My PlayStation Conspiracy Theory - Luke Reacts
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Jim Ryan tone deftly wanted to make a bunch of live service games because he thought that's what the market wanted. He was 'like oh we'll just pivot and make another Fortnight and that way we will make a bunch of money".
it was ryans idea to cut double a and focus on triple a releases and live servise some ideas pan out some don't that's how corporations are now some people are good at predicting the market and to gain from it and some are not to me the previous ceo shawn layden was actually a gamer and knew what gamers wanted because he wanted those experiences too everything else it's just bs what comes down to it is some people are good at their jobs some are don't ryan was the second category at least for me and by saying that i'm not saying playstation isn't successful what i'm saying is ryan inherited the money and success from shawn !
Well EA s mistakes with live service prove they more often miss and don't hit
No ill feeling towards Jim Ryan, but it seems like a lot of his decisions are why I'm no longer interested in PlayStation despite being a HUGE fan the generation before. The cutting of Japan Studios and other AA games was one of the reasons I loved PlayStation. I loved their cinematic games but the ones this gen don't really do anything different and feel meh without much gameplay innovations or new art styles. The lineup feels less diverse than before. I'm not surprised Helldivers 2 is received well since the first one was one of PlayStation's AA offerings. The whole jump to live service just makes me completely disinterested.
Some people said Jim would be bad... Some people shouted about how bad his ideas were for years on Neogaf... Some people.
Helldivers 2......
9th gen has been pretty underwhelming so far. These companies have been making some really mind-boggling decisions.
Months after completing Spider-Man 2 I still think about how much I was underwhelmed I was by it. 2-3ish years into the generational cycle is usually when the good, meaty games start to come out. And so far this generation has been pretty mid.
I DISAGREE 100%. LAST YEAR WAS THE BEST YEAR IN GAMING WITH SO MANY BANGERS IT WAS RIDICULOUS.
Covid completely derailed it
@@KingRavenJ it was too safe of a sequel if anything to me it felt like an big expansion of the first game
@@coopstain1728 not on PlayStation that’s for sure
The CEO said Helldivers 2 has sold 60% of the (estimated 8 million) units on PlayStation, and this is a game from a small studio in a short time, while being the #1 game on both Steam and PSN. I think Helldivers 2 is considered a success for the PlayStation.
Cope
Yeah but sony suffer from mangment issues since 2017 ....they keep on losing for some stupid reason
It still doesn’t make sense to me this notion that 99 failures is worth it if at least 1 really hits because even epic games wasn’t immune to to just sit back and take losses because of all that Fortnite money to be their safety net so what are the odds of having a live service that somehow makes just as much if not more than Fortnite to help offset failures? These “gambles” don’t make any sense.
What pisses me off about this statement is that it is basically the producers saying they don't care about the quality of the game and just want to make money at all costs. It reeks of entitlement and wanting to use consumers as banks and charity cases. A lot of these live service games feel like quick cash grabs with little care of what value they are giving to the consumer.
@@Drstrange3000that’s the industry
The failures are declared as tax write-offs. They don't actually lose anything.
It's not it's just cope to justify the loses...jim just went full gamble mode
With Jim gone Playstations leadership has a very keen eye staring at the similar issues with leadership at Bungie lots of waste and mismanagement with little returns
Jim looks like a prototype Gordon Ramsay.
This is so spot on. I think this in my head every time I see him and I've never said it out loud. Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone in this cruel world.
Negative. He looks like a prototype William Shatner a hell of a lot more than he does Gordon Ramsay.
Hopefully this new guy doesn't greenlight ANY live service games.
helldivers already sealed that fate… get ready for live service for the next 5 years at least
@@jare2067it’s like being in an abusive relationship - 9/10 of these live services are lazy, greedy, exploitative dogshit.
1/10 diamonds are diamonds.
Exactly, this stupid trend chace KILLS potential and creativity completely. If YOU as a ceo dont know what the play station player base want, dont just randomly change things and hope that it will work out. I assume service games is the main reason why we never got Beyond Good And Evil 2 from UbiSoft. If publishers cancel SUCH AWESOME project, than what hope have smaller titles.
Helldivers is good tho,the actual right way to do live service
So happy I came across the channel a few months ago Luke, keep up the good work!
Lukes 2nd account?
Agreed. Luke Stephen is awesome. Loving his commentary here ♥ 🐀
That’s not really true at all. Jack Trenton and Shawn Layden left mid cycle and they were arguably the best ceos PlayStation have ever had
I was going to say…..didn’t Jim Ryan come in during the later part of the PS4 generation?
There were rumors of split in PlayStations leadership and as a result some were booted or moved to other departments.
Um...Helldivers 2 has exceeded PlayStations wildest expectations.
Yes, but it started as a smaller project compared to last of us online or Spider-Man so it isn’t monetised out the ass like those would have been. I don’t think it’s making as much money as it could
@@TheCephalon Irrelevant. The fact that it's easily one of the best performing RoI games in modern PlayStation history is success enough.
Yes so sacrifice the entire gen for one mid game lnao
@@jonr7364 Lol @ you for thinking Helldivers 2 success is mid
@@bigbox1431 the game itself is mid. It’s a Reddit game for people who think saying big chungus is funny
Santa Monica sold us on the idea that the reason the Norse saga was 2 games was becuase they didn't want to spend 10+ years making a trilogy.. But mabye playstation already told them we will support a cross platform sequel but you won't get the funding for a ps5 only finale
You saying how that Fairgames trailer had that "Ubisoft STANK" to it was the best part of this video. You're right; Ubisoft is notorious for outting out cheesy ass trailers that try way too hard to be hip and just feel awkward to watch.
The sales for Helldivers 2 are almost an even split between PC and PlayStation. The first few weeks PlayStation had more sales, then PC caught up. Last i heard there was like a 6% difference.
I don't understand why everyone says Helldivers was only successful on PC, its a bald face lie. I will say, PlayStation has a bunch of games coming out,so active player counts might favor PC, but it was every bit as successful on PlayStation as it was on PC
They're just looking for anyway to discredit Sony for whatever success they achieve
@@thetrilltroll7633 I'll never understand it. Sony must be the most heavily scrutinized company in all of gaming.
It’s primarily because Sony has been against pc ports for years. To players a first party Sony game should be 90% Ps5 10% pc. So an even split with pc surging numbers past ps5 is shockingly high.
@@NaviRyan Sony has made PC games since the first PlayStation, and now make some of the highest quality games on PC
@NaviRyan yes but in this instance it's different. Helldivers 2 is a Sony funded console exclusive live service game. Its not made from one of their 1st party studios so its not really shocking at all. Sony also mentioned over a year ago that their live service multi-player games will release day 1 on PS and PC. Like I said no matter how much success Sony gets, people always try to spin a less than positive narrative about them
This is what happens when corporate ideas get into the gaming industry where product quality doesn’t matter anymore as long as the money keeps flowing, in this case they didn’t get one or the other which is devastating for the business.
What they need to understand is that they need to make games to entertain customers. If they focus on just creating something that will try to milk players then that game will always be shit. Create a fun game that respect people’s time and money and the profits will follow.
When people keep brining up that we are currently in another game crash have no idea what they’re talking about.
It’s like how people who don’t understand the definition of the word monopoly
Lol, the game crash ain't here yet....
And here i thought someone was actually going to talk about hellblade 2 for like 3 seconds lol
You didn't mention that Jim Ryan was also responsible for pissing away 3.5 billion dollars on a single developer (Bungie) at the exact moment that their Destiny 2 profits started to collapse.
Sony hasn't had any big single hits in the PS5 era so far. They are performing very poorly compared to their PS4 era.
There’s hardly any games coming out. It’s taking an entire console generation just to make one game these days it’s ridiculous.
The story is that Haven pitched three games to Sony and Sony said it wanted to fund all three. Haven chose to make the Fairgame Dollar because it was the most concrete idea at that moment. Sony seems to have paid special attention to Haven because they are also creating a lot of cloud tech/tools that supposedly all the other studios will benefit in the near furture (tools that will help to develop games, not specifically games that will run directly from the cloud)
Kind of funny that everyone is sure that the game will fail when it will probably be the only game to go head to head with the Pay Day franchise, which has a relatively active audience. It wouldn't be surprising to see this game become a hit precisely because Pay Day 3 was a flop.
NO WAY IN HELL IT WILL SUCCEED.
It’s sad how many great games we will never get for the past decade. The switch to live service models wasted an entire decade at least of development.
I blame Fortnite 😂
You have 51 comments on this channel wtf are u doing with your life
I think Jim made a big bet on Live Service and it became clear to Sony last year that bet isn't going to pay off so he's stepping down.
Yes that's what Luke said
Naughty dog could've made TLOU online like The Day Before since it flopped.... ND actually has the resources to pull that kind of game off
Yeah just like rocksteady had the resources and talent to pull off a multiplayer live service game…oh wait
But they didn’t
bad take about helldiverts not being successful on ps5 you have no numbers to back that up
Sony and Warner Bros drinking the hopium when it comes to live service
Helldivers 2 lol
@@bigbox1431 vs dozens of money wasting flops
@@Thorn_416 Like Palworld lol?
@@bigbox1431 the exception not the rule
@@BSultimate Like Lethal Company? Sorry bud, the Live Service market is still growing unbelievably fast. If you think it's saturated it's because you're dumb.
Live service games have their place and some games really benefit from that. But making a live service for the sake of it is a bad move. It’s very hard and expensive to make games and treating it like gambling will backfire on you
The other knock-on, is that the 'normal' games those studios would have been working on during this Live Service 'hiatus', are now that many years further away as a result (assuming they could go back to them now anyway).
I find it kinda baffling to hear about failed generation when first two year of ps5 literally had more bangers than ps4(cross gen yes but there was not even remotely close to Ragnarok or HFW in the beginning of ps4 lifecycle), they started to drop quality stuff around year of 2015 while having most of their bangers in the end of generation. Literally last 3 years. Isn’t that make more sense to judge how successful ps5 or not, when we know how much units is sold and how many or little first party games and 2nd/3rd party console exclusives there will be by the end of this generation?
As for Jim, clear as the day that theory Luke is talking about is most likely what has happened. But that is how it happens usually, if your strategy doesn’t work - you leave, another person steps in.
What? Ps5 literally has NO GAMES
Jim Ryan isn't the only PS executive to have left midcycle. His last 2 predecessors did too. PS may not be happy with Jim Ryan's performance. We dont know. But the fact that it wasn't a complete disaster tells me he wouldn't have been booted from his place like that. At his age, he would have stayed at PS for another year or 2 anyway. Holding PS leadership is a stressful job. Its natural that people dont hold on to that seat for long. It's only Xbox that allows a guy to fail for 10 years and still be holding on to his place like that.
People for some reason have this rose tinted glasses regarding indies. But it's a 50/50 between puzzle platform or metroidvayne with some generic pixel art style
I'll never understand why these old people get put in charge of gaming divisions, like yeah you might know business but you've got no idea about what gamers actually want or care about
Their methods and spending no longer work and they're in hard denial. It's why we see games from independent studios that are smarter with their money and work hard to make the game fun see much more success. It's an industry being hoisted up artificially without any real support from a consumer base and it's finally starting to crumble, and it should.
I don't understand the sneering remarks toward Sony on Helldivers 2 success on PC.
The game has been a success on both platforms, and yes Valve gets a 30% cut for every copy sold on Steam but you're acting like Sony aren't making the remaining 70%. Considering they don't normally do day and date PC releases, each PC copy sold is a boon for them. Not "effing hilarious", just good business.
Luke obviously listens to Sacred Symbols. Colin has said all this for a while
I love the idea of fairgames. Who doesn’t love screwing over the rich🤷🏽♂️
And he closed Japan Studios the bastard.
Which probably means no Bloodborne sequels as Japan Studio brought that idea to Fromsoft and helped with development on the game and dlc.
Jim Ryan is the Don Mattrick of Sony.
@@randompseudonym4519 Nah I can see a BB sequel happening if Fromsoft chooses it, let's be honest Fromsoft can most definitely make a BB sequel without Japan Studios but it wouldn't work the other way around.
I love Helldivers 2, but I'm kind of afraid the effect of its success might have on the industry. With the latest live service games being flops it kinda seemed like maybe, just maybe, publishers were starting to realize it's a lot harder to make a good live service game than they thought and maybe greenlighting every live service pitch that comes across their desk isn't the way to go. Then here comes Helldivers 2 being awesome to screw it all up. Execs will say, "see people do like live service games," while ignoring all the things that make Helldivers 2 an exception not a rule. I mean if you look at Helldivers 2 on a surface level it looks like any other live service game. They'll ignore the fact that even though the gameplay can be repetitive, somehow it never feels like it's so repatative that it becomes boring. They'll ignore the fact that while there are microtransactions, they're not overbearing. They'll ignore the fact that while there are battle passes you can go without them and still enjoy the game. They'll ignore the fact the microtransaction currency can be earned just by playing the game to where you never have to spend money if you don't want to. Might take you longer to get the next battle pass or might night depending on how much time you have to game. I will say, I do wonder how long that'll be financially viable for Arrowhead Games. That said, if I decide to spend some real money on getting a battle pass I won't feel icky about it. I have a limited amount of time to game. Basically weekends and maybe a couple hours twice a week. I've already got 74 hours in the game putting it in my top 12 hours played in steam and I didn't purchase the game until a month after it released because I don't like multiplayer games. Yet another thing other execs will probably ignore. I've played with plenty of randoms and asked them how often they play multiplayer games and they say never or not for a long time.
Micro-transactions work best in F2P games. Putting them in paid games only rubs folks the wrong way.
there is just nothing to unlock if you play hardcore helldivers 2. I feel like there needs to be something more. I am lvl 50 and unlocked all strategems in the first week. I also bought everything in every warbond, its just not much to do rn. I think a solution would be to give us the option to upgrade all existing gear. Here some examples: Blue flame flamethrower, green flame flamethrower with some damage numbers that go up, like 2% 4%. jetpack 20% more vertical leap 20% more horizonal thrust, grenade launcher +2 mag size +4 mag size. stuff like that, im sitting on max r for a long time now.
There is nothing wrong investing in GAAS but his biggest mistake is to force single player studios to make them.
Even if Jim found live service devs to make the games I don’t think it would be successful. Just look at how bungie destroyed their reputation with light fall.
I think this is pretty much what happened with Playstation this generation. Jim Ryan did an amazing job of launching and keeping the sales of the PS5 afloat during the pandemic, but his strategy for games was too much of a gamble that takes away from what has made them successful.
The Skeptic Boy is like the most annoying superhero ever.
I would have loved it if that Spider-Man Online/Live Service just so I could swing through NYC with friends
Quick correction helldivers 2 success is actually pretty even. PC accounts for about 56% of the sales and helldivers 2 is in the top sales and most played game on PSN ( it's in the top 4 now and was n°1 for 4 weeks straight ). That includes the PS4 install base when it comes to most played on PSN and helldivers 2 is next gen only. Apparently it sold around 8 to 10 million copies already
When PC players like something they'll buy it, what's the point of porting Singleplayer only games?
I don't get Sony's logic, canceling Factions 2 and replacing it with a remake of Factions 1 would've made bank on PC.
This isn't a conspiracy theory........ this is a cogent observation with vivid analysis.
Like Spencer, Ryan came across as a corporate mouthpiece. He gave us no information, or 1st Party Games.
Totally random but Luke, how many red bulls do you go through in a day man, you got me worried about you😂😂😂
Estimates say the split for Helldivers 2 between PC and PS5 is around 50/50, it is not more successful on PC, as far as we know. I also think that just blatantly saying fairgames costs 100 mil and last of us online another 100 mil is a bit wild to state as a true, assumed fact. I dont disagree with the overall point of the video but it sounds weird to me to listen to wrong/imprecise stuff stated as facts.
Too be fair to him ,helldivers became super successful. Shared both by pc and ps5
I think it was less about it being a live service game and more that it was one of the few remaining Sony AA titles which also has a well received 1st game. It also seems to be a bit different gameplay wise to other shooters. It seems more focused and feels more "next gen" gameplay wise.
The Moon accepts your ridiculous proposal.
Helldivers 2 is my favorite multiplayer title of all time.
Jim Ryan would play the perfect villain in a new MEN IN BLACK movie. It looks like he's hiding another face underneath his current face lol.
I mean the whole negative towards PlayStation for awhile has been no co op or multiplayer games just single player and he tried to change that
That's never a negative XD, if people wanted multiplayer, CoD, BF and other sports games have been a mainstay of console gaming
And yet The PS4 had games like Drive club, Let it Die, Drawn to Death, Warframe, Killzone Shadowfall, Planetside, Tomorrow Children, Dreams, MLB, The Show, and other multiplayer games. Most of these weren't successful. PS4 launched with Final Fantasy 14 ARR which was a very successful exclusive multiplayer game for the console.
This was the same analysis and conclusion made on the Sacred Symbols podcast... Between the live service failures and dropping the ball in the Microsoft trial, he likely was in a forced retirement or forced it himself.
What ball did Ryan drop in the trial? His complaints forced Ms to go from 3 year cod deal to 10 years. It's not his fault the acquisition was upheld.
@@PetrifyingPumpkins arguably Microsoft needed to keep COD on Playstation to begin recoup for the hefty purchase price. I don't think Sony was in any danger of MS taking it exclusive. I think the offer was always for 10 years, though, but I may have to recheck on that. I'm speaking purely from a "you didn't stop the merger" perspective; whether that was a realistic ask or not, as the head at the time, it was expected that he more successfully raised issue with their direct competitor's takeover of their company's yearly best seller. So the merger certainly didn't help
My daughter is 8 years old. She will probably be able to vote before we see fallout 5.
The gaming industry is moving in the exact same trajectory as the movie industry. Live service (like tv) will dominate the landscape once game streaming is refined enough. Like with movies, new ip's cost a lot to release and present a big gamble for risk/reward which is why remakes and remasters have come in such big numbers. Whether gaming will crash is all a matter of timing, can technology improve at a rate fast enough for game streaming to be available globally before people completely tire if playing the same game in its 20th iteration..
Well I had the small conspiracy in my head for PlayStation or Insomniac cancelling that "Spider-man Multiversal Web" game, because it was a Live-Service. People were like;
"How could you cancel a game like that? I sounds awesome!"
But then if they think about the way they'd monetize it, they'd probably be Live-Service and it'll ruin Insomniac's reputation like Warner Brothers for the Arkham Devs. (I forgorr their name).
Couldn't agree more Luke. In a different but also relevant subject I had enough with the vast majority of the gaming companies which push the games out of the door incomplete or with serious bugs or with downgraded graphics or low frames. Unless a serious regulation comes in place, a governmental body which actually checks the game's quality and the gaming hrs to reflect on the game's pre order price, I am not pre ordering ANY games anymore , no matter how many stupid little perks they throw me in the deal. I mean it, I won't pre order ANY game at all. They are ripping off the customers big time and the proof is that given 2-4 weeks time after the release day, they will drop the price anything between 15%-40% depending on the sales margins as well. Hopefully if other fans follow that then the companies might start taking seriously the matter to check the game's quality and make sure the right price is tagged depending on the quality gaming hours as well.
I agree a governmental body should be put in place, unfortunately at least for the U.S. government its filled to the brim with corruption on both sides, so it's likely at least for now it wouldn't really work
I would never want government to be involved. That’s crazy talk.
Vote with your money. Don’t let FOMO get in your head. Wait till after release to make a decision. This works. Trust me.
Government influence is a bad idea.
@MyWORDisntGospel "vote with your wallet" got us nowhere. People can't even vote with their wallet to boycott nestle who openly uses child slavery and labor. We HAVE been voting with our wallets and look where it's gotten us
@@MyWORDisntGospelnever gonna happen
@@TykoBrian7 what’s never gonna happen? People voting with their wallets or government overseeing gaming?
Perfectly explained. And a well thought out analysis. This was my theory as well.
Hmm... Maybe now we might get Bloodborne Remastered. I'm sure lots of people would buy that.
and how do you explain phil spencer still has a job by your logic
retirement is way more expensive than firing
He brought game pass, he fumbled a lot too but didn't cost a crazy amount of money, which is at the end of the day what this is all about
@@Lupercalum hé just killed Xbox brand but that's nothing
@@kbubuntu6048 Xbox was always behind he just finished it off
@@Nate-kc2wf yeah but he killed halo Gears fable rareware that's a lot for 1 man
Just give me a Warhammer 40k live service like Helldivers 2 and I will never have to play a different game again
It's not just the live service games. The "AAA" first party games failed as well. Their budgets were way too big.
THIS IS NOT TRUE AT ALL. WHICH GAMES FAILED? RAGNAROK? NOPE. SM2? NOPE. RETURNAL? NOPE. HELLDIVERS 2? NOPE. TLOU 1 OR 2? NOPE. SO WHICH FIRST PARTY SONY GAME FAILED?
@@coopstain1728calm way tf down
@@coopstain1728 bro relax
This is probably what happened, like you said they line up very nicely. And for a company trying to make money this seems like what they'd do
Jim Ryan was specifically brought on to transition from PS4 to PS5.He was brought on to globalise Playstation and restructure SIE as you saw with the adoption of PS studios labelling and 3rd party partnerships being stronger than ever.There's this narrative that Shawn layden pioneered the PS4 gen when he was only Head of North American division and the studios and the the time had high costs with luckily paid off in the end but we now see AAA budgets are too big all because the have to go bigger than the last one, Layden always mentions this these days coz he knows.Santa Monica studios despite their success released only one game during that era, Days gone took 6/7 years to develop and we saw how it turned out, there's countless other examples from other branches but the point is Playstation always had this problem coming,and the selfish gamers who want a repeat of the PS4 gen when all we got was singleplayers are being ignorant.A mix of live service/multiplayers and single players is the standard and for me Jim Ryan correctly set up a plan for that.
So in other words, PlayStation did what Microsoft didn’t want to do with Phil Spencer
I look forward to seeing this exact same sequence of events occurring at WB Games.
But that's just a theory, a "Your ass is fired!" theory... thx for watching 😅
Fornite single-handledly destroying a whole industry...
It'd have been great that instead of paying for all those BS live-service games they'd instead put some of that cash towards Days Gone 2.
Helldivers 2 is awesome, FF7 Rebirth is great, TLOU2 remastered has great addons, GoW put out free DLC, Crew Motorfest is already in season 5, Avatar has amazing tech, Skull and Bones is actually decent and Prince of Persia is above average
The gaming industry is hitting potholes... Ubisoft and Playstation are terrible and are akin to popping tires.
Terrible take
Does this mean we can longer look forward to Knack 3?
Hermen Hulst should also take blame
Investing is bungie was the biggest mistake sony made.
Thank god, many top developers hate live service games. Look at how many of them quit and start a new studio that makes real games.
I'm seeing a lot of people scared of PlayStations future because of the success of Helldiver's 2 but I think we don't need to be so worried.
Yes Helldiver's 2 has been extremely successful but Suicide Squad and Skull Bones were both dead on arrival and have been so VERY poorly received that the success of one game won't likely just make them think it's safe to make everything like that especially since they're obviously aware that no one actually wants these nor is anyone asking for them.
Add to this the fact that they've already said that they're scaling back the live service push, only moving forward with about half the games they had planned and even cancelling Naughty Dogs Last of Us online game as well as Insomniacs Spiderman online game, and I think it's clear as day to us as well as the people at Sony that live service is by NO MEANS a guaranteed money maker.
ND could have copied factions with a few bug fixes, some balancing, and a graphics update and they would have had an amazing multiplayer mode for tlou pt2
VERY interesting theory.
Idk what conspiracy are you talking about Luke. I knew as soon as Jim first talked that this generation is screwed. Live service is worst type of game, and to sacrifice their bread and butter, amazing singleplayer games, for live service trash?? I knew this will end badly. Every showcase they had has been utter garbage. They haven’t shown ONE good AAA singleplayer game. And they are stupid, even if they now return to singleplayer, they will make another, spiderman, god of war, tlou, horizon… I’m tired of these titles, I want something new. They did something new with Days Gone and even tho it was a rocky start, the game ended up selling millions of copies. And it was one of my personal favorites. It felt like the old sony, releasing new amazing singleplayer ip’s from new studios. Aaaaand they canceled Days Gone 2…. The gaming is dying. There are literally no new and exciting games. Rockstar, From Soft and CDPR are only studios which games I’m genuinely excited to buy. And that’s maybe one game in 3 years on average if we’re lucky…
Bro you’ve outta be the hardest working RUclipsr ever. You literally drop like 6 videos a day😭😭 please teach me
PlayStation/Jim Ryan saw that they needed to expand profits so what did he do? Doubled down on a extremely risky overcrowded market. Hey heres a thought, why not double down on what made you successful and start bringing out more smaller games? Crazy idea I know lol. It's not like it's been extremely successful in the past or with companies like Nintendo. No no they needed 12 damn live services games almost all of which have failed or will fail.
Well we don't know those live service games.
Mark out yet. They could be killing it in five years
PlayStation can make the best live service game ever and still going to flop. Unless they bring it out on PC as well, the PC community is the heart beat of live service genre.
First of all, I love your work of the past month, im kinda New. Your scedule is smart of daily Videos live and big ones every now and then on the other channel.
To the Gaming industry. I hope they stop making their customers their enemy, what happens to much atm.
I hope their reevaluation is making the consumer happy again with still good games but a little cheaper.
But like Warners conclusion really scares me for the next strategy the studios go to...
I only have to look to from software, a dlc for 40-50 freedomm units and people say they would even spend 100🦅. If you value your customer, they are really more understandable, and i hope the investors understood that and see the value in making people happy.
Hellblade 2 gonna be converted to live service 🫣😅
Doesn’t make sense because Andrew house left in the middle of the ps4 cycle and was replaced by Shawn layden. I feel like people have amnesia when they compare this gen to last gen especially when you look at the first halves of the console gens
Why devote all this time and energy to such a stretch?
B/C ITS TRUE
Why not?
@@TheRoleplayer40k waste of time lol.
funny thing is that Shawn Layden was replaced with this guy.. -.-
This theory really adds up and your evidence holds a lot of weight I wouldn’t doubt this is accurate what your saying
Jim Ryan is the worst in his position for a long time. A lot of people simply didn't recognize all the negatives he brought. Just mentioning all the price increases for absolutely everything. I never believed the retirement story. This guy is a coward not standing to his mistakes and devs have to pay for him now. Guess the official story is just a service to him for his long time at PS. I don't even believe that they put the same money into live service as into single player games. That's why we have nearly no real PS5 exclusives until now. They try to fill this gap - created by Ryan - with buying third party games and more and more remakes/remasters. Good for PS is, that the hardcore fans really believe the remakes make sense and have a reason to exist.
So Luke's theory is not really something special...
PS2: best selling console of all time, singleplayer perfection
Switch: focus on single player greatness
PS4: remembered for the single player games, one of the best selling consoles
Jim ryan: so the thing that makes consoles successful, lets throw that out and chase live service games, because the 30% cut we get from the already made games isn't enough...
I'm surprised he hasn't been outright sacked and be left to "retire"
I always thought Sony themselves did not really get what their core playerbase wants. Change my mind, but I dont think a Last of us multiplayer would have been a hit at all because Last of us fans love the IP for different reasons + its probably not that interesting for players who arent even Last of us fans. A Spiderman multiplayer is the only thing I could imagine beeing successfull out of all the cancelled live service games Ive heard about because the franchise is beloved and has fans outside of the Sony ecosystem.
They should have used their time and money to double down on great single player games and if they actually thought this wouldnt make them enough money --> just release these games way earlier on Pc and not 2-3 years later and your good.
How your ac Mirage conspiracy theory worked out for you!!
Helldivers 2 is 50/50 between pc and ps.
LOVE the video praise to SINGLE PLAYER GAMES bring back the ps3 and ps4 era
Hey I’m new to his content umm is he always this wrong with facts. He’s lying about the foundation of his arguments. Sony already put out a clarification that The interim ceo was specifically talking about Bungie and their margins like is that hard to do research before spewing misinformation?? Y’all always bring up Fair Games and Haven studios but always fail to mention the reason they purchased which is their almost google doc way of development and cloud tools. Instead of having different builds of game on whatever ever computer it’s in the cloud and people every can work on the game seamlessly. Like it was a technology purchase first and foremost.
For what it's worth, Ryan made Playstation lots of profits. Under his regimen, things got pricier and more streamlined. Which, of course didn't sit well with the consumer.
But, if you look at games like spider man 2, it costing upwards 300 million, which isn't a live service game.
Should point out the obvious here, it's a new Gen, and with that sequels to those ps4 games, they are only going to go up as advances keep coming.
You mentioned helldivers 2 as the only success, yet it's to my understanding, the only live service that's currently out from that list.
Okay maybe gt7 and MLB the show which of course are doing well.
Also a lot of the layoffs were bound to happen as well, I mean during covid when everyone was in lockdown and affected the market with digital spending, made these companies in my opinion over hire, now that things aren't so focused on gaming and people for the most part have returned to their normal lives you see them rethinking their strategies and cutting the fat where necessary. Cold, I know, but such is the nature of this business.
Now, if spider man 2 cost them 300 million to make, what do you think some of their other games will cost. Sony raised the bar and, in doing so, have created this problem, so it's not just about the decision to making live service games.
I am of the mindset that, the last of us online would have been successful, in my opinion they could have off loaded that work to a different team with one or two ND execs overseeing said project.
To me, a bigger waste of time and resources are things like psvr and limiting certain games to a single or duo platform. I always said that if Sony were dead serious about their Gaas initiatives, then they need to put their(I mean those games) games wherever fornite and minecraft is.
Good stuff though
16:08 Did Luke just pull a Jennifer Lawrence? Lol no hate man but gaming reviews have been around a lot longer than youtube 😅 PCgamer monthly, game informer, nintendo power, hell even online chat rooms. They might not have been the best options but they did exist lol
I don’t understand any hype around senua 2. The first one was alright and it was an interesting audio experience but the game itself is kind of a 1 and done experience I don’t go back and think about at all. I’m not particularly interested in seeing where the story goes. Felt senuas arc was wrapped up enough and like who cares what happens to her next
I dont think we should write off these live service games. The fist one Helldivers 2 is a huge success. Maybe the other one will be the same . You never know because its not released yet.