I think the title is wrong about sonys obsession with blockbusters. It's consumers obsession with blockbusters. Why do people talk about specs of their consoles, TFs, RAM, processor speeds etc. Midtier games are great. I play them all the time. Right now is a great example for me where I finished Rage 2 and then Darksiders Genesis and then I'll be playing Returnal.
People want big blockbusters to validate their big shiny TVs and consoles.
More so than that, the polish and spectacle created by these huge games is the ultimate getaway from reality. It's glorious visually and through audio. It's a portal that takes us away from our 9-6 jobs, bills and responsibilities and takes us on a wild ride. I'm not saying smaller games cannot or do not do this, but not at this level, not for most.
The best example I can give if this is Bollywood. Their films are shit. Dialogue is mostly shit. Everything is a musical and it's the same heroes rescuing the same girls across a love story mixed in with action or comedy etc. I asked a relative who is rich and whos family friends own a huge distribution company for Hindi film and music. They said people want a getaway. They are poor and have miserable lives. These films provide a fantasy for them for that brief moment in time.
I think we are no different. We may not be poor but we live shit lives in the sense we will work out 9-6 until we die. Most consumers work to live with little to no savings with mad mortgages etc. This is their getaway, and these big games Sony makes is there perfect getaway for them.
The article lacks any clarity to Sony's plans, it lacks any data regarding psychology or understanding off business, it lacks any data per understanding of what's being made regardless of these changes and what's been released.
It is a hit piece with Playstation at it's centre. There is no other side or maybe it's literally assuming the worst and that everyone at Playstation is a moron.
From a game journalist who won't speak about Gamepass being in the huge billion dollar loss making business (these businesses generally loses billions for years before getting into black if ever).
Still think Japan studio should have stayed open. With all the anime streaming services they own, releasing a handheld with the anime service as part of PSNow or a version of it on there would have brought Japan back to Sony. This is assuming they have no division / team working on that .
Edit: read back and corrected the shit ton of swipe errors.
Last edited by Fei-Hung - on 12 April 2021
