The Playstation Studio's engines are just so damn good. It's definitely paid out for Sony to invest in own technology tailored specifically to their hardware.

It still to this day mind boggles me how good TloU2 or God War (2018) & God of War Ragnarok look & run, especially considering they are PS4 gen code fundamentally.

And then there's Spiderman 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet & Clank and Returnal.

Decima Engine seems to be such a smooth yet powerful engine.

Fantastic engine!

I’m glad that at least some studios and publishers are still using their own engines and not having everything in unreal. I have nothing against unreal, I just dislike this industry consolidation that is plaguing not just video games, but every industry it seems.

Surely, Hulst is running the show. Decima is up there.

Could embrace pretty sure they have been embracing it even offering it to other studios since half way through the PS4 generation

Recently replayed CoD Infinite Warfare and just remember being so impressed with a game that came out like 10yrs ago and just being so impressed at how amazing it looks compared to some of these next gen games

That kind of things are what makes the games advance... if they are well done. While every Unreal 5 and Unity game has the same tools, Sony can innovate with their own software and hardware. But... well... not always is the case, as their games have to be on PC too.

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