Sony Aims to Optimize PlayStation's Development Projects to Consistently Release Hit Games

Sony hosted its financial conference call, and CFO and COO Hiroki Totoki provided insight into the plans for the PlayStation business.

It was also mentioned that Helldivers 2 is doing better than expected and Ghost of Tsushima for PC and Destiny 2: The Final Shape are contributing to earnings.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

That's good for Giving us constant stream of games

[Cacabunga]

That’s what we buy PS hardware for

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Facts

[Kneetos]

Hopefully this means they are going to stop laying off staff members then

[BlackTar187]

Why don't you just stay in the SOnic and Mario threads? Your comment history makes it obvious you hate Sony.

[Kneetos]

Well maybe if they didn't pull stuff like this I wouldn't hate them, stop trying to award them a free pass

The playstation fans here fly off the handle whenever Nintendo releases a game for $60 (for some reason), yet the so-called "video game industry leader" lays off hundreds of staff and we are just ment to shut up and consume apparently

[Kneetos]

You clearly haven't read my comment history, the only times I've complained about Sony is when they have been indulging in mass layoffs, which, how are you guys ok with that?

You do realise that all these amazing, world class video games Sony are making, and in this thread, promising to keep making come off the hard work of the very staff that Sony are fire-ing, why are you trying to defend them?

[BlackTar187]

Lmao at least you admit you are who your comments show you are.

[BlackTar187]

Lol I’m not defending anyone I’m pointing out you’re a shill

[Kneetos]

We're all shills, that's why we're here, you're no better

[dveio]

Oh wow, I totally forgot about Bungie's 'Marathon' and did actually confuse it with 'Concord' over the last several months thinking to myself "Wow that game looked so promising when it was announced and now it turned into this."

Man, just had to re-watch that trailer again now of 'Marathon'. Looks so good & interesting in its art style.

However, I am getting a little bit nervous about the "in order to consistently and continuously release hit titles.”

I mean no doubt about it - I wish the PS Studios to do exactly this.

But I also just wish they keep their cool.

Don't they rush things, don't they crunch ppl.

I really wish for the PS Studios to have a great working atmosphere and that Hermen Hulst knows better than Ryan about not putting studios under pressure.

[S2Killinit]

Watch concord blow it up. Most of the hate for that game is by people that didn’t play the Beta.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Nah, it's dead in the water, I can't see how that game can succeed without major changes to the gameplay, and even then, those terrible/forgettable character designs are going to hold them back.

I'm predicting a flop at best.

[TheNamelessOne]

It had an open beta and nobody wanted to play it. What makes you think they'll now pay $40 for it?

[S2Killinit]

Actually, those that played it had a positive feedback, but then the negative press caught up. I wonder if they will be able to tank it, or if it can endure the initial pre-emptive bad press and come out serving crow for dinner.

[PapaBop]

I was excited to get my hands on it after it's first reveal, played in the betas.. there is certainly a lot of positives for the game but there is also a lot of negatives. The game isn't ready for release, not by a long shot. There is some great ideas there but just doesn't come together. None of the modes in the beta really pieces all the strings together in say the same way OW did with their limited but focused game modes. Then stupid things like having the character's pronouns on every character screen is akin to slapping jam on your testicles and dangling them to the anti-woke mob.

If they can't even get high numbers for an open beta, how are they going to get people to pay £40 for it? I actually enjoyed it enough that I'd buy it if it was going to take off but there is no point as it's almost certain to be featured in the ps plus monthly games before the year's end.

[Elda]

It'll be a flop. Most PS5 owners are not paying $40 to play Concord.

[franwex]

Wasn’t that the plan before?

[Lightning77]

It is. They're factoring gaas titles which is why things are being slowed down the past year or so. Sony has never done gaas before from a first party standpoint.

We all know if they never went gaas it would be buissness as usual from most if not all their first party right now.

[shaenoide]

Stop wasting time on GaaS then.

[S2Killinit]

But MS is exclusively focusing on gaas, how can Sony allow them to dominate that market? It would be a huge mistake.

[Lightning77]

They're not elusively focusing on fans what are you talkin about?

[talocaca]

We need more projects like Astrobot! I'm sure it was not THAT expensive or time consuming and we are all hyped.

They need to increase their AA output. Instead of chasing GOTY with every release (one flop is often enough to kill a studio).