But you do care about the growth of the platform, so what’s the difference in essence here? PS fans caring about PS exclusive is just a mechanism, what they truly care is the growth of Playstation as a console brand. Also, what you PC fans do not understand is that PS is not just a publisher, but also a console brand, so what a normal publisher benefits from is not identical to what PS benefits from
Is it impossible for sony to give Horizon enough space to breathe on its own or is it on purpose so if/when it underperforms the excuse is it was a crowded time?
The high end console market has a TAM of about 180m (MS says 200M) but it's closer to 180m. PlayStation is consolidating that market, at the expense of Xbox. Hence the sales. Both are creating the conditions for shrinking that TAM to PC. That will play out over a long period of time. The question will be what that TAM looks like 10-15 years from now, regardless of the PS/Xbox split. Wildcards aplenty within that time frame, to speed up or lower the bleeding as well as disrupt the split. What is key here as it regards to this discussion is the relative growth of high-end console vs. PC for the premium games market, not in TAM terms but actual platform ecosystem buy-in terms, with Valve/Epic's Game Store, representing the PC market more or less. It's not an if question.
PC diehards will never buy a console just to play some games, They already had too many games on PC to play anyway.
When did I say that? They make the only good console. People should buy it. I have one. I just don't want their games limited by PS5. Games are better on Steam.
The console market has remained static for many years right? Personally, I want Sony to somehow grow the console market further rather than trying to step into an unknown territory. But maybe they felt like the console market could not be expanded any further so they decided to jump into PC market.
Didn’t you see that I wrote implicitly ? The way you talk is pretty telling for me PC kun, no need to hide it.
No, it fluctuates. Full console TAM is closer to 260 million under the right conditions. At some point it even went beyond that number, you could say the glory days of console hardware (includes handhelds).
I mean yeah if we do consider the Switch as another console platform then console is very big.
Don't worry, Sony will learn the hard way once the Switch 2 comes out next year
When they see the Switch 2 selling gangbusters, getting all the 3rd party exclusives, and having their 1st party games sell like hotcakes at full price. While Sony watches their PC ports sell terribly, all of their live service games flop, and will find themselves not getting the 3rd party Japanese exclusive games that they used to be. They'll become depressed and confused, that's their punishment for going against their own hardware and the undefeated traditional model. They should've saw what it did to Xbox.
**Provided the hardware is powerful enough (close to Series S) to get full third party support, or strong enough for partial, greater than Switch third party support. That way it eats at PS revenues and potential PS install base.Don't worry, Sony will learn the hard way once the Switch 2 comes out next year
Dumb people never learn from their mistakes = Xbox
Good people learn from their mistakes = Sony
Great people learn from others mistakes = Nintendo
