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Their loss. I won't buy a PS5 or later anyway.
I have not bought a Sony console since the PlayStation 2. I've "missed" a fair few games already. The ones that end up worth playing always seem to make their way to PC eventually.
Man PC gaming just keeps getting whacked in the teeth, doesn't it?
Guess I’ll have to find some indie devs to give my money too.
Sony hasn't developed a good game since Gravity Rush 2 so I don't care.
That name brings back so many fond memories
Hey Sony, you know what's going to happen?
People are just not gonna play those games instead of buying a PS5 to buy them.
Congrats on setting your money on fire.
Sony saw Xbox effectively exiting the console industry and said "excellent, now we have a monopoly on the space, we can make all our games console-exclusive." This is why, loathe as I am to admit it, it was a good thing for a competitive ecosystem for Microsoft to still be in the race. But since they decided to cap themselves...
emulatoooor here I cooooome
Okay, they will sell less games.
Then I won't buy them I guess. I don't care enough about Sony's games to buy a PS5 just to play them.
LOL.
I mean, oh no! What will I do now? I only have a hundred thousand other games I can play now.
Guess I'll just not play PlayStation games now and go spend my money on amazing indie titles that seem to blow everything else out of the water these days.
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.
If Microsoft doesn't produce Xbox's anymore, where are they going to go?
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.)
Too many companies try to make it feel like you should be beholden to them because they made one game you like. Nope, it’s the platform (PC) for me. If you’re not making games for it anymore, your loss. I’m gonna find something else to play, not follow you around where you want.
Welp. I guess they don't want my money.
Darn.
Was really hoping my PC would do for playing future Horizon (not Hunters Gathering) and GoW games.
Didn't need a PS5, but I guess Sony doesn't want my money anymore.
Too bad.
I bought all of their consoles up to the PS4 but never got the use out of them that I did with my PC.
When they started releasing games on PC they (Sony) started getting money from me again because the games are great. But I guess they didn’t like that! And since I’m not buying a console, because they’re a scam, they won’t be getting my money.
They were making money and that's clearly not the goal. As seen by Sony renting out systems and getting rid of disk drives.
As much as I have enjoyed all the spider-man titles and Horizon, if I have to buy a ps to play future installments, that's going to be a no from me
Went decades without them. Didn't really play the ones that did become available.. No loss as far as I'm concerned.
As someone who played them all voraciously on PS5 then downloaded their repacks once they became available to mod the fuck out of them to give them new life to me, this hurts a lot.
So you paid for them on PS5 but pirated them on PC? Great job telling Sony you don't want PC versions.
Buddy I barely have enough money for food and rent, last thing I'm doing is spending money to play the same single player game twice. Sony know computer players have steam and are frugal, that is why they are okay with abandoning the market while the going is tough for the average working class denizen of Earth. God knows they were never getting my money twice and so did Sony.
PS what are you trying to accomplish with this comment? Is it fun to just openly shill for capitalism?
Don’t worry, this is not the first time they’ve done this. They’ll be back.
My read on this is that they don’t think the price of consumer components is ever going to come down, and that they’re not going to waste resources on something they think is going to become a marginalized platform.
Side note: the AI bubble cannot pop soon enough. Fuck Ai.
Eh, even if PC/component sales drop to zero, PC will still be the biggest platform with hundreds of millions of active users.
In this AI bubble Playstation is also a marginalized platform. Sony is also struggling under the memory shortage and rumors are the PS6 has been pushed forward another year because you can't launch a new platform in this economy. They will fare better because they can make special deals to get the hardware they want, but at what price? If PS6 starts costing something like $700 they're not going to be all that successful.
Yeah.
That’s my sad read. They think gaming PCs are going to die as a market; mind as well get out now and push PlayStation instead.
I hope I can get ghost of yotei.
I get why console companies want to keep exclusives but I hate it. It is only making me not engage at all.
Wait, is Sucker Punch owned by Sony?!?!
Wikipedia: "The studio has been a part of PlayStation Studios since 2011."
Disappointing, though ultimately a small part of my PC library in the end. Enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn and loved both parts of The Last of Us. Yet they never did bring over The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, or Bluepoint's remakes (I played the original Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls).
Intergalactic is the only upcoming title I'm interested in, and that's nowhere enough for me to spend on a PS5.
How hard are ports?
Depends on console architecture, these days they are all x86 I believe, so very easy. In the past for example the PS3, it was basically hard because it is a different architecture this is why even emulator for PS3 are still not perfect.
If Japanese publishers who were dismissive of PC are porting to PC that says it all.
These days, it's practically just a toggle switch.
That's difficult to quantify, but not that hard.
Modern consoles are just like modern computers.
Lots of complicated things are abstracted away or covered by something else. For example if you developed a game using an existing engine you probably can just check a box and like magic it just works.
If you built your own engine, you probably only tested it against dev kits and real console hardware. It'll probably mostly just work but might have some unexpected bugs. These too are probably also abstracted away in a lot of cases, which means it either just works or doesn't take a lot of work to make work.
I imagine Sony's logic is that it isn't worth the effort. They probably don't see the return on investment they want.
They probably look at someone like Nintendo who never port their games and often sell them for full price, it's kinda shitty for consumers but Nintendo makes bank (and to be fair they usually do make great games). Plus it looks like Microsoft is walking away from consoles so Sony has less to compete with.
Shame to know I won't be playing any more Sony games.
It won't last.
Of course they leak that sort of information. They want people to buy PlayStation consoles which is a hard proposition, given the fact that after years on the market these consoles get more expensive instead of receiving price cuts (an outright ridiculous situation). Even more so with PS6 facing delays.
The benefit of controlled leaks is that Sony never made an official announcement. And when two years after a release on PlayStation they make a PC port, they never formally lied.
I was really sad when CTR and Ratchet & Clank stayed on PlayStation. Those were some of the best reboots in ages and I don’t really want to have to keep my PS4 setup just to play those.