Jason Schreier: Sony’s Obsession With Blockbusters Is Stirring Unrest Within PlayStation Empire

[Shadowgasm]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

Lol, not me. I don’t get demoralized by videogames.

[SuikerBrood]

@BRiT

Way off topic… Why do you have to turn yet another topic into doom and gloom for xbox?

Yeah, fair point. Let’s move this discussion to the studios thread if it needs to continue further. But I don’t think it has to.

[MonkeyBoyFrancis]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

Gears 5 sold 15 million gamepass subscriptions.

The Coallitions next game isn’t a remaster.

It hasn’t been cancelled either.

Miles Morales isn’t a AAA game.

You are concern trolling.

[KiryutheD (KiryutheDragon)]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

This is a weird post. Game sales shouldn’t make you feel down and inferior. But if you do care about that stuff. Didn’t Sea of Thieves cross 20 million players recently and Flight Simulator was a success on PC. Its probably going to be huge when it hits Gamepass Xbox too.

[Swanlee]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

Xbox has 23 devs and over 30 groups within those devs making games. It is literally impossible for Xbox to not be pumping out tons of exclusives soon.

Meanwhile Sony is closing studios and forced to buy timed exclusives to keep their gaming portfolio up.

Things are going to be vastly different in 2 years

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@MonkeyBoyFrancis

Gears 5 sold 15 million gamepass subscriptions.

This is not true

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@MonkeyBoyFrancis

Miles Morales isn’t a AAA game.

This isnt true either

[MonkeyBoyFrancis]

This is a weird post. Game sales shouldn’t make you feel down and inferior. But if you do care about that stuff. Didn’t Sea of Thieves cross 20 million players recently and Flight Simulator was a success on PC.

Virtually all Gamepass releases are outperforming Playstation exclusives. Even GROUNDED in an unfinished state outperformed Guns of Satsuma.

[clashfan]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

I wanted to punch my pet lizard because other people was having fun and I was not…

[CallMeCraig]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

Take a deep breath, drink your favorite beer and don’t let it get to you. Its just toys, you should not feel demoralized by it. Even as a Xbox fan the time to feel bad was maybe 2013, now it looks great.

I personally have enough games in my backlog to overcome some Covid drought. If this is not the case for you maybe borrow a Switch or PS5 from your friends?

[YoungGrumpyMan]

Game Rant (GameRant)

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

@YoungGrumpyMan

I agree with them their recent moves prove it tbh

[jfsolo]

For my gaming taste, Gears Tactics is better than every single Sony exclusive there is. I don’t care about the sales, the MC, the GOTY awards, the fawning by gaming sites, that stuff means jack. I don’t give a rat’s ass about these so called “bangers” from Sony, for me, every game they have is “whatever” that’s why I’m in the Xbox ecosystem and not PlayStation. Anyone who feels demoralized by what Sony has or is doing in comparison to MS should either find a way to get the money to buy both consoles or definitely sell their Xbox and get a PlayStation. No one should be that unhappy about their gaming console choice.

[KageMaru]

@MonkeyBoyFrancis

Virtually all Gamepass releases are outperforming Playstation exclusives. Even GROUNDED in an unfinished state outperformed Guns of Satsuma.

Comparisons like these are largely flawed, inaccurate, or unnecessary.

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

Not really! I don’t even have access to those games.

Although, I do want to play the Spidey game. I love it. But not because its a banger and do numbers on charts. I simply like the game and want to play it.

I have access to the games on Gamepass. The only down I feel is because I don’t have much time to play all of those games😜

Edit : didn’t notice which thread it was. Why are we even discussing it here

[YoungGrumpyMan]

@TLLDOB

Who else feels demoralized when yet another Sony blockbuster(Spiderman Miles Morales) happens? Yeah it’s outsold TLOU 2 in the US. Big banger after big banger from Sony and the last exclusive content for AAA from Xbox was Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC in late 2020. The last full game was Gears 5 in Nov 2019 and that didn’t sell multi-millions. At a certain point, you have to feel DOWN and inferior to Playstation.

Don’t feel demoralized at all, in fact I’m happy for the fans of those games and their success which in turn will help Xbox do better as well. My friend bought a PS5 at launch with Miles Morales and he loved it, and eventually I will buy a PS5 too and buy all the exclusives deeply discounted and have a ton of fun with their great games.

[BRiT]

@No-1HoloLens-Fan

Edit : didn’t notice which thread it was. Why are we even discussing it here

Seems to be common theme of one/some turning every thread into a doom and gloom for Xbox. I wish they would stop it.

[BRiT]

To get this back on topic, more related fallout from the article and DJ interview, hilights from Eurogamer @ Days Gone writer says if you love a game, you should buy at full price | Eurogamer.net

The writer and creative director of Days Gone says that players shouldn’t “complain if a game doesn’t get a sequel” if they didn’t buy it “at f-cking full price”.

“I do have an opinion on something that your audience may find of interest, and it might piss some of them off,” Garvin said (thanks, VGC). "If you love a game, buy it at f-cking full price. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen gamers say ‘yeah, I got that on sale, I got it through PS Plus, whatever’.

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@BRiT

To get this back on topic, more related fallout from the article and DJ interview, hilights from Eurogamer @

I don’t know, that sounds just a little tone deaf what with the price of Sony’s games being $70 now and it costs even more in other territories. For a lot of people they can only get the games once they come down in price.

[BRiT]

Right. They said the silent part aloud.

That’s the inherent risk of budgeting for Blockbusters titles when they may not pull Blockbuster sales. That’s not only impacting Sony, but the entire industry. Its why there are so many acquisitions and investments going on. It may be even riskier to do that now in a pandemic when potentially even less of your consumer market can afford the $70/80 titles.