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Insider Confirms Sony Ditching PC Ports: "You'll Be Seeing Fewer Single Player Games Arrive on PC."
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Yeah.
TBH there are too many PC games. It’s overcrowded. Sony has some great studios, but it’s not like the platform will wither because they leave.
But like someone said, I’m more worried Sony thinks PC hardware won’t be viable anymore, and is exiting a dying platform. I know that seems inconceivable now, but a few years AMD/Intel/Nvidia could easily decide higher end gaming hardware is just not worth developing.
It’s already started, seeing AMDs and Intel already cut some GPUs and Nvidia is allegedly pondering the same.
And the same can't be said for consoles? I mean, not to go all nihilistic or something, but if high end hardware is being threatened then why would Nvidia or AMD or Intel even bother with custom SOCs for consoles too? All of that manufacturing, R&D, and materials can go towards AI data center products.
Putting aside the current hardware apocalypse happening...
To play devil's advocate a bit. If I was Sony and I saw my competitor, Microsoft, shoot themselves in the feet so much that they are no longer in the console space then...why wouldn't I capitalize on that and take advantage of being the only home console available? I can release all of my first party stuff on my console only so people have to buy my console.
Sure some Xbox gamers are going to go PC, but the majority don't want a PC. They want a console they can plug into a TV and press Play on whatever game and it just works. If Microsoft doesn't produce Xbox's anymore, where are they going to go? Nintendo? Lmao. It'll be a PlayStation.
I think this move is just Sony doubling down on their platform and titles. I for one would advise against buying a console at this point because you are locked down to their ecosystem, their services. On PC I can at least play the games I bought 20 years ago on Steam. I can emulate tens of thousands of retro games. And I can use the controller or peripherals I want to use. I prefer the Xbox controller(well Steam soon enough), and if I went PlayStation then I'd be playing with a controller I simply don't like. On PC I can choose whichever one I want.
Console chips are high volume, single SoC, ordered by one reliable customer (Sony), and can make the transition to cloud gaming if they have to. Sony's already experimented with this, actually.
Discrete PCIe GPUs and "desktop" CPUs, on the other hand, are:
Mostly consumed by gaming laptops, which OEMs could very well abandon.
And partially go to workstations/gaming desktops.
But repurposed server chips can serve workstations, while tablets and thin clients can eat the desktop/gaming laptop market from the bottom up, too. The niche that assembles higher end gaming PCs isn't enough to amortize the massive cost of such gaming GPUs by themself (hence AMD and Intel already abanonded their highest end GPU variants).
Hopefully Valve gives them a home with the Steam Machine. We're still waiting to hear the price for that though...
(It is just a computer running Linux, but it's sold as a console.)