Locked: Sony deserves to be called out for this!

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Intrinsic on 16 September 2016

Goodnightmoon said:

Nintendo has talked in the past about this issue, they don't hire more studios or people than they need because they rarely fired them, so they can feel safe and important in their works and do things better.

Iwata: “I also know that some employers publicize their restructuring plan to improve their financial performance by letting a number of their employees go, but at Nintendo, employees make valuable contributions in their respective fields, so I believe that laying off a group of employees will not help to strengthen Nintendo’s business in the long run.”

However some big game companies are constantly doing the opposite, getting more than they would been able to maintain in the future, as a result studios get closed and people gets fired but they already got what they wanted. If you think what Sony has done is bad then take a look to EA, that's a whole other level, and simply disgusting. The more ambitious the better right? lol

Is this some sort of ftiday thing?

Are you kidding or is this how you think?

Sony hires devs, then gives them developer freedom. It may not be said or announced, but I'm sure those devs know that they don't just have a free meal ticket, know that they are part of Sony's world wide studios and that they are expected to deliver just like any other studio in sonys payroll. If you don't deliver you get axed and that money can then be better spent on studios that have a better track record.

It's simple business.

And pls, don't talk about nintendos software output as if it can be somehow comparable to Sony's.... they may make a fee really great games, but it's not an admirable thing when u basically make one truly great game every 4-5 years. Zelda practically skipped the WiiU generation.... anyways. domt turn this into something its not.

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naruball on 16 September 2016

GOWTLOZ said:

Acevil said:

Um that is just PR, of course you are not going to say "You're fried because you undelivered on the games you made, that are loved but in a business sense are duds."

Also unlike the PS3 era, sony does not need a large quantity of first party as they did, as they have the full support of third party publishers again and are doing really well for themselves.

Evolution did a good job with Driveclub, its an awesome racing game and sold well. There was no reason to fire them especially as Sony's only other racing game developer makes games so slowly, they actually need more racing game developers.

Who says it's sold well? Maybe it cost them more to make than they were imagining and it ended up selling less than they were hoping. Even though at the moment it's a great game, it still has the stigma of a mediocre game because of the problems it had the first couple of months. Unfortunately it won't be remembered by the average gamer as a great exclusive.