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… Last year reversed that first-party performance trend with fresh open-world sequels like Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei . As a result, first-party sales actually went up last year, snapping a four-year losing streak. …
… This will have a negative drag effect on sales, which are expected to drop to 4.420 trillion yen, but a boost in first-party game sales games like Wolverine and Saros is expected to help offset this. …
Following a Bloomberg report that Sony will no longer be publishing first-party PS5 games on PC , which suggested the decision was driven in part by poor sales for recent titles released on a platform, an analysis by Newzoo for GamesIndustry.biz has suggested the company's release strategy limited … …
… The beta feature currently appears limited to select regions and could finally give PlayStation users first-party insight into platform-wide player activity. …
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… Sony especially built its reputation around narrative-focused first-party experiences unavailable elsewhere. The recent trend toward PC ports represented a departure from that long-standing approach. …
… It's also worth mentioning that Marathon, the latest live service game from a first-party Sony studio, may also have missed the company's internal sales expectations; estimates indicate Marathon has sold around 1.2 million copies on all platforms, which is significantly less than Sony's major live … …
… It's a smart strategy, especially when the sales of physical games are trending downward overall. …
… Traditionally hardware sold at a loss, with software, from first-party revenue to third-party licenses, balancing out the books. With player trends increasingly narrowing in on fewer, older games, both Microsoft and Sony have been driven into some self-destructive feedback loops to overcome this. …
… There's also the ongoing trend for ballooning development costs for PC games. While most PlayStation releases have arrived in good condition, sloppier releases have suffered poor initial reviews as a result, no doubt depressing sales to some extent. …
