Blessed Red

Piracy is a service based problem as Gabe Newell always said. Games like Cyberpunk are so easy to pirate as the game literally requires 0 DRM. You could download the game to a thumb drive and give it to anyone. The game still sold millions on PC. More than the consoles combined.

When PS5 Emulation hits… imma be all digital too… 😈😈😈🤣🤣🤣

Facts, but honestly, worse than Nintendo.

Facts

I think I'm gonna start using KovaaK to aim train a bit. Trying to get even better at Marvel Rivals and other shooters.

@JackmoveJohnny Emulation always gets a bad rap even if ppl bought the game for the emulator lol But I get what you're getting at

I fully advocate any emulation, hacking, and pirating going forward to Sony. I used to be against it because I believe in supporting the things you enjoy but fuck em. I didn't want trophies compromised but Sony don't respect them so 🤷🏾‍♂️

Sony is in FULL PANIC MODE right now A Discord user named RSantila has reportedly managed to boot Astro Bot on PC using SharpEmu, a PS5 emulator for Windows PC. Astro Bot is a 2024 PS5 exclusive, so seeing it even boot on a PC is a HUGE!!! PS5 emulation development is moving CRAZY fast.

Killzone 2 is dropping today... Playable enhanced at 4K 60FPS! With other quality of life features like enhanced FoV! Not only this but Online has been revived and is completely functional and crossplay! Servers are populated and have a private server you can join for weekend events! Stay tuned!

@JMaine518 @FSAPOJake Yeah Sony are dumb so they probably won't but PC gamers will enjoy it.

@FSAPOJake @_BlessedRed If they smart they would but that’s asking for a lot these days.

This could be console gamers Counter-Strike moment.

@FSAPOJake @JMaine518 Exactly

@JMaine518 @_BlessedRed Counter-Strike started as a Half-Life mod before Valve decided to buy it out and make it a full game. Sony and Naughty Dog would never ever do something like that.

Someone made Counter-Strike for women ☠️

Xbox was being subsidized like the WNBA LMFAOOO

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Marvel Rivals season 9 is the definition of power creep and I love it.

The Marvel Rivals Season 9 will revive faith in humanity

This is outstanding

Honestly after everything is said and done, PC will probably be the only platform left where you actually get to own your games and not have to worry about not being able to access delisted games. Its the future. 1. Best backwards compatibility 2. Paid DRM free games 3. Piracy

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX: Team, We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale. I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication. Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX. First, we will reset our content portfolio. Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision. Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options. We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions. In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX. Second, we will reset our platform. We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify. We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend. Third, we are resetting how we operate. As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done. For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results. Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best. These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates. I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027. History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them. Asha

@Wario64 Microsoft and Sony in a "make shitty decisions" competition: