It's not "gamers'" claim. It's just butthurt cries of its competitors.

There was an interesting study done by a large fashion house on the cheap knock off handbags and how they affected sales. They spent millions of dollars to find out that the people who bought knock off bags at a flea market for $50, where not the same people who payed for a $5000 bag from Louis Vitton or some such.

Imagine that!

It was part of a TED talk a few years back by Johanna Blakely

I do know the difference. For example, Rare , Obsidian and Tango have produced high quality, new IP for Microsoft since being acquired. This includes Hi-Fi rush, Sea of Thieves, Grounded and Pentiment. That’s talent acquired, as you describe, not franchises.

Not a single franchise that already existed on Playstation has yet to be removed from Sony’s platform. I can still download all existing Bethesda games on my PS4 if I like. Can you name me a title which was confirmed and announced for PS5 or PS4, from an acquired studio, which has since been cancelled on Sony’s platform?

No, its not an "emotional" argument.

You are trying to dismiss Sony Computer Entertainments contributions to gaming.

It absolutely has a bearing. They earned those exclusives, by having a hand in developing them. Those are their home-grown products.

You're trying to gloss over this, because you are trying to make a false-equivalency but you know it falls apart if we actually look at the details.

By your logic, Nintendo doesn't to have the right to do whatever they want to do with their Mario and Zelda IPs.

They didn't buy any of these games that we call "exclusives".

They bought studios for their talent, and created new IPs from them.

They did not TAKE CONTROL over an existing popular IP.

Yes, they did build things from the ground up.

Yes, it absolutely is different behavior.

Why are you pretending that you don't know the obvious difference?

Now they just making up shit to cover up their actual reasons to lay employees off!

They were the worst too. One would be hyper interested, then ghost only to have another reach out 1 hour later as if it was first contact. There was zero coordination and it was clear they neither cared about the roles nor candidates.

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Their description of memory issues (tramples, uninitialized reads, leaks) is awful, but does anyone have any medium term experience beyond initially learning it? Am considering it for future work projects.

That sounds really....BASIC?

Doing the good the r/DataHoarder work out here.

Your entire argument is just an emotional one...who gives a shit if someone made something or someone buys the company that makes it...it has no bearing on anything.

Sony acquired 21 video game studios from 1993 - 2022, including Insomniac, Guerrilla, Naughty Dog, and even an entire publisher, Psygnosis. Let’s not pretend everything PlayStation did was built from the ground up by Sony. This doesn’t even consider timed exclusivity deals with third party studios. Feel free to browse the list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Sony

I’m not saying Microsoft should not be critiqued but you can’t say Sony’s behaviour was any different as they established their footing in the industry.

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By "ban" what they really mean is "we will continue to do absolutely nothing unless there's a big media storm about it, in which case we will try to ignore it or do the bare minimum to address it."

Pfew! Could you imagine the impact a fake nobody would have. But luckily we still can have have a fake Joe Bidden that’s spreading misinformation and can influence an election.

Thank god Yilong Ma lives to see another day

Yeah there was something about people who pirate remain to be one of the biggest purchasers of that media.

I really don't understand how people can even think you are making a good argument.

A company creates his own things, that get universally praised and are successful.

A company fails to create good things, and goes on a massive buying spree to secure OTHER things, made by OTHER companies, for the purposes of trying to control a market.

And you think that's the same thing?

Its obvious you try to gloss over that by using the phrase "having tons of exclusives."

They made those games. Their people conceived the game idea. They created the studio to design, produce, animate, program the product.

And you think Sony "scammed" you and the gaming community by making their OWN EXCLUSIVES?

They "have them", because they went through the effort to "make them." Maybe Microsoft and the Xbox division should try doing that, if they want to compete?

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Sony when Microsoft makes exclusive games: 🤬😭😱

Also Sony having tons of exclusives: ☺️

The amazon recruiters were cold calling like mad too. Not just emails, but phone calls too. They dug up old ass resumes of mine and were still interested even though the listed dates were stale as hell.

Revenue/cost center owners receive balance sheets monthly at very large companies I’ve worked at. We meticulously manage headcount, being one of the largest expenses.

I thought oversight and excess is very common in big orgs.

You program in Rust by opening it and then closing it because it won't let you program anything.

This is a joke about its safety features.