Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC
nick_ocb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sony’s PC pivot reversal is a bold bet. They’ve spent years building PC goodwill—abandoning it suggests they’re seeing data we don’t.
Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC
nick_ocb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sony’s PC pivot reversal is a bold bet. They’ve spent years building PC goodwill—abandoning it suggests they’re seeing data we don’t.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
From one of the other articles about this I read, they are seeing the same data but interpreting dumbly. They aren’t seeing the kind of explosive sales they want during the period the games are locked to the Playstation and it doesn’t pick up after they release it to other platforms because the hype train has halted by then.
Why they think just dropping other platforms will help more than simultaneously releasing them everywhere is pretty silly when that is their reasoning.
Ashtear@piefed.social 1 day ago
When almost half of their income comes from MTX and other services purchases, their first-party games were never, ever going to be simultaneous releases. Sony wants as many users platformed in their ecosystem as possible, and exclusivity is one of the ways you do that. This was a pretty simple ROI calculation, and when you’re already losing Steam’s cut, it would take solid performance to be worthwhile.
The above comment mentions goodwill, and that’s another thing; Sony burnt up the goodwill they earned with PC users (and probably then some) with the PSN nonsense for these ports. It’s like how Nvidia continually gets bad press for their gaming GPU division, at some point you gotta look at how it’s affecting your overall brand.