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Well ... historically consoles degenerated over the years. Not a surprise they try to apply life support to their dying platforms in the form of exclusives. It's how Nintendon't (despite suing people) survived the last two decades and yet don't know they are on a dying platform as well.

I mean not even Microsoft realised Windows is a dead platform as well and still clinging to it and just making the live of every Windows users even more miserable every day just because they can not let go and accept the future is cross platform (not web based cross platform)

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Quoting: walther von stolzingI've finally run emacs inside Minecraft ... fine; but I think what I really want to do is to run Minecraft inside emacs.

Give either EXWM or EWM a try?

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TBH for me all their best Single player games are already on PC. The only thing currently I would be interested in the future is another addition to the Last of Us series and potentially a new God of War game. I would assume both these titles would not launch til PS6 at this point.

Though hopefully some good will come out of this and Sony will refocus on making good Single player games again. This constant chasing of live service money is clearly not working.

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I would've enjoyed sightseeing in Yotei at some point, but it's not enough of a draw to make me buy the hardware. A handful of mostly unremarkable exclusive games per generation means 'see ya in 20 years!' if that.

Overcorrection.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI don't quite understand some of them.
For example: Why remove "Warhammer 40k" as a tag?

Considering the removal of LEGO, Dungeons & Dragons and Games Workshop, I guess it's a push to "de-brandize" tags, remove IP/trademarked terms, and go in a more general direction than referencing other companies or specific products.

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Obvious. When the market becomes competitive, just cut off the largest share of consumers from you potential customer share.

Instead of replacing the jobs of the consumers, leaving them with no salary to spend in games, of all the jobs they could have replaced with AI they should have started with the easiest ones to automatize. CEOs 🤣.

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"Wolves - Also known as Canis Lupus"
they have sense of humor

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@TheSHEEEP
They generaly removed tags that are IPs. Also, Warhammer games are already really upfront about what they are in the title ;)

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Quoting: WMan22I wish this was just a regular feature like OtherOS was on PS3, the value add this gives to consoles, especially surrounding matters of End of Life plans, is downright nuts.

Like, Sony's pulling out of single player PC gaming because they want people to buy Playstations but if they just simply made this a feature, bringing PC to Playstation instead of Playstation to PC, they'd accomplish their goal with considerable efficiency. Hell, I'd buy a Playstation again if they did this.

the only way for that to happen is if valve and / or micrsoft sell a shit ton of consoles with their open platform aproach and sony see thenselves forced to follow.

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sad to see Sony is no longer making narrative single-player games, hopefully they start making them again in the future

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This is a huge loss for everyone, including Sony itself...
I wonder if this has something to do with the next Xbox console being a PC and probaply able to play their games.

For now I´m just gonna be patient in the ancient wisdom that everything comes (back) to Steam eventually.

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I cannot imagine that being a smart move financially. Most people I know who game on PC have bought at least on of the titles Sony brought over. Only one of them has a PS and most would never get one no matter which games they miss.

I don't know what Sony expected... That people start getting a PS after playing formerly exclusive games on PC? That everyone would start using PSN in one way or another?
They treated their PC customers less than stellar: forced PSN, Denuvo, intentionally breaking fetures on Linux, ports coming a year after their PS release at best... which is a shame, because some of those are technically quite good otherwise. I've always felt that bringing games to PC was a very good idea followed by a couple really bad ones.

After buying Bungie for way too much money, aiming to go full live service with about a dozen games, Concord arguably being the biggest finanical flop in gaming history and Marathon doing meh on Steam I thought they'd make some good decisions now that would make them some money. Seems like they don't want to do it on PC. Bummer. I'd have bought a PC version of Bloodborne in a heartbeat if it'd had been a proper port.

I don't know what'll happen to Sony if they keep making weird decisions, but seeing that they closed Bluepoint of all studios makes me think that a couple more will end up on the chopping block. I wonder who's next. My guess is that Horizon Hunters Gathering will be the end of Guerrilla. Well, we'll see...

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Quoting: Dana SoulySteam removing NSFW and mature tags, because audience is not adult.
Sure Gabe, you're not an adult so am I not, also.

There's a developer content flag system that's independent of the user tags.

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Steam removing NSFW and mature tags, because audience is not adult.
Sure Gabe, you're not an adult so am I not, also.

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So Sony isn't getting my money for Horizon 3… their loss.

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So Sony ceased existing again? Understood.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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I just dont see how Sony wont go ape sh** on the project. Once someone will make pirate Sony games run on PS...

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Bye, Sony! 😁

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It'll always be "horde-survival" to me!!

I do agree with other comments that the tags are often useless. I tried to find a good RPG for the train today, I was hit with things like Borderlands 4, which might be technically "role playing", but not really what I would associate with that tag.

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What if the declining console sales are not a result of the lack of exclusives but of shrinking living spaces of young adults? What will they do next if the numbers still don't go up?

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Quoting: Cley_Fayeselling a console at a loss

Is 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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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.

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"Buy our consoles, OR ELSE!" strategy. I guess they did run the numbers.

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.

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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.

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There 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.

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There was an article recently, from Bloomberg talking about GTA VI and console-first release, stating that from multi-plataform game sales, around 50% came from PC, and I think these recent changes to stop releasing games on PC might come from that.

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.

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As long as they don't start removing them...

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Imagine running a business where your value proposition is in putting up artificial barriers to access your goods/services.

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Seems like a good list of changes to me.

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