Sony's U-turn - Should first party games be cross-gen?

[Runa216]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

One mistake you are making is that you aren't counting Sony's handhelds as Playstation devices.  The Playstation brand is actually not worth a whole lot.  The PS Vita proved just how much Playstation is worth as a brand: not much.  The games?  Those are the brands that matter.  It's God of War, Spider-Man, Uncharted, ect... that have real value and not the word "Playstation".  You may have bought a PS5 purely for the Playstation brand, but you are definitely in the minority.  Here is how well the PS5 can do on brand alone by region:

Japan: PS5 is not going to sell well here.  They like handhelds in Japan and third party games are now going more toward Switch and less toward Playstation.  
RoW: A fair amount of this category is other nations along the Pacific that have similar tastes to Japan.  Expect an outcome similar to Japan's here where Playstation loses ground to Switch.
North America: Video game brands don't mean a damn thing in North America.  PS2 was super popular in North America.  The next gen most of us flocked over to the XBox360.  Well, it just so happens that Microsoft just bought a bunch of game studios, and they are about to go all out on their E3 presentation.  Hell, Microsoft even goes all out when they have no exclusive games to show.  Just imagine what they'll do when they actually have exclusive games.  Meanwhile, Sony won't even be at E3 and we are instead talking about why you don't need to buy a PS5 because of cross-gen games.  North America is the market Sony should be worrying about.  They can lose a lot of ground in North America because of their cross-gen games.
Europe: They are likely to still do well in Europe.

PS5 is not going to get to 100m systems on Europe alone.  PS3 was the top home system in Europe, and they lost a boatload of money on the PS3.  PS5 is potentially in a worse position than PS3, because they are going to be down in Japan compared to PS3.  Microsoft is going to try their hardest to get a repeat of XBox360's success in North America.  That is what basically will determine how well PS5 does.  If Sony rests on their laurels, then they are going to lose North America again.

PS5 is only guaranteed two things: jack and squat.  They can't make a bunch of mistakes and then expect to sell over 100m systems.  Making their first party games cross-gen is a huge bone-headed mistake.  The purpose of first party titles is to sell new hardware.  It isn't to maximize software revenue.  It isn't even to make your customers happy about buying your system later.  The only smart way to make first party titles is with the intention of selling hardware.  For a console owner that is where the real money is, because the real money is in licensing fees.  More hardware -> more licensing fees.  Whenever a console maker doesn't try to sell hardware with their first party software, they are making a huge mistake.

Oooooh, you're one of THOSE people. 

Yeah I won't be responding to any of your posts from here on out.