Playstation being American-ised is bad for the market, I think

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

Mnementh said:

I feel like this could be an important point - or not. Depends on Sony, if they grab this chance. Something similar has happened to Nintendo in the N64- and Gamecube-era. As they couldn't rely on 3rd-parties as much anymore, they started to focus more on 1st-party output, especially in diversifying their games. I know, many say Wii only had minigames, but actually that were mostly 3rd-parties. Nintendo itself delivered a more varied selection, but many 3rd-parties kneeled deep into the mini-games and motion control. And well, they had success to some extend, Cooking Mama and especially Just Dance worked commercially.

So yeah, Sony might do similarly and focus on expanding and diversifying their 1st-party output.

I went over this a bit in my previous post, but I wanted to focus on the OP regarding "Americanization" there.

But to add to what Kyuu said, if one system holds the vast majority of third party exclusives without paying for them, but as a result of the other platforms being unattractive to the publisher, then once those platforms stop being unappealing, the natural thing that should happen is that those games are released on all systems.

This doesn't necessarily mean that Sony did something wrong, or that Nintendo and Xbox did something exceptional. But that Nintendo and Xbox managed to go from unappealing, to appealing.
Which should be expected. But obviously Nintendo likes to do their own unique thing, which has made this difficult. While Xbox had the challenge of entering the market last, etc.

As for whether Sony will use this opportunity to make more diverse games of their own, I don't think so.
At least that they got rid of their Japanese games studio suggests they're going in the opposite direction. And unlike what happened between SNES and N64, Playstation still gets pretty much all those games unless some other platform paid for exclusivity. And I think they are content with that on top of their own first party games. Personally I would like to see them do something like bringing back Wild Arms, but I just don't think so unfortunately.

Sony said they wanted to compliment the 3rd party offering instead of competing, but that was on PS4 so it may have changed. Considering they have FF, Yakuza and Persona for strong JRPGs on their system plus some smaller one it doesn't seem likely they would go the route of creating or reviving a JRPG.