I'm not interested in GaaS
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” - Steve Jobs
Sony will keep making the same games and people will keep buying them, Jim Ryan will generate a lot of money for his shareholders and gamers will be happy, except for me. You can tell a great story without relying on a hours of cutscenes to do so, without games being linear down minus a few choices to give us the illusion of being able to change the endgame or the current world. I see games like Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm like, why the fuck isn't Naughty Dog trying to make a game like this? Sony has a lot of talent and could make some truly exceptional games that don't walk the same path, and I know this because they used to.
I think Sony is fearful of doing new things again because what they are doing now has been a roaring success and they don't want to invest time and resources into something brand new just for it fall flat critically and commercially. Call me crazy but if the next game from Insomniac was a game like Skyrim, and was polished and well built like an Insomniac game, I just can't imagine a world where that doesn't become the best selling thing Sony ever released. People fucking loves these games.