The strange part is they're making demands from a position of weakness. PC gaming is incredibly weak when put against consoles - I don't think they understand they owe their platform of choice's life to consoles.
Since people keep ignoring it, it really needs to be repeated that in the world's 6th largest economy (the UK), the software revenue split is 5:1 in favour of consoles vs PC. Highest selling PC game in 2023? Hogwarts, 224K. On consoles? EA Sports FC, 2.33 MILLION. 10:1. (Console Hogwarts was 1.7m)
Updated 3/7/24 Flipbook info added https://flipbook-livid.vercel.app/deploy/examples/assets/pdf/book.pdf https://www.gamesindustry.biz/uk-pc-and-console-sales-grew-26-in-2023-uk-annual-report-1 A big year for PS5, but sales drops elsewhere 2.38 million games consoles were sold...
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Even previously PC exclusive franchises like Diablo are thriving on consoles, to the point where the experiences wouldn't exist and devs wouldn't be able to survive without consoles. 218k sales on consoles for Diablo 4 vs 224k on PC. That's PC's second biggest seller btw. It would land firmly in 10th on the console list.
There's no place on the planet with a comparable economy that can sway that kind of ratio back in PC's favour. Either they don't know that, or they may just be PC Master Baiters.