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(6 hours ago)Taco Bell Tower wrote: Speaking of Iconera being hardcore Sony fans
https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-playstation.987621/
Quote:That's the question for which I wanted an answer. It's not a secret that the PS5 generation is building up to be quite precarious for not only players, who have been complaining about a lack of games to play, but also for developers and publishers who seemingly are unable to find success on the platform. If you remember, just a few years ago with the PS4 in full swing it really did seem like Sony was unbeatable and that they were simply destined for success, so what happened? Let's put ourselves in the middle of 2017. After a bit of a rocky start, the generation had finally pulled itself together with PS4 establishing itself as the place to be on if you were a third party publisher. Around that time we had gotten the releases of Nioh, Nier Automata, Yakuza 0, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5 – all games that found massive success on the platform despite most of them being full blown PlayStation exclusives at the time. It's such a different situation compared to the PS5, isn't it? The idea of even just one of those games managing to sell impressively on it seems like a pipe dream, with nothing but Live Service and the biggest AAA games managing to thrive on it.
The answer to that question from the beginning is simple: complacency. Sony didn't accurately assess the rising threat from both PC, stealing a portion of the platform's hardcore audience, and Nintendo, who rose like a phoenix from the Wii U's ashes to be put on track of becoming the best selling console of all time (and slowly but surely convincing developers to support it along the way). What could Sony have done differently then? One obvious answer for the former could be not doing the PC ports, but PC ports are the symptom, not the cause. In their search for only selling the biggest and most expensive games, they found themselves in a situation where the platform had to carry the games, and not the other way around like traditionally consoles operated. Not only do these games cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, but they also take long enough to make that these studios have to find more ways of generating profit, hence the rise in PC ports and these pointless PS5 remasters, the extended crossgen period and throwing billions at Live Service games as a Hail Mary. With PS4 they at least had a very accessible platform where they could pursue aggressive discount strategies, but the situation was made even worse now with PS5 since the Hardware itself is too expensive to make, in turn limiting the audience of the games, cycling back to making the hardware less desirable, and so on -> death spiral.
For Nintendo, there's not much to say other than they handed them Japan on a platter really. The PS5 is probably the least appealing console you could ever make for the Japanese market, and they also spent a good few years at the start of the PS5 generation pissing off Japanese partners as well. They better pray the Switch 2 is unable to run most third party games, because if it is? Sony's longest held advantage in the console market will be gone and with that their reason to exist. Anyways, it's not over yet. It remains to be seen what impact things like GTA VI could have on sales, at some point the impact the failure of the GAAS move will stop being felt, and hopefully they now realize variety is key to a succesful platform. What do you think?
Goddamn at all the Sony cocksuckers in that thread. The PS5 is a huge piece of shit from a first party perspective. These cunts gladly make excuses like "but the way current dev cycles are
". Um why should I give a fuck that Sony couldn't manage their teams correctly as a consumer? I DON'T CARE WHERE ARE THE GAMES A SHITTY NOSTALGIA BAIT PLATFORMER ISN'T GONNA CUT IT