Still, you could play and beat the games on Gamepass for peanuts (especially with 'three months for 1€/$' offers for either PC Gamepass or Ultimate) and then get the game on Steam during sales or as cheap keys for peanuts one, two or three years down the line, rather than buying them soon after launch for 30 bucks (if not much more) on Steam right away.
Flight Simulator, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires are among MS's oldest and more popular IPs and are well known among PC gamers especially older gamers.
Yeah I'm not sure why people are piling on you. It's an extremely simple question.
typically when something is unable to be used it is called unusable yes
Not really, in terms of success. Sony have said multiple times console is compared to global base of gamers. Jim saying console sales of LoU2 selling as much as it did frustrates him. Sony are changing because thet have to as well. Thinking interms of hardware exclusivity is squandering opportunity for greater gains, MS doing so well is certainly impacting how Sony see's it's portfolio, I'm think it's reasonable to assume, in this era of pandemic and chip shortages MS new games being playable on more machines then PS5s has probably caught them off guard,. We can see that with their aquisitions and their recent release of marquee I.Ps on PCs that they do feel the need to change and not rely exclusively on consoles to shift their games. I think we'll see a select range of games being day and date with P.C, still, that'd be a huge shift from what we've come to expect.
Sony's current model has a hard ceiling on player acquisition and total possible sales. They make the majority of their money from software sales, subs, and the associated purchases for those games. They've already recognized that being limited to strictly their own console is limiting them, buying studios to handle PC work is kinda a gigantic beacon of where they're going, even if it's going to take 5-10 years to make that transition.
I think you meant that they decrease Steam's own cut, thus increasing the dev cut.
I think they announced that they were dopping the use of UWPs, but doing a search for it, it seems that they first mentioned that two years ago. Although I remember they made an announcement about it recently. Hopefully, they will finally do something to fix that mess next year.
This is probably my most wanted event in all of gaming since a new 2D Metroid. Imagine the (assumed) next Last of Us in 4k 144hz wth gsync. Or ideally for me, on ultrawide 144hz gsync.
Seriously. I have 1 and 4 on PC I want to binge play that shiz.
This is pretty interesting as I've never heard of this option before. Is this mainly for small indies or are there AAA blockbusters from big publishers that allow it? I assumed all games sold to you on Steam were being licensed to the user without exception which is how GoG tried to distinguish themselves by letting you actually own the games purchased on their platform.
Unless they get a remake or remaster that's not going to happen.
"No sales" was never the reason why console vendors didn't realese their games on PC.
It was to entice people to buy their hardware, but since a lot of PC players aren't interested in consoles, that was always a bad strategy.
I mean, the numbers don't really back you up on this one. Games that used to be consoles exclusive are selling incredibly well on PC (as this thread indicates as well as Sony buying a company speciliazed in PC ports) and console sales sure as hell haven't gone down, so...
What i'm saying is that they would have always sold well enough to warrant a port.
