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SamuelRSmith on 29 July 2009
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greenmedic88 said:
CGI-Quality said:
greenmedic88 said:
I wouldn't have bought The Getaway. To me, that would have been a big waste of money and resources now that we're all being "experts" on which projects SCE should choose to fund or axe if they're deemed nonviable.

I don't know why that surfaced more than once as one of the "cons" of Home, considering that there is no correlation between the allocation of SCE Online resources for Home and a loss of resources from any particular title in development.

That's partially what I'm saying, we have no clue on the investments/expenses. So how can we judge what was a waste and what wasn't?

Because we're all armchair "experts" on managing billion dollar corporations here.

"WTF is up with Home?! That's it; I could do a MUCH better job of running the company because I KNOW BETTER!"

If you want to take that a step further, you can simply say EVERY game you never had an intention of buying or playing (because they fell outside your demographic) is a WASTE of resources that would have been better spent on a game made JUST FOR YOU.

Right.

And what if I do know better? Your assumption is that everything that Sony, or any other "billion dollar corporation", can't make mistakes, and that everyone who isn't managing these corporations is, by default, stupider because they haven't been given the same chances in life.

Not that I'm saying that I know-all, therefore, everything I say must be right, but I'm saying it's not uncommon for corporations to make mistakes, or to invest in the wrong things (hell, the entire credit crunch was because of big billion-dollar corporations putting their money in the wrong place, and I could of told them it was a bad idea).

Personally, I feel I am more than capable to doing what Sony execs are doing, I have the drive, and the intellect, and I'm working towards getting all the necessary qualifications. In ten years or so, you will see me in one of these positions, and I will be making these decisions - but I'm still human, and so I still make mistakes, as do the people who are currently at the top.

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Honestly, if Sony had a time machine, and they were able to go forward to today from just before green-lighting the Home project - do you think that they would have? Home was a very ambitious project and a lot of risks were involved, and sure, people like cgi-quality and leo-j and what-have-you really like using the service, but is it really the roaring success that Sony were hoping for? Was it really worth that initial investment?

Those are the questions that we are debating here, and I am arguing that, no, it wasn't worth that initial investment.