{"id":4136,"date":"2025-08-09T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:11:51","slug":"sony-should-stop-making-playstation-consoles-while-theyre-still-beating-xbox-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/sony-should-stop-making-playstation-consoles-while-theyre-still-beating-xbox-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony should stop making PlayStation consoles while they\u2019re still beating Xbox \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Should PlayStation stick with portables? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader reacts to rumours that Sony<\/a> is getting out of the gaming hardware business and suggests that if it\u2019s not true it should be their policy anyway.<\/p>\n

There was a very alarming rumour going around this week, that Sony had said it is going to give up making gaming hardware. \u2018In the gaming business, we are moving away from a hardware centric business model more to a platform business that expands the community and increases engagement,\u2019 is the sentence that was doing the rounds, from a Sony exec.<\/p>\n

GC and most other sensible websites didn\u2019t report it because the translation was apparently inaccurate, and the sentence taken out of context. I\u2019m still not entirely clear what he was trying to say but I think that\u2019s kind of on purpose, because he was an exec talking to investors – so he didn\u2019t particularly want to be understood, it was all just fluff to make it sound like Sony know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

If anything, it seemed to be him implying they were going to do more movies and theme park type stuff with their brands, like Nintendo<\/a> is nowadays. But more likely it didn\u2019t really mean anything at all and as rumours continue to say, the PlayStation 6<\/a> is on its way just as you\u2019d expect. But I think this is a bad idea. Not just the PlayStation 6 but the whole idea of making consoles.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll say it right now, to make my bias clear, but I don\u2019t really like Xbox<\/a> or their influence on the games industry. That goes double now that they bought Activision and Bethesda and will probably snap up any other publisher that ever shows sign of weakness, like EA and Ubisoft.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because of console war reasons that I don\u2019t like them, but because gaming is such a tiny part of the Microsoft whole and despite owning so much of the games industry, they\u2019d shut it down and turn their back on it in an instant if they thought it was too much of a distinction or waste of money. As we have seen with the thousands of job losses lately<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Despite owning so much, Xbox Series X has done so badly that many people think Microsoft are going to give up making consoles, even though they say they\u2019re not. It\u2019s obviously going to be a super low priority for them in the future though, as they turn themselves into a third party publisher. They\u2019re going to try and do without their own console, but that does not mean they\u2019re no longer a threat to Sony, far from it.<\/p>\n

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Xbox has fallen on its face two generations in a row now and Phil Spencer and the other execs are desperate for a win, to pretend it as all part of a big 4D chess game they were playing. And not, as it very obviously was, their plans failing again and again.<\/p>\n

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Sony Senior Vice President Sadahiko Hayakawa says they are gradually shifting their gaming business from a hardware centric business model to a community and engagement based platform business model #PlayStation<\/a>\u201cIn the gaming business, we are moving away from a hardware centric\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/8xnKyihMHE<\/a><\/p>\n

— Genki\u2728 (@Genki_JPN) August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

Not only is Microsoft pretending consoles aren\u2019t important anymore but they\u2019re trying to put an end to exclusives and claim they\u2019re anti-consumer. When really these are the two things Sony does well and so they\u2019re trying to undermine them. And the weird thing is it\u2019s working. Even without knowing exactly what that exec was on about, it\u2019s inevitable Sony games will appear day one on PC sooner or later and more are going multiformat.<\/p>\n

Helldivers 2 is out on Xbox this month, despite being Sony\u2019s only live service success. And that\u2019s because they make more money selling its microtransactions to all gamers, rather than using it to tempt people into buying a PlayStation 5 console.<\/p>\n

The logical end result of this is that Sony will also turn third party in the end, which I hate but I just don\u2019t see any other outcome. What worries me is that they\u2019re going to take so long getting around to doing it that by the time they do it, it will be too late and Microsoft will be in a dominant position – finally becoming the Netflix of gaming that they\u2019ve always wanted.<\/p>\n

Not because of Game Pass but because they\u2019re such a big publisher, with so many games and companies, and they have their own cloud gaming service.<\/p>\n

Sony might be winning the console war today – so much so that Xbox isn\u2019t really even competing anymore – but it\u2019s really only a battle, the war for influence in the games industry goes on and the new battleground is multiformat subscription services, cloud gaming, and live service games.<\/p>\n

I know those aren\u2019t things most hardcore gamers are interested in but that\u2019s the new reality we live in and if Sony hold onto old glories, namely focusing on console hardware too much, they\u2019ll quickly become irrelevant.<\/p>\n

In my opinion they shouldn\u2019t make the PlayStation 6 at all. If they\u2019re doing a portable that\u2019s fine and I do wonder whether they\u2019ve already decided not to make a home console, even though leaks suggest otherwise. They should stop though. Consoles are not the future of gaming and Sony needs to understand that and make sure they\u2019re read to fight on in the new reality we all find ourselves in.<\/p>\n

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