Sony Interactive Entertainment to layoff 8% of their workforce, close Sony London Studio

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Soundwave said:

I honestly wouldn't be that stunned if eventually Sony titles do start to make their way to XBox/Switch 2 consoles, probably not all of them, but GAAS titles like Helldivers 2 which is one of their biggest recent hits I could see eventually being put everywhere as a start, and once the ball gets rolling who knows where that goes.

An industry that is increasingly becoming focused on GAAS titles, those types of games the "business suits" running these companies will want on every major platform.

The other interesting implication here is future devices like Steam Deck 2 and ROG Ally 2 will likely be able to run any PS5/XSX title reasonably comfortably, so if Sony goes all in on PC, those games will run on those portables day 1 too if we're talking like a 2x-4x performance uptick over what the current Steam Deck and ROG Ally are. So like a Steam Deck 2 could run all Playstation games, all XBox games, all PC games, tons of retro games and your purchases are universal so they'll work on your PC, laptop, etc. too.

Think about that. Portable/dockable device with the new God of War, Last of Us, Gran Turismo, Halo, Forza, Starfield, Elder Scrolls VI, Call of Duty, GTAVI and you can also use those games on your PC without having to pay for them twice at a better performance than a PS5 depending on what kind of rig you have.

Posts like these just seem to outright ignore what incentivizes people to play on PS and why PS makes money at all given all the stuff you just listed.  Yes Helldivers is a big hit and they want people to buy PS5 over other consoles for it.  What better way to sell a console than to have stuff other consoles don't have?  They make most of their money from the 30% cut from other games sold on their platform, subs, and NOT having to pay the 30% to someone else for the millions of copies sold on their platforms of their first party games.  The bigger a game the bigger a reason for someone to buy a PS5 and feed them money for years.  They should cut the budget of a lot of their games and put them out faster considering Helldivers 2 probably cost a fraction of what TLOU2 did and that is how Nintendo makes so much.  They simply don't have the bigger budgets Sony does.  Hell Sony gimme some smaller 10-20 hour games that cost a fraction of the money or years to devlop that these once in a generation games now cost (once in a generation in the bad way.  They just take too long!)