They’d been moving away from their PC pivot since the prior SIE CEO Jim Ryan, who initiated it, retired (though that didn’t stop GoW Ragnarok from hitting the PC months later).
This feels like it’s delaying the inevitable since Sony’s console scene is a far cry from the glory days.
This isn’t even getting to how abysmally it’s doing compared to Nintendo’s.
Every Playstation console has been emulated up to PS4 (WIP). I guess citizens of unit 731 hate money because why would I pay for a walled garden over a PC?
Exactly why I don’t have a game console from 2012 or newer. They’re just locked down general purpose PCs.
:its-afraid:
steam machines still releasing this year supposedly.
The Digital Foundry podcast talked about how they think this may be because of Xbox. Rumor is the next Xbox console will be able to play PC games, which would mean all these PlayStation PC ports.
That’s an interesting angle I hadn’t considered. I could see that being a reason if that’s the direction the Xbox goes in.
Also, sales haven’t been great. Just looking at the estimates online, if they’re even remotely accurate, GoW Ragnarok sold a quarter of what GoW did on Steam. They are protecting their first party offerings by keeping them as timed exclusives, but how well are year old games going to sell once they’re out of the zeitgeist?
As someone who mostly plays games years or decades after they come out I have never understood not playing something because it came earlier on a different platform you don’t own
