yeah, thats the idea. as i said in the other comment, these market segments have their own idiosyncrasies.
general speaking:
Consoles are more receptive to AAA single player games
PC to community/multiplayer driven games
Mobile to freemium games with a lot MTXs and Ads .
One example is how Cyberpunk 2077 made less revenue than God of War Ragnarok. around 700 and 800 million respectively.
So. the success of Helldiver 2 and the previous statement from Hulst, makes me believe that they know what they are doing. Releasing their Single Player games day one on PC will be a very stupid move.
they need to make games that cater to the idiosyncrasies of each platform and they need to position their PC storefront as a "companion" to Steam, not as a competitor. And the only way they can market that is from the perspective of Quality and Prestige content.
Well, I'd say MP/GaaS (or even F2P) are the most popular in all platforms, with Switch as exception for the obvious reasons of lacking horsepower to handle certain top games.
But yes, I'd say traditionally the main differences between the 3 markets are the ones you mention. Regarding GoW and Cyberpunk, I don't remember if they even mentioned their revenue.
Cyberpunk (multi) mentioned to have sold 13M in a couple months, and GoWR mentioned 15M (exclusive) in 1 year. That was the most recent number for GoWR as I remember, from a few months ago, while Cyberpunk was 25M (around 3 years after release).
So I highly doubt GoWR made more money than Cyberpunk. I mean, Cyberpunk even had 8M preorders.
Sony would make way more money off of people buying games on a PS PC Store than it would on a PS5 PS Store, because they don't have to take the hardware loss on selling the PS5 and they can still sell more peripherals.
The space is already growing and so Sony would be foolish to ignore the market as some here would suggest they do.
Yes, but they can't release a PC PSN store without games. First they have a big PC library and fanbase. And then later, when big enough it's fair to assume they'll open the store featuring all their PC games plus 3rd party ones.
If smart, they'll make that PC PSN store cross-buy & cross-save with PS5 PSN: meaning, PS users would get PC versions of the Sony games for free (which could use to play in Steamdecks and similar) and viceversa (for PC players, buying PC games there they'd be also building a PS librabry).
Which would be a good selling point to make PC players buy in that store instead of in Steam/Epic/etc and make for them more appealing to buy a PS console.