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Expect more studio closures and less exclusives from Sony, as Microsoft slowly bows out of the console race, hope sega or Nintendo makes a home console comeback. Gaming is about get boring and expensive very soon.
Unless you're actually able to elaborate and participate on the discussion, you kinda have nothing to say here. I mean, it's clear whyThe inability for a large portion of posters here (who are also probably on icon-era) to identify that PlayStation Studios is in a very bad spot right now is comical. Pure burying your head in the sand stuff.
I don't think one affects the other. Lengthening development times and the decision to close down poor performing studios will happen regardless of what Nintendo or MS does.Expect more studio closures and less exclusives from Sony, as Microsoft slowly bows out of the console race, hope sega or Nintendo makes a home console comeback. Gaming is about get boring and expensive very soon.
Yeah, there are legitimate criticism you can throw at Sony. Coasting is not one of them.![]()
Bad decisions do not = coasting, lol.
Pretty much, impossible to tell at the moment because of these factors.I wouldn’t say coasting
The live service strategy was, on reflection, poorly conceived and poorly executed.
As a result, due to cancellations, there’s now a gap in releases.
Time will tell if normal service is resumed in a year or two.
I hope this is a generation Sony will learn from. I don't mind the gaas pivot, but the implementation of it was terrible. Sony putting renowned 1st party single player studios on gaas was a very big mistake. Hopefully their gaas investment comes from investing in up and coming studios like Arrowhead
yep this happens every genThe old tricks don't work anymore
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I never said exclusively. And you are wrong. Guerilla games is working on Horizon online. I'm not even sure if Horizon 3 is in the works. And if Horizon Online takes off, I'm not sure if Guerilla even releases Horizon 3 because HFW didn't sell greatPeople here in Gaf like to parrot the same misinformation ad nauseum.
Can you please explain which renowned 1st Party devs did Sony put on GaaS exclusively?
Naughty Dog is the only one that was working on Live Service game, i.e. TLOU 2 Online, but that was a direct follow-up to their work on TLOU online 1. They were also simultaneously working on their SP game and incidentally decided to ditch the GaaS game when it looked like it would need to pull resources away from their SP efforts. So SP was always the priority for ND.
Every other GaaS game dev was an acquisition, not a previously SP dev. All the previously SP devs continued working on SP projects.
Sony's GaaS push was an attempt to expand their portfolio, not switch focus. It's just been misreported to hell and back by the shitty gaming media and the usual suspects on the forums whose full-time job is to spread FUD.
I'm playing a gameUnless you're actually able to elaborate and participate on the discussion, you kinda have nothing to say here. I mean, it's clear whyTGO didn't keep with the discussion later on (not an attack, I love you TGO).
Bend and BluePoint were single player studios put on GAAS no? And isn't GG supposedly now working on a multiplayer game?People here in Gaf like to parrot the same misinformation ad nauseum.
Can you please explain which renowned 1st Party devs did Sony put on GaaS exclusively?
Naughty Dog is the only one that was working on Live Service game, i.e. TLOU 2 Online, but that was a direct follow-up to their work on TLOU online 1. They were also simultaneously working on their SP game and incidentally decided to ditch the GaaS game when it looked like it would need to pull resources away from their SP efforts. So SP was always the priority for ND.
Every other GaaS game dev was an acquisition, not a previously SP dev. All the previously SP devs continued working on SP projects.
Sony's GaaS push was an attempt to expand their portfolio, not switch focus. It's just been misreported to hell and back by the shitty gaming media and the usual suspects on the forums whose full-time job is to spread FUD.
What isn't a PlayStation Studios title?I'm playing a game
I have little time to argue why it isn't a Playstation Studios title![]()
These people are stupid. They had a whole year filled with exclusives but doesn't count because of goalposts.
2nd party doesn't matter.
I wouldn’t say coasting
The live service strategy was, on reflection, poorly conceived and poorly executed.
As a result, due to cancellations, there’s now a gap in releases.
Time will tell if normal service is resumed in a year or two.
PS2 one year in with GTA3 as an exclusive and Silent Hill 2.I can’t think of a single PlayStation console with a stellar launch lineup/window, they’re the opposite of Nintendo in that regard.
PS2 one year in with GTA3 as an exclusive and Silent Hill 2.
So then who is "eating good"?It's pretty wild how many Sony fan boys there are here. I know it gets mentioned, but I always read it as a joke. You really gotta be coping hard to think the PS5 has been anything more than a wet fart. Hardware I like, software though, get real if you think you're eating good.
Nothing new. Whoever is in 1st place gets complacent. Last place fights to gain ground and pumps out bangers. They switch places the following generation. The cycle repeats.Eerie New Normal™
Playstation is dominating too much. Time for more clickbait marching orders from IGN/Eurogamer, et. al.
- Releasing GOTY candidates every year = coasting
- Selling tens of millions of copies on high profile exclusives each year which dwarfs exclusive sales of prior gens = coasting
- Competition not doing any of that organically = give them a participation award, at least they are trying
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100% correct!
- It's okay to say you didn't like PSVR2
- It's okay to say you didn't like PS Portal
- It's okay to say you aren't interested in Sony's 1st party games that are coming out in the next 18 months.
But to say they are coasting is ridiculous. Why can't IGN/Eurogamer just acknowledge that Jim Ryan got some things wrong and Totoki is pushing the ship back into the right direction and getting away from their 12 GAAS games idea. That's not coasting AT ALL!!!!
What a shame for the press, every few hours a paid FUD article against Playstation, it seems that they received orders and gave their all.
I don't understand how an outlet can report on the studio closures, live service failures, and canceled games, and then be like, "whoa what's going over there?"
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These outlets expect perfection (from Sony, apparently)
Every generation, every platform holder has made mistakes. Even when those platforms were still highly successful.
We don't need to go into detail on the PS3 era, but the PS4 era had plenty of mistakes. Early games were lacking, and they had a number of very high profile project cancellations (Sucker Punch, Sony Santa Monica, etc) in addition to outright flops (The Order 1886)
People act like those other gens were all rainbows and unicorns and they weren't.
These Eurogamer anti-Sony folks are retarded.![]()
Is Sony beginning to coast? With PS5 sales up and first-party releases down, gaming's eerie new normal takes shape
With competition falling away, Sony lines up another quiet year - while still racking up the console sales. Are we happy with the new normal?www.eurogamer.net
Yes. AAA have big ass budgets that keep growing every generation a lot, and need as much revenue as possible from any source to reduce the risk involved for when they get cancelled or tank.Sony putting games on PC had nothing to do competing with Xbox. They did it to make extra money and improve their profit margins.
your mom, lol.So then who is "eating good"?
So then who is "eating good"?
your mom, lol.
I'm eating good cause I'm not relying on Sony Studios for gaming.
What person buys a console and then "JUST" relies on that company's first-party games to play? Do Nintendo Switch ONLY gamers even think like this? I'm sure they also look forward to buying non-1st party games too.
They must be desperate for clicks, their garbage clickbaity article must not be getting enough views.3 posts from them in a 4-hour timespan. Did Phil's paycheck really mean they had to post this same lame post 3 separate times in a span of 4 hours on Twitter?