Jim Ryan - "SIE has strong relationships with licenses in Japan, continue to strengthen our ties with them and develop titles made in Japan"
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Japanese sales aside, I mean...he's not wrong, right? Nearly ever major Japanese title that isn't produced by Nintendo seems to make its way on a Sony console at some point.
He's the suitiest suit of them all.*Jim Ryan says your normal PR speak*
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What he do to y'all?
"why would anyone play that" really rubbed people the wrong way.
They seem to be losing ground to Nintendo in terms of the small and mid sized studios. Games that were once exclusive to Sony platforms are now getting Switch ports, and some are even going Switch exclusive or lead platform.
Obviously they will continue to get the big AAA titles, but one thing that I always loved about Sony systems was the small and midsized projects. I think we will continue to see those shift to having Switch versions and in some cases Switch exclusive.
The director of the original seems to think so: https://www.reddit.com/r/Alundra/comments/54mvnb/i_found_alundras_game_director_yasuhiro_ohori/. I think Victor Ireland may have said it in the past as well.
The Japan argument about Sony's position in the country was never about securing AAA titles.
But even so, I can't see how Ratchet is a zelda like game. Even the devs were going to make one before scraping it and making the Ratchet we have.
*Jim Ryan says your normal PR speak*
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What he do to y'all?
He liet a lot during ps5 campaign. People just wont fall for his crap anymore so easily.
What could he even say? Yeah we're taking a pounding from Nintendo and now Japan is a no-go lol. He needed to say something generic that will confirm itself when Sony has like 1 new japanese game this generation.
I'm just saying they are both light action RPGs with a childish aesthetic. I think they fill the same niche in the portfolio.
They really don't.
Zelda is more focused on puzzle solving and dungeons (less so in BOTW).
Ratchet meanwhile is a platformer with a big focus on shooting it is much closer to Crash, Sly etc.
This is the first time I have ever seen the two compared.
This man just needs to let his PR assistant say everything for him as they did during the interview by interrupting with the GT7 comment.
Now if only Sony California would stop censoring Japanese games while also allowing games like TLOU2 to have intense violence and full on sex scenes.
That is Sony Japan, there is no Sony California or Sony EUA, just PlayStation.
w/e point still stands. Playstation has been shitty in regards to censorship double standards for Japanese games vs Western games.
Again, that is on Sony side of things, PlayStation doesnt really care about Japan anymore. I know it looks like is the same thing, but it really isn't. The problem lyes on the Sony Japan side of things, PlayStation cant really do anything about it.
A good sign that their strongest third party supporter in Japan... still is?
I was going to say this thread is reaching YouTube/Twitter levels of discourse. It only needed a "stop censoring my waifu fanservice".
Full on sex scenes tho 😂
Well, there it is.
Full on sex scenes tho 😂
Do we really need to discuss the whole only on PS5 taglines and promises about the teams getting the most of their games thanks for ps5 hardware while not being limitted by ps4? Please just dont start with "well in retrospect you could interpret it as crossgen policy so its your fault that PlayStation deliberately lied about this". We know what they did. I still didnt swallow Horizon 2 being crossgen.
Also: we made a LOT more ps5s than we did ps4s for our lunch! They sold out everything and still didnt beat ps4 launch numbers. That was another lie from Ryan.
Console exclusives from Square Enix, Cygames, Platinum and possibly Konami on the way to be fair.
PS5 has outsold the PS4 in the same amount of time. Including launch.
No need to be sorry, just would be nice to see people be more open minded to other options out there, instead of using sarcasm and other comments like how things are so bad now with all these acquisitions.
Jfc some of you are still hung up over this shit? Find me a quote that specifically says every game moving forward will be PS5 exclusive. You can't blame him because you interpreted a quote a certain way and turned out to be wrong. Was I disappointed to hear that Horizon 2 was going to be cross-gen? Sure but it's completely in line with what he said and Sony's past behaviour after launching a new system.
And the PS5 did beat the PS4's launch numbers. Quoting the shipped figure for an entire quarter is not launch or sales, for that matter. And the only reason they didn't beat the quarter figures as well is because of a global semiconductor shortage that's affecting everyone from consoles and gpus to cars. Declaring him a liar because he couldn't foresee something that's caught everyone off guard is idiotic.
That's just Japanese games media in general. They're mostly PR outlets.
More to say about Astro's Playroom at a later date? Are we getting a whole new Astro game?
Did they hint at something like that before? All I know is people were hoping for something like that but nothing concrete from Sony's side.
