Sony hate thread

[Pissmaster]

The powerpoint presentation feels like a parody in some parts. I know companies can't lie to investors but it's always possible to muddle info and be obtuse on purpose (a trait that Sony and its rabid fanboys like Marissa do share together, master like student) in order to convince.
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Most 'interesting' pages are these:
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-Game software sales are down while most of PlayStation's money is made from specifically in-game purchases and subscriptions. Hence the current focus on live services.
-There will be a stronger focus on releasing first-party titles for PC and mobile throughout the future
-PS5 hardware won't be in proper supply before 2024 at least (lol). Obviously assuming that the public interest will hold out for this long

Talk about cooking the books, holy moly.


Yeah, no shit more people planned to buy a PS5 after the first year. In 2014, I could stumble into Walmart high as a kite at 3:00 am, slap $400 + tax down on the electronics counter, and walk out with a brand new PS4. In 2021, I would be arrested for stumbling into Walmart at 3:00 am, because nobody is open 24/7 anymore, FOR SOME VERY PARTICULAR REASON. No, I'd still have to get on a waitlist and pray I don't get screwed too much in buying my PS5 within a bundle, with nothing discounted, and having to just eat the extra cost that went towards a $70 download code for NBA 2k22 that I probably won't be able to recoup most of the cost towards, if any.


Remember when it was common knowledge that movie tie-in games were always bad, with staggeringly few exceptions? That's still the case, except nowadays, they're just bland trite that clones some other game. And over half of those are movie tie-ins, lol. I also had to look up what "Forspoken" is, and lo and behold, this is the image on Wikipedia:

Depressed-looking, racially ambiguous, somewhat unattractive girl wearing a bunch of bangles with orange RGB lights. Oh, how very late 2010s. It's also being developed by the company behind Final Fantasy XV. I'm completely repulsed already! I can't wait until it launches so Reddit can bust their nuts over it and how it's the greatest game ever, and @Marissa Moira will sing its praises for a week, and then everyone forgets it ever existed.

God of War is gay, it's a dad simulator now I guess, though I never liked that series and always thought Kratos was a Mary Sue of his own and therefore a completely uninteresting character. The games were unimaginative edgelord piles of crap, and that was before the series went clown world. David Jaffe is a bitch, too.


...I don't even know how to make sense of this one.

Oh wow, Playstation is almost as popular as "Instant Pot" globally. wtf is Instant Pot? (rhetorical question, I don't care)

I don't dispute that Playstation is a known and valuable brand but that list seems odd, probably based on twitter hashtags or something.

I don't either, but actually I did enough to take two seconds to type it in and see what comes up. Instant Pot is a company that sells pressure cookers. There, now you know as much as I do.

• Peloton sells exercise bikes. Somehow they're apparently the second biggest global brand.
• I didn't think Bose would be big enough to rank #4; it seems like whenever headphones are brought up, the brands that get mentioned are almost always Apple or Sennheiser.
• Fitbit makes fitness trackers, and they're now owned by Google.
• USAA is banking + insurance for the U.S. military.
• TED Conferences, LLC is literally just TED Talks. Somehow they're above the entire U.S. military's bank. I don't know, man.

I think that list really is based on Twitter hashtags. It doesn't make any sense otherwise. Why else would there be such a heavy presence of healthy living brands? And how else would you explain the world's most popular operating system being three ranks underneath an exercise bike company? Yes, of course thots worldwide love to tweet about how they're eating healthy and getting in shape, whilst sharing TED Talks about how awful it is that African slave labor is happening somewhere, whilst they brag about their new iPhones they dare not acknowledge were built by Chinese slave labor.

That had to be the one list of top brands they could share that didn't also include Microsoft or Nintendo. They were so desperate to look good, they found a list that smacks them between rice cookers and fitness trackers.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I just laugh at the fact that Sony put NBA 2K22 and Grand Theft Auto V: Expanded and Enhanced Edition as “Incredible Content”. Those two games are the biggest examples of lazy re-skins with no real or new content to offer in the game.

And they’re really making a Wolverine and Avatar game in the near future, too?

 

[Marissa Moira]

I just laugh at the fact that Sony put NBA 2K22 and Grand Theft Auto V: Expanded and Enhanced Edition as “Incredible Content”. Those two games are the biggest examples of lazy re-skins with no real or new content to offer in the game.

And they’re really making a Wolverine and Avatar game in the near future, too?

Avatar I think is an exclusive of some sorts that wasn't made in house. Wolverine is all theirs, strangely enough wolverine may wind up being similar to Metal gear Rising than anything else which would then be closer in type to the original GOW and the newer GOW games now have effectively entered the same genre as Zelda.

The "incredible content" in those games is more than stuff what Genshin Impact offers and people eat that garbage up. That's why they want to go further into mobile-esque games and spread them to PC because you have motherfuckers dumping billions on games like that.

You only have yourselves and 90% of the asian continent to blame. And I'm only saying 90% because Russia is there.

Also if people are not aware, Avatar is getting a sequel which the game is based on.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

You only have yourselves and 90% of the asian continent to blame.

The only people to blame are people who keep buying that shit which I'm 100% sure is nobody in this thread.

 

[Marissa Moira]

The only people to blame are people who keep buying that shit which I'm 100% sure is nobody in this thread.

Cross reference it with the Genshin Impact thread.

I've yet to give a dime to MihoYo myself since the whole thing is one big grind fest and I'm not starting it.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Also if people are not aware, Avatar is getting a sequel which the game is based on.

If people aren't aware of Avatar 2 actually being a movie or psyched about a sequel to the old game, maybe it's not that big of a deal.

 

[Marissa Moira]

If people aren't aware of Avatar 2 actually being a movie or psyched about a sequel to the old game, maybe it's not that big of a deal.

Disney is hoping that at the very least China will since they still offer tours of the outdoor film locations, it's also their only Sci-Fi IP that hasn't been marred by mismanagement.

Unless you count X-Men and Fantastic Four as separate from the general MCU.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Disney is hoping that at the very least China will since they still offer tours of the outdoor film locations, it's also their only Sci-Fi IP that hasn't been marred by mismanagement.

Unless you count X-Men and Fantastic Four as separate from the general MCU.

But the relevant topic of the game and instapot hype!

 

[Marissa Moira]

But the relevant topic of the game and instapot hype!

For general investors they always have those weird comparisons. That's not really out of place there, that's why the brand recognition stuff looks the way it does. They're not doing 1:1 because it's supposed to show how much their brand name has seeped into other areas of sociality's consciousness and what it has essentially crossed over with when it comes to brand demographics in knowing what playstation is.

Like Apple is there because Apple is widespread and is in everything and has entire industries and subindustries built around it. People may not own an Apple product, but they know the logo and product lines.

This is to tie into their movies and TV things which are to act as commercials for the general population. The fact that Horizon is going to Netflix is drawing some Witcher comparisons, not just from the gameplay, but even though the Witcher show was not the greatest, it caused a major influx in sales years after the fact. The Witcher getting a TV show did not hurt it and could possibly be what helped CD Projeckt start to rebound.

It's a very long game they're playing with all this brand cross promotion and supplementary media. Personally I was hoping for was hints at the next half dozen or so studio acquisitions. Their GAAS stuff doesn't rule out Square for something like FF14, but then again Square hasn't denied it like the other buy out rumors that have happened in the past.

It also looks like that taking their existing mobile titles and putting them elsewhere isn't out of the cards either, they would just be under Playstation branding.

 

[Queenfaggo]

Meanwhile, one a half years after release:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_5_video_games

Damn sony, don't tire yourself out!

 

[Vining]

Avatar I think is an exclusive of some sorts that wasn't made in house. Wolverine is all theirs, strangely enough wolverine may wind up being similar to Metal gear Rising than anything else which would then be closer in type to the original GOW and the newer GOW games now have effectively entered the same genre as Zelda.

The "incredible content" in those games is more than stuff what Genshin Impact offers and people eat that garbage up. That's why they want to go further into mobile-esque games and spread them to PC because you have motherfuckers dumping billions on games like that.

You only have yourselves and 90% of the asian continent to blame. And I'm only saying 90% because Russia is there.

Also if people are not aware, Avatar is getting a sequel which the game is based on.

I just wish Jake Sully loses and gets executed for treason against humanity in the end.

 

[The Last Stand]

built another one in the past for the PS3, and emulators for both.

That wasn't an emulation, that was native hardware. At least the first model.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

That wasn't an emulation, that was native hardware. At least the first model.

There's a PS2 emulator built for the PS3, for the versions that don't have native hardware. Protip: look for any game that is running underneath the PS2 classics moniker and bob's your auntie

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Meanwhile, one a half years after release:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_5_video_games

Damn sony, don't tire yourself out!

Not only is that only two games, those sales are pitiful. If we compared that to the Switch one and a half years after release, it would just be pathetic. Just off the top of my head, Switch had Mario, Zelda, and Mario Kart, all of which have and still do, move more games.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

Meanwhile, one a half years after release:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_5_video_games

Damn sony, don't tire yourself out!

I can't sneed

 

[The Last Stand]

Meanwhile, one a half years after release:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_5_video_games

Damn sony, don't tire yourself out!

Ratchet and Clank once again giving Sony a run for their money.

You only have yourselves and 90% of the asian continent to blame. And I'm only saying 90% because Russia is there.

Why aren't people spending top dollar on a PS5?!



Boo fucking hoo.

 

[Queenfaggo]

Not only is that only two games, those sales are pitiful. If we compared that to the Switch one and a half years after release, it would just be pathetic. Just off the top of my head, Switch had Mario, Zelda, and Mario Kart, all of which have and still do, move more games.

The thing is, there is probably plenty of other games that have crossed the one million mark, but Sony doesn't release sales, so nobody really knows for sure. These niggers are so embarrassed by their sales they hide them. You can't do that if it's a multi billion dollar console. Those numbers should be public, so consumers and game developers have an idea of what they're opting into. If they're going to this extreme to keep people in the fog, those numbers have got to be pretty shit.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

@Pissmaster

Remember when it was common knowledge that movie tie-in games were always bad, with staggeringly few exceptions?

You can blame Batman Arkham for the new perception. Now everyone thinks superhero games are cool because Batman made it big. After all these years though, Batman feels like the only one that has left any kind of impact. People today, 13 years later still discuss Asylum, whereas I really don’t see that kind of thing for the newer Spider-Man. Batman really changed gaming, nothing is going to top how it practically revolutionized a genre and combat system.

Also, why Wolverine Insomniac? Do Zoomers even care about the character nowadays. Ever since Disney went on a rampage to kill of the X-Men brand, Wolverine has done very little to really remain that big of an icon. This kind of feels like it will be the ultimate Xer title.

God of War is gay, it's a dad simulator now I guess, though I never liked that series and always thought Kratos was a Mary Sue of his own and therefore a completely uninteresting character. The games were unimaginative edgelord piles of crap, and that was before the series went clown world. David Jaffe is a bitch, too.

I never had any interest in GOW either. It seemed overly edgy. To my knowledge Jaffe sort of had half influence on the series, as there were other massive creative heads leading it. The sad part is Jaffe can make good edgy shit, Twisted Metal Black kinda proved that with its cutscenes, and I have seen people talk about some of the neglected deeper elements to Kratos, but the series seemed to lean to hard into one direction.

Edgy was kinda Sony’s thing in the PS2 days though, but at least Jak and Ratchet found a middle ground to their edgy bullshit to allow them to hold up today.

I just laugh at the fact that Sony put NBA 2K22 and Grand Theft Auto V: Expanded and Enhanced Edition as “Incredible Content”. Those two games are the biggest examples of lazy re-skins with no real or new content to offer in the game.

And they’re really making a Wolverine and Avatar game in the near future, too?

The only people to blame are people who keep buying that shit which I'm 100% sure is nobody in this thread.

I said it before earlier, but these are the types of games my brother plays, and my brother likely makes up a majority of Sony’s current user base. He is the guy who is currently spending hours on MLB The Show.

These people have no real reason to play PlayStation outside of brand recognition and social groups. He even tells me how to be a real gamer sometimes.

Sony used to be the oddball of the companies, catering to the niche markets such as weeb games, now they are essentially the modern day 360 players who think playing COD and Madden makes you cool and a bigger gamer than the rest.

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

LOL at Forspoken being on that “best to come” list. No one is excited for that game. Literally forgot it existed until I saw it on that slide.

Also despite being a Square - Enix game Forspoken is completely written by Western writers.

 

[HeyYou]

I'm also laughing at Hogwarts Legacy being on the list. It's nowhere near an exclusive and the only way it has anything to do with Sony is that it has gay haptic feedback features exclusive to PS5, which is almost certainly going to be on par with games supporting the Kinect in terms of gimmicks.