Those Ueda games are nice and all but outside of internet chatter who’s really buying them? They take YEARS to make, to the point where the last game had to be finished without the lead, and to this day Ueda still has not even shown his new game. He left Japan Studios long before its closure.
Same could be said about Demons Souls. Look how that turned out. SIE dont always know what they are doing. Its not like these games were losing money. We need variety as PS.
Like I said we cant just make blockbusters, we need some smaller games and SOTN wasnt just internet chatter, it was one of the greatest games of the PS2 generation and the remake on the PS4 also got 91 metacrItic. It reviewed way better than GOT, Spiderman, Horizon and its a way better game Than those. Im not an investor, Im a video game fan. Yes I know Sony needs to make money and they are, but they can still make money making smaller games too.
Jak n Daxter didnt sell huge numbers but Im pretty sure if they made one or a remake it would sell well.
By the time Sony closed Japan studio it was running as a support studio, basically what XDev is doing in Japan now. They put out non-stop commercial and critical duds last gen, and most people that constantly bring the up didn’t pay for any of them brand new. They only get brought up when people whine about the AAA games they always run out and buy from Sony.
But they are still loved. Gravity Rush had a decent fanbase. It just got cut short. A 3rd game could of been big. Bloodborne didnt sell heaps but the next Miyazaki game or Bloodborne 2 would sell 10m easily. If the next Killzone or Resistance is made it would be big too, you can’t always judge it on the last time.
The Sony of early and mid ps3 and psp era would be on its last legs right now if all they aspired for was creative and quirky games to satisfy like the 15% of people that care.
If sony wasn’t producing games like Last of Us, God of War, Tsushima, etc. there would be a MAJOR hole in the AAA space for those type of games. Not everyone can make the type of big projects sony does, but there are tons of indie studios that can make better games than pixel opus that sony can sponsor and market.
They just haven’t proven to be a very valuable studio, i hate to say that cause i did want to see if they could grow into something more but the people at sony know better than us and they saw what they had done and it wasn’t it.
I have faith that the people at SIE know what they’re doing by this point.
Im not saying dont produce AAA games. Make as many as you want, I love them but I also love the smaller games.
The smaller games is what kept PS alive and strong during the PS3 era. Almost every month they had a game coming out, thats what made the PS live and catch up to Xbox 360. That and the big titles from Naughty Dog.
Nintendo is smashing it with smaller games, no reason we cant have them too.
Im not saying your wrong, Im saying as a fan, I want these smaller games too. If you dont want these games good for you, your not getting them now anyway. But I want these games, Im losing out. Its just sad too see. And its one of reasons Japan doesnt care about PS as much anymore, they like smaller niche titles.
