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Is Sony beginning to coast? With PS5 sales up and first-party releases down, gaming's eerie new normal takes shape
With competition falling away, Sony lines up another quiet year - while still racking up the console sales. Are we happy with the new normal?
But instead - instead of the usual, late-gen chatter about such-and-such blockbuster surely being a PS6 launch game, or so-and-so remasters being a final, Switch-style scrape of the HD remake barrel; instead of the predictable tentpole rhythms - we are smack bang in the middle of the PS5's prime. After a quiet-ish year in 2024, carried by the surprise hit of Helldivers 2 and the Concord-burying good will of Astro Bot, the hope was that 2025 - fuelled by Ghost of Yotei, Death Stranding 2 and the assumed untold, unannounced riches of Sony's many other studios - would bang. All this combines to make for an eerie kind of new status quo: Microsoft retreating to its familiar ground of software provider, Sony defaulting to the de facto platform-holder, and importantly, a continuous flow of subscription and microtransaction spend now fully the norm.
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