PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded (www.bloomberg.com)
from ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 15 May 21:29
https://lemmy.world/post/29719622

You can see the writing on the wall for FairGame$ and Marathon from a mile away, and this can’t possibly instill confidence in the people still working there.

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lustyargonian@lemm.ee on 15 May 21:43 collapse

I wonder if Microsoft’s shopping spree induced FOMO in Sony and they ended up buying shit. Sony already had the best studios but they chased live service for no reason.

Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 May 21:45 next collapse

no reason

money

lustyargonian@lemm.ee on 15 May 21:46 collapse

So how much did they make?

ampersandrew@lemmy.world on 15 May 22:08 collapse

Negative hundreds of millions of dollars. But the point still stands that they believed this was a rational way to make a boatload of money. With hindsight, we’re all geniuses, but yes, this was a stupid move.

Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip on 15 May 22:34 collapse

i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.

had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.