Two months?Spider Man is officially coming to PC! After just 2 months! This will be the Remastered edition, meaning it comes with Ray Tracing for reflections.
Sony are reported as having said as much. But it'll be slow going if it's just them, since 2016 they have worked on and released PC ports. Good ports take time and the Spider-Man games are worthy of good ports!So, as some of us speculated when Nixxes was acquired, it appears they are mostly being tasked with helping port PlayStation exclusives to PC. Not surprising as porting console titles to PC was their specialty pre-acquisition.
I do wonder if that's been their sole focus since the acquisition or if they're also doing other things.
It releases in August this year, two months from now.Two months?
It's obvious it's not just them, since 2022 there has been God Of War port, Uncharted 4 and Legacy of Thieves ports, and now Spider Man and Miles Morales ports, Sony is accelerating the pace now that they have Nixxes.But it'll be slow going if it's just them, since 2016 they have worked on and released PC ports.
Sony are reported as having said as much. But it'll be slow going if it's just them, since 2016 they have worked on and released PC ports. Good ports take time and the Spider-Man games are worthy of good ports!
However, now that they are part of Sony, it depends on Sony's plans WRT PC ports. Nixxes could have the PC port ready for future titles day and date with the PS5 launch of a title (similar to how they operated with Square-Enix) if that's what Sony wanted. How many titles would Nixxes be able to work on simultaneously in that situation? With a small team? A larger team? Who knows?
I guess it depends on how much Sony expect from the resource they have available. Unlike Microsoft, Sony seem really keen to keep their business in the black (i.e. demonstrably profitable) and aren't firing money in all directions from their money-cannon. If I were Sony, I would want to be seeing a lot more sales on these PC releases before committing day-and-date dual-platform development. I think Spider-Man will be key and its success (or not) will influence Sony's PC strategy going forward.
So far, I'm not seeing much difference between how Sony are handling the question of support for PC versus how Microsoft were handling support of PC a few years ago.
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Sony on the other hand thus far has mostly relied on 3rd parties to the ports of their titles to PC (there might be exceptions I'm not aware of).
I also wonder if Man 2 sell more overall if released on PS5 and PC simultaneously compared to getting it out quicker for PS5 then porting it to PC shortly after? And what are the cost implications for development? I.e. maybe it is more cost effective to have a larger time take more time, than existing-sized teams working solely on console compared to satellite porting teams. There's a lot of numbers that matter that nobody apart from Sony have any visibility of.
Introducing change to speed up development on console and having a team of experienced speed ports to bring it to PC soon after, is likely going to be more cost effective in the near-middle future unless PC sales really explode, but all evidence is they are a tiny fraction of what the games sell on console. That split might adjust for people who own both a PlayStation and PC.
The Last of Us Part 1 Remaster Remaster is heading to PC after the PS5 release.
although I need to start playing games much faster to make space in my queue for it.
I would be up for Sony's PC digital store if this enabled PSVR2 to easily run on PC. They could then publish not only PC games but also VR games.Hmm... If this is going to be policy for them going forward then my guess is Sony is either going to start their own PC Digital Distribution service or a real team up with one of the big existing ones.
I would not be surprised if TLOU2 gets some "directors cut" next year [PC port too!]. Basic PS4 version of TLOU2 is down to $40 regular price, and that's a big no-no! Got to get that up to 80€! T_TThat means part 2 will pretty certainly be coming to PC too.
I would not be surprised if TLOU2 gets some "directors cut" next year [PC port too!]. Basic PS4 version of TLOU2 is down to $40 regular price, and that's a big no-no! Got to get that up to 80€! T_T