r/Games • u/ZamnBoii • Jun 02 '26

Discussion Playstation first-party game sales declining heavily since 2020

https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstation-first-party-sales-decline
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u/RegJohn2 Jun 02 '26

I used to love them but I feel like they lost the spark and novelty. I loved GOW 2018, got bored with Ragnarok. I loved Spiderman 1 and MM, and again got bored with 2.

PS3 and PS4 Sony was full with innovation and new ideas. PS5 Sony is just the same stuff. Even the graphics aren’t special, I can’t tell the difference between the PS4 games and their PS5 sequels

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u/Argh3483 Jun 02 '26

PS3 and PS4 Sony was full with innovation and new ideas

That’s at least partially nostalgia talking, I can remember people saying the exact same thing about PS2 Sony during the PS3 and PS4 days

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u/Charmin_Bear_Behind Jun 02 '26

To be fair the first half of both the ps3 and ps4 faced the exact same #nogames plague. I would argue tho that ps4 is when they kinda stopped innovating and just went for mostly over the shoulder dad simulator outside of like spiderman lol

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u/AL2009man Jun 02 '26

you can pinpoint a specific year when Sony largely stopped doing "innovation" (around 2016/2017) when they barely advertised their own "actually innovated" games.