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Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has said the company’s planned acquisition of Bungie “represents a major step forward in becoming more multiplatform”
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Makes sense for when they acquire Square and Capcom /s
Honestly going multiplatform makes sense nowadays. Everything is so interconnected, and now it's a lot more common to own two to three gaming platforms you move between instead of just one.
Software will always be the big driver for sales, not hardware.
Honestly going multiplatform makes sense nowadays. Everything is so interconnected, and now it's a lot more common to own two to three gaming platforms you move between instead of just one.
Software will always be the big driver for sales, not hardware.
They said this when they announced the acquisition too. It's a good move, more games for more people
Makes even more sense nowadays because AAA gaming costs are skyrocketing each year.
Hopefully we'll be playing Ghost of Tsushima on PC by year's end. Just please Sucker Punch, get rid of the damn cutscene framerate cap that you for some reason added in the Director's Cut release
The more I read stuff like this the more I'm impressed with how forward thinking Microsoft was with Game Pass.
It's not about the hardware any more at all. It's all about subscriptions, software and ecosystem.
It's not about the hardware any more at all. It's all about subscriptions, software and ecosystem.
This doesn't mean Uncharted on Xbox, but at least opening things up for PC is a huge step. They have loads of work to do from an ecosystem perspective however. It makes no sense to ignore PC anymore with how the younger generation of consumers in Z and more have adopted the platform and how streaming has taken off.
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I can see SE getting acquired with their current crappy management
Yep, it's not about the box, it's about selling software. There's a limit on how many people will buy a $400-500 box only for games (with the ubiquity of things like Chromecast and Fire Sticks, the streaming apps on console have lost value). Time to expand your market.
I mean it's literally re-shaping the industry. It's going to constantly be a huge part of the conversation moving forward.
He says this but Sony is still pretty inconsistent with their PC releases. I hope that improves soon, especially after them buying an immensely talented PC porting studio recently.
The technical parity between consoles and PC, along with the clear blue-ocean market size of PC, makes it really a no-brainer business wise. If anything I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
For sony, the money really is in the hardware even if indirectly, because so much of Sony's money comes from third party sales on their platform which they then get a cut of. Nintendo, they are not.
That was part of the initiative.
Look at the Fortnite thing. Web browser client. Etc.
When the money is in microtransactions, limiting the reach of your software is a negative. The console market used to be driven by selling consoles in order to extract that sweet 3rd party software license revenue, now that pales in comparison to microtranasction revenue cut.
Mentioned it in the other thread, but there's a very interesting answer in the Q+A session around the future of the game business, M&A, platform vs content, and how that may all evolve. Long story short, while the platform is important, Sony is doubling down on content investment to secure the business no matter what happens to the distribution landscape and is increasingly taking a 'communities of interest' approach rather than a mindset of one platform.
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It's kind of inevitable, With the move to streaming options eventually for a lot of stuff isolated platforms are not making much sense as far as being able to play a specific game. It's now up to the platform holders to create positive differentials as far as why their platform for the gaming platform do you want to use play games.
For years now, i've been hearing that consoles were sold at a loss(at least early gen), software is main aspect of the busiess, it was the case in the past, it's even more today.
MS has been very upfront on this for a while, glad to see Sony following suit. Nintendo however will likely stay in their bubble.
MS has been very upfront on this for a while, glad to see Sony following suit. Nintendo however will likely stay in their bubble.
No of course not, but it is part of a major catalyst sparking a change in multiplatform gaming.
I'm asking this earnestly: Most of Sonys first party bread and butter games don't have significant microtransactions, right? There are things like GT sport which do, but they're by far a minority of the first party output. And I don't quite follow as to why anyone would give sony a cut of any sort of revenue if it's bought on some other non-playstation platform?
OK but... this would be cataclysmic for Sony as a developer, would it not? 86% of software sold on sony platforms (woo license fees) last year was third party, https://www.tweaktown.com/news/86142/playstation-stats-third-party-game-sales-dwarf-first/index.html
And a presumably similar amount of the microtransaction revenue. (Couldn't see hard numbers quickly on that). It would be extremely difficult for sony if that money were to stop going to them as a platform holder, surely?
Sony readies for metaverse revolution with cross-platform push News
Source article [it’s actually pretty darn good] : https://tribune.com.pk/story/2357115/sony-readies-for-metaverse-revolution-with-cross-platform-push Interesting that the only “ready player one” metaverse is the abomination on metas headsets. MS and Sony seem to both be more invested in...
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And yeah, we know SIE is moving to multiplatform. That's why they are hiring lately for PlayStation PC and PlayStation Mobile.
For SIE it will be all about PS consoles, PC and Mobile.
Then you have Bungie (not a PS Studio but still under SIE) which will remain multiplatform.
This has no correlation to them doing a more multiplatform strategy, and frankly even their strategy does not even closely mirror what gamepass is Aiming for other than literally just being some sub service. The whole industry has been re-evaluating things and its not due to some pressure from gamepass.
For the first time since the introduction of console, a future where you do not need a console to game on a TV is in sight. This is why it makes sense for Sony to branch out of their console ecosystem. If streaming truly is the future, then Sony needs to create a situation in which their identity is tied to their software and not necessarily their hardware.
I doubt it. I fully expect it to come to PC, but it ain't gonna be a hit no matter where it releases. Unfortunately, it just doesn't seem to have the appeal LBP had.
Continuing to put their games on PC, likely with a set schedule or day and date makes too much sense. I think it's been proven a lot of people just prefer consoles so it's not like you'll lose much of that userbase.
I was more talking about how good the Dreams projects would be on PC rather than commercial performance. Game creation software never really does that well commercially.
I don't know why you deleted the rest of that, I thought it was funny lol
Dude, trust me, it's best to just not bother with these people. Just let it go
