You personally not liking them doesn't mean they are terrible or a disaster.
The movie generated so far 414M (will generate more over years) on its first months and did cost 120M. Meaning it generatets hundreds of millions of profits and brings the Uncharted and PS IP to potential new fans.
Remasters, remakes and specially PC ports don't take resources from the other games (plus movie/tv show adaptations) because they are mostly made by other teams or new people hired for that.
Compared to a brand new AAA game, PC ports are so cheap to make and generated (and will generate) them hundreds of millions of revenue and profit.
The director's cuts included many improvements and specially a good amount of new content and features that required a fair amount of job that must be paid by someone. The players who already had the base game had a cheap very upgrade.
In other thread we saw that Sony kept increasing their budget for gaming R&D every fiscal year, and that in the current FY the amount is basically all the revenue that the division generated last FY.
Meaning, that all that extra revenue and profit generated by these things you don't like goes directly to increase the amount of money they spend to make more games.
I accept fair criticism, but not lies and baseless FUD bullshit that goes totally against the reality reflected in facts.
As an example of straight lies: "The communication this entire generation has been terrible", regarding communication they communicated more than ever with more streamed events per year than ever, announcing and showing there more games than ever. Plus they frequently add/anounce/show more stuff to their blog and everything also spread in their very successful social media accounts.
That communication for the PS5 era meant gaming history records for any console maker in Youtube, Twitter or Instagram (I didn't check Twitch but I'd bet there too). And that communication has been very effective because their products have been selling in records numbers, as can be extrapolated from the record engagement from related social media posts:
- TLOU2 was their fastest selling game ever and the game that won more GOTY awards ever, got great MC
- Death Stranding was on track (maybe already achieved it) to be the best selling Kojima game ever, got great MC and was the game of its year that won the biggest amount of GOTYs
- Days Gone became the best selling Bend game ever
- GoT became the best selling Sucker Punch ever
- After solving the covid related chips shortage, PS5 on track to be again in a few months the fastest selling console ever
- PS5 having record player engagement and spent
- PS+ is the game sub with the biggest amount of game subs and revenue (revenue skyrocketing with the PS+ overhaul as it was their goal)
- PSVR2 got better sales during its launch campaign than PSVR1 and got supported with Horizon, Gran Turismo, two Resident Evil games and more, in a bigger and better catalog of VR exclusives that PSVR1 or any other VR device had for its launch campaign
- Demon's Souls remake got a great MC and caused Sony to buy them
- Spider-Man Miles Morales got a great MC and combined to the other one did sell 33M units until a year ago, before releasing the PC ports
- Gran Turismo 7 was Polyphony's fastest selling game ever, got great MC
- Recent MLB games -like GT7- also perform than ever after successfully jumping to GaaS
- Horizon Forbidden West was Guerrilla's fastest selling game ever, got great MC
- GOWR was their fastest selling game ever, got great MC and many GOTY awards
- Returnal was Housemarque's evolution to AAAish, got a great MC, won several awards and I assume may end being their top grossing game (they didn't announce it). Sony seems happy because bought them
They release a shit ton of brand new great stuff, more than ever. And on top of that they also release a few ports/DCs/remakes/etc., which require them little efforts and budget and are a very small portion of their total output but for them is another revenue & profit source that help them fund more brand new games.
If you aren't capable to see that and only see them making ports, remakes or director's cut, it isn't because they have a communication issue on their side, it's because either you are blatantly lying, are heavily uninformed and missed most of their news and games or have an issue like autism or something like that that doesn't allow you to accept reality and facts.
I don't care if from time to time they release some port, remake or director's cut, which in most cases I don't buy. Because in addition to this they release a ton of other stuff I love, and I'm not a childish selfish idiot who thinks that they should only make the type of games I like and that they shouldn't do games of other types of players even if the money they generate is needed to fund the games I like.
