Sony CFO and COO Hiroki Totoki talked about the PlayStation Business and announced a revision to the PS5 sales prediction for the full fiscal year. The company also doesn't expect to release any game from major existing first-party franchises until April 2025.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
It's time to add two more games to your library for free from the Epic Games Store.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
“ The company also doesn't expect to release any game from major existing first-party franchises until April 2025”
The actual f***
What the hell have some of these studios been working on? I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is because of their GaaS plans being scaled back and the studios have went through a knock on effect but still
2nd year they got beat by Xbox 1st party.
More to come.
They're great numbers of course, and this will get downvoted to high hell ... but I have to admit, this console gen has failed to truly "launch" for me.
I really didn't think that Astro's Playroom was going to be THE highlight of the PS5 "new gen" experience.
They also mentioned thay wanted to focus on making live service first party games. Not a surprise considering that they bought bungie and dabbled with making Tlou multiplayer a live service game. But I don’t like hearing every major studio and game company focusing so much on making live service games. There’s too much of them already imo.
If you re-watch Mark Cerny's key adress in late 2020 of the Playstation's 5 hardware today, I think, especially regarding First Party games, it probably boils down to three things:
1. Getting the most out of the new hardware only by a complete re-framework of the engine. (If you re-watch it, it's insane how different and more powerful the hardware really is compared to PS4).
2. It takes time (to give players the quality they are used to get from Sony's Frist Party games). Even over the course of a 7 year lifespan, it has become much more complex to build two, even one AAA game from scratch.
3. Probably some re-shifting in the business strategies.
I am putting out a bet:
PS5's late lifecycle will be nothing but amazing.
With at least six First Party titles going to get released within the last two to three years.
We will be blown away.
Of course - Sony knows about 2024 going to be dry. They rather tell the truth now. But they know they have to deliver.
And I bet my left butcheek they will.
The shift from HDD to SSD, to RDNA2 or 3, 3D sound, etc., is technically so huge, opening up so many new possibilties, that you have to do a complete re-work in design.
The late PS5 First Party games will probably also pave the way for early PS6 titles.