this is a copy paste from a leak on 4ch, so take it with a grain of salt.
- Sony's next-gen strategy is to effectively bury Microsoft in games. Sony executives want to make their margin of victory even bigger than the PS4's (which was roughly 2:1 PS4:XB1
- Achieving this is a two prong strategy, first is expanding first party development by a large amount, second is by purchasing timed console exclusivity on many titles
- Sony intends to release a major first party title every 2 months in 2021. First two are Ratchet and Clank in January and Horizon in March. The final one will be God of War: Ragnarok in November.
- Many publishers who wanted too much money or were hostile to timed exclusivity are now more open to it due to Game Pass. Microsoft is pressuring devs and publishers to make their games Day One Game Pass. However this kills all sales on XBox. It varies slightly but games that are day one Game Pass tend to sell 5-10% as much as they do on PS4, and Microsoft refuses to pay worthwhile sums for putting games on Game Pass
- The Series S is also making developers and publishers more amicable to Sony exclusivity. The console's low and slow ram makes it difficult to downport games designed for Series X and PS5 to the box, and Microsoft is demanding devs ship on Series S to ship on Series X.
- The Bethesda acquisition worried some executives but Microsoft seems uninterested in making their games even timed exclusives. Sony was attempting to get timed exclusivity on Starfield and this may still happen without even a large price increase.
- Sony is not currently interested in acquiring any studios despite Microsoft's statement.
- Sony is currently working on a Silent Hill game that is being developed by SIE Japan. Sony is also in talks with Konami for a deal on their IPs. Not purchasing them outright, but Sony gets the rights to produce console and PC titles for Silent Hill, Castlevania and Metal Gear, while Konami retains ownership and can continue to monetize them in arcade/pachinko machines and mobile games.
- Kojima has expressed interest in overseeing a collection and returning to Metal Gear in some capacity. He outright vetoed Revengeance 2 when it was floated. Seems there's some bad blood between Kojima and Platinum.
- There are people in the company who want to develop PS1 and PS2 emulation capabilities for PS5 but Jim Ryan is opposing it. He's fully convinced back compat is a total waste of time and not a worthwhile feature
- There's no plans to improve Sony's image with indie devs at this time. Seems they're content in allowing this to be a blindspot.
- The Last of Us 2 was a financial bomb. It sold well, however it had the largest development and marketing budget of any Sony first party title. Druckmann apparently promised executives '15 million sales minimum' and it seems unlikely the game will get much past 10.
- There's apparently internal strife at Naughty Dog since some people want to make a large Joel DLC to try and get the game more sales and appease Sony executives but Druckmann is vehemently against it
- PS+ will go to 79.99 yearly in Fall of 2021, and 13.99 monthly. The PS+ Collection was a move to make it sting less when they raise the price.
- Sony is planning a PS4 Hardware Revision. 199.99 with multiple PS4 games bundled with it, and a 149.99 digital version with the same games. Goal is to offer a valuable low-cost option for people who might be considering a Series S, and to help push total PS4 sales over the PS2 hill. Disk version will have 4K Blu-ray capabilities.
- Demon's Souls is not actually coming to PC. That was actually a human error. Final Fantasy 16 is, though.
- Miles Morales and Horizon Forbidden West are cross-gen because most of their development happened with the expectation they'd ship before the PS5 launched. All future Sony first party titles will be PS5 exclusive.
- Bluepoint is also working on a remaster of Legend of Dragoon. Will not be a full remake on the scale of FF7R but rather extremely high fidelity models and backgrounds. Will largely be the same game with some gameplay issues smoothed out.
- Spyro/Crash style remakes of the Jak games is early in development. Same for Ape Escape.
- Sony wants to make a Playstation Allstars Battle Royale 2. Issue is they can't find anyone willing to make it outside the company and don't have any team internally suited for it, so it's stalling
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