![]() Team Asobi, originally an internal dev unit within, is now a standalone developer and separate from Japan Studio’s other facets, which Sony said was being brought in more centrally to the company. But its two biggest acquisitions came in the form of long-time partners for the PlayStation platform, Finnish studio Housemarque of Returnal and Resogun fame as well as the long-awaited inclusion of Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus developer and renown remaster studio Bluepoint Games.īut those five studios and integration into PlayStation Studios came months after Sony wound down development and effectively closed Japan Studio, whose work is engrained into PlayStation’s DNA with the Team Ico trilogy, Demon’s Souls – the original with From Software and remake with Bluepoint Games – Gravity Rush and Siren with Keiichiro Toyama and more. ![]() Sony also bolstered its PlayStation Studios lineup with the addition of five studios to its lineup, with the addition of Valkyrie Entertainment, Nixxes Software and Firesprite. ![]() And although it thankfully made things right in the end, may it hopefully be a lesson Sony has seriously taken to heart to make sure it doesn’t do again. While the concerns of 2020 in this area could arguably be put down to PS5 pre-launch jidders, let’s say, how Sony handled this at the time was not great. Sony thankfully reversed course a few days later and promised it would provide free upgrades for all versions of the game, although upgrades for future first-party games on PS4 and PS5 will cost £10. But a situation involving previously-promised plans for free upgrades from the PS4 to PS5 version of Horizon Forbidden West that suddenly was tied to more expensive versions of the game showed up even more inconsistency bordering even disingenuous. How Sony provided its messaging was something it needed to improve on for 2021. The addition of features like internal M2 SSD storage, storing your PS5 games on external hard drives (just don’t play games from them in order to take advantage of the console’s light speed loading times), cleared up significant confusion everyone had on PS4 or PS5 games on the system and more. Since its launch, Sony has added some significant additions on the OS side of PlayStation 5 through firmware updates. To name a key few games, Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart, Returnal and Deathloop have played up some of the controller’s features like the pressure-sensitive adaptive triggers and haptic feedback. But the games that have come out since launch that have taken advantage of the controller have done so in massive ways. When it came alongside the console, the DualSense controller already felt revolutionary in how to play a game that hadn’t been seen since arguably the Wiimote. ![]() Its design is still something I really like and, however you feel of it, definitely makes it stand out more than any other console. PlayStation 5’s first year dominated by big studio acquisitions and inconsistent messaging on PS4 > PS5 upgradesĪs mentioned in our report card on PlayStation last year, PlayStation 5 is a great piece of hardware despite being a bit less powerful than an Xbox Series X. That’s despite stuff on messaging that has gotten Sony in more trouble than it cares to admit over the past year. If nothing else, the games still stand out because the games are still Sony’s strong point that stands strong. And while its first-party studio lineup can’t be touted as stronger than Microsoft’s any more thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda, it is still a group of developers that are immensely talented, helped by the addition of several more over the course of this past year but also tainted with the loss of one of its legacy studios. There’s a reason why after a year it’s still immensely difficult to pick one up. You’d have to imagine it would with 13 million+ units sold since its launch as of October. It’s now been over a year since Sony put out PlayStation 5 into the world and it has done well. We’re starting off with Sony today with Microsoft and Nintendo dropping before the end of the week. ![]() Similar to what we did last year, we’re bringing back our series of report cards looking back on the platform holders and the year that has just ended and how they did. ![]()
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