Will Sony Copy Microsoft and Make Playstation a 3rd Party Publisher?

[Soundwave]

xboxgreen said:

Shaunodon said:

Which single-player games are they missing compared to their best-selling ones from PS4?

-Spider-Man
-God of War
-Horizon
-Last of Us Remaster
-Ratchet & Clank
-Demon's Souls (in lieu of Bloodborne)
-Ghost

Games which did almost nothing original and followed market trends of the time. Them going for GaaS was just a continuation of that methodology.

Even with sequels to those series, even with moneyhatting several notable games each year, even with Xbox nosediving and losing it's marketshare, PS5 is selling less than PS4 launch-aligned.

Couldn't said it better myself. Sony realizes consoles are not the future. PC, Mobile, and Cloud are the future. They need to raise as much capital as possible and acquire studios fast. Content is going to be king soon, not hardware.

Consoles have a future, but Sony is under pressure to keep growing revenue/profit/margins. 

They can sell 100-120 million Playstation home consoles in their sleep at this point, the problem is game development costs are way higher (lower margins) and not only that there's fewer games per generation they can release. Days of being able to make a sizable game in 2-3 years are largely over, nowadays it takes 4-10 years in many cases for a game to complete, that means they have less content to pull profit from on top of those games requiring larger budgets. 

If you're investing $150-$400 million into a game nowadays it also means you're sitting around waiting 4-5-6-7+ years before you can even get any return on that investment. 

Some of these games if game development begins with a new platform is only say 2 years old, that game very well may not even be completed until the successor console is out these days. That's crazy. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 29 July 2025