Xbox Game Studios should hire

MS buys a publisher, lays off workers they = the devil

Sony Buys a Publisher and lays off workers they = nah, it's all Bungie, Sony has nothing to do with it except trying to help.

I know I will see the defense force come out and attempt to give technicalities, most of which are speculations about the Sony/Bungie deal. But at the end of the day, Bungie is OWNED by Sony, and if we wanna say semi-independent, the same can be said about Bethesda and A/B, as MS has said as much.

Sony purchasing Bungie was a mistake.

Sony made terrible, uncharacteristic moves purchasing Bungie, Firewalk, and Haven. So much wasted millions. I blame Herman Hulst.

220 more people are losing their jobs at Bungie because Bungie’s leadership is bad at managing a game with the best gameplay on the market. The job losses should have started from the top about 10 years ago.

This is exactly why relationships are important before acquisitions. Sony messed up with a few purchases. That said it looks like the takeover has officially begun.

Need funds?
Make a new Halo game…?

Release on Xbox and ps5?

Honestly Sony deserve this. I have no idea why they bought bungie out of all the Studio. They usually go for their close partners but this is out of no where. Probably got scared because of MS was buying up the market.

Big L from Sony but Destiny isn’t anything what it used to be and some change is needed. They are betting on Marathon but I’m not. Bungie needs to do something grand not another scifi fps especially one that’s live service. Sony wasted a lot of money on Bungie and they aren’t delivering.

Ouch 17% is quite massive :(

screw pete parsons

To think Sony paid 12 times more for Bungie than they did to acquire Insomniac games. No matter how much some want to deny it, the purchase of Bungie was clearly a panic buy made right after the MS purchase of Activision (losing 13% in stock value the next day can have that effect). Once Sony actually saw Bungie's revenue numbers, the **** really hit the fan and now Sony has to take over Bungie.

Wait, why is this one blew up all of sudden?
All these Sony/Microsoft acquired studios got laid off employees this past year and this year so far.

I don't get Marathon at all. They had a winner in the bag to bring back that IP good and proper and what do they do? a fuckin' extraction shooter that seems completely unrelated in both tone and concept.

This is exactly what happens when you're allowed to consolidate the market and... oh wait no I forgot thats not the talking point.

maybe ur boss shouldnt buy old cars hes never driving.
im sure that money would have helped out Bungie.

bunch of idiots.

Sony apologists, that’s all I’m hearing. Sony full and well took over period. Keep defending all you all want. This was a power play and now a once great and independent studio is dead. @RIP Bungie

This industry really tests you sometimes.

I hope they will land on their feet.
But the way this industry is going is worrying.

Remember the PS360 era: Epic Games released an entire trilogy of a newly created AAA franchise (Gears of War) on Xbox 360.

Naughty Dog did the same with Uncharted on PS3.

Now look at today’s situation: The Coalition just announced their first game this generation (Gears of War eDay) and helped a different studio with Gears Tactics.

Naughty Dog made 2 remasters and no announcements so far.

Xbox Series / PS5 will be in their 5th year in a few months and that is their whole output.

Both are high quality studios and every fanboy on either side has to respect their quality.

But rising costs and these development circles are just not sustainable at the end of the day.

Meanwhile a game like Fortnite generates as much revenue as all PlayStation 5 console sales so far (!!!) with skins and season passes.

I might sound like a grumpy old man, but I miss the old days.

I read on X not sure how true it is. But the people who have been layed off is moving to a new studio under the Sony banner.

But I'm starting to think Sony buying bungi was a mistake. Didn't Sony give them a extra billion to keep employees? What happened to that money.

Gotta make sure the path is carved out for Pete to drive his 24 classic cars on.

I know they are promoting MARATHON as a multi-player game . But would be awesome to have a single player campaign. Also have Nightdive remaster the MARATHON games from the 90s to help introduce players to the MARATHON games .

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau