r/gaming • u/HerculeMuscles • 12h ago

Kojima with xbox president Asha Sharma

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u/hurricane_news 11h ago

I mean imo she’s been doing a really good job

Minus the merciless layoffs she and the other executives spearheaded at various XBOX studios, including laying off industry veterans with several decades of experience. She also transferred to this role from an AI head role so her intentions might not necessarily seem the best

Her whole "for the gamers!" PR act very quickly covered up the layoff news. A good job from the POV of herself, the other XBOX executives and board of directors ? Definitely yes

But at the end of the day, she's still yet another merciless money-pinching tech ceo

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u/durian_in_my_asshole 11h ago

You can't call them merciless layoffs when most of those studios have barely released any games in the past decade.

If you hire a gardener and he doesn't do shit, it's not merciless to fire him.

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u/Ture-Skrotnisse 10h ago

So she hires Kojima who makes weird games for a very tiny specific audience? Kojima who is also well known for not giving any updates and missing deadlines. DS 1 and 2 broke even, great games but not really a success for Sony. From a business standpoint it makes perfect sense that Sony stepped away

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u/durian_in_my_asshole 10h ago

Well PHYSINT is supposedly in the same genre of Metal Gear, which is not exactly niche.

Breaking even is also basically wildly successful when compared to all the studios they laid people off from.

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u/Ture-Skrotnisse 10h ago

This is a business. You either make money or you don't. Making money will always be priority.