Awesome. Will save us all the agro of having to read your essays.
Or are we still gonna complain about Sony?
Spoiler... will continue to complain.
I love how petty and simple-minded you guys are about this. So I can't do what's best for
me as a
gamer and as a
customer, while still speaking on what I feel is best for different platforms and companies in the industry?
Guess what? People can do both things simultaneously. I didn't choose outright to prioritize PC & Nintendo as gaming platforms going forward: companies like Microsoft and Sony have pushed me in that direction by making series after series of baffling business decisions. Microsoft and Sony have made choices with their gaming platform hardware, software strategy etc. which do not gel with me. I do not agree with them, and for Sony it's finally reached a point where the bad outweighs the good.
So no, if you're expecting me to write any further about "what PlayStation (or Xbox) can do/should do to change things", you won't have to read it because that train is gone. I've accepted the direction SIE are going in, I don't generally agree with it, so I'm reprioritizing my customer habits going forward. Lord forbid I do what's best for me instead of cheering on a mega-conglomerate making 2% more profit next fiscal quarter as if that's somehow my money when it's not.
And just because I'm shifting/reprioritizing my gaming habits elsewhere, doesn't mean I'm suddenly not interested in PlayStation technology like PSSR, or what tech they'll have in PS6, or what 1P games they'll be releasing in the future. It doesn't "take back" the praise and complements I've given Sony over the years, just like how I don't take back the compliments I've given Microsoft/Xbox. But it's true, stuff like this compounding on other decisions SIE have already made over this gen, have
reduced my interest in PlayStation as a console for me as a gamer/customer to play on.
Now that interest has just been reduced to the point where I feel I don't need to get a PS5 Pro, or buy a PS6. That's mainly what has changed. I didn't want things to play out this way, so don't lump me in with the disingenuous types or people who were always criticizing the platform. I've been a supporter of PlayStation since the PS1, so I know what the legacy of the brand is. I know it's history, I enjoy its legacy, and I like the gaming culture prior systems enabled. So it takes a
LOT of mistakes for me to lose faith in the brand as far as a console platform, and lose interest in prioritizing my gaming time on future PlayStation hardware.
Yet somehow, SIE managed the impossible in just three years time. As a console,
I have little enthusiasm for PlayStation anymore. As a gamer,
I have little reason to prioritize a PlayStation as a platform of choice. As a platform holder,
I don't have a lot of faith in SIE going forward. As a developer,
I'm still interested in some of SIE's titles but care less for the Marvel influx or safe sequels. As a publisher,
I don't have FOMO for most of SIE's games so I can wait however long it takes for them to go to other platforms (which is taking less and less time, anyway). As a hobbyist,
I'm still interested in SIE's market performance and discussing effectiveness (or failure) of their strategies. And, as a console maker,
I still have interest in learning tech SIE are working on for future PS consoles.
Wow, look at that: a multi-faceted, multi-layered perspective. See how this works!?