Impossible to predict, it depends if they feel this move will threaten their strategy. They will be looking to spend money on acquisitions and deals just like before but perhaps with more urgency now.
PS Now started before game pass and they've continued to do very little with it. If they wanted to compete with game pass they could have done it ages ago, its clear they don't want to.
I think Sony will stay with the same strategy but try to expand their exclusive lineup. For example, they have 10 PS studios games announced for PS5 but 4 of those are being developed by teams they don't own. I think they'll continue that strategy and expand it so even though they have half the employees of xbox studios, they can compete on number of games. On top of this they will invest even more in their own studios to shorten dev time while keeping the same level of quality. They'll stick with this strategy for at least a few years and if it works we won't see any change until next gen.
This generation, Sony published about 50 fairly big games including remasters. I think if they can increase that to over 70 this gen, that's over 10 per year which is a fantastic ouput. That number of games under the PS studios banner with the level of quality people expect, I think they'll be fine.
If we're talking new games from worldwide studios only (no remasters, including insomniac and games with big involvement like The Order), there was about 40 games this gen at an average of 5 per year. A lot of those weren't that big, but there was about 15 "big" games I would say. Again, an overall increase to 70 would be good but I think they need more than an average of 2 "big" games a year this gen, at least 3 I would say (20 for the gen) to not lose people to xbox.
PS Now started before game pass and they've continued to do very little with it. If they wanted to compete with game pass they could have done it ages ago, its clear they don't want to.
I think Sony will stay with the same strategy but try to expand their exclusive lineup. For example, they have 10 PS studios games announced for PS5 but 4 of those are being developed by teams they don't own. I think they'll continue that strategy and expand it so even though they have half the employees of xbox studios, they can compete on number of games. On top of this they will invest even more in their own studios to shorten dev time while keeping the same level of quality. They'll stick with this strategy for at least a few years and if it works we won't see any change until next gen.
This generation, Sony published about 50 fairly big games including remasters. I think if they can increase that to over 70 this gen, that's over 10 per year which is a fantastic ouput. That number of games under the PS studios banner with the level of quality people expect, I think they'll be fine.
If we're talking new games from worldwide studios only (no remasters, including insomniac and games with big involvement like The Order), there was about 40 games this gen at an average of 5 per year. A lot of those weren't that big, but there was about 15 "big" games I would say. Again, an overall increase to 70 would be good but I think they need more than an average of 2 "big" games a year this gen, at least 3 I would say (20 for the gen) to not lose people to xbox.