Is PlayStation no longer doing exclusives?

On the bright side you can experience their games with higher fidelity.

Like Ultra wide screen, DLSS, uncapped framerate, VR mod etc

 
Because they dont know if they ll win next generation. Regarding this gen, they won, so they have no need to go guns blazing now
They dont have any direct competitors anymore until Xbox releases their next gen console.

We need Xbox to go all out to offer a smidgen of competition to Sony.

Sadly Sony has become too popular, so they dont need to put in any effort.
 
If Sony has no exclusives in the future, what the fuck is the point of buying their console? MS did this, and look where it got them. Nintendo didn't, and they're swimming in cash. Weird situation.
Did you ever ask yourself why Wii U only sold 13 million units (forcing Nintendo to run away for the console)?

At the same time, why PS4 sold 100+ million units while the majority of games were also on PC?

Keep using Xbox as a prove of something is just nonsense. Xbox have fail for a lot of reasons, since bad communication to incredible bad marketing strategies.
 
MS made their system irrelevant. If you can play all their games on pc, their xbox has no reason to exist. And their sales prove this being the case. Is Sony trying to do the same thing, or something?
Sony is being run by braindead retards, Don Mattrick tier, it's not a good sign for the platform at all.
 
Who cares about exclusives. The only one I bought was AstroBot the others I wait for PSplus. I'm here for Monster Hunter and From Software. And I don't know how anyone can be disappointed after the SoP and also having tomorrow the Summer Game Fest with way more PS5 games. There are plenty of new games coming out. And all the Xbox catalog as well.
LoL.. ok.
 
Sony relies heavily on being a cheaper option than a gaming PC to play most games, first and third.

The output of FP studios this gen is embarrassing.
Yup that's it. For those who can wait there is barely any reason at all to have a PS5 as long as they have a capable PC.

But I want DF to make a serious comparison what you actually need to go head to head with PS5 Pro on PC. I doubt you'll get there with the whole package, performance and silence, even when paying 2x a Pro. PC gaming isn't really the same market as I see it.
 
I haven't noticed any significant changes in Sony's strategy over the past several years. They have typically released 2 to 3 major games exclusively for the PS5—whether first-party titles or otherwise—and then ported them to PC about a year later. This year, this is Death Stranding and Ghost. I don't expect this cadence to change going into PS6.
 
Still crossing my fingers for a Demon Souls remake port on PC. I still got my copy just in case it never happens. What did it for me to move on from the ps5 and sell it was ff16 coming to pc.
 
A few years back, I didn't even know what "exclusives" were. Honestly I don't think the vast majority of people who play games care either way. Only ever seems to be a huge debate online.
 
Short version: Basically all most first party studios were working on GaaS games that reviewed poorly internally and were cancelled. So now they're all starting over with new projects that you won't see for a few more years.
 
People understanding in 2025 that games are expensives to make and needs to release on multiple platforms to be profitable...
Yea that's bullshit.

Sony has done a very poor job of managing their studios and their costs have spun out of control... $300 million for Spiderman 2 is ridiculous considering what that game was.
 
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I guess the point has already been made, but there is an important distinction between "full exclusives" and "console exclusives." It's not an arbitrary distinction, because console exclusivity plays a critical role in the success of a console. It gives console gamers (most of whom have no interest in PC gaming) a reason to choose your console over the other guy's. Granted, this is becoming less of a factor as Xbox fades from the scene as a competitor. But console exclusivity isn't going away.
 
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Pc and switch today, xbox tomorrow :p Sony are probably looking at how much money MS is making on the Sony stores now licking their lips
 
I don't see Astrobot being ported to PC

I believe it will be ported at some point in the next 6 months IMO. Doucet said they want to expand it beyond the PS5.

Same with Gran Turismo.

Agreed, I don't think that will ever happen. PD wants their stuff perfect. They can't control their perfection in a PC environment with all the entry level machines, different gpus, cpus, etc.
 
To my recollection none of the Sony exclusives games have come on Xbox, only PC, after an year or two.
Yeah its literally this. Nothing first party has come to Xbox. The only former exclusive that did was Death Stranding 1 after 5 years…Death Stranding 2 is again exclusive so long wait for a Xbox release
 
Until Dawn remake didn't take a year. Same for the upcoming Marvel fighting game
Some of them are 6 months now (TLOU Part 1). Even day and date for remasters. It used to be like 5+ years but now it's much more common to be released way sooner now to PC. Spider-Man 2 was like 15 months.
 
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I think we have Chinese gamers to thank for all this. Chinese is the #1 language on Steam now. It's an enormous market. It's probably smarter to reach these customers where they already exists rather than spend huge customer acquisition costs.
 
It's not minor if you want a hassle-free experience.

I had way more issues with my 360 and PS3 during that generation of hardware than I've had with my PC since I built it in 2011. I had RROD twice and my original PS3 went YLOD and had to be replaced due to the board actually cracking it warped so bad. My PS4 didn't have hardware issues per say, but it would get clogged up with dust and turn into a hair dryer until I disassembled it to the point where I could get to the heat sync. Similar story on the PS5 but not as bad. I also had random game crashes, system restarts, error codes that didn't provide any help, etc.

By comparison, I've never had any issues with drivers across 14 years of running Nvidia cards, and now a couple months of AMD. I've never had any hardware failures on modern PC hardware (since 2011). I've occasionally (once every few years) had a game crashing at boot up. When that happens, a quick google search gives me a specific troubleshooting step that fixes the problem in 5 minutes.

This idea that console gaming is trouble free and the PC is a wild wild west just doesn't hold water.
 
When that happens, a quick google search gives me a specific troubleshooting step that fixes the problem in 5 minutes.
That's the big difference here, a google search going for an unknown amount of time (mins/hours/days/weeks) vs something directly handed to you in a patch because all hardware is the same on consoles.
 
I had way more issues with my 360 and PS3 during that generation of hardware than I've had with my PC since I built it in 2011. I had RROD twice and my original PS3 went YLOD and had to be replaced due to the board actually cracking it warped so bad. My PS4 didn't have hardware issues per say, but it would get clogged up with dust and turn into a hair dryer until I disassembled it to the point where I could get to the heat sync. Similar story on the PS5 but not as bad. I also had random game crashes, system restarts, error codes that didn't provide any help, etc.

By comparison, I've never had any issues with drivers across 14 years of running Nvidia cards, and now a couple months of AMD. I've never had any hardware failures on modern PC hardware (since 2011). I've occasionally (once every few years) had a game crashing at boot up. When that happens, a quick google search gives me a specific troubleshooting step that fixes the problem in 5 minutes.

This idea that console gaming is trouble free and the PC is a wild wild west just doesn't hold water.
It is for people who are literally clueless about pc's though, and I think that's what's holding them back.

They are too scared to even inplug a Dualsense controller, download a program that lets them use it on every game.

That for them is already a "hassle"
 
It is for people who are literally clueless about pc's though, and I think that's what's holding them back.

They are too scared to even inplug a Dualsense controller, download a program that lets them use it on every game.

That for them is already a "hassle"
We get people on here all the time talking about what they're going through to fix their PC, and they are PC enthusiasts.

I've done my time with Windows tinkering, (aside from a work PC) I'm done with it.

I'd rather just game.
 
Buying a PlayStation for exclusive games is over, it's much more worthwhile to wait and play the definitive version on PC, especially since ports are getting faster and faster.
 
Aside from the Switch, consoles aren't about exclusives anymore
They are basically about being a relatively affordable way to play most major games, that's optimized to be easy to use, requiere minimal setup from the user and work well from the couch out of the box. Sony still gives you the added bonus of a timed exclusivity window for their non AAA games.
 
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What planet were you living on in the past few years?
The planet where you pretend to not know things in order to create some doom and gloom. You also have to incorrectly say stuff like no exclusives exist, PS is porting everything to PC, and PS is going third party to get some extra points.
 
Exclusives? Seem to me like they are barely making any games.

Hopefully the gaas scam goes away soon and they go back to making single-player games instead of cancelling multi-player gaas turds.
 
What IP? you think they own Marvel?
I think he's mistaken in regards to the right. Sony does own a lot of the Marvel characters (movie rights, but I think they fully own everything related to the Spider-Man universe). If he thinks Sony owns Marvel then I want what he's smoking
 
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My god thousands of games get released each year even without exclusives there is more than enough to play. The only company that needs to worry about exclusives is actually nintendo since they have such shit 3rd party support.
Think Tim Robinson GIF by NETFLIX


I could always tell Jim Ryan was an out of touch money first short cheese type of guy. I would have thrown a party at MS myself when he got in. That said, he did setup the business side pretty well. Just fucked up their 1st party pipeline for a decade trendchasing. Worst mistake Sony ever made. Only MS being worse in every way saved them. Had real competition existed Sony would be blown out but nothing came along and now we are library locked so Playstation for another 10 years at least.

What is it about old, non-gamer execs that the only thing they know how to do is copy the market leader? Basically they tried to turn Playstation into Activision. I think Jim did a terrible job. It harmed my hobby and he should feel bad about it because he did it to try to raise money at Sony's fanbase's expense, but it is what it is. He's gone and we are left to pick up the pieces. Closing Japan studios and blocking out Bloodborne is just one of the many dumbass errors Sony has made over recent years.

What saved us from Sony's absolute worst predilections? It was probably a couple of things.
Video Game Ps5 GIF by PlayStation
Donald Trump GIF by Election 2016
 
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Yes you can cover almost everything with PC

Fixed that for you.

But here's the truth though, PC is like the sea-bed of gaming. Everything ends up there... eventually.

The thing is though, most people don't want to wait - FOMO and all that - so timed exclusives still matter almost as much a permanent exclusives.
 
I think we have Chinese gamers to thank for all this. Chinese is the #1 language on Steam now. It's an enormous market. It's probably smarter to reach these customers where they already exists rather than spend huge customer acquisition costs.
It's not just that. Steam users and players were untapped market for Sony until recently. They found out not releasing their most popular exclusive IPs on the platform was just shooting themselves in the foot financially.
 
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Buying a PlayStation for exclusive games is over, it's much more worthwhile to wait and play the definitive version on PC, especially since ports are getting faster and faster.

Kinda

Want a convenient box under your TV?

Buy a PlayStation


Want a convenience portable?

Buy a Switch


Want to tinker with something?

Buy a PC
 
Yea that's bullshit.

Sony has done a very poor job of managing their studios and their costs have spun out of control... $300 million for Spiderman 2 is ridiculous considering what that game was.
This isn't exclusive to Sony though so pointing them out is stupid. This is an industry wide problem that affects a lot of developers.
 
No longer having exclusives mean giving up to PC

I only buy consoles for exclusives

PC + Nintendo is what I currently need to play everyting

Xbox and PS is not needed any more.
 
"There is no reason to get a PS5" said no From Software fan ever

Bloodborne and Demon Souls Remake salute you
 
The day that happens will be when there's no longer a AAA industry of any sort.
You're missing the point of why I said that. They sunk billions, created studios, hired and laid off studios and teams, shipped and canned multiple projects and games chasing the GaaS:
• Factions 2
• Concord
• Marvel's Spider-Man online
• Destruction All-Stars
Plus all the ones we don't know about. Instead of doing what they were good at that was sure fire and cheaper money, they burned it on all multiple consecutive gambles like a broke father with a mortgage to pay off hoping to hit the lottery one more time.
 
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