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Otter on 07 March 2020
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curl-6 said:
Otter said:

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.

Just personally, I also liked the PS3 but the PS4 doesn't really appeal to me that much, and I think it's cos the main games I really liked on PS3 were Uncharted 1-3, Resistance 1-3, and Killzone 3.

PS4 doesn't have any Resistance games, and Killzone Shadowfall was just awful, so that leaves Uncharted, and PS4 only has one of those versus 3 on PS3.

What has been your favourite games on PS4 other then Uncharted?

Yeah, that's completely fair, sometimes things dont hit the mark but would you put this down to a specific direction from Sony? I mean other than games taking longer to produce. 2/3 of those franchises didn't exist on PS2 (3/3 for most people) but the studios were given freedom to create them on PS3. On PS4 they moved to some new things again (Horizon, Spiderman) and in large we've seen a lot of new IPs published from them. More then anything sonys first parties are defined by contemporary experiences which are ever evolving. Looking at this year alone for example with Dreams, Ghost of Tsushima. Last year Days Gone & Death Stranding. They hit familiar beats with their biggest franchises but they also have a lot of experimentation in a generation. Some of it falls flat like The Order, but I think the approach was the same with PS3 and it will be the same with PS5. 

But I can see why someone might prefer them to go the Nintendo approach and prefee them to put 90% of their efforts into franchises they've already established of theres something particular you loved in their past.