Seriously...what purpose do they serve? They're too cheap and broke to spend money like Microsoft to buy up real studios and Nintendo can always rely on their successful legacy ips. They should just frick off and go full third party since they're already half way there with their PC initiative.
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PS5 won, chud.
can't wait to see all the bangers from the studios microsoft bought
tbf microsoft DID win e3 2018 so he wasn't wrong about that one
nintendo was primarily focused on the smash reveal that year and sony completely shat the bed
Microsoft was the objective worst in 2018. Sony kept showing off new games, which now are almost all multiplatform or sucked. They were hype, though.
lol sure, i remember that even people at the time were mocking sony's conference, and archives like arch.b4k.co actually do reach that far back so you can check yourself
> Microsoft "We can't complete. Wah, wah, waaaaaaaah!"
> Meanwhile, magically has ~80 billion to throw away on buying large chunk of entire NA game market (Zenimax, ActiBlizz, King, Mojang)
Sony and Nintendo can put out great games with less resources. Frick these idiots.
Magically?
Man I'd love to see PlayStation go third-party. Let Nintendo buy up Ape Escape and the three platformer IPs, give Socom and Resistance to MS, and the rest can be split up among third-parties. I imagine Ubisoft would snatch up GoW while TLoU and Uncharted would go to EA
Why would going third party mean they need to sell off all their IPs, dumbass?
To recoup their costs, obviously. PlayStation is the only reason Sony makes a net profit at all, they'd start going into the red every year after exiting the hardware industry and everyone else would snatch up their IPs for cheap just for Sony to survive for as long as it can
>sony drops out of the hardware side to just make 3rd party games
>sony sells all ip's
>sony no longer has ip's to make 3rd party games from
You're an idiot.
>>sony no longer has ip's to make 3rd party games from
Obviously that's the point where they file for bankruptcy, this isn't hard anon, they won't be the first game company to have gone under, look at THQ or Atari
I feel like every Playstation related property I care about went third party 10-20 years ago or started out as one anyway.
>They're too cheap and broke to spend money like Microsoft to buy up real studios
What is a "real" studio? Is a real studio one of those studios that this board constantly rips apart like Activision? Tell me whats wrong with starting new studios of vetern developers to make a new game
Sony has been buying bottom of the barrel literal who studios to make GaaS games.
They helped them form their studios asshat
And how is it better to buy a 70 billion company just to make GaaS games too
I can guarantee you not a single good game will come out of any of this. Bottom line is that Sony is finished and the writing is on the wall. GaaS focus is going to be the biggest mistake they could possibly focus their attention on. MS/Nintendo is going to curb stomp them in the next few years.
ok contrarian, just 2 more weeks and they are bankrupt!
>contrarian
Not my fault you can't see the truth. The industry is headed back towards actual GAMES with BG3/Elden Ring/Totk and potentially Starfield being massively successful. Sony is heading in the complete opposite direction because they are out of touch morons with garbage leadership.
Top earners are still GaaS games moron, keep seething now and forever
And why would the people who play those high-earners play Sony's GaaS over the ones they already have?
*crickets*
They aren't even out yet moron, you literally know NOTHING about these games yet cant help but endlessly seethe about them
So why should I, or anyone else, even you, be excited for them?
No one is asking you to be excited about them homosexual, how about you wait till there is any gameplay shown before making any judgement cause right now we can see your true intentions. You simply just hate Sony doesn't matter what they do
Maybe they should have shown gameplay in the first place if they wanted people to care.
this tbh, cinematic trailers are just empty scams
who the frick is seething over GaaS? The point is that sony is getting desperate and these are going to inevitably flop. How much you want to bet that they're going to attempt to pivot back after blowing billions on this shit only for it to be already too late.
>The point is that sony is getting desperate and these are going to inevitably flop
You guys say this every year since late 90s, how many more years until it becomes true?
Playstation doesn’t have the brand loyalty anymore besides millennials. Zoomers and the next generation of gamers moved onto PC or switch. Sony has nothing to fall back on after Microsoft is buying half of the industry and Nintendo keeps cranking out great games on established ips.
>zoomers playing on PC
>the generation who can't into PC documents because they only know smartphones
>moment PC shats the bed they're done
millennials were never the playstation audience, it was all gen x. the kind of losers who had a PS2 hooked up in their dorm room and posted about sprite comics on somethingawful back in the 2000s
y'know, the same dudes who've been on Ganker since the "live in your world fap in ours" banner was still a topical parody
>the kind of losers who had a ps2
What they were they supposed to do?
Buy an XBOX and lose most Japanese games?
Buy a Game Cube and lose most third party games?
the fact that you didn't even bat an eye at the "in their dorm room" just proves my point, now go have your mid-life crisis, baldy
That was just a baseless point made out of jealousy and frustation. You couldn't refute a single argument either, not that I'm surprised, you don't even like video games.
>"you don't even like video games"
>whips out "baseless"
sony is not video games anon, i'm sorry that the PS2 and ps4 weren't able to kill off the other two for a one-console future but that's no reason to exacerbate your mid-life crisis with needless rage at others' youth
Sony is not video games, but Sony means massive third party support from both Japanese and American companies. If you tell me that you don't like single one of the games published on their consoles, like tendies have done a million times... Well, I just can't take you seriously. Why should I waste my time with someone that doesnt' even like video games?
I'm sorry that the time you spent with your consoles felt like being cursed to roam the desert for years, always buying the least bad option, always pretending that you never liked all the games and companies that didn't support your machine, like an Orwellian character. But I have nothing to do with your jealousy and sadness. Because the one who started saying moronic things, the one who started crying and b***hing... was you 🙂
>every non-sony system is a desert
adorable
Wow that "euphoric" screed, are you the same guy who wrote this by any chance?
Why lie tho?
I can't wait, it'll be delicious karma after the PS4 era
>literally outsell every generation of xbox and have the record for highest selling console
>theyre finished
Literal cope and seethe
Sounds like you're living in the past, dude.
This
We can tell you are responding to yourself its quite obvious
Yes I can do the same with my phone 4g connection, doesn't prove anything but its still easy to determine samegays like you
I didn't know they had 4G back when Sony was winning
Yes they had it yesterday
Oh, is PS5 the one that's sold 129 million?
No its the one where developers design their games for, thats why most third party dont bother porting to switch since they only buy Nintendo games on that platform
>No its the one where developers design their games for
PC?
said for, not on
nta but 4g has been around since the early 2010s, a.k.a. right through sony's scam-success era
>microsoft EVER not being mediocre
gal gun gave them their only chance to steal the japanese market and they threw it away
didn't the SeX recently surpass 360's japanese sales, which had been ms's best-selling system in japan until now?
This is hilarious because you dumb fricks were saying the same exact shit during the PS3 era. Sony's not going anywhere.
Stop living in the past
tbh sony only recovered because of mattrick's frick-up at e3 2013, they don't have donny boy to bail them out this time
What's even more pathetic is that they can't even buy full exclusivity with third parties lmao...this six months to a year console exclusive stuff is pure desperation. They couldnt even get kojima to agree to have death stranding being a full ps exclusive and sony OWNS the fricking IP. How do you get cucked this badly?
Sony used to be awesome. Buying one of their console meant you could buy great games of all the popular genres. Lots of companies with their own styles, lots of different aesthetics, lots of different characters... You didn't have to buy games that didn't appeal to you because of a lack of better options, there was just so much to choose from.
And Sony fans used to love video games. Unlike tendies, who around the times of the N64 started claiming that everything was trash except for Nintendo games, sonyers would enjoy games made by Square, Namco, Naughty Dog, EA, Konami, Capcom, Atlus, Enix, SCE, Pygnosis...
It's true that Sony has changed. They're now abusing Japanese companies. I couldn't care less about most of their first party games. Sonyers still haven't reached the levels of transparent hypocrisy of tendies, but they have adopted some of their vices, like the special treatment they give to first party games. Their tastes have also 'changed' and they now pretend to love genres and styles that weren't that popular during PSX times. That's because they're just adapting to the new environment, they don't have defined preferences, they would never admit that maybe Sony is not the company that used to give them so much fun... Still, compared to tendies, sonyers are more capable of caring about games made by others brands.
Sony's presence has been positive for the industry. Nintendo treated third parties like trash, if I had to spend years and years with nothing but Nintendo games and some second party developments I would have moved to PC a long time ago. Microsoft also brought most of the abusive practices we're suffering these days.
>this is how you share your games on PS5
>ERROR
Everything can be played on PC now, there's no reason to own any console.
>They're too cheap and broke to spend money like Microsoft to buy up real studios
Kys seriously. This is just so wrong on so many levels. Cope and seethe xpajeet perpetual last place LOSER
>so-called highest-selling console is practically tied with ds, which snoys mocked as a toy
really makes you think
I thought the PS4 got to over 120 million? Or was that combining the PS4's and Vita's sales?
ps4+vita reached 132, i.e. just about what the switch alone managed to reach
the highest single-gen record by one manufacturer is wii+ds for 256m by nintendo in gen7
why do you seperate handhelds only every gen except in the last ?
Because Nintendo themselves did
>They should just frick off and go full third party
And do what?
Make games? They have nothing to offer.
>Seriously...what purpose do they serve?
Providing the normie gaming option at a reasonable price relative to building your own PC and having to do all of the research associated with it.
Everything MS absorbs into itself turns to shit. look at Rare. Stop being corpo and praising buyouts.
Sony are even worse for this at this point, all of their studios just make movie game garbage, at least Microsoft Studios are allowed to make different things
Sony makes more money out of thisd party microtransactions than with their entire first party output, why would they drop the console model
>go third party
They make no games, lol.
Once in a blue moon they can shit out something decent like ghost of sushi. If gt7 wasn’t GaaS it would have been received better.
>Seriously...what purpose do they serve?
THE platform for narratively driven games, period.
>But anon, their games will end up on PC eventually.
Yes, although not all of them, because we can't know that for sure, and even then you would have to wait a year or two at most before you will be able to play the game.
>But what if..
Even if you want to imagine a scenario where every PS game is available on PC on the day of the release, PS technically is a better deal financially if you only care about stable gaming experience as consoles do get priority in terms of optimization most of the time, and you have the option to own your games with physical discs.
>But one anon told me that you don't own anything.
Of course he would say that, he himself spent too much money on "his" rented Steam library, he has no choice, but to double down on his current state, and it's his job
to make sure that he doesn't feel about it, so he has to go out and convince everyone that you don't own anything, because he clearly doesn't. I hope that clears some of your worries, OP.
>Not really, someone told me that PS5 has no games, how do you respond to that?
Go to PS store, anon, and there you go, thousands of games for you to enjoy.
>But these are 3rd party titles.
Buying a console purely for exclusive games is a dangerous choice, because you can never be sure if you will enjoy those games in the first place, your best bet would be waiting for the new GOW, GOT, TLOU, Uncharted, GT, Spider-Man and others to come out, but that might take a long time.
>At this moment I am Euphoric, not because of any phony god's blessing, but because of this warty wiener in my mouth obble gobble nomf wiener
>Anon, you forgot that they don't have backwards compatibility like Xbox does.
True, they don't, and this is a big missed opportunity, that was mostly influenced by their new PS Plus service in order to give you access to older titles via subscription, however, if you do have a PC near you, I would suggest using emulation, DuckStation, PCXS2, RPCS3 have far better performance than they used to, you can upscale your games and even have save states, but if you don't have a PC that is strong enough to handle emulation, then maybe you should buy an Xbox if you want to take advantage of backwards compatibility, but at this point I would advise against that, because every Xbox exclusive game is now becoming available on PC on the launch day, so you might as well build a PC at this point, plus you get the perks of being able to emulate nearly every console in existence, even the PS4 emulation is ramping up now, although it still in it's early stages.
>But anon, I want to play Starfield, and I want to have a PlayStation, what should I do?
Well, Timmy, you don't know for sure if you will enjoy Starfield, so to save you money, you can try it via xCloud when the game comes out for $1, I think that you will get 14 days of trial, and there you will be able to decide whether you like the game or not, if you do, then consider completing it while your subscription lasts. PlayStation has every major 3rd party title and their exclusive games, Xbox has Game Pass and their exclusive titles available on the service on the release day.
>So, anon, your suggestion is to buy a PlayStation and then use any device available for xCloud, especially for games like Starfield.
Yes, you can take the best of both worlds, you get PlayStation exclusive games as well as 3rd party games, and you get to play games that come out on Game Pass.
>That's neat, thank you, anon.
You're welcome, Timmy.
Why do people celebrate the purchase of studios when it's always the death of said studio?
Xbox never had a reason to exist
Sony gping 3rd party would be best. Theyd save money on selling consoles at a loss, and when they realise no onw buys their shitty games outside of having nothing else on their consoles, theyll go back to making games like Primal, resistance, ico... or go like sega and just become a publisher.
>or go like sega and just become a publisher.
I don't see a reason for why that might be a thing, their hardware, whatever your opinion on it, is profitable since 2021, unless that changes I don't see the point of becoming the next SEGA, now, Xbox on the other hand.. could just evolve into the Xbox Game Pass service and ditch the hardware altogether, and I guess in a way execute their vision of "Play wherever you want" by charging you $15 or however much it costs now.
Sony is already third party and they suck at it.
big oof, fâm
They will follow SEGA steps for sure
Sony has more of a reason to continue the PlayStation brand than Microsoft has for the Xbox. The Xbox hasn't been good or relevant in well over a decade at this point.
maybe if you stopped seething about e3 2013 already they would be
You don't pull the plug on something you're willing to invest 80B dollars in.
Not saying that you're wrong, and I agree that it is unlikely, but imagine if this was the case one day, imagine the shitstorm.
I could see them rebranding Xbox to something else.
Microsoft is autistic enough to melt down billions on the xbox division and that is the funniest shit
so what? it's not like microsoft will ever run out of cash
its not with your low iq mentality that they got to that situation
doesn't change the fact that they can dump as much money into xbox as they want
You just want all games to be sold on steam, to be launched through steam, to login in games through a steam account
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It's fine, anon just hasn't discovered the default PC launcher, give him time.
unfathomably based, though I myself use Transmission as my Bittorrent client
I used it like two times in my life, it's fine and simple, but for some reason not a single download would initiate properly, so I would just go back.
i think different clients have different default configs, I tried to move away from Transmission, but I haven’t found one (acceptable for me) that works as good as transmission for me, so yeah I guess I’ll keep using it
>They're too cheap and broke to spend money
lmao
Not everyone wants a PC. I still pick my PS5 over my 3x the price pc I built for certain games.
Didn't expect to find a comment that summarizes my situation as well. Good to know I am not the only one who went this route.
>this thread
Where did all of these snoys come from?
PS1 and PS2 are among the greatest consoles of all times and one of the reasons they obtained so much third party support was because, unlike Nintendo, they didn't mistreat and abuse them.
And they also made games like Gran Turismo, Fumito Ueda games, Alundra, Ape Escape, Gravity Rush, Medievil...
I don't give a shit about most of the games they make these days and I don't like the way they treat Japanese developers, but that doesn't mean forgetting all the positive things they brought in the past.
get rid of jim ryan and we can get quality games like ape esape and medievil again
https://www.change.org/p/sony-remove-jim-ryan-as-ceo-of-playstation