Sony just needs to continue to make high quality games worth BUYING. Support 3rd party developers in getting their great games noticed and SOLD. No need for monthly subscriptions, no need for online connection, no future outlook of removing ownership, lending and trading games. No destroying of brick and mortar.
Their competitor wishes to turn the industry into one big subscription service overlapping other subscriptions with them at the top of the pyramid. Even tried to force migration recently. Where developers receive upfront checks that will shrink as the SUBSIDIZED service grows. Which will affect the type of future games made based on those checks. If more developers put their games on there, the bigger companies will receive the bigger handouts because of the glut. That will force the smaller ones to get bought or close. Also pushing gamers to NOT buy high quality games. Only to rent monthly and wait for them to hit the service. Slippery slope. That’s not healthy.
Sony has some of the best, GoftY awarded developers in the business. Capable of making huge, open world games that are similar to games that are under the Zenimax umbrella. From the Getaway, Days Gone, Horizon, Spider-Man, etc. Sony should counter the purchase with a medieval game, or any game with such high quality, that developers like Bethesda would be a non issue if those games become exclusive to Microsoft.
When a developer under Sony can create an awarded, high quality, respected Japanese game in Ghost of Tsushima, and they’re not even Japanese(SP), you know Sony has the chops, the game engines, the console power, the innovative controller to counter their competitor. And with the possibility for some of those games to play on the next generation PlayStation VR headset, worries about the Zenimax purchase should be minimized.
Gamers should be more concerned with what Microsoft has been trying to do since their entering of the game industry. **EMBRACE, EXTEND, and EXTINGUISH** is still in full effect. Sony’s dominance has been the only thing standing in Microsoft’s way. And should be continually supported. The alternative is dire. Don’t be fooled by those that continue to tell you that subscriptions and lack of ownership are the future. These individuals aren’t gamers. They are influencers or investors.
