[Forbes] PlayStation Is Still A Hit Machine While Xbox Hasn’t Even Started Catching Up

[sugarhigh 519]

MS did 2 big things when they got into gaming. They dragged a lot of PC-centered devs (Id, Bethesda, Bioware, Irrational, Epic...) into console game design. And they made online multiplayer much more accessible. If they held onto these advantages, there would still be a strong case for Xbox in the industry. But a lot of those devs went multiplatform and Xbox even lost key exclusives. PlayStation studios also rebalanced to prioritize western teams. With PS4, PlayStation Network reached parity with Xbox Live. There's just not much of a reason to own an Xbox anymore. In the last 2 years, you'd have a way better time on PS4 than Series X.

[jehurey 3,230]

2 hours ago, sugarhigh said:

MS did 2 big things when they got into gaming. They dragged a lot of PC-centered devs (Id, Bethesda, Bioware, Irrational, Epic...) into console game design. And they made online multiplayer much more accessible. If they held onto these advantages, there would still be a strong case for Xbox in the industry. But a lot of those devs went multiplatform and Xbox even lost key exclusives. PlayStation studios also rebalanced to prioritize western teams. With PS4, PlayStation Network reached parity with Xbox Live. There's just not much of a reason to own an Xbox anymore. In the last 2 years, you'd have a way better time on PS4 than Series X.

Not only that, but Microsoft only had two/three developers who had some form of genuine "artistic vision."

 

Bungie, as a team, with how they managed Halo.  And Cliffy B with Gears of War. And obviously Peter Molyneaux, a man who was nothing but artistic vision, almost to a fault.

 

They have no such internal studios that are led by "vision" types, anymore. The closest is them purchasing Bethesda, who is clearly led by Todd Howard.

 

343 Studios has absolutely no vision, they simply "maintain". Turn 10 Studios and Playground games? I'd say they have limited vision, with Forza Horizon being the franchise that has had more new ideas as time goes by.

 

Sony studios are led by key people who have vision. Sony Santa Monica has been run by David Jaffe, Cory Barlog, and those people brought big ideas. Polyphonal Digital? Kazanori Yamauchi. Naughty Dog with Neil Druckmann.

 

But they also have studios that aren't run by big-ideas type of people. That's where good management from Sony comes in. They help create what the next IP this studio will make, and they guide them into making the right decisions.

 

Nintendo famously also does this, their most famous example being taking Retro Studios and guiding them to make Metroid Prime.

 

Look at how aimless Insomniac was. The Resistance games weren't all that great back then, and then Sunset Overdrive was a bit of a mess. But then they got back to Sony, and they started making great games.

 

Sucker Punch was making Infamous, which wasn't getting much excitement. Sony had them change direction, and they made Ghosts of Tsushima, and that garnered more success and attention than their previous games.

 

Housemarque, articles have been written about how Sony helped grow them from making 2D arcade games, into becoming a studios capable of making high production quality games.

 

Guerilla. They were seen as a developer that makes shallow games. And they finally were able to make a franchise that is something more.

 

Nintendo has middle-management that are developers and game producers.

 

Sony has middle-management that have game creation experience (David Jaffe, at one point, was helping Sony as middle-management, Mark Cerny).

 

Microsoft has middle-management that have no gaming background.

Edited November 9, 2022 by jehurey

[sugarhigh 519]

The entire Xbox One generation was a travesty. Series X's first 2 years are arguably worse. MS isn't bringing anything to the table here. Buying half the big publishers will be bad for everyone in 10-20 years.

[FIREPOWER 719]

These are the same retards that lemshits want to buy out half the entire gaming industry so that gaming can die.

 

They can't even put out games with their current selection of studios and they have more studios than Sony or Nintendo.

 

MS went on the acquisition spree in 2018 and since that time Sony has put HFW, GT7, Spiderman Miles Morales and Remastered, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet and Clank, Returnal, and GOW Ragnarok. I bet you Spiderman 2 launches before Starfield and lemshits will still be making excuses for Phil. Bunch of retards over there at MS and their fanbase is even more retarded 

 

 

Since the Series L consoles launched MS has only put out one Forza game and a shitty Halo game that no one wants to play. Lemshits were saying the tail end of XB1 gen was dry because MS was saving games for this gen, and now this gen is starting out even worse than the XB1 gen 

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by FIREPOWER

[Playstation Tablet 1,725]

They delayed Halo for like 2 years to make it boost the Series system and still managed to Fuck it up somehow.

Edited November 10, 2022 by Team 2019