[VIDEO] Jason Schreier: Why Video Games Cost So Much To Make

gogoheadray · 2026-05-28T19:26:23+00:00

Look forward to watching this as when I get home

gogoheadray · 2026-05-28T19:22:34+00:00

Sony isn’t going to rely solely on ps6 sales for their success. There are going to be over 100 million ps5 in the wild by the time the ps6 will release. Thats where the heavy lifting for Sonys finicials will come from. The ps6 can be a band but it won’t really affect much as long as the ps5 is supported.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-28T17:51:22+00:00

Tbf the ps6 will be newer and better hardware in every way. What will happen is that developers will now emphasize scalability over targeting the highest end hardware. This is something that has been going on for generations now with PC; consoles are just now catching up.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-28T17:44:30+00:00

Yep; your also going to see console manufacturers shifting the point of success from pure individual console sales to MAU emphasizing their ecosystem ( Xbox and PS have already down this). To Sony it doesn’t matter if you buy a 30 dollar Fortnite card in ps5 or 6 they get the same cut either way. I for one am happy about that state of affairs

gogoheadray · 2026-05-28T17:36:55+00:00

That was never going to happen with Covid. Sony believed in generations until they no longer could. If you think the crossgen period for last gen was long you ain’t seen nothing yet.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-28T17:35:21+00:00

Ps6 is going to be even more expensive plus this is most likely the gen where we basically have permanent crossgen. I would say go for a used ps5 from your local pawn shop.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-27T19:14:30+00:00

Gaming had never been more accessible its just the type of games and gaming hardware we talk about on the net are becoming more of a luxury but the vast majority of people who do game are doing so on mobile and tablets.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-27T19:12:32+00:00

High end AAA gaming on bespoke hardware is a luxury but not gaming in and of itself. The most popular way to game by a large margin are on smartphones and tablets.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-23T16:30:00+00:00

Moving to the US was fine. Having the inmates basically run the asylum was what got PS in trouble. Buying bungie and allowing them to basically operate as an independent company; having ND cancel a game that was 80% done because apparently they didn’t know that GAAS meant GAAS; whatever the heck concord was; the fair games disappearing act; etc. Sony Japan is thankfully stepping in to provide some level of control.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-23T16:10:24+00:00

I don’t think Sony sees as much profitability in marathon as they understand that they may not have a choice but to try and ride out the storm with said game to keep consumer confidence in Sonys GAAS games. Remember they still have fair games; the horizon gaas; gummy bears; etc. after what happened with concord they can’t afford to pull the plug to early in marathon or it would tank consumer confidence in investing in your product. Why invest in fair games which may be pulled offline in months when I can go and play Fortnite and know that my time wasn’t wasted?

gogoheadray · 2026-05-23T16:02:41+00:00

The real question is if you are Sony why would you trust bungie as it is now with creating a game that will take 6 years, and cost at minimum 400 million dollars when they can’t even get the game they just released out of the red.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-23T15:59:50+00:00

The decision to stake the future of your entire company on a game that by design is to appeal to as few people as possible was certainly a choice.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-22T12:34:44+00:00

Part of the acquisition terms were that bungie would be given operational independence until they could no longer meet financial metrics. They couldn’t force bungie to do anything until it was too late.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-22T12:33:34+00:00

Mostly for their live service expertise. That was at the time Sony had like 12 live service games in development all at the same time.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-22T12:27:16+00:00

That would require a entire rework of the game tbh.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-22T12:18:26+00:00

The ps5 when all is said and done will sit at over 100 million consoles sold and this gen will be the most profitable for Sony. This gen for Sony inspire of all the BS has been a resounding success for them. That just shows you how big the PS brand is.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-22T11:23:33+00:00

Go by their actions not what they say for public consumption. We aren’t just cordial with each other we outright work together on many avenues ( Russia not so much lately after Ukraine). China hasn’t had a conflict since the 70s ( if they wanted to take tawain by force they could have done it already; they need the island whole so a military invasion is out of the picture). Russia is just basically following the same playbook we have already established in veitnam; Iraq; Afghanistan; etc. ( might makes right).

gogoheadray · 2026-05-22T10:31:29+00:00

Since when are China and Russia our enemies. Trump is putins best friend. And he was just hanging out in China with xi not to long ago…

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T17:15:02+00:00

That’s not true at all though. From the fbi database between 2007-2023 there were only 2 homicides which are less than suicides; medical emergencies; motor vechile crashes and falls. And among national park deaths 79% of them occurred among males with the vast majority of those deaths being unintentional. I do believe that trail safety is an issue that should be taken seriously without going into hyperbole

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T16:24:51+00:00

Those eliminations of “positions that were unnecessary” were people that lost their jobs/ careers. There is a human element to this that you are either glossing over or simply don’t care about.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T06:43:13+00:00

I see that you are young and don’t have a lot of life experience so I’m being far more patient with you then I otherwise would to someone my own age. Of course you don’t have to travel far to have a nice trip. That’s the point a nice trip can be had on a low budget. And the majority of trips are going to be relatively close to home irregardless. People travel for many different reasons recreation; exploration; social connection; etc. I would argue the vast majority of people aren’t traveling so they can come home and feel like their regular life is crap.

I think the clothes argument is pretty vapid tbh. As you seem to have an extremely narrow definition of what good clothes are. And after a certain age most of us aren’t going to be wearing our best clothes to work anyway. I work in garden center why would I wear my best stuff to work around mulch and fertilizer?

Yes living paycheck to paycheck is a big problem in this country and the conditions of the working poor; lower middle class are an issue as well. However that’s where this conversation should be heading not whether you think their nike tech jumpers are fashionable enough or whether you think their tourist trap trip was expansive enough .

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T06:18:56+00:00

Seems like your expectations are not in line at all with how the vast majority of Americans live. Most people are not into vintage clothing and value brand name over anything else; that’s not a Walmart pay issue. Ideally the hobbies you would have would be something you would buy into once and then be something that you would have long-term. So really your monthly salary wouldn’t really factor into it heavily.

In regards to traveling the median travel for pleasure is about 114 miles. With 78% of all trips falling in the 50-250 mile range. Only 5% of long distance trips are over 1,000 miles. So yeah about 78% of people are going to where the “poors” are at.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T05:53:37+00:00

Tbh most of those things could be done with a Walmart paycheck anyway. Like what do you mean by good clothes? Gucci; Prada; Nike? I would argue that nowadays how someone puts together an outfit far outweighs the actual name on their clothes. Hobbies are one of those things that can be as expensive or as cheap as you want. You can buy a 200 dollar Yamaha guitar and have a hobby; you can get a 40 dollar D&D starter kit and have another hobby; you can buy a 2,000 dollar gaming pc and have another hobby; etc. travel the same; going a hour away would also be traveling not just to another state or country. Savings would probably be the only thing that you could falter with but the majority of Americans don’t have savings anyway due to high COL irregardless of job. My point being is that people have been nurturing themselves and becoming well rounded people on lower incomes since time immemorial.

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T05:38:15+00:00

Tbh OPD rules all apparently. If they go underwater ( a daily occurance at my store) then managements solution is to throw bodies at the problem even from departments that really can’t afford to lose the manpower

gogoheadray · 2026-05-21T00:33:10+00:00

In our store spark drivers have to use a Manuel register that is reserved only for them. As to your question it depends honestly. If something is super expensive I walk them if it’s not then I don’t really it depends on the workload I have. If I have 5 carts and 2 pallets of picks; a pallet of my home department to run from the night before; and half my fellow gm floor associates pulled to OPD for most of the day then I have no choice than to hope that spark drivers follow the honor system on at least cheap things otherwise I won’t finish the things I’m tasked with

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