What happened?
They were rulers of gaming industry, but since switch release every dev except Square wants to leave them
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What happened? They were rulers of gaming industry, but since switch release every dev except Square wants to leave them
They moved their headquarters to California.
Why do we need to keep pointing this out?
Uncharted was the beginning of the end. The last of Us the shift and killed them. The last of us is to Sony what Assaissins Creed is to Ubisoft. It changed their whole mentallity going foward.
This board lives in delusion 24/7
troony tier
SotC and jrpg were the begging.
Real talk here
What was the alternative? Japanese players backstabbed them
>What was the alternative?
Make some games
Maybe they should have not sucked
Don't you mean Sony backstabbed the Japanese?
They moved their headquarters to California and Jim Ryan has been doing everything in his power to alienate the Japanese like closing Sony's Japan Studio and forcing devs to censor their own games in their home country even if they don't release here.
I thought Nintendo was a different market.
No, yesterday judge officially declared that it's same market and switch just being a better console
Sony backstabbed Japan first by releasing a system that was an unbelievable nightmare to develop for on top of the already inherently large hurdle in adapting to HD development in gen 7. Playstation became Japan's new go-to console platform immediately with its debut, so them crippling developers like this was crushing to Japanese console gamedev (since their other choices were the Gaijinbox 360 or We Just Taped a Couple Gamecubes Together).
>victim blaming
Japs also jumped in nintendo ds underpowered gimmicky console, instead of making games for psp
>sony
>victim of anything
Everything they suffer from, they brought on themselves.
Because PSP became an absolute joke pretty quickly when it came to piracy prevention. Hardware sales were good but game sales hit the shitter after a few years. This was also the biggest reason why the Vita was made into a miserable locked-down piece of shit with tiny proprietary storage that was outrageously expensive even by 2011 flash storage standards, FYI. Sony desperately wanted to assure devs that the PSP situation wouldn't happen again.
>Because PSP became an absolute joke pretty quickly when it came to piracy prevention
Never stopped 360 and switch
And first playstation
And PS2 for what matter
PSP was a whole different level of piracy accessibility and publicity during its own lifespan, to the point of outpacing game sales unlike your other examples. As long as you had a memory card and a data-capable mini-USB cable (and a modified battery if you're a real oldgay), you were good to go.
Sony won 5th gen, 6th gen. 8th gen they basically won for free because the Wii U and Xbone sucked so fricking hard they didn't have to try.
I think the above "not having to try" for a whole generation also contributed to Sony's downfall.
They are rulers of the industry now. PS4 sold more software than Switch. PS+ premium has more games than game pass and is rapidly catching up in subscribers. Revenue per console owner is up. If you want exclusives now from a third party you have to pay and Sony only do that when it’s worthwhile
>constantly allow player data to get hacked on various systems, only recently stopping it
>force developers to meet content standards enforced on zero other platforms because they are unreasonable standards
>strongarm developers into exclusivity deals by shoving money at them instead of letting multiplats exist
>spend exorbitant amounts of money on games that are created by a focus group and machined to have the perfect amount of public appeal while being totally uninspired shit (horizon forbidden west, god of war ragnarok)
>RAISE price of ps5s in some areas after release, of all things
>cry and scream when xbox starts offering a better subscription service despite never working to make theirs any better
>kill off any beloved developers and franchises instead of at least maintaining them over time like nintendo does (no ape escape, no gravity rush, all forgotten and swept under the rug)
>STILL release hardware that can randomly fail at a noticeable rate in the form of the PS5 eating discs and having various other issues
sony is such a fricking pathetic company and i feel bad for anyone who works there and realizes how shit it is
I forgot to add to this
>creatively bankrupt sons of b***hes in charge of design constantly rip off successful ideas in an attempt to capitalize on them
Just look at them trying to copy the wiimote, trying to cash in on VR hype, trying to create a pseudo-Switch of their own, it's god damn depressing shit
>kill off any beloved developers and franchises instead of at least maintaining them over time like nintendo does (no ape escape, no gravity rush, all forgotten and swept under the rug)
Bruh
>Syphon Filter
>Jak and Daxter
>Sly Cooper
>Killzone
>Socom
>inFamous
>Motorstorm
>Resistance
>Ratchet and Clank
>Wipeout
And I'm probably forgetting a frick ton more but yeah I'm amazed at Sony's ability to just kill and forget amazing IPs
>Killzone
The first one is still one of my favourite FPS of all time. What happened?
Westernized. But I think they are more successful now than ever before? We are just autists, normal people enjoy woke moviegames with ugly fem protagonists and realistic graphics more than medium budget japshit.
>But I think they are more successful now than ever before?
Thanks to Fortnite and CoD microtransactions money
It is incredible how tricking morons into giving you money for pixels on a screen is a better way to make money than making good games.
>they make more from hardware sales than they do actual software
>entire business model is basically sustained on mtx from a handful of games that aren't even exclusive
This industry has become a joke.
>they make more
It's revenue. They sell PS5 at loss.
They stopped ruling anything after the PS2.
>PS3 was a disaster
>PS4 sold just because Microsoft and Nintendo shat the bed with the Xbone and WiiU
PS3 outsold Xbox 360 in the end and made more money, but still lost to the Wii. If it wasn't for RRoD then the PS3 wouldn't have had a chance,
ps3 had their own rrod
Yeah, they did. The Wii also had melting GPUs.
But RRoD was way more widespread. YLOD isn't nearly as common knowledge anyway because only a fool bought a PS3 at launch.
I USED TO RULE THE WORLD
SEAS WOULD RISE WHEN I GAVE THE WORD
NOW IN THE MORNING, I SLEEP ALONE
SWEEP THE STREETS I USED TO OWN
>They were rulers of gaming industry
How much fricking marketing money is Microsoft throwing at this board? Holy shit frick off already. I will never buy your piece of shit Xbox and I will never subscribe to gamepass. Go to hell.
>What happened?
>They were rulers of gaming industry, but since switch release every dev except Square wants to leave them
>soijak
have a nice day
They still are.
>very dev except Square wants to leave them
I find it so weird that Square is sucking Sony's dick like crazy. Outright not releasing FF7 Remake on other consoles besides a PC version, refusing to put XIV on the shitbox, giving shitty cloud versions of KH on the switch, one of the few still taking exclusivity deals for PS like with FFXVI. This is like the complete opposite with Capcom making every single game multiplatform day one now. Sony must be giving some good sloppy to Square.
it's crazy because ff16 is going to sell like absolute shit due to there being less than 40 million ps5s out there in the world and people having extremely tempered expectations after ff15
what did they think would happen
"ff" 16 will sell like shit because it is shit and yet another not final fantasy game aftr 20 years of no final fantasy games.
no, the game is quite good actually (not something i would consider goty but it's very well made)
it's reasonable to not like it because you prefer turn based games but the reason it's selling like shit is not because it's low quality, it isn't, there are other factors at play
>redditspacing
>no punctuation and capitalization
You can stop replying now.
i think i will keep replying
it's a shame that square enix ended up developing ff16 primarily for this console that has a pretty middling attach rate instead of going multiplat from the start and put all their eggs into a pretty questionable basket, but there was always going to be some initial hesitation on the next mainline ff after 15 was a letdown and there's no easy answer for them in their minds i guess
Almost like the nearly 10 year old tablet cant keep up.
>missing the entire point about PC and sexbox just to seethe at the switch
holy shit snoys and FTC are running the same program
it's been nearly 30 years, and the playstation has still mind broke the bing bing wahoo.
Owning a snoystation now legally makes you moronic. Sorry.
Sonybros been eatin good with FFXVI
In the meanwhile Nintenchuds are playing garbage like 1, 2 Everybody Frick You Switch and other shitty shovelware slop.
>Sonybros been eatin good with FFXVI
All 5 of them?
You seem to be confused, this isn't a console war thread, this is a thread lamenting how far Sony has fallen from making good games
>p-please stop making fun of my favorite console please go back to shitting on Sony because I'm seething that I can't play the goty
If you shit on something then expect backlash when people call out on you being moronic.
I wouldn't say "moronic" as much as just seriously out of touch. People just by default assume PS5 is good because PS4 was the only choice last gen. People are slowly figuring it out.
Last of us was released and Sony went full moronic with the movie game formula
I guess the new fans love it
Didn't Detroit come out before Last of Us? Sony was already on that track with Heavy Rain, even if I enjoyed it.
Pretty sure Detroit was after, you might be thinking about Beyond
I STILL refuse to believe any praise of that turd was organic and natural. No way in hell people got that wowed by yeta nother zombie drama among the ocean of zombie dramas that got released at the time. 100% buying all those 10/10 reviews and awards was their new strategy for the future and they playtested it right before ps4.
Sony deserves everything bad happening to them and worse ever since they made the Vita fail.
Since ps1 days they relied on bribing, blackmailing and threatening 3rd party to make games for their consoles
When microsoft become serious competition during ps3 age their tactics backfired
And with switch being the most popular console, 3rd parties can't afford to make exclusives for sony anymore
Ah yes, all those super seller third party games on Switch such as...
Meds now, schyzo
AND YOU COULD HAVE IT ALL
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
>No also on pc at bottom
A classic for sure.
They started focusing more on "CINEMATIC EXPERIENCES" rather than actually making video games. This shift meant that in the last 10 years, there has literally only been, at most, 5 worthwhile games on PS4 + PS5, because every game now takes 5-7 years of development time and $100-200 million dollars to make.
>that part where the lawyer asked how sony would survive without call of duty and the judge said nintendo does it by making games so sony should make games too
Garbage setpiece cinematic games
Sony entered this market to frick with Nintendo.
Microsoft entered this market to frick with Sony.
Valve will enter this market to frick with Microsoft.
Nobody actually wants to make video games. It's all petty feuds like this in this industry.
Only japanese games are worth a damn. AAA cinematic crap gets old fast.
>Blaming the Switch for Anita's poison.