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’ve seen way too many times people getting a console because of an exclusive. Now the thing is, we are entering on a very dry hardware season where prices gone to shit (and yes consoles also increased prices), so does Sony really thinks people will be super willing to get an overpriced console on the current economy because of a single exclusive? Sounds like a losing strategy
Buy? Nah, they want you to rent or lease a PlayStation.
That’s great for you but this is a tried and true strategy. People buy dedicated DRM machines to get access to exclusive games all the time.
The answer could actually be much simpler. Last I checked horizon zero Dawn sold over 3 million units on steam which is nowhere near what they sold on PlayStation systems.
I wonder what the cost of porting a game that size is these days, because a few million copies may not be enough to float the endeavor.
You forgot to mention that it was ported years after its initial launch. Porting is way cheaper than developing especially nowadays where we have basically the same architecture in a dedicated DRM machine (console) than in a Personal Computer, it’s basically a x86 APU running a proprietary fork of BSD (and Windows for xBox). It’s not like back in the days where each machine (pc or console) had there own architectures that could radically differ. Also Game Engines have feature backed-in, Vulkan is universal (and better than DirectX (Microsoft) or OpenGL). Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised that selling 3M copies on Steam alone at a 50% discount would still be a profitable porting.
Porting and developing are not my jobs DYOR.
Horizon was like years after release, and even if it’s a first time launch on another platform just by virtue of people having already had to wait the same hype isn’t going to be there to buy it.
But then when a game launched at the same time such as Helldivers 2, PC outsold the PS5.
According to analyst firm Alinea Analytics, Helldivers 2 has sold 12 million copies on Steam alone, while PlayStation 5 sales are estimated at 5 million units.
https://tech4gamers.com/helldivers-2-sold-more-on-pc-than-ps5/
Then they can back away from increased profits.
PC gamers have plenty of other options.
Wouldn’t surprise me if Sony says they’re going to do this and then doesn’t actually do it.
I’m pretty sure I don’t own, let alone have played, any of their titles in the past. Guess I’ll keep just doing that?
I waited so long for Horizon Zero Dawn that when it came out on PC I wasn’t really interested any more. Probably will pick it up someday, but it turns out you can get by just fine without PS exclusives.
This one actually bothers me because I was looking forward to Ghost of Yotei, but if Sony are still so allergic to making money, I guess I won’t give them any. Barely a handful of games from an entire generation is certainly not enough to make me buy an overpriced console.
Oh no, what will I do without shitty AAA titles?
Horizon games were killer though. Last Of Us were great, I hear.
Horizon is just yet another open world slop. Not even robo dinos make it palatable. Even the latest god of war was just so brain dead boring, the story wasn’t enough to make me keep playing.
God of War bored me as well, but the Horizon games being SLOP?! I’m personally offended. They are carefully created masterpieces in my opinion.
The way they perfectly amp up the difficulty in proportion to your skill level. You can go anywhere in the world but it guides you perfectly to go where your skill fits. The fights are fun, you can choose to be stealthy or go all in Rambo style.
That first feeling of analyzing a new animal for the first time, planning your strategy ahead of the fight, what parts to attack etc. Then the feeling of jumping in and executing the fight with success. So satisfying.
I personally took on every single fight stealth wise because I love that style.
But anyway, what kind of games do you play that you think are good enough? Curious what your bar is set to.
Robot dinos are well made. I’m not disputing that. It’s the only reason I put up with it for 16h… But I got bored to death with the same open world formula.
As for where my bar is set? I enjoy games like red dead 2 or space marine 2 from recent memory. But my go to are mods and older RPGs, Gothic 2 is gold standard to me. Games like Rogue Trader from owlcats etc. I enjoy depth and hand crafted nature. Hence games like kingdom come rank high on my list for believable world building with memorable characters. I don’t recall a single name from my 16h with horrison…
God of war (the remake) did it well to keep focus on characters and story as opposed to “clutter” and massive open world filled with markers.
Last of Us Part 1 and 2 are genuine masterpieces. Highly recommend!
Never played 2 but 1 is the most over hyped game in existence. The gameplay is mid as fuck and the “OMG story” is just B movie horror at best.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one friend.
