Shawn Layden (Sony) talks about singleplayer and story games for the people

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Turkish said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

A few other people have made the incorrect assumption that I'm complaining about Sony's cinematic pretensions because I favor multiplayer experiences. That's not the case. I much prefer single-player content. I just value player agency, and the demands of cinematic storytelling by nature chip away at player agency. 

I'm aware of the diversity on PS4 and PSV. I acknowledged it above in my reply to Zekk. I regularly play both systems. I beat Metro Redux last night on PS4 and I'm downloading Tokyo Xanadu on PSV as I write. No need to call me ignorant. My tastes are just different from yours. That's all.

Then why are you drifting away from Playstation? It's not all about cinematic games on PS4.

It's a slow drift, as I said. I'm just not as invested as I was in, say, 2001-2009, which for me were the glory years for the PS ecosystem.

With Ueda gone, Liverpool and Cambridge shuttered, and Sony executives waxing poetic about emotional storytelling, I'm starting to peel away. I wouldn't want to ditch PS4 entirely, as there are games from Atlus, From Software, Platinum, and Insomniac that simply aren't available elsewhere. But with the majority of PS4 third-party content playable on other platforms and/or skippable and with internal studios prioritizing narrative, I'm less invested now than I've ever been.