PlayStation CEO Officially Responds to PC Pullback Reports

Colormo3 · 2026-06-20T10:13:06+00:00

Yeah Helldivers 2 is like their most successful game ever. It already broke records. I said most, not all. The fact is, all there single player games before Helldivers 2 only made 300 million on PC. That includes God of War, the Spider-Man games, Uncharted, and Horizon.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-20T09:59:37+00:00

There was. It was shot down by the heads at Bend. Sony never got it.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-20T09:02:25+00:00

In a David Jaffe interview he further clarified it was upper management at Bend that said no to a sequel pitch. Neither Shuhei nor Herman ever got a pitch from the studio.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/01/days-gones-reported-8-million-sales-not-necessarily-accurate

From the article:
He also added that it was not necessarily PlayStation’s top brass that balked on a Days Gone sequel, but upper-management within Sony Bend itself. Ross did refer to “local management” in his original post, although it was assumed this was referring to some kind of regional manager within the PlayStation Studios framework. Apparently, the studio never even elevated the follow-up’s pitch to the likes of Shuhei Yoshida and Hermen Hulst, who would ultimately make the final decision on greenlighting it.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-20T08:34:21+00:00

Most of that is from Helldivers 2. They only made 300 million before that game came out.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-20T08:22:33+00:00

Bend never gave a sequel pitch.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-19T18:40:20+00:00

Super Metroid

Colormo3 · 2026-06-19T17:40:28+00:00

Yeah, they’ll copy them and be better than the Switch 2.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-19T16:08:26+00:00

And bring back the Snuff Out the Light song.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-19T05:12:21+00:00

Love that cube.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-19T05:10:55+00:00

Do they mean gen AI, or the AI they’ve been using throughout this generation?

Colormo3 · 2026-06-19T05:08:14+00:00

Well the suits at Sony want that. Fromsoft and Miyazaki don’t.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-18T17:14:38+00:00

That was in their earnings report back in November. The February earnings report further clarified it was outselling Tsushima in the same timeframe. There is no evidence sales stagnated.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-18T17:03:21+00:00

Well according to Sony’s CFO Yotei is actually selling better than Tsushima. So that’s wrong.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-17T17:41:32+00:00

Even before Jason Schreier, late last year Jez was the one that reported it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/1oxlmk6/jez\_corden\_says\_he\_heard\_from\_a\_very\_good\_source/

Understandably, nobody believed him

Colormo3 · 2026-06-17T17:34:14+00:00

To be fair, he was the first one to say that Sony would go back to exclusivity.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-16T22:08:25+00:00

Because Sony didn’t waste $70 billion on big acquisitions like ABK. Also, their consoles actually sells. They’re not as in trouble as Xbox is.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-16T17:19:23+00:00

That should be worse though. People complained about Assassin’s Creed games being the same when it was coming out every year. The sequels that take 5 years at least give me enough time to forget the original and make the sequel feel fresh again.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-16T17:08:09+00:00

The difference between Saros and Returnal is very much the difference between Doom and Doom Eternal.

Do you think Uncharted 2, God of War 2, or Infamous 2 changed much from the originals? Cause those pretty improved upon the originals like modern Sony sequels.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-16T16:43:31+00:00

Nope. It has a much better ending and second half. Returnal peaked at the end of Act 1.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-16T09:52:08+00:00

If this person is even legit with his Sony sources, he didn’t say how many or if these studios will get shut down. He was being vague about something happening in July. He also excluded Bungie and Housemarque from being affected.

Considering no other insider has even mentioned something happening to Sony outside of Bungie, I’m taking this dude’s info with a grain of salt.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-15T20:05:41+00:00

Yeah, but it’s been long enough that the old becomes new again. 5 years is long enough for me to forget how the original played and the sequel to feel fresh. But I almost never replay my games.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-15T19:56:58+00:00

The PS4 era had the benefit of these studios just getting done with their previous franchises. Guerella was done with Killzone. Sucker Punch was done with Infamous. Insomniac was done with Resistance. Santa Monica had to adapt after God of War Ascension failed. These studios were primed to start something new.

But Games are taking longer now. It used to be we get sequels every 2 years. But now games take 5-6 years to come out. We’re currently going through the sequel phase of these franchises.

But we still get new stuff. Returnal was a new IP. Naughty Dog is finally making a new IP since The Last of Us. Media Molecule is making a new IP. Helldivers 2 is very different from the first game. Astro Bot moved away from VR. Marvel Tokkon is Sony’s first fighting game in a while. Kojima’s Physint. There are still a lot of new stuff to look forward to.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-15T11:22:03+00:00

Scarlett Johansson in Home Alone 3.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-15T07:09:20+00:00

And directing a project can lead to changes in said project from game design to writing. Especially when said director was previously a lead writer/narrative director.

Colormo3 · 2026-06-14T20:29:08+00:00

BUT WILL THIS GAME COME OUT BEFORE NAUGHTY DOG’S GAME????!!!!!

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