pitzy272 said:
This is truly what they should do. They’ve found massive success with ps4. Massive success with ps5 is not a guarantee, however; the past two generations have shown this with the switching of the throne taker. MS is hungrier than I’ve ever seen them, and Phil Spencer is knocking it out of the park with his vision and delivery. MS is all but confirmed to be releasing Halo Infinite as a cross gen launch title for xbox two, and I would put a lot of money down that this Halo is gonna be huge (e.g. see the number of years in development vs. all other Halo games). Sony NEEDS their big hitter in TLOUp2 to also be a launch title for ps5. TLOU will also have multiplayer, which will make it that much more competition to halo. |
Halo already lost part of its image during this gen though...
Sony just need BC for the PS5. It will keep the huge PS4 userbase more interested in the PS5 by default (can sell the PS4, keep the games). There will be operations with "Bring your PS4 back for a cheaper PS5", as it's usually the case with new gens.
And it will also be interesting for people who didn't take the PS4. Even for people who chose the Xbox One, you can't deny that the big PS4 exclusives are attractive. "If you choose the PS5 over the Scarlet, you will also be able to enjoy Spiderman, Horizon and God of War that you missed before". Good selling point.
Phil Spencer is just a PR guy, he didn't really do anything good in the last 10 years, he won't do a lot better for the Scarlet. I've been saying that for years, but I still don't understand how people can put so much faith in him, failure after failure. The only good thing is that they bought more studios, but the output of their current studios has been disappointing on the One, they need to change their way of managing the dev teams more than they need new studios (more freedom for the studios, less "multi-player and game as a service are the future so shoehorn this in your game"...). We also know that buying a Xbox is useless if you have a computer, which wasn't clear yet when the One launched. MS need to finally prove than they can follow their "We understood you" PR with actions.
The only "throne switch" we had was with the PS3 launch, because of the price and PR fails. If the consoles are close in price and features, Sony has the advantage thanks to its better image and usual returning userbase (lowest selling home console ever above 80M...).
Last edited by Faelco - on 07 January 2019
