Vorodroid said:
I personally will not speculate about money things as I don't know the budgets of these games. But I guess Destruction AllStars wasn't too expensive to make comparing to Concord. HD2 has earned a lot of money and it partially could reduce Concord's loss.
I think FairGames will release and it won't have the same gameplay as Concord. It feels it's in another sub-genre.
I guess they will release more single-player games in the future. I suppose that the initially plan was that the second half of PS5 life cycle could have more exclusive game than the first half. There might be new games from Media Molecule, Bluepoint, from partner studios like Death Stranding 2 etc.
GAAS lineup wasn't the best option for the company but I understand why they've divided to make some GAAS project. I suppose the main reasons behind it was the reception of some PS4 era games.
So, there are some games which had highly positive reception e.g. God of War, Horizon 1, a few other games. But at the same time there were a number of titles which had some mixed reception: Days Gone, Death Stranding, The Last of Us 2, Gran Turismo: Sport, Driveclub, The Order 1886. I remember the times when there were many debates about "boring" gameplay of Death Stranding or big controversy over The Last of Us 2. And also there were games which didn't gain much popularity like Dreams (it's interesting how big its sales) or Detroit: Become Human (on day one, later it became more popular). It seems that TLOU2 situation was that moment when the company decided to do something different. While a lot of people didn't like TLOU2, it has done more reputation damage to PS brand than Comcord. TLOU2 has sold well but the outrage was one of the biggest in the last years. They didn't refuse to make SP games but just decided more online games. It's not an excuse but just one of reasons why they tried to make way into online gaming. |
I'm gonna guess Jim Ryan set up this mess as soon as he got in, they pushed out Shuhei too, from the big stuff, which i knew would be a bad sign. Damn, they should really just let Shu have the keys to the castle, he'd have Nintebdo level quality titles on the go for next gen but with Astrobot and Horizon Lego I assume Herman knows what he's doing.
And hey, yeah. Look at the sales of those games though, Death Stranding isn't getting a sequel because of Metacritic, it's cause ot'a a quality product that sold and remember Sony's first party stuff (something the have forgotton) is to get people on the hardware, even if it means big budgets and not much profit in doing so, breaking even should be fine if it sells hardware and they make the money back off of their take on games sold on PSN. But the games you mentioned did make profit. Even Days gone, that's an odd one that they put in the ground cuase it done well. I suppose they just don't like the gruff biker dude associated with their brand and reckon it hurts more than helps. That's why Decon is not in Astro's playroom.
