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I'm not sure what advantage the PS6 could really offer. Sony's output has slowed considerably, both because games take more time to make and because they've shelved or scrapped at least a few live service games. What even is the Playstation identity? In the PS1-PS3 era, it was a pretty good mix of genres. Even outside of the first-party stuff they were the console that had RPGs and stuff like Resident Evil. The last two generations saw them dump the quirky Japanese stuff and focus way more on making flagship Western games that are largely single-player and narrative-heavy. They somehow thought abandoning that and diving headfirst into offering a bunch of different live service games would be easy to do. Is that the direction they're going to continue to head? They're also slowly releasing their games on PC, so the factor of having exclusive games becomes less important.
As long as it's a more powerful box that ain't too expensive, I think they'll be fine. People locked into that ecosystem with games and friends trapped in the PS network who just want to keep playing Fortnite or the latest 2K game or Call of Duty will upgrade. If they stray from reasonable pricing, well who knows what might happen. All I know is they will keep making them, since it's the main moneymaker for Sony if I'm not mistaken. Way different from Microsoft, for which Xbox is kinda just a drop in the bucket profits-wise.
As long as it's a more powerful box that ain't too expensive, I think they'll be fine. People locked into that ecosystem with games and friends trapped in the PS network who just want to keep playing Fortnite or the latest 2K game or Call of Duty will upgrade. If they stray from reasonable pricing, well who knows what might happen. All I know is they will keep making them, since it's the main moneymaker for Sony if I'm not mistaken. Way different from Microsoft, for which Xbox is kinda just a drop in the bucket profits-wise.
