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Goatseye on 26 February 2014
VitroBahllee said:
Translation: Sony, despite selling the most consoles at a loss, is running out of money.
Microsoft, despite selling less consoles also at a loss, has tons of it.
Soon, all the people praising Sony's first-party devs will talk about how crappy those same devs
are now that they work for MS.

Read this:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57613758-75/microsoft-squeezes-little-profit-out-of-each-xbox-one/#!



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 26 February 2014

Xbox one will get better games?



                  

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OdinHades on 26 February 2014

I doubt they fired the big talents. We would have heard some names by now otherwise.



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Goatseye on 26 February 2014
celador said:
Some people pretty desperate for any sort of win right now.

How does this relate to MS hiring ex-Sony devs?

Don't want to be rude but stay on topic please.



VitroBahllee on 26 February 2014
Goatseye said:
VitroBahllee said:
Translation: Sony, despite selling the most consoles at a loss, is running out of money.
Microsoft, despite selling less consoles also at a loss, has tons of it.
Soon, all the people praising Sony's first-party devs will talk about how crappy those same devs
are now that they work for MS.

Read this:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57613758-75/microsoft-squeezes-little-profit-out-of-each-xbox-one/#!


That's even awesomer. So MS is making money off less console sales while Sony needs to sell SW after each console to make a profit. Who's stupid now?



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theprof00 on 26 February 2014
VitroBahllee said:
celador said:
Some people pretty desperate for any sort of win right now.


Who, the Sony fans trying to pretend it doesn't matter that Sony is forced to shutter one of their biggest first party developers because they're broke as f**k?

SSM is not shuttering. They removed a team, and are replacing it with new people. That means they didn't like the team that was there, OR that team wasn't designed to make the kinds of games SSM makes. SSM makes God of War, but they also made Journey. They are a huge dev and they are actually moving to a bigger studio

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/209534/Sonys_Santa_Monica_studio_is_expanding_to_a_new_home.php

They are expanding, not downsizing.



Goatseye on 26 February 2014
OdinHades said:
I doubt they fired the big talents. We would have heard some names by now otherwise.

MS needs hard workers and people with experience on big budget projects.

New MS studios are full of talent.



VitroBahllee on 26 February 2014
theprof00 said:
VitroBahllee said:
celador said:
Some people pretty desperate for any sort of win right now.


Who, the Sony fans trying to pretend it doesn't matter that Sony is forced to shutter one of their biggest first party developers because they're broke as f**k?

SSM is not shuttering. They removed a team, and are replacing it with new people. That means they didn't like the team that was there, OR that team wasn't designed to make the kinds of games SSM makes. SSM makes God of War, but they also made Journey. They are a huge dev and they are actually moving to a bigger studio

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/209534/Sonys_Santa_Monica_studio_is_expanding_to_a_new_home.php

They are expanding, not downsizing.


Expanding right out of one of the projects they were working on.



LiquorandGunFun on 26 February 2014

Its time to make Adventurer!

 

LOL       (yes i know it is a different dev, but its still a funny thought)



 

celador on 26 February 2014
VitroBahllee said:
celador said:
Some people pretty desperate for any sort of win right now.


Who, the Sony fans trying to pretend it doesn't matter that Sony is forced to shutter one of their biggest first party developers because they're broke as f**k?


It's not being shut, did you even read the OP or any of the articles?  It's selling off one division, while still hiring.  Most likely explanation seems like the new IP wasn't up to scratch so they cancelled it and let the people working on it go.  So any staff Microsoft hire have been deemed by SSM to be surplus to requirements. Hardly a massive victory hiring the dreggs from another company is it?