My strategy would be:
- Playstation Studios SP games: Playstation 5 only
- Playstation Studios MP games: Playstation 5 & PC day one
- Playstation Studios SP partnerships [Kojima, etc]: Playstation 5 & PC 6 months later
Jim Ryan confirms that PC is a direct competitor to Playstation in FTC documents.
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My strategy would be:
Not defending Paid online or anything but I feel like people look back on PS3 era a bit with rose tinted glasses. Yes, online play was free if you were the original owner of the product at first. If you weren't you had to pay for an Online Pass 
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But expecting Playstation customers to drop PS4 to then buy and invest in a PC to spite Sony is kinda borderline psychotic.
.But expecting Playstation customers to drop PS4 to then buy and invest in a PC to spite Sony is kinda borderline psychotic.
Totally agree! This is exactly how it should be. But there's many people now in-charge who doesn't fully under how Playstation got to the top.
The most successful strategy would be to release games first on PC in early access. Then port it to PS5 when its polished and ready to be released on a retail disc for all time.
So the most successful strategy would be to release in a platform where they sell a few thousands of units and then release on a platform where they sell millions on release.
Please don't tell anyone you're serious.
Edit - Also, to first release on a platform where they don't control the hardware and have to pay a software cut, while undercutting their own offering. Man, you understand fuck all about business.
Not defending Paid online or anything but I feel like people look back on PS3 era a bit with rose tinted glasses. Yes, online play was free if you were the original owner of the product at first. If you weren't you had to pay for an Online Pass
But expecting Playstation customers to drop PS4 to then buy and invest in a PC to spite Sony is kinda borderline psychotic.
That's how it works on a free market. Company screws it up, users look for an alternative. Company backpedals to earn goodwill.
It's the right thing to do. Console customers deserve all they get for treating their console brands as football clubs instead of using their brains and make rational purchasing decisions.
Specially as the ps4 didnt have any sort of BC to tempt you to remain in the ecosystem.
Sony (like MS in the past) now has trained the user to pay whatever it takes to play online. I think they can extract around 250 USD per plus user per year without much impact on the user base.
If you think that, you're wrong. There's a reason why they are not showing subscription numbers anymore, and that happened just before the price increase. They will lose a couple million subscribers at the very least. Their revenue, however, will go up, since the loss of a handful of million subscribers will be more than offset by price increases bigger than 20%.
Baldurs Gate... Diablo... Elden Ring...
The PC audience is massive. If the quality of the port is good, and you don't change full price for 2 year old games, it sells.
Even I don't think that would work. Not sure how an extremely linear game like uncharted would work on early access.
Your argument is grabbing a handful of incredible sellers and then extrapolate that for the whole of PC gaming. Fantastic, you're now promoted to SIE's CEO.
The PC audience can be massive all you want, Sony's audience is on consoles, not on PC. They are a platform holder. What you're arguing is for them to basically kill their whole platform to appease port beggars like yourself.
Sony gets 30% cut of anything sold in their store + 100% of their own games. Sony pays a percentage to PC storefronts and gets 0% of other game sales. Your argument is to forfeit all that, built over 3 decades, to somehow sell a couple million games on PC? Even if their games sold the same on PC + Playstation, it wouldn't account for the loss in revenue from people migrating to the PC space.
And trust me, there's a lot of people that own a PC and a Playstation.
They should experiment with skipping the PS5 release entirely on games where PS5 hardware limits innovation. Like Last of Us 3 for example.
PS Port Beggars are the best, never change. Not only should Sony commit suicide, they should literally kill their biggest IP in the process.
Far from it. They should reach the widest possible audience. Any one console is small potatoes, hoping to reach literally the same people every 5-7 years.
Nice logic. Sony should port their games to Xbox and Nintendo as well, just to reach the widest possible audience. While we're at it, we should create a petition on change.org asking Apple to port their OS to non-apple machines, so that they can reach the widest possible audience. And while we're at it, we can also reach Ferrari so they build budget cars, so that they can reach the widest possible audience.
Your business acumen is outstanding.
I do want to add though, you are absolutely qualified to replace Phil Spencer at the very least.
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Any thread or post with the word PC in it will have flaccidsnake come through with the most asinine take on PC port performance. He sounds like those gamepass xbots who just want free monthly games even though that means the quality will suffer in the long run.
Anyways as we see with the shuttering of evil dead, I think what will kill Jim Ryan's PC strategy for good is when investors see him spending hundreds of millions of dollars on concord and fairgame$ that will have low player counts after a couple of months.
Anyways as we see with the shuttering of evil dead, I think what will kill Jim Ryan's PC strategy for good is when investors see him spending hundreds of millions of dollars on concord and fairgame$ that will have low player counts after a couple of months.
So what you want is a world where people must pay thousands to play games at the same standard a console allows for, and essentially provide NVIDIA with yet more reasons to fleece them?
I thought you were a moron, now I'm sure you're just arguing in bad faith.
The PC multiplayer space is extremely competitive. Ryan is delusional if he thinks they can put together some maps, ask Santaolalla for some charango riffs and druckmann for a sad dad Oscar bait story, to be an instant success.
You should know by now that @flaccidsnake and @Systemshock2023 are trolls, honestly I don't even think either of them actually play on PC. Best to just ignore them