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mangamuscle
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The simple truth is that the game market is migrating to mobile phones, desktop/laptop sales are shrinking each year and I think consoles sales are on the same track.
Also, Sony became a media company when they bought movie studios and missed the chance to jump into the mobile market (they stopped inovating, gone are the days they created products like the walkman). So Sony will shrink (or maybe samsung will buy them as a trophy), the only reason microsoft is not doing the same is because this have this huge pile of cash kneaded in their days of glory |
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Rahxephon91
Posts: 1859 Location: Park Forest IL. |
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I mean can this guys raging fanboy boner against Sony be any more obvious.
Really? The PS1 and PS2 had a mostly shovelware library? Please. ANN can we put this guy to rest finally?
And all those games you don't like are bad and generic. God you are a joke. Last edited by Rahxephon91 on Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:06 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Phantom Roxas
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I was going to ask where that in any way hints at Toshiba's involvement, but fine, I guess I'll wait for you to enlighten me on your knowledge in Intellectual Property. Nintendo have gone on for a long time without doing much beyond having their games, surviving even Sega and Sony, and they have that whole "quality of life thing", but let me see if I got this right: Nintendo has enough assets to buy Sega. That would put their assets at, using your numbers, $12 billion. Or do they have to use that market cap if they want to buy out Sega? In which case, such a thing would be impossible. Oh, wait, hang on: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ntdoy http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sgamy Nintendo's market cap: $17.14B Sega Sammy's market cap: $5.15B Yeah, sorry, but if you're going to make a big deal about how Nintendo's market cap is bad, Sega's is less than a third of Nintendo's according to that. |
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Charred Knight
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Thats a whole lot of buts Final Fantasy VII would look great on the Nintendo 64 BUT since they used cartridges the game couldnt be made for the N64 because cartridges didn't allow for the multiple FMV it needed so Nintendo 64 lost a key partner to sony with Square making some of the best games for the console. Sure Dreamcast was a good machine BUT it just couldnt compete with Sony's brand superiority as Sony crushed everyone as the PS2 became the best selling console of all times. Lets be blunt why would Sega make a new console? The Wii U sales are terrible, Xbox One isnt doing so hot either, and the Japanese market is basically dead at this point as Japanese gaming has largely gone entirely mobile with no one really buying a dedicated gaming machine anymore. Sega's game output has been terrible over the years, their best games dont leave Japan anymore and Sonic's best days are still the Genesis. |
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GrilledEelHamatsu
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[EDIT: 2 reports received. Post deleted for over-quoting, and user placed on Moderation for soapboxing about Sega. Further posts will have to be monitored for continued soapboxing behavior. -TK]
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Buster D
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Not that anyone would know from the ANN report, but this news only affects Sony proper. These early retirements don't directly affect Sony Computer Entertainment, which is an entirely separate company.
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noblesse oblige
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This might be a stupid question, but why can't they just FIRE people to make the budget cuts? Why offer them early retirement at all?
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enurtsol
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J-companies don't like firing people for various reasons (if they don't like ya anymore, they'd just reassign ya to a pointless job with nothing to do until ya voluntarily quit). Plus early retirement keeps the harmony and some goodwill. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Too harsh and sudden, stuff like that shocks Japanese and it'd be some serious meiwaku/faux pas. Like the above poster said, if you won't leave, they'll demote you and humiliate you until you leave of your own accord. |
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noblesse oblige
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Hmmm...that's interesting. I knew there are some non-confrontational tendencies within that culture, but I had no idea it extended that deep. I'm curious how they get rid of foreign employees, since they probably don't have the requisite low tolerance for shame. I'm pretty sure most Americans would stick it out indefinitely as long as they keep drawing a paycheck. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Yeah, if you're not outright fired and you're just given menial or no tasks at all, that wouldn't be so bad. So I'm being disrespected, you're also paying me to nothing. That's like super-unemployment while you start looking and applying elsewhere. Or maybe they do just outright fire you because you're not Japanese and they know shame doesn't carry the same way. |
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noblesse oblige
Posts: 279 Location: Florida |
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This an interesting line of thought. The frustrating thing is that you could never get a Japanese business man to tell you how they would deal with firing a foreign employee, because it would be one of those "uncomfortable" things they just would never ever talk about. |
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mangamuscle
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Seems like I was wrong:
Microsoft to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/microsoft-said-to-announce-job-cuts-as-soon-as-this-week.html |
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