The thing is Sony isnt providing what you're saying either. This year is just SM2, and next year will probably be gaas focused. Maybe 1 big single player game if we're lucky.
You're right but this is too controversial. Good thing is it won't really become obvious until next generation.
I know, right? And they want the PS5 to break records. Well good. Then release some big 1st party hits. The old Switch easily outsold the PS5 last quarter because they had Zelda.
I couldn't agree more.
Imo it's already starting to become very obvious. And we're in PS5's 3rd year. Meanwhile the competition is buying publishers and gobbling up popular blockbuster IPs.
The Sony funded third party games like Ronin and DS2 seem to be just as much first party in Sony's eyes, and I don't know why we should make a distinction between them either. They seem to have their next year's slate more or less announced, and I doubt they'd hurry to reveal more titles from first party studios just because an upcoming exclusive is made by a third party.
Yeah its baffling to me how people are convinced Sony's approach to gaas area wouldn't affect their traditional games
That's true. And the solution is pretty clear. They need more studios for more games.
2-3 big games a year from Sony would actually be great compared to what we have now
We're in the same boat then. I don't play multiplayer games and I don't play Marvel/DC games.
That's true. Sony's lack of communication is already a well known problem though.
There is a difference between first party and third party exclusive games
Yeah it's not looking good when there is nothing exciting to play on your console. I haven't used my PS5 in a long time. Can't wait to play BG3 on my PC tho
Yeah it's not looking good for my PS5 at the moment.
What's the difference? If Ronin, DS2 and / or Rebirth won't come out in 2024, then we have a problem, but there's zero difference to us whether any of these would come from Sony owned studios or not. Short term there's your quality first party games likely to release next year, because the difference is only in semantics. Maybe Sony acquires KojiPro or Team Ninja after they've released the games, or maybe they handle the situation differently.
Yeah but I can play these 3rd party games on my PC or maybe even on my Switch.
The difference is that the sequels might skip PlayStation if a competitor buys the studio or the publisher. See ZeniMax Media, Activision-Blizzard or studios like Ninja Theory with Hellblade 2.
Let's agree to disagree. Most third party deals that Sony make are so boring to me (specially in recent years). I buy their console for their first party games and they aren't providing enough of that.
You aren't. This OT is, lol. Most people don't play a ton of games a year. They also don't care who the publisher of the game is or if it's first, "second," or third party.
They don't.
But they don't. Sony got some funding going on and they're the publisher but they do not own the IP. It's the same with Stellar Blade. Both are 3rd party IPs. Sony or Sony XDev do not own the IPs.
They last one I've played was the Horizon Forbidden West expansion Burning Shores. 💀 An awesome expansion, but... it's an expansion.
