Was Sony's focus on late last gen triple A a failure?

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sales2099 said:

platformmaster918 said:

sales2099 said:
Well Beyond certainly won't give Sony a profit. GT6 is a no brainer for profit, but it won't have the legs that GT5 had.

It is almost like these games were made as a PR stunt, disregarding maximum profit and only did it so the forums can praise them for supporting PS3 so late in the gen.

making great games for your console at the end of it's time in spotlight (not life) is a lot more than a PR stunt.  It's called long-term support.  A PR stunt would be saying you're going to do that and not or giving it half-baked games or games from your suckier studios.  Puppeteer, Beyond, and Last of Us have been 3 of my favorite games from this gen.  Puppeteer and LoU are in my top 10 for the ENTIRE gen.  It just reaffirms that I made the right decision with Sony.  PR stunts end in disappointment.  This support did not.  Speaking of PR, their MARKETING completely failed with everything other than LoU.  They should have been shoving these new games in people's faces especially the new IPs.  They need to be made aware.  My 3 apartment mates saw me playing Puppeteer and were in awe of the visuals and gameplay and asked what it was.  That means Sony marketing failed.

That Sony marketing failed to bring these games in the mass markets eye, and were only noticed by the loyal fans/core gamers, tells mem that the games in themselves were PR in nature. They literally made games as PR stunts so the gaming internet would continue to praise them. Sales.......sales are a bonus at this point and certainly is not the main objective here imo

so...you think Sony wanted these games to not make money (ie not sell)?  I don't think you know what a PR stunt is.  If PR is trying to sell to a small minority on the internet then they aren't doing their job well.  Sony makes games to make money off those games.  The quality of these games is obviously top notch (Beyond is love it or hate it but I haven't heard of anyone trying Puppeteer and not liking it).  That tells me they're not PR.  If they had all gotten bad reviews or looked like SNES games that cost $50 to make then I could say they were PR.  If they were 3rd party games and Sony acted like they were proof of late gen support then I could call them PR.  High quality games with full visions are anything but PR.  Software support in general might as well be called PR at that point.