Sony’s white-knuckle grip on their platform is an exciting hint of things to come.
They’ve been cosplaying the PS2 era since about 2005. That’s when it became evident to everyone that games can just exist, and be for every platform, so long as the studio has a bit more money and time. Previously your game was for one gizmo, and you might hire some third party to follow up and coerce it onto another gizmo. Nowadays everything’s a computer and all computers work basically the same way. There’s details. There’s exceptions. But anything that doesn’t work the normal way becomes irrelevant.
This nonsense is the only thing Sony can do to pretend Playstation is anything more than a brand name. Microsoft has stopped pretending and it’s weirding people out. Nintendo had a unique feature for their gizmo, as they do, but now they’re competing with Valve - on hardware - and their follow-up is probably a merely numeric upgrade.
There are no platforms anymore. To consumers, there is nothing but software and obstacles.
Sony’s white-knuckle grip on their platform is an exciting hint of things to come.
They’ve been cosplaying the PS2 era since about 2005. That’s when it became evident to everyone that games can just exist, and be for every platform, so long as the studio has a bit more money and time. Previously your game was for one gizmo, and you might hire some third party to follow up and coerce it onto another gizmo. Nowadays everything’s a computer and all computers work basically the same way. There’s details. There’s exceptions. But anything that doesn’t work the normal way becomes irrelevant.
This nonsense is the only thing Sony can do to pretend Playstation is anything more than a brand name. Microsoft has stopped pretending and it’s weirding people out. Nintendo had a unique feature for their gizmo, as they do, but now they’re competing with Valve - on hardware - and their follow-up is probably a merely numeric upgrade.
There are no platforms anymore. To consumers, there is nothing but software and obstacles.