Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.”

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “This is just devaluing $50 bills!”

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  • jackal@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ghost of Yotei would’ve been a day one purchase for me and I am heartbroken.

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    • Pissmidget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • anton2492@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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. :/

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And the sales were sometimes a tiny chunk of what Playstation sold.

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• jackal@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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