His full story is forthcoming, but I don’t know how that squares with incoming PC ports for Death Stranding 2 and the sequel to Kena. Maybe because they’re only Sony published? Exclusivity of a handful of games that I may or may not be interested in still isn’t going to make me want a PS5, personally.
Refusing to release titles to the PC isn’t going to make me run out and purchase a console. There are tons of games on PC. My backlog is long enough that I can live happily without whatever kind of bullshit Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox are trying to peddle. Assuming I did care about a specific title, and it’s being gate locked by console exclusivity, I’ll fucking pirate it. Sony, Microslop, and Nintendo can all get fucked.
I also kind of think that the strongest argument for console gaming is competitive multiplayer, not single player.
The fact that the consoles are closed and locked down inherently provides resistance to cheating and such, where the open PC world tries to (poorly) replicate a closed environment via kernel anti-cheat stuff. The console world having (well, more-or-less) one option when it comes to hardware means that everyone playing against each other has a fairly-level playing field — same input hardware, and people don’t get an edge from having fancier rendering hardware.
For single-player gaming, those console strengths become weaknesses — for single-player games, it’s preferable for the player to be able to do things like freely mod games, upgrade hardware to get fancier graphics, provide a lot of options as to what input stuff to use, etc. It doesn’t hurt anyone else for me to have the game running however I want, so I should be able to do so. On the PC, a player gets to enjoy all that.
If I were a console vendor and I were worried about the PC as a competing platform, I’d think that I’d try to emphasize my competitive multiplayer games, not single-player games.
If I were a console vendor and I were worried about the PC as a competing platform, I’d think that I’d try to emphasize my competitive multiplayer games, not single-player games.
Step one: Don’t charge extra for online play.
I wonder how much of this is related to the posturing from the new lead of Xbox about returning to exclusivity over there.
We were so close to one of the dumbest things in gaming for decades finally going away.
(Also, nothing Sony does from here on out will surprise me in its stupidity after they shuttered Bluepoint.)
They’re going to learn that the days when publishers could strongarm gamers are over. There are too many games on too many alternatives, so it’s too easy for gamers, faced with unnecessary hoops through which they’re required to jump, to just say, “Well fuck that then - I’ll play something else.”
I’m already at the point I don’t really need to buy anymore games, and my library isn’t even that old or impressive. Add emulation and it’s even harder to justify purchases.
Sony turned so anti-consumer due to their PS4 dominance that even with a fairly modest digital library of games I still bailed to PC when the PS5 came around.
Sony has always been pretty anti consumer. I’m addition to the root kit thing, they have a history of pushing their own propietary crap as open standards. Sometimes successfully (blu ray) and sometimes not (memory stick). They also removed the “other OS” (Linux) option from the PS3 midway through the console’s life cycle.
I’m sure there’s more examples, but they’ve been a bottom tier brand for a long time due to this for me.
Sony turned so anti-consumer due to their PS4 dominance…
no, that’s just Sony.
anyone remember that time Sony installed rootkits on PCs that played their music CDs?
I’ve owned exactly 0 playstations. The last new(ish) system I had was an N64. Could afford a laptop that could play games but also do schoolwork or have a console, so stuck with computers ever since.
The only time I’ve played Sony based games is when they’re on PC. So… guess Sony is losing my money. I know it’s not much, but interesting to get rid of the small revenue stream in hopes to get people back on console but I guess I don’t understand how fishing for whales is the winning task.
Their loss. Stupid move.
Welp, looks like I’ll need to get myself a PS5 then.
Said no cunt ever
GTA6 is likely going to be the only reason I’d get one, because the rest of the exclusives have been pretty lacklustre.
GTA6 is just a timed exclusive, but also remember that Rockstar are union busting assholes.
I like playing Sony games on PC from time to time but it they don’t release anything more on PC that is OK too, I have plenty of other stuff to play anyway.
