Not really, when you get a phone contract you are paying additional money so the total contract cost is more than phone + base contract. Irrelevant though, I was talking about spreading the cost over those 6 years, you aren't paying $1500 in one go.
For me, the older I get, the less I give a shit about playing every big game on day 1. I’ve got more than enough to play. And practically every game gets a ton of bug fixes, improvements (sometimes pretty major ones), and expansions in the 1-2 years after release.
If they would do that, or extend the time-gate, why would you think they'd do that?
Makes them exclusive again?
And why would they do that?
What's with all the "hopium" being thrown around lately?
Yeah, but it doesn't matter if you wait. Because Sony will get your money regardless with minimal effort.
What do patience have with that??? Do PC players live longer than other people?
We have plenty of games to play to tide us over until Sony decides to release their game on PC, though.
Play other games.
I guess you're gonna say on your death bed "I wish I wasted more of my life waiting for things longer"
I haven't played any new Sony game this gen except last God of War (available in PS4 too). I could simply go to PC and don't spend money in PSN anymore, simply because currently I know even if I have to wait, I can play any game Sony is releasing in PC. That is the point, the point is you don't need a Playstation anymore to play some games, that is enough to people jump from Playstation ecosystem to PC. Do you understand what means for Sony if people stop to buying PS physical games or PSN games?
Sorry, I didn't mean games released on the platform, but owned games. I have 868 games (just checked) on my Steam Library, and 313 on my Epic Games Library (some will be duplicates), and that's without including also EA and Ubisoft libraries (which are much smaller anyways) and I can guarantee you my library isn't anywhere close to users with the largest libraries on Steam. That's the biggest advantage PC has over any console, you can play games for which, perhaps, you no longer have the console you got them on lying around.So do PlayStation players...
That last part was directly cited to me by a friend as to why he's not going to upgrade his pc for what he thinks is an exorbitant cost to have the privilege of playing bad ports.
Spider Man 2 is not a 'tentpole' game, unfortunately. And 11 million copies sold to date doesn't indicate that it is. If anything, it only highlights the severe first party exclusives drought on PS5. If it was in fact a 'tentpole' game, all you'd see on gaming forums like GAF would be constant crying and moaning about the fact that you can't play Spider-Man 2 on PC. So yeah, the premium badge of being a Playstation exclusive game is no longer what it used to be, say, in the days of PS3.
That's an option too. But then you're not the target audience, just an added benefit.
This. I don't think this is the right decision. Either be there day and date on all platforms or not at all. I'd be surprised if there are was a measureable benefit for the company in delaying the PC release.
So, their target audience is "Ultra playstation fans who, for some bizzarre reason, don't already own a playstation"?
^^^^ Thats what hopium looks like btw.
You aren't the one to decide what Sony considers tentpole, Sony is and by Sony's metrics it is a tentpole game (existing hit franchise from a studio with a proven track record)
Their target audience is people who are or might be on the fence and may or may not have been console-gamers at some point.
I believe not. If there's any sort of PC announcement tonight, it could be that one? (or they may be saving it to release it around when the next season of the show does, which feels like super smart timing tbh).
that's the impression that I got as well, after some thinking. He's essentially telling investors to chill the fuck out.
Nothing hopium about that, because as I said, personally idc what Sony releases on which platforms.
Weird that people on the fence would be enticed back to consoles by PC ports instead of having their choice validated, but ok.
Or even buy those games used for their console. I've got the big three but my PC gets all the usage, there's just something about playing a game with mouse and keyboard that is worlds apart from playing via controller not to mention it's fairly cheap and easy to pick up copies of those games while they're on sale on a better platform with better graphics, that runs at a higher framerate than the 60-120.
I guess that's how GAAS advocates see it.
Or maybe some people lack the intellectual capabilities to comprehend it.
Yeah, you have people dropping 40 bucks more on AC Shadows just to play 3 days early ffs...
You can exchange time of waiting for PC port by playing other games.
Yep. it's too late now. They opened the Pandora box. Everybody knows they can just wait a bit for those games to come to their PC. Soon in pursuit or more profits (and more bonuses for execs that are going to leave soon) they are going to shorten the time for those PC ports. From 2 years they'll eventually make it 1 year, then no time at all. Playstation consoles will be dead by this time, like Xbox now.
