Sony plans include PC Launcher, Cross-Buy, Cross-Save/Progression with PC, PS Plus on Fire Stick, Roku and Smart TVs
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A lot of those strengths are just due to the nature of PC as a platform.
Full discord usability? it's cause every PC has a keyboard and mouse built in. What would you do to remedy this, bundle a keyboard and mouse with every PS5?
Mod support? because the game files are open and accessible. You can't do this on console because the files are closed, and most companies aren't like bethesda where they will ask their players to make content for the game.
Retro emulation? That'd cause tensions between companies pretty quick if one of them (especially Nintendo) found out that people were using another system's competitor console to emulate their games. Look at what Nintendo does to rom sites on the daily.
Cheaper game prices? That already exists on console it's called the used physical market LOL
Extra controller options? that's thanks to all the drivers. Do you really expect Sony to code drivers to get an Xbox controller working on their console?
PC-exclusive games? The difference between exclusives on PC and exclusives on console is that PC exclusives just happen because of PC as a platform. Indies are PC exclusive because you don't need to pay to publish games (or it costs less) on PC. Others are PC exclusive simply because they take advantage of the platform too much, all those RT remasters of old games like Quake and Half Life 2. Or how Baldur's Gate 3 needed a month to get their game working on PS5 because of how KB&M focused the game is.
Better peak performance potential? Probably because you can upgrade a PC. Sony would probably have to manufacture a whole bunch of upgradeable parts and stuff just to get things working properly, or pay AMD to do it. That's a whole lot more cash for this operation that fundamentally undermines the point of a console....
Convenience of multitasking? That's thanks to software. Sony would have to create a fucking translation layer for the PS OS to get all that 30+ YEARS of Windows software running on their PS5, or convince major software developers to port over most of the relevant ones. Editing videos, 3d models, filling spreadsheets and music production on a fucking PlayStation? really man?
You basically want consoles to become PC- you are fundamentally undermining the pros of a console. A lot of the "convenience" and "ease of use" people admire in a console goes out the window pretty quick when you throw in different components and an open OS into the mix with pretty much all of these suggestions you made.
At this rate, you're better off convincing Sony to make their own Linux distro a la SteamOS, a PC launcher and just advice that people play their games on those instead of PS consoles from now on.
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On a PS5 you can buy used or make some of your money back by selling your games.
you mean like how 50% of the PS userbase is still on PS4?
Also, please stop with the "ps4 quality PC" rhetoric. The most popular card on the Steam Survey is the RTX 3060, which is around equivalent to a PS5's GPU with Nvidia's featureset.
Most of the cards following up are plenty capable too
What percent of PS4 users should be on PS5 by now?
What does the most popular have to do with a lot of users being on PS4 quality cards?
People really struggle with logic.
6 out of 12 doctors are 6 feet tall. A lot of doctors are under 6 ft tall (5).
What does 6 out of the 12 being 6 ft tall have to do with the 5 who are under 6 ft tall?
Yes, a company who hasn't put out a system seller in over a decade is evidence. This is laughable.
See above. I'm going to stop humoring you. Your arguments are getting worse and worse. It's embarrassing at this point. For me, because I took you seriously at one point.
You made up the 2-3 million number in the first place...
See above.
Asked and answered. I'm not even going to bother responding to the rest.
They could have come up with a PC strategy that would not play into their competitors, but they made everything harder for themselves. Releasing ports as Linux/SteamOS native only would have had a positive effect in the gaming industry, but instead, they are just helping MS keeping a grip on it. Idiots.
I'd say the reason of not releasing Linux/SteamOS ports is that amost all the PC gamers are on Windows instead, and Linux/SteamOS can already run properly their Windows games. So there's no point to waste resources on it.
Most PC game sales on Steam and most players only buy on Steam, so publishing on Steam is the way to reach most PC players. Makes more sense to start on Steam, build their PC library and fanbase and then later release their own store/launcher and slowly migrate their fanbase and library there as it keeps growing.
To build their own store, launcher etc. is so expensive and needs years to make it profitable specially if it doesn't start with a big library that can appeal customers.
To don't release their first PC games on Steam would have mean to have way less sales and way more costs, specially if also made Linux/Steam OS ports. So wouldn't have been as profitable as their current approach is.
You guys spent months kicking Microsoft’s back in for taking this route with Xbox.
Sony and Microsoft PC route are vastly different… I’m not even use why you use one as example of the other.