Famitsu] Interview with Jim Ryan: Importance of Japanese market and games, Spider-Man 2 on PS5, PSVR2, PC ports 2-3 years after release
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Was street fighter V the entire playstation first party portfolio?
Ok, let me explain the difference to you and @Systemshock2023 because it's becoming painful to read this.
PS4 had properly exclusive games through its lifecycle. At the risk of inviting list wars, these included titles like Uncharted, Horizon, GoW, Bloodborne, Spider-Man, GT, TLOU.
As a logical, rational human, if you enjoyed SFV and any of those games, you might be incentivised to purchase a PS4. If you only cared about SFV and could not afford a gaming PC, you might also be incentivised to buy a PS4. However, if you had a gaming PC capable of playing SFV and were not interested in actual PS4 exclusives, you would have little incentive, if any, to buy a PS4 for it. Logically, missing out on a PS4 sale from a subset of the total addressable market can be considered harmful. PS4 as an ecosystem does not benefit from a PC purchase of SFV.
Now you can extrapolate that to a scenario where PS4 has no exclusives, or attracts a less affluent audience that cannot afford to invest in PC gaming. Both of these scenarios hurt PS4 because they directly lead to fewer hardware and software sales on the platform.
This harm is less readily identifiable, apparently, than the obvious harm caused by considering your scenario in total isolation to Xbox, which shares an overlapping target audience but cannot access SFV. If you want to see the effects of a prolonged and sustained exclusive drought, I will again point to the current state of Xbox.
Now, this is based on the demonstrably true premise that software incentivises the purchase of hardware. If you disagree with this premise, well, you'll disagree with this post, and reality, to a lesser extent.
So... Don't buy the console and don't play the game. Easy.
Playstation5 sells itself with barely any exclusives tho. Because it's just a really great way to play games without tech hassles.
Add piracy to the mix and it’s game over.
Releasing Day 1 on PC is suicide.
Sony will lose Hardware sales, Subscription sales and Software sales cause of piracy.
Im surprised and sounds all good. I give Jim Ryan more shit than most fans. But Im glad he’s going with that 2-3 year window for PC, Hermen looked like they wanted to go 1 year out.
And Im happy for hear about the Japanese Market talks from him. Lets see the action side of that, more Japanese centric games from 1st and 3rd party for PS5
And Im happy for hear about the Japanese Market talks from him. Lets see the action side of that, more Japanese centric games from 1st and 3rd party for PS5
Imo, their devs need to focus on getting thr most out of and taking full advantage of all PS5 hardware quirks and features (i.e. coding to the metal). Worry about the problem of making it work on PC later.
I'd like the first party presence in Japan to expand. Make or get a studio capable of making rpgs, horror games, etc.
Sony should include a soap bundle in their PC releases
Though on second thought this might reduce sales
Though on second thought this might reduce sales
The rare thing of SFV was being a console exclusive, not being released day one on PC. Also, it's one of many console exclusives, the console have tons of games that aren't available in PC.
Street Fighter is perceived as a 3rd party multiplatform IP, so people got shocked seeing it console exclusive, benefiting PS.
It's completely different than to have ALL 1st party games day one on PC and also day one available on a game sub that easily gives you trials for free or for $1. Fans of these 1st parties would move to a PC and don't miss anything.
There's no reality the Series X/S finishes below the Original Xbox nor get discontinued.
What are the Series consoles sales up to now? Cite your sources.
I don't need to cite any sources as I didn't mention a number and I'm not gonna take the bait to console wars with you.
I simply said there's no reality it sells less than OG Xbox.
Isn't it approaching 10 million in the US + 2 million in the UK, around 400k in Japan? that's already half... plus sales else where.
I don't have figures for the total sales, but that statement was just bordering on delusion.
C'mon, the original Xbox sold only 24.65M consoles. Pretty likely will end selling over twice than that.
