Gary Swaby of The Koalition writes:
With Forza being the go-to driving experience for gamers who take their driving seriously, Sony has struggled to keep up with the consistency of the series. They used to run the sim-racer genre with Gran Turismo, but the long development cycles helped dip things in Forza‘s favor. When we first saw DriveClub back in February 2013, we all thought Sony would have a brand new racing experience for their platform that could potentially top rival games in the genre.
However, with DriveClub‘s controversial launch issues the game has gained a negative stigma. A new Gran Turismo is heavily rumored to be launching on the PS4 within the next two years. Will Gran Turismo 7 be the racer that the Playstation platform needs? We debate it on the show.
PlayStation Plus has improved the split of PS4 and PS5 players on its priciest tiers, but Sony continues to hide total subscriber numbers.
I for one will be going back to essential at the next renewal. When I feel a game is good & right up my alley, I’ll check trusted reviews & just buy it.
I would like to see Sony add a fourth tier of PS Plus for people who just want to be able to play games online without any of the perks like monthly games, store discounts, or anything like that, and it should cost $20 annually, $30 maximum. There’s no way I’m paying $80 just to play games online. Even the original $60 fee was too much, and I would often wait for sales to re-up my subscription.
Just let my subscription lapse for the first time since 2010. Will sub again every now and then for a month or so to access my old ps+ games but for me it's the end of an era.
Sony aims to release live service PlayStation games day & date on PC and PS5, but single-player games will have more "strategic approach."
How? I’m sorry but how when they literally port their games to the PC now after not even 2 years, it’s rumored GoW Ragnarok is next.
The best thing they could have done is focus on the generation before with PS3 / PS4 titles and when it got to the PS6 then start porting PS5 games so people will want to get the sequel on the new console
Now PC gamers just wait it out because they know it’s coming
"While Helldivers 2 was released day and date on both PS5 and PC, don’t expect single-player narrative-driven games to be released in the same boat by Sony anytime soon. - This was confirmed by PlayStation’s soon-to-be co-CEO Hermen Hulst in Sony’s business segment presentation"
There you have it. Won't be 'day and date' single player games on PC anytime soon or for the forseeable future. They understand single player games are Playstation's backbone.
I was told that Playstation was doing so bad on here and on X that Helldivers 2 was going to release on Xbox and Sony was going to start releasing all games on pc day and date with playstation. Why do people constantly lie on the internet!!!!!
That's a smart move because at the end of the day playstation is a hardware business and need to sell hardware folks
During Sony’s recent business segment meeting and investor presentation regarding its game and network services, the PlayStation company revealed that PlayStation 5 is the company’s “most profitable generation to-date.”
It’s the top slide of the presentation, showing that in its first four years, the PS5 generation has already hit $106 billion in sales, having almost caught up to the PS4’s total $107 billion generated.
Operating income for the PS5 generation has also already surpassed that of the PS4, having now reached $10 billion.
I wouldn't doubt it. They released a high quality system. A lot of high quality games from themselves and their support of 3rd party developers and indies. They released many high quality remakes and remasters. They released a high quality GaaS game going against the naysayers thinking Sony would abandon single player games. And they most likely are profiting a lot more than PS1, PS2 PS4 and the loss leading PS3 that drained all their profits.
Now, I'll wait to see what's cooking tomorrow. But can you use some of those profits to better support your high quality VR headset? Because, by supporting it, you can sell more games and more systems and make more profits?
This will surely shut up all the new trolling accounts trying to spread lies and non facts in other articles comment sections before this article is posted.
Wow! I am super impressed that in just 4 years, ps5 already caught up to the PS4's. Congratulations.
As long as it isn't released with a broken online then Gran Turismo will instantly be more successful than Driveclub.
Yes.
gt7 will do everything driveclub should have done and more - 6 already does that now. i just hope they fix the engines so they don't sound like hair dryers.
Get a 5 year delay instead of 1??
The sin Driveclub did was to advertised the online part as the main attraction and that is why it failed miserably, if the developers focus on a more SP experience it would be an instant success, I mean the game had/has everything the visuals(holy damn the visuals), the cars, and also the unique tracks, and controls too. But damn they went on every showcase to talk about club this club that and in second term the visuals.
I really don't know why this online thinking is taking over in our games, they don't realize in the long term it will just screw this game industry, why in hell they just go back years back and see what this game industry was forge in ?, this game industry is what it is now cause, awesome single experiences or what ? N64 PS1, PS2, NES, SNES, gameboy, Saturn, Dreamcast had online element as the main attraction ? HELL FREAKING NO!!!!
When you go to the theater, what exactly are you aiming for ? chat with the person on your side ? lol NO!, is to be immerse into a possible rich story and interesting characters simple as that!!
Online is great addition to our games, but for the good sake of this game industry it must stay as an element just that! and NOT as the main attraction.