Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games

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Kyuu said:

IkePoR said:

I can just grant most of what youre saying but a lot of it is bad faith.  Playstation is bigger than ever but not more profitable.  Sony not caring is one way to look at it.  The reality is they need PC because of declining profit margins, but I digress.

The remake is likely just as important as the original as I'd wager and win that more people heard about and played the remake than the original.  And yeah, legacy IP doing better than a Souls game isn't impressive - sales were never in question.  

I'm referring to legacy here.  Are you really going to tell a layman "get a PS5 for Astrobot its like Mario" or "get a PS5 for Demons Souls its like Elden Ring"? PS5 is in a lot of hands and games are selling well, dont get me wrong, but it's legacy is no better than the Seres S/X.  Outside hardcore Sony fans most people I talk to can't name or care about PS5 exclusives.  

Astro Bot likely already outsold DeS Remake. And again, og Demon's Souls started the genre (and Dark Souls was what truly popularized it). Demon's Souls Remake is barely more significant than Shadow of the Colossus Remake, most Elden Ring fans don't give a damn about it.

Playstation is more profitable than ever. Their PC income is tiny and decreasing. The entire PC program is probably more damaging than beneficial, apparently they're dialing back on it as far as AAA singleplayer games because they seem to have realized that the loud minority going around screaming "no games" could snowball into disaster.

Sony porting their games to PC doesn't break their IP's association with Playstation. It just hurts it a little. The vast majority of players buy Spider-Man, God of War, Horizon, TLoU on Playstation. Not PC.

You sure?  According to an article I read PC is 1/3 of their software revenue and growing.  It generated over $600,000,000 in revenue.  

And the whole dialing back is a rumor, not confirmed.  At the end of the day Sony can do whatever they want, but they will be missing out on millions upon millions of dollars.  Sony releasing games a year or two after ps5 doesn't hurt their sales, it helps their bottom line.  

PC sales now account for nearly a third of Sony's first-party game revenue | TechSpot

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Also found this via Gamespot:

"In total, the report said Sony's five top-selling PC releases on Steam have passed 43 million copies sold collectively. The gross revenue from these sales reportedly amounted to $1.5 billion. This includes $1.2 billion for Sony and Valve's cut of $350 million or more. Valve takes a 30% cut of PC game sales on Steam, falling to 25% after $10 million in revenue and $20% after 50 million."

Sony dropping PC support and assuming PC gamers are going to buy a ps5 is foolish and stupid.  Perhaps they do it, but I think people are buying too much into rumors.