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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

I gotta say that I lol'ed a bit when I saw this:

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Three games in six years? Yeah, not gonna happen.

Yeah, no way are all 3 going to be polished with that amount of time and staff split up. Sounds like CDPR aren't learning and are just like "2077 sold a fuck ton, Witcher show doing numbers, Witcher 3 still selling, we can't possibly fail, the ppl love us again!".

This is why I don't see 2077 making the comeback fans are claiming it to be, and I also think ppl are stupidly easy to forgive and let history repeat itself.

I don't know anything about a comeback, but selling 20 million copies is still a great success.

Chazore said:

The idea that Sony wants money, specifically PC money, but they only want Live service money first and single-player/co-op later, utterly baffles me.

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Sony's strategy is actually quite simple.

Live service games are a rare breed of products that, in most cases, either become a great succes just after launching or die equally fast. That's why Sony will launch those kind of games on as many platforms at the same time, because it's a make or break market and need as many potential consumers as possible.

And when it comes to their regular games, the question that we have to keep in mind is that Sony still makes money from its consoles (not at launch, mind you, but not too long after), and they need to give its consumers a reason to buy them. And the exclusivity period is that reason.

Of course, we can't forget why Sony is doing all this: game development keeps getting more and more expensive with each gen but the console market hasn't grown much since the PS2 era. That's why Sony needs to bring their games to another platform, to PC, so increase its sales, but they still need to be on the good side of its most loyal supporters.