This has nothing to do with being a "fanboy" but everything to do with optics and respect to people who invested in your ecosystem.
The LEAST they can do is give away the stupid baseball game for Ps Plus or something or try to get forza or Star Field out of a deal with microsoft. Because right now it's constantly just looking like this:
- Take away ability to purchase & rent movies
- Charge $70 for first party games
- Port Sony first party games to pc with graphical enhancements that don't exist on the console version
- Allow microsoft to take away Bethesda games without doing anything really in response (yet)
- terrible changes made to the psn party system
- shutting down ps3, ps vita stores without offering a viable backwards compatibility solution for those games
- and now allowing mlb and Microsoft to leech off of their third party talent
Uhh returnal better be a home run, because right now things are LOOKING dire. Every other day microsoft are slam-dunking them it's like they've gotten so complacent and out of touch
I dont think optics really matter to anyone other than fanboys.
What matters is the precedent being set. And that hurts more than just feelings of fanboys. I dont give a shit who wins the PR war. or Who wins the most consoles.
BUT a lot of what you said is true and it hurts gamers. Gamers like myself who pick up MLB games every other year. This year was going to be amazing. Next gen visuals! Next gen features! But nope. The devs were clearly busy porting over 4 xbox versions and included zero next gen visual enhancements. I dont know if a next gen stadium creator with last gen visuals is something anyone gives a shit about.
So this port directly affected my experience. The vita and ps3 store closures directly affect me because my son fell in love with the playstation after playing astro bot and asked me to borrow my brothers ps3 and charge my vita. now all those games are gone forever. he wont get to experience them unless i go out hunting for dvds.
$70 for indie games like returnal is laughable and pretty much kills the game before it even comes out.
These things do affect gamers, not just fanboys and people calling you a fanboy miss these things.