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

[IcaroRibeiro]

Sogreblute said:

twintail said:

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. 

Selling on PS5 means Sony gets 100% of the money from purchases (digital), on PC it's about 30% I believe 

Any sale from people who own both platforms (PC and PS5) and chosses to buy on PC is a loss for Sony, this is why day-one releases would never happen anytime soon