LEGO Horizon Adventures out on PS5, PC, and Switch November 14th

[Chazore]

KrspaceT said:

zeldaring said:

It's possible but I don't think it's a good busniess model of they wanna sell Playstation consoles. Gow, Spider-Man and Horizon are system sellers the whole generation.

On that same note, having the PS5 set titles like Ragnarok and Forbidden West end up on PC before the PS6 launches is also a problem. But they are doing it, and limiting FOMO as a result. 

They opened that door, so they might as well step into it further. Once you give up exclusivity to sell your stuff, you can only far farther. You get less money from console sales as people wait for PC, so you need to sell more copies somewhere which feeds the problem further. 

Both Sony/MS are more vested in the Ecosystem wars, not the old fashioned unit selling wars.

This is why you've recently been seeing Sony pushing more and more for PC users to sign up to PSN, and them eventually slapping their PSN UI onto their PC ports to "connect" PC users to PSN fully, thus making them a part of the "family" of PS. MS has been doing this for years and years, only once they got MC they started to push for it more (Bought SoT on Steam?, need an Xbox account to sign into that, same with MC).

This forum has weird outlooks on release schedules and still doesn't seem to like the idea of slimming down the port release date gap that has been getting smaller over time, because that apparently doesn't benefit the console side, despite the console side shrinking over time and generally being stagnant for some years (especially when you look at PC/Mobile growth over the past 10). 

PC folks will wait for sure, but keeping it the same schedule for a decade isn't going to net much growth and even put some people off (not everyone gives into strong-arming/Fomo, I know because I'm one of them). Shrinking the gap makes more sense, especially when you factor in the push for spreading your ecosystem, and not having one closed plastic box being your sole focus-point (Even Nintendo has been spreading out from Mobile to theme park contracts with Universal, which is a big move for Nintendo to step out of it's protective bubble after all these years). 

Last edited by Chazore - on 09 June 2024