Yea but I don't think porting games to PC even on day 1 will hurt their console business for the most part and even though selling console hardware is profitable eventually... We have seen that the profit is minimal. Majority of the biggest sellers on consoles are third party games that are also available on PC from day 1 yet they sell a ton more on consoles. The reason is that the barrier to entry on consoles is significantly less compared to PC, especially with todays market. Not to mention that the user experience is much more streamlined. Imo if Sony thought that there would be any risk in their console business by porting games to PC, I doubt they would have started going this path in the first place.
We went from No PS Games on PC to Ps3 Games on PC via PS Now to PS4 Console Exclusives on PC to PS4 First Party Exclusives on PC. I think the next or next next logical step is for them to port first party games onto PC day 1. It might sound crazy but once up on a time, the idea that Horizon Zero Dawn would be ported onto PC sounded like madness yet here we are.
I think it's just a matter of when and not if. I think MS is continuing to prove that porting games onto PC day 1 is benefiting them greatly without digging into their console business, especially with some of the lesser known titles. The Series X and Series S are continuing to be sold out even though all their games can be found on PC day 1. I think Sony will follow suit eventually because of how expensive it is to build AAA games in the modern era.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
