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Of course you were. It's common sense really and it's time for those with the history, natural growths, "Sony will never just purchase a random company" to eat crow in the morning, middle of the day and evening for a week.
For what it's worth , it's absolutely not random. It's a smart purchase that makes sense.
It's just that - context always matters.
Like if Sony one day acquires a big studio with major talent/IP/pedigree, that would not be random too. That would be an acquisition made because of their non-first party partnership history that they proved themselves.
The main takeaway is that PR gonna PR, and never assume what they say in these interviews to be what they deeply truly believe deep down in their hearts, especially when it's about business.
Welp, chalk this one up as an example of a PlayStation executive saying something in an interview and then proceeding to do the exact opposite. With that said, if the objective is PC ports, then Nixxes is a top tier get.
I mean of course, but what people meant with random are purchases of a company they according to the resetera user never had a history with.
I am not against the purchase. I am just making fun of those people that mental gymnastics their favorite company into a higher moral ground for acquisitions.
Just a note, editing the thread title to include "Sony" or "PS" might be a good idea. I had no idea who Hermen Hulst is or what company he worked for.
Really going out a limb to predict that "execs just say what sounds good in the moment" :P
I'm gonna need Jim or Herman to say in an interview that "there's no way we are bringing back Legend of Dragoon."
Yup. Herman should have just stopped at "we're making targeted acquisitions."
Some of those same users complain about possible job loss with other acquisitions while also ignoring their favorite company shutting down a studio this year...
Anyways both studios seem like very good acquisitions. Makes sense to me, but then again I don't have a big issue with acquisitions to begin.
Exactly and that annoys me. It's not about Sony, Microsoft or whatever. It's about the arguments and how they are used for one, but not for the other.
Wait how is this purchase even worth being criticized for? Or am I misreading? They're just a company that ports games to PC? How is that anyway similar to companies that create actual unique games like Insomniac or Bethesda? It just looks like a company that will help provide PS exclusives to the PC?
no one is criticizing the purchase, they are pointing out the hypocrisy.
It's not hypocrisy, some of y'all just really want it to be. Like that Jim Ryan quote.
Where's the hypocrisy? They're a Netherlands company which is where Herman Hulst is from. Wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that he knows them pretty closely, no? Since they port to PC, it makes sense you didn't see much activity from them for Playstation since it's only recently Sony started making their games available to PC.
You all never visited acquisition threads in the last year or so?
I will quote a post I made regarding my thoughts on Hermen's quote on this. Don't think it means what most people seem to think it does
People are way too obsessed about PR especially when people think that was about throwing shade at MS.
The response was like, factory designed to not be inflammatory towards MS at all too lol
i mean if the hypocrisy claim is against the users on era,
that very well might be true. not really following back and forth of people here.
i see nothing contradictory with the quote at title.
How is it hypocrisy? How does purchasing a few small studios negates 'organic growth'? Organic growth means that their workforce is growing at a steady pace relative to their prior successes instead of exponentially expanding. More importantly, studios like Housemarque and Bluepoint work almost exclusively for PlayStation already, so comparing them to huge multiplatform publishers/studios (that in some cases were more popular on competitive platforms than their new owners) is absurd.
It's not out of the realm of possibility many in the industry know each other very close. Many have said already they are like a family. They visit at devs conferences and all that. They eat together at E3, including Sony and Xbox guys eating together.... on that note MS and Sony created the HDR group and work together on a daily basis.
So if Sony, Nintendo, Xbox make a bid today for EA, Ubisoft, IO, Remedy , ... and get them, then your argument applies. Your argument would even apply for Sony buying Xbox or vice versa.
And that's were the hypocrisy comes in, because it's used to defend acquisition A and not acquisition B by some.
I think the user was talking about resetera users yes.
What's the hypocrisy? I think it's more likely that the gaming public knows dogshit about the relationships between the various entities in the industry or how a company approaches an acquisition. Just because it's an acquisition that the dumbfuck gamers didn't expect doesn't mean it wasn't a targeted one done for very specific reasons.
Just on the surface, Nixxes is a leading DUTCH developer. Hmmm I wonder if Playstation has any connections to the Dutch-development scene that would lead to this. I WONDER IF THEY OWN ANY STUDIOS OR HAVE ANY EXECUTIVES THAT WOULD GIVE THEM SOME SORT OF RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DUTCH DEVELOPMENT SCENE
probs not, definitely just random.
Excuse me sir, but, Phil, Jim, Aaron, Shuhei, Bill, and, Doug are all of our friends who always think of us, the gamers, first.
then it makes more sense i guess, because this quote actually applies to bethesda purchase as well word for word. lol
Hey guys did you know ResetEra users are hypocritical fanboys!?!? Yeah me neither. Lets talk about it.
User Warned: Trolling, Meta-commentary
Shall I quote users from the past thread? I don't think that's allowed.
What hypocrisy?
Sony has had a multi decade approach to how they approach the growth of their internal studios. Bringing aboard a team that is largely going to function as a port team or technical support for 1st and 2nd party projects is hypocritical how exactly?
If Sony deemed that they needed additional talent especially in the PC space, what should they do? Form a decade long partnership and then get into talks about an acquisition?
I think the user was criticizing some resetera users and not Hulst or Sony.
I knew exactly what the tone would be when I saw this got bumped. Some of you a real petty lol Christ. Go play videogames or something instead of letting company executives live rent free in your heads.
They aren't talking about Sony hypocrisy. They are talking about ResetEra users Hypocrisy. Because apparently that's important.