Thanks for the reminder to turn off auto renew for PS Plus.
Man, I’m usually pretty platform agnostic and I usually buy every console, but I don’t have a PS5 yet and almost every choice Sony is making these days makes me just not want one at all. Between Jim Ryan peeing his pants about saying literally anything to defend reproductive rights, their absolute greed regarding getting subscription money from people by hook or by crook (this shit definitely leans “crook”) and just every business decision they’ve been making lately (paid next gen upgrades, the GT7 micro transaction debacle, PS1 games being PAL versions????) it’s frankly pretty embarrassing.
Look, I won’t mince words: On the whole, Sony’s first party/exclusive output doesn’t do anything for me. They shut down Japan Studio. Gran Turismo seems like a mess (I like driving games a lot). And most importantly: Yakuza games are no longer exclusive to Playstation, being simultaneously released on Xbox. Like A Dragon’s next gen version being exclusive to Series X at launch guaranteed I bought a Series X at launch.
Originally my stance was “I’ll get a PS5 eventually, maybe when PSVR2 is out.” Now it’s “I think I’m okay just not having one.”
I don’t say all of this to say Sony is doomed or whatever. Clearly they’re doing just fine. And frankly I don’t care to console war or anything. I’m frankly not the biggest fan of Xbox’s first party output either (I thought Halo Infinite was really boring. I do really love Forza Motorsport though)
But man: I have active disinterest in buying the Sony video game box or engaging with the PlayStation brand in literally any way. Their values and direction just do not line up at all with what I want out of games as a medium.