| novasonic said: They already have 90% of their resources focused on the PS4. 3rd parties will continue to support it for a year or two, but Sony is already moving on. They've almost completely abandoned the Vita, and the number of 1st party games coming to the PS3 between now and when it's discontinued will be countable on one hand. The cost of developing has risen too much. The days of Sony strongly supporting their consoles for 10+ years is long gone. |
It isn't any different from the other consoles. PS2 got their last AAA 1st party with GoW 2, while PS3 got TLOU, GT6 and LBP3. After PS3 launch, PS2 support from everyone took a big hit and all it got was mainly Wii ports (mostly terrible games), yearly sports games and the always "late to the party" Persona and other JRPGs.
Even Vita has more 1st party titles announced than PS3, even counting Last Guardian (that probably will still be on PS3) that's a game that shouldn't release that late. You can count that next year PS3 probably won't get any 1st party title in 2015 and very few 3rd party games since companies have to move on to the next gen and forgot what they left behind.
And honestly, new 1st and 3rd party games don't mean nothing to PS3. Most games launching now on both gen are just getting good numbers with PS4 and X1 and games launching only on PS360 are being nuclear bombs. That's because the early adopters are sick of the old consoles and already bought a new one or are planning to do it soon and don't care about the old consoles anymore. Late adopters are the ones that have a PS3 (or will buy one) and are caring about it. But these people is looking forward to all games they didn't played and will grab old CoDs, God of War 3, GT and so on.
Late adopters are a tricky public because all new games will actually be in direct competition with the entire library. It's not like trying to sell a game to me (early adopter), because I already have all the older games I wanted so I have less games to buy. Right now, selling to the late adopter it's direct competition with their list of pending games that will have some of the best games of the gen. Harsh competition.
