Herman Hulst BOOTED From Sony CEO Role After Wasting $500M+ On Concord 🤣 Couldn't Even Last A Year
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While he may be gone I'm not holding out hope for Sony anytime soon. They need to leave California, go back to Japan and abandon ESG.
And DEI
herman isnt gone. he still holds a high position within sony.
@@8bitArtistPerhaps it’s just to prevent a costly severance package. They could just have demoted him and are keeping him around as an office ornament until his contract comes up for renewal. Not sure how these company contracts work though…not my field.
@@dostagirl9551 A tactic favoured by Japanese corporate. Hopefully he can be a senior executive of "nothing" with his office in the basement besides the toiletries until he decides it's time for him to leave.
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End of the day if you lose money your ideologies dont mean shit.
IDENTITY POLITICS IN THE VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY IN GENERAL.
Don't get me wrong.I am glad he is gone. But let's not pretend that things are going to get better overnight. The rot has seeded for years on end. Playstation headquarters are still located in california. It's going to be a long time before things get better with sony.
Agreed! I’m keeping an eye on them!
I don't think most ppl care about the state of Sony as much as they care about this buffoon being gone.
Have to start somewhere.
Just keep voting with your wallet.
It should never have left Japan.
Good, now they need to leave California and set the main office back in Japan.
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And remaster Bloodborne in 60fps with a PC port 👉🏿👈🏿
On the Playstation-studio fandom wiki for Hermen Hulst. Concord is suspiciously missing from his list of games. Last entry is Stellar Blade.
At one point the loss of money hurts even big corporations. Not buying the infected games works, it just takes some time.
Nobody can afford to lose money forever, especially when it comes to corporations that need to make money to survive.
Yup. “Too big to fail” is false and often spread by the companies themselves to help their survival.
Been saying this for a long time
Wow, i lol'd at this headline!😂
He was so arrogant and pig headed about "his vision" of concorde being the new star wars... i am so here for rhis news!❤🎉
No western directors in sony please
I'm sure sony would've preffered taking him out back old yella style given how much money he lost them
The Concord debacle alone costed them an assload of money. Now add in all the other shit and you best believe they would love nothing more than to take him behind the woodshed 😂
😅😂😂😂😂😅🤣🤣
Old yeller 😔
I'd film at that woodshed for free 🤣
They say it take a village to raise a child. I say it take one man to destroy a studio.
Shut down SONY America.
Unless the world's strongest Aloy simp is pushed out of the company, Sony will never stop shoving Nick Avocado down the mouths of PS players.
Leave Aloy out of this. She's as much of a victim of the current heads at Sony PS as many others
@@genkureshima9834 I don't get it...Wasn't Horizon Zero Dawn considered a great game?! And yet recently, I've seen a lot of people bashing Aloy as if it was seemingly a trash character.
I can get someone thrashing the second title (I don't know much of anything about it...which says something on its own)...but that would mean not that Aloy is the problem but that the writers for the second game are.
I genuinely am curious why is that.
Yup, always felt like Aloy was one of the lamest characters that we were almost forced to like.
@@kikixchannel The second game completely destroyed the franchise. Everybody was Aloyed out by the end and the DLC was one of the worst things anybody has ever played, nobody liked it.
The character Aloy was always annoying, the main pull was always robot dinosaurs
incompetent management, the main source of the gaming industries declines just like disney, forgetting who you're paying consumer base is and what they like, and thinking that they are stupid and will just consume anything that you put out.
yea that was defiantly a management decision.
Honestly, international game companies should simply stop hiring american employees completely.
agree.
Just remember: half the actors in Hollywood are activist as well.
And currently in the West Coast: if I identify as a unicorn 🦄 it makes it true to many people there
1.) Based on Playstation Trophy`s Concord had 1476 Players that got the easiest Trophy witch was 96,56% of the Players, witch makes a total Player Count on PS5 of *1529 Players*
2.) Shortly after the total fail of Concord there where Rumors, that Sony JP will use this massive failure to get Sony California "back on the Leash" and take back the Control over them. Seems like another rumor from Independend Contant Creator`s where true. 😁
Yea I think I read that somewhere too, hopefully Japan DOES take Playstation HQ back, coming to California was the worst fuckin mistake. They thought big AAA western movie type games were the future, fuck no it wasnt. We need games like the ps2, psp, and ps3 era. No censorship, all creativity.
Well this is very well deserved considering how much of a train wrecked concord was, didn't even last 2 full weeks which is how awful it was, well at least Sony is being cleansed at this partially thanks to this, not sure how good it'll do to Sony considering naughty dog's next trash fire of a game
should be fired, since the day he took the role of ceo, sony turned to shit
the problem with CEO is that they often have "golden parachutes" in there contract, and it's most likely cheaper to demote him then to fire him and pay millions in compensation...
They were having significant problems prior to the last 8 months of his ceo job
@eliotwildermann he sure didn't help!
The demolion + live service cancelations have turned Concord into A BLESSING IN DISGUISE!
Now we need Intergalactic to fail and we will be rewarded with a BASED SONY!
Now if only they would get Playstation out of California and back into Japan.
The problem is that he wasn't fired, that guy had to be fired, not demoted to another position.
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and that guy is a wet cardboard link" at least when it comes to innovation, the guy is all about woke content and has turned down new projects just to keep supporting Horizon and projects like Concord, a real pain in the ass.
He may have a contract that protects him from being fired immediately. Getting demoted was probably the only thing they can do at the moment and a demotion is a mark of shame for any corpo.
Bring it back to Japan smart !!! Now move the HQ back to Japan
In regard to the censorship, I will never forgive Sony for killing great games like Senran Kagura, that is such a colossal sin, that and the closure of studios like Studio Japan. I honestly don't know what they were thinking this gen.
Wow! Concord might be the game that saved Sony!
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The first thing Sony needs to do is get rid of the regional block of Helldivers and other affected games, as well as the removal of the PlayStation accounts sign-in
Amen brother! 👍
They can't, genius. That's why those restrictions exist. PlayStation was doing you a solid by letting you sign up for PSN from another region, then you bitched and moaned about having to do even that much, to the point where it became mainstream news that Sony was not only violating it's own ToS, but regional laws, so of course they removed it.
@@MN-jw7mm Actually this was caused by Arrowhead disabling the PSN sign up at launch to begin with. So people ignored needing PSN because they could get on with out it. Then they turned it back on after all the people had purchased it. That screwed over a whole bunch of people and basically halved the whole player base.
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"Just make a PSN account bro, it's not a big deal, it only takes a few minutes why are you so lazy?"
- Sony defenders when Helldivers 2 almost got PSN shoved up its ass
"My PS5 is bricked until PSN comes back online"
- Actual PSN user when PSN died for hours
*Sigh*
Imagine going from Killzone, one of the greatest FPS franchises of all time, to Concord. That's why Herman Hulst is a lolcow.
WHY IS THERE STILL NO BIKINI MODS 👙 FOR ALOY IN HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST FOR PC?! WHAT'S TAKING THE MODDERS SO DAMM LONG?!
@@YashlenMoodleygames shit thats why😂
@@YashlenMoodley You've never heard of the phrase "lipstick on a pig", have you?
@@YashlenMoodley Nexus Mods wouldn't allow it, they're on the DEI train themselves.
@@UltimateGattai Friend 😊 how do you know that for Sure because Horizon Zero Dawn is literally FULL OF SEXY AND EXTREMELY REVEALING MODS FOR ALOY! I MEAN FOR example there's even a mod for ALOY in the first game where she is Basically NUDE. I think 🧐🤔 bikini outfits will eventually come to Horizon Forbidden West sooner or Later.
Funny almost 20 years of above average success at other companies and then Sony, all of a sudden 2021 rolls in and DEI is forced into games and game companies, and we got 4 years of basically tanking. What happened in his life that he ignored how well he did for 15 years, to ignore his own insight, experience, success and buy that hard into DEI in that short amount of time.
I'm still not buying their games lmao. They've shown they don't understand us PC players.
Well, at least him and Concord have something in common...
Their pronouns are was/were (in regards to Herman now being the former CEO of Sony, that is).
He's not gone he's still in charge of 1st party studios the same thing before his interm ceo position and what he was doing as ceo 😅
If Sony can turn around and start making anti-woke games I might buy a Playstation for the first time in my entire life.
Not holding my breath, Sony has been on the front line of bringing woke culture into gaming from the very start, but it's never too late to turn over a new leaf.
Sony will back stab you first chance
I've had every Sony console except for the very first PlayStation, and the PS5 is by far the most disappointing one. If you haven't got one yet, there's no need to start now.
@@trevertravis8963 Yeah if Sony gets started on a new Killzone or SOCOM right now it wouldn't be ready until PS6 anyway.
Don't bother. For the nonsense, bloated price of a PS5 you can get a refurbished PS1, PS2, maybe even a PS3, and a hand full of games each. Hell, you could even just get a fat PS3, jailbreak it, and emulate every console's library for free.
I wouldn't bother. Sony could go on an anti-woke crusade for an entire generation, the PlayStation would still be a console. Only plays games, need a sub to play multiplayer, worse sales, no modding.
I really can't imagine how these woke people think. Like who tf would like to play as an ugly character? Most gamers are ugly IRL, and blessed people with appearance tend to chase other hobbies or career. I don't, I really don't get it why they think gamers would like to play as ugly character.
“Most gamers are ugly irl” this isn’t 1992 anymore, you can go on twitch hub and be shown softcore 🌽 on the front page. Stop it
Okay, so he's gone. Good riddance. But, wasn't Concord a project that extended across at least a decade? It's a hero shooter in the vein of Overwatch, after all. So, this Herman guy became CEO for a whole year? Who actually greenlit Concord?
Jim Ryan, who's also gone, however Herman Hulst was essentially Jim's lackey.
Concord was worked on for around a decade but only recently did Playstation approach them to make it an exclusive. Think of it like Stellar Blade. Stellar Blade was already about 80% done before Playstation jumped in and bought it off to be an exclusive.
@@jase276 Okay, thank you. I didn't realize they'd petition for something to be rendered Play-Station-exclusive, rather than asking for this during pre-production where people could iron out the details a little finer. Figure, if you're going to get an exclusive title, you're also shouldered with the burden of all those players who bought the machine purely to play said exclusive, who will then rage once they discover the exclusivity was temporary.
The practice of exclusivity should only coincide with a console's gimmick, of which neither Play-Station nor XBox have. It only makes sense for Nintendo to do it. Everything else can be mobile or PC. Further still, you need a Play-Station to play Stellar Blade, which must be infuriating.
Who would've thought that Concord might be the game that could correct Sony's current nosediving trajectory. Thank you Concord, for being such a colossal failure and thank you Hulst, for being such an incompetent leader. Hopefully the new guy has his finger on the pulse of the gaming culture and will bring some much needed changes to the PS division of Sony. They did start removing the PSN requirement for some titles on PC, so let's hope they completely get rid of that stupid account linking BS sooner, rather than later.
They always say the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Why!? And I was already excited for Herman to greenlight a gacha mobile Helldivers and Astro Bot live service! 😢 WHY!?!?!?
🤣🤣🤣 Don't go giving them ideas.
Going all in on live services was definitely a bad call. The problem with trend chasing is it doesn't work for an industry where it takes 5 to 8 years to release a game. Maybe if the game could be made and released in 2 years it could work. But trends come and go, sometimes quickly. Also there can only be so many live service games at one time.
Games could be made in 2 years again, they just need to abandon the current production methodology of infinite waste. And yes, they would need to return to stylish visuals instead of trying to chase photorealism, which is how they ended up hiring 3000+ artists to produce assets you never really look at anyway, but are needed to fill out the backgrounds.
I dont think hulst wanted the ceo job especially after learning from sean layden how hard being in charge of 1st party studios is 😅
Next, Sony should go to Japan.
Crazy how all the spells wore off so quickly.
"... there is not much really worse they can do after losing 500 billion."
Whenever someone says something like this either someone in this company or in another is already some getting ready to prove you wrong.
It was $500 Million. You really think 1 game can lose 1/2 a Trillion dollars??😅😅😅😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!!!!!!!
@@AnthonyMartinez-fx8pr Yeah, she said billion so i took that.
@@slcainehmierz7681only 500M+ but there are 2 games coming out tat is gunna cost Sony yet again”marathon ad Intergalactic”
The current crop of PlayStation executives are garbage, weirdo dorks. It has been a down fall of losers since Jack Trenton left. Bring Jack back.. please..🙏🏽
Straw?!?
Concord was the giant sequoia that completely crushed the camel. We can’t even SEE the camel anymore.
First Jim Ryan ruined Sony's entire 25 year legacy and now Hulst is out after getting multiple Horizon projects greenlit and released. It only took Sony 10 years to wake up, but so long as the SIE branch is in California I don't expect anything to change.
Helldivers 2 was RUINED because of the live service model.
The gameplay was solid and THAT was why it was popular.
The constant pace/subsequent drop off in LIVE SERVICE is what's plaguing the game now. Nearly every update ultimately breaks something else.
Helldivers 2 should NEVER been a live service game.
This is a miracle 💙absolutely astonishing news! Yes, this may not fix everything, but this is a great start! Herman was tanking the business and had clear conflicting interests for all these horizon games.
Im not against bringing Herman back as a dev on guerilla, the guy can clearly help make a solid game. Its just he NEVER needs to have the power to green light/red light all playstation projects. He had FAR TOO MUCH power
5:23 Take into consideration that these game dev cycles are anywhere from 3-5 years for any game. So most of games where he was 100% in charge as SIE-head for the entire dev cycle are from 2023 (earliest) and ongoing. He can't really 'claim' the games before this as leader. It's a super inflated, astroturfed list at best.
one Roach out... now they need to take the rest. but yeah.. I got zero faith.
first time i seeing grandma in a game as playable character 1:51
"Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss.." - Some British guys, can't remember WHO (😂)
Oasis?
7:58 Concord failed so hard that even articles about it fail.
Lets just let asia take back control over the video game market
Ever since Sony started censoring their games back on PS4, I was done with them. Now I'm maining on PC and a little Switch.
Just demoted? Losing that much money should have gotten him fired. But he is still at Sony, along with others who have turned Sony gaming into crap.
Games like Concord started before Sony bought the studio. We can still end up getting games like that.
What will change is they are going to take a safer route, which means more PC ports, remasters and limited sequels.
Helldivers 2 isn't their idea of a live service. The opposite end of live services is Exactly what Halo 4 was. Free, give to players, weekly basis engagement, lore, no cost, interactable, earnable free cosmetics, enjoyable multiplayer, gave to players and did I mention the core of the plan was free. Not $32.02 can with tax for the lowest bundle/item/currency pack. Didn't like the armor? Which parts because you can separately pick and choose em. 100+ chest pieces alone. You had a very high chance of not being identical to someone else. Halo 5, 244+ chest pieces alone. Now it's $32.02 for someone that looks like an LG fridge. Helldivers 2 Sony is killing it and removed the heel from the neck so now it's just a small amount of 133 countries that won't be allowed to play it. On-top of every main Xbox user. 🤷. GOW won't save you nor will GOW or Halo, save either of em.
They could have spent at least 50 million dollars on a bloodborne remaster, a remaster that everyone has been asking for but instead they burned 600 million dollars on a crappy political live service game and expected us to eat that slop up
Do better Sony
This is all started once Sony moved their headquarters to California instead of staying in Japan years ago. There’s been so many mistakes ever since.
Good riddance, what they did at the end of horizons 2’s DLC was so CRINGE
Lets hope they do release Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet = So that they lose another $500 million!
After that, heads will roll.
I was so excited when my phone gave me this news 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
In industry, bad higher-ups don't get kicked, they are moved elsewhere to not make too much problems.
I enjoyed both of the Horizon games and their DLC’s. I will be happy if they are the only ones in the main series if a ‘Veil Guard’ situation is avoided. Which considering some of the writing choices might have been on the cards for the franchise. A few cringe lines of dialogue does not make a ‘Veil Guard’ but they do sound a warning note. Call of the Mountain is also good but I got very dizzy using a friend’s VR, so that was a nope. As to Lego Aloy, Meh?
WHY IS THERE STILL NO BIKINI MODS 👙 FOR ALOY IN HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST FOR ALOY YET?! WHAT'S TAKING THE MODDERS SO DAMM LONG?!
I suspected Firewalk might be money laundering, this makes me more sus
Sony have made so many baffling decisions since moving to California. That state is pure brain rot
Out of the live service game, only helldivers 2 managed to make a stance
Sony has a longstanding rep for having completely lost the way online. Going all the way back to the Star Wars Galaxies NGE.
Destiny 2 was almost 10 years as a live service
Explain to me why a non-Japanese should ever be the CEO of a gigantic Japanese conglomerate.
I swear the people in the decision making role at Sony don’t know anything about games. It should be obvious when it comes to making games that you actually think “what would gamers want in our product?”
Wow!
He made Concord a thing and DIDN'T make it a single player!
Playstation used to have tons of weird looking single player games!😅
Finally! Too little too late!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Speaking for a little extra here.
Concord tried to do in 1 year what Star Wars did in 30 years. It just wasn't going to happen. Setting up, books, comics and even potential tv shorts/shows to a game no one has heard about is beyond insane. If you want to make a Star Wars type franchise, build upon it slowly throughout the years, build that loyal base with quality products.
Herman you will not be missed as CEO, go and make us a new Killzone instead.
Yessssss massive win he deserved to be fired
My parents and their siblings getting deported was worth it for gaming to heal. 👍
Wowza. Well, this is definitely a first step for Sony to finally go back to the right track!
In executive terms, he's a a "1 Minute man"! >_
I would have thought Lego Horizon was the final straw
This man put his face into Concord as Starchild. How vain does one have to be for that to happen? Plus his coterie of enablers.
What the hell is a co-CEO?..that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. If you don't like or trust the CEO...get a NEW one...don't overcomplicate everything. 🤣
Looking at front facial of Herman next to "It-z" from concord, there's an astonishing resemblance. Self insert?
Sony HQ Japan is not happy
Shawn layden wanted days gone 2, instead they forced studio to make live service. Which got cancelled. Wtf.
Great, another case of someone getting paid handsomely after running a company into the ground. When a bottom rung employee gets shit canned for losing a company half a cent, they'd be lucky to still have insurance coverage until they find another job but a CEO can bankrupt the bloody company and get enough severance to not have to work again ever.
even Rome dint survive co-emperors, and this was Sony
Does it even matter at this point? This guy was just part of the problem, not THE problem as a whole.
Nothing will really change, and we'll all keep relying on backlogs.
Still got me stuffed how he got the job in the first place.
The thing is both consoles PlayStation and Xbox fan base primarily Play service games look at the top 10 games played for a year, and they're all pretty much the same for both consoles.
Herman really got a video call and was told to "Read my fax".
Good. I used to like Hulst during the KZ2 era, but he clearly drank the kool-aid and completely fried his brain.
So...This takes effect on April Fools Day?
Why am I not the least bit surprised. 🙄
HER-MAN 🤔 shoulda been enough to know 😂😂😂
No good company would have two CEOs.
hopefully he was not only fired but also blacklisted
More Astrobot, less Concord Hideki Nishino.
Dude’s getting axed on April Fools Day! Brilliant!
When your decisions cost the company you work for nearly a billion dollars...you shouldn't be demoted, you should be fired. But that's just my opinion.
So judging by the last three clips Vara has posted, I've come to the conclusion that the forced divisive politics in gaming is not exactly pulling in bucks for the studios ... but the online creators seem to be doing alright with it !!
Silver linings and all that !😁
Horizon Zero Dawn is the most overrated IP of all time.