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Sony Delists Original Horizon Zero Dawn on PC, Forces PSN Requirement for Remaster (www.ign.com)

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

            
              Even if they sell at a loss, the number of consoles mean the potential number of buyers for games. More consoles sold means they can sell more games and other profit generating products/services.
Sony is barely selling any PS5 Pros as there is a low interest at this high price, which is unlikely to change in the future. The current console is not even fully utilized, lot of recent games are still PS4 cross-gen. 0 chance of the base PS5 being left behind
MS will not make COD an exclusive, as they will not give up on the chance to sell a 70 USD/EUR game to 60 million PS5 users, which is double the size of their own market

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You said yourself that a lot of gamepass subscriptions were on PC. You know how many people own PCs?
That's what happened with the Xbox one X and the PS4 pro. Game devs want to make their games look best for trailers, so the graphics will be focused on instead of optimizing for the lower tiered consoles. It'l be like "if you want stable 60fps, you'll need the PS5 pro".
Starfield already didn't come to the PS5. There even was a version for the PS5 in development.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Starfield already didn't come to the PS5. There even was a version for the PS5 in development.

Point to Sony then

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why? The argument was that MS wouldn't make CoD exclusive, when they've made the highly anticipated Starfield exclusive.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the joke was 'Starfield bad' so PS5 not getting was a net positive for Sony

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 month ago

So you admit to moving the goal posts?