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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Sony is having their Disney moment and don't realize what's going to hit them. When the super hero and Disney in general craze was happening, it felt like Disney could do no wrong. Whether it be star wars, marvel or live action remakes, they all made money. Even their shat movies made tons of money. But eventually, especially after End Game, things changed as there was a new Ceo.

Disney's new ceo needed TV shows and content to attract and keep audiences for their streaming service: Disney+. Marvels forte was movies and never really took tv shows seriously. As their focus begun to split between tv shows for streaming as well as movies, we started to see a drastic quality change. They rarely had movies and tv shows that were hits and instead had constant flops. They were no longer making tons of money with bad movies and even good movies were barely making money due to how expensive they were. Even after getting rid of the new ceo and putting back the old one that lead them to their success, the train has crashed. Something like mando and grogu movie got killed in the box office by the likes of smaller and unique films like Obsession and Backrooms.

Does this sound familiar? Perhaps like with Playstations new ceo that chased games as a service instead of the studios forte being single player games. Playstation lost tons of money thanks to their awful leadership and direction. And now they are going nuclear by pissing off all the fans that supported them all these years.

There was a time where Disney thought they could do no wrong. Playstation thinks they same. Even Playstation copied their intros to be similar to Marvels. Which makes the situation all the more hilarious that they are following the same fate.

Just my take

My take? There are several problems going at it at the same time:

The biggest problem is the current capitalist model in western economies, always chasing growth (enter Phil Spencer gif here). It's an illusion, an impossible task, that everyone knows deep inside, but they all know that the first one to day it out loud in front of investors will be cooked. And so the curse keeps going on.

Related to that, there's the whole "expanded audience" motto that Disney and gaming companies pursue, changing, altering and modifying known franchises and IPs in an attempt to get more people to watch/buy/play them. And I have to ask: has it ever worked? Even once? The biggest problem with The Last of Us 2 was that and all the noise it brought. Concord also fell in that trap and Naughty Dog's next game may or may not be in hot water because of that as well.

Of course, and related again to the first point, there's the shift in mentality that happened a while ago that went from focusing on the product to focus on the sales. Because sales teams are the ones that bring money and, therefore, are the more important ones. The product no longer matters because a good sales team will be able to sell it.

And the change in leadership among the industry also plays a big role in what's going on. Developers, producers or people that actually knows how games are developed and produced have been replaced by newer people that mostly come from sales or business teams. They don't know, maybe not even care, about the games and the strengths and weakness of the studios, they only see what's hot in the current market and try to replicate it. GaaS titles make a lot of money? Let's make one with a whole new studio! Or why did Naughty Dog try to develop a multiplayer game when they're known for its single player titles?

So yeah, Sony (and Disney) should look at Intel and what happened to them when they replaced engineers with sales people as CEOs until it exploded and had to bring back two engineers to steer Intel back into the right path, and act accordingly.

But they obviously won't.