Bull (pause for emphasis) shit.
It’s got 30 god damned years to draw on. Properties that longtime fans have been begging for for literal decades.
A quarter century of neglected IP. Just pick some. And make them.
Of course we all know the real problem. Those old IP can’t or won’t work as an always online live service. So they won’t make quintillions of dollars a year. They’d make some money if they’re made true to the original vision. But the goal isn’t to make some money. It needs to make all the money. It needs to be a killer app. An Overwatch killer or Fortnite killer. Can’t ever be happy to just make money. Staying in the black isn’t good enough.
Well if they’re out of original IP maybe they should, you know, CREATE some original IP. Surely there’s bound to be some creatives left in that behemoth of a company.
I know I know, it’s a stock listed company and these just stop innovating and just buy up studios, but they could try it for once.
Let’s set up a steering committee to develop guidelines for an approval process for allocating funds to the creativity enhancement subcommittee.
I agree that they should create new IPs, but, they did just try that with Concord. So I understand why they would be gun-shy about it.
Their user base isn’t games as a service bullshit. That stuff exists, sure, but Sony’s market share is because of their library of expansive single player experiences.
It’s Uncharted, SpiderMan, God of War, Horizon, The Last of Us. That’s their bread and butter type of product, and that’s what they should focus on. They don’t need to chase microtransaction hell bullshit to be successful.
I loved the uncharted games, I stopped with 3 because the other ones seemed like DLCs and half games and such so I never got around to them.
That said they should do a game based in the 70s with Sully as the lead.
GoW, having never played the originals, are two of the best games I have ever played. I am so jealous of younger me getting to play them for the first time.
Ah yes. If there’s one thing that the Playstation has been known for over the years, it’s been a very narrow selection of games to draw from.
Days Gone, Infamous?
Not to mention Killzone, Resistance, Jak and Daxter. It is not about quantity, but how you use them. This is proof that these execs are just talking out of their asses and don’t really know what they are talking about.
💯 God of War is proof of that. An old franchise relegated to the bin of abandoned Sony IP after being squeezed dry. Then it gets reborn as an entirely different kind of game. They nearly didn’t greenlight it thinking there was no way it would be worthwhile. But they did and the rest is history.
So do that with Resistance or Infamous or Sound Shapes. Easier said than done I know but saying there’s not enough IP is so dumb.
Weird coming from the company that deliberately stop selling to 170 countries for unknown reasons.