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

[EricHiggin]

shavenferret said:

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

The thing is, they don't really need the walled garden approach anymore. Phil Spencer has been very clear that it is no longer MS's goal to compete with PS5 and the Switch 2 has technical shortcomings that won't allow it to compete with the PS5 in a way that concerns Sony. CPU being only a bit more powerful than PS4 for example (according to Virtuos studios developer)

EricHiggin said:

I think before going hard at porting some games to SW2, SNY might just take one more crack at a PS handheld (hybrid) and see how it goes. If it sells well enough, fantastic, but if it fails, then focus on porting to SW2,SW3,etc, going forward.

It will be more like the Steam Deck as in they won't develop games for it, it will just run the games on the PS store. So, not really a competitor device to Switch 2 where the games are specifically developed for it around the hardware. If it's not a competitor device they may as as well just put their games on there.

The thing is that having a walled garden would be ideal, but this is unobtainable at least for now.  Moneyhatting exclusives will cost way more since the sales won't be good.  Same thing with MSFT exclusive developers/games.   So, they have to do purely 3rd party or they would have negative profit.  Microsoft won't get enough of an uptick in sales to justify the exclusives, in whatever form these exclusives may come by.

Moneyhatting won't be anywhere as necessary if SNY has the home console market on lock. If PS is confident enough that they can start putting non GASS games on XB, then PS doesn't need to spend anywhere near as much to lock games down to their platform. Most of those games will naturally sell way better on PS6, so SNY would save a bunch of money that way.