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Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC (www.bloomberg.com)
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Sony Group Corp. no longer plans to release its big PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major shift in strategy that sees the video-game maker returning to console exclusivity after six years of flirting with multi-platform releases, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.

Online games such as Marathon and Marvel Tokon will still be released across multiple platforms, but single-player titles such as last year’s samurai hit Ghost of Yotei and the upcoming action game Saros will remain exclusive to PlayStation 5, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to talk publicly about the company’s strategy.

Also Schreier's additional take:

One important piece of context here is that when someone buys a PlayStation, Sony doesn't just get their $500+. The company also gets 30% of everything they buy on the PlayStation Store. In other words, Sony makes the most money by getting as many people as possible on its console

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[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 27 points 21 hours ago

I've said it before, but it's worth repeating:

Refusing to release titles to the PC isn’t going to make me run out and purchase a console. There are tons of games on PC. My backlog is long enough that I can live happily without whatever kind of bullshit Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox are trying to peddle. Assuming I did care about a specific title, and it’s being gate locked by console exclusivity, I’ll fucking pirate it. That's what you get when you decide you don't want to sell to a specific market. Sony, Microslop, and Nintendo can all get fucked.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

I don't doubt your sincerity but I know people who do buy consoles for those reasons.

I would guess they've weighed it and see more of those people than more of people like you.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm the same. If a game's not available on the platform I have, I'm not going to go buy one just so I can play it.

That being said, I'm not as passionately against exclusives as some people are on the Internet because it's just a business decision — as short-sighted as it might be. I just think, "OK," and spend my money elsewhere.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

I'm right there with you. I'm past the point of wanting to own a console for the exclusives, if they never get released and there's no emulator available, I'm absolutely okay with never playing them.

[-] who@feddit.org 11 points 21 hours ago

I guess they don't want the additional income from the PC gaming market.

If it was less than they hoped for during their brief experiment, I would be curious how much of that had to do with the excessively high system requirements of PC ports like The Last of Us. Expensive games probably don't reach nearly as much of their potential market when they struggle on midrange hardware.

Maybe they're betting that PC gamers will start buying Playstations now that Sony is leaving the PC market and RAM prices are going the way of GPU prices?

[-] any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Maybe they’re betting that PC gamers will start buying Playstations now that Sony is leaving the PC market and RAM prices are going the way of GPU prices?

I think it's more likely they're hoping to avoid existing console players leaving for PC. And the incentive to port to PC might also not be there to begin with, if poor sales of recent PC ports are anything to go by.

I think it's a shame, but imo the writing was on the wall.

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