Sony's PC pivot reversal is a bold bet. They've spent years building PC goodwill—abandoning it suggests they're seeing data we don't.

I think they're finally worried about Valve and Steam.

The the slow release cadence of game development cycles we're not missing much. It will probably be even slower next gen unless AI really does backflips

I understand porting costs money but they kept selling old games for new game prices.

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

Uncharted 4 didn’t do too well on PC? Where are the PC versions of Uncharted 1-3

Release of 4 could have pushed a bunch of sales on a 1-3 PC collection as well! Release them at the same time, put the 1-3 collection on a discount and charge full price for 4. People will gobble up both. (I would put 4 on my wish list and buy the 1-3 collection in that situation, but that is still me giving them money for a two-decade-old game.)

I'll never buy a PlayStation. So I will just not play their games or will play them if they come to PC. That's it.

This is why Xbox dying is a bad thing.

They won't sell more consoles because of this decision and they won't get the PC money either. As for me, I'm fine with it. Better developers and published have fallen so far and yet we still have great games to play.

As a PC player my rule of thumb is there has to be at least 10 great games on a console before I buy a console. I owned a PS4 because it crossed the threshold before they started releasing the games on PC.

Just one or two games on my wishlist for the PS5, at this rate I'll never buy one.

My guess is maybe they saw reduced console sales for folks like me?

I think this is more about user retention than additional sales. In a world where PC players stay on PC and console players stay on console, porting games to PC makes sense. However, with Steam OS making things easy and Microsoft’s plans for making the next Xbox a consoled-PC, there’s a much higher risk of PS players migrating to PC -particularly if their favorite exclusives are landing there anyway. And of course there’s no indication that PC players will ever invest in a console unless there are exclusives.

Furthermore, with rising costs of computer parts, Sony might have to subsidize their hardware a little bit more than they’re comfortable with, and that means they need players in their store buying games and not buying games from Steam.

And finally, it’s worth mentioning that Sony fumbled bad with first party games this gen, meaning the PS5’s success has been carried solely on the backs of 3rd parties. If PS players were to buy a Steam Machine, they would have almost no reason to ever buy a PS again unless Sony starts giving them a reason to.

So as much as it disgruntles all of us to not be able to buy all our games exactly where we want, it’s probably a smarter investment for Sony as a video game company to not be porting their games to PC.

I still don't know why they sell one Uncharted game on Steam under the name "Uncharted Collection". It's just one game and some DLC.

Destiny is on life support, Marathon is bleak, Concord was Concord, and the one studio that could've printed them easy money is dead because Sony leadership is a fucking circus. Gee, I wonder why sales are low.

They would make so much money if they ported Bloodborne.

Putting games on PC works for third party publishers because it works perfectly with their business model. It works for Microsoft because they whole sale lost the console market and are slowly slinking their way out. Sony is still a huge contender in the console space and has no plans to cede any share. While it’s great for the consumer to have PC releases it hurts the console business. Regardless if you have a small sect of people who would never buy a console to begin with. For me I own a ps5 as well as a PC. I am more likely to buy the game on PC. Sony from there loses out on the maximum cut they could get from the game. They lose out on me needed to have ps plus to play online. Not to mention if the ps6 does cost close to the same as a PC having games on both leaves little incentive to buy the console.

I am not to mad about it, I rarely play my PS5 now I’ll have more incentive to buy the games knowing I won’t get a PC release.

Ah, the Sony flip flop on exclusivity continues.

They're a Japanese company and will bet on us buying consoles for their games.