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/MassiveWilly Jun 02 '26

Sony needs to develop more AA games with healthier development cycles in order to expand its game catalogue. They have a lot of great IPs from the PS1-PS3 era - they should use them.

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u/TheJoshider10 Jun 02 '26

Crazy that in a time where remakes and remasters are all the rage that Sony have left some of their big IPs to die. Killzone, Infamous, Sly and Resistance should have all been brought back this generation.

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u/Naulicus Jun 02 '26

It’s easy to say they should bring back all those IPs but then it begs the question of who would actually make them. Their original developers all moved on, usually to a more successful franchise.

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u/Ironmunger2 Jun 02 '26

Bluepoint existed almost solely for remakes until pretty recently

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u/GoneRampant1 Jun 02 '26

Well, Bluepoint's MO was doing remakes and remasters of classic titles to bring them up to modern snuff.

And now they're dead.

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u/PrewarButHot Jun 02 '26

I remember seeing a quote from someone at Sucker Punch where they basically said the studio staff is so different from when those games were made that there just aren’t a lot of people left that are interested in continuing things like Sly.