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New EP, Wknd Tapes 1. Listen and buy now directly from: emhbeats.bandcamp.com/album/wknd-tap…

@DevEthos @GiUpdates Got me scratching my brain 🧠🤔

Watch this and then watch the latest podcast episode that just dropped @GiUpdates

@anishmoonka @TheBlackHokage this is interesting 😬

Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no. The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone. Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025. Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded. Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything. Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game. The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place. Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'

@UTxJGTheDon You see what he said about it? 🥴 x.com/i/status/20437…

There's a reason why this man recently said he didn't think he was going to get into heaven. The signs are all there

@angelm4ck4y @ppppp1245688 Yes and they've worked together on every single one of Coogler's movies.

@ppppp1245688 Also didn’t Ludwig go to college with Ryan Coogler? I thought they went way back

Y'all have a view on who should participate in black art that has no root in reality or history. Many of the black projects, albums and tracks we love had a non-black person writing, managing, or collaborating alongside black creatives to make it happen. This isn't a problem.

@TheBlackHokage Man I just got into an argument with exactly who he's talking about. People just want to have a say so even if it's dumb and not based in actual experience of the game.

I’m crying. These devs have had enough with the grifting. They’re spinning on all their opps & I’m here for the entertainment 🤣

@UTxJGTheDon watch it be a line of AI-powered Xbox tvs...

7 seconds of nothing. Hopefully y'all have something to show sooner rather than later.

@TheBlackHokage Motion Man

2026 is going to be a very competitive year for game of the year nominations. Previewed another game today (don't ask me I ain't snitching) and all I can say is I left that event feeling very impressed. My wallet can't take it anymore 😅

@UTxJGTheDon This doing number$ 🤣

Idk if y'all noticed, but the Internet is letting the R word fly like we're back in the 2000s and early 2010s. Not sure why ppl are fighting so hard to bring it back, but here we are.

@abdool_moh @KDTrey5 Bro putting pool ball English on it 😭😭😭😭

@KDTrey5 This man said you are his mentor

U funky mfer…delete this bro…please???

@UTxJGTheDon 7 but Imma say what up to Rampage and Nina and go headphone mode immediately.

Yeah I'd rather miss my flight

@UTxJGTheDon W..T...F

Is this real life? The Astral 5090 has entered the chat, and the price tag is...astronomical. #Tech #PCGaming

@HomelessGurl That's...a lotta plot 😂

Blake convinced me to play Nikke for the plot. The plot to me:

“Curtiss King is a hater” No, I just refuse to lie to you to protect your feelings. This gentleman gets it.

The Black Hokage's friend Ethos BUSTED the fattest nut on stream

@natemixing Lindell EQ825

What's your favorite EQ for high end sheen?

@CurtissKing Got it looking like when you stand up too fast at our big age. 🤣

Lord knows it’s certain things I never need access to as a producer or I would surely go deaf.

@Siggyv AI waifu's off the table

I thought everyone hates Ai?

@BlackHokageClip Legendary stir fry right here

The Black Hokage responds to a FAILED "content creator" who said only men with low testosterone don't like sports video games

This whole "Expedition 33 isn't indie" argument shows that a lot of people don't understand how any of this works.

@Doomed_Sticky @eevelolxd @hyxkkimxru @hunter123d No, not really. Employees aren't the same as (independent) contractors. Y'all are on the internet, look it up. 😭

@eevelolxd @hyxkkimxru @hunter123d So if you contract someone, don’t they become an employee? What do they become then?

"I love indie games" mfs when an indie game wins game of the year and a ton of awards