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xboxgreen on 27 July 2025
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BraLoD said:
Kyuu said:

It'll be so over for Playstation if they release major singleplayer games on PC day 1, which I wouldn't put past them. Their greed will severely damage the Playstation brand, and unlike Microsoft they won't have the software power to offset the huge decline. If this is how they wanna play if, they will eventually regress to a medium sized 3rd party publisher in the shadow of Microsoft.

For every one less Playstation console sold, they'll be losing roughly 18 software sales + the revenue equivalent in microtransactions + subscriptions + accessories + they'll be paying a 30% tax for every software sold outside Playstation. It's a recepe for disaster and the clowns at Sony apparently don't realize it.

I honestly don't give a fuck anymore. The little attachment and nostalgia I have left for the brand will die soon. And I rarely replay games anymore so the PS game library I accumulated is a minor factor. One less plastic box in my room is a win I guess.

Pretty much.

Just to point: Playstation already has their games on all those platforms listed, so it is in fact nothing new, but even so, if the plan is to have most if not every game everywhere, they are the ones that have the most to lose... which makes no sense, long term risk massively outclasses the short term profit increase.

I only quoted this post but in yout next ones you cover the difference to Nintendo, and it is pretty much what I think as well.

Nintendo IPs, specially Pokemon, could grow so much outside their systems that it could have been worth a try before the Switch, as I said back way then, but since its success, it would be far too risky for them now. Why do it while you make so much money with your own games there? Sure, Pokemon could go from selling 25M to selling 75M being available everywhere, but letting go of 100M+ potential sellers at 100% profit nowdays sure sounds stupid. Plus, they also don't even needed to ramp up their game developement budget as much as other companies because their hardware was weaker and couldn't benefit or be judged far too much for it.

Microsoft was forced to do it, the quality of their games has always been hit and miss and has been way more miss than hit since the Xbox One, everybody moved to PC or Playstation, the brand is in ruins, so letting go of Xbox now for more profit at least starts making sense.

Playstation is a way different case from Xbox, they have always been successful, like Nintendo on the handheld market, but they have been successful as the go to place to play NEARLY ANY GAME on your home, since they started with the PS1, on top of their own games. Owning a Playstation always meant you would have access to some of the best exclusive games + pretty much any relevant game. Why would they let it go for like 2M or 3M more sales for their own games? They get 30% profit from every single major game release out there, and they just forced out their biggest competition on that front too making it an even more easier choice to go for a Playstation.

The thing is, if people move out, they will have a very hard time to make even a small part come back, so if it fails, it REALLY fails and it's game over, and if it succeeds... cool? Not really a big change.

They have been doing great, made more profit on PS5 than the other 4 consoles combined up until now, so... just why would you even think about it?

Again, it might mean nothing, Helldivers is on Xbox, Patapon on Switch, had games on mobile, a lot of games on PC, so it is already the case, but if major franchises start moving to other dedicated gaming systems... so will the players.

The development cost of AAA video games that Sony wants to make went up 2 to 4 times as much. Yet their install base isn't growing and can be argued it is slightly shrinking compare to the PS4. They have no choice but to put their exclusives on PC and Xbox. Switch 2 if the console can handle it.