If I can’t buy the games on PC I’m not gonna buy them at all. The PS5’s controller is cool I guess, except the only game using it correctly are Astro’s Playroom and Astro Bot… (which gives me flashbacks to Nintendo Land all over again)
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites
Submitted 8 hours ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://gameobserver.com/playstation-studios-removes-nearly-all-pc-references-from-websites/
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arcine@jlai.lu 2 hours ago
flux@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Sony was always the “exclusives” company. For the PS5 I believe they outsold the Xbox equivalent all most 2:1 but I think that is because more and more people have gaming PCs. I still can’t believe PS5 sold something like 90 million! I think Sony is fighting a losing battle now steam is pushing for agnostic hardware and I only see Sony continuing this business model with exclusives that will never come to PC. Right now they are doing the math to determine what it would take to get the average person to buy a new PlayStation vs how much they made from Sony pc sales. It’s going to get harder every year with less developers going totally exclusive and the component cost increased. I’m guessing they will use the same model for ps6. Sell the consoles based on excluses then wait a few years once the console sales dip and move them over to PC. Steam machine is a real wildcard here.
SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Sony was always the “exclusives” company Cough cough nintendo cough cough
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 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)
absquatulate@lemmy.world 5 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 5 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 3 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.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
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?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 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
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 6 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 7 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 3 hours ago
I don’t think DS is first party? I might be wrong. It came to Macs and iPhones too.
Axle182@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The only PlayStation Studios games I’ve been interested in are the Spider-Man games.
I have coworkers discussing exclusives in tones where they’re clearly trying to make me jealous, and I’m just fine with my games
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Also that argument isn’t really as great as it was in the PS3 or PS2 era where a lot of games either didn’t come out on PC, had weird versions, or ran like shit for no reason. Plus I can play a game released in 1996 one minute and then switch to a game released in 2026 since PC is basically universally backwards compatible.
Damage@feddit.it 2 hours ago
Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone were quite good
krisevol@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I tell them they paid $800 to play a couple of games and that is crazy to me.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 8 hours ago
Yes, but see, it didn't make all of the money.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 hours ago
It was Xbox. Their “You can play anything on the next xbox” made Sony pissed, and that’s ultimately why they scaled it back.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“Next X-Box.”
Imagine changing your business plans to react to the gas escaping from a bloated corpse.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Ah. This actually makes some sense of this decision. It seemed weird they would pivot so hard backwards, but yeah.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
When you can’t compete, you restrict.
Switorik@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Surely this won’t backfire. I’m happy I never bought a ps5 and now I know I won’t buy a ps6 out of principle.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I haven’t played my PS5 in many months, and have no motivation to get a PS6 for $1000 or whatever they end up on. It’s sad to see Sony games go, because I have and absolutely would continue to get them on PC, but there’s literally no chance of me buying another one of their consoles.
rljkeimig@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Sucks, I was excited for the eventual release of Wolverine for PC in a few years, but now i will literally never play it, and that is okay.
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Its a bad time to cut diversification when people will not be buying the new things like they used to because they cant afford them. I wish Sony the worst of luck.
Onyxonblack@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Lol goodbye
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I skipped the switch 2 despite heavily using the switch 1 for many years, and i’m planning on skipping future iterations of playstations as well. PC has usurped consoles for me entirely.
Even couch gaming on linux is better than a console. I’m all set. The deck or it’s equivalents handles any handheld gaming I want to do and it’s trivial to stream locally if I don’t want to have a gaming computer near my tv.
Oh, and i’ve ditched microsoft controllers to. 3rd party quality is phenomenal nowadays and it’s not limited to any one brand. I have this flydigi and 8bitdo stuff that all feel amazing and are more reliable than microsoft’s own. It’s so nice not being dependent on overpriced garbage!
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Never gonna get bloodbourne on pc now.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Someone probably are very close to getting Bloodborne on PC, Sony just have to do everything to stop it from happening.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Personally I don’t really care for PlayStation games
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Please consider trying Death Stranding.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Both Death Stranding games are way better then they have any business being and I love em
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
nah, I’ll still to indie devs on PC and not pander to a failing company that makes aaaaaa slop
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours 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.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 8 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.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 hour 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.
jackal@feddit.uk 8 hours 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.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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!
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 8 hours 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 8 hours ago
i like your style, freak