pinkrobot_pb Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 8 hours ago, B1rvine said: Well, at least they know to keep trophies around, since nobody wants to start over on another system. I am usually quite good at this kind of thing, but I can actually not tell this time if you're being sarcastic. Please help me out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visvoer18 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 its plain and simple whats happeing its all bout they money they dont look long term but look how we can make the most amount of money in te shortest time possible I said it before and will sya it again sony doesnt need to leave but they need to take an huge hit again to be humbled again because sony is getting arogant again like after the ps2 and mony is the only thing they understand 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandedBerserk Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, AJ_Radio said: And toss out the thousands of dollars I paid on Sony? I’m not exactly in a position to sell my shit on eBay or some other online auction/retail. Look all I'm saying Is maybe you should start focusing on the things you do enjoy instead of always being overly negative and ranting about the things that you don't. Triple a games not your thing? There's tons of indies out there you may enjoy. Don't like Sony or their new leadership? There's other platforms out there. Dont like a certain change made on your system of choice ? Get use to it, there's many more to come and you may not be a fan of all of em. For all your talk of indies, I don't think I've ever seen you shed light or speak of any indies you enjoyed... but I can find at least one million posts of you talking about how trash triple a games are or how Jim Ryan is supposedly tormenting you in your sleep at night. 7 hours ago, AJ_Radio said: You cannot rely entirely on AAA blockbusters alone for an entire console generation. The jump to $70 may be justified, AAA games cost more than they ever did before. Development lead times are already insane. The fact that the AA games industry has been mostly gone and missing from Sony platforms these past few years or so is utterly appalling. There will be a new God of War, Ratchet & Clank and Gran Turismo title coming out, but that simply isn't enough. Housemarque who has been collaborating with Sony for quite some time has been primarily focused on smaller scope games similar to what you'd see from indie devs and guess what? Despite being great games and a success among critics, those games sold poorly which is why they've shifted to bigger budget games. To be exact, they said "arcade is dead" and that's coming from their lips not Sony or any big corpo boss. Edited April 13, 2021 by BrandedBerserk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BloodyRutz Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - PS5 exclusives raise to $70 Not only PS5 exclusives. Also, how is this an issue? People expect budgets for creating these games to grow bigger, yet price to stay the same? The only time I'm literally worried about the future of gaming is when I see people on Facebook arguing Returnal is somehow not worth 70 USD price tag. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Japan Studio stripped to it's bare bones I'm not familiar with the background on which the decision has been made. Same as 99% of people on this site. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Legacy psn stores closing Cutting costs makes sense. PS3 got released 15 years ago! Yet I see people on this site saying they won't be buying PS5 any time soon since they have a huge PS3 backlog. Ridiculous! 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Killzone franchise retired 5+ games released. Yet everytime I see somebody complaining Ubisoft is "milking" AC. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Days Gone 2 denied Debunked speculation. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Web store gets downgraded Yet console store is finally integrated into UI and is much faster than before. Missing the wishlist (for now) though. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - game patches starting to disappear due to legacy stores closing soon - Currently killing any hope for full backward compatibility despite according to two patents they are working on solutions. Legacy PSN stores closing. Same applies here. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Turned down Kojima's next game (allegedly) Well... allegedly. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: - Closing the video/movie rental store DESPITE LITERALLY just starting a new video service on their new bravia televisions. Video/movie rental? Really? It's 2021. Subscription-based entertainment is a way to go and I'm sure Sony is aware, same as every other company in the same business. 14 hours ago, Pariah_Dark said: But as of now, I see no reason to ever buy a ps5 or anything Sony puts out beyond this point. For real? Wow. Well, good for you. If I wouldn't spend that much time on gaming I'm sure I would finish much more of my side-business projects ? The best decision I did after buying a PS5 was to start fresh and stop chasing the completion of PS4 games - getting trophies for games I don't really care about. Edited April 13, 2021 by BloodyRutz 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DrBloodmoney Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, AJ_Radio said: My genres are indies and older games. @AJ_Radio - I keep seeing you say this in different threads, but for all that you espouse anger over what you perceive of a lack of 'indie' games on Sony consoles nowadays, and claim that they are being somehow stifled by Jim Ryan and his cronies, I have to say: I see precious little evidence that you have any genuine interest in the indie scene on your profile. There have been a veritable mountain of critically adored, and extremely well-selling indie games in the last few years - some of the absolute tip-top must haves for any gamer even remotely interested in the indie scene, and I see very few of them on your list. Where is The Return of the Obra Dinn, for example? Or Cuphead? Or The Witness? Where is Disco Elysium? Where is Outer Wilds? Where are Papers, Please, or Minit? Where is Gorogoa? Or Dandara or Gris? Or Journey or Tacoma? Or Sundered? Where is Dead Cells? Where are Mark of the Ninja, or Invisible Inc.? Where are Matterfall and Nex Machina? Where is Mortal Shell or Salt and Sanctuary? Where is Oxenfree? Where is Void Bastards? Where is Headlander or Rad? Where is Outlast or Soma? Where is Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons? Where are Inside or Braid? Where is Pyre? I'm not arguing that everyone who likes indie games should have played all, or even most of these, but to argue that "your genre is indie" and yet to have missed all of these? That seems incongruous. A good portion of these games are among the most famous, high quality and beloved indie games on the Sony consoles. Is it possible your anger about a lack of indie games stems more from you simply not knowing about or finding them, than an actual dearth of availability? If you want to support indie development, the best way to do that is not by complaining ad-nauseum about Sony's focus on first party AAA, it is by supporting the indie scene by, y'know buying and playing indie games.... ...and by talking about how much you love them! Bashing AAA doesn't raise up Indie. Tearing a building down, doesn't raise the surrounding buildings. When someone else fall over, it doesn't make you taller. Edited April 13, 2021 by DrBloodmoney 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandedBerserk Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 9 minutes ago, BloodyRutz said: Yet console store is finally integrated into UI and is much faster than before. Missing the wishlist (for now) Wishlist was added today not sure when the update will roll out for others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometowner Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 I don't think this all happening because of him. there are a higher decision-maker than him that also approved all the above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darling Baphomet Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) What a thread. First of all, corporations aren't your friends, at best they've just decided that consumer loyalty is profitable; but they'll sell you out as soon as it benefits them to do so. By all means, switch platforms, but don't do it because you think Nintendo or Microsoft are going to be your guardian angels; they'll treat you just as badly as Sony has, with a premium in Nintendo's case. Also, I have no idea what Sony moving to California has to do with anything. Sony has been making bad business decisions for years before. It wasn't your big bad SJW menace that fucked up the Vita with shitty propriety memory cards and then abandoned it, for instance. It most certainly wasn't the California Communist that shuttered Studio Liverpool (devs of Wipeout.) And so on, and so forth. Sony has been chasing profit and making shitty decisions (for us, anyway) for a very long time. It's like people just automatically forget anything that happened before whatever the outrage of the week is. Edited April 13, 2021 by Darling Baphomet 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JoesusHCrust Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 But........Jim's doing a good job. His entire raison d'etre is to generate profits for Sony's shareholders and he is fulfilling that brief very effectively. I'm someone who sits slightly to the left of Leon Trotsky so I'm not defending freemarket capitalism but he has his job, and he objectively is doing that job well! If PS3 and Vita were making money, Sony wouldn't be edging them out. If anything, Jim's lack of nostalgia for older gaming systems is a bonus. He needs to make decisions which are in the best interests of Sony shareholders, not gamers. If the two interests align, great but if he has to make a choice, he has to come down on the side of profit. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eraezr Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) I was more surprised that they prompted the $70 raise AND decide to bring titular exclusives to PC which diluted the PlayStation exclusivity identity. I had some disagreements with some of Shawn Layden's policies and choices, like shutting down a lot of non-US studios (Evolution still hurts) but it seems Jim Ryan is going over-the-top on the spreadsheet profit attitude without truly considering what the longer term repercussions are that negatively affect the cutting edge culture of PlayStation gaming. But then again, I can see how his choices appeal more to Sony's shareholders (which was probably instrumental in ousting Layden) but not as much as to the gamers. I'm deeply unhappy with what happened to Japan Studios (big Gravity Rush fan), but I won't pretend Jim & Hermen Hulst (remember, he's head of PlayStation Studios, he's also involved with the departures of all those devs) have done more damage than the predecessors to the PS studios. Studios closed during the Jim Ryan/Hulst era: - Studios downsized during the Jim Ryan/Hulst era: Japan Studio Studios closed during the Layden/House/Kodera era: Evolution Studios Guerilla Cambridge Studio Liverpool Bigbig Studios Manchester Studio I don't agree with all of what Jim has done and part of me fears that his style might see the likes of Media Molecule as a liability but looking at the 'Before vs. After' carnage, he hasn't pushed himself into the 'This guy needs to go' zone yet, compared to what Layden did. A lot of Japan Studio's merit had hinged on the Gravity Rush series making it. Layden fucked it up by having the physical NA copies exclusive to Amazon for the first game (I would see threads of people wanting to buy the game but they couldn't) and snowballing from there, with a poor marketing campaign for GR2. Is it unfair that Herman and Jim punished them for the inequities given to them by the previous regime? Yes. Definitely yes. Edited April 13, 2021 by Eraezr 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiricy Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) Sorry Edited April 13, 2021 by Tiricy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eraezr Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Tiricy said: https://twitter.com/JimRyanSIE/status/1381600337644171267?s=20 Jim Ryan Say: Time to confess. I basically took a leaf out of Nintendo's book. They bolstered their sales by limiting the time in which you could buy some games. We upped that by limiting the time in which you could buy anything for PS3 and Vita. So far, the sales numbers increased nicely. Dude, that's a parody account. It says in the bio-description. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiricy Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Eraezr said: Dude, that's a parody account. It says in the bio-description. Oh, sorry about that. I didn't see it. Edited April 13, 2021 by Tiricy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiricy Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 https://twitter.com/KenYoshidaCEO/status/1377722746650554369?s=20 He's CEO @Sony maybe we can mention him. I gonna to ask him to stop Jim Ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Duderino Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) I know it's a bit lazy, but I simply copy my post from last week. Quote Hello! My name is Jim "Play Has No Limits™" Ryan. You know me from making bad decisions at your favorite gaming company. We love our players. That's why we do not tolerate spicy scenes in video games brought to PlayStation® platforms. But we do tolerate rough doggy style if the game was made in California. By ourselves. We love our players. That's why we removed PS3® and PS Vita® games from PlayStation® Plus without compensation. We love our players. That's why we turned our terrible storefront into a horrible one. We love our players. That's why we issued false DMCA takedowns on YouTube to prevent potential customers from learning how bad The Last of Us Part II™ is. We love our players. That's why we refused to allow crossplay. Nobody wants to play with Nintendo® users. We love our players. That's why we close storefronts for legacy platforms. Look, I took a random picture. I just works™. Spoiler Yours truly Jim Ryan P.S. Fuck Shawn Layden. I'm so much cooler than him. Edited April 13, 2021 by R4M Jolly Monk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiricy Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 https://twitter.com/yosp Only guy can help us is: Shuhei Yoshida We gonna mention him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBloodmoney Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 2 minutes ago, Tiricy said: https://twitter.com/yosp Only guy can help us is: Shuhei Yoshida We gonna mention him. ? Mate - You don't promote someone to the position of President of a Division of your company, and then undercut them based on the requests of some random forum users who pester you on twitter. Shuhei Yoshida isn't some lost Jedi saviour, or a deposed king hiding out in a cave, ready to slay the bad usurpers and take back his kingdom once he hears the call of the people. He is the president of a multi-national company, and Jim Ryan will have his full backing. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiricy Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 9 minutes ago, DrBloodmoney said: Mate - You don't promote someone to the position of President of a Division of your company, and then undercut them based on the requests of some random forum users who pester you on twitter. Shuhei Yoshida isn't some lost Jedi saviour, or a deposed king hiding out in a cave, ready to slay the bad usurpers and take back his kingdom once he hears the call of the people. He is the president of a multi-national company, and Jim Ryan will have his full backing. Omg, it's true : ( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBloodmoney Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Just now, Tiricy said: Omg, it's true : ( I know. I understand your frustration - believe me I do - and I've seen your posts, I know you are well intentioned - but pushing against the tide, or tilting at windmills won't make a difference. Times change, and all good things must come to an end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Abby_TheLastofUs Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 Jim Ryan isn't Sauron. Getting rid of him isn't going to magically make everything better. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessorStotch Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 My uncle's friend works for Sony and I told him about this thread and he said James will be gone in a week 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliesin_2943 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 6 minutes ago, ProfessorStotch said: My uncle's friend works for Sony and I told him about this thread and he said James will be gone in a week Well that's a load off my mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infected Elite Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 4 hours ago, BrandedBerserk said: Look all I'm saying Is maybe you should start focusing on the things you do enjoy instead of always being overly negative and ranting about the things that you don't. Triple a games not your thing? There's tons of indies out there you may enjoy. Don't like Sony or their new leadership? There's other platforms out there. Dont like a certain change made on your system of choice ? Get use to it, there's many more to come and you may not be a fan of all of em. For all your talk of indies, I don't think I've ever seen you shed light or speak of any indies you enjoyed... but I can find at least one million posts of you talking about how trash triple a games are or how Jim Ryan is supposedly tormenting you in your sleep at night. Housemarque who has been collaborating with Sony for quite some time has been primarily focused on smaller scope games similar to what you'd see from indie devs and guess what? Despite being great games and a success among critics, those games sold poorly which is why they've shifted to bigger budget games. To be exact, they said "arcade is dead" and that's coming from their lips not Sony or any big corpo boss. he's probably bipolar. He's so back and forth. I dont know why he even stays here. Its PSNProfiles. Playstation. Sony. The same company he hates soooo much for taking his thousands of dollars worth of games from him. Like he's never lost money doing anything else. lol. I don't love xbox or Nintendo but i do have a switch and will get a series x. eventually there will be a game thats exclusive. Do i wish it was on Playstation? sure. i guess. But end of the day im not losing sleep over not getting 10-15 trophies for a online leaderboard like its some lifelong dream. I game to enjoy it. I prefer Sony but i hold no major hate towards the others. Nintendo I wish would go 4K and change the joycons, but i mean it's still a good system... But yeah anyways i definitely think arcade is dead. Beat em ups used to be a blast back in the day. Playing SoR4 i enjoyed it for a few mins, beat it but sometimes a basic beat em up is just that. Basic. Housemarque moving onto Returnal has me interested. I'm getting it but it can really be super good or super bad. I don't think there's a middle ground on that one. I am excited about it though. i feel the issue with anybody today, just due to the way society has become is that very few people are patient. They are very quick to assume and think they know what is happening. That they know how everything will turn out in the end. Like, be patient. Let everything play out. Give things time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ac3dUd3- Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) Dont care about the Jim thing, just weighing in on the price increase. Games are one of the few things that have stayed the same price ignoring inflation for over 10 years, a lot of companies give bonuses at the end of games launching, it costs more to develop games, with everything else in the world increasing with inflation but you want to cry over a $10 increase that was due 10 years ago? The way some people act like babies on here about such tiny amounts of money is insane. The increase goes to innovation for new IP, remakes, infrastructure, maintenance of servers for *years* after launch for some games, salaries and more. If you can not afford a $10 increase then maybe you should rethink your current finances and put it towards something you actually need to keep surviving, not something you want just to play. ~ my 2 cents ~ Edited April 13, 2021 by Ac3dUd3- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveInHell Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, Infected Elite said: i also don't care about you. Jeez, you need therapy. 18 hours ago, MidnightDragon said: Yea, good luck with that. You know what the problem is with this attitude? No one fucking works together. We cry and whine on the forums but nothing gets sent to them. Imagine if they got millions of people directly complaining to them on social media. This sarcastic post doesn’t help anyone for shit. Edited April 13, 2021 by LoveInHell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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