Where is this concept that PC players are pirates and PlayStation players only buy games coming from?
The fact that Sony's first party games don't sell 20 million on steam?
Well that is more likely down to two things:
1, that late ports will always sell worse
and 2. There is much more competition on steam
I think Sony's push on PC has been hit and miss and they should probably stop doing ports at times like this when their internal studios are having trouble releasing new PS5 exclusives like.
Where is Bends studios new game? Bluepoint, Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog, and Media Molecule?
Why release Ghost of Tsushima on PC when GOT 2 hasn't been announced yet? At least with Horizon ZD on steam in 2020 we already knew Forbidden West was on the way. When Spider-Man remastered and miles Morales launched on Steam two years ago we knew Spider-Man 2 was coming soon to PS5.
How ever this idea that piracy has never been an issue on consoles is absurd?
The Nintendo DS and Wii had huge piracy issues:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/01/millions_of_wii_games_pirated_in_2011
The Xbox and PS2 had Piracy issues:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4315172.stm
I think you guys forget that one of the reasons the PSP sold over 80 million was because of how easy it was to pirate games that Peter Dille had to officially address it:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/04/sony-piracy-is-a-huge-problem-for-the-psp/
Capcom which is one of the few gaming companies out there not laying off people like crazy in 2024 was selling nearly 50% of their software on PC alone in November 2022:
Capcom management has confirmed that PC is a very important platform for the Japanese publisher with 50% of total video game sales coming from the PC.
www.tweaktown.com
and of the last quarter 43% of total games sales was from PC:
https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e240729b.html Capcom Co., Ltd. today announced that in its consolidated business results for the three months ended June 30, 2024, net sales were 29,597 million yen (down 32.5% year-over-year), operating income was 12,889 million yen (down 46.4%...
www.installbaseforum.com
Anyway my point is not that Companies should prioritize PC over Console but I just don't get where this weird narrative that PC players pirate everything comes from?