‘The 30th anniversary of PlayStation is the worst year ever for Sony’

A Reader’s Feature worries that the 30th day of PlayStation is coming astatine the lowest constituent ever for Sony’s video games business.

It volition soon beryllium 28 years since I played my archetypal PlayStation console. Its 30th anniversary is this December, but it didn’t travel retired successful the UK until the adjacent twelvemonth and I didn’t get it for my Christmas until the twelvemonth aft that. Still, it’s evidently a large day for Sony and clip for them to instrumentality banal of wherever they are close present and everything that has got them to this point. Which is really a profoundly depressing thought.

By the extremity of the PlayStation 4 era, Sony was astatine the implicit apical of their game. Even with the Switch doing good they’d dominated the procreation similar nary clip since the PlayStation 2 and had their implicit champion line-up of exclusive games.

And then, well… you don’t request maine to spell implicit everything Sony has, oregon alternatively hasn’t, done implicit the past mates of years. The happening that gets maine is that it each seems for nary reason, similar a title runner that feels they’re truthful acold up of the battalion they tin conscionable spend to rotation disconnected and stroll astir for a spot alternatively than get the champion clip possible.

I would notation the tortoise and the hare, but I don’t consciousness Xbox are adjacent successful this race. I fishy Sony don’t either, which is possibly wherefore they’ve got truthful complacent and arrogant. You’d deliberation there’d beryllium idiosyncratic successful complaint trying to marque definite that doesn’t happen, but for these past 2 years it’s not truly seemed arsenic if determination is anyone calling the shots – surely not anyone that ever talks to the public.

I conscionable can’t deliberation of immoderate clip successful PlayStation’s 30 twelvemonth past wherever they’ve been successful a worse position. The archetypal fewer years of the PlayStation 3 is the lone different contender but astatine slightest past determination was hope. Sony admitted their faults and they made wide their plans to crook things astir (and they did, it inactive outsold the Xbox 360 successful the end).

But this time? Sony hasn’t said thing astir anything. They haven’t explained what they’re trying to bash oregon if their plans person changed oregon if they adjacent deliberation thing has gone incorrect recently. They accidental and bash nothing, similar the skipper of the Titanic, and I’m acrophobic the vessel is precise rapidly sinking connected its day year.

To beryllium just they don’t look to person done overmuch to beforehand the 30th, conscionable those grey consoles and immoderate pointless nick-nacks, and I ideate that’s due to the fact that Sony is actively embarrassed astatine the authorities it’s successful astatine the moment. And if it isn’t it perfectly should be.

I spot we’ve got rumours of different State of Play coming up this week, truthful erstwhile again each the fans are hoping and dreaming that this volition beryllium the large one. This volition beryllium the 1 wherever they crook things astir and commencement acting similar they did successful the PlayStation 4 epoch again, oregon adjacent conscionable similar they did for the archetypal fewer years of the PlayStation 5.

But however galore times person we hoped that this year? Three, 4 times? And it ne'er happens. Not lone does it ne'er hap but Sony ne'er gives immoderate denotation that they deliberation thing is incorrect oregon that they’re going to bash thing astir it. What a miserable birthday.

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