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Soundwave on 06 May 2025
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Kyuu said:
Soundwave said:

Again I would disagree with that. 

I guess they could have not released on PS5 at all and the sales also would've been the same? See now some Sony fanboys will throw a little fit if you even suggest that. 

The way people consume games has been shifting for years now, I think it really started to accelerate around 2020 and has picked up steam (no pun intended) since then. 

The modern generation of kids really don't have much/any brand loyalty to Sony and if you're not putting games where they're at they're simply going to ignore said game. 

Playstation exclusivity as it existed in the 1990s/2000s is an outdated concept, even Sony themselves (lol) won't even commit their IP to being exclusive to Playstation consoles any longer, who even knows if we're not that far away from something like Last of Us or Spider-Man 2 ending up on a Switch 2 eventually. You can't operate any longer like it's 1999 or even 2010 anymore, you're gonna lose significant amount of sales. 

The big, fat brick stationary home console in a lot of ways is becoming an outdated thing ... lots of people simply don't care for that form factor, the PC or Switch hybrid gives satisifies a lot of gaming needs more than a home Playstation can.

I just saw AMD's latest earnings report ... everything is up for them as a company except for one thing ... their sales from home consoles (so PS + XBox) are down big time, lol. PS/XBox are a drag on their earnings release, tells you that brand momentum is not with those systems. People need to understand Playstation and XBox for a lot of up and coming gaming audience is their *dad's* generation, it doesn't speak to their generation in the same way. 

Most people don't care if the games arrive late on their preferred platforms. Those who do care will play it on the other systems, those who don't will just wait. There is no "penalty" to timed exclusivity, especially if said exclusivity is on a popular platform.

It's an "outdated concept" because its very expensive now, and timed exclusives just don't sell enough consoles, because again... most people will choose to wait for those games to come to theirs platform.

Playstation does face challenges and I spoke about this in length in multiple threads. But it's not really related to my argument that timed exclusives don't kill games or necessarily impact sales negatively in the long run.

It's an outdated concept because the Playstation isn't the center of the gaming universe any more, it's just one platform of several other large gaming ecosystems. Steam/PC is a huge one. Switch is a huge one. 

You can't have success with exclusives in the same way as you did even 10 years ago IMO. Even Sony themselves knows this. 

Square-Enix just got a rude awakening that operating like it's 1999 doesn't work for them any more. 

If FF7 Remake was launching this year on all of PC/Steam + Switch 2 + PS5 + XBox day 1 ... IMO it would sell easily more than 10 million in sales instead of the 7 million or so it capped off at. 

Microsoft in a lot of ways ironically dealt the "fat brick home console" concept a giant deathblow when they started to normalized what used to be home console 1st/2nd party exclusives as games you can now expect on PC day 1. Now 3rd parties followed suit and even Sony is bringing their own 1st/2nd party games to the PC. It just destroyed a lot of the value proposition of the old fashioned home console ... you don't need one at all. 

And I agree with it. I sold my PS5 and will not be buying a PS6. I don't need it. I can get Sony games on the PC, I don't give that much of a fuck if I have to wait a year to play Spider-Man or Ratchet & Clank or God of War, Sony's IP aren't that great that I must have their 5-6 good IP exclusives day 1. 

What the Playstation or XBox used to be (basically the place you *had* to go to play a fair number of exclusives or wait years for maybe a half assed PC port at some point) is long gone. Playstation couldn't even make it through the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy without losing exclusivity on those games, lol.