I think the smartest thing would be to sell their games day one on a single global PSN that would include PS, PC and cloud (to play them on mobile or smart tvs) featuring cross-buy, cross-save, cross-play, shared trophies and friendlist.
Regarding upcoming Sony mobile gaming titles, all of them would also be released day one on PS and PC PSN day one, also featuring cross-buy, cross-save, cross-play etc. across all PSN platforms.
For PS Studios GaaS (including mobile), would also in other PC stores day one but without cross-buy or cross-save. For Bungie GaaS, day one everywhere including rival consoles.
For non-GaaS PS Studios titles, would release in non-PSN PC stores 3 years or later than their original release, not featuring cross-buy and cross-save there.
If sometime in the future PC PSN gets big enough to somewhat close to competing against Steam, they'd stop selling their games on rival PC stores. Same goes with mobile.
people keep saying that PC money are going to fund games on console, it is not the case. they are full of shit. not what PS bean counters has said at all.
yeah its more likely that it was going into Jim and Hermens pockets
Nah, they did use these hundreds of millions as toilet paper or as paper to smoke joints and snort coke. xDD
Why wouldn't they use revenue from their products to fund new products? The other option is to keep it as profit, but we know Sony prefers to reinvest.
Playstation already said that PC money isn't going to console or games.
Receipts, please? That wouldn't make sense at all and would go against common sense and how companies work.
Yeah, they say that these "will fund future games", when the best performing port (HZD) has only made around 30m profit. And then you have games like Sackboy, Rift Apart, and Returnal that probably haven't even made 5m profit. So it takes around 10 ports to fund a single game.....When these games already fund themselves several times over? Ragnarok did 5m in 1 week, GoW 2018 did 2.5m in 2 years on PC. And most of those sales at $20, with Steam taking 30% on top. The notion that PC is "needed" to fund anything is one of the most disingenuous talking points. 10 PC ports after 2 years are needed to match the revenue of week 1 console sales for a single game, while Sony also loses the ability to market them as exclusives. It's the dumbest idea ever.
But hey "its free money on old games
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SIE makes revenue via different channels, part of it being the hundred of millions of dollars they made on PC.
Most of that revenue gets reinvested fund other projects. Some being hardware, accesories or services, plus obviously games under development and games to be greenlighted later, and also signing 2nd/3rd party deals, enlarging existing teams or acquiring new ones.
Sony has like 30 or more 1st party games on development. Most of which should have a budget of over $200-300M, so most of that money reinvested must go to fund game development.
