Sony going third party is an excellent idea for gamers.

[Chazore]

Azuren said:

Except it's still the butt of many  jokes. 

 

And good on you, but the fact is most people don't use multiple clients and likely will continue to simply use Steam. They might go to other clients for their exclusives, but not other games. 

 

As usual, you seem to prefer missing the point. I wasn't saying Sony would make one, I was giving two scenarios that would result in Sony games on PC.

 

Lack of credentials and lack of contacts are the two most obvious and glaring ones. Doesn't change the fact that Sony doesn't put their games on PC and doesn't seem to have plans to. I'm only giving reasons to explain why they don't and why they likely won't in the future.

Steam is still the butt of both jokes and memes out there to this day:

CSGO skin prices are an absolute joke.

 

The mythical HL3 that will never come, that's haha funny by now right?.

 

Paid mods, because we clearly wanted those:

 

Steam gamepad, which is hardly being bought anywhere enar the amount that the DS4 and X1 gamepads are:

The biggest butt of the joke with Steam has to be Greenlight. Even they know it's an issue that eneds to be sorted out, yet they are too lazy to bother working on it asap due to concerns for just making more money as usual.

If Origin is a joke, then Steam is the laughing stock, but either way both are making money from their respective bases.

 

The thing is, multiple people do inf act use multiple clients, otherwise said multiple clients would have long since died and gone the way of the dodo. People are using Uplay because it's made a requirement once you buy any Ubisoft game from Steam. Want to buy a Blzizard game?, you have to use B.net client for that. Want to play any of EA's latest games?, gotta use Origin etc.

People will use a client if it actually has some benefits to it. As long as it's not the worst client in all of history (we're talking so bad that it's spat on 24/7, never improves and has the lowest user count known to  man), people will make use of it.

 

You seem to miss mine in the process, but I digress. We're talking about Sony tossing games on PC, so a client would be the main choice here, like the other companies have done so far. I doubt streaming via PSnow will ever surpass Steam and the otehr clients, but making a store to compete with great features would make for a nice start and give them solid ground to fight on.

You give your reasons and everyone else is giving theirs on why they would/should at the end of the day.