Sony has been on a downward spiral this generation, and it’s more than just following market trends, it’s arrogance and mismanagement🚀 ✅Abandoned community engagement and major industry events like E3, adopting a strictly cold and corporate tone. ✅Misguided pivot to live-service games led to billions in wasted capital (e.g., the Bungie buyout and Concord's massive failure), resulting in cancelled projects and the premature closure of newly acquired studios. ✅Innovation has stalled, with the company heavily relying on just a few core franchises and an endless cycle of remakes and remasters. ✅The costs for hardware and PS Plus subscriptions have increased significantly, despite a severe drop in the quality and volume of game output. ✅Executives are using skewed statistics by lumping microtransactions and DLCs in as actual digital game sales (per the leaked documents from their studios) to falsely portray physical media as a dead market. ✅Eliminating physical discs creates a price-controlled monopoly and completely locks out players in the 64% of regions globally that lack an official PlayStation Store. ✅Next generation isn’t looking promising at all, with a suspected price tag of around $1000, that’s x2 the price of PS5 at launch, just 6 years ago! ✅Take-Two CEO predicted streaming becoming much more mainstream in 3 years due to inflated console and software pricing ✅That means no ownership and total reliance of internet, accounts and networks all the time, and judging by Sony’s management and customer unfriendly policies, that is a recipe for disappointment and predatory practices The industry needs to: 👉Scale back inflated budgets and scope 👉Support physical media (no internet req.) 👉Listen to players 👉Innovate in single player games 👉Steer away from live service & MTX NO DISC 💿 NO BUY