Sony is in a very weird place, and it’s hard to see what their next full SP game could be.
Astrobot? Bluepoints title? GoT 2? A Expandalone for GoW? It feels like we may see another year with 1 or 0 First party SP games from Sony.
Sony is in a very weird place, and it’s hard to see what their next full SP game could be.
Astrobot? Bluepoints title? GoT 2? A Expandalone for GoW? It feels like we may see another year with 1 or 0 First party SP games from Sony.
They do when everyone stops buying it on Playstation
Already expecting it. Pretty much why they had to hike PSN so much. The exodus.
Let’s not forget this story that was mentioned and then dropped because Bungie is an “industry darling”. This is the HR Director… suing Bungie. I knew the HR Director at my last lab, and the skeletons she was willing to talk about… I guarantee there’s a bit more fire to this smoke, but you wouldn’t know because there haven’t been a dozen “what’s going on at Sony articles” like there would have been for Xbox (documented fact at this point I would relish the opportunity to disprove any naysayers on that point)… or the podcast rounds on IGN and other sites where people with far too much time in the industry, and far too many contacts, to play ignorant whenever it comes to Sony.
I don’t think people will stop buying it on PlayStation. Not in any serious numbers. If MS were leveraging serious advantages for the more core cod community like exclusive stuff, early beta, early access etc then maybe. But they’ve said explicitly they don’t want to do that.
So I’m not sure why people would switch because whilst gamepass is a nice thing for the core cod community and influencers that play cod mainly - there isn’t value in changing their console.
Don’t forget these are all perks that will no longer be a thing on PS either.
I do think we need to give this a few more days before we will see articles questioning what’s happening. Every day over the past week we’ve seen something new to the point where it makes sense to let the dust settle before talking about it.
If we don’t see anything by the weekend, that’s when I’ll start questioning these outlets.
And I fully expect to be questioning those outlets by that time.
All that said, we saw MS do the same last year with 200 Xbox employees let go as a result of some reprioritizing. 343 let go of SP content staff. Perhaps Sony saw the merit in all the tech layoffs and finally went for it. Gotta increase, or keep level, that profit margin for the shareholder.
I’m actually not too worried about Sony, just as I wasn’t worried about Xbox.
I got sidetracked earlier, but you were correct Zappy - I was misremembering which party had the “discount” and which didn’t. I don’t think we’ll see immediate, massive shifts, but next-gen I absolutely wager it will; why buy the new PS for CoD when you can buy Xbox, get it on GP and all the games that are going to be pumped into the service. Sure, some won’t, but a lot of parents and fiscally-strapped gamers absolutely will - I saw that first hand with the Xbox 360 and CoD (I was working in games retail briefly during that era).
Oh. I do.
While these issues I have pointed out are fairly recent I’m not getting my hopes up that the media will suddenly get their shit together after years and years of ignoring Sony’s failures and anti consumer practices.
So I doubt anything will change in the next week but hope I’m wrong.
True and agreed.
I think it’s Stellar Blade or Rise of the Ronin. For me personally, including third party exclusives, I have Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for basically March and then Ronin and the GOWR standalone expansion later in the second half of 2024.
Personally, those who play COD on PlayStation every year I believe will stay there especially if that’s all they play. If Microsoft really wants to get people into Xbox using COD, all they have to do is eliminate the online paywall for co-op/multi-player and that would gain a lot of people into the Xbox eco-system.
Sony:
Fans: Everything’s fine guys. Look at Microsoft! I don’t think Starfield did as well as the numbers that we normally rely on suggest!
You forgot spending a year telling us the games were going to be 100% PS5 only and then going full last gen.
Honestly i had a good day with that. The amount of people who accosted me when i said Miles Morales and Forbidden West looked like PS4 games ended up with egg on their face.
Fans Media: Everything’s fine guys. Look at Microsoft! I don’t think Starfield did as well as the numbers that we normally rely on suggest!
FTFY Also, I still find it comical in 2023 when people hold Xbox to the same standards of success as Sony, despite the fact that Xbox’s revenue stream has been diversified for six years now and they don’t look at physical sales as the metric for success (because their revenue isn’t as relegated to unit sales like Sony’s is). Another reason why having more industry-savvy journalists would do the world good….
Nah, same energy. It would take them what, ten minutes to publish something if it was about Xbox instead?
I’m talking about a game developed by SIE
Touche.
SIE literally doesn’t have a single, dated, internally developed title in the foreseeable future after Helldivers 2 in early February. (Edit: Which isn’t even internally developed, on second glance, because Sony doesn’t own Arrowhead, surprisingly.)
They also don’t have an internally developed single player game announced AT ALL besides Wolverine. They’re leaning HARD on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (which I expect to be even better than the Remake) and a few publishing deals for 2024, until they prove otherwise.
No, but it’s massive revenue gain for Microsoft. That’s the fundamental change, so regardless of however much it helps Sony, it helps Microsoft more – anywhere from 4x to 2.3x depending on the cut. To many, that seems like a major downside for Sony.
https://x.com/benjisales/status/1716939528915894662?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
That’s a massive change when you have ABK now. This is hitting jackpot of a billion dollar powerball.