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[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tencent Games strategic advisor Shawn Layden ...

Non-endemic companies such as Google and Amazon are among the biggest threats to the games industry.

That's according to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, who shared his thoughts on the future of games during the keynote at last week's GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit in Seattle.

The irony is palpable throughout this entire article.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 9 points 1 year ago

Even ignoring he's now working for freaking Tencent, how far are we supposed to go? Even his former company Sony was technically "non-endemic" for video games before the 90s. So was Microsoft.

Nintendo was selling playing cards long before video games, and Namco was building mall coin-op rides before arcade machines. Though I guess those two and Sony were at least in the entertainment business. But in any case they weren't created as video game companies (of course given when they were created, they couldn't).

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

They only feel it would be dangerous because they have the capital to drain talents to do experimental things while not care about the fall outs of closing subsidiaries or abandoning projects. It could also drive up developer cost and make the business more risky.(IMO, the developers are getting paid in peanuts compare to what the big publishers made. Even after considering flopped projects.)

The danger lies in once people get used to the new payscale, if big capital consider it's not that profitable, then the better talents may not keep staying or heading toward this industry. Also less loan/venture awarded to companies doing projects not passing the "market research" phase.

Yes, and lastly Tencents also don't like competitions bidding their potential acquisition targets.

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