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I am actually quite surprised to discover just how negative much of the response to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been. Though quite exhausted by Battle Passes and live-service colored loot chasing myself, I still find the core game mechanics to look rather enjoyable. If anything, watching that gameplay has me wishing Nintendo would dare become more ambitious with the Splatoon franchise’s single-player prospects. The game is already focused on unconventional navigation through an environment, yet every single “level” is nothing more than a gray box obstacle course designed to be a digestible, five-minute arena. Perhaps it’s a carry-over of their handheld design philosophy, where such five-minute chunks were advantageous to the player that might have to shut off the device at any time.

In the end, however, I cannot say I am surprised, and I do wonder if the crowd’s turn against Sony will truly begin to shift over time. Forspoken was received rather poorly and now their center-piece of Suicide Squad is overshadowing anything positive. As stated on the podcast, I know that they have Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in the chamber for later this year, but I also know they have about seven or eight live-service titles in the works. They’ve said as much themselves. Given EA’s shift to fewer live-service titles, Ubisoft’s current catastrophe of canceled games (the majority of which were live-service), and now this response to Suicide Squad, you have to wonder if anyone in Sony is panicking.

Personally, I do not have much confidence in their current leadership, unless that confidence is in their conceit. Their response to the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard certainly has them frazzled, but I think it’s a distraction from the real inevitable cause of their downfall: hubris and a disconnect from their audience. I also believe they have a vision of what they want to be a success, and ignore any sign that they might need to change their thinking.

How long will Sony’s downfall take, and will they have the wisdom to course correct before they make a truly great mistake? Or, perhaps, am I caught up in my own wishful thinking?

What are your thoughts? Comment below or send us an e-mail and maybe we’ll read some of them on next year’s predictions show.

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