I think it’s great that Sony is going back to make more family friendly games, instead of just endless grimdark, and I hope they do not just try the Rare approach, of making exactly the same games as Nintendo but with better graphics – that’s such a waste.
It’s now been longer since the release of NieR:Automata than the gap between the original NieR and Automata and that is just straight up crazy, considering NieR was a flop and Automata was a surprise hit that sold over 9 million copies.
All the 3D Mario games sell far more than Sony’s games and the only one that Astro Bot is better than is Super Mario Sunshine.
On the one hand we’ve got Miyazaki saying ‘FromSoftware and myself together want to aggressively make new things in the future… I believe that FromSoftware has to create new things.’ and on the other – err… do we have anything?
I’ve never really thought about it before, but it seems that rather than getting in at ground level, and using their money and experience, they just sat back and did the bare minimum, as if they expected games to be a fad – which I guess they probably thought it was after the American crash in the 80s.
