Sony has spent some huge cash on establishing exclusivity offers with third-party publishers and builders over the course of its historical past. However with the PS5 specifically, it seems like the corporate is making a transparent effort to pad out its console’s launch schedule, whereas key PlayStation Studios beaver away within the background.
It has been an particularly prevalent tactic over the past 12 months or so. We have had heavy-hitting third-party initiatives like Last Fantasy 16, Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Rise of the Ronin, and Stellar Blade all being promoted as in the event that they’re Sony’s personal, with the platform holder going as far to behave as writer for the latter two titles.
However has Sony’s third-party strategy truly labored, within the eyes of PlayStation gamers? We requested the Push Sq. neighborhood this very query in a Speaking Level from final week — and now, primarily based on 1,167 votes, the outcomes are in.
22% of readers suppose that the latest third-party video games “have been nice”, and an extra 19% stated that they’ve “largely crammed the hole”. However the most well-liked response was “form of”, with 35% of the neighborhood telling us that they’d “like extra first-party video games”.
Nonetheless, the outcomes are fairly constructive total. Solely 12% stated that third-party titles “simply aren’t the identical”, and 13% stated that they do not make up for first-party releases “within the least”.
