Yesterday, we have taken a look at Nintendo and their performance 2018. Now, let's examine my personal disappointment of the year, Sony. Granted, there have been three good to great first party games, God of War (2018), Detroit: Become Human, and Spider Man (2018), on top of many good to great third party games which I do not give Sony any credit for, though. My major gripe lays with the image in which the company has presented itself the entire year. The aforementioned games where in release for quite some time and just happened to be finished this year. But what to we have in the pipes? Excluding The Last of Us 2, I don't have a single Sony-exclusive game I can currently look forward to. And if The Last of Us 2 will be published in 2019 isn't even certain. And unfortunately, I don't see anything being announced soon.
Their E3 2018 presentation was only decent, their Gamescom presence was atrocious, and next year they won't even be attending E3. What are they actually doing? Some speculate that most of their resources are channeled to their Playstation 5 announcement which will probably happen next year. This actually makes me even more displeased. If Sony doesn't focus on creating great games, but winning their dick measuring contest with Microsoft about who has the greatest specs (which is an uphill battle, for the PC will always win), this just showcases how weird Sony's priorities seemed to have become. On top of that, we had the Playstation Classic released. Which is probably under the worst consoles which have been launched in this century. Also, we experienced a long period in which Sony absolutely refused online play across all platforms, using awful excuses. And then the recent case of censorship on the Playstation 4 games which featured adulterated content. Sony was a complete disaster this year and I currently have little to no hope of this improving, giving that the Playstation 4 still sells like crazy.
I really don't know why many are so uncritical about Sony and just buy anything which has the Playstation label on it and isn't way over the top expensive, as was the Playstation 3. Honestly, the Playstation 4 launch was pretty awful in terms of games and still people drained the physical supplies so rapidly that it couldn't be found for months. But back then, Sony at least had the undoubtedly better product compared to the Xbox One and WiiU so I could understand the anticipation people had. Now though, Sony has the undoubtedly worst product. The Playstation 4 Pro boosts your power but doesn't hold a candle to PC performance, nor to the Xbox One X which manages to optimize most games very smoothly and actually uses true native 4K for several of their games. The Switch, while underpowered in comparison, has the portability aspect the PS4 Pro cannot deliver on. So why is the Playstation 4 still dominating the charts for months and will dominate them for months to come? Yes, it has great games and sweet exclusives, but between it and the PS 1 to 3 the number is rather limited. So you don't miss out on that many great games if you stick with a Switch/Xbox One X. I must wonder if their current success is really earned or if it's built on their contributions in the past people still reward them for. Anyway, Sony has to get their act together 2019 or else they risk losing many of these loyal fans. And now, creating a slightly more powerful console than the Xbox One X, just so you can use the phrase "most powerful console" on every advertisement won't cut it. I which that Sony shows me once more how passionate they are about video games and the industry surrounding it. Will they deliver? I'm skeptical, we'll see.
What's your take on Sony 2018?
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