PC sales of PlayStation games

[JAHGamer]

I knew the numbers were bad but these are awful. Judging from the "Released about 6 months ago" tagline on Spider-Man Remastered which released in August 2022, this graph is probably from around January 2023.

After an entire year, God of War couldn't sell what it sold on ps4 in 3 days. Spider-Man couldn't even reach half its ps4 launch sales of 3m, in 6 months.

Epic offered Sony 50m PER GAME to put their IP exclusively on Epic Game Store. 4 games for 200m. 4 years later and Sony still hasn't even made 200m from 10 ports combined. They would've been better off taking Epics offer or better yet just not mess with PC at all.

Imagine selling 10 of your biggest and best marquee titles and ruining future marketing power and console sales...just to make less than a week's worth of PSN revenue

"....BUT ITS STILL PROFIT!!! ITS FREE MONEY!!!" ....No it's not, opportunity cost is a very real thing. If you think GoW, TLOU, Uncharted, Spider-Man, etc are worth less than 200m, you seriously need to get your head checked. And some idiots thought Nintendo should follow suit, now they're laughing at Sony.

Edit - bottom right says 2/6/2022, which is obviously a mistake. I think it was a typo and they meant 2/6/2023. Which means this could be from Feb 2023.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Correct. Nail in the coffin for PC preachers. The opportunity cost is now too high to keep throwing games before the PC swine.

 

[JAHGamer]

Correct. Nail in the coffin for PC preachers. The opportunity cost is now too high to keep throwing games before the PC swine.

and with Xbox gone in 2027, the risk is even greater. Keep bolstering the PC library and see how that ends up once Steam becomes your defacto competitor (it pretty much already is). Not to mention the Switch 2....

 

[daniel5043]

Can already see pc gamers moan about the prices of new games

 

[JAHGamer]

Can already see pc gamers moan about the prices of new games

Of course, but its bad excuse, all of these games have been on sale plus 3rd party key reseller sites have them even cheaper than steam sales. They still can't come close to day 1 $60 sales

 

[JAHGamer]

Bottom right says 2/6/2022, which is obviously a mistake. I think it was a typo and they meant 2/6/2023. Which means this could be from Feb 2023.

 

[KnittedKnight]

Fitgirl repack won, bigly.

Lmao is all you could type here.

You can even see the PCMR purchasing behavior focusing on Horizon as a benchmark title - cause if you ain't flexing your rig for a few frames above 60 fps you're obviously doing PCMR wrong. That such title attained the majority of sales despite the game being the biggest mid of the bunch says a ton. Talk about taste. "But but it's a quality port" - STFU! Funny how the marketing violin works all the time.... "Ultrawide support, max settings, uncapped, DLSS" - "OMG I'm feeling special - take my money!"

Again, Lmao.

 

[JAHGamer]

Fitgirl repack won, bigly.

Lmao is all you could type there.

You can even see the PCMR purchasing behavior focusing on Horizon as a bench title, and thus attaining the majority of sales despite the game being the biggest mid of the bunch imo.

Again, Lmao.

No need for Horizon slander

 

[Luffy123]

Makes sense

The only PS game we know that is coming to PC in the near future is Horizon Forbidden West

Everything else has been radio silence

Curious if something happened to scale their plans back

 

[KnittedKnight]

No need for Horizon slander

It's mid, with a PlayStation AAA level of polish. I didn't say it was trash.

 

[JAHGamer]

Makes sense

The only PS game we know that is coming to PC in the near future is Horizon Forbidden West

Everything else has been radio silence

Curious if something happened to scale their plans back

I don’t think they’re scaling back at all sadly, 90% of the reason TLOU2 Remaster exists is for a pc port. They just haven’t announced a pc version yet because they don’t want a repeat of the tlou1 port. HFW is confirmed and GoT is rumored for 2024 as well. That’ll be more ports than they did this year, and all will inevitably flop.

If there is a change in plans, we won’t hear about it until the new CEO takes over.

 

[Vertigo]

All I see is easy money from low effort and late port jobs from games that already finished their retail run.

 

[Satoru]

All I see is easy money from low effort and late port jobs from games that already finished their retail run.

All I see is a platform holder freely giving money to other platform holders while incentivising their user base (which buys from their platform) to move elsewhere.

 

[JAHGamer]

All I see is easy money from low effort and late port jobs from games that already finished their retail run.

Dumb comment as usual from you, nothing surprising

 

[Nhomnhom]

Just think about it:
- they had to port multiple engines that were not originally made to release games on PC.
- teams that were not made to release and support PC games had to learn how to do it.
- they had to pay other devs to port these games and buy a team specialized in making PC ports.
- some of those game were released in a poor state and required months of work to fix it.
- they just gave away their main differentiation factor (exclusives) to what is likely to become their main competitor in the future (if it already isn't).
- PlayStation now isn't the place to run PlayStation games on the highest quality and doesn't require you to pay a monthly fee to have access to multiplayer.
- even if they stop porting their games it will take years and years for PC players to start believing all PlayStation games won't make their way to Steam.
- open up their games to being easily pirated (I think all PlayStation releases so far were cracked day 1).

All that for a few million units sold, a good chunk of them likely on deep discounts.

Fitgirl repack won, bigly.

Lmao is all you could type here.

You can even see the PCMR purchasing behavior focusing on Horizon as a benchmark title - cause if you ain't flexing your rig for a few frames above 60 fps you're obviously doing PCMR wrong. That such title attained the majority of sales despite the game being the biggest mid of the bunch says a ton. Talk about taste. "But but it's a quality port" - STFU! Funny how the marketing violin works all the time.... "Ultrawide support, max settings, uncapped, DLSS" - "OMG I'm feeling special - take my money!"

Again, Lmao.

Single player focused game with no Denuvo, Sony clearly had no understanding of the PC market.

Their whole PC strategy is one of the dumbest things they ever done on the game business. If it had been only GaaS games it would've made sense, but their GaaS strategy hasn't resulted and anything and they just seem to have piled mistake on top mistake.

 

[Jim Ryan]

Terrible numbers. Not the hundr ds of millions of gamers steam promised me.

 

[Vertigo]

Yea okay over 2 million for a god of war 2018 5 years after the fact is fantastic. Dude’s acting like a port that takes one month to get running is the same as a freshly developed game with a full budget.

Easy money. Great numbers

 

[Vertigo]

All I see is a platform holder freely giving money to other platform holders while incentivising their user base (which buys from their platform) to move elsewhere.

Where is this happening? Ps5 is doing record hardware sales. So no.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Yea okay over 2 million for a god of war 2018 5 years after the fact is fantastic. Dude’s acting like a port that takes one month to get running is the same as a freshly developed game with a full budget.

Easy money. Great numbers

It is as far from fantastic as possible when you consider what they had to give up to get it out.

Let me guess, you play Sony games on PC and is just trying to justify it because it benefits you?

 

[Vertigo]

It is as far from fantastic as possible when you consider what they had to give up to get it out.

What did they give up? No they did not “give up” software sales on PlayStation hardware. There is nothing to prove that. You have both record setting sales for both God of War IP and PS5 hardware right now.

It’s no surprise that these games will get ported by the time they’re featured of ps extra…. Retail run exhausted.