Sony Reportedly Plans to Keep Its Single-Player Exclusives to Its Consoles Moving Forward, So Sayonara, Wolverine and Ghosts of Yotei

[Peter_Brosdahl]

It’s the end of a short-lived era as PlayStation boss Herman Hulst has reportedly let staff know that Sony is pulling back on PC releases. According to Bloomberg’s sources (via VGC), Sony will cease to release single-player games on PC moving forward, thus keeping exclusives on its PlayStation consoles. The decision seemingly supports earlier claims […]

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[igor_kavinski]

The end of an era

Microsoft was supposed to be the chosen one with their purchase of so many game studios. They messed it ALL UP!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

You need to fix this article brother. Those are, at best, peak concurrent player counts. And no where close to total copies sold.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/46...oncurrent-players-on-steam-in-opening-weekend

Article says they sold 22k copies of Spidey 2. When there where 28K concurrent players on Steam during launch weekend. 880K copies are estimated to have been sold for PC. In contrast, it sold over 11 million on console. Days Gone has sold approx. 3.4 million copies on PC. God of War over 4 million. Spidey 2 bombed because PCMR has way more adult incels who's cheese slid off their crackers over the game's wokeness.

I predict they will discover how much money they are leaving on the table because PCMR is a separate slice of the pie chart. They are not cannibalizing sales of consoles or games by later releasing on PC the way they think they are. Also probably banking on GTA6 to pull us in via FOMO. Then they try to gaslight us into buying future exclusives, since we have the console already. Good luck with that. GTA6 is a killer app, but I do not think PCMR will invest into the playstation library. Most will just wait for it on PC anyway. In 2 years, maybe 3, they will be porting to PC again is my prediction.

 

[Brian_B]

I predict they will discover how much money they are leaving on the table because PCMR is a separate slice of the pie chart. They are not cannibalizing sales of consoles or games by later releasing on PC the way they think they are.

I think this is very true.

Also missing out on the folks that purchase it on both platforms.

I can see why a boardroom may think that keeping things exclusive and locking you into the ecosystem would be better profit. I also think they are wrong.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

You need to fix this article brother. Those are, at best, peak concurrent player counts. And no where close to total copies sold.

Done and thanks! Some blurry eyes this morning.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I think this is very true.

Also missing out on the folks that purchase it on both platforms.

I can see why a boardroom may think that keeping things exclusive and locking you into the ecosystem would be better profit. I also think they are wrong.

I agree on all of this and greed is known to blind folks to the consequences of their decisions.

 

[Uvilla]

Make game, sell game.
Make plataform, sell plataform.
Maybe a cadance between your plataform, and everybody else's but whatever.
That said...
They may be realizing consoles will be 2000$ within 5 years which may blur pricing between the 2 (pc will keep going up but due to options they will always have a range).
Hence want to break off PC now to protect their 2000$ console garden.
All that said, if there is advanced chips in the near future, I think we may be in for a serious regression actually, so hold on to those 5000 series, they may be endangered species soon enough.
Yes call me crazy if you like.