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That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.
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Valve has made the console model irrelevant. This is Sony officially giving up on the gaming market.
That's funny because I'm not coming to PlayStation.
I guess they just sell less then.
Well, there goes my money then
PC players arent starving for games. We're drowning in them
Yeah yeah we've heard it before. Now I'm not the kind of person to promote suicide, but that's because if you're rich or means we won't get to devour you alive and screaming 🍽️
So we got grifted by Bungie and need you to buy consoles, guys.
Bungie convincing Sony that they were worth 3.6 billion dollars is the grift of the decade. Sony either did no research or they really are the dumbest, most gullible motherfuckers on the planet.
Tell me again how much money they are losing because of Bungie. It's so funny
I mean... For this to actually matter Sony would have to release a decent game for the exclustivity. The last decent one in my eyes was Ragnarok, and I never even finished it.
I have a PS5. It hasen't been turned on in almost 2 years. I have no reason to. I won't lose any sleep over this decision.
No problem. Then other companies will get my money (and time). I'm not buying your over priced and proprietary console.
I don’t believe them. They just think that lying to the public will sell more PS5s… somehow
cool, I won't buy your games then.
Spider-Man 2 is literally the only thing they have that I want to play, and that is not worth getting a console for.
Spider-Man 2 is on PC.
Well I'll be damned, I thought they only ported the first one.
If you played Spiderman Red (Peter) or Spideman Blue (Miles)
You've already played Spiderman 2...
It's the first time I read these games referred as Red and Blue (like Pokemon editions, lol). Why not just call it Miles Morales, if you have to specify what it is with additional brackets anyway? Is this common way to refer like that?
I guess I was just trying to point out how incredibly similar they were.
And how little Spiderman 2 does to change that.
That's because Miles Morales isn't a complete new game, it is basically a DLC released as a separate game. I never played any of these games and this is just what I got when reading about it at launch.
If you ever played a Spiderman game for that matter. I couldn't finish Spidey Blue. So boring. Cool cinematics tho.
We don't want any of that... What do you call it? Money? HAH!
Oh yes they will. You've just decided to stop making money on them. Fine by us.
yup. if they can emulate the ps3's insano-architecture they can sure as fuck figure out whatever comes next. they're simply guaranteeing a wave of piracy instead of profiting off their already developed IPs.
Oh well, still not buying a PS.
Oh no, all 3 games.
They will come crawling back after the current moron in charge gets fired. Until then, its like 4 games.
Exactly! They'll cut jobs and trim the fat until they run out of half-assed, short-term methods of increasing quarterly profits year over year. Then they'll remember PC gamers are almost exclusively adults and some of those adults have deep pockets and no interest in the closed ecosystems that consoles provide.
Just watch.
I can almost guarantee you that dude has a board or shareholders or whatever, breathing down his neck, and his yearly bonus is depending on the number of units sold. So he will canibalize the whole system with a complete disregard for the long term effects, so long as the magic number goes up in the short term and he can cash in his bonus.
You just described all business in the modern day.
Love it or hate it, this is why we don’t want Xbox to fail.
Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of "easy" and "cheaper" haven't been true for years.
Microsoft could have done like a ... Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could've made steam. Except they couldn't because they're a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.
Fuck em. Fuck them all.
Their main appeals of "easy" and "cheaper" haven't been true for years.
Please help me get a machine that compares to the PS5/XSX in terms of performance and cost. I'm being serious. Every time I look at putting something together it's gonna be like $1500-$2000.
Total ~ $570 - $665
Plus you don't have to pay for online and get cheaper (or free 🏴☠️) games.
The up-front cost of a console is probably cheaper, barring putting some labor in and getting lucky on sales. You're right about that.
A PC has more utility, a larger library, and no subscription fee. That $80/year PsPlus subscription eats into the savings pretty fast. And when your playstation is end-of-life, it's far less useful than an older PC.
I'm sure some PC-building nerds would be happy to help put together a cost effective machine for you, but sadly I'm not that kind of nerd. I splurged on a pre-built machine when I had a nice job.
What did you buy?
25 years ago, they weren't going to get any closer than the original Xbox did. PC gaming was extraordinarily different from what we know today, and much as you might not want to hear it, a lot of the reasons it got better were also because of Microsoft. The truth is we can only have something like a Steam Machine today because of incremental improvements that have been done over long periods of time. Valve basically started work on Proton right after the first batch of Steam Machines came out and bombed, and it took until 2022 for their next batch of hardware to materialize that made use of it. Closed platforms can fuck off and die these days, but they solved real problems for decades.
"Everyone keep buying our console even though we keep raising the price. No? Fine, we'll keep all the games just for our platform, surely that will get you to buy a PS5."
Let's raise the price of the console by hundreds of dollars just to sweeten the deal!
Indies and AA games on PC ftw.
Well he’s wrong because all console games eventually come to PC one way or another. He’s just ensuring they won’t be coming first under their control.
They must not like money.
It makes me wonder what the PC profits were for the God of war games, last of us, etc., whatever else made it over. They really blew it with the forced accounts thing, but God of War was great. I always hoped they would port the demon souls remake but I guess that'll never happen.
Heh. My backlog spans 19 years. I won't miss much. Only a couple of their first party titles got my attention at all.