But even as someone who collected The Amazing Spider-Man for a decade, I'm looking forward more to TLOU, Ghost of Tsushima, and the Team Ico/Fumito Ueda games.
PC lacks Sony quality single-player focused AAA games. And I'd say VR games would do good as well, because there is a demand for higher quality VR games on PC. The thirst is there I'd say. Death Stranding is popular on PC and Horizon went from middling to very positive on Steam after all the patches.Or... they could just offer people a way to access their Playstation account on PC?
They need to setup a pipeline for multiplatform development. Late ports rarely have big impact unless the audience is extremely starved for that kind of game (eg. Persona 4 pulling crazy numbers last year), so I think Sony will eventually start releasing games day and date on PC, in order to maximize their financial gain.
Putting Doom Eternal and TLOU2 in the same group as single player is like putting GTA V and Dark Souls in the same group as well. They're all single player campaign games. Call of Duty is a genuine blockbuster title each year and most of the sales don't come from PC.Doom Eternal - another single-player campaign - was among Steam's platinum sellers last year. TLOU2 was the sixth-best selling game in the US last year, and it came out on only one platform. Again, I love Bloodborne and I will rebuy it on Steam and it will sell well, but if you think it will outsell a genuine blockbuster like TLOU2 you're living in a bubble.
Putting Doom Eternal and TLOU2 in the same group as single player is like putting GTA V and Dark Souls in the same group as well. They're all single player campaign games. Call of Duty is a genuine blockbuster title each year and most of the sales don't come from PC.
That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forums of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
What makes you believe they would port PS5 games ? Because your are exposing good arguments against, for me it's also nonsense to do it before 2027 at least. But the back catalog is more in value with such port, and so the console mothership for newcoming titles.That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forums of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
The thinking behind this move is the same thinking that led to the creation of PlayStation Productions.That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forums of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forum of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forums of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
I'm not saying it wouldn't, I made that perfectly clear. Also, I'm pretty sure Souls games still eclipse Resident Evil in sales.
Additionally, considering the "controversies' surrounding TLOU2, I'm not sure if I'm ready to see how the Steam forums will look like. It'll be full of bigotry.
the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC
That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forum of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
Also to occupy the field, create envy and buzz around the brand almost without the need of marketing money.People can't even buy PS5s at the moment and probably won't be able to for quite a while.
So porting old games to PC is just profit on the table.
Looks like PC is still the best platform for gaming, looks like a confirmation to me.
Yep. Same.Personally i will stop buying a PS console the moment they decide to release ALL their exclusive games on Pc with just few months of delay. In that situation i won't see a reason to keep buying a Playstation.
I think Sony will sit on PS5 ports until they put out most of their PS4 exclusives.I know some people are putting some sort of magical firewall around PS5 games for some reason, but would it really affect sales if, say, Demons Souls came out one year after the PS5 release? People are no longer talking about it now anyway. In a year it won't be driving sales of the console.
None of us know of course until we actually see something like that released.
Yeah maybe. But I feel there's a sweet spot in which a release is still somewhat 'hot', but not so much that the whole world abandons plans to buy a PS5 for it. Leave it too long and you risk releasing something that's met with an impassive shrug.I think Sony will sit on PS5 ports until they put out most of their PS4 exclusives.
Yes, at least until they find more money elsewhere than in the PSN.I know some people are putting some sort of magical firewall around PS5 games for some reason, but would it really affect sales if, say, Demons Souls came out one year after the PS5 release?
We were talking about PC sales. But if you combine the whole franchise like that, sure.Eclipse? Nah.
RE4 - 10.6M
RE5 - 12.1M
RE6 - 10M
RE7 - 8.5M
RE:2 - 7.8M
The average is better than RE's, but RE mainlines have comparative sales to Dark Souls starting with RE4.
They should enable 60 fps Bloodborne on PS5 before they even consider porting it to PC.
That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forum of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
The key point here is it's not 'a bit' of delay.That is interesting...and confusing.
Sony is for sure better at doing business than me, lol, but to me it seems like they are cannibalizing PS5 sales and with that also being able to lock customers into their own ecosystem. As many people already in this thread stated, the PS5 will lose a lot of allure when you with a just bit of delay can play all its exclusives even better on PC. I guess the extra game sales on PC are more consequential than PS5, PSN, PS Plus sales etc. (which I would never have guessed) and a growing fanbase of games means a growing number of watchers of the upcoming TLoU and Uncharted series and movies?
Or maybe everyone stating: "Hah! Now I don't need to buy a PS5 anymore. Thanks, Sony! :)" Is outside of here or any internet forum of no or not much of a consequence to actual PS5 sales. Maybe Sony figured out they'd still sell pretty much the same amount of PS5s?
It would all make more sense if Playstation, like Xbox, already had their own ecosystem in place on PC.
I agree. I don't expect anything close to day and date, but probably a year or two after release (I think Rockstar will be the reference.) After 1-2 years I believe sales usually go down enough that this is exactly where you'd want to maximize revenue by introducing the game to PC, while the game is still fresh enough that PC people will be super excited for it, and old enough that it won't be a blow to console sales.I know some people are putting some sort of magical firewall around PS5 games for some reason, but would it really affect sales if, say, Demons Souls came out one year after the PS5 release? People are no longer talking about it now anyway. In a year it won't be driving sales of the console.
None of us know of course until we actually see something like that released.
The key point here is it's not 'a bit' of delay.
It's 3 years with Horizon Zero Dawn, and I guess about 2 years with Days Gone now.
If you're waiting 2-3 years for these PS games to release on PC, then you're probably never going to get a PS4/5 anyway, these sales are just additional profit for Sony then.
So... what about The Last of Us Part 2 on PC this year? It doesn't hurt to dream!
So... what about The Last of Us Part 2 on PC this year? It doesn't hurt to dream!
I think there is a good chance since their multiplayer game is rumored to be pc/ps5 that they will also bring last of us 1 and part 2 with it. Maybe not this 2021 tho.
But I would take a bet that's it's coming next year.
What good is a PC port for a PS5 owner in terms of giving some breathing room when there are no new releases on the hardware they own?Bringing older titles to PC would also benefit Sony due to the ongoing Covid crisis. I imagine all the projects in their pipeline will have some kinds of snags in some fashion. I'm guessing GoW2, Horizon 2, Tsushima 2, etc. will take a bit longer than originally planned. This will give them some breathing room while they let those projects have the time they need to finish up.
I always felt that Sony's new relationship with EPIC meant that more of their catalog will be coming to PC. While it may be offputting to some, it feels like this is the direction the industry is going.
What if the whole reason Sony purchase Bluepoint Games is to have Bluepoint enhance port their Playstation games to PC?
If it's not announced yet then it's just a heresay. Even if Ghost is coming to PC, it probably won't be until later this year I reckon.I saw a list with Ghost on it as well. That's not a year old. It will be a slow start but they will get there eventuelly.
If it's not announced yet then it's just a heresay. Even if Ghost is coming to PC, it probably won't be until later this year I reckon.
Anyway I still believe Sony will never release PS5 and PC version of their main games on the same date. Well, until they announce otherwise lol.
What good is a PC port for a PS5 owner in terms of giving some breathing room when there are no new releases on the hardware they own?