Sony Will Reportedly Lessen the Number of Games It Brings to PC Moving Forward

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The golden age of Sony bringing its popular PlayStation Exclusives to PC may seemingly be coming to an end if the latest rumors are to be believed.

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I mean it makes sense with the steam cube basically being a console.
 
Grimlakin said:
I mean it makes sense with the steam cube basically being a console.
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more importantly future xbox also will effectively be a steam cube

will look bad if PlayStation games are played on a hardware branded as 'xbox'
 
MadMummy76 said:
So they basically told us don't buy a console if you have a PC, but then want to go back to the way things were? Sorry, there is no going back. That ship has sailed.
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Kinda depends really... if the RAM/GPU prices don't come back down, we won't have many future PCs that compare vs consoles...

Of course console price will be affected as well, but they can manage it a bit better, and subsidize hardware pricing if they really want to.
 
Subsidizing hardware just means they loose big on every player who only buys the console for the exclusives. Exactly the type who they exclude by not porting to PC.
 
They're just butt hurt over the amount of people that switched to PC for a better gaming experience and are anticipating sales of consoles by those that switched.

In my opinion that ship has sailed. Once people switched to PC they're not going back. Not for a couple games.
 
People will go back if the financial side works. If we go back to $300 consoles, especially in this economy they would get people switching back. I don't see that happening though. Sony raising the price of PS+ to $80 a year and no real discounts being offered in the first year of that change cost them many subscribers. The only people that stayed are the ones who need it for multiplayer.
 
I'm very curious to hear what their PS5/PS5 Pro sales will be like going forward since 6 isn't expected to arrive until 2027/2028 and they along with MS have both been doing price hikes since Jan 2025.
 
Sony's ports tend to remain at a frustratingly high price on Steam, even when the port itself is multiple years old and the original game was released back on PS4 or something.

I don't understand why certain publishers, like Capcom, seem to understand that selling a couple thousand copies of a game for $10 is better than having the game not move at all for $20+ dollars, while others like Sony stubbornly refuse to fire sale their ancient IPs.
 
Ranulfo said:
People will go back if the financial side works. If we go back to $300 consoles, especially in this economy they would get people switching back. I don't see that happening though. Sony raising the price of PS+ to $80 a year and no real discounts being offered in the first year of that change cost them many subscribers. The only people that stayed are the ones who need it for multiplayer.
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LoL $300 consoles. The PS5 Pro is $750.

I could easily speculate that the PS6 will be $1000. Sony doesn't believe in lowering prices. Not even on ancient games.
 
Riccochet said:
LoL $300 consoles. The PS5 Pro is $750.

I could easily speculate that the PS6 will be $1000. Sony doesn't believe in lowering prices. Not even on ancient games.
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I was gonna point to the Switch as a lower cost console, but even that is $450 now.
 
This REALLY pisses me off, cuz I was counting on this current, 9th generation being the first generation since 2nd-gen that I don't get ANY of the consoles. I was planning on never buying a Sony system ever again, and just playing those games on PC. But I guess they hate making money. Just wanna be @ssholes.They must have gotten their hands on some powerful crack.

GodisanAtheist said:
Sony's ports tend to remain at a frustratingly high price on Steam, even when the port itself is multiple years old and the original game was released back on PS4 or something.
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Yeah, and those same games on console have been on sale for $30, $20, or less, multiple times.

Shiat, right now at Best Buy games like GoW5: Ragnarok are $20, and Spider-Man 2 and GT7 are $30: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/save-on-select-playstation

The most expensive PS4 game I own was $20. All the rest of them were $10 or less. And that's for brand-new physical copies.

GodisanAtheist said:
I don't understand why certain publishers, like Capcom, seem to understand that selling a couple thousand copies of a game for $10 is better than having the game not move at all for $20+ dollars, while others like Sony stubbornly refuse to fire sale their ancient IPs.
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Yyyyeeeaaahhh man.
 
I've bought a few at full price, I think SM1, HZD, GoW) since I didn't shell out for them before but after that I wait for them to be around 30-40% off. I don't remember what the price is now but the last ones I got were SM2+MilesM in a bundle around BF and sad part is I put maybe 20 minutes in SM2 and while it looked great, I'm still not really in the mood for them right now. Still finishing Oblivion Remastered but just put that on hold so I can play RE Requiem (which looks friggin fantastic btw at 4K/HDR/path tracing etc).
 
I don't mind paying full price for brand new games that seem great. But not for sloppy seconds of Sony.

I'm not comfortable paying more than $20-25 for a port of a 2-3 year old game. Had they brought them to PC day and date, I'd have no problem paying $70 or even $80.

The only thing that annoys me in this is the bone headedness of it. As I have zero interest in any of their upcoming first party titles anyway
 
The former exec said PC ports were like printing money, quick money. Why give that up? My first guess is because releasing it for PC will be the same as releasing it for the next Xbox. And as this is probably a golden opportunity to help strangle out and end Xbox as a dedicated hardware device, keeping their content off of it would be integral in helping to achieve the goal.

If they hit a financial skid, they can relatively quickly churn out the PC ports to scare up some quick cash. I would like to see remastered official PC releases of the classics like Resistance, Killzone, and Infamous series. Many of us don't want to bother with emulating them. I think they would sell well. Getting Red Dead Redemption after all those years gives me hope.
 
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