Unless Sony make a big move by the end of the year, I feel like we’re watching Sony get Walkman’s to IPod here in real-time slow motion. Microsoft has a huge catalog of recognizable IP now and it’s only because of their horrible mismanagement and business model that they aren’t the dominant player. Sony can’t buy all the big companies in retaliation but I think they do need to lock down certain key Japanese partners to at least “Nintendofy” themselves from an aggressive competitor trying to consolidate.
I think Sony made the made the most of this situation by delaying it as long as possible and getting a 10 year deal instead of 3 or whatever the original plan was. But if Sony thinks they can stay the course and just develop new IP and in house Gaas I fear they will be mistaken. Unless Sony get some established ip under their belts they can’t always assume they are going to be the best selling console by 2:1 and force Microsoft to port games to them.
Another problem I see for Sony is most if not all of their major ip have gone off the deep end on “woke” politics and characters in an environment where consumers are on the look out to it and are voting with their wallets. Disney is a good example of doing something similar with their ips and they’ve had a horrible year. So not only are they slowly losing ip from third parties, they’re also making what they do have, undesirable to large swathe of potential customers.
All of this is compounded with the fact Sony stereotypically seen as making “movie games” or “walking simulators.” They need new genres. They need an rpg studio asap and they need more than one. They’ve been locked out of most western rpg and fps development already and besides bungie, haven’t done much to remedy it.
And that’s part of the problem, they haven’t done much of anything substantial in the 4-5 years we’ve seen of industry consolidation. In the past they’ve let from software and atlus slip through their fingers for Pennie’s on the dollar of what they’re worth now. There was always a high probability this deal was going to go through and in the past 18 months they’ve done very little to prepare for the eventuality that it would. It’s like they actively refuse to accept reality.
I could go on about other things and maybe I will but I’ve said enough for now.
I think Sony made the made the most of this situation by delaying it as long as possible and getting a 10 year deal instead of 3 or whatever the original plan was. But if Sony thinks they can stay the course and just develop new IP and in house Gaas I fear they will be mistaken. Unless Sony get some established ip under their belts they can’t always assume they are going to be the best selling console by 2:1 and force Microsoft to port games to them.
Another problem I see for Sony is most if not all of their major ip have gone off the deep end on “woke” politics and characters in an environment where consumers are on the look out to it and are voting with their wallets. Disney is a good example of doing something similar with their ips and they’ve had a horrible year. So not only are they slowly losing ip from third parties, they’re also making what they do have, undesirable to large swathe of potential customers.
All of this is compounded with the fact Sony stereotypically seen as making “movie games” or “walking simulators.” They need new genres. They need an rpg studio asap and they need more than one. They’ve been locked out of most western rpg and fps development already and besides bungie, haven’t done much to remedy it.
And that’s part of the problem, they haven’t done much of anything substantial in the 4-5 years we’ve seen of industry consolidation. In the past they’ve let from software and atlus slip through their fingers for Pennie’s on the dollar of what they’re worth now. There was always a high probability this deal was going to go through and in the past 18 months they’ve done very little to prepare for the eventuality that it would. It’s like they actively refuse to accept reality.
I could go on about other things and maybe I will but I’ve said enough for now.
