Når nye konsoller udkommer opstår der altid debat om hvor hurtigt, eller hvor langsomt, en given platformindehaver skal bevæge sig over til udelukkende at producere spil til den nyeste hardware. På den ene side er det god stil overfor spillere på de nu forældede konsoller, og de udgør også et stort og købestærkt publikum. På den anden side er der den her teori om, at spillene ikke kan drage fuld fordel af den nye platforms features, hvis ikke det er eksklusivt til netop den platform.
Så hvad har Sony tænkt sig at gøre med PS4 og PS5? Spørger man analytiker Michael Pacter, jamen så kommer vi til at se PS4-titler fra Sony lidt endnu. I den nyeste udgave af podcastet Pachter Factor, så siger han at Sony vil udgive PS4-titler til og med 2023:
"They cannot really ignore the PS4 until they have enough PS5s to really cover enough units that they think they can make money on a game. You wanna sell about 3 million units just to break even, and if you don't have more than 7-8 million PS5s or 10 million PS5s out there, you just can't do it. There will always be exclusives early on in a console's cycle because they want people to buy the hardware. So it's chicken and egg, you know, you've gotta sell some eggs at a discount to get people to buy the chicken. That's really what goes on on the exclusives. But on bigger games, if they want to sell 20 million units, they've gotta make it on old and new consoles. Truthfully, I think they'll support the PS4 through 2023. Ten years. So I think you'll probably start to see more [PS5] exclusives in 2022, and probably all exclusives in 2023."
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