No one's gonna buy thousand dollar playstations with a global recession coming.
>>736463251>people are gonna suddenly start being smart with moneysure bro
>>736463251they will if the only other sane option is the fucking switch 2
Well, it's not the best place for third parties to publish, since Squeenix told their shareholders that releasing console exclusive games in the past 5 years almost bankrupted them. That's about as damning as it gets.
In an alternate universe xbox never announced digital only and Sony went bankrupt. I envy them.
>>736463251Xbox and PC will still probably be more expensive and they have all their games on Playstation already so they'll stick with that ecosystem. Thinking they'll swap is retarded, it's like thinking people will swap off Steam when they have hundreds of games there.
>>736464382Other third parties seem to be doing fine. Activision, EA, 2K, Epic games. Sounds like a skill issue honestleeeee
>>736463086sad to see an electronic giant like sony die in such a pathetic way. consoles are retarded and they need to pivot to something people actually want. Also, stop charging people to use their own internet you greedy bitches.
>>736463086They want to force their monopoly. If the Xbox goes under for good, Sony will outright control the high-power console scene. Nintendo doesn't operate in the same sphere and they know it.
>>736463086It would be great if sony decided to make games again
>>736463086>2014Says Playstation should be "the best place to play" for users and "the best place to publish" for third party publishers.Then 2018 happened......
>>736464747The high powered console scene is just a shitty PC, there is nothing to monopolise. Its a shrinking market that is already too small for them to sit comfortably.
>>736463086They're making a power play based on the death of xbox and the release of gta 6 for the normie ea/cod/fifa/2k crowd. They think they will have a de facto monopoly on that crowd. I don't think they've done their research that kids 15 and younger desperately want a pc to imitate their streamer parasocial friends and only play roblox. Ultimately sony games will come back to PC, but they'll have this gay little arc for 4 years or so. Nothing of value will be lost, same as before. Who gives a shit?
>>736463086They never released a single good game on PC so nothing changes for me.
>>736463086>PlayStation should be "the best place to play"I will never be the best place to play if you don't remove the online fee to play games. If they don't remove that shit the brand will remain dead for anyone under 25 and Sony will go bankrupt.
>Sony makes a lot of money from their media products>so they are leaving the PC market because....???My only guess is Sony wants to make their own storefront or maybe some retarded exec did cost vs return on PC ports and saw that shitty decade old ports don't recoup the cost of their bloated dev teams porting it.
ps5 games unironically started to sell worse and worse with every pc releasetheir lost their special "allure" that exclusivity givesNew ceo realised this and chose to completely reverse plans
>>736463086>playstation should be the best place to play need games for that
>>736463251I thought this when the 5090 was marked up $500-$1000 at launch but these mouthbreathers are still gobbling it up at at near $4000 for a GPU.
>>736465918Do they really?Because Nvdia is making so much money from AI that they don't care about gaming anymore.
>>736463086I'M NOT BUYINg A PLAYSTATION TO PLAY ASTROBOT
>>736465846>can't force exclusive consoles and controllers>can't force fee to play online>can't monopolize digital storefrontits just greed
>>736464897That shitty PC is still vastly more affordable to the average player than a proper PC of equivalent power, unless you're genuinely so delusional that you think you can slap together an actually useful gaming PC for less than two thousand dollars.
>>736463086snoys truly deserve the price hikes coming their way
>>736465912PS store has thousands of games, sir.
>>736463251Idk I feel like Playstation players pretty much buy anything from sony
>>736465918you can't compare GPUs to a consolesome people jobs literally rely on having a powerful GPU (I don't mean ecelebs, random youtube fags or crypto) so as long as the cost of the GPU is lower than the money that can be made then people will pay the inflated prices
>>736466092Mine was $600 so about the same price, but a PC does a lot more than a console.
>>736464519
Nice to have a CEO who's comitted to gaming
>>736463251lel faggot, you still don't know how the world workshere, look at this picture and start learning
>>736466702Nothing says commitment to gaming like buying a billion dollar super yacht factory
>>736466880Describes average steam user
>>736463086They're not publishing games on PC any longer? Why do they resort to dick moves tactics like this? exclusivity cancer sucks.It was never worth buying a PS4 for Bloodborne and i will die on that hill in spite of what consolefags believe to be true.
>>736467124you arent the target audience. normalfags and the casual masses are the ones spending the money, and they deem exclusives worth it. if you dont have 500 dollars to blow on a console like it's nothing, you have more to worry about than a toy player.
>>736467124By the way i only care about not getting Physint since supposedly Hideo Kojima is going back in the Metal Gear Solid direction on that one. The rest of their exclusives i don't care about.
>>736463251I will because I have a good job and am therefore, not poor.
>>736463251
Are Sonys games being review bombed after this decision happened? it would be deserved after people spent money on stuff like Ghost of Tsushima and they don't even have the decency to at least bring Yotei in as their last submission before moving away completely.Surprised they never removed their curator page.
Should have created a Sony account to play Helldivers.
>>736467285Consoles are for poor people by design; those who aren't poor will buy a PC. By raising the price of a console, they risk having most people simply buy a PC instead.
>>736466205My PC is a prebuilt from 2021 and cost me about $1000. This was back when the 3070 on its own was hitting upwards of $800-1400 due to crypto miners so prebuilts were objectively more cost-conscious than building your own since I wasn't averse to that. I needed something since my previous built-from-scratch PC had the GPU literally melt itself to death randomly one day after years of being fine and the CPU was dying and it was the middle of Covid so I had no other choice since I needed something to replace it.I play exclusively at 1080p and use DLSS 4.5 and it can barely play WuWa at a solid 60 since it regularly hovers around 40 in a lot of areas or even down to the 30s and lower in Septimont, Marvel Rivals is regularly dropping to 40 FPS in random areas, Genshin Impact can't stay above 40 in Sumeru, Where Winds Meet could barely stick to 40 FPS in Qinghe let alone 20 FPS in Kaifeng, Palworld cannot keep a solid 60 in a lot of areas, and so on. Dropping or raising the texture quality, model quality, shadow quality, and so on does virtually nothing for my performance for any of these games and being in Quality or Performance modes or even doing custom settings seems to be all over the place in terms of consistency.I also had to upgrade to 32GB of RAM because it simply would not do well at all in most situations like having a browser open and a game open at the same time so that's another $100ish down the drain and that was also DDR4 since I couldn't afford to upgrade to DDR5 as it was double the price. I will also need to scrap the mobo and case so I can get a brand new PSU and CPU since currently some games are CPU bottlenecked like WuWa which means another $700ish at some point since the GPU is still mostly solid.Say what you will about consoles but I can at least gain some sort of consistency out of them for one flat price even on brand new games whereas it seems like every brand new release on PC stretches my performance more and more.
>>736468796TL; DR
>>736463086I'm not going to buy a ps5 to play Sony exclusives. All they're doing is losing out on the millions sales from PC chads like me.
>>736464519None of those are selling games exclusively on the ps5.
>>736468856>All they're doing is losing out on the millions sales from PC chads like me.Have you seen Spidey 2 sales? 15 million on PS5. 700k on PC. The amount they're losing out on is less and less relevant to them by comparison because the main heavy hitters on PC were immediately when they started porting them due to the allure of Sony porting stuff to PC. Once that allure wore off the sales have been getting worse and worse.https://alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/our-most-requested-estimates-and
>>736468191They've already tracked the data on this and the highest average income users exist on PS with the lowest end being on PC. By Steam's very own admission more than 70% of active users aren't up to modern console standards. PC gaming is just a kink for fetishists and also a major cope.
>>736468942Where are you seeing the PC sales? Sony announced them?
>>736469064The link. I provided. It's this company's blog.https://alineaanalytics.com/Their job is literally to tell investors and firms how to invest their money based on their estimates and their margin of error is extremely small meaning anything they say is very accurate.
>>736468942>using the cryto scammer as a sourcejust use sony's own data. spider-man 2 sold 10 million on PS5
>>736469381>>736469386Huuh which is it? Trusted or not?>crypto cuckoldOk not trusted then. Reminder cryptos are just as bad as banks as they will block your funds if you buy problematic content on dlsite.
>>736467124this is always how sony has operated, they fuck over other platforms for exclusivity or timed exclusivity all the time
>Physint will be a CHADstation 6 exclusiveFUARKKKKKK!!! Time is a circle.
>>736469771stfu
>>736469771Shitty-ass forced meme lmao
>>736463315the lipstick effect is drying up, you can even see it in nerds spaces which are usually among the last to respond, people are legitimately strapped
>>736464382Yeah who is out there trying to sell non-anime indie games or AA on the Playstation exclusively? It's got a nightmare audience, 7-10 split between the most normal of faggots and the greatest autism cases conceived by western man.
>>736463251No one is buying a $2000 pc for a mid tier pc.
Makes no sense, if they're boasting about player numbers you would think they would want to stay multi-platform. That adds to their "best place to play" since non-exclusion benefits players who want to cross play with their friends.I have doubts any of the exclusivity deals actually make sense compared to the revenue gained in more sales from more platforms.Ports made less sense when the hardware and software was wildly different but today everything is an x86 machine with similar software APIs. The cost of a port should be next to nothing compared to the sales income.
>>736463251just live like the average american>go into debt>never pay it>never look at it cause its scary>the interest makes the total quadruple>ignore debt collectors>live with your parents until you're 45its as simple as that
>>736463251put gtaVI/persona 6 and it will like hot bread
>>736470123as long as it's not student loan debt, debts disappear after seven yearsno reason to pay them at that point, your credit's already fucked
>>736470096It makes perfect sense because they want to pull people into their ecosystem and force them to give them 100% of the cost of DLC and PS+ as recurring revenue for them in addition to whatever profit they get from selling the system to you. As each PC port sells less and less there's less of a reason to actually port to it since you're giving up potentially dragging 1/4th of those people to your platform thanks to FOMO to gain a couple hundred thousand sales or a million at best where you pay 30% to Valve, Microsoft, or Nintendo and gain no perpetual subscriptions or payments.They have the numbers, the Insomniac leaks showed even a few years back the PC sales were not doing stellar compared to when they first revealed them, and the new CEO wants to bring people back to Playstation especially Japan.
>>736470192collectors can legally pursue it but most wont bother. if you owe 20k on your credit card you might be in trouble though.
>>736470303>the new CEO wants to bring people back to Playstation especially Japannot sure if they already given up in japan, since they raised the price there by 100%it looks pretty bad, and the japan only one is digital only
>>736463251>global recession comingwe're already in it
>>736466949The average steam user has 10 games in their library and got most of them during a sale, that hardly seems like a fanatic.
>>736469771CHADstationren......I kneel....
>>736470494And they want to fix that with PS6.
>>736472573Will they price the PS6 less than the PS5? Even their handheld sounds like it's going to be expensive.
reminder that the "stepping away from PC" rumor is nothing more then Jason (((Schrier))) making a baseless claim that Sony has never acknowledged even once
>>736463086Supposedly they believe it's not as profitable as they hoped but maybe they should have ported sony games people actually wanted instead of horseshit like horizon, the last of us, and nog-man 2.
>>736473006Snoy brand-cultists will still lap it up because it "owns" the pc-chuds.
>>736463086>should beso, from their own mouths. It isn't.
>>736468796>prebuiltOverpriced slop. I built a 12400f + RX 6600 PC for under $500 a couple of years ago. >zen 2Yeah that's not great. Upgrade to zen 3, ryzen 5600 should be a lot better. Should've gotten alder lake from the beginning though. 12400f is still going strong despite what AMD Unboxed tells you. >WuWa Believe me, that chink slop runs even worse on consoles.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DN3M4Fdug4>I also had to upgrade to 32GB of RAMI've never needed to upgrade to 32GB, and I'm using undebloated win 11. Should've upgraded your CPU first.>having a browser open and a game open at the same timeDo you think you can game while browsing the internet on a console?
PS-Sex Inbound
>>736463251They're going to subsidize the PS6 handheld to $550 to match the Steam Deck 2's price and be just $50 more expensive than the Switch 2 OLED.
>>736464443In an alternate universe, Xbox didn't exist and gaming as a whole is better and continued in the path it was meant to go in before Microsoft screwed it up.
>>736463251it's already bothed, unc
>>736465918Who the fuck is buying 5090z for 4000 dlls?
>>736464747Sony already controls it, the future of gaming are niches. This is great, Microsoft's Xbox fucked over Nintendo, Sony, and Valve for years, they ruined gaming during the 7th generation and sanitized the industry. Everything is healing because the Xbox is dying. AAA is dying, indies and AAs are rising, AAA globally are dropping that trash and going back to AA, Nintendo, Sony, and Valve are shifted gaming back to optimization, efficiency, and affordability alongside controller innovation, handhelds are back, Nintendo is back to their 80s/90s way, Sony is returning to PS1, PS2, PSP Sony, Valve is back to making games and no longer taking 10-year breaks in between because of Steam hardware. Gaming is finally correcting itself from Microsoft's kiss of death. Xbox can go under and never come out of its grave for all I care. Shit ruined both console and PC gaming.
>>736463086Sony keeps raising the prices on their consoles. Why would they think this is a viable strategy?
>>736473437>cannot run a shitty phone game at consistent 60fps>literally casually drops to 30Consoles are such a fucking joke it's unreal.
>>736474069Cause it keeps sellingIt could be 2k and still sell
>>736474062>Valve is back to making games
>>736468796Retard post. I became a pc chad in the 360 era and have made 3 pcs since, mostly because I upgraded too quickly and it could have been 2. My current pc has a 6800xt and equivalent cpu. I can still hit roughly 100fps at 1440p on most new games on ultra. It dips to 60fps on some games but I just turn the settings to high and I'm good. I'm upgrading on the next Gen of gpus but realistically I wouldn't have to until like 2032 (and even then my current power supply, cooler, drives, and case will probably all still be usable).Consoles are a meme. You are actually retarded. Stop telling people nonsense
>>736467124You say this but Valve will make sure Half-Life 3 and Deadlock are exclusive to Steam and made for Steam hardware and I love them for it. You can take your Microsoft mindset and shove it up your ass. Fuck Microsoft standardization.
Cortisol status: SpikedIt's so over
>>736474112Yes, did I stutter?
>>736463086Releasing their games on PC would just help out Valve's sale of their Steam Machine, which was probably a factor on why they pulled away from releasing their games on PC
Sony's going price the PS6 home console at $700 and the PS6 handheld at $550 to match the Steam Machine's $700 price and Steam Deck 2's $550 price despite that not coming out until early 2028, screencap this.
>>736463086you'd have to be a complete moron to think that now is the time to bring back exclusives, but then again this is sony who brought us hits like Morbius and Madame Web.
>>736474254LolLMAO even
>>736474329They're going to subsidize it unfortunately. They see Nintendo and Valve as competitors despite neither giving a single solid shit about Sony, kek.
>>736474192Deadlock and uh
>>736474374sony rips potential revenue away from nintendo and valve wtf are you talking about? sony makes 31b in revenue yearly, more than both competitors combined
>>736474374>They're going to subsidize itif they didn't subsidize the PS5, they sure as hell isn't going to do it for the PS6
>>736474459they did though. people thought ps5s were going to cost 1200 when they released and they even took a loss on it for 8 months
GODstationLORDstationCHADstationTITANstation
>>736474437Half-Life 3, Project White Sands
>new snoy machine on the horizonOh boy, brace for the usual wave of shilling about how THIS time for sure it's converting all PC players so you should get one too!
>>736474474>people thought ps5s were going to cost 1200what? where? everyone was saying $500 since that would be $100 more than the PS4 Pro. maybe $550
>Revenue
>>736474649which is overall spending thats not going to competitors, dipshit
>>736463086PlayStation for Sony Exclusives is not really a thing anymore. They tarnished that seal of quality.
>>736474716You do know that most of that activision revenue goes to Microsoft now, don't you? All those bethesda revenue, all that minecraft revenue?
>>736474451Xbox is dead, Sony couldn't give a fuck about Microsoft anymore, they want to carve a niche in Japan because their faggot ass western branches killed PlayStation in Japan. Nintendo and Valve are a huge threat to them there.>>736474459PS6s loses less money than PS5s, they'll subsidize it.
>>736463086>from 30% to 60%Good for their gaming division, what about their other businesses? Have Chinese and SK companies taken over their traditional electronics businesses?
>>736474779a lot does, but sony also makes a lot without having to do anythingsony having a successful ecosystem even with third parties draws people in and gets them to buy a lot of stuff on their platforms. every time somebody buys software/mtx on playstation thats more money that competitors dont get
>>736465446Consolefaggots cheered them on for making paid online purely because they le btfo the Xbox one announcement
>prices on hardware going up everywhere>sony literally jsut raised the cost of their portal and PS5/pro>nuh uh guys sony is totally going to eat the cost, AND they can get cheap components!
