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Kyuu on 24 April 2024
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curl-6 said:
Kyuu said:

Full exclusivity no longer make sense for 3rd party developers. Porting is much easier and less expensive than before, and you have two platforms that are around as massive or bigger than Playsation. Timed exclusivity on the other hand does make a lot of sense. Full exclusivity for a platform holder, which only Nintendo does these days, is also logical.

The difference between Playstation and Xbox is that one is slowly and only partly losing its identity (and bolstering PC), and the other already did many years ago. The real winner here is Valve.

Microsoft can easily make Xbox very relevant again, but it would come at the great price of damaging their IP's including CoD. MS is only the biggest publisher out there because they're a multi platform company. If they return to full Xbox exclusivity, Nintendo would probably beat them, and Sony too might.

I don't think timed exclusivity will be enough to compel many people to buy a console; if they know the games will eventually come to PS5, they'll buy that instead.

Releasing on PC is fine, some folks just prefer consoles and will never become PC gamers, the problem is that if you're in the market for a console there's little reason to choose Xbox any more.

Timed exclusivity against PC also makes sense for both the platform holder and the 3rd party publisher. If Sony starts mimicking Microsoft's PC support and release all their games day 1 on PC, PS5's sales would definitely decline just like Xbox One and Series XS.

It's true that "some" folks won't leave consoles anytime soon. But PC does appeal to a lot console gamers. There are millions of PC gamers who switched from consoles. Sony's PC support is slightly accelerating this, and a day and date support would accelerate it further. Nintendo refuses to support PC because they know it would hurt their console sales too. Modern PC is just too similar to modern consoles.