Thread 715265250

>close japan studio
>buy bungie, firewalk and other slop studios
>kill exclusives
>fund concord
>fund fairgames
>kill helldivers
>literally 90% of 1st party studios haven't released a game in years
How come this dutch faggot is not fired yet?

Wohl eher Schwulst LOL

Because the easiest investment was just getting video game press to just constantly focus on Xbox and Nintendo and ignore how anemic Playstation's actual output is

>>715265250 (OP)
Because Horizon as an IP is the industry plant to end all indutry plants, and Hulst is THE Horizon guy.

The bigger question is what does this guy even do?

>>715265250 (OP)
>Killed Gravity Rush
This guy is fine in by book.

>>715265250 (OP)
>>close japan studio
The company hadnt produced anything worth a damn for years and it wasnt lucrative either
>>buy bungie, firewalk and other slop studios
Taking a shot Gaas was a good call, even though they fumbled it. The single player narrative driven movie thing has lost its luster at thid point, the people who liked those games are old and done playing, gaas is the future whether or not we like it
>>kill exclusives
Good, exclusives are anti consumer you retard
>>fund concord
This could have been worth it had they closely monitored its development and gotten the game out as an f2p during the peak of hero shooters
>>fund fairgames
Unfamiliar with them
>>kill helldivers
I doubt it but i dont know shit about hell divers
>>literally 90% of 1st party studios haven't released a game in years
Game development is long now, we have to accept that a normal dev cycle is cross generational, and will take at leat 5 to 8 years. People arent gonna pay 60 to 70 dollars for a dinky little ps3 style game. You either need to go the gaas route or make a gigantic blockbuster. Double a games do not make money, and nobody cares about them.

>>715265250 (OP)
As expected of the D*tch

>>715265250 (OP)
He did

>sony's phil
Who's gonna be Nintendo's phil?

>>715268802
>Good, exclusives are anti consumer you retard
Imagine being this stupid

>>715269116
Furuwaka

>>715268802
>Taking a shot Gaas was a good call,
Not for 3.6 billion for 1 game that was dying.

>>715265250 (OP)
Some studios like Naughty Dog are probably on a shitlist but the big bosses can always blame all of their mistakes on someone else, some other dummy takes over and he blames his predecessor made a ton of mistakes so he had to clean up his mess.

>>715269142
>i need games
>no i need games that other people cant play
???

>>715268802
so much cope

>>715268802
>exclusives are anti consumer you retard

>>715269318
>a good company makes choices for people who won't buy their products!

>People shitting on Phil Spencer for shutting down a bunch of studios
>when Hermen Hulst exists
sure, shutting down tango was a blunder but goddamn Hermen blunders on every step.

>>715265250 (OP)
don't forget he's a waifufag Toriyama's tier of waifufag

>>715269318
"No you see it's a good thing that the games are more buggy now because now people on PC can at least pirate the game for free, the product you paid for!"
Complete cuck behavior or at best copying Sony propaganda that "multiplats doesn't affect game development" just like they said for live service. All it did was delay single player games for years.

>>715269527
and his waifu is a fat lesbo

Sony fags love exclusives because if every gsme was multiplat, sony would literslly be the least appealing platform.

>demons souls and bloodborne are the only sony exclusive souls games
>mean while ds1, 2, 3 and elden ring can all be played in 60fps now
Whats up with that? Being sony exclusives didnt make these games a premium experience

>>715268802
Hi Hermen
Horizon is shit and you are an incompetent hack.

>>715268802
>Taking a shot Gaas was a good call, even though they fumbled it. The single player narrative driven movie thing has lost its luster at thid point
While I agree with this, why buy Bungie and make all your bets on Gaas with studios who aren't familiar with gaas? They should've expanded their output not completely change the course.

>>715268802
Without exclusivity all games will be made for the lowest common denominator. Sure graphics can be scaled down and up based on hardware but there are a lot of things that are bound to the game engine and if the engine is made to support shit old hardware there will always be compromises.
There is a reason we haven't had a proper next-gen game even 5 years into the "next gen" consoles lifesycle.

>>715265250 (OP)
Because he took the money and got out asap before people realized he's a hack.

Now some japanese CEO took over to clear up his mess.

>>715271350
He's still there and in the same position though.

>>715271118
All current gen hardware is pc based to make game development easier. Compare snes and genesis games. They look wildly different. Same for ps1 and n64. But beyond that the differences get smaller and smaller. And thats a good thing why the fuck should anyone have to pay another 500 for another box to choose between finaly fantasy or halo or mario, thats fucking stupid

Videogames went to shit when exclusives stopped being a thing.
Back then developers needed to make games so good they would convince people to buy an expensive piece of hardware, be a console, a computer or a GPU so they pushed their talents to the limit.
Today they make mediocre shit because by being available everywhere they can compensate with sheer numbers.

>>715271532
This.
Exclusivity is the reason a lot of niche and non-markatable games got funded because exclusives meant to pad a library that gets people to buy hardware and it didn't matter if they didn't sell that many.
Without exclusives, we only get focus tested safe slop and any game that fail to sell 10 million copies is considered a failure.
This is why we don't get games like Wipeout and Dreams on playstation anymore.
I'm talking about big budget games not indies btw.

>>715272032
Remember when PC pushed the boundaries with genres that simply couldn't work on consoles (not just due to hardware limitations) like first person shooters, real time strategy or flying simulators?
Same thing.

>>715270927
>They should've expanded their output not completely change the course
But hey why worry if you can create 12 live service games by 2025! They're all sure to become huge hits!

>>715265250 (OP)
You forgot
>buy bungie, firewalk and other slop studios
>close firewalk and other slop studios

>>715273221
>they spent +$2 BILLION DOLLAR on the slop acquisitions
>that money could have probably ran Japan Studio for 50 years

>>715273556
Sony left Japan in every meaningful capacity because they'd rather try to compete in US/EU.

>>715268802
The least cultist Snoy
>>close japan studio
>The company hadnt produced anything worth a damn for years and it wasnt lucrative either
It want losing money either.
Japan Studio was also responsible for fostering relations with Japanese 3rd parties. Now Playstation has no foothold in Japan anymore
>Taking a shot Gaas was a good call, even though they fumbled it.
"Taking a shot" is not greenlighting 13 GAAS at the same time.
"Taking a shot" is not forcing single player developers to make GAAS. Now you have neither.

>>715265250 (OP)
>be me
>dyslexic
>read his name as Men Her Slut
>every single time

>>715273763
Japan has no future. In 2 generations they will be ethnically Indian and Arab.

>>715274439
>Japan has no future.
They do have a future. Soon we will ivf and others breeding plans that could continue humanity.

>>715271532
>>715272032
>>715272389
Friendly reminder that Sony funded Demon's Souls even though they thought it was unoptimized garbage and will not sell, just because they had a budget allocated to funding 3rd party exclusive games.
So many such cases.

Whether Herman Keeps his job is only partly determined by his performance as an executive.
By manipulating key individuals within the company to see his contributions favourably, he's ensures power players go to bat for him.
Haven't you seen complete phonies ascend internally purely by playing politics. Sometimes I'll copy what they do but its draining and slimey, though being a complete narcissist means they never get tired of it. Hulst is a clear example.

>>715265250 (OP)
We need to normalize killing CEOs
You do know they're destroying games in hope of revitalizing the workforce so the kike shareholder's lines can go up right?

>>715265250 (OP)
Uwe Boll?

>>715273763
Snoy are 100% focused on stitching up the US for Playstation. It's pretty clear they moved HQ to California they "mysteriously" started sweeping game award shows and getting astro-turfed by gaming media.

>>715265250 (OP)
Horizon and TLOU2 are remarkable, in that they're the only examples of highly-reviewed AAA sequels selling less than the previous titles

>>715279785
Sony gotta be pissed how the TLOU 2 situation panned out. Instead of getting a guaranteed system seller it turned out to become a huge disaster in PR so bad even neofags started hated Playstation

>>715268802
>Taking a shot Gaas was a good call
No, it wasn't. Amazon Games solely exists to create GaaS goyslop and develop Open 3D Engine, and every single one of them flopped hard. I'm sure they have more cancelled projects than released ones.

>>715280849
The top 5 GAAS make like half of all Sony's gaming revenue. Are they supposed to keep making single player games, wherein rising development costs mean you need to sell 5 million just to see profit. Please enlightenment me

>>715265921
He's basically going to continue Jim Ryan's work and make everything multiplatform. Sony's stock is mostly owned by jews on the NYSE so they'll never be good again.

>>715281550
Costs are only rising if you want cutting edge tech. They should make more games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, instead.

>>715268802
>The company hadnt produced anything worth a damn for years and it wasnt lucrative either
Gravity Rush 2 is the last good game Sony made.

>>715265250 (OP)
You forgot to make a green text about pulling the strings on the astroturfing of Horizon including erecting a stupid statue somewhere in the streets of europe

>>715281550
>The top 5 GAAS make like half of all Sony's gaming revenue
Crap that can be played anywhere, grim.

>Are they supposed to keep making single player games, wherein rising development costs mean you need to sell 5 million just to see profit. Please enlightenment me
It worked for Nintendo, just make better vidya. No need for live service games if you make games that sell.

>>715276723
>Soon we will ivf and others breeding plans that could continue humanity
That sounds incredibly racist and antisemitic. Japan will die out, and here's why that's a good thing!

>>715280849
It's like venture capitals throwing money at 500 startups in hope that one grows to become a billion dollar company and pays off the rest

>>715265250 (OP)
Company's doing better than ever, despite failing to release anything meaningful.
It's quite literally what happens when they haven't got any competition.

>buy 30 studios, release 2 games
>turn Arkane into Redfall factory
>kill Perfect Dark twice
>cancel Everwild & call it “realignment”
>shutter studio seven years later
>fund 40 projects but drop the two you hyped
>say “we believe in these games” then pull funding
>ghost The Initiative staff with internal memo
>tweet “Xbox stronger than ever” mid layoffs
>make Ninja Theory work on Hellblade for 7 years
>give 343 endless chances
>let Obsidian cook forever
>promise games, deliver CGI trailers
>shut down Tango and Arkane Austin right after praising them
>say “the games are coming” since 2018
How come this american faggot is not fired yet?
I fucking hate both of these incompetent fucks

>>715265250 (OP)
never liked that faggot

>>715286141
Sounds based to me.