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Otter on 06 March 2020
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The_Liquid_Laser said:

Otter said:

Most of this is not related to sony or anything about how the PS4 was handled. The only topic of relevance is sonys investment in Japanese titles (Gravity Rush2/Blodborne/TheLastGuardian), so its just purely about what software arrives on each platform.

But with some of those comments I'm very surprised you enjoyed the PS3, but you don't need to elaborate on that. 

Sony's strategy is to rely on third party games more than first party games.  Therefore, if they don't have many compelling third party games than that is mostly their fault.  The fact that their first party games are not particularly compelling is definitely their fault.  The Switch has more interesting third party games, to me at least, than PS4 does.  Some of these, like Octopath Traveler or Mario + Rabbids, are there because of Nintendo's involvement.

I stand by my original statement.  Based on my past track record I have been more loyal to Sony than Nintendo, but if PS5 follows the same direction as PS4 then I don't expect to like PS5 very much.  I might skip it or get it cheap for streaming and Blu-Rays.

From your own words you never liked most of sonys offerings to begin with. Uncharted, GOW, TLU. Games that defined the PS3 which you said you  enjoyed as a platform.

Sonys 1st party output on PS4 is critically (metscritic) higher than on PS3. There was not an abundance of Sony Japan games on PS3 either. 

I'm just pointing out that your distinction between PS4/PS3 is blurry and Sony is about to have one of their best exclusive years in history.

And there are more JRPGs on PS4 compared to switch from everything FF related, to DQ which arrived on playstation much earlier, to persona, to Ni No Kuni 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Tales, Nieh  and dozens of niche titles. Absolutely fine you prefer Switch's library but I don't think that's something for Sony to amend as you're suggesting, they have a very high 1st party output that hasn't changed drastically for decade. You are just more interested in Nintendo.