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Sony Delists Original Horizon Zero Dawn on PC, Forces PSN Requirement for Remaster (www.ign.com)
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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Sony has sold double the consoles this generation (60 vs 30 million I think). And the Series S is very unpopular with devs, increasing the complexity of developing games for Xbox to get just half the PS market.

Game Pass is popular, but it’s just one stream of revenue, and a lot people are only using it on PC. Sony is selling consoles, 70 EUR games, and in addition their own subscriptions.

I understand MS’s strategy, and maybe this was the best they could have done for this gen, but Sony and Nintendo is dominating console gaming, with MS lagging far behind.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -5 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Sony has sold double the consoles this generation (60 vs 30 million I think).

Sold consoles isn't that great of a cathegory to judge the two, since both lose money on every sold unit.

And the Series S is very unpopular with devs, increasing the complexity of developing games for Xbox to get just half the PS market.

Get ready for the same thing to happen on the vanilla PS5. Devs will target the PS5 pro for trailer footage and the games will run like shit on the old PS5.

Game Pass is popular, but it’s just one stream of revenue, and a lot people are only using it on PC

It's very cheap to offer and if they don't need to sell xboxes to have a wider customer base, that's a bonus - not a drawback.

but Sony and Nintendo is dominating console gaming, with MS lagging far behind

We'll see how far they'll be lagging behind once they leverage their Call of duty monopoly.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)
  1. Even if they sell at a loss, the number of consoles mean the potential number of buyers for games. More consoles sold means they can sell more games and other profit generating products/services.
  2. Sony is barely selling any PS5 Pros as there is a low interest at this high price, which is unlikely to change in the future. The current console is not even fully utilized, lot of recent games are still PS4 cross-gen. 0 chance of the base PS5 being left behind
  3. MS will not make COD an exclusive, as they will not give up on the chance to sell a 70 USD/EUR game to 60 million PS5 users, which is double the size of their own market
[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. You said yourself that a lot of gamepass subscriptions were on PC. You know how many people own PCs?
  2. That's what happened with the Xbox one X and the PS4 pro. Game devs want to make their games look best for trailers, so the graphics will be focused on instead of optimizing for the lower tiered consoles. It'l be like "if you want stable 60fps, you'll need the PS5 pro".
  3. Starfield already didn't come to the PS5. There even was a version for the PS5 in development.
[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Starfield already didn't come to the PS5. There even was a version for the PS5 in development.

Point to Sony then

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why? The argument was that MS wouldn't make CoD exclusive, when they've made the highly anticipated Starfield exclusive.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the joke was 'Starfield bad' so PS5 not getting was a net positive for Sony

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 month ago

So you admit to moving the goal posts?

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