Except do we actually know how the Xbox/PC thing will work? Are we sure it will be able to run all games and isn’t just their plan to push game streaming?
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 hours ago
So, not defending them because it’s still a stupid choice, but their reasons were not because PC bad, but because Xbox announced their “Play PC games on the next Xbox”. Meaning Microsoft’s next console could play PS games now (if they bought the PC version). Sony doesn’t want their rival console to play their games, so they revoked it.
I still think it’s stupid, exclusives are stupid, but that’s the actual reason before many more people claim that sony hates PC players. (I mean they do, but not for the reason you think)
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 hours ago
Nothing concrete, but their stated goal is to play any pc game on it, similar to what steam did with the deck. That was enough to scare off sony
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, if anything, this is Valve’s fault. They upturned the playing field and proved a new path.
athatet@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Well if they hadn’t paved the roads then the bank robbers couldn’t have driven away so really it’s the road pavers fault.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
does it matter? shouldn’t be giving money to these companies anyways. they don’t deserve it and will just screw you over again and again
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
I think there must be other reasons. Death Stranding was released as PS exclusive but got an actual Xbox release some time after PC release. Also, Microsoft has also released many first party titles on PS5. Even the new Halo will be on PS5.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t think DS is first party? I might be wrong. It came to Macs and iPhones too.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This would make sense if they hadn’t increased the price of their hardware twice in one year. To me it just looks like they started behaving like a monopoly (because they can, as xbox is in the shitter)
garretble@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Had the dumbshit U.S. president not shit out a bunch of tariffs along with every AI company buying up future stock of computer parts, I really don’t think Sony would have increased the price of these consoles.
They know it’s a bad look to do so. Microsoft also had to raise prices on their consoles last year.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Neither the price increases or the fact that Microsoft is giving up on a pure console are Sony’s fault.
It’s still unfortunate that this is happening. PC is no longer neutral ground.