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1d ago

Is Sony beginning to coast? With PS5 sales up and first-party releases down, gaming's eerie new normal takes shape

www.eurogamer.net Is Sony beginning to coast? With PS5 sales up and first-party releases down, gaming's eerie new normal takes shape

With competition falling away, Sony lines up another quiet year - while still racking up the console sales. Are we happy with the new normal?

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This feels like a problem that primarily (exclusively?) affects gaming journalists. Gamers are happy with the console and the available games. The new games that have been teased are under development. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm happy to wait for new games to be fully baked rather than rush them to market to meet some arbitrary deadline. Does anyone not have a backlog to keep them entertained a while?
- The longer development cycle of AAA games does mean we're getting fewer of them than we used to, so the author is right that that is different this time around.
  
  I don't doubt it, I just don't think it's a bad thing.
  
  If you like what they're putting out, I can see that, but when there's less variety coming out, some of the types of games they used to make aren't getting made, so there are going to be people with itches that aren't getting scratched like they used to.
  
  Fair, and I like variety, too. But if there are no new games I like, I play an old game I have yet to play. We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to quality games and replayability. New games are great when the games are great, and I'm anticipating the releases of several upcoming games. But the industry has trained me to be patient and punished enthusiasm for, and so shall I be.

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