Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC

Nilz@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, Sony is baffled why the people willing to wait over 2 years for the game to come to PC are choosing to wait some more to get it cheaper instead of buying it at full price.

  Then scratch their heads when Helldivers 2 releases at the same time as the PS5 and PC outsells the PS5

  Helldivers 2 has sold 12 million copies on Steam alone, while PlayStation 5 sales are estimated at 5 million units.

  tech4gamers.com/helldivers-2-sold-more-on-pc-than…

  And Sony’s response is to continue to delay for years before releasing to PC expecting PC gamers to have the same enthusiasm for a release years later as they would a day 1 launch.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’ll see this again when Marvel Tokon comes out.

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  • darkkite@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They will continue to release multiplayer games on pc so it will be the “best of both worlds” for sony

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, if they already made me wait past GOTY podcast spoiler season, I’m far less willing to pay full price for it anymore.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And at least some of their flagship games were ported to PC by a developer that didn’t bother with optimization, leading to ridiculously high system requirements, so only a fraction of PC gamers would reasonably be able play them. (I’m looking at you, The Last of Us.)

  Combine that with high prices and years-late releases, and you’ve guaranteed yourself underwhelming sales.

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