They will close Pandora box faster then they opened it.
I don't understand your logic. Valve has the Steam Deck already, you can use it as a home console too by the way, and Sony is fine with it. But if they made something that looks even more like a console Sony will freak out and shut everything down?
Yes. Plus it will play Windows games and Epic.
problem is: Valve already has a Console, the Steam Deck, Sony doesn't seem to give two shits about it, the only thing they're thinking about is the little money they'll make with these ports, they're not looking at all for all of the future threats this could put the PlayStation hardware in, it doesn't matter if the games won't go day one to PC, people know if they wait they'll have it there anyway, so what's the reason to purchase a PlayStation? a lot of people will mention the price, but with $80 a year paid multiplayer and $70 dollar games, this equation simply isn't true, PC offers you free games at one click of your mouse, in fact Sony doesn't even care to add piracy protection to their PC ports, Until Dawn Remake will go day and date to PC and there'll be millions playing it for free on launch on PC due to piracy while idiots pay $70 for it on PlayStation, Sony is so obssessed with mimicking their competition that they forgot what made PlayStation the platform to be in the first place, the games, thjey're falling for all the traps Microsoft has put in the ground and the fact a lot of people don't realize it it's just baffling
not to be this guy, but you don't realize Steam already is PlayStation's direct competition, other than the PlayStation Store, Steam is second place for third party game sales, putting PlayStation Studios games on Steam is one of the most suicidal moves i've ever seen a company make in the history of the gaming industry, if Sony really wanted PC to be a platform for people to play their games, why didn't they release a launcher from the start and forced people to go to THEIR storefront, use THEIR subscription service, pay them 100%? even Ubisoft does it and they're a third party publisher, no platform holder should support Valve's monopolistic storefront, this creates a though future for the PlayStation Store with Consoles losing relevance in the long term future, if PC grows substantially in the future, Steam will be the storefront everyone will be, and now it's too late for a pivot and a launcher release, their biggest franchises are already on Steam and are Steam Deck compatible
I realise that.
and the fact no one in this site is seeing this, or when people mention it in threads are instantly ridiculed and called out for "dooming and glooming" it's just honestly making me want to exit this space, i don't want to be around stupid blind fanboys who refuse to see the path the company they suck the dick is going for, it's not a good looking one
watch companies like Lenovo, Dell and Asus manufacture Home Consoles using not only Steam OS but Xbox OS since Microsoft is slowly exiting the console market... the position Sony is putting themselfs in is a weak position for the future, CONTENT IS KING, and they don't have exclusive content anymore, and i don't mean just exclusive to one box, but exclusive to their storefront, Epic seems like the only company who will fight to rival Steam and their monopolistic storefront with content, it's a shame
you think Sony has the absolute power when it comes to their games on different storefronts? didn't you watch the fucking shit show Helldivers 2 Account Link drama and how little autonomy Sony had with hundreds of thousands of people asking for refunds and review bombing their game? Valve has their own policies, and you don't fucking know if Sony would be able to block their games from the next Xbox that will have Steam on it, it became clear to me MS only goal entering the gaming industry was to destroy Sony and they've been putting traps in the ground in the last 10 years, traps these that Sony are falling for little by little
Activision used to block playing their games thru GeForce Now and so do Sony right now. The idea that they won't on some Xbox hybrid console is hilarious and is pure Xbot cope. The device signature will show up in the backend and banning it from access will be easy.
GeForce Now is a streaming app, it's completely different than a Storefront and a platform: Windows, Sony has little to no autonomy when it comes to Valve's policies, if the next Xbox is Windows OS based, how will Sony be able to block it? Microsoft can make a literal PC with the Xbox brand on it and a Windows OS designed for console that allows you to download Steam through it without any kind of verification from Valve, just like Lenovo is doing with the Legion Go, or Asus is doing with the Rog Ally, all Sony games are playable there, why? because it's a portable computer, there is no differenciation, there is no method to differeciate it, if Microsoft (the owners of Windows) makes a Windows Console and a Windows Portable, how will Sony be able to block their games from it if they themselfs are porting their games to WINDOWS?
Of course they do lmao.
