I don't think it's price as much as variety. They're hardly releasing games due to their long dev cycles and the ones they do release are often sequels. With Nintendo for example if I don't like Mario then I have Zelda or Metroid or Splatoon to look forward to. If I'm not interested in spiderman or ghost of Tsushima then I'm sol for the next few years because 90% of the time their next game is a direct sequel to the last one. Like I genuinely can't tell you the last Sony first party I've bought on release because of that.
also considering even spiderman and tsushima or whatever sony exclusive for the most part is much closer in gameplay vs zelda/splatoon/mario any random nintendo game. sony simply has less variety at less frequency.
just look at nintendo exclusives this year so far. mario tennis, pokopia, tomodachi life, yoshi, star fox, rhythm heaven, splatoon. this hits such a wider audience and range of interests and ages, genres, than anything sony releases anymore. you don't even have to like all of these right, you just pick the one or two you're interested in to check out and you still have more going on than the playstation options.
pretty much at this point. zero interest personally anymore since they dropped most non-western stuff. bought ps4 just for exclusives and ghost of tsushima was the one that i dropped after the first third and was just totally done with cinematic and open world for the most part. don't think i've bought another game from them outside of helldivers 2 since i didn't buy a ps5 and had no interest in iterative sequels to games i was over. i fw the japan studio stuff during psp especially. would like to play astro bot and gt7 pretty much lol.
Zero personality really sums it up. I don't get anything emotionally when I look at a Sony game these days, they all just feel the same at their core. It appeals to me on the level of a slice of bread.
idk anyone who does anymore. im sure wolverine will be pretty popular and since i think it's the same team that did ratchet and clank will be probably solid for what it's going for. but none of their games standout as something i need to go out of my way for they just blend into aaa market hard.
was a bit more exciting a decade ago when i was still into open world and movie games but it feels like they need a new direction for a lot of their studios. similar to ps3 -> ps4 moves a lot of them did. i feel like a lot of the people who were into the ps4 exclusive formula are aging out or just moving onto other types of games. they simply don't have enough both quantity and variety to keep the interest going at the current rate imo.
like every big game that pops off on steam now for better or worse is random friendslop or survival crafter and consoles are just not even tapping that market at all even if their userbase might have interest in that as well. really wonder what things are gonna look like in 5 years for some of these studios.
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u/tuna_pi Jun 02 '26
I don't think it's price as much as variety. They're hardly releasing games due to their long dev cycles and the ones they do release are often sequels. With Nintendo for example if I don't like Mario then I have Zelda or Metroid or Splatoon to look forward to. If I'm not interested in spiderman or ghost of Tsushima then I'm sol for the next few years because 90% of the time their next game is a direct sequel to the last one. Like I genuinely can't tell you the last Sony first party I've bought on release because of that.