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

[Runa216]

IT's a transitionary period. the console isn't even past its 1-year mark. Hell, it's not even at 7 months yet and we already will have Returnal and Ratchet & Clank, not to mention a tonne of other cross generational games.

Some PS4 games are getting PS5 patches for better performance.
Some PS4 games are getting PS5 upgrades and native PS5 versions.
Some games are Cross-Generational between PS4 and Ps5
Some games are PS5 exclusive
Some games are coming out or are already out on PC
Most games are multiplatform and multigenerational.

It's almost like no one answer is right. IT's almost like, and hear me out on this one, diversity and versatility is good for the audience. No balance of exclusives vs cross gen will please everyone, which is why they're trying to appeal to as wide a demographic as realistically possible. No matter what happens there will be people bitching if games AREN'T cross gen, and others bitching if there are only exclusives. Some bitch about games being multiplatform, others bitch about games being exclusive. Some beg for PC ports and others claim they're bad for business.

The reality - and this goes for all game devs and hardware manufacturers and companies in general - is that we don't possibly have all the answers to know what actually is or is not good for the companies in question or their bottom line. All we have is our own interpretations of the data and actions of the company. Some people on this forum think that ALL multi-gen games are bad or stupid or bad business, but really only Sony can possibly know if it's good for their bottom line or not. Some people can CLAIM that not making new games strictly PS5 exclusive is going to hurt the business, but nothing in what we've seen so far indicates that at all.

You can't make absolute statements about what is or is not when we do not have all the data to confirm or deny it. All we can go by is what we have access to, and by all metrics Sony is doing a bang-up job appealing to the widest audience possible given the circumstances. You can claim that they are failing all you want, but reality doesn't really support that claim. Like, at all. Like, it feels like some people are standing in the middle of a torrential downpour saying the sky is clear, here.