MS has diversified the entire Xbox division so console hardware sales will not sink the division. MS has done this with pretty much all their products where they can be successful even if you regard traditional 1 to 1 sales for hardware or software etc.
MS is being very smart and they can ride any weird gaming fads and not have to worry about any game industry instability.
Call it poetic justice or karma but the Sony camp gave Xbox so much shit saying they’re just a Forza/Gears/Halo/Rare factory nothing else. And now Sony has become the Uncharted/TLOU/GOW/Horizon/Spidy factory.
The framing may paint Sony in a worse light than what the reality is in that it is Sony maximising their resources, but the conclusion is the same in that PlayStation Studios has become more cautious in what they produce and betting on producing big AAA blockbusters to differentiate themselves from the competition.
Jason on OtherEra
I haven’t watched the video, but if Jeff Ross said that Days Gone 2 was in production when he left, he was not telling the truth.
And if he said that Bend was “never” going to become a Naughty Dog support studio, he was making an overstatement about decisions that’d be made over his head in the first place. Besides, have none of you ever worked at companies where management said some corporate shenanigans would never happen and then of course they inevitably happened? You people can be so naive sometimes. Someone at Naughty Dog told me a couple of weeks ago that they already half-jokingly refer to Bend as Naughty Dog North. Would that actually happen? I have no idea, and neither does Jeff Ross.
And please go away with the Sony defense force console war bullshit. It’s so transparent from.
Like clockwork lol.
I can only imagine the mess that is taking place in that thread.
Literally me right now:
ehhh man lol there is nothing yikes about this. there is nothing wrong with sony business plan if it works for them.
you guys acting Sony don’t have AA games imo they will get AA games through deals look at kena, that cat game, sifu…etc also they just Made a deal with oddworld dev to release their game on PS Plus.
sony will continue with model, buy timed exclusive from AAA-AA studios and fund games while their studios foucs on AAA Games
Sony is more than fine
Didn’t even bother to watch the interview to verify, went straight to torching Jeff’s credibility. 
Returnal is definitely an interesting case with the 80 euros price, with the latest rumors that Sony is focused almost exclusively on cinematic AAA games I am starting to believe that Returnal is being “sacrificed” so Sony can maintain their 80 euro 1st party price image/policy and not show any signs of flexibility on the price? or that from now on they have no plans to release AA/smaller games on retail? I refuse to believe that they don’t know that a game like Returnal is gonna bomb hard at 80 freakin’ euros, last generation they were quite flexible price wise with smaller projects (R&C 2016, SotC remake, Uncharted Lost Legacy e.t.c.) so this makes it even more weird.
Also curious to see what they will do with cross-gen releases and PS4 support from now on, Jimbo sure said that they are planning to support the PS4 for 2 more years but we still don’t have any announcements that suggests this is their plan and they are sticking with it. Sony seems so unpredictable right now and not in a good way, their plans are all over the place.
Things are getting spicy. 
Dang.
I think that thread is about to become a graveyard.
Now Jeff Ross is praising Jason’s work and saying he read his book on the stream after Jason torched him as a liar. Hilarious. Jason needs to learn some god damn trigger discipline.
Does he though? Doesn’t Jeff backtracking and praising Jason prove that Jeff Ross was covering Sony’s ass? Like you start out by saying “Your article is bs” then have the reporter say “You’re full of shit” and then backtrack your original statement and say “Yeah okay it was true”
Like Jason’s reputation was on the line. His reputation is what equal his work’s lifeblood.
i would say in this situation you give the upper hand for journalist vs someone who was just employee under big corporation company and he don’t want burn bridges with industry
Exactly. I never took Jeff Ross at face value because he’s still working in the Industry. Hell he works at Netherealm a company that’s bread and butter is fighting games, and Sony now owns EVO.
It’s like no shit he would bend over backwards to keep Sony happy.
Did Jeff say the article was false? I don’t remember that happening. I’m not going through the 2 hour stream to find it but I would have to hear the question Jaffe asked that got the “completely false” answer in regards to Bend becoming a support studio.
He did. I was reading along the live posting on OtherERA, they were all tripping over themselves to make a thread about jow Jeff said it was bullshit, then Jason posted, somebody linked Jeff and Jaffe the post, then Jeff’s mood and tone changed.
Jeff says Jason was not only accurate but that he’d like to see more journalist like him in the industry lol.
Kena AA? Sorry, I have it on good authority that Kena is Sony’s Legend of Zelda killer. I read it on a forum so it must be true.
The console industry is not a zero sum game, not sure why people STILL think their is a 1-3 place in the console industry and if you are not first place you lost.
That’s not how businesses work. Pepsi is pretty much forever #2 to Coke yet Pepsi is a valid brand that people enjoy and where the company makes alot of money.
lmao it was made by indie studio i mean if it was AAA then they don’t need Sony help to publish the game