There have been some very huge misses recently by PlayStation and it’s tarnishing the ps5 generation. Concord, TLOU live service experiment, Marathon, Destruction Allstars, the purchase of Bungie have all been giant failed experiments. All these failures are the result of trend chasing.
Concord, didn't work out. New team, leadership new to gaas. Shit happens.
Helldivers 2, no credit given to leadership here guess you wanna keep things negative.
Destruction Allstars, you said recent and mention an early 2021 game!?
Marathon, this game hasn't even released.
Bungie, Sony gave Bungie autonomy with a caveat of taking control if they mess things up. We now know they messed things up. The key reason for purchase was their experience in gaas.
Sony want a gaas hit for steady cash flow, and already said they don't expect them all to be huge hits.
Reality is, It's a really tough market with no guarantees.
Many have praised Insomniac for carrying Sony this gen. While I appreciate their efforts, I cannot say that their titles have been innovative. On the contrary, they’ve been safe. I don’t blame insomniac as they’ve had to carry all the others studios lack of output. Now we’re hearing news of a Horizon remaster which is safe. TLOU remaster, again safe. Until Dawn remake, again safe. Frankly, this is not what we’re looking for from PlayStation.
Guess you could say Insomniacs recent PS5 games were safe. Some really good technical acheivements shown already though and have high expectations for future releases. Great Studio.
Regarding Remasters, have you ever thought you're maybe not the target demographic for these releases? There are transmedia opportunities with upcoming TLOU season 2, Until Dawn Movie, Horizon TV series.
The Film/TV projects brings new customers and increased sales for those games. See TLOU, FALLOUT
People have harped on Jim Ryan as the cause of this but I find it surprising that no one is talking about Herman Hulst. In many ways, the stagnation of PlayStation software is a direct reflection of him. He lead GG and they made technically competent, safe, boring games. I’ll probably catch a lot of flack for this but Horizon is boring af, Shadow Fall was boring af. In fact, the last good game GG made was on the ps3. Their games have amazing visuals, passable gameplay and horrendous stories. PlayStation today is technically sound with technically competent games but no innovation. When we look at the type of games that came out in the ps3 and ps4 generation, it’s easy to see that there has been a regression in terms of innovation.
Agreed GG can make improvements to gameplay and storytelling. The rest i don't agree with but that's your opinion.
Hoping future full PS5 releases blow us away. Great Studio.
The most damning thing is the absence of mid tier games by PlayStation. Games made by smaller dev teams meant to fill the gap between big releases. Now they rely on indie developers to do so and frankly, it’s just not good enough. The structure of the software studios is just poor leading to very poor output. It’s so bad that we’ve seen a relative drought of releases for the platform. There have been good games like Astrobot, GT7, Returnal but it’s been very few. To truly understand how bad this gen would be, just imagine this gen without backwards compatibility. Can it stand on its own merit? Absolutely not.
First it's an absence of mid tier games, then you list some and say it's very few. You should bare in mind all projects got delayed due to covid, probably a year behind where we should be. The release window between announcement and release has also changed considerably. A short announce to release window like Astro Bot would be unheard of lastgen.
You seem to have collated this years internet dramas and made a thread.
Where's your mention of XDEV? they work with studios worldwide on many projects
Where's your mention of India hero project or MENA hero project?
Where's your examples of innovation in games to even compare too?
You're just going have to get used to the changes this gen. No more road maps years in advance. SIE will make games outside their comfort zone like gaas. No longer catering to just the hardcore gamer, they want/need to expand the business to new customers too.
Having said all that I get the fustration fingers crossed for the State of play.
