I do. But we're just playing games together on PC if we're in the mood. And usually just games where you can get drunk. E.g. there's a cool browser-based version of Settlers of Catan. Or we play Quake 3. Or we play Age of Empires 2.
Nobody expect nerd to have a friend's with similar tastes. It require some social adaptability, which typical PC nerd lacks
Gaming is my hobby, I for sure have quite a few friends whom I made on the basis of this hobby, so of course I can discuss games with them - we literally share same interest. "I game alone at night in a garage, so I don't have anybody to talk games about" - it might be a case for some but certainly not for all.
I'm just relaying what Sony is saying. Profit margins are "not in a wonderful situation". They're less interested in "popularizing the console" and more interested in building strong first party content, where the profits are greater. We all know what the problem is. A Naughty Dog game costs > 400M now. PS5, while doing good overall, still doesn't reach enough people to comfortably make back the budget on massive AAA exclusives. In the big picture, the console pie is not growing cycle-to-cycle. It's no longer sustainable to reset the whole audience every 6-8 years.
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PC offers a number of solutions to Playstation's problems, and it's growing rapidly among gamers. This is a win for everyone.
I think it is inevitable, I think they will eventually also try having a native PS+ game catalogue offering on PC too (to supplement their cloud offering).
That is not even a major part of why people hate extra launchers.
It is. Remember the Helldivers 2 shitstorm? People hate creating and managing accounts for every shit.
I am talking about mass market preferences, not particular person preferences
Those for sure not local PC SP apologets games (those hate live service games too)
The helldivers shitstorm was because they introduced (or started enforcing) an account requirement months in.
I know a whole bunch of people into gaming, from family, from childhood or whom i met through gaming itself. You know how many of them care about Sony games?
It was not just about the sudden change, people could have made an account in like 30 seconds but still preferred to spend much more time complaining and review bombing. That's how much people hate accounts. Downloading and installing a launcher is no big deal for me. But i hate creating and remembering more and more accounts. Apps and programs that require an account are an instant uninstall for me. I don't know who of us is right, but i bet much more people hate making the account rather than downloading a launcher.
What launcher doesn't also come with a separate account? Separate accounts are annoying, greedy, and unnecessary. Additional launchers are a total disaster.
That's not the point. Read the whole conversation.
Given factual metrics it's just show that you live in a very warped environment that heavily skew you perception (priming) leading to subjective bias and faults in recognition of biggerd picture
Putting words into my mouth and inability to follow context - not that I surprised.
Lmao idc if sony ports games to pc it dont affect me whatsoever i find it funny how pc dorks port beg for games day 1 but dont end up buying them or cry about having to sign to in buy the games
Here are some factual metrics for you: there are 8 billion people on earth and its estimated roughly 3 billion of those play games. Out of these 3 billion, even super successful releases only see 5 to 10 million copies sold on release, aka around 0.005% of the gaming population. Should be even lower if you cross only the people who buy multiple releases.
when they come out on day 1 (Helldivers), PC players buy them. when they come out 3 years later for $60 way less PC players buy them. shocking.Lmao idc if sony ports games to pc it dont affect me whatsoever i find it funny how pc dorks port beg for games day 1 but dont end up buying them or cry about having to sign to in buy the games
No, but I don't predict Nishino to have much of a different opinion on them.
Both unironically.
This the younger generations don’t give a shit about being loyal to a console. It’s all about playing where they can play they favorite game with friends. All the top games on PS5 are all multiplatform. I can tell the ones that are anti multiplatform more than likely grew up in the Sega Genesis vs Super Nintendo era or PS1 vs Nintendo 64 vs Sega Saturn era.
kaizenkko report to the GAF brig while you await your tribunal
I honestly figured that was always part of the plan when they scooped up Nixxes. Surely they'll be doing more rather than pulling back as time goes on.
The goalposts basically were:
Well they are clearly trending towards SP games having shorter time-spans, but they are also still in an experimentation phase at this point.
Send this to Sony’s HQ. I’m sure they’d appreciate the input of a random forum poster who never ran a big business, let alone one of Sony’s size.
I believe Sony is trolling with the fanboys as of recently,Send this to Sony’s HQ. I’m sure they’d appreciate the input of a random forum poster who never ran a big business, let alone one of Sony’s size.
Yes but now they are giving exclusive content if you have an account. They playing nice right now to get what they want. That’s how Sony works.
Yeah they opened them up a few hours later lol.
We are at 3.5 now. 6 months and less.
The Last of Us Part 1 Remake
Spoken has the prophet.
