Halo hasn't been relevant since...what year exactly? The fact you need to bring up a remastered collection from that IP from the
good ol' days says everything, which is interesting since people keep complaining that Sony releases remasters and remakes but apparently for this one IP it's okay. And Forza Motorstorm may have an 87 on metacritic but the market didn't move when it released, no one cared and it's an irrelevant IP right now. Meanwhile Gran Turismo 7 keeps showing up on sales charts, almost 3 years after release and it's probably well past the 10M copies sold at this point. Another Xbox fumble. Just 10 years ago that IP was A LOT more relevant than GT.
I'll give you Forza Horizon though.
Ok...i'm gonna need a lengthy analysis on Playstation currently cause one paragraph with you saying "3 games and months of nothing plus state of play sucks" doesn't even begin to describe what's happening:
3 exclusive games? Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, FFVII Rebirth, Astrobot are 4 exclusive AAA games, not 3. 2 of them are new IPs and Astrobot just got its first full game that's not a VR title. I don't remember Xbox having 2 exclusive games being GOTY contenders and the top 2 games on metacritic in a year like PS5 does this year.
Helldivers 2 is literally a Sony IP and one of the biggest hits of the year in the entire market. Also console exclusive. Silent Hill 2 was just really well received as well. Another console exclusive. Everything
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mentioned can't be played on an Xbox. That's what counts in the end.
And i don't get what's the problem with releasing 3 pieces of hardware? PS5 slim is just a revision like Sony has done since the PSOne days. PS Portal is a piece of hardware that far surpassed Sony's expectations and the Pro, too soon to tell. Sounds like they are reading the market right? Remember everyone laughing at Dual Sense Edge? It's constantly one of the best selling accessories every month.
Playstation is excelling in hardware, exclusive games, financing new IPs, releasing sequels, remasters, remakes, small and big projects. They have marketing rights for all the big IPs (Fortnite, GTA, Fifa, etc) and until recently also had for COD which they now don't have because MS had to buy the entire publisher (or was it Activision that swallowed Xbox? Hard to tell).
About "months of nothing" from Sony...Astrobot just released a month ago, Silent Hill 2 is about to release, Until Dawn remake is also releasing soon, plus there's still Lego Horizon coming up. We already know next year will have Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Tsushima's sequel. And this is what was announced so far. GTAVI, the biggest game release of probably all time is about to happen when PS5 is hitting PS3's lifetime sales late 2025 / early 2026 as well and i'm sure a marketing deal is gonna happen like always with GTA.
Hell even something like Palworld releases without a PS5 version, is a hit on Xbox and Sony jumps right behind and not only managed to have the game running on PS5 during that same year, they will also expand the IP to something bigger than only that game. That's how fast they operate. Xbox failed to even secure that. In a few years people will relate that IP to Sony and not Xbox. Another one. Meanwhile Xbox keeps missing surprise hits. Last year with Baldur's Gate 3, this year with Black Myth Wukong. But hey...Genshin Impact is hitting Xbox 5 years after release right?
With Sony, "months of nothing" is never a thing...at least for more than 6 months but no publisher releases games monthly, not in 2024.
Meanwhile, even after absorbing Activision, Blizzard and Beshesda, MS can go on more than a year without releasing a single game that makes the market move. That's what a mess they are in 2024. Like...Starfield came and went, Forza Motorstorm was mocked online, compared to cross-gen Gran Turismo 7 and failing to match it even though it was "built from the ground up" the the new gen, Halo Infinite...i won't even mention it even with a year (!!!) delay, Red Fall...who remembers that? What do they have? Oh right...that tech demo, Hellblade II. And...what else? COD, a well oiled machine since before they were acquired making the big bucks i guess.
Gamepass ruined Xbox forever with the "you don't have to buy games" mindset. It ruined them so much they are now releasing all of their stuff on PS5. Literally on one of their latest conferences, their big "one more thing" moment was to announce the PS5 version of Indiana Jones lol.
From all the big 3, Sony was by far the busiest one this year. It's not even close. They will have half of the GOTY contenders for themselves, meanwhile MS can't even score a win in those categories for their entire run as console makers for the past...20 years maybe? When was the last time? Halo 3? They are always non-existent at the Game Awards for that reason.
How can you look at everything Sony released, developed, financed in 2024 and say it's "months of nothing" while trying to put them at the same level as Xbox is...interesting.
Xbox problems aren't Sony's problems. Yes Concord happened, but that doesn't take away every great thing that released this year on PS5.
