Surely that wasn’t the only thing they were working on. I forget where I read it, but weren’t they also working on an original IP? Similar to Naughty Dog, they were simultaneously working on that Last of Us live service and their new IP. When the realization that the live service game wasn’t a good idea, they simply shifted development. Isn’t this the same situation??

I've been waiting for their original IP since SoTC. Pretty disappointed that it was a live service game. Can't imagine their frustration at the cancellation after years of working on that shite. This gen has been the worst.

They are fucking up beyond belief.

There were so many IPs Sony could have let Bluepoint work on. Legend of Dragoon, God of War, Infamous, etc.

Instead they forced thme to work on a live service game even though the team have little to no experience on that area.

Sony has so many great dominant IP's that they can bring back, such as Infamous, Socom, Ape Escape, Jak & Daxter, Siren, Sly Cooper, Killzone, Twisted Metal, Little Big Planet, Gravity Rushy, Motorstorm, Wild Arms, Resistance, Wipeout, Alundra, Colony Wars, Cool Boarders, Knack, Syphon Filter, Dark Cloud, Omega Boost, The Legend of Dragoon, G-Police, The Getaway and so on. Many of these games is what defines Playstation and sets them apart in previous generations.

They could also work with third parties developers to bring these franchises back like Parasite Eve, Dino Crisis, Ridge Racer, SSX, Tenchu, Jade Cocoon, Xenogears, Xenosaga, Nightmare Creatures, Vagrant Story, Shadow Hearts, Driver, Breath of Fire, Tomba, Legend of Legaia,..etc

i think sony should stick to great single player games with a couple of multiplayer ones in addition to those.

thats what theyve always been very good at.

live service games are a huge risk imo and only a few have actually been successful.

cause they were intresting and not Another shooter.

If they wanted live service games so bad, why did they nuke evolution and studio liverpool? They should go back to letting devs just make whatever they want.

I am SO disappointed to hear about this the other day, I have been anxiously waiting for them to announce their next game. In my opinion I still think Demons Souls remake has the best graphics of the generation. What the hell Sony, who asked for a live service GoW game… or a live service Horizon? What does that even mean?
The only live service games that have shown promise or potential to be a bit different in an over saturated market were Factions and Twisted Metal..and they both got cancelled.

The PS5 will end up being a system looked back on as something with wasted potential. Having so many quality studios needlessly working on games in a genre that, to many, had toxic reception years before their potential release, was a horrible strategy that has now cost costumers years of games for their expensive systems.

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