Sony reportedly scaling back PC ports for PlayStation exclusives

yotei was the only one i was kinda wanting to play, but after actually seeing it, i think im good

quote:

---

Sources "familiar with the company's plans" told Bloomberg that PS5 games have not sold well on the platform.

---

Utter bullshite.

quote:

---

They also said PC ports "risk damaging the console's brand and could hurt sales of the PS5 and its successors."

---

That's the actual issue. Though the reality is that ship has sailed. Consoles are too expensive for non-console people to justify buying them for a small handful of exclusive games over the course of the console's life cycle. People who want to buy a PS are going to buy one; those of us on PC who were willing to overpay for old games are just going to play the 99% of games that aren't PS exclusives instead.

quote:

---

yotei was the only one i was kinda wanting to play, but after actually seeing it, i think im good

---

i enjoyed it. definitely not good as the 1st game, but still a fun go.

Damn this sucks.

Just bought God of War for 20 bucks on PC. Already have both Horizon games in my backlog ready to go and I plan to buy Ragnorok.

Getting these single player games for cheap a year or so after they're out on PS has been awesome.

quote:

---

Most people need a computer; no one needs a gaming console.

---

Pc games sell a lot of games to people without gaming computers.

Games like GTA, Madden, NBA 2K sales are dominated by consoles.

Last report i can find it 14% of GTA V sales were PC.

quote:

---

Pc games sell a lot of games to people without gaming computers.

Games like GTA, Madden, NBA 2K sales are dominated by consoles.

Last report i can find it 14% of GTA V sales were PC.

---

While I'm not contesting what you're saying, I'm not sure how it's responsive to what I said. Most people need a computer; no one needs a gaming console. As both PCs and consoles continue to get more expensive, I'll be curious to see what percentage of people will either forgo a PC to buy a console or continue to buy both. I don't know that's going to play out in Sony's favor.

quote:

---

I think that I'll continue to buy consoles and play what I can still play on my PC until I'm forced to upgrade.

There aren't a ton of games you need a powerful computer for that aren't on console and I don't see that changing.

If you wanna run ultra graphics you gotta spend a ton so that market would shrink first if I have to guess

---

But that was my point. I'm currently typing this on my travel/work laptop, which is a Surfacebook with a Snapdragon processor and no dedicated GPU. It's a lovely productivity machine, but from a gaming perspective, it's a piece of shite. Yet, it can play probably 85% of all PC games ever released, and 95% of every game released outside of the last half decade or so.

With that said, as I alluded to in my first post, you basically have three groups of people:

1. People who will buy a Playstation regardless.
2. People who will not buy a Playstation regardless.
3. People who wouldn't buy a Playstation if they could otherwise play PS games on their PC, but who will buy a Playstation if they can't.

I think Group 3 is vanishingly fricking small, especially with continued console price increases. Sony apparently thinks Group 3 is large, or at least large enough to offset the money they are passing on by not releasing PS games on PC. We'll see who's right.

quote:

---

I think this has more to do with that Xbox will play PC games thread. Maybe they won't let the exclusives hit Xbox/Pc.

---

Almost certainly. They wanted to put this news out before XBox announced their next system will play PC games.

Don’t say that to the PlayStation cult lol

quote:

---

Means nothing in the grand scheme of things. There hasn’t been a Sony Exclusive game worth a damn that’s come out in the last 5 years.

---

Accurate.