Cerebralbore101 said:
pokoko said:
If the the sales on PC are "negligible" then what is all this "brand damage" people are talking about? It does not appear that PlayStation owners are jumping to PC en masse so the brand damage claim doesn't hold much water--at least for now. They might be worried about people skipping PS6 if supplies are stressed for a long period.
As for PC sales declining, it should be noted that Sony did a poor job retaining PC customers with all the problems users have experienced. Keep screwing up and people are going to avoid buying your product. A good portion of that is on them.
Related to that, I think one issue in particular is a big part of this decision. Sony was probably counting on bringing people into their ecosystem with mandatory PSN accounts on PC. That absolutely did NOT play out the way they wanted. Terrible planning on their part and they have no one blame but themselves but my guess is that was one of the factors that made them go the PC path in the first place. Corporations do love showing off registered user numbers to investors.
Personally, I don't really care. There might be Sony games that I want to play but new releases take so long and there are so few of them now that I just can't imagine buying a console when PC has so much to choose from.
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I think it's long term damage. PS5 has kept up with PS4 aligned sales so far. Sometimes things you do in one generation don't really show up until the next.
PC Gamers are surprisingly picky for a bunch of people that are happy to own everything digitally. All the complaining about needing to make a PSN account is just silly.
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When a game needs 10 patches, it's better to have a service that auto-download them and install them.
Also Steam is notorious for their Steam Sales with huge discounts.
For those two reasons pc gamers have come to terms with digital sales.
