Sony is held to unreachable standards

[ToTTenTranz]

Tell me this is normal from a big publication?

Xbox is selling like shit everywhere and they don't even get these headlines. They get praise from Wall Street Journal instead. They are redefining gaming

So what?

If there's anything we've all learned within the past couple of months, it's that access media has absolutely zero power over gamer choices and purchases.

These articles are also not going to budge Sony's decisions. Those guys kept saying Sony was going to be left behind by not offering a service like Gamepass with day one releases, and then Sony just proved them wrong. Sony only cares about their own market research for these things, they don't usually cede to external pressures.


So what are you afraid of? If you think the PS5 Pro is such a good product with nice appeal and offers decent value, then you should just buy one and be confident it's only going to improve Sony's stand in the market.
It shouldn't matter that Xbox is paying access media to shit on the new console, they're irrelevant. The only ones who matter are the gamers who spend their money.

 

[Landiri]

With this kind of feedback you are basically telling them they should only do MP games in the future.

Why?

Their Singleplayer Games can sell 20 Millions on a single Platform, with no cuts.

Sony does not need to sell PC games in console numbers in order to generate operating income....

People really seem to struggle with this.

Xbox tried to appeal to PC gamers, and killed itself.

Not worth it.

 

[arvfab]

Why?

If the core audience accepts the fact that GaaS need a concurrent PC release in order to be successful but not from SP, they might pivot to that kind of games instead (like they already did).

Their Singleplayer Games can sell 20 Millions on a single Platform, with no cuts.

Don't need to tell me. GaaS would be successful too if released exclusively.

 

[Landiri]

Don't need to tell me. GaaS would be successful too if released exclusively.

But their GaaS are dumpsters?

 

[SSfox]

You guys hexed Sony maybe that's why Concord happened

 

[Landiri]

You guys hexed Sony maybe that's why Concord happened

The audience for Condord doesn't buy/plays videogames.

 

[SSfox]

The audience for Condord doesn't buy/plays videogames.

I won't disagree with that

 

[Zzero]

I'm not reading all of op's op, the first two paragraphs are enough to say that he's wrong. The PS5 is being graded against the PS4, its immediate predecessor, the Switch and the Xbox Series. The fact that it comes in third is no-one's fault but their own. Nobody but themselves made most of their first party output crossgen for two-three years. Nobody but them had Bend and Naughty Dog spend years on whatever with no game to show for it. Nobody but them picked such an ugly design for PS5's shell and sued third parties that tried to fix it, nobody but them stuck a bunch of left-wing politics into Spiderman. Its on them just as Nintendo's success is on their team and Xbox's failure is on its.

 

[ksdixon]

1. Real PSP (see: all shoulder buttons/sticks/touchpad, game dl's/storage).

2. Open BC vault/liscense more 3P BC too. Reinstate film/tv buying on PS, and people's PS3 digital purchases when BC sorted.

3. Pursue emergeant games & business opportunities smarter

4. Get BC sorted, rewrite match-making code to sunset games to player vs player, or make server rentals part of a PS+ Tier, and allow people to host little MP fifedoms of the old games. See which can be rekindled with some PS Tournaments backing.

5. Continue TLOU Online. And make TLOU Factions a standalone Remaster. Literally re-use the lost levels branding. And make an "UC MP Collection".

6. Get rid of DEI Influences on character designs. The Destruction All-stars Disaster should have been focused development time straight towards Twisted Metal game, especially with TV show upcoming.

7. Sort the atrocious level of navigation issues/restirctions for the PS5 UI.

 

[SSfox]

PlayStation is in it's worst state it ever. 3rd party is what carry them , and with no exclusives everything in PC. Thanks to Hermen Hulst and his trash decisions making and shitty gaming tastes.

PS5 is my last Playstation console.

 

[FatKaz]

PlayStation is in it's worst state it ever. 3rd party is what carry them , and with no exclusives everything in PC. Thanks to Hermen Hulst and his trash decisions making and shitty gaming tastes.

PS5 is my last Playstation console.

They just released astro bot, one of the best rated games they've ever released. But sure go on that they have no exlcusives.

 

[SSfox]

They just released astro bot, one of the best rated games they've ever released. But sure go on that they have no exlcusives.

Astro bot is awesome, but I'm not just gonna forget that Sony already released 90% of their exclusives catalog to PC, and even on switch sometimes.

And for Astrobot there is no guarantee it will stay exclusive and not release on PC, knowing that pussy Hulst pc fanboy.

 

[mibu no ookami]

Astro bot is awesome, but I'm not just gonna forget that Sony already released 90% of their exclusives catalog to PC, and even on switch sometimes.

And for Astrobot there is no guarantee it will stay exclusive and not release on PC, knowing that pussy Hulst pc fanboy.

Who cares?

 

[SSfox]

Who cares?

True Playstation fans.

 

[mibu no ookami]

True Playstation fans.

Fanboys/children who never grew up with some weird cross section of foreigners.

 

[AllBizness]

The shills are going in on Astro Bot now, no PlayStation exclusive is safe.

Astro Bot's Soulless Devotion To The Sony Brand Is A Real Problem

Team Asobi's made a wonderful PS5 platformer, but its corporate core does it no favors

kotaku.com

 

[mibu no ookami]

The shills are going in on Astro Bot now, no PlayStation exclusive is safe.

Astro Bot's Soulless Devotion To The Sony Brand Is A Real Problem

Team Asobi's made a wonderful PS5 platformer, but its corporate core does it no favors

kotaku.com

Why is anyone worried about what a 28 year old thinks about one of the most nostalgic games in PlayStation history... he literally wasn't there for any of it.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

No they just have REALLY SHITTY PR and they do not communicate with their base anymore, there's zero online presence to set the record straight.

They allow negativity to thrive around their brand and then they turn around and reward the people who hate them most and smear them most, while they ignore the positive voices.

They could easily drop a well made trailer highlighting all the games they have published and secured this year, instead they are too busy showcasing old PS4 games to launch the most powerful and expensive console ever.

When they understand why the PS4 was able to turn the tides on Xbox One because we had people like Adam Boyes and Shu out there to engage and counter the BS.

Games can't do the talking anymore, that why Xbox has such vocals execs.

I am completely against the cult like following around some CEOs, I don't buy the person or their image.

In the case of a console, I buy access to games, conveniencem, better performance every few years. I get one over the other for the games that I want to play that are exclusive to it.

I could not care less if the CEO or some other execs make friends with the gaming press, in fact I think this is worse because many of tose gaming talking heads kind of fell in love with their used car cales man and started to preach his "vision" for him. That caused some serious imbalance and may have broken gaming as a hobby because it gaslit a lot of people into thinking that it made sense, all the while His Philness ran xbox to the ground all on the back of his words that he would be able to give games for pennies and would somehow have the money to make developers rich like never before (and lying about the relative technical prowess of their hardware).

What I want from Sony are games, top of the line AAA games a couple of times per year, quirky AA games and indie type games on a platform that has a clear identity <-- This is what drove me to gaming, and what has made me buy PlayStation systems over the years.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Why is anyone worried about what a 28 year old thinks about one of the most nostalgic games in PlayStation history... he literally wasn't there for any of it.

Would his opinion be more credible if he was 13 or 64? I'm not sure how that makes his click baity take even less relevant than it is.

Astrobot is a celebration and an amazing game, I would say that if there is one recent game that has a soul this is this one (Black Myth Wukong also does).

 

[mibu no ookami]

Would his opinion be more credible if he was 13 or 64? I'm not sure how that makes his click baity take even less relevant than it is.

Astrobot is a celebration and an amazing game, I would say that if there is one recent game that has a soul this is this one (Black Myth Wukong also does).

Yes, it's relevant.

He has no frame of reference, so why would anyone listen to him? That's not to suggest he'd be right if he were 40, 50, or 60, but it's laughable coming from someone his age.