i hope this move and backlash hurts PlayStation PC game sales to a point where Sony cancels their PC strategy altogether

[Infinity]

It's astroturfing to debunk clearly made up statements now?

Don't mind him, he thinks anyone that is not a PlayStation guy is a astroturfer. He's mentally sick. His non stop Console warring has made him sick.

 

[saci]

It's Steamover...

 

[Evil Aloy]

but on PC most of them don't buy games, so they spend $0 on games cause they have them easily accessible on torrent piracy websites, they don't need to pay for multiplayer gaming, $80 a year, so if you put in perspective, we end up spending WAY more money than them during a generation, they invest on their PCs, only buy multiplayer games they have no option to steal and that's it...

I don't agree with that because if no one was buying games on PC, companies wouldn't be porting their games on it. Sooner or later some suit over at Sony will say "Helldivers 2 sold a lot on PC and that was day one, we should make Spider-man 3 day one too" which will make the console lose its identity.

 

[Exicide]

but on PC most of them don't buy games, so they spend $0 on games cause they have them easily accessible on torrent piracy websites, they don't need to pay for multiplayer gaming, $80 a year, so if you put in perspective, we end up spending WAY more money than them during a generation, they invest on their PCs, only buy multiplayer games they have no option to steal and that's it...

you literally admitted to pirating Horizon Forbidden West on PC. You are part of the problem.

 

[ethomaz]

Nah.

I want more than before that PlayStation launches it own launcher and makes the “Only on PlayStation” slogan true again.

Because PC Store from they already have one working.

 

[Fenton]

Since they are seriously looking at expanding PS and increasing the MAU's and revenue, they will think about putting games on Xbox if PC strategy fails.

Anything is possible if shareholders ask for growth even when costs are rising for Sony.

 

[Systemshock2023]

Since they are seriously looking at expanding PS and increasing the MAU's and revenue, they will think about putting games on Xbox if PC strategy fails.

Anything is possible if shareholders ask for growth even when costs are rising for Sony.

What Sony gamers don't understand is that their gaas strategy relies on PC gamers as much if not more than Sony gamers (as shown by Helldivers 2 player split) They can't backpedal on gaas.

Their "prestige" userbase is not enough to have decent growth anymore.

Picture when they try to integrate mobile as well. Will their infrastructure be ready?

As I said before, Sony was arrogant enough to think they could pull this out with little work and that the PC userbase would eat their games up like their userbase does. Be humble and understand this is a different market. Fix the issues and get better for the next gaas launch. PC players can whine but if the games are good they will eventually give in.

Look at from software. Durante made the dark souls prepare to die port work on PC. That POS port was locked to 720p 30 FPS. Now the main souls userbase is on PC and their ports are a lot better.

 

[Etifilio]

you literally admitted to pirating Horizon Forbidden West on PC. You are part of the problem.

i paid 70 dollars for the game already, i won't support the PC version since i don't main on PC

 

[Etifilio]

But you were telling that PC gamers pay $0 for games and that console was the ultimate gaming experience thanks to pixie dust based optimization. What are you doing downloading 100GB+ to play a pirated copy of a game on PC?

The plot thickens...

i paid for the game on PlayStation already

"PC Gamers Pay $0 for games"

"So anyways I pirated this Sony game"
LOL


Moving past that:

Yes you generally want that to happen specifically so you don't get shader stutters in games

This is quite literally the first time I've heard of this being the case for Forbidden West. The game generally is ported very well on PC & doesn't have any of the usual Pitfall PS5 -> PC Ports have (Like Returnal).

Now this is an actual issue with PC right now, Dualsense features don't work wirelessly currently (probably not until Sony Releases their own Dongle)

Yeah You're clearly playing the game on something laughably below the minimum specs if this is your "Supposed" experience. The Shader Compilation takes 20s on a 3090, and then you get 0 shader compilations throughout the entire game. The fact You've crashed twice on a game I finished to completion without a single crash says it all.

If you're gonna say that PC Is a compromised experience, at least use examples of games that actually don't work instead of trying to fault Sony for a game that does work.

again, i paid 70 dollars for the game in 2022 when it was released

 

[Systemshock2023]

i paid for the game on PlayStation already

again, i paid 70 dollars for the game in 2022 when it was released

My condolences. Pay for the PC copy if you want to play it. You are no better than the PC pirates you criticize.

Also why would you want to play on PC if it doesn't have pixie dust based optimization? Thought PC players had a worse experience.

 

[Entropi]

Sony is fucked. They caved in.

 

[JAHGamer]

It won't, Sony has incompetent leadership. It's far more likely that Sony apologizes and gives everyone a Steam gift card

I told you all, Sony is retarded.

 

[JAHGamer]

Sony showing their racism once again, they'll gladly bend over for a Western studio, but ShiftUp isn't allowed to do what they want.

Yes, Sony is racist against Asian developers

Western games with full nudity/gore are allowed, Asian games that don’t even have nudity are still censored.

 

[Etifilio]

I told you all, Sony is retarded.

this doesn't mean they won't impose PSN account link, they even state they'll keep updated on future plans, my guess is... they canceled the May 6 update and the May 30 expiration date to link account, and they will now expand PSN to all of the countries where Steam is avaliable to then... and only then impose PSN integration for real so people will not be able to complain anymore

 

[Systemshock2023]

Looking forward for ghost of Tsushima. Trust nixxes with a good port. Let's hope Sony learnt the lesson. You need to adapt to the market you are selling if you want to succeed.

Own your mistake and handle this better. You are not a mom and pop store.

 

[JAHGamer]

this doesn't mean they won't impose PSN account link, they even state they'll keep updated on future plans, my guess is... they canceled the May 6 update and the May 30 expiration date to link account, and they will now expand PSN to all of the countries where Steam is avaliable to then... and only then impose PSN integration for real so people will not be able to complain anymore

no, you're delusional, PlayStation as we once knew it is finished.

 

[Banana]

The only thing good about sony games on pc is how badly is triggers the fanboys.

 

[Infinity]

Sony surrendered

 

[Neversummer]

I told you all, Sony is retarded.

At this point if your a PS gamer you should migrate to PC there’s no benefit of owning the PS console + Sony retarded leadership makes there direct competitor a better platform to play & invest in gaming

I would say Sony wouldn’t do day n date because it doesn’t makes sense & Xbox imploded & destroyed there entire brand, identity & platform. I put PS going day n date by the end of PS5 gen roughly 75% PS goes day n date on PC by the end of PS6. The old PS is dead

 

[Neversummer]

this doesn't mean they won't impose PSN account link, they even state they'll keep updated on future plans, my guess is... they canceled the May 6 update and the May 30 expiration date to link account, and they will now expand PSN to all of the countries where Steam is avaliable to then... and only then impose PSN integration for real so people will not be able to complain anymore

Even then when they comeback PC players will complain the issue wasn’t the fact PSN wasn’t on these obscure countries it was the fact that PC players don’t want to link PSN & don’t want to be tally up for shareholders boosting PS stats

This will backfire again. The conversation will be you guys didn’t imply it at launch nor when you tried May why 6 month later. It will be you didn’t needed back then you don’t needed now why add it now blah blah blah this will be a real bait & switch but ig the “future plans” save them from that narrative but PC players one & Sony bend the knee they’ll pull it again in the future