Jim Ryan Retires, Connie Booth leaving after 34 years, Layoffs at Sony, Multiplayer games Cancelled

PlayStation is not doing well but their fans will say otherwise.

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How’s PSVR2 doing?

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As always it sucks to hear about layoff, I hope everyone effected can find work soon.

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Dont forget pixlopus closure and pretty much what it feels a death blow to Deviation games.

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Thing is deader than dead.

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Yep the list is longer.

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https://twitter.com/Cozmo23/status/1719087272765837735

They’re selling extremely well, now internally there does seem to be some issues but if it will affect them or not in the long run remains to be seen, probably depends on the decisions of the new leadership. I also don’t think it’s just the fans that don’t pay much attention to the bad news, the media is complicit, there would be several “Is Xbox doomed?” articles by now if the situation was at Xbox, they remain mostly silent when the bad news is on the blue side.

The tweets went on to say that Naughty Dog was one of those two studios, if it was Bend or someone else it may have been more possible. It is rare but it does happen… Bungie is a prime example (Xbox & Activision).

Still on track to release next year!

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I can’t help but think Bungie acquisition was a forced move on Sony’s part to please the investors since Microsoft was cooking and it smelt too good to ignore. It reminds me of ECW wrestling when they got TV deal and so, they have to do a lot of things to make it work, which ended up costing them a lot. In short, backfired.

What’s sad is that Marathon, what should be their next gold mine, is delayed till 2025 and we don’t even know when in that year. Hell, we don’t know if it does happen. Microsoft is about to get a lot of profit just by releasing CoDMW3 next month and all other games carry forward. The game alone will do what Marathon would do and much more. That’s nuts.

So yeah, whatever they’re doing, they better get things in order.

What’s Valve’s zombie co-op shooter called?

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https://x.com/griffinwb/status/1719041320759775429?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

This is physically painful.

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https://x.com/paultassi/status/1719091087262838947?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

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https://twitter.com/roboplato/status/1719103858490695783?t=NHrQNKpQSbm8UFNghMgMCQ&s=19

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Its okay because its not devs (/s)

Hopefully not some shady deal where only the higher ups see the money, I wouldn’t be shocked.

MS/XBOX should be picking them up since A lot of these layoffs are in publishing and community management which xbox has been lacking.

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https://x.com/destinybulletn/status/1719130173029966113?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ Wow really?

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I’d take this one with a grain of salt

Why is that an exception?