I love how this article jumps to the conclustion that it's a "strategy" like every game is going to be multiplatform when it's just one game to keep the license

Exclusive games sell consoles so no it shouldn't. Simple as that.

Sony has no exclusives!!!!

you PS fanboys really like to move those goalposts don't you?

Trash Xbox for doing it and doing it much better. But praise Sony for the same thing? Yeah ok N4G I wonder why if Xbox is no threat and no competition and dead as the Sony fans say why does Sony constantly copy them and Sony is the market leader

Theres no 'multiplatform strategy' 🤦‍♂️

The gaming industry is the only one of the three major media distribution industries where hardware has exclusives. Completely dumb.

If I told you that if you bought a Panasonic blu-ray player you could only buy movies from Universal I would be laughed at. Or a CD player that could only play music from DCD2 records I would be laughed at.

But, in gaming this is a norm, and people think for some reason that competition would die if every console could play every other console's games. The music and movie industry has a lot of competition. they did not die because their media is not exclusive to one device manufacturer.

I’m pretty sure there will still be plenty of exclusives. Certain select titles being multiplat makes sense, and it’s not as if Sony is the first to do it. I believe Sony said it’s only certain multiplayer titles that they aren’t planning to keep exclusive.

Sony and Ryan knows that exclusives sells consoles and are the main reasons to sell Play Station products.
Sony is not like MS, and thanks god they are not, Sony game division is the most profitable one. They depend more than ever. Microsoft has their OS system that makes trillions for them.

That simple fact is the reason why Sony invest in exclusives and developers. They invest because their formula worked since the PS1. They outsold the XBOX 3:1 in this generation. It's very likely that they outsell the XBOX series X 4:1 in the next generation. Sony is smart and let MLB go multi platform and Kojima is a free agent. Sony respects those decisions. However Sony is always moving getting new developers like their latest acquisition, Insomniac.

Baseball has a limited market so this only makes since especially with Switch and Xbox not having a licensed baseball competitor. Well other than that crappy annual R.B.I. baseball game.

Would love to see GT Sport go multiplat. They can keep the main GT series on only PlayStation. But if they wanna grow GT Sport into a serious esport it needs to be in as many hands as possible.

I am all for throwing games on other consoles but I also prefer exclusives to stay on a certain console a game like Uncharted or even God of War are what make a Playstation a Playstation

Hmmm..... I wonder if this is the prelude for Sony allowing cross-play. After all.... What good would cross play have if it isn't benefitting Sony.
With Sony going Multiplat Sony is making money off the games and people are Cross playing Sony games... MLB sounds like a good Safe first game. Little to no competition and it is multiplayer online..... Death Stranding is sort of passive Multiplayer rather than direct.... but still .....

I don't see the triple A single player games transferring over.... Keep that as exclusive to PlayStation consoles

Metacritic;

PS4: The Last of Us Remastered - 95.
Switch: Zelda Breath of the Wild/Super Mario Odyssey - 97.

PS3: Uncharted 2 - 96.
Wii: Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 - 97.

PS2: Metal Gear Solid 2 - 96.
Gamecube: Metroid Prime - 97.

Playstation: Gran Turismo - 96.
N64: Zelda Ocarina of Time- 99.

Nintendo is better every single generation.

MLB going multiplatform is not that shocking. I don't understand what that has to do with this idea that Sony is now going multiplatform. Major League Baseball is NOT owned by Sony. So when the licensing contract was up, MLB being a major world brand wanted to be on multiple platforms. It was either make the game or lose the license. That by no stretch of the imagination means Sony is putting thier IP's on other platforms. What evidence is there to say that Sony's 1st party multiplayer games are going multiplatform, as the article suggests?... I'll wait. None. Not a shred of evidence.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!