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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TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Hey Sony, I am never gonna buy a PlayStation, but I will buy anything almost anything from Kojima Productions at full price for PC.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Maybe if they lowered prices instead of raised them…
nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
My PS5 is just a Warframe box for the living room when I don’t feel like using my Deck, and I plan to essentially replace it with a Steam Machine down the road (sure I could just set up my own linux box there but the form factor is a huge motivator).
I think I use the thing for other games like once every few years. Death Stranding 2 is the only one I bought that comes to mind, Yotei was a gift. This isn’t going to encourage me to buy more of their games because this console is going in the closet soon enough.
cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i like your style, freak
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I don’t remember, but I think KJP is independent. They just signed a contract with Sony for money for DS/DS2. I don’t know, but I somewhat doubt they’d agree to total PS exclusivity. I think their games do pretty well on PC.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I won’t be buying a playstation, but I’ll definitely buy the next naughty dog game if I have a device that can run it.
rakzcs@piefed.social 1 month ago
Damn how much Death Stranding sucks. Both games a waste of time. The second one less, but still flawed in many ways.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“This is just devaluing $50 bills!”
jackal@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Ghost of Yotei would’ve been a day one purchase for me and I am heartbroken.
Pissmidget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
anton2492@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
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. :/
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s no way in hell those games don’t run on PC, you think every dev/artist/designer/etc has their own Playstation devkit for testing things? There was work needed, probably related to PSN and some other optional things that can be turned off for dev builds, but I guarantee you the games were running on PC before anyone even considered porting them.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They run on pc sure. On the spesific spects computers they use. They need things like support for different resolution. Work arounds for the controller only features. If you want to make things like mouse control feel good, it needs lot of fiddling. Optimizing for million different hardware possibilities, error handling, launching, settings, key bindings and propably million other things i cant think right now.
Its not just flicking a switch.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And the sales were sometimes a tiny chunk of what Playstation sold.
jackal@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s because the next Xbox is basically a PC and they’d rather turn away money than see PlayStation games on an Xbox.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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:
bloomberg.com/…/capcom-targets-smartphone-gamers
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t think their intent is to have you go buy a PS5, I think their bigger intent is preventing it on Xbox hardware.
I think Xbox’s claims that all PC games will be available on the new system is a big reason for them to not allow it on PC, they have been a firm “We don’t want this on Xbox”, and they can’t uphold that with Project Helix’s claims that it runs PC games.