Fairgame$ Has Been Canceled, Too, According to Michael Pachter, Who Says Sony Has ‘Lost Its Way’

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• 332@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Truly shocking that the all-in pivot to GAS would end up spectacularly failing, surely no one saw this coming.

  At least Jim Ryan is gone now.

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• simple@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  According to pushsquare, the rumours are false. It's not canceled: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/08/dont-believe-the-speculation-about-ps5s-fairgames-getting-cancelled

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  • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Classic Michael Pachter. That dude is wrong all the fucking time, yet people keep pushing his garbage.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      ‘Lies’ is more accurate to say than ‘wrong’

      He’s an investor, he’s pushing positions hoping his investments and/or shorts pay out.

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• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Saddest Sony generation with a weak exclusive line up due pivoting towards failed gaas instead of single player exclusives. PS4 backwards compatibility ended up being the most noteworthy thing about the PS5.

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  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Exclusives are cancer to gamers, and lock people into ecosystems. All games should be available on all appropriate platforms, for greater consumer choice.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I would say it’s no coincidence we’ve seen a drought of good singleplayer games around the same time as a drought of console exclusives.

      Technology-wise, there’s no “reason” to buy any particular console. They’re all PCs. So, console makers have to invent that reason; and little things like a screenshot button, or family features, don’t pull people into the store. Exclusive games do.

      And one key thing is, those exclusive games can’t be F2P microtransactions-laden casinos or live-service games. No one is spending $500 just to play something free; they’ll try to install that on a device they have. The exclusives have to be full, complete, well-voice-acted, well-written masterpieces respected by the gaming public - making anyone without that console envious.

      But couldn’t devs just sell those games without making them exclusive? Perhaps not. Look at the credits for the latest God of War and you get a sense of how much they’re spending to make those types of games.

      Yes, the game alone is still profitable. But A) It’s paying for a dozen failures Sony has also put out - no-name experiments they greenlit, and B) It might not be as profitable as many other reliable industries investors could put their money into. Why not just buy an index fund?

      Thankfully, the equation works out better for indie studios; their games aren’t so massive as to need to account for millions in costs. So we’ll keep getting those. But big-budget singleplayer arrangements aren’t as likely when they’re not pushing some bigger product like a game console.

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    • newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I can live with timed exclusives if it leads to good games.

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Investor makes up garbage to advance his own investment position, again

  When are these people going to face the consequences they deserve?

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• Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Didn’t we already know this?

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