https://x.com/InsiderGamingIG/status/1775503800687575080?s=20
Next month is May. Yeah, easy to guess.
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It’s insane how the time flies, jesus.
They don’t have a great year when it comes to first party games, but that doesn’t mean they can’t finally show what their studios have been working on.
All dat GaaS greatness. Lol.
Kidding, or well, maybe not. Even Bend’s new game was rumored to be GaaS.
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Just give me a roadmap. It’s all I ask.
I’m staying with my State of Play in May and PlayStation Showcase in September prediction. Either way, really hoping for a Tsushima 2 reveal.
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They’ll certainly need one as they’re in a real pickle. Their console sales have dropped, they were forced to cut of 4million consoles, margins are down no major first party till next year, major restructuring with layoffs, studio shutdowns, game cancelations, budget cuts and now you have an interim head.
They certainly need a showcase like the one they had nicknamed the E3 of dreams as all that is holding them up now is PC. They need to rekindle their fire in a shrinking console market. I hope it’s a showcase and not a state of Play. A showcase will go a long way and would deter Microsoft from trying to keep PlayStation relevant.
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Steins; gate Elite is finally on sale on the psn store
There certainly are a lot of warning lights blaring at full brightness at Sony HQ… far more than influencers, media types, and even some here are willing to admit. All I’m saying is that compared to the absurd amount of consternation over what turned out to be nothing in Xbox land, us multi-console/Playstation users are still over here looking at an absolutely atrocious total of 2.5 years without an even somewhat-reliable stream of content, four studio closures in less than as many years, and another half-dozen titles that have been scrapped.
That doesn’t even get into the discussion about missed expectations, a fired CEO, and a similar-to-Xbox pivot for some of their titles. Goalposts can be moved all some of you want, we already have Sony published titles on Xbox, and the interim CEO and leaked documents further confirm the shift - the industry is changing and has to if we want devs to survive and games to continue to be made.
Believe me, I want a stronger Sony, a Sony that makes more than two types of games, and one that nurtures creative freedom (like the Xbox of today). I can’t even tell you how many hours I put into my Vita and PSP over the two weeks of my recovery, and so many of them were old Sony games - games that embodied all of those elements I described above. So I don’t say what I did for a yearning for Sony to go under or for PlayStation to fail; as I’ve always said, Xbox became great because of competition and Sony has had a complicit media in allowing their creative complacency to thrive when they should have been pushed to become better like others have.
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I disagree with this completely. Through April 2024 (42 months since launch), Sony has published 16 new games with a total gap of 29 months (these are the months in which they didn’t publish a new game) with the longest gap between published games being 7 months.
Through May 2024 (43 months since launch), Microsoft has published 18 new games with a total gap of 27 months (these are the months in which they didn’t publish a new game) with the longest gap between published games being 7 months.
Even if you include May 2024 for Sony which would result in 16 new games in 43 months compared to Microsoft’s 18 games in 43 months, considering the fact that Microsoft has acquired two publishers since launch and have double the studios and probably triple the teams, I would say that Sony is very close to equal.
Average new game release for Microsoft is every 2.4 months while for Sony, it’s every 2.7 months. Excluding Stellar Blade since reviews come out tomorrow, their overall rating is 82/100 via Open Critic with 15 games while Microsoft’s overall rating is 81/100 with 17 games. Microsoft’s release cadence is slightly better while Sony’s critical reception is slightly better. Overall, they’re very close.
That’s all in general.
For me personally, Microsoft has given me 7 first party games including the upcoming Hellblade 2 which through 43 months is an average of 1 game every 6.1 months. Sony has also given me 7 first party games including Stellar Blade which is also an average of 1 game every 6.1 months. So overall, through May 2024, they’re literally tied for me personally.
What does slightly separate them though are the full/timed third party console exclusives which through April 2024 is 3-0 in favor of Sony. Kena, FF XVI and FF VII Rebirth.
I would like to know how you conclude that Sony hasn’t had a steady stream of content for 2 1/2 years when I just showed you that they’re very close to Microsoft? And be advised that I don’t include remakes/remasters/expansions, etc. for either side. Everything on my lists are literally new games releasing for the first time.
What I can say Microsoft has a huge advantage/lead in for me personally and in general is their announced first party games and roadmap. Sony has 7 games announced with me being interested in 3 of them while Microsoft has 18 games announced with me being interested in 12 of them.
Point of all this is that I don’t believe that Sony is in any trouble like a lot of Xbox fans want to believe just like I don’t believe that Microsoft is in any trouble like a lot of PlayStation fans want to believe.
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I was talking about the period ending from 2022 until whenever this ends Peter, and last I checked Xbox’s lackluster 2022 was still more first-party content than Sony’s last year or this year. No amount of goalpost moving or exception-making changes that fact. So as I said, Sony is doing nothing to court the non-fanboys into being excited about PS5 or their output - especially if you don’t like Sony’s brand of Ubisoft clones and the 6th remaster of TLOU… and when remasters are used in conjunction with moneyhat exclusives to bolster an otherwise lackluster lineup, it’s hardly worth mentioning.
When you combine this with the fact that they cancelled at least six games, that paints an even bleaker outlook for the short term. Connect all the red string you want, reality paints a different picture; just because you are happy with the state of things doesn’t mean everyone else is.
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I’m going to remind people of something you don’t fire or have a CEO leave a job Midway through a generation. You especially don’t try to have to look for a CEO to replace the old one if you don’t already have somebody in mind. Meaning you did this prematurely. Sony is in trouble. It may not be super severe but they are
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I know not everyone else is happy but like with Xbox, we both know it’s usually bullshit and people over react for no apparent reason.
As for the no first party content, this is false so it doesn’t matter. Helldivers 2, Ronin and Blade are all first party games because they’re literally funded, published and marketed by Sony which is the same thing as if those studios were internal. If people are going to exclude these, then well, we can exclude Gears Tactics, Flight Simulator 2020, As Dusk Falls as well as upcoming titles like Overdose from Kojima, Towerborne, Flight Simulator 2024 to name a few.
Difference with me is that I don’t go based on the development studio making the game, I go based on what actually matters the most - the game(s) and in this regard, all of these games are first party games for Sony and Microsoft respectively.
Sony doesn’t have a top tier AAA franchise title until 2025. No argument there but to say they have nothing is disingenuous and factually incorrect. And compared to Microsoft’s 2022 with Pentiment, As Dusk Falls (which technically doesn’t count according to you) a port of Deathloop and the 1.0 release of Grounded after being in early access for 2+ years and originally released as an Xbox One title in the summer of 2020 isn’t exactly worth bragging about.
I do agree with you regarding all the remasters and stuff but I don’t include them because they’re not new games releasing for the first time. The cancelled games isn’t actually 6 games because you can’t cancel a game that was never announced. So while Factions obviously was, the Spider Man multi-player game wasn’t as was a few other titles. It was really only two games with the other being Deviation’s FPS. The other four games were never announced so how can anyone count games being cancelled when let’s be honest, if it wasn’t for the internet, no one would ever know that they ever existed in the first place.
While I disagree with Sony cancelling Factions and Spider Man online game from a business standpoint, from a pure gaming standpoint, I don’t care or have interest in the online multi-player live service games so for me personally, the cancellations are a positive. Same with Microsoft cancelling Blizzard’s survival game which was announced but for me, reading a lot of info about that game after it was cancelled is better for me because it’s not a game I cared about.
So while in general, all the cancelled games on both sides is bad but not everyone is going to care about any of this especially if the games were never officially announced.
Also, you say that Sony isn’t doing anything to get non-fanboys but let’s be honest, do they really have to? Doesn’t matter how many studios or publishers Microsoft buys, it doesn’t matter how many games are on their roadmap because casuals go right to PlayStation anyway by default so again, from a Sony perspective, does it really matter? I would say until the numbers prove otherwise, the answer is no.
As for money hatting games, Microsoft does the same crap and you know it. In fact, I want Sony and Microsoft to money hat games because I want more games from both of them, not less. And while this aspect doesn’t apply to Microsoft as much now as it does Sony, let’s be honest, the vast majority of Microsoft’s games for Xbox One were money hats and if anything, way more than Sony.
So if we’re going to mention this, can’t just pick and choose. Have to be fair and consistent. Can’t say that Microsoft has never done this or has never taken games away from Sony just like you can’t say that Sony has never done this. They BOTH do this and will continue to do this. It’s part of the business.
All im saying is that while YOU may not like Sony’s games or their current roadmap or want to believe that they’re in trouble doesn’t mean that applies to everyone. And as for Sony fanboys, let’s be honest, if they’re a fanboy/extremist, they’re nutjobs anyway, will always complain no matter what and quite honestly aren’t meant to be taken seriously anyway.
For me personally, im more than happy with Sony and PlayStation 5 as through 3+ years, they easily surpassed PlayStation 4 in the same time frame. But im also happy with Microsoft and Xbox Series X as in the same time frame, they easily surpassed Xbox One for me.
As for 2024, the first half for me belongs to Sony and my PlayStation 5 because outside of Banishers, all the other games that I have played and completed are PlayStation 5 console exclusives while the second half will belong to Microsoft with Avowed, Indiana Jones, Towerborne and others.
So while some Xbox/PlayStation fans aren’t happy for whatever reason(s), I don’t have any complaints on either side. Hehehe. Yay me!! 
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That is not true, as per Digital Foundry.
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Was it Ghostwire Tokyo then? Either way, my mistake. I’ll edit that out.
GT had the better raytracing and performance on PS5 if I’m not mistaken. No idea if it’s been fixed by now, it should though.
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Okay. So I mixed up Ghostwire with Deathloop. My mistake.
All good man, not a big deal at all. =)
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It’s crazy so I’m watching EPL here in Canada, and I am not going to lie but I’ve seen Stellar Blade commercial 15 times between 2 matches. It’s crazy how much they spend on marketing because damn
Also, I think I am going to buy it after I finish Persona 3
Not getting it until it hits PC