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PlayStation’s Future Has Never Looked Bleaker

https://www.ign.com/articles/playstations-future-has-never-looked-bleaker
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u/Harry_Flowers 15h ago

This is kind of a sensational headline.

As annoying as Sony’s decisions are as of late, they’re doing fine, and will likely keep doing well.

Idk why there’s even a picture of Wolverine. One of their releases gets an average of 7/10 and people start freaking out… it’s kind of funny.

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u/Myopicmagikarppp 14h ago

Yeah this is all so dramatic lol. From everything I’ve seen a 7/10 seems warranted but like god damn why is a 7/10 being talked about like it’s the end of PlayStation or the biggest controversy in the world.

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u/foreveracubone 13h ago

Cause it’s their most productive studio (4th game this gen) and a game that got hyped for years that reportedly cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make.

This isn’t quite as bad as if Naughty Dog dropped a 7/10 game but it’s close.

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u/charliekiller124 13h ago

Not to mention that a 3rd of all wolverine profits immediately enters the mouse's coffers. Wolverine needs to sell 8 mill at least to break even.

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u/Only-Finish-3497 9h ago

Maybe. You’re assuming that Marvel’s deal is flat x% rate. It’s very possible that it’s a tranched rate until y point.

I’ve done deals like this. They’re always complicated.

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u/xzerozeroninex 2h ago

Uhm you know profits are computed after production cost is recouped right?So if Wolverine sells 4 million copies,they deduct the production cost,then compute for the profit sharing.

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u/SevereCar7307 14h ago

Well, it is an op ed, they tend to be skewed sensationalist, even more so than news articles.

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u/TheBusStop12 13h ago edited 13h ago

It does however feel like a lot of big developers and publishers are slowly distancing themselves more and more from Sony. Atlus for example broke it's exclusivity a few years back, and now instead has XBOX handle their reveals. And Capcom seems to be more interested in Nintendo and the PC market nowadays than their traditional close relationship with Sony. To me it feels like as well that the Xbox and Nintendo showcases generally have a larger variety of games on offer compared to Sony in recent years. Stuff like that does make me wonder if they are anticipating a shift in the market towards PC gaming, and Nintendo (mainly due to the Switch 2 also functioning as a handheld) during the next console generation (especially with the rumors that the PS6 will cost over a thousand bucks)

I'm not an expert on this however, it's just pure speculation on my part. And I could just be seeing things that aren't actually there

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u/Borrp 11h ago

Yup. The days of the Sony cinematic over the shoulder movie games with light stealth mechanics and perk tree is dying. It was never briefly during the PS4 after the high people had after Uncharted and The Last of Us. But its just isn't really working like it used to. The genre variety that Sony used to pump out just isn't there anymore. The early days of the PS5 seemed fine for the most part, but most of their latest titles sans Astrobot has been kind of all the same. Pick it linear or open world, they are effectively the same tired divorced dad simulators.

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u/TheynSmith 11h ago

Do you want worse products and practices to continue? If not, then make it heard.

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u/deedee2148 13h ago

They are doing fine because they are too big to fail, that's not exactly anything to be proud of.