Satya Nadella says more Xbox games will be released on other platforms

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Hardstuck-Platinum said:

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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. 

If PlayStation was going in the direction of becoming a service and just selling software, then Palword would have been on both PS4 and PS5, just like it was on the Xbone and XBS consoles. The way they are releasing games on their platform is refuting your theory and proving that selling the newest console is still top priority. Releasing games on PC and 1 on switch doesn't automatically mean you are becoming a service and a third party. I don't know what else to say. They've been so successful selling PlayStation hardware, that it doesn't make sense to even speculate that they will stop at some point. Heck, they're just releasing a PS5 Pro next month, so doesn't it seem silly to you to be speculating the end of PlayStation hardware?

Of course the newest console is their priority, it's supposed to make profit. PS5 is already 4 years old, PS6 is already on it's way and PS4 isn't being sold anymore. PS6 not announced, of course, but it's on a design table and Sony is planning it's strategy with PS6. It's possible they already are making launch games for the system. See the problem - the development times and costs are killing the console cycle. 20 years ago you could release your game at launch, have the updated sequel and maybe have the second sequel that's optimised for the hardware. Today a studio has time to develop a game or two each generation and the first one is made without knowing the actual specs of the system.

We already know Sony's management told us that Playstation is supposed to turn into service and it seems Sony's been making Playstation compatible for this one for quite some time. Sony don't seem to fix something that isn't broken and make a 180 degree turn when they're successful. If Sony decides to change during the PS4 era, they spend tha PS5 era to integrate everything so that PS6 can work as a service they intended.