Ghost of Tsushima 2 will probably be cross-gen.
In what world would this make sense outside of PS4 support being relegated to cloud streaming? You don't seriously believe GoT2 will be a cross-gen game, do you? C'mon.
I mean, that's certainly possible. But the whole model of GAAS suggests to me that probably all those games are going to be cross-gen. If your model is about player numbers and continued monetization it makes sense to include PS4, and PC and mobile and anything you can. And that's a large part of their upcoming focus.
Even with live-service and GaaS titles there is a cutoff point. At some point even the majority of late casuals will hop off of PS4 and either upgrade to PS5, get a laptop (basically going PC in some form) or go mobile.
If you want to innovate in a gaming space, even with GaaS/live-service games, you have to ditch certain baselines sooner rather than later. PS4 is a baseline even a lot of those games from Sony will drop, because the Jaguar CPU cores are just too limiting. Any PS4 support for most of those games will be via cloud streaming.
It's like expecting Overwatch 2, Warzone 2 etc. to come to PS4 and XBO; there is no point in native versions for those considering most of the core fanbase will be on newer systems, as will most of the casuals. The Switch is a different matter because it's still a product being actively produced and sold at large volumes in the marketplace, but depending on when the Switch 2 comes out games like those could very well ignore the Switch for any thing other than a cloud streaming solution, and focus on native support for Switch 2 (if they go to Switch 2 at all, but I think that's possible. Fortnite did, after all).
Great info, as they shouldnt left over 100m base alone, but why they will drop support in 2025 ? they shouldnt left this big player base alone even if there is already ps6 or ps7
Because at some point, you actually want the majority of customers to buy your new product, and old technology WILL hamper development sooner rather than later. Otherwise, we'd still be getting Ragnarok on PS2, and Starfield on the original Xbox.
Right, and again...there's no mention of 2023 and 2024.
We could try to base the graph on what happened in 2020 and 2021, and still I dont think we have enough info for PC and mobile gaming between that time, based on the graph.....
MLB has always been a cross gen game. LBP 3 was, Sack Boy is.
But with their foray into GaaS, Live Service games..PS4 games in 2023 and 2024 is still a possibility.
Hell, when the ABK deal goes thru...CoD will still have a cross gen game so...
I think the issue is what games
specifically will be cross-gen. Some people seem to keep thinking the single-player, story-driven marquee games like Ghosts of Tsushima 2, TLOU Part 3, etc. will be cross-gen with PS4. Same for Spiderman 2 and Wolverine. At some point it just becomes a tad ridiculous; knowing how much those studios pride themselves on taking full advantage of current technologies, why would they force themselves to support a crappy GCN GPU and terrible Jaguar core architectures going into 2023 and onward? You can't genuinely make groundbreaking, pushing-the-envelope experiences that way, and that's what Sony's marquee 1P experiences tend to do.
The live-service/GaaS titles, or at least some of them, will probably be less ambitious and also aren't seen as marquee titles. They're the perfect type of game for reaching across different devices so PS4 versions of some of those would make more sense. Though I doubt it will be most of them, let alone all of them.
cant belive new sony is that stupid but we wait and see
