| Sephiran said: Its the opposite, the reason why Sony is fine with going third party is because they have hard data that the majority of people buy Playstation consoles to play CoD, EA sports games and other third party releases and live service forever games. They know PS5 have few exclusives, and releases their games on PC for years as well as PS5 price rising WW and this is still not impacting their hardware sales performances. What this shows is that Sony, unlike Nintendo doesn't need first party exclusives to be a behemoth in the console space. People who buy Playstation consoles to play EA sports games are not going to jump ship to PC just because Sony ports their first party games to Switch 2 and Xbox. The Playstation brand is incredibly strong WW, and its seen as the default way to play games such as EA sports FC and Madden in Europe and the US, that has the benefit that it means Sony doesn't need to work to get people interested in buying PS in Europe and the US, while Nintendo really needs stuff like a new Zelda game or a new 3D Mario game to get many people to jump into getting a new Nintendo console. That is the disconnect, many hard core gamers think Playstation consoles sell 100M+ because people want to play Ghost of Tsushima or Horizon Forbidden west, while the reality is that people get Playstation to play CoD, EA Sports FC, and even stuff like Genshin in Japan. |
We have seen major hardware boosts from the likes of God of War Ragnarok, SpiderMan, Uncharted, and even Gran Turismo. In fact, there's a reason November 2022 still remains as the PS5's top selling November (NPD) of all time. There's also a big difference between releasing late ports (1 or 2 years) compared to Day and Date releases. The latter would gradually impact PlayStation hardware sales as we've already seen with Xbox. Comparing PlayStation only sales, you will find that first party games routinely top the list, while still being a major factor in driving premium subscription sales/engagement. Its not as clear cut as attach rate or overall game time.
This job listing is pretty boilerplate and has come up in the past couple of years from what I can recall anyway. I think it opens up the possibility of Xbox getting more late ports than Day on Date PC TBH. Both are damaging to the brand, but the former is nowhere near as deadly as it could've been, with Microsoft on the way out with traditional consoles.
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