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[bender]

Not as lucrative in comparison, since this would allow them to grow their base

And I thought I was terrible at math.

 

[OverHeat]

We did our part

 

[YuLY]

I wonder why it barely moved in the past 3h though, like it is weird. It is good even so, but still weird.

 

[Draugoth]

Playing right not, but seeing a LOT of people pissed off they can't play or that the Steam store is advertising the game on unavailable countries

 

[Jaybe]

Rockstar doesn't want RDR1 to be BC, but MS just made it work.

This is veering very off-topic, but on this point, for a game to be made BC, it required publisher approval. MS didn’t go off and do a bunch of BC games without that permission.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

And I thought I was terrible at math.

You are, if you don’t understand my point

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Sounds like no one is going to have trouble playing Sony games on PC for the foreseeable future.

yup. As long as you dont mind waiting up to 4 years.

 

[bender]

You are, if you don’t understand my point

I'll let you know when I can wrap my head around you faulty point.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I'll let you know when I can wrap my head around you faulty point.

There’s nothing faulty about my point. You can disagree with whether you think they can grow their total addressable market on PC, I think they can.

The growth in TAM would far exceed the discount to 3P

 

[BennyBlanco]

If Sony decides to give 3P’s a better royalty arrangement, they would. That’s how you get them to comply

Yea that worked great for EGS, who also has the benefit of the biggest game in the world being exclusive to their launcher

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Yea that worked great for EGS, who also has the benefit of the biggest game in the world being exclusive to their launcher

Yeah they had one game and a bunch of other things wrong with their launcher. I’m not suggesting they do any of the things that made it unappealing to begin with

 

[kruis]

It's regions. Some are countries, some are Principates, or unincorporated territories, etc.
You do realize that there are still gamers in those regions that want to play this game but can't because of the PSN restriction.
The way you talk, it's something that does not affect you. Admittedly, it does not affect me, because I'm in the EU.
But I'm not self centered to think that there are not other gamers outside the Eu and USA.

What I'm saying is that the restrictions PC gamers in unsupported countries are the same for PS4/5 owners in those countries: as long as there's no PSN store in their countries, they'll have to make an an account (with a fake address) on another PSN store. And key stores like CDKeys are cheaper than official key stores and will sell to everyone, not matter where you're from.

If you want to play the game, you can.

It's a silly situation but there's nothing anyone can do anything about if Sony can't be arsed about setting up PSN stores in every country while at the same stating that anyone with a fake account is breaking their TOS. Sony is at fault, they're the ones forcing customers to break their TOS. But at least in the case of Ghost of Tsushima for PC, anyone who buys the game will be aware of the situation beforehand and can either jump through the hoops and play the game, or boycott the game out of principle. It's not like with Helldivers 2 when Sony was forcing PSN integration three months after the game had launched . It's a good thing Sony came to their senses and dropped that requirement.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Then tell your buddies to stop crying that the sky is falling.

Exactly.

A PC gamer 5000 miles away is playing a Sony first party game years later......... "Oh Muh Gawd! My life is falling apart!"

All other media like movie, music, TV shows, books where everyone does it using their own branded device. It goes farther where books can be done digitally or traditional on paper...... "Ya, no worries."

 

[Sethbacca]

I got no problem with it coming to pc

I just think Sony shouldn’t half ass their pc strategy

- make a PlayStation store on PC

- day 1 PlayStation exclusives and third party games

- cross buy and cross save between console and pc for all games sold

- trophy support, etc

A Movies Anywhere type setup for gaming would be amazing but they'll never do it and after watching MS crash and burn I doubt you'll ever see any of the big tentpole ips dropping day and date with PC. You'll probably get more GAAS games like Helldivers that rely on high online player counts for success though. If nothing else, the success of Nintendo and Sony have proven that exclusives are still the biggest driver for a winning strategy in the console industry at the moment.

 

[winjer]

What I'm saying is that the restrictions PC gamers in unsupported countries are the same for PS4/5 owners in those countries: as long as there's no PSN store in their countries, they'll have to make an an account (with a fake address) on another PSN store. And key stores like CDKeys are cheaper than official key stores and will sell to everyone, not matter where you're from.

If you want to play the game, you can.

It's a silly situation but there's nothing anyone can do anything about if Sony can't be arsed about setting up PSN stores in every country while at the same stating that anyone with a fake account is breaking their TOS. Sony is at fault, they're the ones forcing customers to break their TOS. But at least in the case of Ghost of Tsushima for PC, anyone who buys the game will be aware of the situation beforehand and can either jump through the hoops and play the game, or boycott the game out of principle. It's not like with Helldivers 2 when Sony was forcing PSN integration three months after the game had launched . It's a good thing Sony came to their senses and dropped that requirement.

And what I'm saying is that it's an unnecessary situation.
It's a problem created by Sony. One that did not exist.

 

[xVodevil]

Any stutter struggle?

Nope, it runs perfectly almost maxed out! I was a bit worried switching to one of them 4K OLED monitors from 1440p, but quite surprised how well the 4070 Ti handles even this now with all them RTX goodies. Nothing like Last of Us a year ago..

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

We did our part

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Whats that clip from? Looks hilarious. Worst acting ever.

 

[bender]

Whats that clip from? Looks hilarious. Worst acting ever.

The Walking Dead series. His attempt at a southern accent is terrible.

 

[THE DUCK]

Great game, hope it does well to keep the momentum up on more ps releases on pc.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Whats that clip from? Looks hilarious. Worst acting ever.

Peak Walking Dead

 

[bender]

Peak Walking Dead

 

[TxKnight7]

yup. As long as you dont mind waiting up to 4 years.

Was sea of thieves , Grounded, hi fi rush released day one on PS5? , people didn't have problem playing those games after years.. some still waiting for Ori games and gears 5 on PS. where is the problem?

 

[Gambit2483]

I know people who have been waiting years for this PC release. Wouldn't be surprised if it is one of the best performing Playstation titles on PC

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The Walking Dead series. His attempt at a southern accent is terrible.

Peak Walking Dead

I dont know the series and having trouble googling what scene that is. Looking to see what the whole scene is. Did the kid kill someone?

 

[bender]

I dont know the series and having trouble googling what scene that is. Looking to see what the whole scene is. Did the kid kill someone?

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The comments section is hilarious. Other people laugh at the seen too without context. lol

 

[Tomi]

"See chief, that's why we don't want to make Bloodborne on Steam, they will just downvote it anyway" some guy at the Sony headquarters justifying the delay of the Bloodborne port

 

[BennyBlanco]

Yeah they had one game and a bunch of other things wrong with their launcher. I’m not suggesting they do any of the things that made it unappealing to begin with

Not really. EGS is perfectly functional and a clear step above shit like Uplay, Xbox PC, and EA desktop. It’s just not as good as Steam but in a vacuum it’s a pretty decent launcher. I wish Sony or anyone else would come along with a good competitive launcher who actually put out games of their own. Ultimately I think Sony will do what Rockstar does. Launch games on their own barebones launcher and collect 100% of FOMO money then months later put them on Steam.

 

[ChiefDada]

Yeah but only 12 people

 

[Sethbacca]

I dont know the series and having trouble googling what scene that is. Looking to see what the whole scene is. Did the kid kill someone?

Basically the kid's mom turned into a zombie and he had to be the one to shoot her in the head. Dad came home and found out about it and voila, the crying Corrrrlllllllll meme was born

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Basically the kid's mom turned into a zombie and he had to be the one to shoot her in the head. Dad came home and found out about it and voila, the crying Corrrrlllllllll meme was born

I thought the dad lost his kid's college money on a super bowl bet.

 

[Sethbacca]

I thought the dad lost his kid's college money on a super bowl bet.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Not really. EGS is perfectly functional and a clear step above shit like Uplay, Xbox PC, and EA desktop. It’s just not as good as Steam but in a vacuum it’s a pretty decent launcher. I wish Sony or anyone else would come along with a good competitive launcher who actually put out games of their own. Ultimately I think Sony will do what Rockstar does. Launch games on their own barebones launcher and collect 100% of FOMO money then months later put them on Steam.

Not really according to your crew, EGS is a mess apparently

 

[Larxia]

- make a PlayStation store on PC

Ew no, keep it on steam.
I don't even understand why someone would WANT another launcher.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Was sea of thieves , Grounded, hi fi rush released day one on PS5? , people didn't have problem playing those games after years.. some still waiting for Ori games and gears 5 on PS. where is the problem?

who said anything about there being a problem. You seem to be fixing for a fight no one is having.

But to address your point though, all those games you mentioned are on the Xbox right? The difference between PlayStation and Xbox is that the PS games on Sony's platform actually does something for the platform. So Sony releasing their EOL games on the PC is so they can make some more money and get a second wind... that is not the same reason MS is releasing stuff on the PS platform.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Not really according to your crew, EGS is a mess apparently

It’s just lacking a bunch of features from Steam but it functions just fine unlike other launchers. They pissed PC gamers off with moneyhats.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

It’s just lacking a bunch of features from Steam but it functions just fine unlike other launchers. They pissed PC gamers off with moneyhats.

Well I would hope a Sony store would have feature parity with something like Steam sling with some things Steam doesn’t have

What’s wrong with that? It would provide more competition. Third parties would still be everywhere and Sony games on their own launcher

 

[BennyBlanco]

Well I would hope a Sony store would have feature parity with something like Steam sling with some things Steam doesn’t have

What’s wrong with that? It would provide more competition. Third parties would still be everywhere and Sony games on their own launcher

There is nothing wrong with that, I just seriously doubt they could pull it off. A better question is why are you actively rooting for this?

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

There is nothing wrong with that, I just seriously doubt they could pull it off. A better question is why are you actively rooting for this?

Just so Sony can monetize the PC audience better so that they continue growing their studios or funding 2nd party projects

 

[SmokedMeat]

Just so Sony can monetize the PC audience better so that they continue growing their studios or funding 2nd party projects

Are you rooting for them to go all digital too? Physical game sales are the smallest cut for them.

 

[SmokedMeat]

A rare moment of weakness. I watched some reviews and it just looks so damn good, so bought it off GMG.

Installing now.

 

[diffusionx]

Sony benefitted enormously by ubishit taking the wraps off their stupid game the day before.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Are you rooting for them to go all digital too? Physical game sales are the smallest cut for them.

Yeah I’ve been 100% digital since the PS360 era

 

[RavionUHD]

It could get much higher during the weekend and surpass Spider-Man.

 

[adamsapple]

Yeah I’ve been 100% digital since the PS360 era

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

The trouble is in the waiting

This is a 4 year old game

That is telling so after 4 years a game is coming to PC and sells like this? Its good for Sony to know, No need to port games earlyer than 2 year to the PC, the PC crowd will still buy it

 

[Alexios]

So it crashes for many folks after the launcher and people are accusing them of having too old of a CPU without AVX2 or whatever instructions but then the game magically works if you just delete the PCPS_SDK folder from C:\ProgramData\Sony or whatever and that also worked for me and it runs fine on medium settings (maybe High too with 30fps, not sure) 1440p FSR3 @ Quality (without frame gen obviously on my GTX1080) on my 3770K after doing that. Shame they never patched Relink for non AVX cpus like Sony did some other port, I wanted to check it out and it'd probably run fine...

 

[Desprado123]

68,216 peaked right now.

 

[Desprado123]

So now it is officially Sony's third best title to launch of PC it has beaten Spiderman all time peak.

All time peak 68,826.

I was not expecting this game to beat Spiderman and Horizon Forbidden West on PC and it was surprise for me.