I think the next naughty dog game will be on playstation. I'll be sorry to miss it, but not enough to buy the console.
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Sony doesn't even release that many games anymore. Games take half a decade plus to make and I've lost interest in Sony's superhero movies with interactive elements
My console money is for the Steam Frame so nothing of value was lost. Most of their games can be watched through a let's play series anyway.
Love to see them come to steam (all platforms) instead
Hey Sony, I am never gonna buy a PlayStation, but I will buy anything almost anything from Kojima Productions at full price for PC.
Damn how much Death Stranding sucks. Both games a waste of time. The second one less, but still flawed in many ways.
Regardless this is a dumb decision. I guarantee they were raking in free cash from the ports. If this is a move to try to move more hardware, they're sorely mistaken if they think I'm just gonna go buy a PS5 or even the upcoming PS6 over this
They just aren’t making money from them like they used to. You can’t expect to port a game to PC 2 years after it releases, spend $0 on advertising and then say “mhmm, this pc thing isn’t working out, no one’s buying our games”. Check the Steam charts for their last few ports, they’re resembling a flat line. If they dropped the game on PC day 1 they would’ve made more money on PC sales, which is a terrible precedent for them, as it means that the age of the console has come to an end. Luckily, some of Sony’s biggest partners already realized that:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-09-25/capcom-targets-smartphone-gamers
It wasn't free cash, since the ports cost money to make ... but they are throwing money away, especially with all the money down the hole on Ghost of Yōtei.
It's like having a machine where you put a $5 bill in and a $50 bill comes out, but these chucklefucks are going "I dunno, five whole dollars? Seems expensive."
"This is just devaluing $50 bills!"
Ghost of Yotei would've been a day one purchase for me and I am heartbroken.
Same. I've finished Ghost of Tsushima and fell in love with it - it broke my heart to know that I'll never get to play Yōtei on PC.
I was even desperate enough to consider buying the fucking PS5 for it, but realised that this predatory tactic is exactly what Sony is counting on, and I refuse to let those scummy anti-consumer strategies take advantage of me and my love for the franchise.
I'm sorry, Sucker Punch; maybe another time. :/
Same. I will not, however, be buying a console for it.
I got my pc for gaming, it even lets me tweak accessibility through various controller types, trainers (for single player games), and input mapping when my hand is acting up, allowing me to enjoy games when I would otherwise be unable to.
Shame, I would have loved to play it.
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Maybe if they lowered prices instead of raised them..
Well, I definitely wasn't going to buy a PlayStation 5 when it was $500, but now that they've stopped putting out versions of their games on PC that run better than PlayStation versions, and now that the console costs $650, I'm definitely enticed to buy one!
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I'm never going to buy a PlayStation outside of maybe a yard sale second hand situation. Nor will I ever pay a subscription fee. So if they don't want my money, fuck 'em.
If I can't buy the games on PC I'm not gonna buy them at all. The PS5's controller is cool I guess, except the only game using it correctly are Astro's Playroom and Astro Bot... (which gives me flashbacks to Nintendo Land all over again)
using it correctly
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, as I think a lot of games use it well. I do wish more games would though. The adaptive triggers are so fucking cool.
Can you tell me which games so I can try them ? ☺️
The controller is also D-Input and frankly - ruck that.
Xinput has existed as the standard since 2005.
I used to like their controllers but fuck that, I ain't buying a set that only works on 1 console.
It works pretty well on Linux for me, but I'm really waiting for the Steam Controller because that trackpad is just kinda trash compared to what Valve makes x) also I need more back buttons, the DualSense Edge has only two and the placement isn't great
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So, not defending them because it's still a stupid choice, but their reasons were not because PC bad, but because Xbox announced their "Play PC games on the next Xbox". Meaning Microsoft's next console could play PS games now (if they bought the PC version). Sony doesn't want their rival console to play their games, so they revoked it.
I still think it's stupid, exclusives are stupid, but that's the actual reason before many more people claim that sony hates PC players. (I mean they do, but not for the reason you think)
I think there were rumors even before the Xbox announcement. People speculated it might be because of the Steam Machine, which could be considered a console.
But yeah, I feel that Xbox cemented the decision.
Except do we actually know how the Xbox/PC thing will work? Are we sure it will be able to run all games and isn't just their plan to push game streaming?
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If that would be the case then they could have tried something funny like having their games running only on Linux.
Of course power users would be able to get it running on Windows, but that would likely discourage Xbox folks.
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Sony was always the "exclusives" company. For the PS5 I believe they outsold the Xbox equivalent all most 2:1 but I think that is because more and more people have gaming PCs. I still can't believe PS5 sold something like 90 million! I think Sony is fighting a losing battle now steam is pushing for agnostic hardware and I only see Sony continuing this business model with exclusives that will never come to PC. Right now they are doing the math to determine what it would take to get the average person to buy a new PlayStation vs how much they made from Sony pc sales. It's going to get harder every year with less developers going totally exclusive and the component cost increased. I'm guessing they will use the same model for ps6. Sell the consoles based on excluses then wait a few years once the console sales dip and move them over to PC. Steam machine is a real wildcard here.
Makes a lot of sense they'd do this in preparation for the PS6. Hopefully it's just temporary.
Honestly I don't know if it was a financially sensible move releasing exclusives to PC, but it was great for gamers while it lasted. Maybe they could go linux only in future to really take a stab at Microsoft. Ha.
Sony was always the "exclusives" company Cough cough nintendo cough cough
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Yeah, I really hope these are just the death throes of a slowly crumbling market segment (walled garden consoles).
Not only has the Steam Deck already blown a small crack into the almost entirely propietary handheld market, so much so that there's now even a (niche) market with a bunch of different devices competing, but I also wonder what happens once the Steam Machine and whatever is happening with the next Xbox.
I'd usually be the last to root for Microsoft, but if their next device is really something more akin to a PC, then I wish them the best. That said, anything shipping with Linux, e.g. Steam Machines would still be my preferred choice of course.
When you can't compete, you restrict.
Surely this won't backfire. I'm happy I never bought a ps5 and now I know I won't buy a ps6 out of principle.
The only PlayStation Studios games I've been interested in are the Spider-Man games.
I have coworkers discussing exclusives in tones where they're clearly trying to make me jealous, and I'm just fine with my games
I tell them they paid $800 to play a couple of games and that is crazy to me.
Also that argument isn't really as great as it was in the PS3 or PS2 era where a lot of games either didn't come out on PC, had weird versions, or ran like shit for no reason. Plus I can play a game released in 1996 one minute and then switch to a game released in 2026 since PC is basically universally backwards compatible.
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I haven't played my PS5 in many months, and have no motivation to get a PS6 for $1000 or whatever they end up on. It's sad to see Sony games go, because I have and absolutely would continue to get them on PC, but there's literally no chance of me buying another one of their consoles.
Its a bad time to cut diversification when people will not be buying the new things like they used to because they cant afford them. I wish Sony the worst of luck.
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