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Sony Doesn't Have Enough Original IP, Says Company Leadership (www.playstationlifestyle.net)
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[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 73 points 4 months ago

Bull (pause for emphasis) shit.

It's got 30 god damned years to draw on. Properties that longtime fans have been begging for for literal decades.

A quarter century of neglected IP. Just pick some. And make them.

Of course we all know the real problem. Those old IP can't or won't work as an always online live service. So they won't make quintillions of dollars a year. They'd make some money if they're made true to the original vision. But the goal isn't to make some money. It needs to make all the money. It needs to be a killer app. An Overwatch killer or Fortnite killer. Can't ever be happy to just make money. Staying in the black isn't good enough.

[-] NuWuX@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 months ago

I hope every release goes full Concord until they learn their lesson.

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

That's a good metric to normalize.

The next Concord.

[-] flameguy21@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

We gotta buy Astro Bot though

[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well if they're out of original IP maybe they should, you know, CREATE some original IP. Surely there's bound to be some creatives left in that behemoth of a company.

I know I know, it's a stock listed company and these just stop innovating and just buy up studios, but they could try it for once.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Let's set up a steering committee to develop guidelines for an approval process for allocating funds to the creativity enhancement subcommittee.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

And don't forget a subcommittee to review the recommendation to revise the color of the book those guidelines will go in.

[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I agree that they should create new IPs, but, they did just try that with Concord. So I understand why they would be gun-shy about it.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Their user base isn't games as a service bullshit. That stuff exists, sure, but Sony's market share is because of their library of expansive single player experiences.

It's Uncharted, SpiderMan, God of War, Horizon, The Last of Us. That's their bread and butter type of product, and that's what they should focus on. They don't need to chase microtransaction hell bullshit to be successful.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Or buy up some classic IPs and do some quality games with them.

Give me a new Carmageddon.

[-] Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago

Ah yes. If there's one thing that the Playstation has been known for over the years, it's been a very narrow selection of games to draw from.

[-] Cyberspark@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

Weird coming from the company that deliberately stop selling to 170 countries for unknown reasons.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 16 points 4 months ago

APE Escape a joke to you sony?

[-] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Company leadership is fucking blind then

[-] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

BRING BACK JET MOTO

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

in keeping with the all caps sentiment

FUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!

I will go all in on a case of Mt Mist (balling on a budget) and plastic, bulk sack of fritos twists if that happened. My boy and I still load up Jet Moto 2 for a few races a couple times a year.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

*cough* EverQuest Next *cough*

[-] StrandedInTimeFall@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

They don't own Everquest or Planetside. That was Sony Online Entertainment (SOE for short and separate from Sony Playstation) and then it got sold to become Daybreak Game Company. And, Daybreak hasn't been doing that great last I looked.

[-] Pooptimist@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Bring back resistance!

[-] pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Killzone as well

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Infamous, the right-hand image here was great. Totally original superhero game from before there were many good ones. I'd love a new one.

[-] Kayday@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Imagine Insomniac making a new Infamous.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I'm sure they'd do great, but Suckerpunch did make Ghost of Tsushima, and that was also great. I'd prefer the creators take another shot. Maybe make it more of an RPG like GoT.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A co-op infamous game for PC I would drop full price on, no questions.

Full disclosure: I never played the sequels (I play co-op almost exclusively now), but I absolutely loved the original game. It would be great to be able to go back to that dystopian world and rediscover my powers (or maybe other variants of them that appeared from disasters) in say ... London, DC, or LA (instead of NYC) with a friend.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Capitalist want more capital.

They need NEW IP so that they can be made unburdened by the past experiences of a game industry that respected players even a little.

I mean come on a blood Bourne live service gatcha game would be ridiculed, so need a new IP with its own hype for a live service gatcha game.

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