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Otter said:

twintail said:

Sony won't sell their content only through this launcher. That is a disaster waiting to happen mostly because there's not nearly enough first party content to make this viable from a maintainence or consumer perspective.

The biggest issue here is who the audience for this hypothetical launcher is? And I doubt there is a large enough audience on PC with high-end PC (which I asusme is not that high to begin with) who will want another launcher just for Sony games. I'm not convinced. 

Epic had to be incredibly agreesive to get a foot into the PC launcher space. There's no way Sony is going to follow that playbook, which makes the decreases the value proposition imho.

Although I agree with this, I don't think this rules out timed exclusives.

Right now Sony are simply not launching single player games on PC day and date. With the Launcher they could have that day & date experience and I think a fair number of PC gamers would use the Sony launcher to play Wolverine at Launch. It's an annoyance but not something that will deter most from an entire gameplay experience they're excited for. All the meanwhile Sony has lost nothing because they otherwise wouldn't be launching it on PC until 1 year+ later anyway. Come that point in the games life it will receive a wider Steam/Epic release as seen in their current PC strategy.

Personally not sure the value of a launcher on Sonys side if people only check in for a 2 games per year, but if the cross buy feature works across many more third party games that could be a potential trojan horse for Sony for people who game on both PC & Console.

That's actually a legit thought that I never considered. It's a pretty easy conclusion to come to that a PC launcher is imminent as it's specifically cross-buy between PS5/PC.

And it would be an outright ridiculous idea to expect Valve and Epic Games to simply hand Steam and EGS keys away to PS5 users when they login to their corresponding accounts. Just makes 0 business or logical sense.

Biggest benefit of a PlayStation launcher on PC is Sony getting 100% of the revenue as there will no doubt be PC only gamers that would take advantage. But the biggest question would be, what other kind of incentives would PC users have in using a PS launcher? I was figuring maybe having PS+ on it on top of the benefits of trophies and cross-save, but day and date Sony first-party games with Steam/EGS getting ported a year or two later would be a MASSIVE incentive for PC users to use a PlayStation launcher.