Sony: We Should Probably Develop Less Games

[DirtyP2002]

osamanobama said:

sales2099 said:
Ha....ha. Id like to say I told you so.

Having a ton of exclusives every year with therefore thin spread marketing per game will lead to sales of each game not giving a proper return on investment. Without proper awareness, blockbusters will be rare and therefore will fade in the memories of the general gaming public within a year.

Thats why MS releases a few exclusives and markets the crap out of them, while releasing new games on lower-risk avenues like XBLA where it doesnt really matter if they flop or not.

and thats good for gamers, how?

why does it matter at all how well the games are selling, if they are good.

are you more statisfied as a gamer to now that, sure you only had 1 or 2 games this year, but at least the company that published them is making alot of money. i think most people just care if there are a lot of good games. (which is why i bought the ps3 because there are a lot of games, with a lot of quality, i didnt buy  a PS3 because i was hoping sony would make billions of dollars. and really unless you own stock in the company, why should you care.

how does that benefit the gamer? i think games benefit the gamer, dont you?

Let me explain:

We have to face the fact that the gaming market, especially for core games, is oversaturated, just with all the multiplats. That is the first thing you have to accept.

Games like Skyrim, Call of Duty, Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Dead Space 2, Portal 2, DiRT 3, Homefront, Batman, Saints Row The third, Dead Island, Rage, Deus Ex, Duke Nukem Forever, Warhammer, Goldeneye reloaded, Red Faction Armageddon,  Fear 3, Dark Souls, Lord of the rings, Dungeon Siege II, Mortal Kombat etc etc etc are all multiplat core games that released last year. You have to be nuts to demand more games, because there is nothing to play.

So the competition Sony puts their titles in is huge and most of the time they are not doing that good. That means Sony is losing money with these titles in a pretty big way. Sure a hit like uncharted makes a lot of money, but you have games like Resistance or inFamous2 ruining the fun. Sony actually acquired Sucker Punch which has cost them millions on top of that.

Now Sony are facing very hard times for their financial situation. This will affect further investments in the Playsation product family by Sony. Of course external investors will double check any investment in the gaming industry so every developer or publisher might have some trouble to get their money. Ask THQ.

 

In a word: Sony is pushing products into an oversaturated market. That doesn't help anyone, neither the market nor Sony themselves.