@
fjtorres5591:
it is fashionable to hit on a GAFAM, many play on this primary hatred of GAFAM, without thinking for a single second that Xbox does much more for the video game industry by offering a wide diversity of games, new ips, push the dynamism of independent studios.
Conversely, PlayStation offers many remakes or sequels, very little freshness, and Multiple publishers complain about the struggles of indie games to get noticed on its platforms, restrictions on sales, paid dev kits (xbox dev kits are free). Playstation takes advantage of their monopoly to charge dearly for the entry ticket for developers.
I'm not even talking about anti-xbox measures, which go beyond exclusivity contracts, anti-competitive measures. This is what is hurting the video game industry, and PlayStation is partly responsible for the current situation in the industry.
On the layoffs, I have the impression that once again the media have talked a lot more about the closure of the 3 Xbox studios, a large part of whose employees have been transferred to other Xbox studios. Studios that were doing poorly before the takeover and to whom Xbox gave the chance to turn things around. They did not seize the opportunity and Xbox had to make profitability choices.
Playstation has had grotesque management by Bungie who has never stopped debauching. Playstation cut 8% of their payroll (900 employees), closed studios like London Studio, layoffs at nauthty dogs, insomniac, etc.. it is ultimately much more in volume and percentage than Xbox which at the same time opened new studios (eg: Playground Games opens up 3rd studio to help with Fable) and Xbox continued to hire.
Again, someone who doesn't follow the news well will have the impression that Xbox has cut a lot of jobs even though it's relatively few compared to the industry as a whole and compared to others. studios like embracer, epic games, EA, playstation, etc...
But strangely, the console war makes it much more interesting to talk bad about XBOX than other studios or PlayStation. The community of anti-xbox trolls is very present, and more active than the anti-playstation trolls (there are also some but much less). I'm always surprised to see Xbox sites or Xbox YouTube channels being invaded by anti-xbox trolls. On the other hand, on PlayStation sites, this is much less the case, the opposite is rarer.
That doesn't mean that it remains a very small minority compared to all the players and it's not them who will change the course of things.
Personally I proefer the mentality of the Xbox management which seems to have a healthier vision of the industry which is in the interest of the players (without forgetting of course being profitable) than the strategic vision of playstation which always seeks more to try to milking players with a pricing and monetization policy that is not healthy.
A lot of content that PlayStation offers for a fee is actually free on Xbox.
It's not being anti-PlayStation to say that, it's just facts, you just need to see their aggressive policy on the subject: and see the paid updates, the price of remakes, the price of their PS+ services which are very expensive compared to what the gamepass offer, agressive microtransactions, paid games which are in fact pay to win, etc. offer.
Even on hardware, the absence of backward compatibility of PSVR2 for example, the very limited backward compatibility of their consoles (and still PlayStation players can say thank you to Xbox that PlayStation have taken a small step in this direction). Their dominant position has caused great damage to the industry.
They are taking too much advantage of their dominant position in the console market at the expense of developers, players and overall at the expense of the game industry.