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Ex Sony Boss Shawn Layden Doesn't Agree With PlayStation Backing Out of PC, Says It Was Never About Making Money; “They Weren’t Going To Buy The Hardware Anyway” (respawnfirst.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The logic, as Layden explains, was to mindshare with PC players. Why? Because PlayStation wanted their IPs to matter beyond video games, through mediums like TV, film, comics, merchandise, and other media.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Yeah what good is a franchise if nobody engages with it?

    I mean, PlayStation has a big audience, they’re not nobody, but if you wanted to do a Jak and Daxter movie, you’d benefit from more people being fans.

    But also, PC gamers will act with hostility when you insult or spurn them. It’s what Epic did wrong, it’s what XBox did wrong, there are countless examples.

    I don’t really see the point of a console exclusive, the model of release to console then bring it to PC where there are myriad configurations to plan for just makes sense. Console players are happy, PC players are mostly happy. You sell more games.

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