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Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC (www.bloomberg.com)
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The full article that was hinted at in interviews last week.

There are likely a few reasons behind this shift. One is that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC.

Interesting...

But the strategy has been muddled and confused many players. Most PC releases arrived months or years after the games came to PlayStation. The cadence was never consistent, and the announcements appeared to be haphazard. The company also upset PC players by asking them to create PlayStation Network accounts to access many of the games.

I love Horizon: Zero Dawn. I have not played Horizon: Forbidden West. By the time it came to PC, Sony started making PSN logins necessary to even authenticate the game in the first place, which is basically just the worst kind of DRM. They've reverted this policy, but now I don't trust them. They put out a handful of games on GOG where I don't have to trust them, and I'll probably still pick a few of those up one day, but Forbidden West isn't there. Seems to me that they have no idea how badly they screwed up this rollout themselves. Oh, Uncharted 4 didn't do too well on PC? Where are the PC versions of Uncharted 1-3? Where can I play the original God of War trilogy? I'm not buying a PlayStation no matter how many exclusives you lock up there, so I'll just continue to not play your handful of exclusives.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It was too little, too late, too expensive. Logically it would sell less than expected after a lame attempt.

[–] 64bithero@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Gamers are being shown more then ever their buying older games not newest ones. Part of this is the eshitification of the industry.

The problem is the ports a lot of the time are awful.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

Partly because newly released games are buggy and unfinished and they can take a while before they're stable and quality of life features fully in place.

I don't want to pay to be a beta tester, and I especially don't want to pay full price for that. I can wait a bit and get a better game for cheaper.

I've only bought a couple of games on early release or at release lately. Deep Rock Galactic Survivor because it had a demo I enjoyed, and Hades 2 because I trust that studio and Hades is one of my favourite games.