Sony won't be doing PC ports for big single player games anymore

[Sogreblute]

twintail said:

Sogreblute said:

I see people saying Sony need exclusives to move consoles, but the vast majority of people who buy a PlayStation 5 are doing so for 3rd Party games and Live Service games. We see charts all the time showing this. People bring up Nintendo, but they're the only ones people will buy their hardware for 1st Party games. 50% of all Switch software sales are 1st Party, Sony and Microsoft are no where near close to that. They'd be lucky if they could even hit 20%. Sony loses nothing putting their games on PC, but as I stated in a previous post they completely botched their PC strategy. They had no idea what they were doing even though there were plenty of examples of what to do and what not to do. Microsoft has a much better presence on PC than Sony even though PS fans swear Sony have the best games.

Day 1 releases would definitely hurt PS consoles sales over a long-term. Maybe not to a major extent, but it's pretty clear the delayed approach at least provides the console release a semblance or importance for ppl who play those games. And sales prove there is a large portion of ppl who buy first party titles.

The delayed approach appears to have the opposite effect for PC sales. But the options are either day 1 (which will hurt their console sales), delayed releases (which possibly isn't working) or no release (which just means no resources being put into PC ports and more into their console releases).

Day one releases will slightly hurt their console sales, but it's made up with the profits of their PC ports. If anything it will benefit Sony more. Lets say a small percent will buy a PS5 for the few exclusives it has, Sony would lose more money because that person wouldn't buy anything else on the system and not subscribe to PS+, no 3rd party sales, no microtransactions, etc. If Sony did day one releases and those people won't buy a PS5 anymore they still will get their money through their PC ports, and be able to sell to the millions of PC gamers that refused to buy a PS5.