Impression: Sony could be playing 4D Chess moves to manoeuvre themselves out of PC publishing

[Eternal_Wings]

I get more and more the feeling Sony is actively trying to sabotage themselves. There is no rational way to explain, why they do shoot themselves twice in the foot.
Lately we have seen many weird decision like this.

People are not amused, if this is Sony's end goal then they will achieve their ambition. Sly tactic in which they create a reason to excusing themselves from exiting the PC publishing. Also they could plan all of this to force-shift everything to their own storefront. Also a thought which came into my mind.
Thoughts?

 

[Johnic]

Nah, it's just incompetence. You don't drag your brand through the mud for that.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Nah, it's just incompetence. You don't drag your brand through the mud for that.

But what if they don't see any other way to justify their exit for PC business, to please both customers and shareholders?

 

[panda-zebra]

occam's razor - they're just a bit shit when it comes to PC and the bigger picture. Enjoying watching them make a hash of it though, can't deny that.

 

[klomzi]

But what if they don't see any other way to justify their exit for PC business, to please both customers and shareholders?

Shareholders are more important to a publicly traded company like Sony than angry customers.

If sharesholders wants Sony to release games on PC, Sony will do it.

 

[JAHGamer]

yall are huffing too much hopium, the ports will never stop. Sony is on their way to going 3rd party like Xbox.

What's currently happening to Xbox is exactly Sony's fate in the next 5 years or less.

If they wanted to stop ports, they would've just said so and that it'd be the end of it.

 

[Box]

Shareholders are more important to a publicly traded company like Sony than angry customers.

If sharesholders wants Sony to release games on PC, Sony will do it.

Out of touch boomer shareholders are the wordt

 

[xollowsob]

If those countries can't access PSN how do they do it on PS5? Or is this just accessing through Steam?

 

[VillaiN]

More likely they care more about mau growth to please investors than to sell 100k games on sale per yesr in poor countries.

 

[JAHGamer]

The useless launcher isn't far away. I won't be surprised if they put it in a showcase and act as if its equally as important as a PS5 Pro.

 

[VillaiN]

If those countries can't access PSN how do they do it on PS5? Or is this just accessing through Steam?

For psn th3y use accounts witj supported country. I hope sony s not that dumb to ban those users. They get their mau on psn plus revenue.

This s just for steam.

 

[Muddasar]

Doubt it.

All about MAU and a PS Launcher for PC.

 

[Umar]

So far they are failing at getting more people to use PSN so they can inflate their MAU numbers

 

[klomzi]

Why is it only PS fans who keep talking about a PC launcher? Like, Sony themselves has never mentioned a PC launcher.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

yall are huffing too much hopium, the ports will never stop. Sony is on their way to going 3rd party like Xbox.

What's currently happening to Xbox is exactly Sony's fate in the next 5 years or less.

If they wanted to stop ports, they would've just said so and that it'd be the end of it.

Nah bro PlayStation will never end up as XBOX. Before that happens Sony will hsve a rude awakening like they had experienced in PS3 era. Thou I agree they will sell probably less than 100m and in similar sphere as the PS3 did with 90m.

Why is it only PS fans who keep talking about a PC launcher? Like, Sony themselves has never mentioned a PC launcher.

Because there were rumors ciculating before. People like Tom Henderson where reporting about the rumours.

 

[klomzi]

Because there were rumors ciculating before. People like Tom Henderson where reporting about the rumours.

Okay, link me to the rumors.

 

[rofif]

PC gamers are now conditioned to WAIT for years and they won't get a console anymore.
Previously, with enough exclusives in the bank, some new exclusive would break a camels back and pc gamer could finally get a console.
Now it's less likely. bravo sony...

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Okay, link me to the rumors.

This here. There us something called Google, next time use it.

Sony might be planning their own PC game launcher

Sony might be planning their own PC game launcher with PSN integration, if references within Spider-Man Remastered files are to be believed.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

 

[Eternal_Wings]

PC gamers are now conditioned to WAIT for years and they won't get a console anymore.
Previously, with enough exclusives in the bank, some new exclusive would break a camels back and pc gamer could finally get a console.
Now it's less likely. bravo sony...

Exactly the same dilemma for GP on Xbox. People won't buy games there, they want to rent them only. Sony definitely needs a rude awakening like they had one with PS3. Sony will wake up, if they draw their conclusions amd see why their profits amd revenue generally decreased. For example every Company wanted NFTs a couple of years ago but stopped after they saw it failed miserably and impacted them negatively.

 

[JAHGamer]

Nah bro PlayStation will never end up as XBOX. Before that happens Sony will hsve a rude awakening like they had experienced in PS3 era. Thou I agree they will sell probably less than 100m and in similar sphere as the PS3 did with 90m.

The rude awakening has already happened years ago. The rude awakening is seeing all the ports flop one after the other. If that didn't stop them, nothing will. I'm starting to believe there might really be an Xbox inside agent working at Sony like what Mike Ybarra was for ABK. Phil also admitted he had an ex Microsoft friend of his buying up a ton of Nintendo shares.