yurinka
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It's retarded, nonsensical and suicidal to reject two thirds of your revenue. PS4 gave them 2/3 of their PSN revenue last fiscal year, and even if will keep decreasing as people upgrades this FY very likely will continue being the majority, and the next one pretty likely won't be a majority anymore but still a big chunk. So they need to support these users.The point is, that PS4 users are on the decline and PS5 users are on the incline and you can multiply that exponentially with every passing season the PS5 stock improves. If you want to believe the PS5 will continue to be a big seller for the next several years that is.
It makes no sense to support a past gen console after 2023
Also, if there isn't more people upgrading to PS5 it's because of they can't ship more consoles, they have been constantly selling out super quickly.
Nothing indicates that players have an issue with the PS5 catalog: in addition to be sold faster than ever, the PS5 users are also more engaged than they were on PS4 (so in than any other console ever, since PS4 is the console that by far sold more games for it in gaming history).
That indicates that players are ok with the current strategy and like the stuf that gets released. Specially when seeing GoWR, HFW or GT7 selling faster than any previous game ever made in these studios.
Sony and the other publishers are slowly migrating to next gen only games but it's too soon to totally cut the PS4 new content. For different reasons people at this point of the PS4 lifetime there are way more active players and purchasers than there were in previous consoles, and they also need to eat good.
In addition to this, AAA games take longer to be developed than in previous generations, meaning that most big ass AAA games being released in 2023 were started to be developed when devs didn't have the engines, devkits or even the specs of the next gen consoles, so they are basically PS4 games and to make these games PS5 only wouldn't almost change them.
As an example, Street Fighter 6 development started in 2018 and will be released in 2023. 5 years of development.
And this is a fighting game of an stablished IP and made by the same team that made the previous one and is experienced in the genre, which in the AAA area requires way smaller work than way bigger games that have tons of content and features more, that are a new IP which requires a lot of work more creating the world, characters, story, mechanics etc, or when it's made by a team inexperienced in that genre or game type. Several big AAA games require 6, 7 or even more years.
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