Sony's 1st party game strategy: How does it make you feel? Happy/Not?

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ZenfoldorVGI said:
It's part of their short term coasting strategy. Dropping support of 3rd parties in favorable of much higher earnings potential by investing that capital into 1st party games.

The side effect is that Sony won't be seeing many 3rd party exclusives, like they did during the PS2 years. The positive is Sony's first party games will potentially be more frequent and higher quality.

I think it's a bad move. It brings the Playstation brand down, not having many 3rd party exclusives. The end goal is to become similar to Nintendo, and I can tell you, Nintendo is very successful, but most people hate on Nintendo's lack of 3rd party support. I don't think it's an even trade. I believe that Sony is trading 3rd party exclusives for 1st party profit. I think that is the reason Sony lost DMC, GTA, FFXIII, and Tekken, and why they will continue to bleed 3rd party exclusives as long as they have them to lose.

Sony didn't lose GTA, they never had GTA. It was timed. Although they did lose timed exclusivity.

The 360 doesn't have many third party exclusives either. Everything is multiplat. And that isn't going to change unless the 360 gets a 50 million lead on the PS3.

They don't really have many third party exclusives to lose any more. Other than MGS and Heavy Rain, they have been bled dry.

Back on topic, I love Sony's first (and second) party. I think it is better than both Nintendo and Microsoft. However, Microsoft seem unusually good at getting first party publishing rights from third party companies...