curl-6 said:
Kyuu said:
This does not disprove that PC may still be affecting sales. I explained this in an earlier post. And things will change in the long term as more gamers realize that PC isn't all that different from consoles anymore.
PC being "expensive" is an exaggeration. It's the fastest growing and most popular platform among young gamers, and most of them are fine with playing on setups weaker than PS5. It also gives you benefits like free online. It's just a fact that PC is growing and people are generally more than fine with its pricing model.
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There's no evidence that the growth of PC is harming PS sales though; those people would probably have chosen PC over PS5 anyway regardless of whether God of War or Spiderman is available there.
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For now that is my opinion as well, PC has many reasons to be choosen as a gaming platform instead of any other, having a few PS games there that, aside from a live service game in Helldiver 2, have not become steam best selling games, isn't one of the biggest ones, it is a cool bonus for some at best.
It does have the potential of harming PS in the long run, but as of now, I haven't see it happening.
Sony definitely should make decision before such things happen, because after can be too late, so it's a possibility a course change is motivated to avoid it, but even that, if it does happen to be the case Sony is stopping to ship their games to PC, to me has a more reasonable explanation: results expected there were not met, so even the minimal risk it has up until now is not worthy it, at least not as worthy as having full time exclusives back.
I don't remember if it was Kyuu that said it, but I think it was, but Sony strategy seemed to be presenting their gsmes to the PC audience to bring them to PS to play more of them there, instead of nursing a second constant revenue stream on another platform, and if that is indeed the case, and PC players are not moving to PS, than it can also be their are only stopping trying as they would do later as well.
PS also had a lead change, and is having another now where their japanese head that was co-leading with Hulst is now the president and CEO, he seem to have been actually trying change the course of the brand, as we saw him personally present it on Japan with the lower price japanese exclusive PS5, so actual plans could be changing from what they originally were, but even so, the impact I saw from this period on PC has been small at most, minimal IMO.