Because Sony make most of their money from the platform, they make barely anything from 1st party games... so the priority should be adding users and building a unique portfolio of games, similar to how PS4 had a strong generational portfolio that sold the console to even some of the strongest PC gamers.
PlayStation is a hardware platform first and foremost, it is even in the name 'Play' - 'Station'. Either they put the console first and expanding the base of users or else the whole thing will not work anymore.
If they didn't have a hardware platform, games like the ones they make simply wouldn't be viable.
Also in terms of investors, Sony's entire stock jumped based on hardware forecasts being optimistic.... not on software, no investor gives a toss about anything except how many consoles they get installed. They are not waiting on how many units GOW or Spider-man sold, they are waiting on how many million consoles they sold each quarter and how they can top the last gen.
I assume that the forecasts that really interest investors are the revenue, profit and growth ones. They saw that Sony posted great revenue and profit numbers that are in a growing trends, and that they are growing and investing in multiple existing and new areas to grow even more, which means bigger future revenues and profits, so higher stock value.
Their platform does a great number and performs better than ever did in everything (selling hardware temporally no, but it will do soon once they solve the chips shortage issue), and they are investing on their platform and in games for it more than they ever did before and will continue growing these investments.
But even if their platform continues growing, it represents a small portion of the total gaming market so even if they continue investing more than ever did on it, on top of that and without negatively affecting it there is the opportunity on investing to get money from other platforms either if it's porting part of their own stuff to pc, making mobile games or acquiring or investing on key multiplatform publishers or developers.
SIE just posted the biggest revenues from a console maker ever seen in a Q2 and the biggest revenue from a console maker game subscription to mention a couple of numbers. The more money they make from any sources, the more money they'll have to invest on their own platform including games for it(which is their top priority and focus according to the most recent words of both Jim Ryan when announcing the Q2 results and Hermen on his most recent interview).
So wait, the PS5 version gets an 85, the PC version gets a 92? I'll pretend to be surprised
It's because of the number of reviews. The PC had only a few ones, and now has 21 reviews in MC and a 88 score. The PS5 version has 89 reviews and 85 score. The more reviews for a platform, more chances to get a dumb review with a stupidly low score.
I assume that the reason behind lower amount of PC reviews it's because it has been released on a very busy period and eviewers have been busy with games like Bayonetta 3, God of War Ragnarok or Pokemon during these weeks and didn't have time to play everything, so I assume they prioritized new games over ports.
