I REALLY wish California would sink into the ocean by now, ever since moved the interactive side that handles PlayStation to California where Crunchyroll is too, it's just gotten stupider and more bone headed. Should also mention their entertainment branch is in New York which explains a lot..
After the COLOSSAL failure of Concord, you'd think they'd look over the games still in production and cut their losses than report another flop? Nope! Looks like they are 'not worried' as they have a NEW LIVE SERVICE GAME that was annouced a year ago, headed by an AC veteran and was as well received as sandpaper toliet paper.
The problem that is often forgotten is that Sony is a Multinational conglomerate which means no matter how much their media divisions suck, the other sides STILL headquartered in Japan are making money with telecommunications, engineering, finance etc.
And what pisses me off the most is that their entertainment side is asset rich just with EXTREMELY poor management. If they weren't around the trans and drug freaks of California and back in Asia, they'd probably still know sex sells so make your characters ATTRACTIVE. Concord might've lasted longer than 10 days if players at least had something good to look at.
Then there's how they are handling PC, just this year alone they managed to take an extremely successful, gaining a cult following game with Helldivers 2 and kill it overnight by demanding PSN requirement to play which locked out many countries that CAN'T get PSN then backtracked but left in shitty community managers. They grab failure from the jaws of victory.
And last part of my rant is Crunchyroll, when anime is getting more popular than Western entertainment, why do not improve your service with better UI, a tagging system like they use for pirate manga sites and even comment sections that would make people not feel inclined TO pirate?
My only hope is either California sinks into the ocean so these brick heads sink with it or the adults in the Japanese side purge it's management as incompetent net losses.
I saw this picture ( https://files.catbox.moe/bv7ggk.jpg ) of Sony exclusive titles on shelves for PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and then PS5 and it got me thinking.
On another post here I said that DEI was to blame. I still think it's the biggest issue, but I'm going to ignore it for this post and just focus on exclusive titles.
As you can see the PS1 and 2 shelves were full. Multiple rows and multiple shelves full of titles you could only play on a playstation console. PS3 had about a dozen games, and PS4 and PS5 so far have one exclusive title.
While I'm also not a fan of exclusives, it does prove a point. Sony was once a powerhouse. If you wanted great, fun and exciting games, you bought a playstation, and you could play some great games.
Starting with the PS3 they lost their grip. And now with the PS5, there's no reason to own one. One higher up at Sony even lamented they have no great IPs anymore. They let their legacy stagnate until it was forgotten, and people for the most part, have.
More people are buying PS5 and Xbox S not for new games but because of older generational games gatekeeping content to the newest generation.
There's just nothing new to entice people.
Correct. And with all those stats that came out revealing people are largely spending their time and money on older games and rejecting the modern slop, you’d think someone somewhere in management would have the lightbulb come on in the brains, but no.
They just keep trying to force woke, monetisation, and always-online down our throats.
That’s the REAL reason it’s all tanking. They have to give us what we want instead of what they want us to want.
PS1/2 were notoriously loaded with games, mostly because Nintendo was still coming out of being super strict about what games they allowed on their console and there wasn't any other competition (Xbox came later, Dreamcast was DoA). Which meant that everybody could be happy because the sheer amount of games meant everyone could find their favorites. Even if Nintendo technically allowed it, most devs (especially the Anime ones in Japan) stuck with Sony for their wider reach.
What killed them from here was the Vita. The Vita was a failed console and a massive hit at the same time. It had no legs in most of the world and was quickly tossed aside like trash by Sony, but in Japan it became the console for most third party and anime devs. Companies sprung up by the dozen and became legit hits on the Vita, without Sony even thinking about their existence.
So when it finally came time to move on from a console that was long past production, they had to choose between the PS4 or the PC. Sony had become Cali since, so it came with a lot of stipulations that ended that relationship quick, so they all went PC. You could probably actually draw a pretty good graph about Japanese PC gaming and Steam's abundance of Jap/anime slop games around this era.
This meant the thing that kept Sony a powerhouse over Nintendo/Xbox for 20 years abandoned them. Exclusives might sell the console, but its the secondary games that keep people from selling it back after a time of un-use.
PS3 was also beat to the market and lacked a lite version compared to the xbox 360 which was also the inferior console being propped up by microsoft and pc games.
Just chiming in to say "AC" is one of the most useless acronyms in gaming. Ace Combat, Animal Crossing, Assassin's Creed, Armored Core, qnd probably more I can't think of off the top of my head.
Let me put it this way, which one of those do you think of when I say 'AC' in negative connotations?
They are all shit. AssCreed is the best of the lot, I actually finished two of those games, but they long since died of Ubishit. Armored Core is just shitty japMecha with supposedly multiple ton machines skating everywhere, and that retarded jap grading system. I think I got through about 4 levels before I went back to Mechwarrior 4 mods. Ace combat is 2 minutes of crappy flying followed by 10 minutes of emo whining. I think I got about halfway through the one with the Arkbird, which ever one that was. And Animal crossing is for disease filled furries that need to be put into work camps.
So no, no one knows which one you are referring to.
Publishers will die on the games-as-a-service hill. Its rent-seeking allure is too much.
Thank god it is drying up and/or the shit they make is so bad that no one but streamers mocking it plays it e.g Dustborn.
You know I feel the same. Ever since Sony announced they are moving their headquarter to Cali. I knew there's no going back for them. As mad as I was when I heard they were disbanding Japan Studio, I knew they were going to do that. Even I share the same sentiment for the hatred of California. In fact making up my handle name was partly for making a piss out of that state.
I can only hope that kind of hubris to their streaming side leads to their downfall considering history has shown countless time if you rely ONLY on being the only game in town, eventually someone will usurp your position by being smarter.
Sony had a niche carved out that actually got people to buy their console.. japapanes games made by japanese and with japanese sensibilities.
They gave it all up and even knee cap any japanese games that is published on playstation with censorship... while leaving baldurs gate or tlou2 and etc uncensored.
That title was kinda picked up by Nintendo now given that they released Bayonetta, to be honest in term of games, Sony is more US than Japanese nowadays.
And to think, if they just made a successor to the Vita, they'd probably have kept that market. Because no one paid attention to it to get offended by it, but the Japanese devs pumped out titles by the truckload on it.
But with Sony killing their mobile wing, the Japs just went to the PC instead of fighting to get on the PS4 where people did constrict them.
Sony is making such horrible decisions overall.
Freegame$, right? If that actually releases f2p, it probably won't fail as badly. But I don't think they realize just how disgusted the public is with thieves that act as though they are virtuous.
It's current day Sony interactive management.
It'll be $40 launch day...
Concord is going to have to face reality (LOL) and obliterate their entire lineup of characters, except maybe the robot. I do not at all think they have the capacity to do this, and will just Morbius themselves with a re-release of a trash product with a permanently stained reputation.
They have no Y'shtola. They have no Minfilia. They have no Thancred. They don't even have a Nanamo Ul Namo.