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

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.
 
I've more or less been thinking the same that it and the next Xbox will be $1K.
 
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.
 
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