Christopher Dring is a well kniwn Sony PS shill who has consistently talked down XBox successes and worked hard to excuse PS failures for years so it is not surprising to hear that he has once again misrepresented reality and proclaimed "XBox is dead".
These layoffs were bad. But the world today is not the world of 2024. And the economic situation is going to get worse driven by short termist politicians looking to line their own pockets.
And the gaming market itself has been changing for the past decade and more. For the worse in many cases, at least IMO.
F2P and Black Hole games have fundamentally changed the market. Attach rates have fallen, development costs have skyrocketed, games take longer to develop, risk has increased, and while the sheer number of games and developers are huge, they also mean the industry and consumer base is highly fragmented.
Just think over the past year to think how many great games failed.
Not to mention the market itself is stagnant, and even decaying.
This is not a market that is sustainable. In many ways, it shows signs of heading to a new crash.
MicroSoft also took over ABK and while there were previous layoffs as a result before, the industry has also been expecting another round, or even two, for some time.
MS...***AND*** Sony...have both been reacting to these changes. ***BOTH*** are moving to a multi-platform strategy. ***BOTH*** are abandoning console subsidies. ***BOTH*** are increasing prices, cutting costs, firing staff and closing studios. And ***BOTH*** are working to leave physical hardware and consoles behind, moving to a virtualised app based future.
But yes...Drings response is the usual "XBox is dead"
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Re: "The Xbox Project Has Failed" - Picking Up The Pieces After Microsoft's Darkest Day In Gaming
Christopher Dring is a well kniwn Sony PS shill who has consistently talked down XBox successes and worked hard to excuse PS failures for years so it is not surprising to hear that he has once again misrepresented reality and proclaimed "XBox is dead".
These layoffs were bad. But the world today is not the world of 2024. And the economic situation is going to get worse driven by short termist politicians looking to line their own pockets.
And the gaming market itself has been changing for the past decade and more. For the worse in many cases, at least IMO.
F2P and Black Hole games have fundamentally changed the market. Attach rates have fallen, development costs have skyrocketed, games take longer to develop, risk has increased, and while the sheer number of games and developers are huge, they also mean the industry and consumer base is highly fragmented.
Just think over the past year to think how many great games failed.
Not to mention the market itself is stagnant, and even decaying.
This is not a market that is sustainable. In many ways, it shows signs of heading to a new crash.
MicroSoft also took over ABK and while there were previous layoffs as a result before, the industry has also been expecting another round, or even two, for some time.
MS...***AND*** Sony...have both been reacting to these changes. ***BOTH*** are moving to a multi-platform strategy. ***BOTH*** are abandoning console subsidies. ***BOTH*** are increasing prices, cutting costs, firing staff and closing studios. And ***BOTH*** are working to leave physical hardware and consoles behind, moving to a virtualised app based future.
But yes...Drings response is the usual "XBox is dead"