yurinka
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You're welcome. Yep, the sequels and movies was my personal assumption.Thanks for the detailed response! None of this mentions anything about sequels and movie tie-ins..
Sure, things can change. But this strategy wasn't set by them (now I remember Shawn mentioned more details about the strategy). And the strategy is working, Horizon, DG and DS sold around 2M each on PC an don't seem to negatively affect PS sales so they will continue with it but taking care it doesn't affect PS hardware and software sales.but sure, Hulst has insisted they'll focus on the PS platform. But to my point he said "We’re still early on in our planning for PC." Things can change, rather quickly.
Think that instead of releasing GT7 now it would be more profitable for them to release GT Sports now and a couple years after its PS5 releae then release GT7 on PC. Even if old, their games sell well on PC. They have a huge back catalog to keep releasing every year half a dozen 2+ years old games PC ports.It's all pretty non-committal either way ... and nobody here is talking about day and date releases for big AAA SP titles... just saying that nothing is set in stone. Nothing has to follow some pattern, especially if there are reasons to break that "pattern."
They are experimenting; and either way, in the case of something like Ghosts of Tsushima? It'll be 2 years old in around 8 months... I would seriously not be shocked to see it be an early next year PC release or announcement at least.
I'm also not saying I actually EXPECT something like Returnal or GT7 to come to PC, or anytime soon.. but I think just about any game is a distinct possibility. This idea that it would only be big "super sellers" confuses me. PC ports aren't particularly expensive.. a game doesn't sell gangbusters, that's even more reason to bring it to PC sooner if anything.
Some remake or remaster yes, can release them the same day on PS5 and PC and I think nobody will complain. I think to release some MP focused -specially if F2P- GaaS title day one or at least half a year after launch on PC wouldn't hurt.
But what would hurt PS5 hardware sales (so total PS5 software sales too) would be to release all their big exclusives on PC or even more, to do it a year or less after their original release.
I think it won't be limited to supersellers, but instead they will analyze each case an will estimate its potential on PC. Bloodborne isn't a superseller, but seems to fit well in PC and seems to be the most requested one. Or Dreams, for obvious reasons it can be way bigger on PC than in PS due to non-gaming applications, educational purposes, the success of games like Minecraft and Roblox in PC and so on. But I assume that first due to strategical reasons won't release all games, and second due to resources they may have Nixxes and maybe one or two partners more porting so they will have a limited amount of yearly slots (we also have to consider how it also fits with their PR & marketing team, can't be releasing and promoting a new title every week) to release ports so they will focus on those who they think have a better fit considering everything.
Nope. It doesn't work like that. Sony recognizes that
That's just PR talk
The real focus is asia and asians flow towards steam year over year big time, they are joining in droves. PC market is exploding over there. I would not be shocked if there next god of war ( after ragnarok ) is going to take place in asia like india and the release date of that game is going to be far far faster even if god of war sales tank on PC right now. They want to provide for those audiences because of growth and they will. I would also not be shocked if end of the generation or start of next generation people will get tired of all the chinese / asia focus on games. Ubisoft is moving to india also, they are starting up dev company's in india and investments are very real in this space.
China is hard to reach for anybody, steam is the only one really and tencent that are pushing into those markets successful.
This is why herman states "But we do value PC gamers, and we’ll continue to look at the right times to launch each game"
And why the current leader of sony whatever he's called again, did a interview about moving more outside of the playstation echo system with there focus.
Everything else is PR.
They acknowledged that people from countries like China, Russia or some South America countires plus some western PC gamers never won't buy a console, and that these are the majority of the ones who will buy the ports. But also that a small portion of them may become a fan of their games and may end buying a PS5 to play all exclusives and don't have to wait for ports. In addition to this, they don't want to release all their games on PC and don't want to do it day one to don't negatively affect PS5. They mentioned it.
And well, AAA games sell more in PS than in PC and their main busines isn't to sell 1st party games at all, but instead to sell 3rd party games for PS, which is by far way more profitable and provides way more revenue. And the main selling point for PS is their exclusives, so will keep them some of them forever and other ones won't be ported to PC until a fair amount of time after release. The last thing they would do would be to remove the main selling point of the main revenue and profit source of their corporation.
Regarding 'moving more outside PS' there's these old games ported to PC, PSNow being extended to more countries and platforms like tvs, phones and tablets, some PS IPs getting mobile games, movies or tv shows.
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