I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
Sony’s PlayStation is extremely good at two things: Making a console people want to buy, and having its devs make great single players games for that console.
Unfortunately, it always feels like its missing the mark. In terms of products, in terms of genre investment, in terms of acquisitions, in terms of its use of time and resources. into VR, selling two VR headsets now in an industry that has seen slow growth and adoption of the tech. They’ve done well…within that niche, but there is no indication VR is anywhere close to the mainstream even after close to a decade now, and it feels like this is a strange place to continue to sink so much blood and treasure.Biohazard Village, known as Resident Evil Village outside of Japan, video game in the Capcom booth at the Tokyo Game Show 2022 on September 15, 2022 in Chiba, Japan.
That’s just hardware, however. Another column of Sony’s recent plans, announced before Jim Ryan left, was that it was making a huge pivot toward live multiplayer games, that it would increase investment so that live content was 60% of its budget. This is an effort to free themselves from making purely one-and-done single player games, instead wanting Fortnite/Apex/Warzone type games that print money all year long.
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