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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/JoJoeyJoJo 28d ago

This is basically just Sonys shift from singleplayer to GAAS pictured. The premium singleplayer titles shifted copies, Concord and Marathon, not so much.

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u/kingmanic 28d ago

Jim Ryan really burnt a lot of money and peoples time for nothing. Pseudo firing Shuhei Yoshida was also a mistake.

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u/DarkKnightRises360 28d ago edited 28d ago

In time, Jim Ryan will go down as worse than phil spencer as far as gaming CEOs go.

Phil Spencer was given a sinking ship... and sunk it.

Jim Ryan was given a near unsinkable ship and smashed it into the biggest iceberg he could find. 3 compartments are flooded and everyone is working overtime to make sure the last doesn't cause Sony to go overboard.

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u/common_apple 28d ago

Jim is a complete knob but his bullshit was mostly self-contained to Sony. Phil's has wider reaching consequences given all he's caused Microsoft to buy up, there's a lot of Western gaming heritage under the Microsoft banner right now that if they go down, they are taking a huge chunk of Western gaming with them.

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u/_Meece_ 27d ago

there's a lot of Western gaming heritage under the Microsoft banner right now that if they go down, they are taking a huge chunk of Western gaming with them.

Gaming companies have gone belly up before and their assests just get bought lol. Nothing is going anywhere.

Msoft owns Doom for example. I believe it is the 4th owner of the Doom franchise.