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I mean, this is 110% focused on the Asian market, so developing this for the PS5 might not be a priority.

Other larger franchises have already had exclusive games for these markets (COD, N4S and so on). Maybe this is their initial plan.

@Porco - Well, with gaming budgets reaching unbelievable levels (Spider-Man 2 was close to 400 million), it's no surprise that we're seeing fewer and fewer new IPs as the risk of them not working out is much greater.

It will be very interesting to see how Sony will act in the next 10 years. Hulst has already said that creating new IPs is one of PS Studios' strengths, but I believe that any mistake could cost an entire studio (I believe that Bend, London and Media Molecule are on a knife's edge with their next games).

I'm also very curious to see how Sony will try to act with these crazy budgets. Maybe the alternative really is to bring the 8~15 hour games back, but that alone will bring up the discussion that: "No one should pay more than 30 bucks for a game that only lasts that long" despite these type of games probably cost more than full fledged PS3 and early PS4 games nowdays.

Well, it looks like the whole plot of Wolverine has leaked. I guess the game will be delayed a year or two just because of that (if not, it should)

The whole roadmap for their next decade has leaked as well. Some BIG projects planned there.

Sucks for the studio and everyone who works there, but at least it's one of those leaks that ends up generating a huge hype, just like the GTA 6 one.

– "Sony Studios only does movie-like games"
– Sony Studios actually produce games/modes where the focus is on gameplay
– "Who asked for that? That's not what I want"

I mean, Sony didn't had enough content for their own big showcase this year. It was kind of predictable that they wouldn't show anything major at the TGA.

Either way, it seems pretty clear that 2024 will be even weaker than 2023 in terms of first party games coming from Sony. Concord should be their big game for the end of the year, which is strange since we only got a CG trailer for that one.

At least in terms of announcements for 2025/2026, they will have enough content to generate some hype again (Bluepoint, Naughty Dog, Cory Barlog's game, Sucker Punch, Asobi, Wolverine, Death Stranding 2, London Studio, Bend and so on should have stuff ready to be shown by mid 2024).

Maybe it has more to do with all these companies hiring like crazy during the pandemic and now they realize the growth wasn't that big to maintain the profit they wanted.

Jaffe's news is that Connie Booth (legendary first party producer at SIE - has worked at Sony since Crash) is leaving Sony.

He just doesn't know if it's for her own reasons (retirement) or if there was some bad blood. Apparently Angie Smets (ex-Guerrilla) will take her position. He made an drama because he doesn't like Guerrilla nor their games (he also thinks Hermen Hulst is the one who will be appointed as SIE CEO).

And to think that four months ago everyone was sure that Sony was ruined and that the Xbox would sell like water in the desert after showcases.

Good luck to whoever takes over and tries to please the "hardcore community" while trying to keep the company growing (One thing goes completely against the other, by the way).

Eric Lempel (current head global marketing, sales and business operations – used to be the PS Plus guy back in the PS3 days) is probably the person they'll chose to take the role. I don't know if he will be very popular with the hardcore audience since he doesn't wear gamer shirts out there.

Sony's silence regarding its games is very clear, they are simply not ready to be revealed. Even Naughty Dog has already stated that announcing a game 3 or 4 years in advance is not a good thing for the studio developing it. The problem is that Sony doesn't have enough studios to be able to announce and "shortly" release games on a regular basis. Unless they buy a good number of studios (or publishers), we will continue to have years in which they announce and release many games, and others in which they will practically do nothing.

Pretty sure Sony will focus even more outside the PlayStation platform going forward as they want even more money. Expect PS games to release Day 1 on PC and PS Plus may arrive on PC in the next 3 or 4 years.

Lots of people celebrating that Jim Ryan is going to leave, but who's said someone "worse" than him won't take over?

We can only hope that Sony has no Andrew Wilson to take the role.

This is rumored to arrive on Plus (don't know what tier) at Day 1. Lets see if they confirm it.

It would be nice to see him back at Santa Monica, but hard to believe that would happen after his game got canceled there after three years of production.

Not fully related, but probably most of those live service games (would bet that it will start with Helldivers 2) will arrive on PS Plus and Sony will justify the price increase to them.

Most people were guessing that these games would be F2P, but it seems to be more profitable for Sony to simply raise the price of Plus, add these games there and hope everyone spends with microtransactions - While the game will paid on PC but won't require any kind of subscription.

Acquiring the entire company was probably cheaper in the long term than licencing that planar magnetic tech.

Curious to see if they helped develop PS Link as well.

Well, Holland already stated he wanted to make a 'darker version' of Jak & Daxter and the director of the Uncharted movie said he was working on a Jak & Daxter movie for Sony.

Doesn't seem to be a joke.

Not totally related, but Neill Blomkamp pretty much confirmed he's working a Wipeout movie as well.

Kinda funny that Tom Henderson, the person who first talked about this new model never mentioned that it was supposed to be the 'Slim' model, but now people are outraged because supposedly someone promised a Slim model.

Here's what he said on that fist leak, by the way:

"Sources have implied that although the new detachable disc drive is portable, it will not ruin the aesthetics of the console and will attach to it without looking external, presumably meaning the new PlayStation 5 will look similar to the existing model."

Kind of funny that these numbers debunk a good part of the fan boy "discussions" this year:

• "Dualsense Edge is too expensive and no one will buy a controller with that battery"
• "Sony killed the PS5 with that awful showcase"
• "Xbox 'E3' showcase just killed the PS5"
• "Final Fantasy XVI is selling poorly and Square is lying"

@Ken_Kaniff - That alone would reduce the number of third party games coming to the service/platform.

At least Sony has 10 years to build a proper FPS IP. Not saying that it will match COD, but they definitely need to have at least one.

Still to soon to know if Concord will be that IP, but the moment Druckmann said that the Half Life series were a huge inspiration within Naughty Dog, I would have give a big investiment into the studio to see them making an FPS in the near future.

@Ravix - The theory that Sony hide stuff is amazing, to be honest. Folks simply can't believe that Sony wasn't ready to show most of their stuff (even more now that said they plan to reveal stuff much closer to release).

People really need to get used to that. We'll get some years VERY light in terms of announcements and releases coming from Sony.

The fact that they are doing it through Kickstarter shows that not only Sony didn't have interest, but pretty much everybody else as well.

@OrtadragoonX - The funny part is that people choose to forget Druckmann importance on the much loved Uncharted series, where he worked as game designer, co-writer and creative director.

@pharos_haven - Sony was in the fight to buy FOX with money that nobody knows where it would come from. Sony definitely has they ways to make big moves, the question is whether they really want it or not.

High possibility that Sony believes that things will not change that much, even with MS buying two of the biggest publishers of the industry.

@DeathlySW - The more reliable outcome for this from Sony: They greenlit more 5 live service games to see if they can finally find their own Fortnite.

Good for the industry. Hopefully it forces Sony to finally a buy a publisher or two as well. Or Sony is not allowed to compete?

I'll be interested if they finally add cross-play in Pro Clubs.

@OrtadragoonX - Raf Grassetti (former Santa Monica Art Director) confirmed in a podcast last week that most of the budget goes to the first half of a game, because they have numbers showing that more than half of the people who play a game end up dropping it halfway through.

And to be honest, studios are not much to blame for this matter since if a game comes out with average graphics or if it has less than 20 hours of content nowadays it is automatically garbage.

It reminded me of an interview with the Remedy devs saying that they had to change a lot in Alan Wake II (when compared to the first one) because the public today doesn't accept linear games that don't offer much in the replay factor and only have with 5~8 hours of story.

Sorry but the Xbox showcase didn't show anything to suggest that Sony needs change any part of its strategy. Does anyone really believe that the Xbox will start to outsell the PS5 for several months straight because of this showcase?

I expected (and hoped) that Microsoft would be even more aggressive this year, because Sony needs to get out of its comfort zone. But it gives me the impression that the PlayStation brand has really reached that Apple/iPhone level where even if they don't do anything very relevant for a while, it's not going to change anything in the big picture.

lol, Bungie said the game was bad and Sony pretty much gave it up.

Difficult years lie ahead for PlayStation. At least it looks like they're seeing the bombs before they're dropped, but but lack of new games in a regular basis will for sure impact them.

Lossless is kinda a big thing for earbuds, isn't it?

Sony clearly doesn't have enough staff (studios) to do banger showcases year after year in the current state of game development (where games take 5 or 6 years to make). Just do one every three years and that's it. If you have a single first party reveal to be made, just do an exclusive State Of Play to it (or leave it to Keighley events).

It was more than clear that the vast majority of Sony's studios weren't ready to show anything, even more now that they went with the "reveal close to launch" aproach... And yet, people still kept hyping.

I don't mind waiting 2 or 3 years to see the next batch of first party games, but when it's time to show off, go nuclear.

So coop means live service to most of people right now?

Sucks but it happens. Sony already canned much bigger games before (wasn't Santa Monica making its own third person Destiny-style game before "rebooting" God Of War?)

But I believe it proves even more that Sony still needs more studios, because you can't rely so much on third party content going forward.

I guess they weren't making a live service game then.

By the way, if you want it but don't have the PS4 version, it can be bought for 20 bucks through Miles Morales on PS Plus Extra.

It's kinda funny to see PlayStation breaking record after record but the same old japanese journalist insists on saying that the numbers are not good.

Makes sense to buy new studios to tackle live service games while most of the OG studios continue to work on single player games. Sony definitely needs to find that gold live service mine if it wants to keep its buissness strategy going forward.

Folks need to understand that these blockbusters single player game are only going to get more expensive to make, and at some point each game is going to have to sell an insane amount of units to pay for itself. If Sony has one or two games that make some of the success of games like Genshin or Fortnite, it will already help a lot financially.

@__jamiie - Sony is trying to emulate that PS1/2 era of hardware and accessories. Tom Henderson mentioned in his article that Sony plans to release five new PS5 pieces of hardware by 2025:

• PS5 with detachable disc drive
• PS5 Earbuds
• New set of PS5 headsets
• PS5 Pro
• PS5 Remote Play accessory/handheld (Q Lite)

Henderson said it's a accessory/companion solely for Remote Play, no cloud streaming without the console.

And to be honest, makes way more sense for Sony than a Steam Deck copy. No native ports required, no storage cards, no testing and so on.

@Fiendish-Beaver @Godot25 - Naughty Dog confirmed that they're able to produce multiple games at the same time now. If the next game is a new IP (and it's already in full production), I bet that there's a smaller team already working on TLOU3 if that's on the plans.

I mean, last time ND presented a new IP was 10 years ago. It's already time for something new... Part III can arrive at the end of the generation in 2027/28.

Just a headsup that Discord audio can't be captured in video clips or be streamed in broadcasts, like the normal PS5 parties.

I hope it's something that they "fix" in the future.

I do wonder how many publishers Microsoft will need to acquire to catch up with PlayStation, since it's clearly not fair how things were going in the least few years.

If Activision/Blizz doesn't turn them into the market leader, what the next excuse will be? It not fair that Sony has Santa Monica, Naughty Dog and other major studios?

Anyway, even as a daily Call Of Duty player, better Act/Blizz than Square, Capcom or any other publisher that has a longer history with PlayStation the fan base.

Well, I think it's already clear that they will no longer be showing the same game for 3 years in a row, as happened with Ghost Of Tsushima and The Last Of Us 2 and they don't have enough studios to reveal multiple first party games per year.

SIE is still five or six studios (or a publisher) away from being able to have a annual pipeline of announcements. With the studios that Sony has now, it's going to be the way it is now. Some years will be full of announcements, others not so much.

No real reason to show Spider-Man 2 on this one since it will probably open or close their rumored "big showcase" at the E3 season.

The Horizon Expansion on the other hand, needs to be shown asap.

Could be the "Uncharted" studio as Sony already tried to put Bend on that IP again and they refused.

@RiceC03 0 Half Life 2 had a huge leak back in the day as well (one so big that Valve delayed the game to rework a lot of stuff)

I think this was already pretty much confirmed when they showed the new controller (which has fewer buttons than the old PS Move). Requiring the Moves and the old camera just for BC wouldn't be very smart either.

But it's ridiculous how bad PR Sony is. Instead of simply making the excuse of "that technology is too old", they should have said something like: "PSVR games won't work right away but we are working with developers to release new ports or patches"