A Reader’s Function insists that Sony is improper to begin hinting in regards to the PlayStation 6, solely days after they introduced the PS5 Professional.
Can somebody clarify to me why the very very first thing that Sony did after formally saying the PS5 Professional (an announcement, want I remind you, that went down like a lead balloon) is to begin speaking in regards to the PlayStation 6?
I’m not a enterprise skilled or something however I might’ve stated that that reminding the folks that you just’ve simply tried to promote a £700 console to (and have all instructed you to get misplaced) that there’ll be one other one out in simply two or three years might be not a good suggestion.
I don’t must seek the advice of any focus teams to know that no one desires one other new era of consoles proper now. The PlayStation 5 hasn’t even begun to be stretched, with lower than a handful of exclusives, which makes the PS5 Professional utterly pointless however the PlayStation 6… to even give it some thought proper now’s insanity.
I’ve heard it stated that Sony are simply ensuring they don’t get outmanoeuvred by Xbox however, come on. Xbox couldn’t outmanoeuvre a damaged buying trolley. Sony has wiped the ground with them time after time, so the concept that they need to rush to counter the subsequent gen Xbox is nonsense to me.
Higher to let Xbox crash and burn as soon as once more and simply think about making good video games, which was the rationale why everybody appreciated PlayStation. Nintendo has confirmed that console cycles and generations don’t matter. Simply get the {hardware} proper and keep it up, pumping out nice video games and staying targeted.
In fact they received’t do this, as a result of for some cause they by no means look to Nintendo for inspiration, regardless that they’ve survived longer, and produced higher video games, than anybody else within the enterprise.
However then Sony has had a bizarre perspective in the direction of {hardware} all era. They received’t make any extra new video games, however they hold pumping out new {hardware}. The PlayStation VR2, DualSense Edge, PlayStation Portal, PS5 Slim, and now PS5 Professional… they’ve made extra subsequent gen {hardware} gadgets than they’ve subsequent gen (versus cross-gen) video games!
And earlier than you attempt to argue that it doesn’t matter as a result of they promote, and the PlayStation 5 is doing so properly they don’t must make their very own video games, that’s simply not true. Sure, they’re beating Xbox however that’s not precisely laborious. Nintendo is doing that too, with the seven-year-old Swap.
PlayStation 5 gross sales are in decline and far earlier within the era than was anticipated. And oh gee, I ponder why that is perhaps? Might it’s as a result of… Sony stopped releasing video games for it!
It truly is ridiculous how Sony and Microsoft will do nearly something however simply knuckle down and make some nice video games. In the event that they’d carried out that from the beginning (and realised that perhaps they need to maintain again on the budgets a bit) we wouldn’t be on this ridiculous mess.
And but after having apparently by no means learnt something from any of their experiences (bonus truth: PlayStation is 30 years previous this 12 months) they’re now each planning a brand new era. For Sony particularly that’s ridiculous.
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It goes with out saying I received’t be shopping for the PlayStation 6 however I’m keen to guess that the majority different folks received’t both. I’m unsure if Sony realise this however they’re stretching folks to breaking level. Nothing they’re doing proper now’s what we would like and a model new console, on prime of the one they solely introduced final week, is the precise reverse of what they need to be doing.
By reader Rory
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