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.
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.
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.
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.
So youre saying Sonys excuse for stopping PC ports is some bullshit?
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.
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.
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.
Always was. It stunk from the start.
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.
They said they didnt make enough sales to justify the ports