Hermen Hulst: "Live service games will come day and date on PS5 and PC"

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Hermen Hulst, soon to be co-CEO of Sony's PlayStation business, addresses day 1 PC releases. Live service games will come day and date on PS5 and PC, but single player narrative games on PC are designed to then entice PC owners to play sequels on a PlayStation console
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Yep, as I expected and predicted.

That setup is the most logical for them as they still want to sell hardware while maximizing profits from games such as Helldivers II.
 
Soon enough it will be single player games too - you would be a fool to think otherwise.
Wont happen overnight - and it might take awhile - but it will happen.

Plus if the next 'consoles' have Steam integrated - pretty much all games will be on all consoles.
Its a new era of gaming - thats for sure. Gonna be some major growing pains for the diehards.
 
Naked Lunch said:
Soon enough it will be single player games too - you would be a fool to think otherwise.
Wont happen overnight - and it might take awhile - but it will happen.

Plus if the next 'consoles' have Steam integrated - pretty much all games will be on all consoles.
Its a new era of gaming - thats for sure. Gonna be some major growing pains for the diehards.
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Why the hell would Playstation put Steam in their ecosystem? What we learned tonight is that Playstation isn't changing anything going forward. PC players going to have to wait minimum 2 years for PS5 ports
 
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It should be all of them but yeah no shit GASS games. They are designed to generate money after the initial interaction so they need that audience.
 
Yup Sony has no interest to destroy their console business like Microsoft did, they want to exploit the PC market to enrich their current business.
 
I'm permanently done buying PS hardware after PS5. I dont care if their single player games take 2-4 years personally so their strategy seems fine to me. Makes sense. They still have significant 3rd party sales to protect on their ecosystem.
 
Pey. said:
He's deluded if he thinks any PC player will be enticed to play sequels on their platform. They clearly don't know them.
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There are already tons of PC players that have Playstation systems. If Sony went day and date with everything, that would drastically affect their ecosystem, just as it did with Xbox
 
Punished Miku said:
I'm permanently done buying PS hardware after PS5. I dont care if their single player games take 2-4 years personally so their strategy seems fine to me. Makes sense. They still have significant 3rd party sales to protect on their ecosystem.
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If you are hardcore Xbox, just buy PC.

You can ditch xbox and play all of PS games.
 
PC players know they're gonna release their SP games there from now on, after about a year. And there's more than enough going on on PC all the time to keep players busy in the meantime.

I don't think they're gonna succeed at all at converting these players. But I also don't think they actually believe it.

They're probably saying it mainly to keep PS5 players on their platform, instead of bringing PC players to it.
 
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rhodesianshepard said:
There are already tons of PC players that have Playstation systems. If Sony went day and date with everything, that would drastically affect their ecosystem, just as it did with Xbox
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100%

I play games on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PSVR 2, Quest, etc.

The only one I sort of regret buying is the Series X and its mainly because of the games being day 1 on PC.

PC gamers aren't just PC gamers, they generally own other systems too.

So yeah, this is the best way forward for Playstation, in my opinion.

I'll definitely keep buying Playstation's and Nintendo's in the future for the exclusive titles regardless of other platforms I use.
 
I dunno but sometimes I just think the PC community can get a bit insufferable and they demand everything on their PC aka intense portbegging. 🤷
 
ULTROS! said:
I dunno but sometimes I just think the PC community can get a bit insufferable and they demand everything on their PC aka intense portbegging. 🤷
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I mean, these companies are giving us their games nonstop. We dont port beg for these games, aside of the nonexistance bloodborne.
 
Kssio_Aug said:
PC players know they're gonna release their SP games there from now on, after about a year. And there's more than enough going on on PC all the time to keep players busy in the meantime.

I don't think they're gonna succeed at all at converting these players. But I also don't think they actually believe it.

They're probably saying it mainly to keep PS5 players on their platform, instead of bringing PC players to it.
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Hulst never said console, he said Playstation platform, and that wasn't a mistake.
 
Alphagear said:
Never give up do you for Day 1.

Theres more chance of it going the other way.

Sony has stopped publishing games on PC in the past.

Don't forget Psygnosis and SOE.
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No chance.

Think of all those small 3rd party publishers from the late 90s like Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Take 2 etc...

They all became massive companies because they went day and date with everything.

Hardware is losing relevance in the modern era.
 
ChiefDada said:
PC gamers have effectively become second class citizens having to contend with drastically higher prices because of this AI future, it is understandably a tough/sucky situation and I sincerely mean that. I think Sony understands now more than ever that they can successfully court a greater share of the PC market with a mid gen refresh this time around because of the aforementioned market dynamics.
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