• cobysev@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Their CEO originally claimed they were only porting exclusives to PC in order to get more people interested in buying PlayStation consoles. Steam sales didn’t increase PS console purchases, so they’ve decided to stop porting games to PC.

      Nevermind that opening your games to more sources will rake in more money than keeping them locked down behind your singular platform.

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        19 hours ago

        You’re looking at it like the goal is to increase revenue while the actual goal is to increase user counts within their walled garden.

        More users makes the investors tingle, and especially when those users are giving 100% of the purchase price to Sony for first-party titles and 30% for third-party.

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      17 hours ago

      We always knew it was bullshit. Now we have proof beyond even a shadow of a doubt. Somehow fanboys will find a way to ignore what’s in front of them still, but everyone else now has something to point to.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      18 hours ago

      What was their excuse, exactly? I mean I know it was almost certainly actually about trying to sell more PS5s to get more users on their store platform but I don’t know what they actually have said to justify it.