Sony releasing an over three year old game on PC and that leading to statements like yours of "Now it's started. Whether it takes one year or ten, PS as a console platform is going to change completely" as overreacting or reading to much into it but that's just me.
It doesn't matter how old the game is, it is a start of a new era, he said more is to come. Besides that, there are actually people that can wait for a better experience.
Lets be real; the cost of building a PC to equate to the power of PS5 and XSX will be tremendous.
Maybe in the beginning, as it looks like now, for the PS5 atleast, it is kinda mid-range for when the consoles launch (late 2020). A 8 core zen is the most logical choice when buying a new PC even today. SSD/Nvme is about the norm now, and prices aren't that excessive anymore. The GPU will be the most expensive perhaps, but if a 5700XT from yesteryear already packs more raw power then the PS5, i don't see 1998 prices happening atleast (2000 dollar or more pc's).
I'm in alignment with
@chris1515 ; I'd say in 4 years we might see PS5 exclusives on PC. It took MS a while, about 5 years, even though they announced in in 2016.
Seems a good assumption. And from that point on we might see games launching first on PS5/6 etc, and about 6 months later on PC perhaps.
This. At this point in the content industries, loss leading a growth towards dominance is seen as key. Mega-profits from that is to come later. Spotify has taken 13 years to turn a profit. and since then, loads of rivals have appeared that they don't own the space despite all that investment.
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I think you guys might be on to something, Epic recently started, with a bad reputation and not near the quality of Sony's games yet, but anyway their success seems quite huge already now. There clearly is a oppertunity for Sony do a PS store on PC.
There is also nothing to suggest that PS5 games will be ported to PC.
Yes there is, for every generation that has gone, we have seen more and more of their games appearing on PC. Following that trend, and what he said, we probably will see even more of that happening with the coming generation.
You want to use a PC as a gaming system you need to buy a Windows license.
Windows can be used for many other things too.
That's not what's happening here, in the last couple of years alone we had over a dozen PS exclusive titles come over to PC, that's more than what happened over the entire PS3 cycle and even half of the PS4 cycle, something has changed in a big way, something got these developers riled up to port their exclusive PS portofolio on PC, and PC alone, not Xbox.
Something also happened with Sony, releasing official statements about porting some of their games on PC, then acting on these statements with actual game announcements, If HZD releases on PC in 2020, it would have been a PS4 exclusive for only 3 years, Detroit and Nioh didn't even complete 2 years.
He said in a death stranding pc discussion that a HZD on PC would never happen, wouldn't put too much into everything he says even though he has insider friends. Just like everyone else here, he and we are guessing. There is a clear trend going on here, you can be in denial or accept it.
The only first party game is HZD and he is rumoured three years after release and will release in 2020 or maybe 2021 just before the release of a new hardware and the next game in the franchise.
He also mentioned there is more to come.
This is diversification 101. And this is Sony diversifying as I see it so far.
They will have to sometime, companies need to evolve/diversify. MS has done it awhile ago, Sony wants a piece of the cake too.
If they get ported and make money, Sony will port future games. We also have Sony saying they want to diversify their target platforms, so there's bound to be some games cross-platform in design now. At the time of that announcement, speculation was more GaaS type titles, but maybe they (also) intended AAA adventures that they specialise in getting the cross-platform treatment to maximise ROI on them?
Exactly, Sony is just a big company taking any chance to earn even more money.
It is a hot topic for sure, meltdowns everywhere, for nothing
