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Why is PlayStation king? Because Sony bravely supports games that end

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Omnistalgic

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Sony has been knocked for only focusing on the "walk and talk" game at the expense of other genres. That's not entirely true, as big-name titles like Horizon Zero Dawn take the modern open-world approach. Still, there's good reason for Sony's focus. It makes the PlayStation different. Microsoft's biggest titles, like Halo 5, Sea of Thieves, and Crackdown 3, rely heavily on online play. In the case of Sea of Thieves, a "make your own fun" model is used in place of traditional storytelling, and the game often feels empty and pointless as a result. Activision isn't offering a campaign in Call of Duty: Black Ops IV, and Electronic Arts canceled a story-focused and linear Star Wars project in craft a replayable, online experience.
While Microsoft, Activision, Ubisoft, and other major game publishers want you to tell stories, Sony and its partners are confident enough in their own tales to get them to you the old-fashioned way, and we're thankful for it.
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/why-playstation-is-king/

Interesting to see some praise for narrative driven games instead of the more enthusiast reaction. It's one of the reasons, (despite being surprisingly excited about next-gen Xbox) I fail to ever commit to getting an Xbox & PS during the same gen, they are just too similar. The strategy of being the 3rd party's home is basically shared between Xbox and PS, with Nintendo's first party mostly defining their own platform. Sony has differentiated itself with story-driven games, and atm, Xbox feels like a slightly different version of PS. There's some things I prefer on Xbox like the controller, always nice to have the buffest hardware, but overall, very similar experiences between the two. When I already have a backlog solely with PS4, it's hard to justify both, irresponsible for someone in my position honestly. Next-gen, I do hope Xbox differs itself more, because if both PS and Xbox are just the homes of 3rd party again, I'm just going to go with the console that has the better exclusives.
 
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WonderLuigi said:
they also bravely not support Gravity Rush 2 online for more than 2 years
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That's a weird outlier to use man. Nobody bought GR2, it's as simple as that. It's not like it shut down in a super unreasonable time, and it's not like you now can't complete the game. Very personal issue to bring up in such a broad topic.

This is coming from someone who has the game in his backlog and definitely won't get to it before servers shut down.
 

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Omnistalgic said:
That's a weird outlier to use man. Nobody bought GR2, it's as simple as that. It's not like it shut down in a super unreasonable time, and it's not like you now can't complete the game. Very personal issue to bring up in such a broad topic.

This is coming from someone who has the game in his backlog and definitely won't get to it before servers shut down.
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I love Sony for this and while I own all the consoles, it's nice to have them releasing single player games as I am their market. I don't play online shooters or sports games and love RPGs and adventure games. I hope they continue doing what they're doing :)
 
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The day single player dies is the day I quit gaming. Luckily Sony, Nintendo, and various third parties and Indies will never let that happen.
 
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Yes, it is probably the reason for their success.

Personally, they seem very similar to me and I am not interested in the majority.

It is one thing that I think PS4 has and if you like an exclusive one of them, it is very likely that you will like others because they are focused, with exceptions such as Ratchet and Clank, to the same audience.

In other words, if you like The Last of Us, it is likely that you will like God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn or Days Gone. The demographics to which they are directed are very similar and this is where they put the focus of their marketing and effort.


This year I think I'm just going to buy Spider-man because, fuck, it's Spider-man.
 
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People would be praising fantastically made multiplayer games too.

The real issue is that Sony has had some exceptional first party output these last couple years. I think people are going to realize how long that really takes to build up. You have teams of people that made PS2 games, PS3 games, and built up skills and experience. And a lot of these games were mediocre. Now, they all seem to be finding their stride and delivering some great games.

Nintendo does the same thing, with multiplayer and single player games. Their output is the most diverse of anyone's first party, by far.

Microsoft really foolishly abandoned first party investment in the Kinect era and will pay the price for years. Even if they scramble together a high number of teams, many of them will be working on their first game ever. It's a problem we'll see sticking around for another decade potentially. The Coalition managed to hit the ground running decently enough, but they are still not on par with some of the greats we've seen these last few years. It just takes time.

All that said, Sony does have an issue with the similarity of their "walk and talk" games in my opinion. I'm not that interested in The Last of Us 2, but I'm going to wait for more gameplay videos. And I am even less interested in more Uncharted games if that new studio rumor is true. They need to keep doing more original stuff.
 
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Their reasoning is bizarre. It`s ok if you don`t like the game, but Sea of Thieves is more different than anything on the market than any of the games they mentioned.
 
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This article singles out HZD as an exception to the rule, being open world. But TLoUP2 aside, aren't all of Sony's major announced upcoming games open world experiences? Spider-Man, Days Gone, GoT, and it seems DS too, all fully open world titles.
 
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That end? What?

Wouldn't an ending imply a completely self contained story with little to no loose ends? Much as I loved GoW, it had plenty of loose ends and forgotten plot lines. It "ended", yes. The story reached its natural conclusion, but to say that it was satisfying?
 
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Lukas Taves said:
Their reasoning is bizarre. It`s ok if you don`t like the game, but Sea of Thieves is more different than anything on the market than any of the games they mentioned.
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It's a multiplayer focused game-as-a-service. The whole point of this discussion is that Sony is finding success focusing on single player game that end.

I don't understand the point you were trying to make?
 
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That end? What?

Wouldn't an ending imply a completely self contained story with little to no loose ends? Much as I loved GoW, it had plenty of loose ends and forgotten plot lines. It "ended", yes. The story reached its natural conclusion, but to say that it was satisfying?
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It's pretty obvious what was meant. Self contained stories and games that don't live on as games of service.
 
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Im glad Sony isnt following the GaaS trend and are doing their own thing.

SP games will never die, doesnt matter what some pubs try to makes us believe just to make more money.
 
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We can have a thread about this without a title designed to stoke console wars from some website.
 
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