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By Hero-of-Time · Posted
I forgot to comment on their games goingto PC. Yeah, this is a tricky one and IMO, it's something that hurt the Xbox brand platform. As soon as you start putting your games on other platforms you weaken your own. It may be seen as gatekeeping but exclusives help sell your console. You think the Switch would have sold as well as it did if Nintendo games were available else where? Not at all. There's power in having exclusives. It forces the consumer to buy your product in order to play the game. It may be the old man in me talking but I honestly miss the amount of exclusives platforms used to get. They gave consoles their own identity and purpose. -
By Hero-of-Time · Posted
The PlayStation brand is very strong, especially in Europe. Plus, as we mentioned, 3rd party games do the heavy lifting and as far as consoles go, all the big 3rd party games usually hit a PlayStation console. Historically it's always been like this. It's really the 3rd party support that attracts the customers to the platform and not so much the 1st party support, the complete opposite of Nintendo platforms. Granted, that started to change last generation with the PS4, thanks to the likes of God of War, The Last of Us and Spider-Man doing big numbers. Outside of the 360 generation, the PlayStation platform has always been seen as a mass market console. Games such as FIFA/ EA FC and CoD draw in the masses, despite being available on other consoles. JRPG fans often get served very well on the PS platform as well, especially when the Xbox seems to get sod all. Basically it's the console to get to play 3rd party games. PC gaming has come on leaps and bounds but the price and complexity (when compared to consoles) still alienates the mass market. I've said it many times on here that the PS5 and Xbox Series X weren't really needed. They were needed in the sense that both companies wanted a new product on the shelves but not really needed in terms of being able to deliver new and exciting experiences. The PS4 Pro was more than enough and the fact that developers are still making PS4/cross gen games shows that they were fine with it as well. As for 1st party exclusives that aren't cross gen, there aren't many. Ratchet, Spider-Man 2, Demon's Souls, Returnal and Astro's Playroom are all I can think of. -
I don’t really get the point of PS5. Full disclosure: I haven’t owned a Playstation since around 2008 (PS3), so I may be a little biased, but what’s its unique selling point, outside of it essentially being a PS4 Pro+? It barely has any exclusives and has been mired with cross-gen titles from Sony 1st and 2nd party for the first 3 years of its life. I agree that 3rd parties have been doing the heavy lifting, but Sony as a dev and a publisher seem to be in a really bad place. The fact they’re launching another console this year is laughable to me. They’ve already said there are no big 1st party hitters coming in 2024, so why are they doing this? PS4 Pro++? I can’t understand why the base model is selling so well on the back of basically nothing. Both Sony and MS have really dropped the ball this gen. Demon Souls, Astro, what else is a 1st party PS5 exclusive? I heard on Sacred Symbols that they are making ~6% profit on the PlayStation brand at the moment, which is very low. I don’t really get what their grand plan is. TLOU2 and Spiderman 2 seem to have fallen below expectations, and Ragnorok and Forbidden Wastes were both cross-gen titles that could have been so much more had they not been. Seems things are getting very stale in Sony land. Insomniac being tied to Marvel content until 2035 is a very, very bad idea IMO. 4th year of a console launch and under 10 1st party exclusives is absolutely terrible form tbh. What’s going on over there? The fact a decent gaming PC costs roughly double the price of a PS5 is interesting too. I have picked up quite a few Sony games in the past 2 years and they are giving me absolutely zero incentive to buy another PlayStation, considering releases on PC to be happening sooner rather than later these days. Ghost of Tsushima is dropping in a couple of weeks or so and I will definitely pick it up, but if PS games are going to be dropping within 12-24 months of release, and are likely to run better on a mid-range PC, what incentive does anyone have to buy a PS5/pro? -
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