AmuroChan
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no, Factions 2 was intentionally meant to be super huge and ambitious, not a multipllayer mode like the first one.
Read again what the other poster I quoted wrote.
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no, Factions 2 was intentionally meant to be super huge and ambitious, not a multipllayer mode like the first one.
Good thing I dont have to worry about that, thats why I invested into steam. Also, Xbox is going mutliplatform to fund their new games. PS could easily do the same. That way the platform stays around, just like Xbox. But then you guys wont have a console war anymore, oh the horror.And you are stuck in a non reasoning loop.
If your platform is redundant because it doesn't have exclusive games it will decay, it will have less resources to keep investing in new games and hardware, and a Windows opens to it ultimately closing shop.
And if it closes shop, there won't be a new iteration that plays your older games, your digital library is at risk, you name it.
If doing some Spencer-y moves "uh oh we are all gamers" did put Nintendo or Steam in danger I am pretty sure you would understand very well and firmly oppose it. But as it's PlayStation and you don't care about its "uh you ponies just want others without gamez" and the "you can still play it".
But I keep hearing no one wants to deal with the "hassle" of a PC. Plug and play, after work, press one button and it works. So how would they lose a huge chunk?You are looking at this from the POV of console warring which is stupid, and it has nothing to do with anything anyone has said.
As people have said, Sony is intentionally devaluing the one thing that makes them unique and keeps them in this business - the platform. It's why Apple and Google spend billions of dollars a year and give away their OS for free to customers every year, because the platform is the only thing that keeps them viable (the hardware is basically the same at this point). It's just a stupid thing because you are killing your long term viability for short term cash.
If a bunch of people decide not to get a PS6 because they will "wait for the PC port", then they just lost a huge chunk of their customer base, and then that PC port needs to compete with the 50,000 games that come out on Steam annually instead of being front and center because it's a Sony game on a Sony platform. This is not a good thing for Sony. It's also exactly how the Xbox platform disintegrated before our very eyes.
no, Factions 2 was intentionally meant to be super huge and ambitious, not a multipllayer mode like the first one.
Imo, that would destroy PlayStation. If the games are being ported to Switch and Xbox, why buy a PlayStation then? Sure, Microsoft are selling more games now once they went multiplatform, but their consoles sales are even more lackluster now which is saying something and unlike Microsoft, Sony actually needs Playstation console sales.
You can't really put it up like that.Not neccesarily
It may get more money from first party games.
But, if that means for example selling 5 million less consoles you have 5 million gamers less to sell accessories, get a 30% cut on every game or microtransaction, 5 million people less who can subscribe to PS+, who buy your hardware, and 5 million people that may get your game in PC instead of Steam and you will have to give 30% to Valve... and that's if those gamers don't decide to go buy a key in one of those web pages that are clouded piracy.
Let's do some numbers OK?
SONY has made 150 million dollars on Others software this quarter after the official data. That not only PC but also MLBA on Xbox and Switch, Destiny 2 on Xbox and Lego Horizon on Switch. If each PS new user generates IDK 500 dollars for Sony between hardware, accessories, PS+, FP and third party games, then a mere drop of 300k consoles in a quarter would be worse that what you earn on porting your games.
I think the more and more people find out about Shuhei Yoshida the more and more people realize he isn't perfect nor is he this figure that the community makes him out to be.
If a bunch of people decide not to get a PS6 because they will "wait for the PC port", then they just lost a huge chunk of their customer base, and then that PC port needs to compete with the 50,000 games that come out on Steam annually instead of being front and center because it's a Sony game on a Sony platform. This is not a good thing for Sony. It's also exactly how the Xbox platform disintegrated before our very eyes.
You can't really put it up like that.
There's double dippers who's buying it on pc, and there's alot of pc players who would never buy a console so that is money gained, not lost.
Sony ain't braindead. If it wasn't profitable then they wouldn't do it
There are ps3 games that I would like to be remastered, so they can be played in current gen hardware, otherwise they will be forgotten forever, like Puppeteer, Rain, GoW Ascension.InFamous
Sly Raccoon
Jak & Daxter
WipeOut
Bloodborne
No more remasters, no more gaas.
Those double dippers and never buying are statistical noise.
In any case, if to potentially get that small group of people money you really negate one of the biggests attraction points of your hardware and risk on losing at least some millions users in your ecosystem, it's not worth it.
And about being braided well, they aren't and there are some declarations of Totoki and Nishino about actively following this data and not seeing for now user migration (that would literally collapse PlayStation scale economy even if a 10 million drop), but on the other hand you see... theorically none of those big Corp are brain dead and all have brilliant people, Data analysts etc..but in real world many of those screw up time after time with very dubious commercial decisions, investment decision etc
You need to understand, there are people who don't care about console hardware, and would rather miss out on the games rather than buying a console for a handful of games.
Just like there's console people who would never buy a PC over a console.
Sony are catering to those people by releasing their games on PC.
Look at the data. PS5 has been the weakest PlayStation launch in regards of exclusives at launch, yet it sold out everywhere.
Exclusives aren't that important like many people in here believe.>
Just look at Microsofts titles on PS, they sell really well, and they sold like shit on Xbox. Xbox has(had?) games, but brand loyalty was something they never truly got, not even from the x360 era where they actually did quite well.
Besides Helldivers 2, games from Sony on PC has never really sold that well compared to the console anyway, so while they are selling on PC, it is nowhere near as much as on Playstation.
Someone with a high end PC that maybe buy one or two sony games would 99% likely not buy a PS5 just for a handful of titles.
Yoshida has said they are printing money on PC with very little effort.Yes, I understand, but here the issues is, Sony is a hardware and console manufacturer, and it has to cater to the public that are interested in their products, not on the ones that aren't and neglecting by doing so the principal attraction of a console (exclusive library that gives it identity) is gone, and just hoping that some of the not interested crowd will bite.
Any potential console customer lost worths at least half a dozen of the "I will buy a game from time to time, and hey If I found a key on Pirates. Com cheaper I will do just that" crowd.
Yoshida has said they are printing money on PC with very little effort.
Sony are catering to their users. Want their console? Buy it.
Want to play their games and have a beefy PC? Buy the games.
As long as Sony earns money then they see no problem.
The only reason to be against this is if someone is being a salty fanboy that feels like their plastic box feels less worth it for them.
I do believe Sony knows more what they are doing than someone on Gaf though.
Are you?Yoshida is no economist, to be frank.
In fact, yes. Well I did Economics at the university, and History later on.Are you?
Let's just agree to disagree.
I will always think it's fine, and you don't.
InFamous
Sly Raccoon
Jak & Daxter
WipeOut
Bloodborne
No more remasters, no more gaas.
I think this is a very important point but maybe not in the way you originally intended.You need to understand, there are people who don't care about console hardware, and would rather miss out on the games rather than buying a console for a handful of games.
The only value of a console are the handful of exclusives during an entire gen?Day one on PC would be the end of Playstation.