Sony's CEO caught selling more than half his stocks of the company

[extermist]

Your entire premise is based on the "industry" being dependent on "new hardware"

The whole hardware side of it is stalled out already, prices have skyrocketed and won't stabilize for years. So developers will scale down their performance targets to hit the older consoles and lower specs people already have. Online platforms won't go away, and they will scale up with higher demand.

Old hardware isn't going away.


The crash hysteria happening now is coming from long term repeated AAA budget failures being protected from consequences. Now the big publishers are being gauntlet-snapped. All the insufferable developers that burned money and made garbage nobody wanted to buy, or even install and play for free, will be laid off.

If they are talented and motivated, they will move on to favourable regions or cities with tax incentives, create independent studios, and start churning up a skilled scene around them. That's the way it always was.

i think you miss understood my premise.

This isn't about new hardware, the reason for the old crash was due to market over satutation, while this current climate threatens consumer rights and ownership.
I hear you loud and clear, AAA is absolute abysmal dog shit, but people do actually like that. I don't agree with it, but the general audience can't get enough of dog shit.
Sony and their shit eating grin didn't come up with these things over night, people supported PSN+, bought the PS5, continue to play live service games, continue to gush over hype + controversy, continue to consume cinematic games, etc.
Customers are just as to blame for these companies coming to these conclusions.

The reason I bring up the need for a company to step in like nintedo did is to salvage good will, because an industry needs that.
The big 3 of today have soild their good will to the point that they should not be trusted afterwards.
Even if sony were to back down and continue supporting physical and improve their policy, people should still boycot them.
If they can stab you in the back once, they can do it again. Same goes for nintendo and microsoft.

The reason I bring up the price hike for pc is because this industry, and technology at large;
only knows how to move forward.
When has the industry ever slowed down?
When has it ever stagnated or gone backwards?
Indie isn't going to carry everything on it's back.
Square, Capcom, Bethesda, etc. aren't going to keep working with outdated tech.
Even if hardware becomes too expensive, studios and companies will continue down this path, there has to be some steps forward, it's how the industry was born and it's all it knows to do.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I see it as a very easy system to corrupt, to subvert. I'm more on the camp that a communalistic social structure would overall be better. Something that focused on the whole, instead of the individual, that doesn't elevate flawed individuals to living gods, creating pockets of hell.

As how countless times it already failed and never will work ?
Or can we already play the " tRuE sOcIaLiSm/cOmUnIsM WaSnT eVeR ArChIeVeD ! " -card that is so outplayed , it becomes a sad joke ?

Capitalism cant be flawless but thats why we vote with our wallet to go against deals and shady offers . And trading from human-being to human-being isnt just a system , it builds our societies and connects nations as a human right and a diplomatic way that avoids wars if the trade is trustworthy and valuable from both sides . Putting laws and rules that undermine a fair trade creates a system that doesnt work . And often are socialistic laws the problem why capitalism becomes so easily corruptable because the goverment put their nose inbetween and squeeze money out which shouldnt interfere in a peaceful trade in a first place . And too many laws towards capitalism ruins the economy and will never archieve the best potential for the market to work smoothly . Countless times its seen and still we refuse to learn .

Nothing against you personally but i despise marxistic worldviews and bolshevism to its core . And talking about politics aint my cup of tea lately .

I leave that topic at this point because it gets political now and i said what i wanted .

Its either a "take it or leave it" kind of thing .

 

[Kovlak]

As how countless times it already failed and never will work ?
Or can we already play the " tRuE sOcIaLiSm/cOmUnIsM WaSnT eVeR ArChIeVeD ! " -card that is so outplayed , it becomes a sad joke ?

I'd say capitalism will take an inordinate amount of time to work because self-interest is incentivated and in major issues it will work constructively generally only after all other avenues are exhausted, and, like with climate warming, it may never happen, descending into denial, lunacy, corruption and chaos - anomie.

Other forms of economical governance besides capitalism have been undermined by very powerful lobbies and countries like the US, USSR, Russia and China. So we're left with this broken system that doesn't work almost since the time democracy was established in classic Greece, which was corrupted and managed by Persia by rilling and setting up city-state against city-state by bribing.

In a capitalistic system, in my opinion, self-interest will prevail and eventually spells disaster. I'm not going to discuss with you anymore. I don't believe in capitalism. I prefer new commune-based social approaches centered in common good. Not reashing that which it has been proven to death at this point it doesn't work and is destroying our civilization and causing a regretful new mass extinction, maybe even of ourselves.

Like Dan Raffety, co-founder of the music festival Shambala that recently transitioned to employee ownership, said:

“It is patently clear that the current capitalist model is fundamentally broken. As a society we must explore alternative models of ownership(...)."

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I'd say capitalism will take an inordinate amount of time to work because self-interest is incentivated and in major issues it will work constructively generally only after all other avenues are exhausted, and, like with climate warming, it may never happen, descending into denial, lunacy, corruption and chaos - anomie.

Other forms of economical governance besides capitalism have been undermined by very powerful lobbies and countries like the US, USSR, Russia and China. So we're left with this broken system that doesn't work almost since the time democracy was established in classic Greece, which was corrupted and managed by Persia by rilling and setting up city-state against city-state by bribing.

In a capitalistic system, in my opinion, self-interest will prevail and eventually spells disaster. I'm not going to discuss with you anymore. I don't believe in capitalism. I prefer new commune-based social approaches centered in common good. Not reashing that which it has been proven to death at this point it doesn't work and is destroying our civilization and causing a regretful new mass extinction, maybe even of ourselves.

Like Dan Raffety, co-founder of the music festival Shambala that recently transitioned to employee ownership, said:

“It is patently clear that the current capitalist model is fundamentally broken. As a society we must explore alternative models of ownership(...)."

With all due respect . I just disagree and dont wanna talk this further out . This forum isnt about politics and i went too far with this topic already .

Thank you and have a nice one .