>Around a year ago, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida suggested that the manufacturer’s next-gen strategy will focus primarily on hardcore gamers, as it attempts to transition “taste makers” to the PlayStation 5. He suggested that the firm will go out of its way to please its biggest fans, with a large focus on exclusives, major third-party publishers, and independent developers.
>And while Xbox continues to entrench itself with services and potentially disruptive business models, we’re seeing Sony’s approach. Its software selection, which spans major first-party titles like Demon's Souls Remake, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Horizon Forbidden West, is looking huge for the PS5’s first 18 months on the market – and the rumours are that it’s still got much, much more to show.
>But the Japanese giant is clearly not stopping there: there are intensifying rumours that it’s signed a deal with Square Enix to secure some form of exclusivity on Final Fantasy XVI, and online scuttlebutt suggests it won’t be the last third-party title it has locked down. We’ve already seen two major titles from Bethesda, Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo, announced as console exclusives.
>Sony may have replaced its old slogan, but it still wants PS5 to be the best place to play – and it clearly believes content is key to that. Marvel’s Avengers will include Spider-Man as an exclusive playable character on PlayStation platforms only, and while the fallout relating to this is massive around the web, the reality is that the title will sell best on Sony’s systems.
>It’s unfortunate for fans of other formats, but PlayStation’s primary goal is to make its brand more appealing than the competition, and partnerships like this do ultimately move the needle. Given its latest financial results, Sony has both the incentive and the market share to make these timed exclusives a reality –
1) move Playstation HQ out of Commiefornia 2) stop censoring content by developers other than Naughty Dog
There. I'll consider buying your console again.
Elijah Stewart
There's no difference between Player A with 5k hours in eSports title number 3 and Player B with 5k hours in something they enjoy. They're both freaks.
Jaxson Hill
I'm honestly getting nervous... Is it too late to convert to Playstation?
Kayden Rogers
Because pc is the best place to play games.
Colton Taylor
Lmao they can say that all they want, but I've fully converted to PC. Fuck their shitty stance on backwards compatibility.
William King
Snoys always looking up at big dick nintendo
Cooper Gonzalez
The difference is that the latter is a casual.
Anthony Perez
How about stop pandering to your shitty degenerate LGBTQ and SJW feminists fetish. People dont want to be shoved in their face with political agenda when all they wanted is to play fucking games.
Jace Young
This. You don't have to rebuy the same shit every generation. I can upgrade my PC in 6 years and have access to all my games. Can't say that about PS1-4. They expect you to rebuy all that shit over and over. Fuck em. I hate console death-traps.
Isaac Jones
Yes, It's too late. If you weren't indoctrinated since you were a child, PlayStation is not very good.
Nicholas Barnes
Their cameras and headphones are the best in the business for appealing to the hardcore. They're gonna treat their console the same way.
Jacob Flores
>Hardcore Players The "Hardcore players" they imagine have all moved to PC after ps3
Nicholas Williams
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Ethan Powell
Play lol all day?
Carter Martin
if that were true, you wouldn't need to keep begging for leftover scraps from a supposedly worse place to play games. and every time you get some of those old hand-me-downs wouldn't be cause for celebration.
Jeremiah Roberts
Sony: "Hello fellow hardcore gamers, buy our underpowered console so you get spider-man cameos in all your multiplat games!"
Landon Nguyen
Try 4k 60fps
David Clark
Hardcore to Sony means 80 IQ retards playing FIFA, and the yearly generic FPS, mostly nonwhites.
Ryan Torres
Having a PS4 made me beg for a port even harder when I realized how the performance fucks the game up the ass so hard, it legitimatelly turns a potential 10/10 game into a 6/10
Wyatt Carter
PlayStation is newly jailbroke so I'm considering a pawn shop PS4 nlw
Jayden Perry
I grew up with Sega then Nintendo then Xbox. Wish we had a Sega option.
Jackson Reyes
>hardcore gamers
Then why did he put Playstation in the hands of SJWs that bash gamers all day, every day?
Might want to fund some fucking games for a change then, dishonest jews.
>l-look, we got exclusive content on the capeshit game not even capeshitters care about and a deal with ancient trannyware MMO #4TheGays lmao
Levi Martin
A game on a console legit feels like its hold hostage. I own a ps4 and I just cant anymore since I build a pc. Making a game console only is like releasing a blockbuster movie only on dvd. Sure, its the same movie, but boy is the experience bad
Nathan Evans
This
Easton Butler
You do realize that when Sony says "hardcore" they mean "people willing to pay 100$ for a new release and season pass", not Zig Forums's idea of hardcore which consists of "playing 1000 hours of indie game and only pirating AAA titles" right?
