The dream of a timely saros The computer crashed. Recent analyses by Newzoo are said to prove that the market share of delayed ports has fallen from 22 percent (Horizon Zero Dawn) to an unacceptable 5 percent at Marvel's Spider-Man 2 broke in.
While titles like helldivers 2 With simultaneous releases attracting almost half of their players to PC, single-player ports are fading into insignificance; the PC share of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has plummeted to a meager 5%.
According to recent reports, Sony is now drawing the consequences from this self-inflicted loss of relevance and is introducing according to Bloomberg reports the porting of major first-party brands such as Ghost of Yotei completely in order to defend the dwindling exclusivity of the PS5 hardware by any means necessary.
The price we pay for the clearance policy
You don't need to be an analyst to see that Sony's strategy of artificial delay has backfired. Anyone who waits two years before accusing PC gamers, the "latecomers" in Sony's calculations, of releasing a port shouldn't be surprised by declining interest.
Newzoo's figures are a slap in the face for management: Had Horizon Zero Dawn At the PC launch, it generated a rate of 22%, but the successor Forbidden West Only 7%. This isn't due to a lack of interest in good games, but rather because the hype cycle is long over by the time the Steam page goes live. PC gamers simply refuse to finance the secondary distribution of titles whose spoilers they've had to avoid on YouTube for years.
Hardware anxiety instead of player focus
Behind closed doors at Sony, panic seems to be reigning. A "faction" within the company, the conservative guardians of the plastic box, fears that the PC will devalue the PlayStation brand. The planned Withdrawal of single-player giants like saros It is not a service to the fans, but purely investment protection for its own ecosystem.
While Microsoft is breaking down barriers and making Xbox Project Helix fully Windows-compatible, Sony is once again closing its doors. The calculation: Anyone wanting to experience cinematic blockbusters from Sucker Punch, Insomniac & Co. should damn well put Sony hardware under their TV again. That live service experiments like Marathon The fact that it continues to appear on PC only underlines the double standard – there they need our masses, here they want our submission to their hardware.
For us gamers, this means: the brief period of respite is over. Sony is reverting to strict exclusivity, sacrificing the reach of its best stories to maintain its hardware profit margins. It's a step back into the era of turf wars that ultimately leaves all PC gamers poorer – either by €500 for a console they don't really need, or by missing out on some of the best single-player experiences in the industry.
A weak signal to a community that has shown it is willing to pay if it is not treated like second-class customers.
@pc user You can buy a refurbished PS5 on eBay for €279. Don't tell me you had trouble getting a PS5; I paid more for a PS Vita back then. If you want a PS5 for exclusive games, you can get one. And with the two exclusive games Sony is releasing this year, you don't need a new PS2 anyway.
Well, will PC gamers really be poorer if they spend €500 on a console when they already own €3000 powerhouses? No, sorry, I don't feel that way. I have no sympathy. If someone wants to play the games, they should buy a console, period. Nobody's going to give me a €3000 PC so I can play everything on ultra settings. Besides, what does "poorer" even mean? It's a conscious decision. If PC users don't buy the PS5, then the single-player experience isn't important enough to them. That's another way to argue it. At Christmas, the PS5 was €350, cheaper than RAM sticks. If someone didn't buy a PS5 then to play the games, they're not going to buy them at full price on Steam either. And if sales were high enough, PC ports would still be around today. What's hypocritical is that PC users themselves first laugh at console players because consoles can't handle 4K, PC master race and all that, or because we have to pay for online or games are expensive (objectively speaking, that's true), but then they complain when the games suddenly become exclusive, or even worse, act as if the games are suddenly crap and you can easily do without them.
The now officially confirmed Xbox Helix strategy,
It does not require any additional activated brain cells to recognize this.
Well, not long ago the PC strategy game was being hailed as the holy grail by the PS community, and they practically couldn't stop playing "Sony Honey in the Mouth," but now they're backtracking. The PS community has already won countless rowing championships; it's impossible to list them all.