You can click on my profile and see how long I've been on Lemmy, and the fact my name is definitely derived from "Andrew" but his is "Mat" would be odd. There are lots of ways to follow the game industry, and I suppose many of them do not involve coming across his name, but many of them very much do. His work is US-focused, so maybe if you're not from the US, it's less likely. That is all stuff you could have researched before you asserted that he did not have access to enough data to come to his conclusions or that he doesn't understand the economics of how game consoles make money. I promise you he does, to both.

The old model I was referring to was making a console, making exclusives to drive people to that console, and then making money on each game sold for that console, whether the console maker developed it or not. Sony would not have put any games on PC at all if that model had no holes in it. It isn't copying Xbox to put your first party games on other platforms; it's acknowledging the way the market has changed. Peak spending on console hardware was all the way back in 2009. This year might exceed that due to the supply of the Switch 2, or at the very least, this June was the most successful June since 09, but that's a downward trend line. When most games must and easily can release on all platforms, your reason to get a machine for a handful of exclusives drops precipitously, especially since Piscatella argues that most of those customers are spending their time on a handful of multiplatform games anyway.

What I thought the discussions would revolve around was how wild it is that an Xbox game could release on PlayStation and immediately become one of its best sellers for the year, because those PlayStation players clearly wanted that game but would not buy an Xbox for it. What it turned into was people saying that of course Nintendo would never do this for reasons that Piscatella very much understands why they haven't done it to date; what's interesting about this interview is what has changed in the market that would make it potentially worth it for Nintendo to port their exclusives.