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WSJ: Sony Positions Next PlayStation for Hard-Core Gamers, focus on strengthening relationships with large publishers
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If this was MS right now the internet would be in flames. but i guess for the players Sony can do no wrong
I could see 499 if they increase the prices of games and subscriptions (so they sell hardware at a loss but get a huge profit from software).
Here we go again. Internet should be in flame because says to be more focused to hardcore market and higher budget games? Isn't it what they did from years and people buy their hardware mainly for such reason?
You just gotta accept that fans will always be a thing and don't lose sleep about it.
Wonder if Microsoft will do timed / 3rd party exclusives again next gen. They could really use it. Sony still doing it in the final year with FF7R
The idea that Sony dropped support for smaller devs when they are are the only one supporting VR devs is funny to me.
Then it's also funny to see people complaining about them not giving room for smaller devs when State of Play was clearly created for this, and when Sony don't show big games on it the same people that complain about not giving room to smaller devs complain about SoP not having heavy hitters lol
Then it's also funny to see people complaining about them not giving room for smaller devs when State of Play was clearly created for this, and when Sony don't show big games on it the same people that complain about not giving room to smaller devs complain about SoP not having heavy hitters lol
The short term problem with this approach is that big games take a while to be made. Smaller games are needed to fill the gaps.
I anticipate droughts soon after PS5 releases.
I anticipate droughts soon after PS5 releases.
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in DICE keynote shawn layden said that they are aware the biggest problem with the price, so they wont cross to 599 unless if we are talking about the US if the tariffs will still be a thing by then...
I'd say that you look at this situation reversed. Sony most likely has a strong first year line up that makes this strategy possible for them unlike with the first PS4 year.
,reading the indie thing as they're not throwing as much money to help fund inde games next gen and spending more on marketing deals with 3rd parties and funding dev on games like with from, insomniac and kojipro. Gimme more polished AAA first parties and I'll be happy.
Really hope next gen consoles get priced properly. Getting nervous about the dumbass tariffs
Really hope next gen consoles get priced properly. Getting nervous about the dumbass tariffs
Well, it is a good thing indies will still be coming to the platform than.
If making as much profit from game sales is there primary goal then more focus should be put on there installbase numbers, this is not tough to understand.
Feel like NMS was their last big indie push and when that blew up in their face they backed off
Of course, and hopefully in good numbers. The article seems to point otherwise though.
If they see results from these deals, then of course they'll continue to do them.
It means the majority will continue to buy these games on PS regardless.
Whether it's fine or not to you or me, it doesn't ''matter''. If it makes people buy a certain game on a certain console then it is fine for them and if the number of people doing it is high then that is a good thing for the platform holder.
Ms saw that last Gen, and in the current Gen as well, and Sony is seeing it right now.
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So, what was Sony doing before?
Anywho, it'll be more of the same with games that look great, have low loading times, and extremely censored.
Anywho, it'll be more of the same with games that look great, have low loading times, and extremely censored.
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yes, its very likely NMS was a big reason for this direction
ugh, it's been obvious where they are going. They have been pushing smaller games less and less.
Not a fan.
Not a fan.
Only you can see a contradiction in such statement when I even perfectly explain to you to focus higher profit doesn't means exactly sell the less hardware possible.
I bet whatever you want if MS would have said the same, the tone of your post would been totally different. But go on with your absurd campaign against the Sony brand and let's see the fruit.
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That's what it sounds like. One of Sony's strengths this gen has been is breadth of content. Not just the big budget stuff but small stuff too. Hopefully it doesnt lose that focus for PS5 by spending time getting exclusive guns in destiny or Call of Duty.....
But both of those games, Bloodborne and Spider-Man, were made by third party devs.
I can't tell if you're saying that Bloodborne and Spider-Man are 1st party (Bloodborne certainly is) or if Smash and Mario Tennis aren't lol. All four games were externally developed, but three of them are 1st party games.
This makes me less likely to buy their system as this suggests more deals like the Destiny/CoD ones and they can fuck right off with that. Some of the worst exclusive deals out there. I have no problem with their own studios making exclusives, but paying third party devs to keep shit off of another platform is terrible for players in general and this makes it seem like they're certainly not backing off on that.
Third-party independent developers, of whom the publisher for those games are Sony themselves.
This article talks about strengthening relation with other large publishers.
The article is suggesting what could happen but it doesn't make any sense. Why wouldn't indie games come to the next PS? There just would be few/no exclusive deals with indies. The type of deals folk seem to really dislike here. Well, if it doesn't involve their favored platform, of course.
All four of them are first-party games. The only difference is their IP status, which has nothing to do with whether or not a game is first-party or not.
Good, they're right. The ERA bubble may disagree, but most people aren't buying a Playstation to play Undertale. More PlayStation studio exclusives sounds like a great thing to me, they've been mostly my favorite games of this gen.
Sony has crushed this gen with 5 10+M sellers of their own (I'm assuming TLOU:R counts). It's no wonder this is their strategy.
They are getting almost all indie games. The indie support is great on PlayStation. And it will be great next gen. That's the good thing when you are a strong brand that's huge everywhere. Indie devs will be there, as always.
I for one am very excited by the prospect of even more bullshit exclusivity deals.
By the way, what happened to this?
Nah, why waste resources on promoting all the small fish? You'll be forced to be on our platform anyway.
This all sounds so... Well, expected, actually.
By the way, what happened to this?
Nah, why waste resources on promoting all the small fish? You'll be forced to be on our platform anyway.
This all sounds so... Well, expected, actually.
Nah let people think Sony is actively blocking indies as some here would like to suggest.
Probably doesn't count because whatever.
I wouldn't be surprised if Playstation has an even higher percentage in the >18 age range, but when Nintendo's at 83% there's few numbers that would make that statement be any more than "technically true". I don't disagree with the notion of Nintendo not being a major rival to Sony, but the reasoning sounds so tired.
This isn't even a recent thing for Sony. There was an exclusive game mode in Arkham Knight and Watch Dogs 2. It's a horrible practice and I'm glad Microsoft shifted away from it, if only Sony would do the same.
You cant sell potentially 500$ consoles by showing tons of indies. Big games that wow people help sell it. See nvidia or amds graphics card keynotes. They sell 500+$ gpus showing the best graphics tech in the biggest games on the market. Strategy makes sense. And even if they dont focus much on indies indies will all come to the platform because it is too large to ignore.
This happens in cycles, though. There were Rezzed events a few years ago that were basically just PS4 booths with no one else even there.