Sony earnings: takes additional 500 million write down for Bungie

Consumer: Make good games

Sony: So what I am hearing is you want more live service monetization?

Consumer: Make good games!

Sony: Add more gays?

Consumer: *sigh* frick off

Honestly the issue with Bungie is their insane burn rate meaning cash burn

Outside of acta vision probably (who makes more than call of duty and big profits) Bungine likely burns the most cash rate than any other studio. They are a team of 1100 people in a suburb of Seattle. Minimum sallary of 100k then mid level guys at 150k director roles 200k

just guessing 750 are the low end 100k thats 75 million a tear
250 at the 150k thats 37.5
100 at 200k thats 20 million

So bungie burns like roughly lets say around 120 million yearly on staff and their benefits and stuff alone. Thats fricking insane. When you bring in things like servers cost, office space costs, and all that other shite the amount of cash they burn is so unoptimized and makes it nearly impossible to make profits. Even Destiny 2 eventually struggled to make profits eventually because bungies burn rate is so high the cost to make the content typically made even with some outliers that did well.

Marathon is dead. Sony based on this report likely gives them 90 days and thats it.

All of these companies are far too big and insisnt on operating in the most expensive places in the world. Western AAA needs to be gutted by like 50% of its staffs. Too many people eventually becomes a problem creatively as well. Currently its said they have 600 on marathon and 500 on destiny 2. both aare lucky to crack 10k concurrents

Expedition 33 was made for less than 10 million and last we knew sold 9 million copies thats like a 9x-10x return

Every time Bungie had an ownership change, people thought it was good. More cash, more developer resources, etc. Then when Bungie went to self-publishing, people thought Bungie could finally do what they wanted to do. And then Sony was supposed to save Bungie.

Turns out, Bungie just wanted to hemorrhage cash on ideas that never saw daylight while neglecting the IP that actually made money. It will be an interesting case study on mismanagement.

Bungie has been dead for over 15 years.

There's pretty much nothing I can say that hasn't been said 1,000x before about how badly Sony completely botched the PS5 generation.

The all-in gamble to live service games was a multi-billion dollar disaster and it's not even over, more 100% surefire mega-flpos are inbound.

The opportunity cost is what kills me the most. We probably could have had 10-15 insanely high quality single player games this generation that never existed because Sony decided chasing the live service dragon was their strategy.

Sony is lucky that Microsoft and Nintendo have been equally retarded the past decade as well. The state of the console landscape is bleak.

It's amazing how badly Sony has managed this generation, but even more so, how badly Microsoft has failed at a time when Sony so royally screwed up. For Microsoft to do even worse is unimaginable, yet here we are. It's crazy how much money these executives are paid and how badly they miscalculate and misinterpret their consumers.

Should we bump the Marathon Thread?

Stupid arse purchase by Sony.

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extraction shooter running a budget between 250-300 million dollars before

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Wonder how much of that was spent on the HUD?

The Master Chief isn't walking through that door anytime soon.