Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered flops on Steam

Neversummer

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Lego Horizon comes out the same time as the PS5 Pro. It made so much sense to keep it exclusive (along with the Remastered) and do something fun with it for promos, astrobot family bundles or pack-in, etc. It will be a reverberating multiplat flop instead with more CCU threads.

I know I can play it on my cheap laptop so I'll wait for a deep sale or PS+.
Fun fact. Games like Lego horizon where the type of family friendly universal/more creative games PS used to make in the PS1-PS3 to draw in a new audience towards the PS in both making those games under 1st party to advertise the PS console as a family friendly universal platform but to also market to Asia region where smaller quirky/colorfull games are preferred in those regions.

It’s not what PS is doing contradicts there philosophy even to todays PS signs deals to keep games of competing platforms why make those deals if even your first party is releasing on 2 competitors platform day 1. Imagine how that looks for indies & publishers like Square that make there games exclusive to PS why would they keep making there games exclusive if even PS is releasing not only multiplat but on 2 competitors platform day 1. There entire strategy contradicts there philosophy & competitiveness against competitors. It’s why Xbox has a hard problem trying to lock exclusive because why let Xbox sign exclusive for your own games when Xbox is releasing day 1 on PC & in Xbox case there own console platform has imploded so 3rd party is going to reject & release games on PS simultaneously
 
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Shmunter

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Exactly & it’s the reason Xbox has to do 2-3 times the hard work compared to PS or Nintendo to even get any result
Xbox devalued their brand with pc releases initially, and it snowballed from there. At least for Xbox, MS owning Windows was an excuse. For some reason Sony is too blind to see it. Concerning.
 

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Xbox devalued their brand with pc releases initially, and it snowballed from there. At least for Xbox, MS owning Windows was an excuse. For some reason Sony is too blind to see it. Concerning.
I don't think they're too blind to see it. They were literally asked about pc ports impacting console sales at one of their quarterly investor calls, they just brushed it off. IMO top brass are ignoring the brand damage for short term gains and it's going to backfire massively.
 

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I don't think they're too blind to see it. They were literally asked about pc ports impacting console sales at one of their quarterly investor calls, they just brushed it off. IMO top brass are ignoring the brand damage for short term gains and it's going to backfire massively.
Concerning.