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

[Shiken]

I really don't care that they are, especially since the three games in question were likely started years ago for PS4 in the first place. It is much easier to scale up than it is down afterall, and the previous entries for each of those games was quite a few years back. So the timeline adds up that no one should be suprised.

What I don't like however, is how Sony did not reveal that two of these games would be cross gen till 6 months after the PS5 had launched. This is quite shady, and was clearly done to generate hype for the launch of the PS5. So for someone like me, who would have bought a PS5 for GoW, Horizon, or GT7...if I had rushed out to drop 500 bucks on a console I thought I needed to play these games, just to be revealed later that I could have played them on my Pro...I would be pissed. Especially since I also already own a Series X for gamepass and the fact that my VCR X1 needed the replacement more than my PS4 Pro did, which means I already have multiplats covered for performance boosts.

It just really rubs me the wrong way, and there is really no excuse for it. Again, the games being crossgen are not a problem. How they handled revealing the fact is the problem.