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They'll be seeing fewer sales from PC players.
Epic exclusives says what?
Thank you so much! Less games to add to my pile of shame.
In no world am I buying a PS5 so I guess FAFO
Please FromSoftware goes to PC primarily!
Ohh noooo!
Now my backlog of games that should be shrinking is only going to grow by 10% next year instead of 12% like it could have!
The tech companies haven't driven me to the point of utter contempt for consoles like they have for phones, but at the same time I have multiple PCs and more games than I will ever play.
console wars are on again, but Valve will crush Sony.
They don't stand a chance. (*)
(*) Sorry Valve i just doomed you, my predictions are always wrong,.
They'll be seeing none of my money then. Maybe if I ever bother to play them it'll be for free on an emulator years from now, but honestly, I have a massive backlog of amazing games to play so it might not even be worth the effort. I bought most of their PC releases too. Oh well.
Future headline - "K shaped economy for gaming industry. How indie gaming won the market and AAA bites the dust."
LOL, I haven't bought a Sony product since the PSP. Don't threaten me with a good time, jackass.
Oh well, im still moving to PC. Im sick of missing out on mods.
Their loss. I won't buy a PS5 or later anyway.
Oh no, but the PC has no games
So just their exclusives which they barely make anymore. I can buy used for the 2.5 games Sony themselves makes per generation now when they aren't failing to trend chase a whaling game genre.
With as many as they release, that's what like, one every three years or so? I'll live.
Guess I’ll have to find some indie devs to give my money too.
I have been throwing money at them non stop, keep it up indie devs!
Honestly with the number of old games I have and the number of new awesome games on Steam, I am set for life. Sony, i need you not
I have not bought a Sony console since the PlayStation 2. I've "missed" a fair few games already. The ones that end up worth playing always seem to make their way to PC eventually.
Hey Sony, you know what's going to happen?
People are just not gonna play those games instead of buying a PS5 to play them.
Congrats on setting your money on fire.
Sony's strategy has been all over the place. This should have been the stance at the launch of PS5, if anything, not now.
Yeah, but the sad part is the games and the people who made them will get the short end of this stupid decision. The dipshit executives will see poor sales for such and such game and decide people didn't like the game, rather than that their dipshit decision drove away customers. Best case they decide to meddle harder in future releases, further enshitifying their games and hurting game developers.
ok
Guess I'll be buying fewer single player games
Darn.
Was really hoping my PC would do for playing future Horizon (not Hunters Gathering) and GoW games.
Didn't need a PS5, but I guess Sony doesn't want my money anymore.
Too bad.
We have PS4 emulation already, thanks to Bloodborne fans. With enough patience you will be able to play it on pc
I don't think the upcoming games are coming to PS4.
The Forbidden West DLC was already PS5/PC exclusive.
Meh, I have a ps5 already anyways and prefer to play on my couch, so no loss for me.
To me, consoles are a giant waste. Like, you got another fully capable computer that is artificially limited to gaming. This is an e-waste nightmare, all paid from our wallets.
Could be lovely to have a sort of thin client for couch gaming.
But to me, a gaming pc is a giant waste, because you spend $2-3000 to play games at a higher res or with extra rtx features, but the actual quality of the game hardly changes from the console version. A simple cheap pc could do most of your pc needs without the gaming function and be significantly cheaper.
In fact a cheap pc and a console net the same results as a high end gaming pc, but at a cheaper price, imo. So to each his own I guess.
You don't need a high-end PC to get the console experience. Something in the range of $700-800 will run your games no worse than a console, except you'll also get a fully functional computer that can use its full power for any other tasks.
Also, you won't be limited to a certain game library, store, or even the OS. You'll also be able to run any newer games indefinitely as long as your hardware can handle them. And if it can't, you can upgrade the GPU/CPU/RAM specifically instead of replacing the whole unit, saving money, granting customization features, and helping the environment.
So, to each...their own...I guess?
It'll definitely be more expensive than a console, since they sell the consoles at a loss expecting to make it back on the games. (But not that much more.)
... Especially in this fucking economy when it seems they're deliberately trying to destroy the concept of having a functional computer that you own and can run arbitrary stuff on.
Which, is why it's more important than ever to have a PC.
It, uh, was at least definitely possible to do a <$1000 computer back in 2020-25. Ours is under $1000 (I think we started at $400 for a no-GPU build in 2020ish, then got a used RX 580 ($150) once the GPU craze died down and a slightly better CPU ($100), and have an RX 6600 now). Though now with the exploding RAM prices...
-- Frost
Sony saw Xbox effectively exiting the console industry and said "excellent, now we have a monopoly on the space, we can make all our games console-exclusive." This is why, loathe as I am to admit it, it was a good thing for a competitive ecosystem for Microsoft to still be in the race. But since they decided to cap themselves...
Guess I'll have to buy a Steam Machine in a few years when RAM is available again.
LOL.
I mean, oh no! What will I do now? I only have a hundred thousand other games I can play now.
Guess I'll just not play PlayStation games now and go spend my money on amazing indie titles that seem to blow everything else out of the water these days.
Yeah.
TBH there are too many PC games. It’s overcrowded. Sony has some great studios, but it’s not like the platform will wither because they leave.
But like someone said, I’m more worried Sony thinks PC hardware won’t be viable anymore, and is exiting a dying platform. I know that seems inconceivable now, but a few years AMD/Intel/Nvidia could easily decide higher end gaming hardware is just not worth developing.
It’s already started, seeing AMDs and Intel already cut some GPUs and Nvidia is allegedly pondering the same.
too many similar games and knockoffs of each other.
Okay, they will sell less games.
Went decades without them. Didn't really play the ones that did become available.. No loss as far as I'm concerned.
As someone who played them all voraciously on PS5 then downloaded their repacks once they became available to mod the fuck out of them to give them new life to me, this hurts a lot.
Too many companies try to make it feel like you should be beholden to them because they made one game you like. Nope, it’s the platform (PC) for me. If you’re not making games for it anymore, your loss. I’m gonna find something else to play, not follow you around where you want.
I bought all of their consoles up to the PS4 but never got the use out of them that I did with my PC.
When they started releasing games on PC they (Sony) started getting money from me again because the games are great. But I guess they didn’t like that! And since I’m not buying a console, because they’re a scam, they won’t be getting my money.
Sony hasn't developed a good game since Gravity Rush 2 so I don't care.
I mean are we going to just pretend that God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Last of Us weren’t enormous successes?
Enormous success=/=good game
I didn’t say commercial success. They are critically acclaimed, nearly universally beloved game series lol. They are successes by pretty much every metric.
My read on this is that they don’t think the price of consumer components is ever going to come down, and that they’re not going to waste resources on something they think is going to become a marginalized platform.
Side note: the AI bubble cannot pop soon enough. Fuck Ai.