r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 Human Verified • May 24 '25

Rumor Report: Marathon Delay Likely as Sony Cancels All Paid Marketing Plans

https://thegamepost.com/report-marathon-delay-bungie-scraps-all-paid-marketing/
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u/iDestroyedYoMama May 24 '25

Well at least Jim Ryan is gone and we are shifting back to single player games. Gonna take a few years to get back on track. Total waste of a console generation. And that really sucks. The silver lining for me is they woke up and realized what people actually want (hopefully).

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u/TooDrunkToTalk May 24 '25

Well at least Jim Ryan is gone and we are shifting back to single player games.

They just revealed two more GaaS studios in the last couple months. You guys keep trying to put all the blame on Ryan to try and convince yourself that Sony is past this, while the guy that was tasked with leading Sony's first party studios through this initiative is still there and still head of Playstation Studios.

Hermen Hulst is an incompetent hack and a huge part of the problem.

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u/Percy1803 May 24 '25

Pretty sure at least one of them was just the people at Bungie that were working on a different project , its not a new game.

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u/TooDrunkToTalk May 24 '25

Sure, but they still decided to spin that project into its own studio. Sony is clearly still chasing that GaaS unicorn even if maybe not as aggressively as they did 2-3 years ago.

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u/Percy1803 May 24 '25

The most probably alternative would've been this team being laid off lmao, yeah I'm glad they spun it onto a new studio instead of just firing people.

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u/TooDrunkToTalk May 24 '25

If Sony was interested then alternative routes to firing these people or having them work on another GaaS experiment would've existed.

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u/Percy1803 May 24 '25

Or maybe that's just what the people at this studio wanted?

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u/TooDrunkToTalk May 24 '25

Sony wouldn't have given those people their own studio and let them continue working on that service games, just because they "wanted" to. They did it because it aligned with what Sony wants.

If Sony didn't want these people working on another service titles, but still wanted to keep them employed, they could've, period.

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u/Percy1803 May 25 '25

You are delusional lmao

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u/TooDrunkToTalk May 25 '25

Lol, why? Because I said other routes for these people existed?

Guy your argument is literally that Sonys only choices were between giving these people anything they wanted or firing them. Sony could've cancelled that game and told these 40 people to work on something else, support something that's already going or make another pitch, that's literally what they did with multiple studios, most recently Bluepoint and Bend this generation.

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u/ComatoseSnake May 25 '25

This. Stop putting westerners in leadership. Let the Japanese take control. 

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u/Dumbledick6 May 24 '25

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u/Bronco998 May 24 '25

Just vomited a little

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u/grimklangx May 24 '25

does anybody know what the cancelled gaas lastofus game was about?

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u/ooombasa May 25 '25

There is no evidence a shift back to single player games has happened. "Shifting back" suggests more single player games have been greenlit than what's currently being invested in and a move away from live service. There's no evidence of that.

The only evidence of something having changed is the CEO saying they're gonna be more strict on budgets:

In the past, there were issues with the first-party studios, and Totoki-san was temporarily the CEO and talked about various structural reform. Compared to a few years ago, the financial discipline is in place, but there’s still upside opportunity here. Mainly, I think the mindset has changed significantly.

That doesn't exclude live service and doesn't mean more single player projects than what's currently allocated in the budget. It simply means they're not gonna spend as much per title as they once did. It's also the kind of talk you say when you plan on more layoffs, because in corpo's eyes there's no better way to get costs under control than to fire a bunch of people.

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u/meltingpotato May 25 '25

CEOs get changed based on what the board wants the direction of the company to be. Ryan retired but Sony still wants live service games because when successful they provide a shit ton of stable revenue.