Short term thinking. Those million enthusiasts are outside of the console ecosystem. The ones that will go on the PSN store daily and buy shit are now buying their third party games and MTX on Steam instead of the console. Bad trade.Lose a million in console sales to gain how many potential PC customers?
Lose a million in console sales to gain how many potential PC customers?
Gaming is dead, long live the Gaming!
This. There is no reason Spiderman 2 should have cost $300M to make. The first one (I think) only cost $100M.
No, they are enough. AAA bloat and overpriced consoles are taking the console space. This could be course corrected but instead they are going to try and blow it up. It's going to fuck both of their gaming aspirations long term.
Thos people are still spending that just Sony loses a cut and they gain a lot more customers
Knowing Kenichiro and Hiroki's concerns, they 100% will in the coming years. The main reason Sony Corp. established SIE LLC in 2016 was for the network infrastructure, but it's getting more and more expensive to keep up with the costs in San Mateo, so moving all these operations to the Tokyo-based SIE Inc. makes much more sense.
Exactly
Do you like console gaming? Because the entire industry has evolved through exclusivity. The reason why we have games like Last of Us, Halo, etc is because billion dollar companies are dumping a ton of money into first party games to lure gamers to their console. This is the industry we all know and love.
This sounds just like when Playstation first even put games on PC, it was the death of Playstation
Wait, wait, Nintendo is still standing!
I think you're overblowing it a bit, it's not like millions of Playstation owners are going to drop consoles and buy $3000 PCs over night.
I think the same, I think they are different markets. The fact is that 4 years ago I defended this and the quick response was "you don't need an X console, just buy a PC"
It is a strange shift but it started years ago and I keep using the boiling frog analogyI think the same, I think they are different markets. The fact is that 4 years ago I defended this and the quick response was "you don't need an X console, just buy a PC"
Now seriously, I think the best thing is to wait several years for multiplatformity to be established and see the evolution of the console market. Making statements in such a special and changing situation is useless.
We are not in the years where Studios could release games every 2-3 years and their development cost was 1/5 of that. Now they cost 5x more and the user base is not enough.
Strange years are coming in the industry, of course.
Oh, I'm pretty sure Jim Ryan is well aware of that, he probably did a lot of changes in their internal development operations.
Well maybe as everything else, that industry we all know and love is changing and is not the same as 10 or more years ago. Games and marketing are now insanely huge (or can be easier than before), does R* need a dedicated console for their games, does Activision, etc.? Games can be huge and great, look at everything From Software did in last 15 years or so, I doubt quality of game has to do shit with exclusivity. And you mention games that honestly I could do without anyway. Thing is they should focus on making meaningful experiences and not money, money is pointless if chased for itself, while quality content will surely bring it.
But imagine if the games were actually bangers instead of what we got
PC gamers "Nice, I'll wait for a sale".Lose a million in console sales to gain how many potential PC customers?
Those people are waiting for the ports anyhow
Console can't really grow anymore, the number of PlayStations being sold each generation has not meaningfully increased in over two decades. How else are they supposed to grow?
