There’s no hint of any other games for next year either (Spider-Man 2 is 2023) which is really worrying for a company that usually announces them years in advance.
Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7 are out next spring but to be honest both Microsoft’s games are bigger than them and Sony’s real trump card, God Of War, doesn’t have a date at all. But this Christmas it has none and Microsoft has Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite. Sony has done really well in the first year of the PlayStation 5, in terms of the number of quality first party games it’s released. Although even that hasn’t resulted in any new services yet. But PlayStation Now has been neglected ever since and Microsoft is now streets ahead in terms of both its streaming service and the server farms to power it – so far ahead that Sony itself has had to make an agreement to use their hardware.
This one is even dumber because Sony had the lead on streaming when they bought Gaikai back in 2012, and set-up PlayStation Now, well before Microsoft had anything similar. Even though sales of Xbox Series X/S are already well up on Xbox One, proving that Japan is perfectly open to Xbox as a brand. And now Sony is just throwing that away for absolutely no reason. Sony giving up on Japan is stupid for several reasons, not least the fact that having no foothold in Japan, in terms of audience or developers, is one of Microsoft’s major weaknesses.
