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G2ThaUNiT on 28 October 2024
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bdbdbd said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

The biggest threat to Sony and it's shareholders would be a competitive Xbox outselling PlayStation. I don't think it's right to separate competition and pleasing shareholders. One of the best ways to please shareholders is to beat your competition. I also don't agree with them being in a similar situation either. Look at Palworld as an example. Palworld released on Xbone and and XBS consoles, but on PlayStation it only released on PS5. The PS4 is more powerful than the Xbone and could have ran Palworld too. This shows that Sony cared more about PS5 sales than sales of Palworld. Xbox didn't care what platform you played it on. It just proves that Sony still cares more about selling consoles than selling software, and that brings us back to Lego Horizon adventures. They weren't willing to put Palworld or LHA on PS4 but they were switch, why. It can only be because they are worried about people keeping their PS4's and not buying PS5's. They clearly have no fear of Switch preventing sales of PS5

How Sony operates is that they make devices, and on the other hand, make content for the devices - and other similar devices. Basically the Playstation division has been some sort of exception for bringing in the money. After restructuring, the game & network division have been making money pretty well, but considering the financial risk in releasing new systems and increasing development costs and times for games, it becomes harder and harder to justify exclusivity to consoles. Considering Hirai said years ago that Playstation focuses on service, I'd see it more likely that Playstation will be a service and you can get this set-top box called Playstation you can use to play these games on Playstation network at your living room. And Sony may even license the systems to other manufacturers, so that they either just get royalties from or manufacture some systems themselves. This is pretty much what Google does - they licence their content shop platform to any system possible.

If you look at how the tech world have been for a decade: Sony copies Google, Apple copies Sony, Google copies Apple and Microsoft tries just to hang in there. 

This is exactly what Valve is trying to do. They attempted it a decade ago with Steam Machines, but we know how that went lol. Now they've found their own niche with first party hardware, but with their open-source OS that can be downloaded anywhere. Big difference though is Valve having the luxury of Steam being available on practically 99% of all computing OSs.

That would be an interesting prospect on what a set top box PlayStation might look like. Would Sony do what Valve does and make their own first party hardware but rather than it being open source, license out the OS to manufacturers?

This concept isn't new either as Nvidia/AMD have licensed out their GPU tech to other OEMs for a long time now and other manufacturers are able to adjust/modify to make their own unique product.