changing markets and consumer behaviors.
Investor expectations and optimizing operations to maintain investor confidence. Whatever boosts stock prices and improves future margins.
And there’s many other factors at play. It’s never as simple as business doing well, everyone’s safe. That’s just you not understanding at all how corporations work and have been working since the beginning. This isn’t something that’s specific to Xbox, you can bet your ass Sony and Nintendo do this and if it’s not clear by now, game development is not a stable job nor has it ever been for many. A lot of developers are contractors and guess what happens when a project is done?
Nintendo said they have no plans for layoffs, and you can't seriously claim that the scale of Sony's layoffs most of which involved Bungie which is self managed as even close to the same scale as what Microsoft has done since they purchased Zenimax. And that significantly less layoffs would have happened if those publishers had stayed independent. Keep in mind that much of these layoffs have been due to redundancies specifically related to these buyouts.
@Ganif
Nintendo:
https://gamerant.com/ninten...
Sony:
https://gamerant.com/playst...
https://techxplore.com/news...
I don’t think it’s realistic to treat Sony’s layoffs as somehow outside the norm for the industry right now. Even if Bungie is self-managed, Sony’s cuts went far beyond that like Naughty Dog, Insomniac, London Studio being shut down completely, and multiple teams across the globe took hits. These weren’t just minor adjustments.
Nintendo, I had to look up and you’re right. They seem to be an outlier, but rest assured at some point it happens. And even then there’s been layoffs, albeit a smaller amount and contractors.
Would fewer layoffs have happened if studios from acquisitions stayed independent? Maybe. But even independents have been hit hard and look at what’s happened with Embracer’s fallout, or smaller devs like Digic, Roll7, or Volition. This isn’t just a “Microsoft problem” or strictly tied to acquisitions; it’s a broader correction happening across the whole industry, and unfortunately, layoffs are a big part of that process right now.
From your article:
"According to reports, Nintendo of America restructured its testing operations, leading to layoffs of about 120 contractors, part of a strategy for global integration.
Nintendo of America, publisher of iconic franchises like Mario and Zelda, is shifting some contractors to full-time roles for better development integration."
Contractors are not employees, and even if you want to count them as that, it's 120 people vs around 7500 since Microsoft purchased Zenimax.
In an era of game industry layoffs, Nintendo is hiring more people
https://automaton-media.com...
Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise For Devs Despite Lower Profits
https://kotaku.com/nintendo...
Nintendo CEO’s refusal to layoff staff goes viral following industry-wide cuts
"Satoru Iwata took pay cuts to ensure staff didn’t have to be let go"
https://www.nme.com/news/ga...
And as for Sony you're comparing less than 1000 total jobs to an estimated7500
Has the industry faced layoffs, yes, but that still doesn't account for the mass layoffs due to redundancies that was easily predictable, or that fact that at least 1/3 of Microsoft's layoffs and studio closures happened before the industry downturn.
Take the L, Crimson.
People hate Nintendo, but Ganif proved why they deserve support.
It's like banging your head off a wall, he just can't help himself.
Microsoft can do no wrong, Sony sucks at everything and Nintendo is bigged up because it's less hassle than trying to defend Microsoft all the time
What's going to happen when Microsoft finally turn completely third party, then what?
Did you know that the first n4g was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.
I wouldn't be surprised at this point if anast and osbcure were both alts for the Admin.
We know how Obscure especially drums up additional comments and clicks with his spam-worthy remarks that somehow never get moderated
Thats business present a strong front to your shareholders while your company burns around you.
Keep shareholders happy at all costs andnif not happy keep them numb to the reality of you organisation
" Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares. "
Just for the record, you clearly you do if you have to vent this hard.
Basically you think like kids when it come to choose between candy or chocolate.
Where should I begin....
**(VR) has been met with mixed to negative results commercially**
Subjective. Consumer vr has never existed until now. It has sold millions of units across mobile, pc, stand alone and console. Pong and Atari didn't sell 100 million like today. That took time. It's doing fine. Stop thinking gaming started 10 years ago.
**Many will concur that there is a steep drop-off to that initial excitement after a short time with the technology. In other words, the positive experiences don’t endure.**
Subjective. Others will say there isn't any drop off and play more vr than flat screen games like myself now. The excitement continues. Speak for yourself.
**I don’t feel like the technology is ready for its place in the mainstream gaming arena.**
I guess pong and Atari weren't ready either. But look what market they helped create that you benefit from article writer. Did you forget how gaming started?
**should Nintendo consider it in the near future, they’d be taking an extreme risk.**
That's how things get started. Someone takes a risk.
**Virtual Reality is simply more physically demanding than the gaming audience prefers.**
Didn't know sitting on a couch with an hmd and a controller in hand was a demanding option.
**medical professionals warned of the risk to eyesight that VR poses.**
Medical professionals say the same for television, cell phones, computer monitors while typing, etc. And to take 15 minute breaks. Tell us something new.
**Furthermore, the use of motion controls will become tiresome.**
Says you if you're lazy.
Article goes on and on with negativity. Multiple switches could link by wifi or adhoc to play together. Right now, Bandai Namco has gamers playing together with mario kart in the arcades with the consent of Nintendo that may come home one day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
Comparing vr sales to PS4 sales and attachment rate is idiotic. There are $60 games that don't sell 1 to 1. Even $10 games don't sell 1 to 1. Does that mean those games are failures? Idiotic.
Why type all this complete nonsense and just say you don't like vr and don't want nintendo to enter the market? Nintendo could make excellent vr games if they tried that doesn't require reality looking graphics. And the joycons are pretty much vr ready. Labo Toycons tell me nintendo is more than creative in making fun vr. They made cardboard fun. CARDBOARD.
How do you know what nintendo needs or could possibly help make even better.
More like Nintendo CAN’T do VR. 720p 30 fps or lower doesn’t work for VR....
Has the writer of the article ever played Playroom VR's Robot Rescue on PSVR? If not, they need to play that and then they will see what they are missing with Nintendo not doing VR. Im looking forward to Astrobot, Robot Rescue was amazing.
Need a strong word. But it would be nice to have. Just look up Mario Kart VR and think that that could be a possibility. Plus remastered of Virtual boy games could be awesome.
No it doesn't but neither did Sony and its cool that they support it, although with Nintys currently underpowered hardware I doubt they could support VR.