| KratosLives said: lol remember the same headlines a year or so after ps3 launched ,how abysmal and bleak it all looked for the company?> xbxo 360 had a year head start launch, xbox live was ahead of it's time and psn wasn't as good, , ps3 was priced $100- $200 more, cell processor was a bitch to develop for, talks of sony playstation going bankrupt .. and look what happened. I swear many thought sony was legit going to sell the playstation off to apple. Ps3 came out on top in the end, had the better games, was still making AAA games right till the final year while xbox 360 went out quiet, ended up being the lead system to develop for for multiplats, globally sold better etc.. then ps4 came out and was leading all the way through. And so it continues with ps5. It aint going anywhere. They will be pushing tech with the dual sense along with vr2 to come and the continued leader of putting out AAA exclusives. I doubt a game such as call of duty which is on the decline will sway that many away from ps5, if microsoft decide to make it exclusive. If anyhing microsoft seems to have paid more than what it's worth. Alot of those games in the portfolio don't bring in as much revenue as they used to. Todays audience and the future will compromise of people who weren't the same die hard fans that made those games so big. if i had to bet, playstation will come out on top, xbox will go out, and nintendo will always be the quiet achiever. |
The two situations are vastly different. Why?
The last time PlayStation bled, they just had to go into the healing tank. They had tons of third party studios to rely on increasing the value of the PS3 over time.
This time, Microsoft has gone and purchased a bunch of the healing liquid. Meaning going forward, Sony will have less and less third party games (especially Western) to rely on carrying their console. They will become increasingly dependent (starting in 2023 and really picking up towards 2025 and more after these contracts have ended) on their own first party lineup like Nintendo to push hardware.
The PS5 won't really be impacted by this. For at least half, maybe even two thirds of its life, things will go on mostly normal. But whatever comes after PS5 is already crippled before even arriving at the gate.
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