might be a terrible take, but i want Sony to stop making third party exclusives and start investing more in first party studios

Wild Arms wasn't first party it was developed by Media.Vision but Sony owns the Wild Arms IP.

Second Party is a better term for this

They can afford to do both, they just need to stop being cheap

Etifilio said:

i want them to drop Square Enix exclusivity and start acquiring STUDIOS in Japan to make their own JRPGs, bring back Wild Arms and The Legend Of Dragoon, make them be PlayStation Studios franchises with full support, instead of purchasing exclusivity to Silent Hill 2, i want them to invest a lot of money on Ballistic Moon and turning Until Dawn into a huge survival horror third person franchise, i want sony to be 100% reliant on their own franchises, both single and multiplayer, like Nintendo, third party companies like Square Enix will find out supporting Xbox makes absolutely no sense by themselfs, Sony doesn't even need to invest money into these deals, and the most important thing: no big acquisitions of publishers, continue buying studios like Ballistic Moon, Shift Up, Arrowhead, searching for amazing studios that will deliver great NEW EXPERIENCES to us like Stellar Blade

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Yes Sony should’ve bought studios in 2019 preparing for next gen rely less on 3rd party & 3rd party deals (albeit still do them when you find a diamond) but double down on first party & release more games.

Honestly instead of doing 3rd party deals I would rather see Sony license out ip to 3rd party to see new games from existing franchise from a new studio that has a new spin. Instead of Team Ninja Rise of the ronin I would license GOW & tell them to make a souls like w there own spin as a GOW spin off or take the Ratchet & Clank ip & license it out to Toys for bob to make a side platformer like Mario using the Ratchet & Clank ip also include 4 players coop online or get the studio that remake Mario RPG to remake Wild Arms 1,2,3 in a trilogy bundle remake to see if people will gravitate to a HD Wild Arms w QOL feature to bring back the franchise if it does well.

Also Sony owns 2 ip that Fromsoft created yet it’s just sitting doing nothing not only would I get Bluepoint to work on a Bloodborne remake after that project I would have them make either a Demon Souls 2 or Bloodborne 2 w assistant of Fromsoft if Sony isn’t gonna buy Kadokawa to have the original creator who showed interest in working Bloodborne again.

I would also use both souls ip to make 2 live service games 1 would be a Demon Souls Diablo/POE competitor & the other would be a Bloodborne rogue like in the veins of vampire survivor I think these 2 projects would be cool & interesting 1 can release on PS & PC & the other can release on PS & Mobile.

Also team asobi should become a multi team AA studio bring back Ape Escape & Wild Arms.

Also acquire LVL5, Arc System Work Sony should’ve been more aggressive in acquisition & acquired Fromsoft & Atlus back in the PS3 gen & if they was aggressive they could’ve bought Riot for PC/Mobile live service expansion for far less then Bungie

Etifilio said:

yeah, they have so many amazing IPs on their hands, Sly, Jak & Daxter, Killzone, Resistance, so many IPs that are abandoned, i want them to have a very good identity of titles that are built by themselfs, i would rather have them licensing Killzone to Bungie than acquiring Bungie for example

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License Killzone to the Metro devs they’ve done great work. But yuh most of these comment are no brainers & kinda sad that PS is incompetent or are very slow. They continue to follow Xbox when they should be following Nintendo. If you see Nintendo because they license out ip to 3rd party Nintendo in 2022 & 2023 release like 7-10 games from there “1st/2nd party Nintendo lineup” PS releasing 1 PS studio game from there first party isn’t enough for growth & hitting targets. More games from first party = more profits. It’s pretty simple

• Insomniac (Best)
• Housemarque (good)
• Nixxes (useless)
• Firesprite (useless)
• Bluepoint (Good)
• Valkyrie (useless)
• Haven Studios (just wait and see)
• Firewalk (just wait and see)
• Bungie (useless)
• Savage Game Studios (useless)

Sony made to many useless acquisitions.

They should buy:

•EmberLab
•Fromsoftware
•Kojima Productions
•Arrowhead
•Larian

Sony should start acquiring more quality studios. Quality over quantity

It’s a lot cheaper to strike partnerships and deals than it is to run a wholly owned first party studio. People wanting Sony to be the biggest publisher in the world is just outside the realm of reality

Puff said:

• Insomniac (Best)
• Housemarque (good)
• Nixxes (useless)
• Firesprite (useless)
• Bluepoint (Good)
• Valkyrie (useless)
• Haven Studios (just wait and see)
• Firewalk (just wait and see)
• Bungie (useless)
• Savage Game Studios (useless)

Sony made to many useless acquisitions.

They should buy:

•EmberLab
•Fromsoftware
•Kojima Productions
•Arrowhead
•Larian

Sony should start acquiring more quality studios. Quality over quantity

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Im playstation guy but i dont want them to buy larian, larian is a famous pc developer and need to stay multiplatform

Sony eating everything would be no different than Ms did we dont want a monopoly in gaming landscape

The one with strong affinity to playstation like kojima production or arrowhead make sense tho and welcomed to join

Puff said:

• Insomniac (Best)
• Housemarque (good)
• Nixxes (useless)
• Firesprite (useless)
• Bluepoint (Good)
• Valkyrie (useless)
• Haven Studios (just wait and see)
• Firewalk (just wait and see)
• Bungie (useless)
• Savage Game Studios (useless)

Sony made to many useless acquisitions.

They should buy:

•EmberLab
•Fromsoftware
•Kojima Productions
•Arrowhead
•Larian

Sony should start acquiring more quality studios. Quality over quantity

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I wouldnt put Bungie as useless lol. Marathon will probably be a big title. As will there next game.

But yes they should buy all the ones you mentioned

Puff said:

• Insomniac (Best)
• Housemarque (good)
• Nixxes (useless)
• Firesprite (useless)
• Bluepoint (Good)
• Valkyrie (useless)
• Haven Studios (just wait and see)
• Firewalk (just wait and see)
• Bungie (useless)
• Savage Game Studios (useless)

Sony made to many useless acquisitions.

They should buy:

•EmberLab
•Fromsoftware
•Kojima Productions
•Arrowhead
•Larian

Sony should start acquiring more quality studios. Quality over quantity

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larian and kojima dont wanna be bought, and Larian doesnt make sense anyway. Way too late for FromSoft, but Ember and Arrowhead are doable and should be targets. Also Housemarque is great too

Etifilio said:

they simply don't have enough studios, they need at least 30+ studios developing singleplayer and multiplayer games to be able to deliver a great game every 3 months, they've been trying to fill the gaps with third party content exclusevly to playstation, which is ok, but it would be way better if we had more PlayStation Studios games intead of these third party exclusives IMO, i want more franchises like Horizon, Ghost, Death Stranding... that Sony owns and publishes...

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Stop bitching , every PlayStation studio is busy with 2-4 IP each , don't talk nonsense without doing any research cause it doesn't look very good and there's no need , if they don't go outside how do u think they'll add more IP to the portfolio? Let's use out brain man , let's use our brain instead talking ridiculous shit

Sony shouldnt rush and buy anything as see where thats gotten them. The problem is that under Jim, most of their acquisitions were terrible decisions like Bungie, 3.8 billion for an old game, no new product in sight and high employee count for a lucky live service hit that fell off. Have no clue what they saw in firesprite or walk and haven i have no faith in jade raymond. They also allowed exisiting teams to wither away to nothing, London, media molecule, and close a pipeline for a small game in pixelopus which only had like 12 developers and low cost for an eventual product

Etifilio said:

i want them to drop Square Enix exclusivity and start acquiring STUDIOS in Japan to make their own JRPGs, bring back Wild Arms and The Legend Of Dragoon, make them be PlayStation Studios franchises with full support, instead of purchasing exclusivity to Silent Hill 2, i want them to invest a lot of money on Ballistic Moon and turning Until Dawn into a huge survival horror third person franchise, i want sony to be 100% reliant on their own franchises, both single and multiplayer, like Nintendo, third party companies like Square Enix will find out supporting Xbox makes absolutely no sense by themselfs, Sony doesn't even need to invest money into these deals, and the most important thing: no big acquisitions of publishers, continue buying studios like Ballistic Moon, Shift Up, Arrowhead, searching for amazing studios that will deliver great NEW EXPERIENCES to us like Stellar Blade

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Buying exclusivity is cheaper than buyerng studios and thank you spend hundreds of millions of dollars per game. Buying everything u can just because u can is a terrible strategy that damaged embracer and xbox and is even starting to hurt tencent and other publishers. 3rd party deals allows publishers to diversify risk.