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Sony on Crossplay: PS4 is the best experience for gamers and therefore should not be compromised
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Sony is in this position because they were perceived as the "pro-consumer" option early on.
This isn't smart business long term. Gamers are a fickle bunch.
This legitimately feels likes something Don Mattock would say.
Haha, yes. Very Ryan-esque. Can't wait till we get some new interviews with him.
And you're spot on, won't change unless they sell less.
It's like he purposefully opted for the worst answer he possibly could've given.
Maybe the guy is a sadomasochist.
Maybe the guy is a sadomasochist.
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Well I guess the cycle continues. Can't wait for $600 PS5 with digital DRM while NextBox blows everything Sony out of the water.
Jesus Sony get your act together.
Jesus Sony get your act together.
The PS3 was profitable for Sony, both in terms of hardware and software. They only lost money in the initial years. I feel like I've responded with something to this effect to you previously, but if you want to keep regurgitating misinformation that's on you.
Sony setting themselves up to be #2 or 3. If you're not gonna do it then don't and shut the hell up about it. You're just giving people a reason to look at the competition next cycle. These console companies always forget you're always a couple of fuck-ups and bad calls away from last place.
Agreed. But it's cyclical. Is they lose the market lead the next person will eventually do the same thing Sony is doing now. And so on and so forth.
They can afford to approach it like that this gen and it's rather funny too. OPTIONAL crossplay is something that should happen eventually.
He just beat Greenberg for dumbest comment from a gaming exec this week.
Fucking arrogant and illogical. How does offering cross play...or at least allowing people to access their Fortnite accounts on other platforms compromise anything?
Fucking arrogant and illogical. How does offering cross play...or at least allowing people to access their Fortnite accounts on other platforms compromise anything?
I guess they don't have media training in Japan? Can't see any other reason.
Until one of them figures out that the smart play long term is just to maintain the pro-consumer attitude.
With gaming becoming more and more "ecosystem" based... I think MS might be onto that.
I suppose we'll see.
I love my playstation, it's my platform of choice; but at this point in time, those are some bullshit answers.
I don't think you can reverse course on this. Microsoft and Nintendo are open to it now. Suddenly saying "NO" next generation if Microsoft takes the lead would be horrible PR, and something I never see Phil Spencer doing as long as he's head of Xbox.
Basically as close to "no, now fuck off" as we're going to get.
I wonder if people think they are going to change with the PS5 still. They got away with locking accounts bullshit, no to cross-play is easy to get away with compared to that.
I wonder if people think they are going to change with the PS5 still. They got away with locking accounts bullshit, no to cross-play is easy to get away with compared to that.
Oh Sony...you still have so much to learn.
Who cares about 10 years ago? What is this "but he hit me first" bs. The company and division is run by a new team now.
That doesn't make any sense. Only one thing can be the best. There's no multiple best experiences.
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Yes, I fundamentally agree with you and this sentiment. This is not what the mob wants though.
When I buy a console, one of the main defining reasons I buy a console is because of parity; I know that I'm (roughly, in close approximation) getting the same experience as every other console user. This is especially relevant when it comes to considering multiplayer. While sure, people can go out of their ways to alter experiences/give advantages to themselves/find workarounds for any number of things, it is definitively more difficult to do those kinds of things on a console, and that's fundamentally the point and appeal.
People demanding that consoles and companies bend to their will, much like the PC space, is super annoying to me. If I wanted to play PC games in a PC space, I'd play fucking PC games.
Ah is this what Spencer was joking about where people think if Xbox was in first place Spencer's horns would grow and he'd start doing stuff like cutting cross-play?
This is Kenichiro Yoshida, the boss of Sony - not some European exec, lol.
Lol the ol' "userbase" rhetoric. What a non-issue given how large and populated the Xbox/Switch playerbase is.
And look at Minecraft, which has a bigger userbase on Xbox One by itself. Now add in all the platforms in the Better Together update and the PS4 userbase is like a spec of sand in comparison.
Right, but it doesn't have to be. There's nothing stopping them from being pro-consumer while in the lead.
So yeah it's pretty clear the solutions they were "looking into" were nonexistent and that they will never change their policy until they are in a position where they need good PR.
If Sony doesn't want to do it because it opens the door for their base to switch platforms, I get it. Just can't handle any more of the dumb fake excuses. "It's the children." "It'll diminish the quality of our gamers experience." Pathetic exec speak.
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