Sony Doesn’t Care About Your Hype

<p>The sentence above isn&&num;8217&semi;t to demean or tear down anyone or even Sony for that matter&period; Its just an opinion based on the details I&&num;8217&semi;ve noticed leading to this new console generation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-155658 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;24114652&sol;PS5&lowbar;AMD-Radeon-Navi&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sony Conference" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Sony&&num;8217&semi;s Current State<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Sony is a company that has a lot of trust from its fans mainly due to the fantastic products and services it provides as a whole&period; It listens to it&&num;8217&semi;s fans and most importantly&comma; it focuses on what truly matters to gamers&comma; the games&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;seven-franchises-that-sony-needs-to-bring-to-the-ps4&sol;">Sony<&sol;a> has notoriously provided fans with a unique and excellent level of quality of video games&comma; exclusive to their platforms and theirs alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is unparalleled how its consoles and games especially&comma; have shaped this console generation and the ones before it&period; A proof of this would be the number of game copies and consoles its sold right from the PS1 era&period; And not for nothing either&comma; Sony knows what the gamer wants and provides it to them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;goliath&period;com&sol;gaming&sol;playstation-the-10-worst-decisions-sony-has-ever-made&sol;&quest;&lowbar;&lowbar;cf&lowbar;chl&lowbar;captcha&lowbar;tk&lowbar;&lowbar;&equals;f3d814dfe6c3a63e9119071e4dc4c133e4de3e45-1585117975-0-AcqejePd14Rq1rYtDaEhKEfc8C7sw6mon2C&lowbar;GvwOMZcbFmPPVjwSBsj-tBZ2eSAKgSzjGBYGJqBcqF9SFDthSRbnAOicoqUoA6R&lowbar;nbZkLJ-c4GhHkCYIxhe2TEPl3NEd2HNczLloLZ1FO1W0yc83JB&lowbar;3wbCCBcuA-5S45M5aSX3HXEljJEcNk6prAwHw4qQjcSLovYrLpP3HcQb5um06nuUpeY7GaOGVTZefyo1uqToTMTJlyceDJI0MGmjh-KFXGeSBiFsAX4ox6RdrEKPprW15BY9tuuVGY0IV5WQ0tZJJn9jtym-zQbbB5yrVGaPD9-BuH6ZVIIK4mbj3i-weg09iFl1ZooyU70CkDKBokVsm2f5lcIInLPR-9ivYvrPFJmMJLQfpX-NDjISIVSWWeF9jIAlH-u1EuUKD8VRtpI3n" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Sony has made some bad decisions<&sol;a>&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s also made some good ones&period; One of which is how it frequently picks a fan-favorite game or franchise and allows the developers who show passion for the games&comma; do their own thing by not pressuring them with sales targets or forcing them to make a &&num;8220&semi;games as a service&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An example of this is <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;marvels-spider-man&sol;">Spider-man on the PS4<&sol;a>&period; This was a result of Sony giving them the resources needed to do the job well&comma; without limiting their creativity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-155659 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;24114710&sol;ps5vsxbox&period;jpg" alt&equals;"PS5 VS Xbox Series X" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Sony May Be Overconfident<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>My point in all of this stands from the fact that after four console generations&comma; Sony might be feeling pretty confident&period; This could be why until quite recently&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve barely seen or heard about any of the core details of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sony-reveals-ps5-logo-and-other-hardware-features&sol;">PS5<&sol;a>&comma; something<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;xbox-game-pass-ultimate-holders-receive-free-dlc-new-games-announced-for-game-pass&sol;"> Microsoft<&sol;a> has been way ahead on for their product&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even now&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve yet to see the design&comma; price&comma; exact release date&comma; and games that will be available on the console at launch&period; Granted&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve finally been given the specs&comma; and performance the PS5 will be capable of&semi; it is a beast in its own right&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Albeit not as powerful as the Xbox Series X&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s not what really matters&period; What does matter&comma; is the games&period; A part which Sony excels at&period; Yet&comma; fans who have been expecting some fuel for their hype have been left high and dry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Again&comma; Sony probably doesn&&num;8217&semi;t care about your Hype&period; It has a schedule&comma; and it intends to stick with it&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s probably why when the time for the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gdconf&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">GDC 2020<&sol;a> came around&comma; Sony was prepared to address the developers&period; When that was canceled&comma; it spun it around as an underwhelming makeshift reveal&comma; yet only showed what it intended to in the first place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"ph8LyNIT9sg" title&equals;"The Road to PS5"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;ph8LyNIT9sg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;ph8LyNIT9sg&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"The Road to PS5"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Or Just Unprepared&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Some would argue that Sony might just be unprepared&comma; that it might not have enough to show us yet&period; But&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t believe that&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;streetdirectory&period;com&sol;travel&lowbar;guide&sol;103306&sol;gaming&sol;the&lowbar;keys&lowbar;to&lowbar;sony&lowbar;playstation&lowbar;1&lowbar;and&lowbar;2&lowbar;success&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Sony is known for having a trick or two up its sleeve<&sol;a>&period; Even if it isn&&num;8217&semi;t ready to reveal the console&comma; it sure as hell has the games and can easily showcase the capabilities of the PS5&comma; especially with the exclusive titles under its belt&period; This can easily be enough to create the hype some fans are so desperately seeking&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We might also be able to argue that due to the current state the world is in as a result of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;despite-coronavirus-outbreak-gaming-industrys-a-safe-haven&sol;">the COVID-19 outbreak<&sol;a>&comma; many things are currently being delayed&comma; including the production of some items&period; So&comma; this might have hindered Sony&&num;8217&semi;s plans a bit&comma; but isn&&num;8217&semi;t letting us know&period; While this may very well be true&comma; I feel like Sony at the very least&comma; owe it to us to be transparent on these things&period; This is precisely the underlying issue&comma; the lack of transparency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An example would be how unclear Sony was on the true nature of the recent PS5 Livestream&comma; as it was not what most gamers expected&period; Some would&&num;8217&semi;ve appreciated knowing this as well as being given a time frame expecting when the more juicer details would be revealed&period; Alas&comma; we weren&&num;8217&semi;t given that either&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-150816 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;01&sol;07103449&sol;ps5-logo&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Sony Conference" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">It Might Just Be Part Of The Plan<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Or perhaps Sony intends to build up more expectations leading up to a climactic reveal&quest; Maybe it&&num;8217&semi;s all a strategic play on its part and we&&num;8217&semi;ll finally be given all the information we thirst for&period; It might be some wishful thinking&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s all fans have at the moment&period; However&comma; what I&&num;8217&semi;m worried about the most is if Sony is making the wrong decision in this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If Sony is actively deciding to withhold information&comma; then it&&num;8217&semi;s giving itself quite a disadvantage&period; Microsoft is currently way ahead of Sony when it comes to marketing its product and buying into the fan&&num;8217&semi;s hype&period; Microsoft is also ahead when it comes to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;t3&period;com&sol;news&sol;ps5-graphics-beaten-by-xbox-series-x-in-shocking-left-field-analysis" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">specs and performance of the Series X<&sol;a>&comma; though this has been the norm for quite some time now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All the while&comma; Sony has yet to show us the one thing that it&&num;8217&semi;s known for&comma; the games&period; I hope this won&&num;8217&semi;t turn out to be a mistake&period; When the time comes I know the PS5 will be great and so will the Xbox series X&period; Heck&comma; its already doing well&comma; and I intend to buy both consoles to see the differences for myself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-155660 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;24115102&sol;ps5vxbox&period;jpg" alt&equals;"PS5 VS Xbox Series X specs" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Conclusion<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; this is just an opinion I&&num;8217&semi;d like to share based on the facts we know so far&period; Sony has been too silent leading up to the PS5 release&period; Whether its confident or just unprepared&comma; fans at the very least&comma; deserve a level of transparency and openness&period; I have no doubt Sony will release more details in time&comma; I just hope the wait will be worth it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think about all this&quest; Do you support Sony&&num;8217&semi;s current methods or oppose it&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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