Sony chief bets on original content as part of ‘creation shift’
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Xbox is no longer a viable platform for Sony to consider porting software to. It doesn’t offer much opportunity when their consumer is strictly dependent on gamepass. Otherwise maybe Sony could consider more ports of online games etc.
This is cope and hope from Xbots. There is only one home console right now and Microsoft clearly sees that now too.
Xbox was killed off. It’s over. Concord bombing doesn’t offset Wukong, Helldivers or how PS5 will be the only console bought for the year.
This is cope and hope from Xbots. There is only one home console right now and Microsoft clearly sees that now too.
Xbox was killed off. It’s over. Concord bombing doesn’t offset Wukong, Helldivers or how PS5 will be the only console bought for the year.
Because the cost of making their AAA 1st party games more than doubles every generation and their revenue (price x units sold + addons) -even if grows- doesn't grow at the same pace. At the current point the investment they take is so fucking huge and the units sold needed to make them profitable is gettin too high.
So they have to increase their revenue and profitability first to reduce the risk of investing hundreds of millions per game and second to make easier/more likely profitability in the long term. And considering that the console market is finite and they already are growing fast their console market share and increasing ARPU to record levels, they still need to expand their audience to reach new players in other platforms.
Even more in the context where unlike in all the previous generations the hardware components of the console instead of decreasing over time, allowing to sell the hardware at a profit in the 2nd half of the generation, the costs kept increasing increases the loses generated by selling hardware. So they have to find extra profitability in the other areas to compensate it.
PS revenue from 3rd parties, accesories or game subs are at record levels and growing thanks to efforts done in these areas.
To increase first party games revenue and profitability they grew their teams, made acquisitions and are expanding to / growing in top genres, business models or platforms where their first party games weren't so big even if already have been there for decades: genres like shooters or platformers, multiplayer, GaaS, PC or mobile, in addition to popularize and further monetize their IPs in movies or tv shows.
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No, but if you were to give advice to that doctor on why jumping off a bridge is bad, we'd assume you have some experience working in the medical field
Of course, only a health expert should determine whether jumping off a bridge could be harmful. Heaven forbid the luxury of common sense.
Maybe he is half ceo, but remember, the company approached, valued and bought by Playstation, and who was Studio Head from 2019?
That partnership with MS was totally unrelated to game development or game publishing, even less to publish Sony games on Xbox.He's talking about going third party.
It was to rent MS datacenters (this is, buildings optimized to have a lot of servers) to store Sony servers and to make joint research and development on AI, semiconductors, image sensors and (not only for gaming) cloud, as was the case of the Sony car.
https://news.microsoft.com/2019/05/16/sony-and-microsoft-to-explore-strategic-partnership/
Regarding the article in the OP, absolutely nothing says or even hints that they will stop being 1st party in gaming or that they plan to bring their games (other than the already known Bungie + MLB exceptions) to Xbox. It talks about the strategy that the whole Sony (not only gaming) has since some years ago, there's nothing new in the article.
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You force them. You say Suckerpunch work on a new inFAMOUS, doesn’t have to be the main team but crate a inFAMOUS team & hire 100 devs to make a inFAMOUS 3 featuring Cole as the main character.
Not sure why the studios can’t create a 2nd or 3rd team literally Insomniac does this. You go to Naughty Dog & say hey create a uncharted team & a jak & daxter team uncharted team has 100+ devs for a AAA game & the jak & daxter team has 50 & focus on AA games. Maybe even look at licensing ip to 3rd party to get spin off games & try to get an annualized to by yearly cadence of games from these franchise. These games from beloved franchise are easy money maker & safe bets
I like how people say AAA games budget increases per gen yet somehow ignore how they can be maintained & kept the same if not shrink budget while remaining quality.
Spider-Man 2 has a budget of 300 million most of that likely $50 million being promotion + licensing. You removed all of that trash Mary Jane parts + the woke bs mission/clear focus on agenda + don’t make a side multiplayer game & pc port on the side & you would’ve ship SM2 much earlier cutting of 6 month easily that brings that game under 200 million which is really great considering the game will sell 15-20 million making over 1 billion in profits/revenue. The only issue w AAA games aren’t the budget but unnecessary bloat + how long they take which co inside with each other.
Yes, they could continue making games looking like early PS4 games with the same features and size and don't add anything new but it is not the case.
They highly improve the visuals and add way more models, animations, features, mission types, attacks, costumes, voice acting, etc. and that costs money. And they are way more detailed, so that costs more money. They add all this because it's what people wants and sells and if not they complain about it. And well, to these extra costs you have to add the plus the inflation on top.
Inflation that makes the $60 (this gen $70) of each copy sold to really be less money than the $60 were when PS4 or PS3 were released. So, even if they could keep the costs the same, they'd still have to increase the sales because the prices of the games don't increase to be updated with inflation.
