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randomaside, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales
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In the modern game industry, you get hit with layoffs even if you do well so it doesn’t really matter what the quality of your product is in the end… You still get laid off.

JusticeForPorygon, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales
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Gotta love seeing the people who simply did what they were told being punished for their bosses’ mistakes

Exusia, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales
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indulged in. When a company does not lay off people from the upper tier, they are indulging in layoffs.

“Hit with” implies an unavoidable, tragic, and forced event. They knew this would happen months ago when KTJL face planted. Videogame companies complain about the “cost of making games” but they’re the fucks what spent the money. Maybe spend less on your marketing and budget, and when a game doesn’t sell well it isn’t a cataclysmic event that sinks the whole company.

But really, if game companies weren’t constantly at risk to have implosions from bad decisions, the board wouldn’t get their “please don’t leave us” money. So really this always comes back to - fuck the management, and the board. Videogames are treated as products so here we are.

HubertManne, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales

I heard they were going under and going to reform under an studio called bebop.

HorreC, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales

Cant wait to see how many C level people get canned!! wait… none, you mean the directors that forced that BS to be this way wont even get tossed out…

radix,
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How dare my meddling not work out, you’re all fired!

UnsavoryMollusk, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales

Paying for the suit shortsighteness I guess.

Silverseren, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales

I mean, even if it had done well, I feel like they would still be laying people off anyways, just to pad out their end of year revenue presentations.

Exusia,
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Every time. Seems more like companies aren’t “hit with” them at all, more like… They “get to participate” or “decide to indulge” in layoffs.

Silverseren,

Yeah, "hit with" has always been bizarre passive voice wording. The executives in charge were the ones who actively decided to lay off people.

day_trippin_, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales
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At this point who isn’t laying off employees?

MeatsOfRage,

Headlines might as well just be “Ubisoft Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to 🤷”

JusticeForPorygon,
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Well Star Wars Outlaws just released so you might be onto something

caut_R, do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales

Big publishers might as well tell studios to end themselves when they‘re handing out these kinda projects, set up for failure IMO

hal_5700X, (edited ) do games w Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales

You can see this coming from an mile away.

Pxtl, do gaming w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth
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I honestly don’t get what they’re thinking. They make phones. They making gaming equipment. Why don’t they integrate those together like they did with the Xperia Play? I don’t necessarily mean taking another kick at that can (but yes, they should take another kick at that can) but why not work with what they’re good at? Like they work with Backbone to make a Playstation branded version of it – but it runs on iPhones only!

It seems so obvious - make an Xperia/PSP branded gaming-grade phone, offer a first-party Backbone-like controller, sell a Playstation Portal screen-and-wifi-only device that also docks into that Backbone-like controller, etc. The only real problem is Google’s monopolistic rules against letting hardware companies offer alternate stores on PlayStore-based devices, or they could have a Playstation Android Store focused on gamepad-based games that are specifically targeting their gaming Android devices.

Bring back PSP as an Sony+Android gaming brand.

DarkThoughts, do gaming w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth

Who is the target audience for this thing? I really don't see the market for it.

Gordon_Freeman,
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Who is the target audience for this thing?

Clueless parents

TwilightVulpine,

"There you go son, the Nintendo Plaything that you wanted! "

Karak,

That is a great argument for knock-off movies and shitty licensed games because they're cheap. You'd have to be living a pretty comfortable life to cluelessly buy a console.

nevernevermore, do gaming w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth

I actually likely would have bought this if it had bluetooth. remote play on my laptop is cumbersome if im sitting on the couch, but if I can't use my airpods then I'm out. i've got some sennheisers I could use with the 3.5mm jack but over ear headphones get uncomfortable quickly to me.

money_loo, do gaming w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth

Well Bluetooth would likely add a bit more latency, so that makes sense when you think about it.

At least it has a headphone jack.

stopthatgirl7, do gaming w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth
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They’ve intentionally left out everything that could expand the potential user base for this. It’s like Sony wants it to be as niche as possible.

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