an earlier article<\/a>, may actually be harming the games we love in a lot of ways). And that seems difficult for Sony to do when the core appeal of their games has been the high end graphics and top notch presentation and tech for so long; imagine if Sony started putting out games that looked no better than, say, the average PS4 game, as their PS5 flagship games. The fanbase they have cultivated, which is buying those first party games in the tens of millions of units, would not stand for that.<\/p>\nSo what’s the response? What should Sony do? Honestly, it’s hard for me to tell. I do think doubling down on first party and diversifying is a good idea, and to Sony’s credit, they are making a lot of moves to do just that. They are working on a whole lot of multiplayer games in collaboration with new studios, and creating more types of games thanks to their acquisitions (such as Housemarque or Insomniac). I think if they can keep that going, they may be able to carve out a profitable niche for themselves as a first party driven platform that works for them anyway – after all, no one said that the only way to do that is to literally be Nintendo in every way possible, they can just as easily find their own take on the strategy that works well with the brand they have cultivated.<\/p>\n
Whether or not they do that, and whether or not it works, remains to be seen. But I do think that this Activision acquisition has shown the precarious situation Sony is in in the market, and the importance of acting to address that as soon as possible – and the way to address that is not by acquiring some other big publisher.<\/p>\n
Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, GamingBolt as an organization.<\/em><\/p>\n Source: https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/the-activision-acquisition-announcement-reveals-the-relative-precariousness-of-sonys-position<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1560511,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[132],"artist":[138],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[3785,7271,12278,6373,6319,12638,5992,5826,3620,6114,5253,5210,5254,5803,8184,3705,5650,7759,3625,5558,3788,5586,5452,5384,3739,3628,3629,6451,9063,6040,5710,3795,3632,12651,5864,5727,7981,11802,5592,3796,6398,3878,5999,5597,5456,6150,7496,11085,5871,5813,5600,12547,3801,10504,9970,6001,5663,12690,12635,7230,7423,6324,5664,5601,5731,10343,5931,3804,5933,5934,5216,6418,3638,5405,12645,3746,5520,3811,6101,3859,5218,177,6304,3817,7740,5611,5219,3642,12642,5408,5565,3748,5566,3643,5291,3884,3823,5667,5469,5413,7237,3645,3646,7770,5984,5615,5617,12549,6951,3719,5947,5241,3650,3651,5476,3652,3827,5536,5817,3654,3656,3829,5839,3861,6154,3830,12550,3657,7125,5421,10412,3862,3863,5904,8764,3757,3662,3667,3775,3885,3886,5227,5483,5484,3723,5798,3669,3670,8049,5431,9976,5487,5243,5244,6428,3672,5954,10626,3726,5436,6017,5883,6135,5245,6961,5629,3836,6944,3675,12636,3759,3837,6431,6432,6341,6355,6029,5958,3680,3681,3729,5696,5246,5697,5441,5493,5273,5274,3843,6141,5497,12551,3761,3762,7947,3684,3869,3686,3687,3688,3690,5231,6312,6441,3691,3692,3783,6313,8173,3846,3732,3696,8084,8057,3733,5554,7397,5642,3697,3852,5645,3701,12568,8373,3734,3764,5786,3702,5279,3703,3874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1560510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1560511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1560510"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1560510"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1560510"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1560510"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1560510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}