Will the PS4's First/Second-Party be more influential to hardware sales than with the PS3?

[HappySqurriel]

Jay520 said:

HappySqurriel said:
Even if you're talking about first and second party games the answer is no ...

Zipper Interactive, SCE Sony Liverpool, 3 studios within Sony Online Entertainment, Incognito Entertainment, and Bigbig Studios were all closed in the past generation. With Sony being in their current poor financial state it is likely that more studios will be closed and/or merged, resulting in fewer games being published.

How big of an impact do you think those losses were?

On their own it isn't a major loss for Sony, but with the likelihood that Sony will close more studios in the next 12 to 24 months it will have a major impact on Sony's ability to deliver games.