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thegamerztheory.com: Former PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden declares: "There really is no major competition for PlayStation."
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Agree with this completely and this is the problem. Its Xbox to blame, they need to get their shizzle together and fight back. I don't want Sony becoming that arrogant Sony we had back at the launch of PS3. Granted they turned it around by the end and we as gamers got another amazing generation of games. PS4 was the GOAT.
people say keep mentioning this fear of a return to arrogant sony, but with game dev having ballooned both in cost and turn around time, i don't think sony can afford to be arrogant anymore. the risk is too great.
How was Sony arrogant during PS3???
Just because of the price?? If it was a scam then I'd agree but PS3 was indeed worth the price it retailed at! Like the saying goes, dedicated Blu-ray players were the same price or more as the PS3 and you couldn't play games.
Compare that to Nintendo selling you a reheated $450 console when it's hardly worth half of that price.
Exactly! 100%.
I keep hearing about this so called ''Sony needs competition'' xbox has never been competition for PS, not on ps2, not on ps4, not on ps5 but they bring the 360 only because released a yr earlier and had sold 10mil units before PS3 hit the shelves. Still failed to sell more than PS3. When xbox most ''successful'' console ever couldn't beat the less ''successful'' console from Sony, you know it's game over.
@Aloymetal
So you really trying to say Sony never saw Microsoft as competitors in the console space? So without Microsoft, Sony would have just decided to do timed exclusives all by themselves? To say the 360 did not compete agains the PS3 is lunacy at best. Microsoft came in a space dominated by Sony, and made a dent...you could easily tell by the behaviors of Sony.
@Huey_My_D_Long
Ken Kutaragi isn't Sony as a whole. He's just a guy who was certain he'd made the best console of all time. MS execs have said far worse arrogant things over and over again yet what people bring up as an example of arrogant Sony is the 20 year old PS3 launch and Kutaragi's words.
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, at the end of the day these companies are not benevolant and they aren't your friend, they want to make MONEY. So yeah they'll sell you stuff, increase their prices and so on. They're no different from Walmart or Amazon.
So all of the issues Sony has are self-made issues? Not because of them reacting to competition? Man, not sure that's the best way to look at this.
Well, Shawn Layden was High up at PlayStation, he would know better then any of us, and what's really going down at Sony right? My favorite was Jack Trenton.
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The disagrees... There's no one who will say PS5 has been the best PS generation who's old enough to have played them all. It's by far their weakest. They haven't tried this generation and have had more announcements for special edition consoles, controllers, headsets and monitors than they have exclusive games. PS5 is a great console but the lack of competition has made Sony lazy.
Thanks you absolutely nailed it. Check out our other article currently on the N4G homepage. Our video and Article discuss this very issue you touched on. Your sentiment nails it, and we at EPG agree wholeheartedly.
ANYONE who has played PlayStation since the beginning and owned all of the consoles will agree this generation has been the worst. Its not the consoles fault, both the PS5 and PS5 pro are incredible machines with amazing tech, its more the direction Sony has taken and the decisions senior management have made.
Shawn Layden knows better than anyone what the issues are at PlayStation and what may be going on behind the scenes. They have amazing tech, but Sony just seems like they are stuck in second gear and don't care to push up and actually give us gamers another legendary gen. With no competition from Xbox, and sales bringing in the cash why would they. PlayStation fans are also not demanding better which is confusing for some of us old timers who have been around from the start.
The fact that PS6 is now already being spoken about, yet we only recently got the PS5 Pro and have not really seen anything close to the PS5/Pro being maxed out, we find ourselves asking again and again, where are the games! Not third party, we want the first party exclusive bangers PlayStation has been built on.
@Kyro
This has nothing to do with being lazy it’s a combination of games taking significantly longer to make, and Sony betting most of their eggs on live service games and basically canceling all of them.
God of war, twisted metal, the last of us, Spider-Man, Bungies destiny spin-off, Deviation games studio closure, London studio game, Neon Koi’s mobile/console game, and Bend Studios open-world game were all cancelled.
Jade Raymond’s game might be cancelled as well. If so that’s 10 games gone, and why it feels like “lazy”.
@EPG
The PS6 is being talked about in the same time frame the as the transition from PS4 to PS5.
PS4 launched 2013, PS4 Pro 2016, PS5 2020 (7 year cycle).
PS5 2020, PS5 Pro 2024, PS6 2027/2028 (7 - 8 year cycle).
The reason PS6 is being brought up is because the speculated APU is already in development with leaks pointing to it, and Xbox just officially announced Project Helix for their next PConsole.
Just because it's not the best generation doesn't mean Sony has been lazy. I think that trope is truly lazy analysis. People somehow conviently forget that when PlayStation was releasing TONS of exclusive games on the PS3, those games collectively did not sell a ton. They trimmed
Just because it's not the best generation doesn't mean Sony has been lazy. I think that trope is truly lazy analysis. People somehow conviently forget that when PlayStation was releasing TONS of exclusive games on the PS3, those games collectively did not sell a ton. They trimmed down the number of exclusive games tremendously in the PS4 generation and this generation they went after live service and that has not worked out. Canceling games isnt lazy. Game development takes longer these days and cost more. These reasons are not due to a company being lazy. There have been some bad bets made and unfortunately that has undoubtedly resulted in some of our favorite studios inability to release a game. And it seems that the Jim Ryan tenure had its flaws. Jim Ryan will absolutely get credit for being able to deliver a console during a pandemic, a great accomplishment. But the overly aggressive live service push, and studio acquisitions hae not worked out. Now they need to pivot. They are fortunate that XBOX refuses to get out of their own way, and can't make up their mind of their direction either. I love games, so I will take those XBOX exclusive games all day.
Anyway, first party games this generation feel more like icing on a cake and I think many of us would like to see it be more of the cake. Even with that I have MORE games to play than this generation has time left to play them. There is nothing PlayStation can do about the situation other than realign their priorities which we see happening. Relative patience isn't something the gaming community exhibits. The changes will take time and at this point as a fan who prefers PlayStation, I want to see moves at the end of the generation that continue to signal their realignment. And a continuation once the PS6 gets here.
I feel like the same idea happened at the start of the ps3, but because they had real competition they were forced to turn around
Even ps4 had a weak start but at least it eventually got better
I agree that it’s weakest PS so far. Dave gave up on so many good franchisees it’s ridiculous.
Sony have lost it completely over the last few years. The past 12 months especially they’re in massive damage control mode.
To say they have no competition, especially now. Wow. That’s bold and a pretty embarrassingly stupid statement to make.
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This wouldn't be an issue if western devs actually made games for the audience they have instead of the one they WISHED they had.
The people they're catering to don't buy games. They will like the tweets but never buy your games, because they aren't, nor will they ever be, gamers.
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There are better laws offering more protections for workers in Japan. Instead of firing people, they very noticeably stop hiring people instead - graduates are not getting jobs like they used to. It's still better to have the protections though and ***it shows what these companies would try do to Japanese developers if they could get away with it.*** She's right on this. It's about workers protections. Even if you prefer non-Western games, ***the cost pressures are said to be the same.***
Insomniac had layoffs despite reaching 11m sales on Spider-Man 2 quite quickly. Without protections for workers, big companies have no loyalty and will get rid of you even if you just temporarily become less useful when a game ships and they can rehire later.
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