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Really crappy games nobody wants to play. It's incredible the number of side-projects that Google can afford with its advertising revenue, I bet this will neve

Really crappy games nobody wants to play. It's incredible the number of side-projects that Google can afford with its advertising revenue, I bet this will never generate them a single cent, the folks creating it will probably make big bucks and move on their careers to create a company that will do this better and make others pay for it. It's a company really needing activist investors that have the billions and billions to kick the CEO and executive team out. Also split its business. Imagine how many business lines from Google would be more efficient if they would operate on its own. I hope they do this, I'd totally invest in Google. Before they do that, I wouldn't, as it would be considered charity for those making $1M comp making useless moonshot projects.

bilbo0s 3y ago
Really crappy games nobody wants to play. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the vast majority of game makers are putting out Really crappy games nobody wants to play. Only a relative few make the hits we hear about. There is still some money in that long tail of crap, and the AI companies will get better and better at gathering those pennies to themselves over time. I even think they'll go upmarket soon. That is, I think they'll get much better at generating even the hit blockbuster type games.
- pquki4 3y ago
  Exactly. Not even talking about app store which has a wide selection of games, if you just look at xbox store, which is presumably of higher quality (there is a higher bar for publishing in Xbox store -- you can't just create a new account and start publishing), it has a ton of games that have bad reviews and don't make sense to me - including from publishers like EA. Well, some people are playing those games, and EA is still around and doing well. Sounds like the person doesn't really play games much or understand how this works.
- transcriptase 3y ago
  It can be entertaining to go on the store on the Nintendo Switch. Before owning one I assumed that it would be high-quality curated games that meet some minimum standard for Nintendo to allow it on their ecosystem. Nope! It’s a sewer of $0.99 games that obviously prey on people thinking they’re getting a popular game like “Grand Theft Auto V” and not “Grand Auto Theft: V Edition” which turns out to be a top-down mobile game using the same fonts and imagery.
rm_-rf_slash 3y ago
This is basically the line of argument used to push for layoffs in 2022-2023[1]. From an investment standpoint, Google is a curious play, as it shares a massive ad market duopoly with Meta, yet invests billions in dubious product lines with uncertain payoffs or futures as leads move out to move up. The graveyard of cancelled Google products has been documented to the point of parody. Personally I think the whole executive team is out to lunch, too comfortable with their printing press to do much if anything about Google’s structural dysfunctions. [1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-billionaire-google-owner-alphabet-needs-to-cut-more-than-12-000-overpaid-jobs-11674484497 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-billionaire-goo...
anon84873628 3y ago
>It's incredible the number of side-projects that Google can afford with its advertising revenue Part of the reason they are affordable is because they are built on the existing shared infrastructure. It would be much more costly for an independent company to spin up all of the necessary infrastructure, frameworks, practices, etc.

bilbo0s 3y ago

Really crappy games nobody wants to play. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the vast majority of game makers are putting out Really crappy games nobody wants to play. Only a relative few make the hits we hear about. There is still some money in that long tail of crap, and the AI companies will get better and better at gathering those pennies to themselves over time. I even think they'll go upmarket soon. That is, I think they'll get much better at generating even the hit blockbuster type games.

pquki4 3y ago
Exactly. Not even talking about app store which has a wide selection of games, if you just look at xbox store, which is presumably of higher quality (there is a higher bar for publishing in Xbox store -- you can't just create a new account and start publishing), it has a ton of games that have bad reviews and don't make sense to me - including from publishers like EA. Well, some people are playing those games, and EA is still around and doing well. Sounds like the person doesn't really play games much or understand how this works.
transcriptase 3y ago
It can be entertaining to go on the store on the Nintendo Switch. Before owning one I assumed that it would be high-quality curated games that meet some minimum standard for Nintendo to allow it on their ecosystem. Nope! It’s a sewer of $0.99 games that obviously prey on people thinking they’re getting a popular game like “Grand Theft Auto V” and not “Grand Auto Theft: V Edition” which turns out to be a top-down mobile game using the same fonts and imagery.

rm_-rf_slash 3y ago

This is basically the line of argument used to push for layoffs in 2022-2023[1]. From an investment standpoint, Google is a curious play, as it shares a massive ad market duopoly with Meta, yet invests billions in dubious product lines with uncertain payoffs or futures as leads move out to move up. The graveyard of cancelled Google products has been documented to the point of parody. Personally I think the whole executive team is out to lunch, too comfortable with their printing press to do much if anything about Google’s structural dysfunctions. [1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-billionaire-google-owner-alphabet-needs-to-cut-more-than-12-000-overpaid-jobs-11674484497 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-billionaire-goo...

anon84873628 3y ago

>It's incredible the number of side-projects that Google can afford with its advertising revenue Part of the reason they are affordable is because they are built on the existing shared infrastructure. It would be much more costly for an independent company to spin up all of the necessary infrastructure, frameworks, practices, etc.