| Cerebralbore101 said: What's going to happen here is that Sony will slowly shrink and then close their 1st party studios since some part of Sony's leadership has deemed them "unnecessary". Sony's corporate leadership has taken the same braindead position as Phil Spencer by thinking "I could make the greatest game of all time and it wouldn't move console sales one bit". Once you start thinking that way 1st party games take a backseat to whatever other nonsense you are doing. It's already started happening. Bend Studio got its game canceled. Insomniac had layoffs despite Spiderman 2 selling insanely well. The Gravityrush team was let go. Naughty Dog hasn't made a game since 2019. Media Molecule is pretty much dead. |
I think you are missing and mixing some stuff there.
Sony cancelled a lot of games because those were live service games that after the Concord fiasco were found to be likely to fail as well, so stopping them right there was more cost efficient that wasting more money to complete and release them and fail regardless. Some of these studios had to start new game projects and that takes years, that's why they had no games launched. That has nothing to do with Sony not wanting to make games themselves anymore, actually there is not even a single hint about it anywhere, even this whole thing is because Sony is pursuing to develop more games for and beyond Playstation. They stupiditly put far too many of their studios efforts on chasing live services games so they could have their Fortnite, Call of Duty, Overwatch, etc, and failed miserably on it, that is it.
Just look at the last state of plays, Sony is, as it has always been doing, developing high quality games and using them as big showings for the brand. Nothing has changed there. At least up until now, and I see no indicator it is changing as well. Almost every year or two Sony has some of the most acclaimed games being released out there, look at the goty awards, and that is even considering so many cancelled games and lost dev time.
