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It will do no such thing.

In a vacuum, it might work. Unfortunately for them, there are decades of quality games that are completely outside of Sony's grasp. We can wait, lol. I am still waiting for last of us to go on a steep sale. I can wait :)

Sony are severely underestimating how many years I’m already behind on big “tentpole releases” (missus).

Has timed exclusivity of any game made someone buy a console? It always felt like a ridiculous notion to me.

Maybe it's because I never buy games at launch

If they want to entice me, they need to:

• open their platform
• release interesting form factors
• provide interesting, unique features

The Steam Deck did that, and I would happily buy a Sony handheld or something if it offered value.

But no, they instead want me to buy a locked down system that competes with my existing PC, and their sales pitch is, "buy this or you can't play these games." I don't respond well to threats of FOMO, so I'm not going to buy it. I own a Switch and a Steam Deck because they provide value I can't get elsewhere, I don't own a Playstation or an Xbox because they don't.

I'm not going to buy a PS just to play a few exclusives/timed exclusives, just not going to happen.

Either the game gets ported to PC, or I don't get to play it. Simple as that.

Nah, I'm good.

Sony is delusional

Folks on Steam: set up tents and lawnchairs

Jokes on them, I rarely buy a game at release anyway. An extra year of console players beta-testing the game just means I am more likely to know a game is a dud that much sooner.

They're going to be waiting for a long, long time then.

Get your shit on steam and stop making that stupid PSN network that leaked my information that I'm still dealing with to this day a requirement to play your first party games.

If I'm spending $450 + $70 + $80/year on gaming it's going to be a steam deck and not a ps5.

ITT: a bunch of people saying "I won't".

You're probably in the minority. There's 16k subscribers in this community and, currently, about 30 million active users on Steam. Most of them have never heard of Lemmy, and heck a lot of them probably were never on Reddit. The PS5 has sold 50 million units- that's over 3,000 PS5's for every subscribed account here.

A lot of users here have PC's that approach or exceed the PS5's capabilities. You have fancy expensive monitors, a nice desk and chair, a gaming mouse and mechanical keyboard. The people this CEO is talking about don't. They may have an old desktop from the pandemic, or a laptop. They might just use their kitchen table as a desk.

Or, heck, they might not even have a desktop or laptop at all. It's still early, but there have been studies suggesting that Gen Z and Alpha are using PC's less and doing more of their computing on phones and tablets.

Overall I thought it was great that Sony started releasing their games on PC (and especially through Steam, usually with pretty decent PC ports). It's great to give consumers more options. Delaying the PC release probably means more time for the devs to work on the port (Sony's PC ports have been mixed on launch, but even the bad ones have gotten fixed pretty quickly afterwards, and it's been a while since the last one). Delaying PC versions seems like a pretty reasonable compromise.

There are at least tens of thousands of games to play on the PC. They must expect FOMO to be a huge motivator but I don't think it's going to have much of an effect.

It's the BS he needs to feed shareholders. I don't think he even believes that to begin with.

Good luck with that.

I'm not pissed at this strategy like typical ones, however I absolutely hate having my collection of a series split across platforms and feel like this isn't the least common idea. Now, if they were to include the older game in with the new one in this strategy or have some sort of cross buy feature for older titles, but this will never happen.

My wife and I happened to buy a PS5 so I played Spider-Man 2 on it, and I played GT7 because that's just never coming to PC and I can accept that.

Doesn't mean I'm not pirating all your games on PC, too, so I can own them forever

I feel like the better thing to compete on is "plug it in and it works", "easier to play on your couch and TV with a controller than a PC" and various comparisons to the other consoles.

Other than setup and ease of couch gaming, PC has them beat hands down. And it's only very slightly easier in those dimensions too.

lol

lmao

Nope

Still waiting for that backward compatibility with discs.