1) He probably wanted to play online with his friend in Dark Souls, hence the need for PS Plus.
2) Not all games have a physical copy, more and more games don't receive a physical copy. Hence the need for a gifting system in PS Store.
3) Tons of games dont't have denuvo and always online DRM...
Probably someone or some people who realized Sony is a company that wanted more money, then calculated and found out that releasing games on Steam made them more money, so they started doing it.
What store features, "brim with features" are you talking about? I see even PS console owners disliking the PS Store.
Payed online, subscription services that keeps increasing in price, terrible game discovery, no gifting, a review system that gives the worst games out there 3/5 stars.
And if those games were exclusive to a PS launcher maybe Returnal would have reached 5k copies. What's better, 200k+ copies with a 70-80% cut of 5k copies with 95% cut (5% cut for payment providers and such).
10 years you could say the same thing about Playstation SP games being released on PC at all. People exploded when Quantic Dream announced their games for PC and it wasn't 1st party games even.
PC players mostly don't care about PSN. The whole point of PS games on PC is reaching an audience that doesn't care about Playstation.
Playstation is simply yet another publisher on Steam. If PS removes their games from Steam, PC players will simply not care about Playstation. PC has managed to...
Epic can't even get the bigger games like Palworld, Helldivers 2, Elden Ring, Baldurs Gate 3, Sons of the Forest, Lethal Company etc. onto their store.
Epic is not a serious store. They are barely functional.
People like Steam and wants to use Steam because everyone else sucks and doesn't invest into PC like Valve.
When Valve took the risk and invested in Steam, Epic called PC "piracy infested" and went back to consoles.
Now Valve is reaping the benefits of that risk.
Valve tried it with CSGO, but they hated the PSN backend, so they stopped updating the game. Alyx would not work on PSVR1 and by the time PSVR 2 was out, Alyx was quite old and due to Valves flat hierarchy, perhaps noone cared to make a PSVR2 version.
And then you have Activision which stated CoD leaving Steam was a "resounding failure" for Activision and now they are fully back on Steam and that happened before the acquisition...
And now they are back on Steam and have been back on Steam for 1 year, so that means that Steam also could be the reason their revenue on PC increased.
So you use Ubisoft as an example of why leaving Steam is a good thing, while we have tenfolds of examples of leaving Steam is not a good thing.
And who says the money that Ubisoft makes from PC nowadays doesn't also come from Steam? Six Siege is one of the biggest money makers from Ubisoft and...
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