And here comes a spate of middling remasters and kind-of-neat-looking third-party games to tide us over!

And given that, this all just feels very weird.

And the timing is rather odd.

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There’s a fairly obvious explanation for that oddness, mind.

And, of course,Concord.

One other factor here bears mentioning: Xbox.

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Companies tend to make more unforced errors when they can get away with it.

And player spend is through the roof, driven by engagement-farming live-service games - those again!

And all the while, a strange kind of disconnect.

Screenshot showing Days Gone protagonist Deacon St. John riding his bike along a foggy tree-lined highway while a mountain looms in the background.

Whether that matters for Sony is another question.

At a time when Xbox has left the full console exclusive behind, PlayStation has never needed them less.

And yet, the eeriness of that once-full void lingers.