I agree Sony need to buy a Japanese publisher. Square, Tecmo, Sega, anyone tbh
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I agree Sony need to buy a Japanese publisher. Square, Tecmo, Sega, anyone tbh
Have you thought about the possibility that these penny pinchers at Sony were responsible for ending the partnership with Square Enix?
I agree Sony need to buy a Japanese publisher. Square, Tecmo, Sega, anyone tbh
But they will cost alot more than Bungie, Haven, Firewalk etc. Closet being Tecmo and Bungie in price
I agree Sony need to buy a Japanese publisher. Square, Tecmo, Sega, anyone tbh
What exactly does Sony have to gain from buying one of the following? PS is getting all of these games to begin with, a Bethesda type purchase serves no purpose other than gatekeeping games even more.I agree Sony need to buy a Japanese publisher. Square, Tecmo, Sega, anyone tbh
But they will cost alot more than Bungie, Haven, Firewalk etc. Closet being Tecmo and Bungie in price
What exactly does Sony have to gain from buying one of the following? PS is getting all of these games to begin with, a Bethesda type purchase serves no purpose other than gatekeeping games even more.
After the purchase each studio is a PS exclusive dev? Thus making their value slimmer as they are selling to a smaller audience
Honestly, those studios deserved to be shut down (minus Japan Studio). Gotta love gamers posting how upset they are of studio closures when they themselves didn’t support the games of said studios. Anyways, I am also not fully on board of Sony buying a publisher.
Its not just about exclusives. Thats a part of it.
They will gain profit from the games they sell if they own them. Even if they decide not to have them exclusive. Have more IPs in their library, more genres under Playstation studios.
FF14 profit could be Sony profit. Fromsoft Proft would be Sony profit. Persona 6 profit etc, would be Sony etc etc.
Xbox without Minecraft, Bethesda and Activision would be mostly worthless now. Halo means nothing, theres Gears, Forza, Flight Sim and Sea of Thieves, thats about it. Those titles still hold worth and liked.
With purchases, now they Have Minecraft, COD, Doom, Diablo, WOW, Elder Scrolls online, Candy Crush, the next Elder Scrolls. It still holds some demand, until they fuck it up anyway.
Yeah MS spent a ridiculous amount and probably wont ever make there money back, but Japanese Publishers arent that expensive. And Sony has money. And if they decide to make some exclusives or new ips from the new studios/publisher they bought they have more teams
Right now, I’d like more 1st party games from PS and more genres.
If they make it exclusive, or gatekeep, thats more worth for people to buy a Playstation. They still need that, there not the Platform thats forced to go Multiplatform like MS.
Nintendo and Playstation still have that ability to be draw people into their platform with exclusives. Nintendo more so, but before 2019, PS had that draw too. Gatekeeping is a way of making your playform stand out more. MS was gonna do that, just like platforms always have
You're ignoring the warning example from that strategy though: Microsoft.
Microsoft initially bought Zenimax to do exactly what you're saying SIE would do with buying Capcom, SEGA and/or From Software. They intended to foreclose a lot of ABK IP off of PlayStation to replicate what they were going to do with Zenimax. However, the combined costs in those acquisitions was a massive reason why they've reneged on that and are finding themselves publishing their games on all platforms now.
If Microsoft weren't able to salvage Xbox as a console by making games like Starfield, TES, DOOM, Wolfenstein, Crash, Spyro, (likely) Tony Hawk and other IP console exclusives, what makes you think SIE would be able to boost PlayStation hardware sales by making Persona, Street Fighter, and Elden Ring console-exclusives to PlayStation?
Now I'm not saying those IP as exclusives WOULDN'T boost PlayStation console rates. They would...if the costs in acquiring them were low enough. And that right there is the problem: buying those type of 3P would cost several billions of dollars, and SIE are focused on profit margins to a comical degree. To them, the only way that type of acquisition would make sense is to keep those games multiplatform or even get them to more platforms, not less. The same reality Microsoft ran into after buying Zenimax & especially ABK. Though Xbox was the weaker brand, so that reality just punched them a lot harder, and faster. Doesn't mean PlayStation wouldn't get punched, it'd just be a bit slower and not hit quite as hard.
Also like we're seeing with Xbox post-ABK, it doesn't seem like these big M&As are actually resulting in more games. In fact, I'd say we're getting less. We won't see any future games from Arkane Austin since they were shut down. We almost lost HiFi Rush 2 because Microsoft closed Tango Gameworks (only for Krafton to save them). We saw a planned Crash 5 get cancelled. Toys for Bob had to buy their independence else Microsoft were going to close them, too. And where the hell is Everwild, where the hell is Contraband, where the hell is State of Decay 3 or Outer Worlds 2? Didn't Blizzard's survival game get cancelled after MS purchased ABK?
See what I mean? Meanwhile with SIE, Insomniac have basically become a Marvel studio and rumor has it the next Rachet & Clank was internally cancelled. The sales of these PC ports that people kept saying would bring us more games, well where are those games? Maybe arguably Astro Bot is something of a product of that, but meanwhile Naughty Dog cancelled Factions 2 & probably won't have any new game to show for at least a couple of years. Insomniac cancelled the Spiderman GAAS title, Concord became the biggest AAA failure of the decade & Firewalk was closed. Neon Koi is dead, and we never even got to see what they were working on. Bungie is a mess ATM, and not a word on what Bluepoint might be up to.
It's crazy enough some Xbox diehards still want Microsoft to buy yet more publishers, but on the flipside...do you really want current SIE to buy a big 3P publisher? Even if they did, what are the chances that acts as a propellant for PS consoles and not just facilitate SIE being a multiplatform publisher even faster?
I do buy them on PCVisions and Saga already came out and sold like shit. The rest will flop too. Fantasian is number 3398 on Steam
Put your money where mouth is and buy these fucking games if you want them. I don't.
PS fans put them on top we can put them down just as easily. It is not on us to bail them out anymore
They are also focusing on Steam all upcoming games will be day and date for PC going forwardPeople not buying games on Xbox, they should really focus on Steam and Switch 2.
Hell their games underperformed on Xbox 360 when Xbox was at its peak, now it’s just a gamepass machine.
Yeah I'm sure you bought that 1 copy.I do buy them on PC
Visions and Saga already came out and sold like shit. The rest will flop too. Fantasian is number 3398 on Steam
Put your money where mouth is and buy these fucking games if you want them. I don't.
PS fans put them on top we can put them down just as easily. It is not on us to bail them out anymore
The only ones bragging here are Xbox and PC fans. Why do you think that PC troll made this thread?
As I said, the game is number 3400 on Steam and non-existent on Xbox. OP doesn't give two shits about it. Exbots fans are still butthurt about FF16 and FF7Rebirth, that's the only reason why we keep getting these articles.
Yoshida and Kyriu will learn the hard way, like Sony and their flop PC ports, that catering to people that never supported you always backfire badly.
Hit me up when you find Fantasian on the Xbox charts
This may be you wish, but in the real world we know that minimum the third part of the FFVII remake will be exclusive too. Who knows what else Jimbo kept signed. Probably Kindom Hearts 4 and (this one maybe on Switch 2 too) Dragon Quest XII.
You just fail to see the logic.
Take Two, the publisher of the biggest third party game on the planet, GTA, will release GTA6 on consoles first.
Square Enix, the maker of Final Fantasy games, will release FF7 3 on PS5 exclusively.
Nintendo, the maker of Zelda and Mario games, will keep releasing exclusively on their hardware.
I also buy them on PC. I bought every Final Fantasy game available on Steam just this year, including FFXVI day one for the PC port.I do buy them on PC
Concord, Until Dawn, Horizon RE and Lego Horizon says otherwise. When you go full multiplat, no one cares anymore. You are nothing more than Ubisoft or Embracer.Sony's PC ports have done poorly but that's because they're not day one. If they were (like Helldivers 2), they would do some serious numbers.
It sold more than they will ever sale on Xbox+PC combined. Good luck to Square, they will need itAnd when their games were exclusive to your beloved PlayStation, barely any of you showed up. I showed up more than you guys and yet, you ponies always claim to buy games. Yeah, right.
Concord, Until Dawn, Horizon RE and Lego Horizon says otherwise. When you go full multiplat, no one cares anymore. You are nothing more than Ubisoft or Embracer.
Sony is actually doing worse than even the smallest indie devs making cheap porn games in their spare time
"Reach more people" is a myth.
It sold more than they will ever sale on Xbox+PC combined. Good luck to Square, they will need it.
What logic leaving money on the table and we haven’t gotten any official announcement from Take 2 that the PC version is delayed all the Take-2 CEO said that a PC version is happeningYou just fail to see the logic.
Take Two, the publisher of the biggest third party game on the planet, GTA, will release GTA6 on consoles first.
Square Enix, the maker of Final Fantasy games, will release FF7 3 on PS5 exclusively.
Nintendo, the maker of Zelda and Mario games, will keep releasing exclusively on their hardware.