Also, it’s ridiculous to shut down discussion regarding future of PlayStation. Saw a little bit of it here, and some Discord channels are basically unbrowsable. Some are definitely going way overboard, but there’s a legitimate discussion to be had.
I genuinely don’t understand what’s going at PlayStation this gen. They’ve become so short-term oriented, it’s ridiculous. Their premier teams take 4-5 years on average, but they decide these mega tentpoles should be cross-gen to chase few million sales on previous gen. Then there’s this ridiculous habit of buying timed exclusivity, which is probably the dumbest and biggest waste of resources.
Lastly, while their competition is slowly ticking away mega franchises off their platform. They’re porting their valuable IPs (which also happen to be biggest USP of buying a PlayStation) on PC. Even if these games sales in excess of 1million copies, is $50-60m of profitability worth diluting the appeal of your juggernaut IPs because there’s a sense of expectation building, that eventually everything is going to be ported on PC. You just have to wait, and this window is gonna get shorter. Are they really oblivious to long term ramifications of it?
All of this would be understandable, if they were transitioning towards becoming platform agnostic like Microsoft. But, then they go on and spend $100m on KOTOR Remake, and pay SE a fuck ton to prevent games from hitting Xbox. Then, they’re trying to compete with GamePass through Spartacus, but won’t put their games Day 1 on it, nor committing to a fixed window. Meanwhile, their games continue to cost €80. Then, there’s this whole VR venture in addition to them establishing a mobile division. Like what? What are they actually trying to do? Because, it appears to me, they have fingers in many pies, and are unsure themselves in which direction to commit to.