Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was pitched to Microsoft but they turned it down. Sony saw it and thought it could be great. They agreed to fund development without demanding ownership. The game turned out to be a critical hit and modest financial hit - it certainly made a profit.

I think Yakuza is a great game but I highly doubt its a system seller. I have seen it doing 1 or 2 million but not great sales. I dont think Microsoft is losing much and they bought 5 studios so next gen is going to be really really spicy... :)

as always I will buy 1 console which will be PS5 :)

Thank you, Sony and Sega on great franchise. Kiryu rules

5 people think Microsoft are the one's pushing the creative boundaries. Haha it's so funny I could vomit.

Yeah playstation have had there fair shared of rejects games as well.
Sony rejected Sunset overdrive and it eventually made its way into Xbox because of Ms.

There are also many reasons why Sony have been so liberal in taking in all these mostly single players games. They have failed to appeal to the multiplayer market in comparison to Ms who have franchises with industry leading multiplayer. To compensate for that failure they have bolstered their single player lineup to make their platform more appealing.

This is in no way a bad thing, 90% of the game I play are single player but I can see that Sony(a Japanese compan)y have trouble making games that appeal to a multiplayer audience so they grab every strong single player idea they can get.

And thanks to the hardcore fans who initiated and participated the petition to Sega to bring this Yakuza 5 to the west. Many gamers became aware and interested in this franchise after that.

Of course, also thanks to folks at Sony to convince Sega, finally after 5, i never have uneasiness feeling and questions whether the latest entry will be localized or not.

I'd assume because Yakuza 0 just got released on PC

Because of the latest success of the franchise with zero and Kiwami and with the new pc release, MS and Nintendo are once again interested in the series, but they rejected it back then.

"Yakuza continues to be a great series regardless of Sony's efforts to stifle the creative minds of the gaming industry."

There is about 100000 x more creative ingenuity in Sony's First party teams as opposed to publishers like EA, Microsoft and Activision. Try again later maybe.

I can't tell if he's trolling or being serious. Normally I can tell. . .

Microsoft kills the creative minds of the industry with their push for MP and GaaS, not Sony lmao.