Jason Schreier: Sony's Obsession with Blockbusters is Stirring Unrest Within PS Empire

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

DonFerrari said:

I guess Jason would invest his own money on losing money projects right?

Which Sony projects lost money exactly? Jason says that Days Gone turned a profit but Sony still decided not to greenlight a sequel due to the lowish reviews (71 meta). Gravity Rush 2 probably turned a profit considering it sold decently and would haven't cost much to develop most likely. 

The only 1st/2nd party PS4 exclusives I can think of that might have lost money would be:

• The Order: 1886 (AAA budget but not amazing sales)
• The Last Guardian (extremely long development cycle which would have made the budget pretty high, coupled with lackluster sales)
• Dreams (failed to make NPD top 20 on release month, though NPD didn't include sales of the early access version with the first month sales)
• Some of the PSVR exclusives possibly, due to how niche VR is, coupled with possibly highish developmnent budgets on a few of them

Did you read OP? He is comparing to the PS3 years where Sony said from every 10 games they made 6 lost money, 2 broke even and only 2 had profit. And he really dislike Sony on PS4 that have been able to constantly sell over 10M on several IPs.

Sony as any company will focus on what bring most money, but we have to turn blind eye to it to make this type of critic.

Sony don`t reveal the number of the least successful titles. But Knack 2 likely didn`t turn a profit as well, and most of the exclusives that weren`t AAA also didn`t made money. Gravity Rush from what I remember was said to lose money. On Days Gone I sincerely don`t want a sequel even though I really liked it, for me that was a game that 1 entry really told the story (same for TLOU imho).