There's 2 Starship Troopers games on Steam. One is in early access, came out last year.
Proves the point. Console seems less and less the priority for Sony/SIE, at least in terms of making it the best experience it could possibly be.
The preparation for another studio to take over Uncharted should've started before Uncharted 4 was even released. Seems like they operated for years unaware that long dev cycles were going to become the norm. They did not capitalize on PS4 success to secure their future and just started to coast instead and take all that success for granted.
Eventually they'll hit a rough patch and numbers will start going down, if they never had the confidence to double down on PlayStation until now they sure won't have that confidence in the future.
PS5's already tracking behind PS4 launch-aligned in markets like the UK and Japan. Probably globally; we'll know once the fiscals release (those are way later than they normally were in the past).
Some people have been trying to say it's due to no PS5 Pro, but Sony already projected to be comfortably ahead of PS4 by now knowing PS5 Pro would be coming late 2024. The price increase for the console is a better excuse for the slowdown in some markets, but I wouldn't say it's the only reason.
Modern Sony has benefited from key decisions made in the PS3 era (after the initial bad launch) that pretty much ensured their success for the next 15 years but along the way they lost their way and started to coast and think too much of themselves.
This probably can't be said enough. The fact TLOU, Uncharted & Demon's Souls, IP introduced in the PS3 era, have mostly been carrying forward momentum for PS4 and (up to this point) PS5 is telling.
PlayStation is now one lukewarm launch away from unrecoverable obsolesce, only because they chose to be in this position by being way too conservative and basic.
I think how they handle PS5 Pro will say everything, IMHO. Because that effectively is a new hardware launch. How are they going to upsell people on it, when the vast majority of their current-gen 1P games are now on PC with more features & better visuals/framerate than console offerings? AND in a lot of cases, can be had for cheaper (or with free online play, like with Helldivers 2)?
100% a self-made problem on Sony's part. I almost feel bad for Mark Cerny and the engineering team in that sense. But, hey, maybe Sony will surprise me (and many others) in a good way. I haven't completely closed the door on that happening. We'll see.
