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PayPalIt is now reportedly confirmed that Sony will no longer bring their PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC. Return of the console wars?
Back in March there was the report that Sony would be moving away from PC ports, and now it seems we have some further confirmation of this. Coming from Jason Schreier of Bloomberg posting on Bluesky to note: "SCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive, confirming Bloomberg's reporting from earlier this year."
They've put quite a few games on PC including The Last of Us, Stellar Blade, Horizon Zero Dawn, Helldivers 2, Spider Man, God of War and plenty more. But, they faced a fair amount of backlash when trying to force the PlayStation Network - and even restricted a bunch of games from purchases in many regions on Steam. So they did make a quite a few missteps there.
With Xbox (or is it XBOX now?), Microsoft are refocusing as well with their new gaming CEO. They've moved away from the everything is an XBOX branding, and will quite likely push some exclusives as well.
And so, with that, I'm making a firm claim that the console wars have returned. What a shame, we had a good run of it on PC for a while, and thanks to Valve's Proton we've been able to play tons of these AAA games on Linux but all good things come to an end as they say.
Now we just need the Linux powered Steam Machine to actually release.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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GustyGhost 1 hour ago
Arehandoro 1 hour ago
In my opinion, Sony and M$ lost this battle when they tried to have trimmed PCs as consoles. Valve saw the opportunity to blend together a console-like experience with a full-fledged OS instead, and people have responded to that. They've also seen the PC game market is fair-er(ish) that the console one, with true retro-compatibility, mod support, and better pricing.
Arehandoro 1 hour ago
Quoting: GustyGhostImagine running a business where your value proposition is in putting up artificial barriers to access your goods/services.Aren't most entertainment/tech businesses like this, though?
Netflix produces stuff only to be consumed on their platform. Same with Disney, Nintendo, HBO, Valve (They don't release their games on other stores), Apple...
I wish it wasn't like that, but here we are.
There's zero chance I'll get a playstation to play their "exclusives", although I gladly paid for them on PC, so that's a pity. But I suppose when you want to make profit on the hardware you sell at a loss, you have to force people's hand. A shame, since some of their PC port were really nice.
Maybe it's the idea of selling a console at a loss using some form of coercion just so they can hope to turn a profit later on should be re-evaluated… nah, who am I kidding. People were already up defending "muh exclusives", sadly. Oh well.
Quoting: PhlebiacThere were some pretty big delays between the console releases and the PC releases, so I can't imagine it was hurting their sales. Maybe the negative reaction to forced PSN is what shut it down, if they were hoping to get new subscribers that way.Numbers don't go up = shareholders unhappy = cuts.
Quoting: Cley_Fayeselling a console at a lossIs that even still true? Have you seen what the prices have elevated to? Usually they go down over time, but not in these crazy times...
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If they prefer to not sell more games and trying (again) to force gamers into their platform...
When did this ever work out?
Sure, they'll try for a while. And then realize again... and come back to PC.
Do they think people have consoles and PCs? I have no data, but my impression so far was, the majority of people either are console players or PC gamers. Sure there are some that have both. Yet offering stuff on more platforms usually results in more copies. Only if they can really say people are buying now PC copies instead of console copies, it's a resonable conclusion to go console exclusive again. I doubt that though. I think PC gamers also bought their games additionally to the console gamers.
Well, I also won't get a console to play exclusives. Too many other games to play.
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