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It's not excessive at all, it's the only conscious way to cast a vote against losing control over the way your games are presented to you.

> Playstation has some of the most immersive single player experiences available today, on any platform.

Playstation is struggling hard, same as Xbox this generation. PS5 has like 3 exclusives, two of which are Fromsoftware RPGs you can emulate and the other one is probably some censored Senran Kagura rerelease (I genuinely forget what it is). Xbox doesn't fare much better, and both OEMs are scrambling to publish on PC after their own sales slump hard enough to justify laying off entire studios[0] or pulling games a week after release[1]. It's downright pathetic compared to the halcyon days of the PS3, and enough to make the PS4 and Xbox One years look at least... competitive. The two big console manufacturers are lame ducks doing their best to avoid each other, and fostering exactly the sort of lock-in they need to promote recurring service revenue and blatant advertising onto their users.

It's just a harsh fact of the gaming industry, right now. Everyone wants to be Nintendo, but nobody has the money to invest in their studios that they bought up during the last generation. Now we get Concord and Starfield as next-gen consolation prizes, lucky us. If the trend of studio layoffs continues, the AAA games industry is going to go anemic.

[0] https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/06/xbox-explains-why-it...

[1] https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/09/concord-shutting-down-sony-...