A reader tries to be optimistic that the PS6 will likely be a chance for Sony to change course and put the errors of the PS5 behind it.
I bear in mind when the way forward for video games was only a query of how good the graphics have been going to be. Nowadays, it’s worrying that builders die of previous age earlier than ending their video games (literally with Kojima) and hoping there’s nonetheless a marketplace for the video games you want and not simply infinite dwell service money grabs.
PlayStation 5 has overwhelmed the Xbox Series X/S so simply this era that Microsoft has all however given up making consoles, nevertheless it doesn’t really feel like a victory. Sony has spent the majority of the PlayStation 5’s life attempting and failing to make dwell service video games. The solely hit they’ve had is the just one they didn’t make themselves and every little thing else has both been a flop, has been cancelled, or nonetheless isn’t out (and is probably about to get cancelled).
Now we hear the first rumours about the PlayStation 6 and a conveyable gadget, and I simply hope that they’re going to use that as a method to draw a line beneath the PlayStation 5 and promise to by no means do something like that once more.
The newest hearsay for the PlayStation 6 additionally recommended {that a} third Horizon Zero Dawn recreation is likely to be a launch title for it. I’ve no robust emotions about that both method however I’m not less than relieved that they appear to be beginning off with a correct recreation and not the multiplayer spin-off or Concord 2 or one thing.
But the drawback is the PlayStation 5 began off positive, it had launch line-up and the first two years have been precisely what you’d count on. It’s solely after that, when recreation budgets rose and Sony realised it made more cash from microtransactions than video games, that that the issues got here.
If you get successful dwell service recreation then it’s a licence to print cash, if persons are additionally shopping for skins and cosmetics at the similar time. But it’s like successful the lottery; you’ve acquired a really low chance of getting successful and should you don’t win you lose the cash you paid to play in the first place.
I discover it fascinating that Microsoft, who’re tremendous wealthy, have comparatively little curiosity in dwell service video games however Sony, who’re a traditional firm, are obsessive about it. And are nonetheless obsessive about it, regardless of understanding their core followers hate it and that it’s not working, in the most public and embarrassing method doable.
But as has been identified lately they’re not doing it due to us, they’re doing it to impress traders, who care nothing about video games, simply the infinite revenue dream that is a profitable dwell service recreation (by no means thoughts that nothing lasts without end, as Apex Legends is proving at the second).
What I hope, and maybe I’m being naïve, however what I hope is that the PlayStation 6 will likely be the level at which every little thing adjustments once more. Sony can change tracks, again to how they used to be, and forget all the present errors.
I don’t know the way possible that is however unusually the thought of a conveyable provides me hope. You can’t launch that and hope for it to be a hit simply by taking part in dwell service video games on it, it’s acquired to have correct video games. That’s the method I see it anyway, and I hope Sony does too.
By reader Dashker
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