<story><title>Sony&apos;s Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-19/sony-s-deal-with-microsoft-blindsided-its-own-playstation-team</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rocky1138</author><text>&amp;gt; This shows &amp;quot;a new Sony&amp;quot; and should be applauded by investors, SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. analyst Ryosuke Katsura wrote in a report. “Management is adapting rapidly to change.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Uh, no. This shows that the developers have absolutely no control, say, or ownership over their work. Things like this happen in companies (or divisions within a company) right before their best people jump ship because they are so poorly respected they are literally not given the time of day by management.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m reminded of Ray Kassar&amp;#x27;s comment about programmers being at the same level of someone who puts the game boxes together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a developer and low-level manager, and wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect to have much input in this kind of decision. Especially in a behemoth like Sony. This is C-level-executive decision making territory.&lt;p&gt;I might have something to say about the idea from a technical perspective, if asked, and if that aspect of the platform were my purview, and I suspect they discussed it with plenty of knowledgeable people at some level.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure some people who were developing their in-house cloud solution feel like they&amp;#x27;ve been blindsided, but if they&amp;#x27;d succeeded, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t be in this position. The article says they&amp;#x27;ve been struggling with it. They likely  had a chance and missed benchmarks one time too many.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re likely better off using a major cloud provider anyway. They&amp;#x27;ve already solved the big problems.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sony&apos;s Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-19/sony-s-deal-with-microsoft-blindsided-its-own-playstation-team</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rocky1138</author><text>&amp;gt; This shows &amp;quot;a new Sony&amp;quot; and should be applauded by investors, SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. analyst Ryosuke Katsura wrote in a report. “Management is adapting rapidly to change.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Uh, no. This shows that the developers have absolutely no control, say, or ownership over their work. Things like this happen in companies (or divisions within a company) right before their best people jump ship because they are so poorly respected they are literally not given the time of day by management.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m reminded of Ray Kassar&amp;#x27;s comment about programmers being at the same level of someone who puts the game boxes together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>&amp;gt; This shows that the developers have absolutely no control, say, or ownership over their work.&lt;p&gt;Developer here.  What role would you see developers playing? This is more strategic than technical, so I wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect much developer input at this stage.&lt;p&gt;If management asked and the developers didn&amp;#x27;t like it, people would say &amp;quot;why the opinion charade?&amp;quot;.  So the only options are don&amp;#x27;t partner or get a strong (whatever that means) majority vote from the developers before doing anything.  Both seem like bad options to me.</text></comment>