Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 11 hours agoRegardless 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
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.
It’s because the next Xbox is basically a PC and they’d rather turn away money than see PlayStation games on an Xbox.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 9 hours 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 9 hours ago
“This is just devaluing $50 bills!”
jackal@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Ghost of Yotei would’ve been a day one purchase for me and I am heartbroken.
Pissmidget@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 7 hours 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 6 hours 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.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m not saying it’s just flipping a switch, but it’s also not the monster that people make it out to be. Porting a game to a console is usually a lot harder, but the vast majority of things should work on a PC already as they were probably developed and tested on a PC.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
And the sales were sometimes a tiny chunk of what Playstation sold.