The lack of first party games from sony in 2024

[Chrkeller]

Bandorr said:

Means 0 to me. 100% zero.
The PS5 got an INSANE amount of game this year. Why do I care where they came from?

It got a nice mix of more niche games (Octopath, Atelier, TheaterRhythm) but also the big ones (Alan Wake 2, Baldur's gate) etc. It even got PS5 exclusive games (FF16, Spider-man 2) etc.

Games like Redfall aren't suddenly good because they suddenly are only coming to one platform, and Fate Samurai Remnant isn't bad for being on multiple systems.  If Playstation bought Luminous Productions Forespoken wouldn't have suddenly become a "must have game" just because it switched to first party.

A relationship with other companies is important. If you are Nintendo during the 64 age and you mess up that bad - you have to go hard on exclusives.  But if you can navigate those pitfalls and constantly get games from other companies you don't have to worry about your own supply of games so you can spend more time on the quality of them.

Agreed.  FF16, RE4, Dead Space, AW2, SF6..  the ps5 isn't hurting for games.