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The PlayStation Concern is concerning when PlayStation games are more successful in the PS4/PS5 era than they were before

Zacfoldor

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They hate us cuz they ain't us OP.

They know where their bread is buttered.

Hey others, we ain't got to be good, we just have to have better shit than you. Xbox giving us all their games and GTA still shunning PC until after it is old as fuck. Where else you gonna go? Nintendo Switch 2?
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HRK69

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What I'm saying is how are more people concerned about PlayStation 1st party now when they are selling better than ever when most PlayStation 1st party games used to only sell to a small percentage of gamers.



Like you see people complaining that Sony is making Horizon games & stop making KillZone but you look at the numbers and see that KillZone II only sold around 2 million.
Is this really the shit think about in your free time?
 
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Hmm ok? so Sony should be happy.

I guess as players some are more concerned about the quality and quantity of single-player games and such, i don't see the gloom but PlayStation indeed has less great games and less amount of games i like then previous gens.
 

EverydayBeast

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Gamers don’t look at sales, are you wearing a shit with a games sales on it? Sony needs to win the generation, game developers should get paid millions, how about release an exclusive shooter? I want to see Sony finish this generation strong, GT8, god of war 3, horizon 3, wolverine, little big planet 4, socom confrontation 2, resistance collection, ratchet and clank rift apart 2, Astro bot 2 etc.
 

EN250

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Remember when X360 was doing hot but the games were trash because MS went all in on its casual games for the kinect? What do you think the core audience felt about that?

I'm not saying we're at the same level with PS5, but Sony doing great every quarter doesn't do much to me if I don't get something in return, like you know, good exclusive games and not fucking remasters or timed moneyhats, they can't relly on Housemarque every 2 years to get 1 great 1P exclusive and nothing else
 

djjinx2

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Surely not 1 fanboy can think PS5 gen has been good release wise? So many fuck ups and wasted resources.

How many cancelled games we at? Not like a studio churns out games every couple of years either so it's been a disaster.

Good for Sony that Xbox is a basket case with no hope really, as Sony deserves alot of backlash (they won't get it as PS fans lap up remake after remake).
 
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Surely not 1 fanboy can think PS5 gen has been good release wise? So many fuck ups and wasted resources.

How many cancelled games we at? Not like a studio churns out games every couple of years either so it's been a disaster.

Good for Sony that Xbox is a basket case with no hope really, as Sony deserves alot of backlash (they won't get it as PS fans lap up remake after remake).
You wade into some of these threads and yeah some feel this is the greatest generation of PS games ever, I kid you not

If you try to say you aren't happy with Sony's output of 1st party games they essentially call you a liar and then want to throw sales numbers at you how well the PS5 is selling equating that to every single person loving the 1st party output
 
It’s fake concern and FUD from the usual suspects. There is absolutely nothing to be concerned about when it comes to Sony’s first party games. The only thing that really concerned me was their hard push towards GAAS but now that they’ve cancelled most of them I think they are on the right track. If anything, Sony should double down on their current course and keep releasing more first party games with less remasters and remakes, we need sequels and new IPs from them.
 
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FrankWza

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Playstation is a second half team. They keep you close in the first half and then blow the doors off in the second. All these generations polls and arguments are dumb. They built an impressive ecosystem and are first to do it on console. Behind on output is not a failure...wait until its over.
 

Jigsaah

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I don't think sales is what people are concerned with. Feel like it's an uncertainty with where Sony is headed with all the changes in leadership and the cancellations. State of Play was where people kinda got their hopes up thinking they were gonna see Death Stranding 2, Bloodborne, maybe some Wolverine just a lot more 1st party content, but were disappointed with what we got. To be fair, just knowing Saros is somehow related to Returnal has me excited.

I have hope Sony will return to form this summer and actually do a real showcase. State of Play seems to be just a tired format right now for most.
 

m14

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You wade into some of these threads and yeah some feel this is the greatest generation of PS games ever, I kid you not

If you try to say you aren't happy with Sony's output of 1st party games they essentially call you a liar and then want to throw sales numbers at you how well the PS5 is selling equating that to every single person loving the 1st party output
The same people also tend to be the most outspoken critics of the more fanatical Xbox fans.
 

Crayon

Member
Sorry to say, ponies, but with PS dominant you are going to have to live with people trying to pray it away

Don't be all insecure about it. The criticism is correlated to their success more than what they actually do.
 

Crayon

Member
What if...

First party Sony games were never good?

No seriously make a list of the best 50 PS2 games.

This might contribute to my stance on all this. Besides gran turismo, they never really had stuff that I was dying to get. At least stuff that wasn't a surprise. When they announced demon's souls I was stoked, and I had a really good feeling about returnal.

Looking back over the years, they did some good ones in-house, but most of the killer exclusives were moneyhats, or de-facto exclusives in the ps1 days.

Every time I've bought a ps, it was with the expectation to have a good game-player. I never expected sony to supply any particular number of games for me.

edit: not to say their games aren't good. The ones I've tried are good to great. Just aren't really high on my radar until it's time to play one.
 
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A bunch of games you can play on PS4, cool. You’re really nailing those fuckers that think Sony’s PS5 output is subpar.
Go play them on ps4 then
I really wish Sony would put out some 1st party stuff soon that satisfied the base, because when you guys are bored we all have to pay the price.
The people complaining will never be satisfied. Well always have to listen to their complaints
 
You seem to think that I'm saying that the games are better because they sale more. That's not what I'm saying .

I'm pointing out that PlayStation Games are now selling better than ever so why is there all of a sudden a concern about PlayStation's Output?


I remember PlayStation didn't have a match for Halo in the PS2 days then they didn't have a match for Gears of War & Halo in the PS3 days but now that their 1st party games are selling 10 , 15 & 20 million copies now it's a problem with 1st party games?

Did people forget how things were?
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Halo 3 has outsold PS3 exclusives combined
So maybe focusing on the number of Halo 3 sales at that time for Xbox 360 would not really predict the sales and success of upcoming Xbox console and games? Maybe the sales and success of Halo 3 was because it was relying too much on XBox's Halo 1 & 2 and their legacy? But really X360 was soon only surviving thanks to 3rd parties sales because once MS fumbled their first party output (with the focus on Kinect), things got eventually wrong for them?

Replace Kinect with GAAS/Woke focus and it would seem that history could repeat itself for Playstation this time.
 
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YeulEmeralda

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This might contribute to my stance on all this. Besides gran turismo, they never really had stuff that I was dying to get. At least stuff that wasn't a surprise. When they announced demon's souls I was stoked, and I had a really good feeling about returnal.

Looking back over the years, they did some good ones in-house, but most of the killer exclusives were moneyhats, or de-facto exclusives in the ps1 days.

Every time I've bought a ps, it was with the expectation to have a good game-player. I never expected sony to supply any particular number of games for me.

edit: not to say their games aren't good. The ones I've tried are good to great. Just aren't really high on my radar until it's time to play one.
I think PlayStation got big because of their excellent third party support. Sony made sure of it since PS1.
 

Crayon

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I think PlayStation got big because of their excellent third party support. Sony made sure of it since PS1.

It was definitely that. Third parties were stoked on cheap cds and ease of development. XCOM? Sure, throw it on playstation! Tony Hawk? Where else would it go! Need for Speed sequels on 3DO? Fuck that just do playstation. EA sports. Final Fantasy. Tekken. Megaman Legends. All that. It had everything you wanted to play. Didn't matter if some were on saturn or n64 or pc. PS had all of them. That's what mattered.

What hurts is missing things. SM64, oot, VF2, Sega Rally. Things like that. There weren't that many in the scheme of things, though.

I wasn't even under the impression that sony made wipeout. All I cared about was that psygnosis was kicking ass. I also didn't care that much that it was only on ps. I was glad to have one to play the game on, but that's about it.
 
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RickMasters

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Halo is a piece of shit and Gears of War went from "dude bro" to "yass queen slay".

I don't know what those games have to do with anything tho, unless you are high on console-warring.



Ahhhh Fuck it….. this thread is getting boring anyway . *flips over tables and chairs*

Hey! My fave game and console ia better than Yours. Come at me bro.


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