Microsoft has been in the game with Xbox since 2001. If they were the boogeyman your making them out to be, they would've conquered Sony long ago given they've had 23 years to do it. The fact that Sony is still here, stronger than ever I might add, proves that Microsoft isn't able to do what your suggesting they can. There…
The lack of such a thing is due to labor laws in your country/region. I'm in NZ. I was made redundant 6 months into my first real game dev job. The whole process between announcing it and me losing my job was over a month. I was fully paid the whole time, didn't have to work, and at the end received decent severance. I'm…
Junior wages are cheaper buts that's not the whole story You're not in competition with experienced people because we don't hire them for the same jobs we hire juniors for. You're in competition with other juniors and grads, just like you always were. Are there less jobs? Maybe.. I don't think there's less than there were…
As a gamer, I find this whole situation especially odd in regards to "Prey".It took me YEARS to accept that there won't be a Prey 2 despite the existence of a very nice teaser trailer and some gameplay video. Surely only some kind of extraordinary circumstances could lead to death of a good game/series?And then the…
Sony doesn't have much leverage over Microsoft, and Microsoft is clearly interested in the market as a business and branding seeing how its shuttering studios. Microsoft could eliminate its entire game division and still be more valuable than Sony, but it would rather see sony's game division destroyed since that is a…
As I understand it it's down to some outlandish projections based on the numbers they (we?) did early in the pandemic and the expectation that this trajectory would simply continue. So staffing and budgets were increased to cope with the expected expansion and it was financed at low interest rates. Instead we are now down…
I work in outsource, and for a while I wanted to hop into a company making an actual game but the end of 2023 has shown me that the grass is most definitely not greener! We had contracts end earlier than expected, we had clients lose members of staff unexpectedly and it sucked! I'm glad I've got a little job security as…
And how would Microsoft starve Sony of its exclusives? They have no equivalents to compete Sonys exclusives so hurting them is out of the question. The only thing I can think of is Microsoft tries to acquire Sonys exclusives, but fat chance of that happening. Sony will fight them tooth and nail to, for example, not lose…
One does not need to be a business analyst to understand Microsofts biggest problem vs Sony. It has nothing to do with marketing, IP ownership, investors, etc. It has EVERYTHING to do with their shitty first party titles that 99% of the player base has no interest in and until they understand this, they will continue to…