| firebush03 said: Do y'all think it's possible Sony held off from dropping too many major releases this year in order to build up a powerful catalogue to compete with NSW2 next year? Seeing how powerful Zelda, 3D+2D Mario, MarioKart, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and Smash Bros were during the NSW gen, I can only imagine Sony is a little worried abt PS5 remaining competitive once this whole new wave of Nintendo games drop over the next 3-4y. Plus, we already know of Ghost of Yoeti for PS5. Possible there is one or two more major releases yet to be announced? |
Doubtful.
At this point, none of the three console makers are actually looking at each other as direct competition. Each one is trying to expand what they each think is their best route to increase their revenue and userbase.
Microsoft's trying to expand Xbox as a service rather than a hardware platform. They dont really need to worry about losing revenue because they own Blizzard Activision, Bethesda, etc which will bring in revenue (along with porting their titles to PC and Playstation).
Nintendo is doing their own thing they've always done first party wise, they are expanding into live entertainment (i.e. Movies and amusement parks) and dipped their toes into mobile by having second party dev/third party devs make mobile exclusive games using their IPs.
Sony is already expanding their ecosystem albeit a bit slower than Microsoft (i.e. expanding to PC) but mainly re-enforcing their hardware lineup with the PS5 Pro. They are hitting the ceiling with what they can do, the PS5 Pro helps elevate it a bit but long term planning includes expanding to PC (and I can slowly see them expand to other platforms like Switch, they already greenlit LEGO Horizon)
Not saying we'll see the bigger titles coming to Switch but I can see smaller titles and partnership/license titles like LEGO Horizon and MLB.
Third party exclusives have been less this generation than past - I can see it being close to none in the coming generation (i.e. Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy being the last big exclusive deal that SE has for an example - at best a 6-8 month exclusivity deals).
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