Sony is not like Nintendo. Sony leans heavily on 3rd party support to sell consoles while Nintendo is the opposite.
You only start selling IPs if you are in financial trouble. Konami is doing really good right now with their baseball game series in Japan, they are scamming people with NFTs and they have Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel doing record numbers (270K concurrent players on Steam in the last 24 hours). They also have an Apple check to release a Castlevania exclusively on Apple Arcade, and those classic Castlevania ports have to be really cheap to make.
What is this formatting magic??A few years ago, Phil Spencer was quoted in an interview as saying the following: "You'll have things like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Horizon Zero Dawn that'll come out, and they'll do really well, but they don't have the same impact that they used to have because the big service-based games are capturing such a large amount of the audience. Sony's first-party studios do a lot of these games, and they're good at them, but outside of that, it's difficult–they've become more rare…It's a difficult business decision for those teams, you're fighting into more headwind."
As I said before earlier in another post on Microsoft's ultimate aim beyond gaming, the industry from a business perspective has changed dramatically over the last decade. First-party games like Horizon, Last of Us and God of War may be the face of the PlayStation brand, but the most important IPs to Sony remains Fortnite, FIFA and Call of Duty; service-based games that draw in billions of additional digital revenue yearly.
You could argue therefore that while these studio acquisitions by Sony are there to support pre-existing IP (as support studios), and give their talented teams the flexibility to develop new IP, its difficult to judge their importance to the PlayStation business seeing as that Sony need an online-multiplayer IP to secure revenue. They have tried and failed so far (MAG, Killzone, Destruction All Stars).
Guess I hit a few nerves with my comment. But I still stand by it.
Nah, I'm not a huge Nintendo fan. I like Sony games more, but I like MSFTs Game Pass strategy. I don't think you understand the magnitude of Nintendo's first party games. The have held all the top 20 spots in Japan for weeks.
Yup, of the three, Nintendo has the best 1st party games. Also, with you with your comment about liking Sony games more but like the MS game pass strategy. But if (or when) Sony adopts the game pass strategy on their consoles, that would be great.
You were just wrong. Nintendo produce games for relatively cheap, and their games are ever-green in terms of sales. Sony's games cost a lot more to make, and they generally don't sell as much. Sony, currently, cannot rely on their first party games to carry them in the same way Nintendo can...
Semi-off topic, but SE supported Nintendo more than just giving them Dragon Quest. They have been putting remasters of their older games such as Saga and Mana for the Switch, released Octopath Traveler(a game that is still absent on PS), and Bravely Default II, on that system first, we even have some upcoming as of now Switch exclusives releasing in March such as Triangle Strategy and Chocobo GP.
This post nails it. Also Sony is going for a multimedia push for acquisitions of companies that have strong IP's that cross over in multiple forms of entertainment, Capcom and SE fit that bill. Within the next two years, I fully expect at least one of them to be absorbed.
You can only keep the milk for "free" if someone else doesn't steal the cow.
Yeah in an existing thread I'm perfectly fine with discussing it. How does that contradict anything I said?
Good thing I never said "Microsoft is creative", I said "help the developers at these studios be more creative"... Microsoft can pour more resources into projects, and thanks to Game Pass not every game needs to sell 10M+ so they can make more niche/passion projects like Josh Sawyer is doing. Don't know what kind of point you're making.
How are they different? Are suits at Nintendo creative directors on games? What is this tribalism lmao. "Throw more money around" also completely ignores what I said about Game Pass allowing more passion projects. This is helping them be more creative.
