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[–] 239 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Oh well, still not buying a PS.

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  • [–] 163 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    I can almost guarantee you that dude has a board or shareholders or whatever, breathing down his neck, and his yearly bonus is depending on the number of units sold. So he will canibalize the whole system with a complete disregard for the long term effects, so long as the magic number goes up in the short term and he can cash in his bonus.

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    [–] 125 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 121 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    They will come crawling back after the current moron in charge gets fired. Until then, its like 4 games.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago

    Exactly! They'll cut jobs and trim the fat until they run out of half-assed, short-term methods of increasing quarterly profits year over year. Then they'll remember PC gamers are almost exclusively adults and some of those adults have deep pockets and no interest in the closed ecosystems that consoles provide.

    Just watch.

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    [–] 77 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    "Everyone keep buying our console even though we keep raising the price. No? Fine, we'll keep all the games just for our platform, surely that will get you to buy a PS5."

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    How else would they? Honest question: what do any of the video game consoles have to offer except exclusivity?

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Once upon a time, video game consoles offered the convenience of plug-and-play gaming, and living room comfort.

    Not everyone wanted to build a PC and play with keyboard and mouse, and even still playing those PC games can be a hassle to set up on a TV if you’re common-denominator-levels of tech unsavvy. (Read: not the average Lemmy user)

    Valve has brought that forward some with Steam Deck and eventually steam machine but by and large most PC gamers are Windows users.

    That said, console platforms have gotten so increasingly hostile towards customers between pricing, licensing, download times and walled-garden tactics that they’ve painted themselves out of an increasing chunk of the games market.

    People would rather set up a computer and a controller than buy a console, and it’s the corpo’s own fault.

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    [–] 62 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    PC players arent starving for games. We're drowning in them

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    I could buy no new games for the rest of my life and still not get around to completing everything in my library (and I'm excluding bundled games I have no intention of playing).

    And in 10 years time, all of these exclusives will be available via emulation even if they never officially leave the console.

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    [–] 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yes they will. You've just decided to stop making money on them. Fine by us.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    yup. if they can emulate the ps3's insano-architecture they can sure as fuck figure out whatever comes next. they're simply guaranteeing a wave of piracy instead of profiting off their already developed IPs.

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    [–] 48 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.

    Tap for spoilerValve has made the console model irrelevant. This is Sony officially giving up on the gaming market.

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    [–] 46 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 46 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Love it or hate it, this is why we don’t want Xbox to fail.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of "easy" and "cheaper" haven't been true for years.

    Microsoft could have done like a ... Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could've made steam. Except they couldn't because they're a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.

    Fuck em. Fuck them all.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago

    Oh no, I'm so sad I won't be able to play their diverse library of third person action adventure games with linear narrative and light stealth and RPG elements!

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago

    We don't want any of that... What do you call it? Money? HAH!

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well he’s wrong because all console games eventually come to PC one way or another. He’s just ensuring they won’t be coming first under their control.

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    [–] 35 points 4 months ago

    That's funny because I'm not coming to PlayStation.

    I guess they just sell less then.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    And going forward, Sony won't get my money

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no....

    Please. Please don't make me address my 300 game backlog on Steam.

    I'm a PC gamer so I don't have to deal with console bullshit. Been working out great for me since 1998.

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    [–] 28 points 4 months ago

    No problem. Then other companies will get my money (and time). I'm not buying your over priced and proprietary console.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Uh, hard pill to swallow. So all my favorite Playstation games require a Playstation in the future? Like.... Eeeeehm, let me check my steam account with almost 700 games... Eeeeehm... Never mind, I found none.

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    [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    A $670 buy-in for one single player game? No thanks.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Emulation's gonna bring them here anyway XD

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    [–] 22 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    Spider-Man 2 is literally the only thing they have that I want to play, and that is not worth getting a console for.

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    [–] 21 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    So we got grifted by Bungie and need you to buy consoles, guys.

    Bungie convincing Sony that they were worth 3.6 billion dollars is the grift of the decade. Sony either did no research or they really are the dumbest, most gullible motherfuckers on the planet.

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    [–] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    All 5 of their exclusives won't come to PC? Oh no!

    Anyways.

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    [–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean... For this to actually matter Sony would have to release a decent game for the exclustivity. The last decent one in my eyes was Ragnarok, and I never even finished it.

    I have a PS5. It hasen't been turned on in almost 2 years. I have no reason to. I won't lose any sleep over this decision.

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago*

    No problem Mr. CEO emulation will do this for you.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Not going to buy a PlayStation.

    I imagine in a few years they'll come crawling back, and learn nothing from the whole experience.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I'm just starting to play Subnautica. That's how bad my backlog is. I think I will be fine.

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    PlayStation is still making games?

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Lol, sure. Voluntarily alienate an ever-growing chunk of your customers. See how that goes for ya.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Did I enjoy the Insomniac Spider-Man games on Steam? Yes

    Will I buy a playstation to play future installments? No, I'll just go watch a letsplay or story summary on youtube if you dont want my money

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    This is what happens when companies become too comfortable.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    PlayStation/Sony still proving they would rather screw players to rip off PlayStation owners. Guess God of War Ragnarok will be my last PS game for a while 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t believe them. They just think that lying to the public will sell more PS5s… somehow

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I thought they were making complete bank by getting rid of their exclusives and going the open platform route (which everyone complained about)?

    They did so well that Xbox became an irrelevant choice between PC and Playstation.

    Plus they were doing delayed PC releases, so I don't really see how that would affect PS sales since the port would come out much later.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago*

    Well fuck you too buddy.

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