Captioning the 9th Generation: The Public Suicide of PlayStation

[Norion]

It's very hard to take this thread seriously when you say the PS5 generation is quickly turning into the worst chapter in Playstation history when it's gonna be the most profitable one yet and the PS3 lost them literally billions and really hurt the company and brand for a while. Aside from that I do think Sony could potentially have some trouble with the PS6 but them reducing first party exclusivity isn't the defining factor there. The significant growth of PC this decade, long cross-gen periods becoming the norm and the decline of third party exclusivity was gonna have an impact regardless. A PS6 that's probably as expensive as the PS5 Pro was gonna be a tough sell to someone who bought a PS5 from 2023-2027 or someone who prefers PC gaming anyway due to those factors.

Younger gamers today are just not as into traditional console gaming as millennials are so I really don't think Playstation continuing to push first party exclusivity hard would do much other than delay the inevitable when those gamers can already play 99% of popular games on a PC. The massive decline of third party exclusivity matters more here. The first party games can only do so much when people will no longer need to buy Playstation consoles to play things like Final Fantasy games right away. You mention Nintendo but they'll eventually be impacted by this stuff too. Stuff like them going with much weaker hardware only delays things like budgets getting increasingly high and development times getting increasingly long.

Last edited by Norion - on 20 July 2025