Sony never learned that most PC gamers are not interested in consoles. It's going to hurt Sony in the long run by cutting the player base that is able to purchase their games.
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Hey Sony, I am never gonna buy a PlayStation, but I will buy anything almost anything from Kojima Productions at full price for PC.
Damn how much Death Stranding sucks. Both games a waste of time. The second one less, but still flawed in many ways.
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
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.
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."
"This is just devaluing $50 bills!"
Ghost of Yotei would've been a day one purchase for me and I am heartbroken.
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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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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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!
Maybe if they lowered prices instead of raised them..
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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)
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?
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
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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 monopolistic company (because they can, as xbox is in the shitter)
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.
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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)
using it correctly
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, as I think a lot of games use it well. I do wish more games would though. The adaptive triggers are so fucking cool.
Can you tell me which games so I can try them ? ☺️
The controller is also D-Input and frankly - ruck that.
Xinput has existed as the standard since 2005.
I used to like their controllers but fuck that, I ain't buying a set that only works on 1 console.
It works pretty well on Linux for me, but I'm really waiting for the Steam Controller because that trackpad is just kinda trash compared to what Valve makes x) also I need more back buttons, the DualSense Edge has only two and the placement isn't great
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I'm never going to buy a PlayStation outside of maybe a yard sale second hand situation. Nor will I ever pay a subscription fee. So if they don't want my money, fuck 'em.
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.
Sony was always the "exclusives" company
Cough cough nintendo cough cough
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Yes, but see, it didn't make all of the money.
It was Xbox. Their "You can play anything on the next xbox" made Sony pissed, and that's ultimately why they scaled it back.
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When you can't compete, you restrict.
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.
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.
Sony doesn't even release that many games anymore. Games take half a decade plus to make and I've lost interest in Sony's superhero movies with interactive elements
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.
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
I tell them they paid $800 to play a couple of games and that is crazy to me.
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Lol goodbye
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 and are cheaper with more features. It's so nice not being dependent on overpriced garbage!
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.
My console money is for the Steam Frame so nothing of value was lost. Most of their games can be watched through a let's play series anyway.
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