>>736403994
always do the opposite of whatever microsoft does

They have a 1000€ console coming, they need reasons for people to buy it. If they didn't, they would continue bringing all their games to PC. Not like they release many anyway.

we all know its release timing lol, even "analysts" figured that one out. that and nextbox being a "hybrid" console/steam machine (assuming ms can actually make more than 10 machines a year amidst ai slop)

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>>736403994
>hundreds of millions of dollars
>No wonder it's ditching PC

These "journalists" are retarded.
Even if Marathon did cost them hundreds of millions to make.

>>736404195
Normies are not going to buy a console that costs 1000 bucks to play fifa and call of duty

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>>736403994
300 hyperinflated mirrion dollars is like about three fiddy in 90s clinton economic boom money

>>736403994
300 million isn't worth sinking your brand over. I think they realized that long term they're just convincing people a Playstation isn't needed. PS5 is almost at 100 million sold units with hardly any exclusives, but somebody with sense realized you need to still have prestige IPs/known exclusives for brand's sake. That person could have saved Japan Studio.

>>736404542
Anon, Fifa and COD drones will pay literally any price to get their Fifa/COD box. They could charge $5000 for a PS6 and they'd buy it and call you a poorfag for not doing the same.

>>736404542
That is exactly what normies will do, anon

>>736404542
>Normies aren't going to PS3
>Or a PS4
>Or a PS5
I've always wondered how Playstation became such a boogie man for this place. Tendie safe space is my guess, but you guys are delusional.

>>736404971
Please tell me that sales figure is you making shit up. I cannot for the life of me imagine that many people wasted their money on the PS5.
>inb4 I'm called a nintendo fanboy
No, they suck just as much.

>>736403994
It makes sense though. Exclusives are meant to attract more users to your platform. You're earning money not only by selling the game itself, but also the console, the online subscription, accessories and the platform fees from third-party games being sold for your console. Why the fuck would you give up on your exclusives if sales on other platforms don't make up for it?
The real problem here is that Sony's exclusives aren't appealing to anyone other than the average Snoy, which is why they're selling like shit elsewhere.

there were a lot of ports I wanted to buy but didn't because they had denuvo. I'm not going to pay money for a game that comes bundled with malware. sorry not sorry.

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Exclusivity won

>>736403994
>makes $300 million with no effort
>ITS NO WONDER WHY ITS LE DITCHING PC
And it's no wonder why gaming journos have never found a better career path. Also, the rumor from Jason Schrier has not been confirmed. Sony confirmed the $900 PS5 Pro before anything related to PC.

>>736403994
Damn, that's crazy that they're unable to make money on a platform that currently matches the revenue of all consoles combined. I wonder what happened? Why can't Sony make money on platforms that have other games on them?

>>736403994
Panasonic
Sony
Nintendo
Koei Tecmo

all japanese. all extremely greedy, putting even most jews to shame

>>736405183
I believe the last official update was 92 million. 8 million more isn't a sneeze but I was just rounding up, as I don't think it will be much longer before it crosses it.

>>736403994
Sony is pulling PC ports not because it's selling below expectations, but to prevent Xbox from playing these games via Steam in the future.

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>earn 300m from pc
>how much did it cost to port the games?
>at LEAST 100m
>so you earned 200m?
>yes but that is CHUMP CHANGE

>>736403994
i don't think you understand how money works, OP. positive return does not mean something is a good investment if there is even better return elsewhere.

>>736405215
It's because they're ported late, and you net the most sales when you're shiny and new. Helldivers 2 wouldn't have sold half what it did on PC if Sony waited a year to port it. Same with FFXVI having a year to rot. Crimson Desert got approached for an exclusive deal, and would not have sold 4 million if people had a year to observe it from a distance and realize it's shit.

>>736403994
>makes money
>ditches it
Are they stupid?

>>736406170
I do believe that's how Judaism works, yes. As long as you get more money, it should be sufficient. Making the most money possible at all times is actually jewish, and will always be jewish.

>>736403994
>microsoft stops putting things on PC
>gaming media flips out and screams bloody murder about the lack of PC ports
>microsoft starts porting shit to PC again
>gaming media gets all snarky and says it’s about time
>sony starts porting their garbage DEI shit to PC at outrageous prices (not even their good games)
>gaming media acts like its the end of the world
>sony announces their taking their garbage DEI slop and going home
>gaming media is pleased with this development and tickles sony’s sour grape balls on the way out the door

Gee. Its almost like playstation is the designated gaming brand of the NWO along with Epic games (though Valve’s control of the market thwarts them from controlling PC gaming the same way they do consoles)

>Anons ITT acting surprised that new leadership at Sony realizes the value in not devaluing your brand
How would you guys look at Switch 2 and Nintendo if everything suddenly showed up on PS5? They're hard canceling all of the stupid shit Jim Ryan started. Good on them. Now they just need to get rid if that retard Hulst and we're golden.

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>>736403994
>still won't bring over the one delayed port that would actually sell well on PC bloodborne
>still won't pull the trigger on day 1 releases outside of multiplayer slop

yeah of course the PC experiment would fail when you completely ignore what people asked for years just to push horizon game port #20 two years after release

>>736406161
If 300 million is all they've made in the last few years after porting multiple games then it's not worth it, since they're training people to wait for ports versus buying a Playstation. It's similar to how Xbox trained people to just use Gamepass, killing all of their studios in the process. For comparison sake, Yotei is probably a little past 4 million units sold at this point. It's made at least 200 million dollars in pure profit if not more. That's one game, on its home console, with no split shared with steam. The return they're seeing from Steam is not worth the long term damage they commit to their own brand. Xbox learned that late and Nintendo never fell for it.

>>736404542
>Normies are not going to buy
stopped reading there, brainless consumer cattle will buy whatever youtubers and shills tell them regardless of price and quality.

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>>736405308
Which is why the attach rate for the Switch 2 is pathetic and investors are fleeing to the fucking door as they realize nobody is buying games without the bundle, right?

Fucking retarded tendies, LMFAO

>>736404542
They bought a console without games just because it was cool

>>736405308
All those games are on PC anon

>>736403994
So they got 300 millions in literally free money from rereleasing 5 year old games and they are still complaining?

>>736406527
Bloodborne remake or PC is never happening unless Miyazaki actually starts working on remaking the game.

>>736407735
nah the money is fine
but they want people to buy the new console, and they don't want the "wait for pc" people to think that's an option with the new exclusives

>>736407586
Only turd worlders emulate.

>>736408625
Nice, that'll stop 'em from pirating.

at least PC ports payed for concord

>>736405092
>>Normies aren't going to PS3
They didn't, it only achieved moderate success after years of price cuts and game releases that made it more worth it to buy.
>PS4
Cheap console and Xbox made it clear they wanted out of the console game in favor of promoting a netflix machine.
>PS5
Expensive and only getting more expensive, basically killing the brand at the moment with no real excluses like the PS4, in favor of putting games on the PC, which renders the console irrelevant. Also the push to get rid of the disk drive pushed millions over to Nintendo, like myself.

>>736407319
>the attach rate for the Switch 2 is pathetic and investors are fleeing to the fucking door as they realize nobody is buying games without the bundle, right?
In your dreams I guess.
https://cdn.www.ampereanalysis.com/media/press_releases/2026/03/31/Ampere_Analysis_Nintendo_Switch_2_Third_Party.pdf

>>736403994
>PC browns dont buy games
shocking

>story driven aaa movie games
>Release then pc 3to10 years after their inital release
>WTF WHY DON'T THEY CARE ?!
release more games faggot, not just the modern aaa slop, give us bloodborn, gravity rush, LBA, grand turismo, even some ps3 thing like infamous

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>>736405092
>Normies aren't going to PS3
It almost killed the company

>300 million for minimal effort, minimal cost and will generate bonus profit forever
Doesn't sound too bad to me, whats the problem?

>>736404542
i wish you were right, i really do.
there is no depth normalfags aren't willing to sink to flaunt their wealth to their brainless peers for clout

>>736404542
A lot of tards are telling you you're wrong, but normies are still playing sportsball and cod games on ps4. maybe they will move on to PS5 but they are definitely not buying a $1000 console you are right about that

>>736403994
>fuck up something as simple like selling videogames
>blame everything but yourself
No wonder he's a former manager.

>>736407319
See you at 25 mill next quarterly report.

>>736403994
>release playstation games nobody wants
>wow why we no make money on pc

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You made this dogshit thread already

If you are stupid enough to buy a console you deserve the fleecing

>>736405308
every single nintendo game can be emulated on PC, same with bloodborne which is the only playstation game that should be on the left.

>>736408625
sure, company clown

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>>736409895

>>736408625
>buy nintendo game and hardware at full price
>have access to less features than someone who paid nothing for it

>>736403994
Maybe releasing Uncharted 1-4 would've been better than just 4.

>>736403994
>s0iny started releasing their movie slop on PC
don't care
>s0iny stopped releasing their movie slop on PC
don't care

>>736403994
They only released shitty movieslop games. Gt7 on pc probably would have made 150 million or more on its own

>>736405308
>tendie acting like you can't emulate all the shit in the middle as well

>>736404459
>less than 1% of their total revenue to completely sabotage their brand identity and value proposition is worth it actually
Why are tranime posters so fucking stupid without fail?

>>736403994
would be interesting to know how expensive porting a game is for them.
even if selling on PC is only half as lucrative as on PS (which is probably due to the PC version coming out with a significant delay to a large degree), that still sounds to me like it should easily be worth doing

>>736404542
normies pay 50 bucks for some mediocre food they could have prepared by themselves with 15 minutes of effort
they do not really have a pain threshold

>>736404542
you forget how stupid the average consumer is

>>736417609
Brand identity is only a good thing if you have any positive image
When you do shit like PSN you can be glad when people forget the game went though your greedy hands

Based, fuck PC as a gaming platform and fuck PC third world cucks.

>>736417782
cucksoles are literally only purchased by latinos

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>>736417782
consoles are made for third world slave mentalities

>>736405308
nintendo is fucking dead
everything from the wii and after is complete and utter trash
don't @me tendies

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>>736418005
>>736418090
>He doesn't know
ngmi

>>736418109
The 3DS was good.

>cucksolero trying 2022 stats
lmao

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>>736403994
Well yes because theres actually good alternatives on PC and you or not forced to play movie slop. Sony's catalogue just isn’t that competitive/compelling.

>>736418246
>i am le white aryan for playing on a console
those people play fortnite, cod, fifa, gta and madden
that's who you're identifying with
consoles are for low information retards

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>>736418468
Fifa and CoD are miles better than your average PC exclusives aka "furry life simulator" or "how i turned my step brother into a sissy", you dumb cuck.

>>736417634
I need to double check, but people are saying it costs low seven digits according to the Insomniac leaks.

>>736418790
>consoles are better because retards play slop
yeah, no, you don't own your console and they're made for literal retards

>"no u the cucks, baww"
>literally has a company sissycage on his device
kek

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>>736418949
>PC cuck speak about ownership after losing the last ounce of it 20+ years ago thanks to the steam fatso
Fucking kek, these retards are truly something!

>>736419621
Yeah owning games locked to hardware you can buy anymore is really worth it dipshit

>>736419621
archive.org

So after everyone memeing that akshually exclusives are a bad thing we're back to exclusivity good now?

>>736419690
Not to mention modern physical releases for consoles, the full game isn't on the actual fucking disk, you still have to download the rest of the content.

>>736419859
Sony can do no wrong to the fanatical snoys.

>>736419621
idk about you but I own my games. Internet goes down permanently? 100% of my library is still playable. Sun falls out of orbit and I'm locked in a bunker with only my computer? 100% of my library is still playable

>>736404542
yes, well do

>>736419621
Almost 90% of my Steam library is DRM free. That's more than you'd get on PS5 where most games only include half the game on the disc and require Internet to download the other half.

>>736403994
I'm not buying shitty playstation movie games on my steam account, especially when half the reason I finally quit consoles and fully switched to PC was because sony became the driving force for video game censorship and killed IPs I liked.
I refuse to give sony money, even if they port their shit to pc.

>>736403994
turns out most of these games only sell when they're the only things you can buy on a dead platform

>>736419621
You don't own your games faggot, all you have is a license that's worse than what you get on steam in all aspects but resellability
And on top of that you objectively don't own your console while everyone owns their pc, see >>736418090

>>736403994
Price increase is definitely because of orange man and has nothing to do with them blowing 4 billion over the past couple years from concord and Bungie

I don't get it, how is $300 million not worth earning? If you offered me $20 and $10 I wouldn't take the 20 and snub the 10, I'd take both.

>>736403994
Square is crying also that PC games don't sell meanwhile Capcom just had their most successful year ever. Turns out if you make games people want to play they buy them

>>736406615
>ghost of yotei only costed 40 million to make and market
lmao actual delusion

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>>736404542
>underestimating retardedness of normies

>>736421623
Being retarded doesn't suffice if they simply do not have the money and are too busy crying at gas stations and supermarkets

>>736421309
It devalues the whole point of buying a Playstation console so it better earn a lot more than the native market. If Sony isn't going gangbusters on pc people are just leaving their ecosystem and buying maybe a few Sony games a year.

>>736421309
It's not about the money
It's about control
Sony would rather have full control over their goyim on their consoles

>>736403994
They should've started with PS3 games then worked their way up after every console. Course, the PS3 is hard to emulate.

>>736419985
>>736420728
You can play day one vanilla games on every disk that doesnt require a multiplayer mode. You are confused and you think installation of a portion of the game on hd means download, because the game is not on the disk. I'm not surprised by your confusion considering you are a PC cuck aka probably an indian or a drunk russian.

>>736421180
>but resellability
If you buy something and you cant resell it, i've a bad news for you: you got scammed.

I never bought an xbox to play it's exclusives, why would I buy a PS6? 300 million is a lot of money to make with very little effort. I think the real reason was the outright rejection of PSN. They wanted to make a PSN PC platform and that tanked the idea.

>>736419621
you can't even mod your games lmao

>>736422626
>consoles are so shit that the only perk of using them is being able to get rid of games
LOL
LMAO

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>>736422641
Reminder
>Mods are for gays
>Mods users are very gay
>Modders are massive gay
TL;DR
You're a faggot.

>>736423009
>projecting his faggotry
your console is owned by old men at your consolecuck corpo of choice
it's just your turn with it, you're basically renting it

>>736404195
I think it’s more so that Sony is going to try to triple down on what Xbox did with “more than just a console” “this is an Xbox” bullshit and I’m not joking. they’ve already changed the name of ps plus and porting a game to pc can’t cost that much money, the game is already made. I bet they will also abandon cross play again

>>736423009
>gay gay gay gay gay
>no actual argument
Projection? Very sad! Now go ask daddy Sony to allow modding on your Skyrim game haha lmao.

>>736414816
>there is no depth normalfags aren't willing to sink to flaunt their wealth to their brainless peers for clout
Normies will buy the latest iPhone every year despite there being no actual changes besides the camera has 0.1 more megapixels and the battery gives an extra 30 minutes of life. Despite this, they'll charge an extra $500 for the new phone and normies eat it up. I've still got an iPhone 14 Pro Max from like 5 years ago and it works perfectly.

>>736404542
Normalfags are the reason consoles are still in business anon.

>>736423116
>Go ask Sony to add a mod that doesn't work anymore the moment a 0,5 mb patch is released
No thanks.

>>736407476
The WiiU was shit.

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>>736405308
I'd play nothing on that list

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>>736423665
>oh no my gay argument didn't work
>how about mods are b-bad because patches
swing and a miss lmao

Companies are not your friend retard

why would you expect their support when you’re not their first party customer and you’re a drop in the bucket of 30 billion they generate annually??

>>736424002
idk man, do they want my money or not?

>>736423890
>argument didn't work
You're still gay for using mods tho, so the argument is still there. Just added my personal experience: the shittiest i had with a game on PC (HoI IV) was because of mods.

>>736424086
>you're gay because of [projection]
can you come up with something new? this is already getting boring.

>>736424040
300 million is not worth devaluing and destroying your brand

>>736424182
idc i'm not a bootlicker

>>736424182
releasing flopping snoyslop and becoming a platform for goy games like gta, fortnite, roblox and cod is what's going to destroy their brand

>>736424182
Yes, much better to drop a fridge on it

>>736424228
Jibber jabber, thanks for proving my point

>>736424307
cope, bootlicker.

>>736424182
Kek so they admit their stale ass offerings even being on sale is "devaluing the brand" because we can see whatever new shit comes out having abysmal player counts. I literally unironically think steamcharts is single handedly raping Sony right now

>>736424336
>bootlicker
But I deleted my Steam account a decade ago

>>736424405
see >>736424336

>>736424405
see >>736418090
the whole foundation of your console shitbox is based on bootlicking

>>736403994
>Companies complaining about making only 300m with low effort ports
This is peak Square Enix behaviour.

>>736424475
>>736424482
I use GoG. Steam is a humiliation ritual and worse morally than pirating
I never once said I play on console lmao

>>736424221
What other games does Sony have? The only exclusives the PS5 has at this point is the Demon's Souls remakes lol, Astro Bot and Ghost of Yotei.

>muh brand identity
who else but subhuman snoyjeet bootlickers care about this on /v/ ?

>>736405308
Metroid Dread was exactly what I want out of modern Metroid and I can't believe how badly they fucked up Prime 4

>>736418246
Based Russians

>>736406353
This

>>736424546
>Steam is a humiliation ritual
translate it into non buzzword terms?

>worse morally than pirating
>giving 70-80% to developers is worse than giving 0%

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>>736424548
Gravity Rush
Gran Turismo
Bloodborne
Demon Souls


Their entire back catalog of unported exclusives (GOW 1-3, Jak games, etc.)

If they released all the games people are emulating on PC on steam they would get oodles of cash, but instead they ported what, 5 open world games at the time of peak open world fatigue?

Wipeout alone would have sold tons of copies if it had working online multiplayer. They clearly went into this with no plan, or a very dumb one.

The only way their current strategy "makes sense" is if they thought people would go OMG I LOVE GOD OF WAR I HAVE TO BUY A PS5 TO PLAY THE NEW ONE which is a fundamental misunderstanding of the PC market.

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>>736424661
30% of that goes to a parasitic middleman that purely indexes the games, they don’t even run the servers and content delivery networks, everything from bandwidth for downloading, game metadata, community features and the marketplace happen on Akamai’s servers and network and Valve pays them for usage at the end of the month, the rest is pocketed.
If valve did everything on their own each employee wouldn’t have 50 million annual salaries by doing nothing.
It doesn’t matter if developers don’t get paid, GoG exists and they make the majority of the sales on console anyway.
Steam killed physical ownership on PC 20 years ago and Gaben has been retired for a decade now hence why Steam looks so trooncoded at the moment

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>billion-dollar company
>having “identityl” ever
Bootlicker. They don’t care about you now, and they sure as hell didn’t care about you then
>”b-but they cared about me then”
They didn’t care about you EVER, they’re incapable of it. The only ones who ever matter are the shareholders

>>736424940

>30% of that goes to a parasitic middleman that purely indexes the games, they don’t even run the servers and content delivery networks, everything from bandwidth for downloading, game metadata, community features and the marketplace happen on Akamai’s servers and network and Valve pays them for usage at the end of the month, the rest is pocketed.
what a meaningless distinction

> they make the majority of the sales on console anyway.
no, they don't, see>>736417043


>Steam killed physical ownership on PC 20 years ago
no, drm killed physical
and what's killing physical on consoles now? it's not fucking steam
physical was rejected by pc users due to its drm that made it functionally worse than pirating

>hence why Steam looks so trooncoded at the moment
that's just you being mentally ill, aquajeet

>>736409895
The top played PlayStation games are literally basketball and GTAO

>>736424795
Agreed, which is why I made my point >>736422510 (here). They should've started from the beginning and worked their way up.
>didn't name a single PS5 that wasn't already noted
What the fuck is this generation?

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>>736424795
They're just used to PS5 customers being literal bootlicking retards. They really saw PC having games and enjoying actual 4K or at a least way better upscaler than PSSR(DLSS), and >60fps and actually thought people would buy join their ecosystem in droves.

By the way PS6 is probably going to be more digital focused and they still can't mod their games lmao.

>>736425414
webm is the most grim thing you can see. Just go back to PS4 era graphics and hone in on performance. Giraffex are a meme.

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>>736404542
>actually thinking this

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>>736425523
I agree, but Sony might have dug their own grave on this because they trained their cattle to prefer ultra realistic graphics.

>>736403994
Good. Fuck off.

>>736404542
They hated him for telling the truth. The PS3 was a net negative for the company and that was launched at $499 at least

>>736404195
Sony is so cooked with the price fixing

>>736425598
Baked lighting is a lost art.

>>736403994
$300 million isn't enough to produce even a single Concord. And PC users didn't buy a single copy of Concord. Of course they shut it down, it's not reaching the modern audience they desire.

>>736425786
you can thank sweeney partly for that btw.

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>>736403994
I respect their position
They gave it an honest try and it wasn't enough for whatever metrics they set so they gonna pull back
I can't imagine that they "protecting" the PS ecosystem or whatever is the benefit of not porting to pc is gonna report them more money but i respect that they tried.
Sucks i will be missing on playing Saros; Returnal was fucking incredible.

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>>736425839
>you can thank sweeney
Didn't know she was also into game developing, what a woman

>>736403994
I'm impressed they sold so much considering the hype is dead when they release due to the timed exclusive shit.
If anything this should be proof timed exclusivity should be next on the chopping block to maximize profits.

>>736425958
kek goddammit anon

>>736404980
They already have a PS5.

>>736405308
I played some of those nintendo games on my PC - and they weren't very good.

>>736403994
>they were expecting 50M
>get 300M instead
>IT'S SO FUCKING OVER AAAA
I don't get it.

>>736403994
>Put all your games on PC
>Steam users only buy them for 90% during Steam sales
>make less than a single successful release on Playstation makes
>Then give 30% of it to Valve.

Nice strategy

>>736427563
helldivers 2's pc sales absolutely curbstomped console sales and it's only ever been 25% off at best
other snoy games obviously perform worse since the pc versions are delayed long after they've stopped being relevant and they're just snoy moviegames

>>736425219
you sound like a bootlicker

>>736425679
Thats over 800 dollars adjusted for inflation. And thats the el cheapo 20gb model

>>736427835
if i was a bootlicker i'd be on a console
you have no choice but to bootlick there, everything depends on one corporation that has complete control over your system and can brick it any time they want

i don't think anyone has ever made convincing argument in these threads that porting to PC ever devalued Playstation's brand. Spider-man 2 got ported to PC, basically flopped on there, and still sells on PS5, remaining the best selling PS5 game. Yotei came out and sold a lot on PS5. We don't see a loss of sales because people are waiting for the PC version. So where is the devaluation in their brand?

>>736428208
>if i was a bootlicker i'd be on a console
No you'd be on Steam, atleast on console you own your physical games. Pirating is more dignifying than consuming on Steam

>>736404542 >>736425679

but the gaming pcs are becoming way too overpriced so ~900bux for a new console doesn't sound unreasonable anymore

>>736403994
all their games flopped on PC

snoys srsly think they'll get applause instead of scornful laughter for pointing out the 'qualities' of the cage they are stuck in?

>>736428440
>mod one game
>console hardware-banned

>>736428440
>No you'd be on Steam
but steam believes you should own your hardware
sony doesn't

>atleast on console you own your physical games
no, you don't
what you have is a license so fucking awful and limited that its sole redeeming quality is being able to get rid of it

>>736405308
Kek gottem
>BUT LE EMULATION
Your little cousin Timmy doesn't give a fuck about emulation, he doesn't have any time for this shit
if he wants to play Mario, Zelda and Pokemon, he'll buy a Switch or a Switch 2 and buy the games there, whether you like it or not.
And Nintendo will keep on winning because of their great exclusives, whether you like it or not.

>>736405308
Only Switch 2 games are exclusive, Switch 1 you can emulate.

>>736424940
>they don’t even run the servers and content delivery networks, everything from bandwidth for downloading, game metadata, community features and the marketplace happen on Akamai’s servers and network and Valve pays them for usage at the end of the month, the rest is pocketed.
Do you think any of these other company runs their own shit?
The only one who does is Microsoft.

>>736429408
Emulation is microscopic compared to Switch games sales numbers

>>736429484
Yes and yes the games are technically exclusive, but in reality you and me can stil play them just fine.
The point is you don't need the system to play the games. The same is not true for PS and Xbox.

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>>736428818
>read TOS
>break TOS
>get banned
I don't see the issue with this, get a PC if you want nudity & CP mods on your game
>>736428852
>but steam believes you should own your hardware
Source? Citation?
>sony doesn't
Source? Citation?
>no, you don't
Yes you do. 100% of the Data is on the disc and fully playable online unless the publisher is Activison/Bethesda.
>what you have is a license
Yes, optical media is a license that you're not allowed to copy, share or resell but no one can stop you from doing that and no one will break into your house to take it back if you do any of the above.
>its sole redeeming quality is being able to get rid of it
You might enjoy owning nothing and being happy but I value optical media and owning my stuff

>>736429858
offline*

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CAPCOM started porting their games to PC late 00s and started porting day one in the lates 10s. Sony thinks that half a decade of porting games to PC late would net them billions.

>>736404195
Exactly, and they'll start putting games on PC mid-gen again in 5 years or so. Greed is the only thing that moves modern Sony. Even the woke shit is only there because of their love for blackrock buxx

>>736417609
>completely sabotage their brand identity
They did that for free lmao

>>736403994
I hate Sony exclusives now. I don't need shit like the last of us, basedface of war or those lame indiana wannabe games.

>>736405308
>Bayo 3 and Astral Chain
Fucking keep ‘em

>>736429858
>Source? Citation?
both are in >>736418090

>Yes you do.
no, you don't
all you have is a license that you can transfer
>all games and other software made available for use with your PS5 system are licensed to you, not sold, pursuant to the Software Usage Terms
it's worse in every other way compared to steam

>but no one can stop you from doing that and no one will break into your house to take it back if you do any of the above.
>i signed my rights away but it's okay

>but no one can stop you from doing that and no one will break into your house to take it back if you do any of the above.
no one can stop me from handing out cracked games to my friends either
but then again i don't have to do that, family share exists
if the entire point of your faggot argument is that you're going to break the agreement you bought the game under then it means the agreement was fucking shit
your snoy game is worse than pirating

>You might enjoy owning nothing and being happy but I value optical media and owning my stuff
steam license is better long term when you want to give games you like new life
sony physical license is better when you're so impoverished and spiteful that you need to get a refund on games because you don't enjoy them enough to keep them

>>736428468
PC
>can fix/modify on your own
>free online
>Steam/GOG/ROMs
>can do work
PS5
>plays movies
>occasional games
>that's it
PCs are a better return on investment.

>>736403994
$300m in sales is not equal $300m in profits
dumb zoomer

>>736428224
The people most affected by this and feel like it damages the brand are mentally ill console warriors on certain parts of the internet who threw a fit because their half a decade old exclusives that even they barely care about anymore got ported to another platform.

lol I didn't even know PlayStation games were even on steam. When did that happen and where's the Bloodborne port?

>>736433609
>When did that happen
Been porting shit for the last five years
>and where's the Bloodborne port?
They ported everything except what people wanted

>>736403994
PCfags don't buy games

Why bother getting a PS5 at this point when the PS6 is imminent?

>>736433827
won't be true no matter how many times you repeat it

>>736428468
>but the gaming pcs are becoming way too overpriced so ~900bux for a new console doesn't sound unreasonable anymore
People can just buy Switch 2 and wait until PC prices stabilize.

>>736403994
They wanted to drive people to sign up for Playstation Network. When that got massive pushback with Helldivers 2 they decided to take their ball and go home.

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>>736403994
Sony has been completely retarded since at least PS4. IMO I don't think the company lives beyond the PS6.

>>736433910
OK I'll amend it. PCfags don't buy new games. Gaben has trained them to only buy 3 year old half off games. That is a fact if you look at the numbers.

>>736434026
you mean numbers like this? >>736417043
i'll amend it for you so it's actually correct
no one wants to buy old microwaved irrelevant snoy slop

>>736428468
$900 for a console is what reduces consoles to devices solely for retards who can't build a pc

>>736434126
No the steam survey where it showed abysmal sales for new games.

>>736434026
If the game is 3 years old when it releases on PC, damn right I'm not going to pay full price for it.

>>736434254
>helldivers doesn't count, you must consume new slop regardless of how shit it is
goalposts moved

>>736433752
>still no Gravity Rush
We're getting a fucking slop movie before port. Save me.

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>withhold release of your games on PC for a year or two
>WAAAAAH WHY PC PLAYERS DON'T WANT TO BUY OUR 2 YEARS OLD GAMES FOR $80 WE CANCEL OUR PC INITIATIVE!!!!!!!
lel bunch of retards
i swear to god Sony must be one of the dumbest companies out there, it's a miracle that they are still in the game
not even talking about stuff like canceling their games when they're about to be finished or pouring hundreds of millions into games like concord, they had Bloodborne that so many people been begging to be released on PC or at least improved version on next gen consoles
they could release PC versions along with console versions and make unlimited ammount of money but MUH TIMED EXCLUSIVITY

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>>736433827
hasn't been the case in a while now.

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>>736403994
Maybe they should make actual games

>>736403994
>delay games by 1 year on pc
>surprised when they don't sell as well
I hate journos so fucking much

>>736404980
I don't buy any consoles where piracy is not possible thougheverbeit