What the fuck is Sony even doing at this point. When was their last successful game?

What the fuck is Sony even doing at this point. When was their last successful game?

Astrobot probably.

trash game near launch

audience calling Concord 2

massive shitstorm happens

suit just shitcan the entire thing saving hundreds of millions of dollars

Based snoy

California YES!

I don't think a small game making a profit by selling 2 millions copies is enough to outset multiple big AAA games flopping back to back

Helldivers 2

So successful that the devs' next game is self published and they no longer want to work with Sony.

they've completely fumbled the whole gen with this bullshit that no one wants to play

It only did 1.5 million

Just one more GAAS game bro, it will be it, it will surely become a new Fortnite and makes back all the lost money, this time it will work bro!

KWAB

Trust the process.

They are trying to make the best of Jim Ryan's long list of colossal live service fuck-ups. He's a moron who nearly destroyed PlayStation and they're morons for appointing him as CEO

Joke's on him. Sony can destroy Playstation all by themselves and they're doing a great job at it.

Then there's that retard, Herman Hulst who keeps pushing Horizon dogshit. I guess somebody buys those games since they haven't kicked the guy out yet.

Multiplat is the next step

But it is a big success regardless though.

Problem is that Sony can weather all these failures because they make so much off the 30% cut from microtransactions of games like COD, fortnite and genshin.

I don't know if it's fair to say that yet. What they're dealing with right now is a direct result of his decisions as CEO years ago. There is a lag

Horizon has been nowhere near the level of failure of these live service projects. It actually sold pretty well IIRC.
Ryan wasted like 4 years of Naughty Dog’s dev time on a cancelled project

And to think they still have Fairgames in the pipeline.

They’re just catching their breath for a bit

This is the worst case of mismanagement I have ever seen in the entertainment industry. Sony killed its first party output for an entire generation, it's unimaginable that Nintendo would release a new console and then spend the next 8 years saying whoops we fucked it and had to cancel everything

how can sony even go multi-plat? Xbox is done and the switch can't run the last of us

Time to redirect all that marketing money to shill against the Switch 2!

We're going all in on multiplat

$100 games

Sales never go lower than $85, even decades after launch

Why is snoy like this

And to think they still have Fairgames in the pipeline.

I know, right? Endless fun for us.

Realistically you don't and that's what the suits need to grasp. Live service success is entirely up to chance or already having an extremely successful brand to piggyback of that already has the userbase and gameplay style to facilitate it.

Rust and Tarkov got big because they were the first big players to the genre.
Fortnite got big because it pivoted from a tower defense or whatever it was to the battle royale genre when it just started being a thing and used the small userbase they had already fostered to spread the word about it. They then facilitated its growth with the crossovers in addition to more recently removing an aspect everyone hated about it which was the building. Fortnite as a brand and game was on death's door until they lucked out into the genre's new existence and ability to pivot their game easily into it.
Call of Duty Warzone got big because they already had tens of millions of people playing Call of Duty and it was a free version of Call of Duty.
Overwatch got big because at the time there wasn't much like it outside of TF2, and saying TF2 is like Overwatch is the biggest stretch you can make because it's barely anything like it.
Marvel Rivals got big because people were sick of Blizzard and Overwatch and MR provided a brand they cared about with things they could joke about (The ult lines), appealing visual designs, and gameplay from a company that showed they were at least listening to complaints fans had with a solid promise for the future. Marvel was already huge so this getting big is more down to circumstances surrounding Overwatch.
Destiny got big because they had Bungie coming off of Halo hyping the game meaning they already had an install base off of Halo, the game itself was solid enough to give people hope, and the issues with it weren't egregious enough like Destiny 2 to push people away yet.

It's infuriating to see all these live service games get hundreds of millions of funding to chase a golden goose of luck.

I forgot to mention Genshin Impact which also got big specifically because of Covid, the controversy of being a BotW ripoff, and the fact that it was a gacha game that essentially played like a $60 open world AAA game for free instead of an autobattler. That opened the floodgates for them and the mix of all three of these things happening at once cemented it as being successful.

It drives me nuts that companies are so bad at analyzing the market when why these brands succeeded is simple to see and understand yet they think they can just jam in a new one in there as if it's going to suddenly be successful.

Marvel Rivals got big because

Rivals did fun gameplay and titties. Two things Blizzard and Sony are deathly afraid of.

it's over

Fairgame$

Soul

Fairgames

Soulless

suit just shitcan the entire thing saving hundreds of millions of dollars

They could save billions if they simply didn't buy a studio with 1(one) dying gaas

Can't wait for the Concord trilogy to be completed.

i am subscribing to the idea that sony wants marathon to fail and wants to push out a shitty september or november release at the latest while the outrage is still fresh then use it as justification to let go bungie execs who are set to make millions in 2026 from some shareholder fuckery, sony will then not have to pay out those bungie execs them absorb the most talented bungie programmers and shit can the rest

It drives me nuts that companies are so bad at analyzing the market

Top bosses and shareholders demands it and at that point companies like Sony don't have a choice. But yeah it's all about being there first or as soon as possible.

It drives me nuts that companies are so bad at analyzing the market

It's some braindead execs who listen only to sweet talking consultants.
I work in games, I'm a consultant (but I get called in to polish turds).

Gotta specify what kind of tiddies, because hyenas had tiddies and not the kind people wanted.

Game? Who needs those, PS5 has been Sony's most profitable system to date

firm breasts on a slim human biological female

it's unimaginable that Nintendo would release a new console and then spend the next 8 years saying whoops we fucked it and had to cancel everything

I'm a former Wii U owner and this post gives me angry diarrhea.

I'd buy a FPS MMO that wasn't stupid. No aliens.
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