PS5 Fans Against Multiplatform Games Email Sony, Get Response

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Nevertheless, players want clarification, and at least one fan has received a response from Sony. Although it's the most boilerplate text I've ever seen, I'm frankly surprised that Sony even bothered to entertain the email.

"While we continue to explore new ways to grow and evolve the gaming ecosystem, we are committed to preserving the unique identity that PlayStation represents," Sony wrote. "As we have in the past, we will always listen to feedback from our community, including valued players like you, and ensure that our decisions are aligned with the experiences you expect from PlayStation."

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A recent PlayStation job ad ended up ruffling feathers as it suggested that PS5 first-party games were destined for Xbox… or at least that’s how a large portion of the gaming community took it. What followed was somewhat of a firestorm, and now some concerned fans are emailing Sony to inquire...
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Jesus, what a total lowlife you must be to actually message a console manufacturer asking if they'll bring their games to other platforms. It doesn't change a damn thing for your own gaming experience.
 
Anyone upset enough to email Sony about exclusives going to PC is probably a big enough fanboy to continue buying Sony products even if all the games were on PC day one, so I doubt Sony cares.
 
Exclusives are about excluding other people from the same games.
This only benefited companies, never gamers.
Only the worst fanboys are for exclusive games.
It's good that Sony will allow more and more people to play their games.
 
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I love Sony and PlayStation but Spider-Man 2, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok and The Last of Us Part 2 were all so disappointing and significantly worse than their predecessors that other platform users can have them.
 
Zathalus said:
Anyone upset enough to email Sony about exclusives going to PC is probably a big enough fanboy to continue buying Sony products even if all the games were on PC day one, so I doubt Sony cares.
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I'd go a step further and put them on a watch list & remove any guns they have access to.
 
I don't get it...why do people care? I still get the same games. I don't give a fuck if others get them or not lol. Playstation users don't get better games because others don't get them*.

* unless games start to be less optimized day on for PS consoles because these studios can't build their games with a single piece of hardware in mind.
 
winjer said:
Exclusives are about excluding other people from the same games.
This only benefited companies, never gamers.
Only the worst fanboys are for exclusive games.
It's good that Sony will allow more and more people to play their games.
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I said this in another thread some time ago, but, as someone who wants all games to be multiplatform, no, exclusives aren't just good for business, there is legitimate and valid reason to have an exclusive creatively as well. From a development stand point, having one fixed hardware spec that you can optimize around and code to the metal for is what allows games to punch above their weight, something that you can never achieve with multiplatform games using generic middleware and abstraction layers, because of how much insane overhead those need. That kind of optimization is why we got something like MGS4 or Tears of the Kingdom. Take that away, and you lose on that.
 
Sony fans don't see the full picture here. By opening up to other platforms, Naughty Dog secures at least 10 years more of activity porting the same two Last of Us games.
 
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Are we expecting some Spidey and Drake on Xbox then or is that simply pissing in the wind?

Some of their first party were the only reason I bought their consoles, I much preferred playing the majority of games on Xbox.
 
I'd say they need to get out more, but I'd rather the chronically online stay inside where I don't have to deal with them. As long as this keeps them away from the general public, I'm all for it.
 
Ar¢tos said:
Why would people care? It doesn't stop them from playing the games on their PlayStations...
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I'm guessing the fear is that if Sony do a Microsoft and go multiplatofrm, then this means less PlayStation consoles sold.

Less consoles sold means Sony might just give up on hardware, which might leave digital libraries built on the PS Store in limbo?

I'm just spitballing here and trying to come up with some kind of rational. These are not my personal views
 
IDKFA said:
I'm guessing the fear is that if Sony do a Microsoft and go multiplatofrm, then this means less PlayStation consoles sold.

Less consoles sold means Sony might just give up on hardware, which might leave digital libraries built on the PS Store in limbo?

I'm just spitballing here and trying to come up with some kind of rational. These are not my personal views
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Xbox doesn't have the global appeal of Playstation and people have their digital libraries accumulating there. I think that even if they did all their games multiplatform day 1, they would still greatly outsell Xbox.
 
LakeOf9 said:
I said this in another thread some time ago, but, as someone who wants all games to be multiplatform, no, exclusives aren't just good for business, there is legitimate and valid reason to have an exclusive creatively as well. From a development stand point, having one fixed hardware spec that you can optimize around and code to the metal for is what allows games to punch above their weight, something that you can never achieve with multiplatform games using generic middleware and abstraction layers, because of how much insane overhead those need. That kind of optimization is why we got something like MGS4 or Tears of the Kingdom. Take that away, and you lose on that.
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Consoles and PCs are now very similar. Both PCs, Xbox and PlayStation use X86 CPUs and (U)RDNA GPUs.
And they use the same tools for development. And compilers today are much more efficient at their work.
We are no longer in the age of highly customized platforms that require massive amounts of coding to metal.
Of course Sony will continue to optimize first for their console. The same for Xbox.
But having all these games in multiple platforms, is great for all gamers. And it also means there is a chance for greater profit, as there are many more potential buyers.
And at a time when games cost so much to develop, this last point becomes very important.
 
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Im surprised this cat decided to actually post the response and censor the sender as if this wasnt just a copy-paste leave us alone response.
 
I mean, they responded to PC wastelanders on the Helldivers 2 PSN stuff in 48 hours with a complete 180, so yeah I'm kinda surprised they acknowledged their core fanbase for a change this gen. Even kind enough to respond back with an email.

Maybe now they're learning?

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some Sony fanboys are mental

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It's not that crazy of a claim. A rather open secret that Sony Corp and Microsoft have a decent number of shared investors/shareholders, who want to protect their financial investments in both corporations. Which in a way would create a conflict of interest, because if they allowed SIE to be fully competitive with Microsoft's Xbox division in a post-ABK world, we wouldn't be seeing some of the moves from SIE we've been seeing more recently. Those are just facts.

That's why I feel what "competition" exists between them now is mainly theatrical, and to just put on a show. They are more cooperative than competitive these days but it's been that way for years, and they'll play around with the whole "good cop, bad cop" motif, changing roles every once in a while. But the days of SIE and Microsoft Gaming/Xbox being truly competitive with one another are dead.

You'd probably laugh at the idea of Nintendo having a venture capitalist investor meant to act as a Microsoft proxy to weaken them, until those leaked emails proved that's exactly what Microsoft had investors like ValueAct present for. Thankfully Nintendo smelled the BS and made changes to cut those types of investors off completely. SIE weren't as lucky, because those choices would've had to come from Sony Corp and, well, they don't care.
 
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Are we expecting some Spidey and Drake on Xbox then or is that simply pissing in the wind?
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No one knows yet. I'd say the older the games are the better the chances.

You'd think Sony has big plans if they're looking to pay someone roughly 300k a year to do the job.

Senior Director of Multiplatform & Account Management who will 'play a critical leadership role in shaping and executing the global commercial strategy for PlayStation Studios software titles across all digital platforms beyond PlayStation hardware, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, Nintendo, and mobile. This role is accountable for optimizing title profitability, ensuring cross-functional alignment, and leading a high-performing team focused on multiplatform expansion, mid-range commercial planning, and platform partner management.'
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Ar¢tos said:
Why would people care? It doesn't stop them from playing the games on their PlayStations...
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Highly probable multiplat release will come 2-3 years later to the other platform and I can only imagine in what state they will run on the other platforms looking at the pc version, so such people should care even less...
 
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Kacho said:
No one knows yet. I'd say the older the games are the better the chances.

You'd think Sony has big plans if they're looking to pay someone roughly 300k a year to do the job.
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That's just to shape the communication strategy. 300k just to shape the message that multiplatform is fine.
 
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