I can see the Horizon games doing well; they already run on PS4 so porting them to Switch 2 shouldn't be a problem. BOTW/TOTK/Skyrim/Witcher 3/etc have cultivated an audience for open world games on the platform that might find Zero Dawn/Forbidden West appealing.

Sony will try to be smarter than MS, but they play with fire and just a few missteps and they burn down the foundation of Playstation.

PC, PC, PC, Switch 2, mobile

They already do PC, and have been trying to get into mobile for well over a decade now. besides greater emphasis on Nintendo, perhaps, nothing is really different to their current strategy.

They'd have to make some massive missteps. There is still an obviously sizeable market for console gaming, which Sony pretty much covers, outside of Nintendo.

Well it seems like it'll happen even faster than I expected. I thought faster PC ports and Switch 2 ports were gonna happen over the next few years but I didn't expect them to bother with Xbox. At this point I would not be surprised at all if day and date starts happening for the big stuff before this decade is over. Now the main question is when Nintendo will follow suit since I expect that to happen eventually even if it's still well over a decade away.

Nintendo will be ten times smarter about it than the current circus that is Sony. Ironically, Sony should have been the more careful one between the two, because they make so much more money from 3rd party content than Nintendo does.

If hypothetically Nintendo transform to a 3rd party publisher, they'll continue to sell a ton of software, probably quite a bit more than they do now. And the loss in Switch's subscription and 3rd party tax revenues will be minimal compared to Playstation.

I just can't fathom Sony's choices here. Microsoft made many dumb decisions, but their transition makes a lot more sense simply because Xbox is no longer a huge platform (it takes a lot of risk, hard work, commitment, and short to medium term losses to get the platform back to relevance), and they actually do have the software selling power to massively benefit from going 3rd party. Microsoft's software going full exclusive would be tiny in sales compared to going multiplatform. This is just not the case for Sony, who is risking too much for too little.

I would not be surprised if Sony starts releasing their major titles on Xbox and Switch 2. I don’t see it slowing their console sales all that much, Switch 2 won’t get the best versions and nobody cares about Xbox anymore. It would just be more software sales for Sony. They can still have some timed exclusivity, to endure console sales.


Maybe Nintendo will go the same route eventually. Less likely, as their hardware is profitable I believe. They will probably not do it for their flagship titles in the foreseeable future, but maybe something like Xenoblade or Fire Emblem.

Its the opposite, the reason why Sony is fine with going third party is because they have hard data that the majority of people buy Playstation consoles to play CoD, EA sports games and other third party releases and live service forever games. They know PS5 have few exclusives, and releases their games on PC for years as well as PS5 price rising WW and this is still not impacting their hardware sales performances. What this shows is that Sony, unlike Nintendo doesn't need first party exclusives to be a behemoth in the console space. People who buy Playstation consoles to play EA sports games are not going to jump ship to PC just because Sony ports their first party games to Switch 2 and Xbox.

The Playstation brand is incredibly strong WW, and its seen as the default way to play games such as EA sports FC and Madden in Europe and the US, that has the benefit that it means Sony doesn't need to work to get people interested in buying PS in Europe and the US, while Nintendo really needs stuff like a new Zelda game or a new 3D Mario game to get many people to jump into getting a new Nintendo console.

That is the disconnect, many hard core gamers think Playstation consoles sell 100M+ because people want to play Ghost of Tsushima or Horizon Forbidden west, while the reality is that people get Playstation to play CoD, EA Sports FC, and even stuff like Genshin in Japan.

Sony forced Jim Ryan to retire because he disagreed with how multiplatform PlayStation should go with their ports.

Jim believed in generations, Totoki believes in profit margins!

We have seen major hardware boosts from the likes of God of War Ragnarok, SpiderMan, Uncharted, and even Gran Turismo. In fact, there's a reason November 2022 still remains as the PS5's top selling November (NPD) of all time. There's also a big difference between releasing late ports (1 or 2 years) compared to Day and Date releases. The latter would gradually impact PlayStation hardware sales as we've already seen with Xbox. Comparing PlayStation only sales, you will find that first party games routinely top the list, while still being a major factor in driving premium subscription sales/engagement. Its not as clear cut as attach rate or overall game time. 

This job listing is pretty boilerplate and has come up in the past couple of years from what I can recall anyway. I think it opens up the possibility of Xbox getting more late ports than Day on Date PC TBH. Both are damaging to the brand, but the former is nowhere near as deadly as it could've been, with Microsoft on the way out with traditional consoles. 

There's a reason Sony released a TLOU Complete Edition this year lol.

I can actually see this hitting Xbox Series + Switch 2 whenever the third season comes out. But overall I do think Sony will be extremely selective with what single player games they port, as Hermen has mentioned before.