A reader is annoyed that a few of the most critically acclaimed video games on PS4 and PS5 aren’t correctly marketed by Sony and lots of followers have by no means heard of them.
I used to be shocked to seek out that the State Of Play from the opposite week was pretty unpopular with loads of PlayStation followers. I solely realised afterwards that Sony solely actually introduced one new recreation, however since that was Saros, the non secular sequel to Returnal, I used to be very happy with the showcase. In reality, I used to be ecstatic, though they didn’t present any gameplay.
It later dawned on me that it wasn’t simply the dearth of gameplay that had put folks off, however the truth that the bulk didn’t even know what Returnal was. In my opinion – and I do know GC agree with this – it’s one of the best unique on PlayStation 5 and one of many very best video games of the final decade. But it wasn’t a really massive hit and Sony didn’t promote it very nicely.
It gained the BAFTA recreation of the yr, and 5 different awards, when it got here out and but I’m genuinely shocked Sony allowed Housemarque to make a follow-up (with a good weirder and harder to spell identify). Then I thought of it some extra and realised that they’re all the time like this with video games that aren’t one in all their massive franchises.
The apparent latest instance is Astro Bot, which we all know they don’t consider as an enormous franchise, as a result of the Sony boss stated there have been no main franchises sequels popping out final yr – as a result of apparently Astro Bot doesn’t depend. It gained nearly each recreation of the yr award going and but all that led to is a imprecise promise from Sony to make extra ‘household video games’.
And then in fact we’ve received Bloodborne, one of the best unique on the PlayStation 4 and one other contender for finest recreation of the twenty first century, and apparently Sony has forgotten they printed it. Not even a PlayStation 5 patch, even whereas each different recreation will get one and Bloodborne would’ve have particularly benefited from it, given its technical points.
Speaking of FromSoftware program, there was additionally Demon’s Souls, which Sony did such a nasty job of selling that From refused to allow them to publish Dark Souls. I’m not even impressed by the trouble they made with issues like LittleBigPlanet or Ape Escape, which they faux are traditional PlayStation franchises however which most traditional players have by no means heard of. And don’t get me began about Puppeteer!
Sony places out some incredible, better of one of the best, video games however they by no means actually appear to know promote most of them, in the event that they’re not simple story or motion video games. They gave Shadow Of The Colossus a remake, for instance, however I don’t really feel they marketed both the unique or the brand new model sufficient, to the purpose the place regular folks have by no means heard of them.
I do know my COD and FIFA enjoying cousin has heard of The Last Of Us and God Of War, even when I’m unsure if he’s actually performed them (he says he has), however scripting this I requested him about these different video games I’ve talked about and he didn’t know what any of them are. Well, he recognised Astro Bot however knew nothing in regards to the recreation or when it had come out.
I really feel Nintendo does loads higher job with this type of factor than Sony, pushing even comparatively minor video games in an effort to give them one of the best probability doable. Worse than that I all the time get the sensation that Sony’s advertising and marketing groups are faintly embarrassed by a few of their extra imaginative and strange video games. That would nearly be truthful sufficient, however this downside has been happening for many years at this level.
Sony has printed a few of the finest video games of the final a number of years and but none of them have been massive sellers and none of them are issues that they’ve actually tried to advertise. Maybe they only see them as status merchandise, solely made to earn awards, however they are often a lot extra. These are a few of the finest video games ever made and but they’re utterly flying underneath lots of people’s radar.
By reader Lofty
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