Sony going third party is an excellent idea for gamers.

[Azuren]

Chazore said:
Man, this thread sure brought out some snark, I tell you what.

Since some in the thread have already blown things way out of proportion (some even thinking Sony>every other corner of the industry for example), I've been thinking on a thread, asking if it would be good for PC gaming to completely die out and your favourite brand dominating over everything, I'm sure the snarky ones would happily agree without a second thought.

Some people have already suggested the idea that Sony still remain in the hardware, but pull an MS and sell to PC directly as well (directly as in like Steam, not with crappy server streaming games that you'll never get to keep). That idea itself doesn't sound doom and gloom (but I suppose sharing is always doom and gloom when you have zilch to fap and gloat over in terms of gameplay/visuals).

I don't feel like PC dying out is a good thing. I just wish PC gamers would accept that exclusives exist, and if you want to play them you'll have to buy the corresponding platform. 

 

The only way Sony release their games on PC is if they did it like MS: making their own storefront. And they just watched Microsoft's storefront crash, burn, and fail when their storefront is built into Windows. Sony isn't going to release on Steam, because the entire purpose of making exclusives is to get people on their platform and increase the sales figures of games like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed (from which Sony takes a cut for being on their platform). Putting, say, Uncharted 4 on Steam doesn't give Sony CoD sales, it gives Valve sales. Yeah, Sony makes some money off of their game, but they'll start hemorrhaging userbase to Stream. And that userbase is their livelihood.