Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has suggested that Sony will struggle to recoup the huge budgets invested in its first-party games without porting them to PC.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say Sony hates the fact that PC players pushed back on having a PlayStation network requirement on PC games. And they wanted that data.
But Sony is famous for making super bad decisions and backpedaling so I wouldn’t worry too much. Worst case, their exclusives will be emulated and pirated someday.
If anything, it has encouraged people like me who were happily buying exclusives on PlayStation and PC to stop spending any more money on PlayStation though.
I haven’t really heard anything to corroborate telemetry as the reason for the PSN requirement, though it could be true. I always figured it was just that they wanted to inflate their active user numbers, which are already inflated by people continuing to use PS4s as streaming TV machines.
They started putting games on PC to recoup some of their costs on these enormously expensive games, and now they’re pulling back to exclusivity because they believe it negatively impacts their ability to sell PlayStations. It just seems very damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
now they’re pulling exclusivity because they believe it negatively impacts their ability to sell PlayStations.
Could be several reasons, but this sounds really plausible. Could also do with the rumors about steam being on Xbox, which means Sony PC ports will be on Xbox too.
But I still think Sony’s gonna learn you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
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If I didn’t know better, I’d say Sony hates the fact that PC players pushed back on having a PlayStation network requirement on PC games. And they wanted that data.
But Sony is famous for making super bad decisions and backpedaling so I wouldn’t worry too much. Worst case, their exclusives will be emulated and pirated someday.
If anything, it has encouraged people like me who were happily buying exclusives on PlayStation and PC to stop spending any more money on PlayStation though.
I haven’t really heard anything to corroborate telemetry as the reason for the PSN requirement, though it could be true. I always figured it was just that they wanted to inflate their active user numbers, which are already inflated by people continuing to use PS4s as streaming TV machines.
They started putting games on PC to recoup some of their costs on these enormously expensive games, and now they’re pulling back to exclusivity because they believe it negatively impacts their ability to sell PlayStations. It just seems very damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Part of the issue is they wanted to retroactively put PSN on games already released. Hell Divers 2 being one such game.
Could be several reasons, but this sounds really plausible. Could also do with the rumors about steam being on Xbox, which means Sony PC ports will be on Xbox too.
But I still think Sony’s gonna learn you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.