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[RoadHazard]

This guy is clueless. I could make more money for Sony than him.

I make more money sitting on the shitter than this game is going to make Sony.

(Because it's going to lose them money.)

 

[Danny22]

The reality is, as I've been saying for a long-ass time at this point, the rabidly woke and the rabidly anti-woke are basically the same idiot, just in different flavours.

They both obsessively ascribe total responsibility for every success or failure based on how it conforms (or not) with their world view, because ideologues are driven to see their worldview dominate.

The reality of Concord was that despite what the chuds want us to believe, it wasn't wokeness that killed it. It failed fundamentally because it had nothing new or exciting to offer apart from its woke stylings.

That's the teachable moment Hulst is expressing. And its way more valuable than one tribe pointing out how much they hate the other tribe!

Honestly, that so many people want to talk about how Sony should conduct their business despite not grasping this very obvious point is pretty embarrassing.

I call them people too much into American culture wars. The root cause of this stupidity is Murica.

 

[vpance]

HH KNOWS it was the woke and will get rid of that shit in the future. If there is one thing Hermen ain't, it's an ideologue.

How did you determine this fact

Looking back, Aloy was probably the first sign of the agendas creeping in at GG. And that was only 2017.

 

[Lunarorbit]

What an utter disaster Hulst has been for sie. They were known for their 1st party games and he completely lit the entire infrastructure on fire. All he does is chase bad money and trends.

Someone did the math on another thread and said Sony releases on average 1.5 games a year historically. They haven't done that this gen and also don't support indies and 2nd party deals like they used to. The cupboard is bare.

Xbox and sie traded places in terms of software production. Sony made several bad investments in studio acquisition. I never would have predicted 5 years ago that Xbox would be lapping Sony in games

 

[Karim]

What an utter disaster Hulst has been for sie. They were known for their 1st party games and he completely lit the entire infrastructure on fire. All he does is chase bad money and trends.

Someone did the math on another thread and said Sony releases on average 1.5 games a year historically. They haven't done that this gen and also don't support indies and 2nd party deals like they used to. The cupboard is bare.

Xbox and sie traded places in terms of software production. Sony made several bad investments in studio acquisition. I never would have predicted 5 years ago that Xbox would be lapping Sony in games

Because you couldn't know about Bethesda/Activision acquisitions at the time

 

[Wandering Leopard]

Nicely worded but I disagree, these types of games have, and will probably always be, high risk, high reward

 

[Bernardougf]

How did you determine this fact

Looking back, Aloy was probably the first sign of the agendas creeping in at GG. And that was only 2017.

Exactly.. horizon 2 has pretty woke/modern feminist tropes imo... he maneged all this situation about concord and the studio acquisition, under his tenure wokness crept in to all California studios...

If he is not woke he definitely dosent care about their studios employees wide spreading this ideas into offices and games.

 

[EN250]

HH KNOWS it was the woke and will get rid of that shit in the future. If there is one thing Hermen ain't, it's an ideologue.

Sure sure... anyone and their grandma knew Concord was unappealing as hell and it was like that because the awful characters which were created straight outta a diversity olympics

I know people here are bringing first descendant, but that game is too on the nose coomer bait, gamers do love T&A, but also love a reason to play games, not just staring at boobs like thirsty babies

Idk why diversity = bitchy dense strong independent fat women and sissy weak totally-not-gay men

They can make hot and sassy white/black/asian/latina women and actually strong and cool white/black/asian/latino men, they just refuse to

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

I read that and all that I heard in my head was

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

They can make hot and sassy white/black/asian/latina women and actually strong and cool white/black/asian/latino men, they just refuse to

Hard disagree with the "can" part. They can't. You need to be minimally cool or at least to have some kind of awareness of what cool is. These people are sick in the head, they can't make anything cool or funny, because they live in a clown reality.

There's nobody at PS Studios who can create another Nathan Drake even if they wanted.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Because you couldn't know about Bethesda/Activision acquisitions at the time

Oh no, even during the Activision sale I thought it was a hail mary from Xbox to remain relevant. Even as recently as when they closed tango gameworks everyone was stomping on Xboxs grave.

Hulst really pulled defeat from the jaws of victory. Shout out to Jim Ryan too

 

[Arsic]

Everything about this game played out damn near exactly as Lawbreakers did.

You'd think the industry would've learned from Cliffys giant studio blunder, but they quickly forgot.

Difference is lawbreakers was legit fun to play. This just was smooth but offered nothing special.

Speaking as someone who played both.

 

[TheAmazingSpiderMan]

Hopefully when Marathon launches and possibly follows the same fate as Concord this clown of a man gets fired.

 

[Rocinante618]

Standard corporate talk. GAF seems to think that his reply is for the gamers lol no he is saying this for shareholders. This whole interview is for them.

imo fairly good reply tbh. Nicely worded. Neutral and effective. Nothing controversial here to warrant such angst towards him.

I wouldn't mind Sony trying a live service (GaaS) title again provided they have learnt all the mistakes from multiple cancellations and a huge disaster ( Concord ).

 

[CityHunter1981]

How can the board still allow him to continue. It should be obvious to them at this point that he has no idea what players want and why Conchord failed. I don't like Phil, but he would do such a better job because he understands the situation at least partly.

So if Sony can't find a better replacement at least hire Phil, since he seems to get less and less to say at XBOX.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

Here's supposedly Emari's early concept vs her final design. IDK what motivated this sort of change, but it sure as fuck wasn't "our audience will like this design and want to play as this character"

maybe the final design was supposed to be funny and they just forgot to put in the fart sound for every step she takes

 

[semiconscious]

"I think some really good work, actually, went into that title, some really big effort. But ultimately that title entered into a hyper competitive segment of the market. I think it was insufficiently differentiated to be able to resonate with players.

wait! isn't this pretty much exactly what the dnc said about kamala harris losing the election?...

 

[Fbh]

Nah, they just tried to differentiate it in the lamest way possible, with ugly "atypical" characters and thinking anyone gives a shit about getting to see them in cutscenes.

"You know what this PVP shooter needs? Cutscenes" - Said no one ever.

Idk why diversity = bitchy dense strong independent fat women and sissy weak totally-not-gay men
They can make hot and sassy white/black/asian/latina women and actually strong and cool white/black/asian/latino men, they just refuse to

Because to the type of people that work at these studios diversity isn't just about having various races but about having "unique" and "atypical" characters.
They love going against what's expected and subverting expectations in a lame way, so it's about having stuff like "body positive" (aka fat) characters and "non traditionally beautiful" (aka ugly) characters.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

How can so many clueless people fall upward.

 

[Klosshufvud]

Hulst is a clueless ape. Hopefully Marathon will end his career.

 

[neocycle]

The woke nightmare of the games industry still isn't over.
EA hired Lisa "The Professor" Brown a few months ago.

 

[Bernardougf]

The woke nightmare of the games industry still isn't over.
EA hired Lisa "The Professor" Brown a few months ago.

This people will never learn.

 

[Fake]

maybe the final design was supposed to be funny and they just forgot to put in the fart sound for every step she takes

 

[Bernardougf]

I was just remembering ps3 gen, ND gave us uncharted 2/3 and TLOU... in one gen... and then... Cuckmania happened

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Ugh. They're never gonna learn from their mistakes if they refuse to acknowledge the problem with Concord. Everyone at SIE was too busy smelling their own farts to see how much that game was going to fail. It was clear to literally everyone outside of SIE. From the moment it was revealed it was essentially universally disliked. The game showed laughably bad. They deliberately chose to launch it anyway, against those headwinds, because they thought maybe it would still make money, and maybe enough desperate PS fans would buy it anyway. Thankfully, it didn't work.

They do not give a shit about any of us. It's literally just about the money. Concord showed that. Marathon will prove it again.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

There's a lot of Hope pinned on marathon going off the recent outlook and business presentation.

Hulst really needs it to be a winner.

 

[lh032]

i just want to say that, sony should stay away from woke as much as possible.

 

[MLSabre]

i just want to say that, sony should stay away from woke as much as possible.

Their HQ is in the US. Bit late on wishing for that.

 

[Hashassin]

Is "insufficiently differentiated" slang for absolute pile of diarrhoea barf?

 

[CLW]