https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1795966798942158935
Yeah, no, this is just dumb on many levels.
Hulst added they are taking a different approach with their single-player, narrative-drive games. The hopes with bringing those games later on is that it will get PC players to buy a PlayStation console in order to play the sequels.
"But with our tentpole titles, our single-player narrative-drive titles that are...as you saw in the presentation the backbone of what PlayStation Studios has delivered in recent years and in our history. We take a more strategic approach and we introduce our great franchises to new audiences and we are finding new audiences that are potentially going to be very interested in playing sequels on the PlayStation platform.
"We have high hopes that we are actually able to bring new players into PlayStation at large, but into PlayStation platforms specifically.
"Actually the same goes for the work that we do with extending our great properties onto other media. Such as television series and film for example. As you have seen with The Last of Us on HBO or Gran Turismo, the film, that brings in new players into our franchises."
No Sony, you don't seem to quite get how this song & dance works...
See, you told me to get "two jobs" to afford your then PS3 system... then it breaks while still under warranty and yet you refused a free fix or even replacement, so I moved to Xbox. Then I move from Xbox back to PC again and now you want me to come back to benefit your shitty PSN user count?.
Unless you've got the cure to cancer I don't give a shit on where you want me, I ain't moving, and I'm not signing up to your lil walled garden of shit. You want me as a customer?, you sell me the games on Steam, where the majority sell on. Stop being such a pissy little child about trying to dodge the 30% cut down the road (because I know they are, they'd rather you be on their console where they get 100%, than on Steam where they get 70%, and we know they'll prop up a store in time to get that 100% back on PC) and just sell me the damn games day and date or don't bother.
MS was at least more tact with how they approached PC. Yeah they tried pushing Win store heavily at first, but then they realised that wasn't going anywhere, so they went with Steam, and trying to passively slide their other shitty client on the wayside (like I'll ever go there), but at least they got the message and decided to play along. Sony's just being really obnoxious/obvious now with how they clearly want to retain a higher cut, despite them already being so big of a corp, but that they would also value PSN over simply selling copies on Steam day 1.
It's like the most baffling, most stupid strategy I've seen in years, and it's based on the basics of simply selling a product to the consumer, and they can't seem to even get that done properly.
MS has obviously been doing shit and getting called out for their usual dues, but Sony this year are just being especially annoying, in that they refuse to play along and do something so basic. Their values are also entirely in the wrong place. The ecosystem warring is so stupid, because half these corps think they can bag the whole planet into their walled garden, and well, shit just doesn't work like that, so rather than trying to bag the planet, why not just sell to those who could buy from you without the extra hoops?, surely the money is more important than some shitty user count that won't even begin to matter in 50-100 years time.
Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see
So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"
