• jol
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    26 days ago

    Which on the other hand is something many PC gamers and content with. Steam consoles didn’t sell well because the market for PC fixed consoles wasn’t there.

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      26 days ago

      Yup. It’s why they’re unlikely to get conversions, but they might get people to do both.

      Consoles compete with PC gaming, but they’re not substitutes. The best they can hope for is people who are relatively indifferent to the advantages a PC has being persuaded by the console advantages, or people who are okay with just having both picking a PS5 over an Xbox or Nintendo.

      For the latter, I think they’d be better served looking for a way to do “but it in one, play it in both” type deals, since that makes the ambivalent people more likely to default to PlayStation, since they still get PC, and the “both” people are more likely to buy sooner, since waiting doesn’t get them anything.

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        26 days ago

        Right. We mustn’t forget that many people just have lots of disposable income. Buying several consoles and gaming PCs is just part of their hobby.