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Sony's Tokyo Office Offers Employees Early Retirement to Cut Costs

Sure PS1's library was larger, but it was inferior and un ingenuitive. PS1's library was mostly shovelware. Plus alot of its memberable titles like FFVII would have been better off on Nintendo 64

Looking back, PS2 wasn't much better either, it was gimmicky and overrated and flimsy with even MORE shovelware

If SCEI gets sold off, considering the fact that its the main reason why Japan has lost its midas touch in console game development and publishing and why stupid,gernic and bland garbage FPS crap like Call of Duty,Assassin's Creed, and Battlefield continue to sell and rake in revenue, I can't say I'll certainly miss them.

@Phanton Roxas.

This is the Brand name referring to the Orbi Earth/BBC Earth:

http://trademarks.justia.com/855/17/orbi-85517235.html


Date Registered: September 3,2013.

This refers to everything you are describing in what Orbi is.


This is what I'm referring to:

http://trademarks.justia.com/855/17/orbi-85517210.html

Date Registered: November 26,2013.

"Orbi" is a Intent-To-Use multibrand service mark. ITU's are expensive Trademarks filed under the US Government that companies file when they want to claim full protection of the name from others and are claiming FULL use of all listed goods and services. The G&S are listed because the applicant plans to use the brand for all listed services over time. Everything I've stated is listed here in ORBI's brand which goes beyond what it seems. Because its fully registered, the brand can and will be used for anything anytime.

In regards to Nintendo and Panasonic, you do know that Nintendo only has $15 billion in market cap right? Which means any misstep would leave them vulnerable, Nintendo cannot survive on its own, and they themselves know that. They need a merger. People seem to think that Nintendo has enough money to buy SEGA, when SEGA is worth $32 billion. Nintendo has $44 billion in assets, but unprofitable business and no other business ventures outside of gaming and hanhelds can risk them losing everything .


As for the Sega Toshiba IB deal, I'm well versed in Intellectual Property, I'll explain later where I got it from regarding the WIPO application. (I'm at work right now.)

When you look back now, the PSX is without a doubt the most overrated console of all time and its architecture is fairly supbar and lame when compared to SEGA Saturn and Nintendo 64 which have both aged gracefully. When you compare the 5th gen systems, PS1 lacked the quality control and noteworthy appeal of Saturn and N64. Sure PS1's library was larger, but it was inferior and un ingenuitive. PS1's library was mostly shovelware. Plus alot of its memberable titles like FFVII would have been better off on Nintendo 64(had Nintendo stuck with Super CD,Panasonic would have given them CDX for Ultra 64 hardware.)


Looking back, PS2 wasn't much better either, it was gimmicky and overrated and flimsy with even MORE shovelware, but Sony still had money and brand power, they used it to phase Dreamcast out (Dreamcast was financially cursed from GameWorks,LLC an investment from 1996 that went horribly awry) and let more coporate hacks like Microsoft jump in the business.

This might be a stupid question, but why can't they just FIRE people to make the budget cuts? Why offer them early retirement at all?

This might be a stupid question, but why can't they just FIRE people to make the budget cuts? Why offer them early retirement at all?

noblesse oblige wrote:

This might be a stupid question, but why can't they just FIRE people to make the budget cuts? Why offer them early retirement at all?

J-companies don't like firing people for various reasons (if they don't like ya anymore, they'd just reassign ya to a pointless job with nothing to do until ya voluntarily quit). Plus early retirement keeps the harmony and some goodwill.

I'm curious how they get rid of foreign employees, since they probably don't have the requisite low tolerance for shame. I'm pretty sure most Americans would stick it out indefinitely as long as they keep drawing a paycheck.

Yeah, if you're not outright fired and you're just given menial or no tasks at all, that wouldn't be so bad. So I'm being disrespected, you're also paying me to nothing. That's like super-unemployment while you start looking and applying elsewhere.

Or maybe they do just outright fire you because you're not Japanese and they know shame doesn't carry the same way.