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They haven't - the decision to shut down their first-party Japanese studios has been a disaster, as they lost a lot of quirky, creative developers that made the kind of exclusives that people associated with the PlayStation brand, to say nothing about losing the ability to contend in the A and AA market and keep a steady pace of releases to tide people over while they wait for the heavy hitters to land.
That has left them with, realistically, three or four big first-party Western developers. None of these studios are actually profitable - Spider-Man 2 cost as much as a Hollywood blockbuster and barely broke even, NG has destroyed both their reputation and popularity of their IPs by letting Cuckmann run amok. All that on top of the fact these studios need close to a whole generation to release a single game, and they're all busy making the same dogshit game.
Then, as you said, there's the $3.6 billion panic purchase of Bungie, and not only have they failed to make back the money they've wasted on Bungo, but Bungie has actively cost them money by (allegedly) sabotaging any in-house live service project they felt was a threat to them and by not delivering any product worth shit. The only reason Helldivers 2 managed to squeeze by is that Bungie dismissed it entirely.
There's also the trainwreck that has been their GaaS initiative - they've bet pretty much everything on this, only to realize too late the peak had already come and gone, and they were now saddled with more than a dozen games in development releasing in a shrinking, oversaturated market. And Sony decided to actually double down on this instead of doing the smart thing and peace-ing out like SEGA did.
We can't also ignore the CEO's pet franchise, Horizon, that nobody actively gives a shit about, and Soyny fags only glaze because they have fuckall else to use when justifying the purchase of a PS5.
I genuinely don't see a path forward for Sony - their only saving grace is that Microsoft is even more incompetent than they are, and Nintendo are actively malicious and anti-costumer. What exactly do they have to offer people with the PS6?
Marginally improved graphical fidelity that they need to stage a presentation for to point out the differences? More woke Marvel/Naughty Dog/Sucker Punch/God of Cuckery/Horizon slop?
Who the fuck is going to fork over $1000 for the privilege of playing that shit?
