Mlb?
Game is literally a multiplat given for "free" yearly on Gamepass. No greater L optics wise, unless you count the dollars as a W (which it's somewhat). Then again what's PlayStation? or the point of the thread for that matter. May as well list all third party multiplats releasing next year by that mindset.
Not to mention these days PS exclusives are, in effect, Early Access exclusives, and with GaaS releases (Concord, Helldivers II), no longer the case. The point of these threads is becoming more of a joke the further Sony makes inroads into becoming a third party publisher - as their leadership has proudly explicitly stated (facepalm.gif).
At some point when the Xbox boogie man is gone, and MS is well on its way with those declining sales..... when those 20-30m Xbox consumers slowly die off (with PlayStation, PC and Nintendo splitting the proceeds) folks will have to come up with different exclusionary props to make PlayStation hardware and its ecosystem feel different and unique. The big elephant in the room is not going away....aka one of PlayStation's most direct competitors - PC. PC is gaining on PlayStation when it comes to the content war, and with Sony's explicit help. I would posit Xbox's diminished market share and declining trajectory is no longer and should no longer be the focus of competing practices and policies for Sony.... specially if the compromise by default benefits PC. As it stands today it's clear PC is an even stronger competitor to PlayStation than Xbox, with a hard to crack loyalty base. Valve is making sure ecosystem loyalty strengthens at every policy step of the way, and Sony's software support helps that cause. Unlike Sony heads, Valve is not stupid and knows exactly who their competitors are - consoles.
What's next after Xbox? Pretend that Nintendo is that guy? And not PC and Valve?
This whole push of becoming a third party publisher to increase margins and "expand" at the expense of the PlayStation hardware has consequences.
"Nintendo needs to realize it has a future outside its hardware"....sound advice from successful businessman /s. Seems Sony has crossed that rubicon and believes in that horseshit, hence no need to even mention it.
As soon as the hardware isn't the focus, like Xbox... the competitive relevance of Nintendo and its hold on consumers diminishes 10 fold - which is the whole point. For the software will always have to be sold on a platform - and naturally, that will be a platform that Nintendo should not own - for the benefit of that platform holder not named Nintendo (to profit the most and lock consumers in - say PC or "Cloud services"). If you can't beat them, have them stupidly change course themselves in a fools errand that taps greed as a carrot. Sony's halfway there. Publisher loyalty pales in comparison to platform loyalty, just look at EA or ABK storefronts on PC etc and their performance vis a vis Steam. Competitors that wish PlayStation harm naturally wish diminished appeal of PlayStation hardware, which by extension carries the ecosystem on its back. PlayStation exclusive software is a key pillar to PlayStation's hardware appeal. The loop has always been simple.
Bottomline, a lot of PlayStation fanboys have to ask themselves this question:
What is PlayStation?
Define PlayStation. (Not the PlayStation of one generation ago or two generations ago, but today's PlayStation.)
Nintendo fans won't have a problem with that question if asked the same about Nintendo. On the other hand the world salad you're gonna get from Xbox and PlayStation fans, not too far behind speaks for itself.
If I have to answer this question, my answer is simple: "I no longer fucking know what PlayStation is, or what it stands for. I used to know, but no longer do."
Simple questions requiring simple answers.
And the OP title is objectively wrong.
"PS5 and PC 2024 line up looks good so far" is more apt.
