I just talked to an executive at a very smart tech company that decided not to lay off their entire talent staff during the tech recession, but instead to re-train them to do other critical tasks.  This way, they get people who know the company doing important stuff, and the talent staff will be in place to snatch the…

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

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100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Over 6000 layoffs in the video game industry, but how many people have been laid off in the Tech Industry altogether from 2023-present? The fact that companies can just throw their workers away while claiming record profits is ugly capitalism at its finest, but the sheer unchecked accountability for companies to…

“Spider-people. Las Aranias. Ever heard of Las Aranias?”
*cat meows*
“Me neither”.

Maybe now we can say that Meritocracy is the biggest lie of humanty...

At this point I assume these movies must be some sort of producers level money grab.   Or whatever licensing agreement Sony has with Marvel requires releases constantly and they are just forced to put any script they have into production.

I have to pretty much agree with your take. I held out and didn’t get a PS5 until Spider-Man 2 came out and while the game is phenomenal, the improvements over the PS4 Spider-Man are pretty minimal. Particularly if you play it on performance mode. In quality mode you definitely do get some improved visuals, but it’s…

I think it surprising most people because for well over the first two years of this things existence it was so hard to get. And many people, such as myself, have barely had their PS5 for a year and there has truly been very few games that are pure PS5 games.  Sure it’s been out for almost 4 years but it definitely…

I find it odd how this surprises people.

Man, I have a few games on the PS5 (like 5?) but honestly feel like there’s been so little I care about on it. I feel like at this rate I’m going to end up owning fewer PS5 games than Wii U games. I think it’s the first console I might regret buying. I hope KH4 at least comes out on it.

Yeah, I don’t feel like developers are doing anything that demands a new console. If anything, I could see some “slim” versions of a PS5 and just keeping this console around a while. There’s nothing that seems like it’s heads and shoulders above what you could do with a PS4 other than just using some prettier…

I’m imagining next-gen will be a lot like this gen, a small handful of actual exclusives, and lots of PS4 and PS5 games at better frame rates and resolutions, aka mostly mid with a couple of bright spots. 

Yeah, by the end of the PS4's life, games were really taking a long time to load, for one thing. I remember something like 2-3 minute load times for Control. PS5 isn’t struggling with a single thing I’ve seen.

What would they even do for a new console? I imagine it’s gonna feel like PS5.5, at best. Like, come on, man. I just got mine last February. Let’s get some more Sony stuff in the pipe.

Totally agree.  I’ve only played 1 PS5 game which was a new release and not an upgrade from the PS4 version I already owned.

Yeah it feels like the majority of titles on the PS5 are just ports from the PS4, I feel like Sony really sat on their ass the last 3 years when it came to first party games

Man, my PS5 still feels like a newish addition to my console collection. I have no desire for an upgrade. It doesn't even feel like games are pushing it to its limits yet.

I’m confused. I have yet to see more than a handful of truly next gen games. It feels like we barely have enough legitimate next-gen titles to launch a console with. Unless the PS6 comes with something truly unbelievable I’m probably going to hold out until the “pro” variant comes out and stick with PC gaming in the…