4 years eh?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/05/20/sonys-deal-with-microsoft-worried-the-unaware-playstation-team/#b1ee5615cfc9

People only seeing Sony losing "exclusives" and what i'm seeing is that Horizon, Death Stranding, Detroit and more to come will launch in a way or another on PS5 looking gorgeous too, which i will glady replay again and again.

We still don't know what Sony is going to do exactly with PS5 retrocompatibility and PS Now. Maybe Sony is annoucing this because PS Now is going to get a lot bigger and more like Gamepass. Maybe for 10-15$ per month you will be able to play PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 gmaes on PS4/PS5, PC and mobiles. Who knows....

This will cause me to buy a lot less games, since I'll just be waiting for every non-Switch game to come to PC. In the past I would buy a game brand new for $45 for the physical copy on day one. But now, since everything on PC is digital, I won't be buying a lot of games day one. Instead I'll wait until I'm ready to play said game. And then I'll likely balk at the ridiculous $60 price tag of a digital game that's a year or more old, and wait for a deep sale.

Also digital games should have the following price plans...

$45 day one.

$30 after a year.

$15 after a year and a half.

But nope. Publishers want to rake in as much money as they possibly can. Customers be damned.

You can blame it on MS early gen mishaps and them waiting late in the gen to begin building up their 1st party. At the end of 2017 the XBOX has sold over two and a half million less than the 360 and later in the generation the 360 had the Kinect to help boost it sales.

If MS had kept their exclusives only on Xbox it's still unlikely that they would have sold 60m because they would need to have sold over 25m in the last 2 years and the XBO has never sold that well.

The future will be streaming. Once internet speeds becomes stable and consistent consoles will sell less and Sony has been laying the groundwork for this with PS NOW and now bringing games to other platforms. It's better they build on it now or they will get left behind.

"PlayStation Now is a more compelling offer today, but Sony has resisted putting new games into the service. Microsoft's does that with its Game Pass subscription offering, with every new Xbox first party game available to subscribers.

"It's an area that is fast changing and fluid," notes Ryan. "The nature and scale of some of the first party games that we are making leads us to think that, right now, it's better to spend energy on making sure that the launch of those games is a massive entertainment event. I would cite God of War and Spider-Man, and The Last of Us 2 next year will fall into that category.

"That's where we stand right now. But our stance on the inclusion of first party games in PlayStation Now in terms of what we've done this month is very different to our stance 12 months ago. I don't want to say this is what PlayStation Now is going to be like forever. But certainly right now, given how some of our first party IP is incredibly special and valuable, we just want to treat them with amazing care and respect, and have those launches be clean and pure."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-11-07-sonys-jim-ryan-we-had-to-make-changes-to-deliver-our-ps5-dream

I wish PSnow was more like Gamepass, in that I pay a small fee on PC and get to download the game and play it natively on my hw, rather than what it is now, akin to streaming and PS input only, while MS allows for K+_M and gamepad inputs, as well as their gamepass tailoring to PC players. If Sony wants PSnow to really pick up on PC, I'd suggest they follow MS's way of going about it, because that'd actually benefit PC players, rather than tossing a semi expensive sub fee of a bone while asking for stream gameplay. 

I think DS made sense because it's so late in the gen, and was a new IP and could use as many sales as possible.

I'd guess the top selling, if not all PS4 games come to PC sometime after PS5 launches, and the same for PS5 games when PS6 launches. 

Keep SIE games exclusive to the console during it's gen, then let PC have a go at them with even better visuals.

With longer gens, maybe launch console games can hit PC after the mid gen upgrade lands on shelves.

Agree with u, all first party that coming to PC will just games that already available on PSNow and most PSNow games are old or very old games. Jim Ryan Also already commit to make new exclusives to be exclusives for consoles for certain period of time, and later on after getting old and have a lot sales they will port it  to PSNow. 

I think what Sony is trying to do with PS NOW is the right solution, it just only needs to get better. PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5 library of games able to play locally in the console or PC is more than enough. I don't think cloud gaming is ready yet. I already played PS4 games via remote play trough Wi-fi with PS NOW on PC. It just need to work better, with more games from more legacy consoles and I will be happy.

Yeah, that's probably right. The same problem PS Classic had i guess..... But at least it could be like with PS3 and the games you could play from PS1. There was MGS, FF VII, VIII, IX, Crash 1, 2 and 3, RE 1, RE2 and RE3, etc, ......There was a lot of classics.

As for PS2 and PS3, i'm pretty sure Sony could make an effort to add way more games.