They'll say it was Microsoft's decision and Sony had no choice. While that's probably the case for online play, I find it very difficult to believe that Sony had no choice for offline play. I am assuming here that Microsoft accounts cost money like PS+, but I have never owned an Xbox.
They don't.
for now...
This company, I swear to God. Every time we think they can't get any stupider, they tell us to hold their beer...
Playstation is profitable, they don't need papa Sony to keep them afloat. Of course, Playstation likely gains a lot of benefit from being part of Sony, but I highly doubt that amounts to make-or-break levels of benefit.
Not as much as this would suggest. They're somewhat notorious for shifting costs associated with whatever division they're trying to puff up to other divisions. For a big example, obviously, bungie (and their other recent acquisitions) have been entirely for playstation, but you won't find a penny of the $3.6 billion they spent on bungie under playstation. Advertising budgets are another big one that often gets shifted outside of playstation itself.
It's still super surreal seeing official Halo stuff on PlayStation. It doesn't feel right tbh.
I actually don’t think it’s a bad strategy to potentially throw a bone with a traditional exclusive IP as essentially an advertisement; “hey PlayStation gamer, if you liked this and want more of this world and content you’ll have to buy an Xbox for the future titles”… the key to this working is that the games are actually good… so not super confident the strat will work
I actually don’t think it’s a bad strategy to potentially throw a bone with a traditional exclusive IP as essentially an advertisement; “hey PlayStation gamer, if you liked this and want more of this world and content you’ll have to buy an Xbox for the future titles”… the key to this working is that the games are actually good… so not super confident the strat will work
Either the guy who wrote that Q&A is so retarded that he didn't realize PS+ is a subscription service, or this is a backtrack because Sony didn't realize it would make them look bad.
I'm not so sure that they've stopped porting games to PC, they might have just switched to a timed exclusive strategy like they did with Spiderman 2, ported to PC after a year and a half. Of course, the reality of these ports is that they didn't really help, PS 1st party game sales went down this gen, excluding 2020.
not to mention inferiority in general, like why would i bother with a 75 FOV game made for consoles to be played on a TV Screen? 105 FOV or fuck off.
almost makes you think they miscommunicated on purpose to relieve people with "oh at least we don't have to PAY for both accounts...."
I believe Sony claimed a lack of sales on PC as the reason they pulled out. Now dear user I ask you: What were they expecting?
The PS5 had a false start due to Covid and was supply constrained for 3 years (and most of the consoles sold at that time probably collected dust in a scalper warehouse), Sony was expecting that the games would reach their deserved level of success when they were opened up to the larger gaming audience on PC. Of course, they were correct, Sony just didn't realize that they were intentionally making bad games.
