Why do you port beggars keep saying this? It's literally a strawman to detract from the actual arguments against PC ports:
- The more platforms and hardware configurations a game needs to be developed for, the:
- longer the development time
- higher the cost to develop
- more support is needed post release, which in turn delays additional games
- more prone the game is to have bugs (we're already seeing this with games like HFW, Spider-Man 2...)
- less the game uses the original hardware
- more constraints developers have to make to game design
- Sony literally makes less money:
- PC owners that bought a console for their exclusives will now move to PC entirely, moving out of the Sony ecosystem. Since sony makes most of their playstation money from their store, this means loss of revenue
- They will also sell less consoles, which are being sold at a profit (we're already seeing this with them missing their estimates by 16%)
- They have to pay steam / epic / whomever a store cut, instead of taking in virtually all of the revenue from their own store sales
So no, this is not about "not wanting to share toys". This is about people wanting Playstation exclusives to continue being leading experiences, GOTY contenders, year after year, and not just another publisher that rehashes the same game every year because they don't have an ecosystem.
Xbox killed themselves with PC ports, Sony is slowly killing their console sales with PC ports, and Nintendo is laughing all the way back to the bank. SIE's own CEO admitted that the PC is a competing platform, and with Xbox pretty much out of the picture, Sony has the golden opportunity to become the only home console - that is if they stop with the PC port bullshit. If they don't, they will kill their console and become just another publisher in the next few years - like Xbox.
Edit - going by port beggar logic, Sony should port their games to Xbox.
