If PC game sales are cannibalizing PS sales, then there is a higher cost to creating and selling a PC port than just porting the game.

And don’t be surprised when corporations stop producing for a platform when it no longer makes them money.

This could be them being smart about it. Compared to various Xbox models, the PlayStation models were generally custom designed to a specific set of hardware and software criteria that aren’t fully mirrored on Windows PC. It is a non-zero cost to convert and support.

There may be some individual success, but the aggregate may be a money losing proposition. At that point, why support a market that is only costing them money?

Corporate execs may not know what fun is, but they know what makes money. Right now, everything in the computer gaming market points to new games being more expensive than what the market will bear.

They probably see the PC market as too competitive to compete in and want to invest in technology which makes new games cheaper to make. So, Sony will abandon a market it can’t make money in and will invest in a technology which can hopefully churn out assets for their new games, which will lower development costs.

Steam’s records show that an overwhelming majority of playing time is going to older games. The market may not be large enough for Sony to care.

If it? What’s the market for new games on PC?

What is Meta even building any more?

This was standard operating procedure for Silicon Valley companies before COVID.

Patrick H Wiilems had an interesting video essay recently about the death of music videos, since there was a major pipeline from being a music video director to being a movie director.

This may be the first year where Hollywood starts treating YouTube video makers as a substitute pipeline for finding new talent.

Reading the article, it appears that Zuckerberg is trying to get his staff back operating like they are a startup with events like a hackathon. That his staff are no longer participating is indicating that they aren’t treating Meta like a startup any more.

It isn’t that Zuckerberg wants his staff to act like they are having fun, but to get back into a startup mentality where they will hopefully over perform and are instead treating it as a job where there isn’t an incentive to work harder.

Most major streamers tried to follow the Netflix model where they had enough for everyone in order to justify its subscription. It may be better if the major companies broke up their subscriptions so people can subscribe to far less content.

Teams isn’t made for the users.

They aren’t going to make the movie they should.

I’m not surprised. It is the reason why companies like SpaceX don’t want to be dual use if they don’t have to.

I still feel that software development isn’t in freefall because of AI, but because large companies have hit the point where they aren’t going to put resources into development unless it will immediately produce revenue.

What large software company is doing the development typical of the industry a decade ago?

Maybe not. After all, who is attending?

Or they’ll just stick with what they got.

“Why do they call them cookies and not bakies?”

Any major company with a proprietary code base shouldn’t be running another company’s AI model to write code. Why let the AI company learn how to code with your code base?

I feel like a large part of it is that a lot of AI slop is still in the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley has been shown to create a massive negative emotional reaction in people. You don’t want to trigger that reaction while trying to sell people something.