• cobysev@lemmy.world
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      16 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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        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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      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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      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.

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    No one reads articles. This is a decline feom 30% last year and Playstation is up, this is utter trash headline

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    This makes sense most decent laptops even play most modern games on low settings unlike 15 years ago where you did need a gaming, laptop or gaming, desktop or gaming system play games. now buying a game system is just for people who really want exclusives or the highest graphic settings

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        7 hours ago

        Sure but PC is around double PlayStation still. And they say they are going to ficus more in PC.