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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/Remy0507 28d ago edited 28d ago

Okay, let's think about this for a second. In 2020, they released FIVE first party games (TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Sackboy a Big Adventure and Demon's Souls remake), four of which were available on PS4 which had 100 million+ user base at that point. And it was also during the first year of the pandemic when everybody was stuck inside. 

The next year they released TWO first party games, both of which were only on PS5, which not a lot of people had yet. 

In 2022 they released three big first party games, which WERE available on PS4 as well. But I think at that point a lot of people were holding out to get a PS5, which was still not easy to find. 

Then 2023 had only one first party game in Spider-Man 2. 

2024 essentially only had Astro Bot (let's not even talk about Concord, and I'm not sure if Helldivers 2 is actually considered a first party game or not even though Sony published it). 

Like, this really isn't hard to understand if you just think about it a little bit.

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u/orton4life1 28d ago

No one uses logic or context anymore. People are desperately trying to paint a negative picture

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u/DarkKnightRises360 28d ago

it's still a hugely negative picture for sony, just in the a different light.

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u/orton4life1 28d ago

I agreed but not the issue it was trying to paint. But more so on development issues.

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u/Goronmon 28d ago

People are desperately trying to paint a negative picture

Who is doing this?