John Kodera: “PS4 Is Entering The Final Stages Of It’s Life-Cycle.”

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Hynad said:

Dark_Feanor said:
Why am I not surprised you guys don´t understand the implications of his statements?
You are rambling about GPU/CPU lithography, display resolution, and frame rate when that is the least of Sony´s concerns going next generation.

I don´t know if reports are giving only a small part of his declarations and focusing on this subject. But if those are representative, it is exactly the same thing the EA president said a few weeks ago, causing a lot of rage and youtube videos "debunking" him.

Sony wants live services and online subscription as their main revenue source.

Of course, they would never admit scaling down single play expansive adventures like Horizon, BUT, when you are an executive you have to answer to your stockholders asking:

"How games like Fortnight, PUG, Overwatch can make so much money and we get only a fraction of their profits in our platform?"

Considering the MP of all those games is tied to a PS+ subscription paid to them (Sony), I don't think they would made such a deal out of it. 

Companies will always think how they can get more profit...

But consider the sales breaking record on their SP games, that they make royalties of all 3rd party games sold, plus DLCs, money from PSN+ and on this 3 with very little risk and investment. I think this is quite a good balance.