the only company that has made enough money to viably be a console with exclusives is Nintendo, otherwise the idea of a console with exclusives is dead, Valve and Microsoft understand this, I don't think the industry will ever be PC only but the wind is blowing in the direction of just buy one thing and purchase all your games on that one thing a lot of Hardcore gamers purposefully ignore the fact that a lot of Sony's userbase don't care about Spider-Man or God of War, id say a slightly majority are literally niggers who only buy it for Sportsball,GTA,and maybe CoD, thats why they are moving in the direction of supporting multiple storefronts, Sony is really the only one in a hard place right now, they are absolutely the worst fucking offenders when it comes to the wokeshit with Ubisoft in a close second and it hasnt done them favors with their playerbase, at least the ones who care enough to complain about on the internet, Concord being offline was absolutely a pivot but you just know Sony will never be able to shake off its retarded greedy reputation, Jim Ryan basically doomed Sony to mediocrity in the gaming industry
I disagree with the reason the industry is in this position, but I agree it is in this position.
Exclusives are competition and competition drives creativity and is good for customers. There's a reason the PS360 gen was the best selling gen for consoles, its because both companies had great exclusives; Microsoft at the start of the gen and Sony at the end. Exclusives saved Sony's arse during the PS3 era, then built a massive player base on the PS4 because of exclusives.
Yes, most people play 3rd party games but locking people into an ecosystem; like Microsoft did with the 360 and Sony did with the PS4 because Xbox fucked up big time and drove their players away.
Nintendo are doing it right and there's a reason they can stay afloat on exclusives alone; because they know their player base. They make what the customer wants and do berate their fanbase and tell them what games THEY SHOULD PLAY, like Sony and Microsoft do.
Sony's issue is the lack of exclusives and the lack of quality exclusives because, like you say, it's woke bollocks pushed by Hulst and Druckmann.
Jim Ryan isn't to blame for the state of Sony. He had a plan, a vision and a way to keep the department afloat during COVID; easy to make online games and F2P to keep players engaged using loved franchises and giving the fans what they wanted; TLoU Factions, Twisted Metal arena game and many more while their main studios came out of lockdown. The PS5 is incredible hardware, likewise the PSVR2 and the haptic controllers, all overseen by Ryan.
A coup was launched by Druckmann and Hulst and you can see the point where half-completed projects were ruined or abandoned in favour of Hulsts faggotry. The portal was meant to be a handheld PS4, Hulst ruined it. The ftp/MMo games were abandoned and all money funnelled into Concord; a project Hulst personally put his stamp on. The ending of factions so that druckman could go have his nigs-in-space simulator. Hulst even shit-canned a Killzone remake that Ryan was pushing for.
He didn't get forced out or quit, he saw the size of his pension and fucked off knowing what was coming next.
They even fucked Cerny over with the PS5PRO and launched the console incomplete. Hulst is the Phil Spencer of Sony; a fucking moron in a suit thinking he knows best. He doesn't.
