| outlawauron said: Why would a Sony moneyhat even be a potential reason? They don't care about PC versions of their contracts (SF5 most notably). |
Street Fighter is a much more popular game, so it would cost way, way more to keep it off of PC as well. Additionally, PC is potentially mutually beneficial for Sony with SFV, because cross-platform play increases the number of players online, which is essential for keeping a multiplayer-centric game alive.
Persona, on the other hand, is relatively niche and single player.
I don't think it's true that Sony doesn't care about PC as a competitor. If they didn't, they would be eager to put their IPs on Steam. It's just that, as the PS4 is still young, it does not have the player base to compete with PC at the moment. So Sony tries to avoid this by considering PC gaming to be a completely separate gaming entity. Those are just my thoughts.
As a side note, if Sony is actually moneyhatting Persona 5, I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. It might possibly be a very good thing in some instances. Say, for example, if Sony were to be funding the localization of the game, I'm sure Sony would have the monetary resources to get Troy Baker to voice a major role -- something that Atlus evidently does not have, as Troy Baker has become much more prominent since his role in Persona 4.
Edit: But of course, as everyone else has said, it's probably also because Atlus doesn't put games on PC. I just have been personally wondering if Sony has been involved with the game ever since the game suddenly got a PS4 port.
