Sony fans remind me of fans of successful football teams.
The constant success creates strange expectations and even when your team wins you get people doubting and demanding even more.
Sony are doing amazingly well, they have served their fans with a stunning PS4 generation and have started the PS5 as well as they could considering the state of the world. The fact that they have so much good stuff lined up just for the first year and have historically performed extremely well in the console space, and are still doubted by some continues to baffle me.
Some Sony fans just have a problem with both MS and Sony having great content coming out, and instead want Sony to dominate.
Which is dumb. Sony's has a great launch, a great 2021, and that'll keep continuing for hte forseeable future, unless covid fucks up 2022.
I just want a damn WRPG but MS bought the whole fucking genre lol.
I had already gotten a new PC at the beginning of the year, but I didn't get anything too high end because I figured I'd just use it for my strategy games and wasn't intending to play AAA demanding games on it. Then MS bought Bethesda and now I'm fucked, with a huge wrench thrown into my next gen plans. I either have to spend hundreds of dollars on an Xbox or PC upgrades in a few years, just to play the same damn games I've always played anywhere.
I'm really not a fan of longtime multiplatform games/devs being ripped away. This applies to timed exclusives as well, but I'd much rather have to wait 1 year to play ES6 than not be able to play it at all. Massive publisher acquisitions are a whole new level of shitty. And if other tech giants (Amazon, Google, FB, Apple) decide to take gaming seriously and invest heavily in publisher acquisitions as well, I honestly don't think Sony can compete long term. They can't survive without robust third party support, and if more publishers get gobbled up, I honestly think they're fucked.
Has nothing to do with fanboying or team sports shit, I'm just honestly pissed off that many of my favorite developers (and a whole goddamn genre) have been bought out and ripped away from the platform I'm already invested in, meaning I'll have to spend hundreds of dollars more just to play the same games I otherwise would have been able to. I honestly think I have a right to be angry about that.
I'm also worried about the direction the industry is heading with the massive consolidation and attempts to mimic the video streaming industry. I don't want a future where all third parties are bought out and you have to sub to 6+ different services just to play the major games that used to be available anywhere. If that were to happen, I'd honestly just give up on modern gaming and stick to replaying "retro" stuff.
So yeah, it's been a great year for games and this year looks good too, but there are valid reasons to be worried or nervous about the future. The industry is obviously going through some major changes and we don't know how it'll play out in the long run.