this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
57 points (98.3% liked)

PlayStation | PS5

3115 readers
2 users here now

For All PlayStation and PS5 Content, Join us at [email protected].

The PlayStation 5 community for Lemmy!

Rules:

  1. Stay on topic.
  2. No hate speech or personal attacks.
  3. No console wars. We are all gamers.
  4. Be a decent human.
  5. No piracy talk, links, or directions to copy-written content. Emulation discussions are allowed.
  6. No NSFW content, shilling, self promotion, ads, spam, low effort posts, memes, trolling, etc.
  7. All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here
  8. Have fun!

Other Gaming Communities:

Remote Play Resources:

For questions, collabs, or really anything, message me directly at: @cosmicsploogedrizzle:matrix.org

SEO Tags: PlayStation 5 , PS5 , Game , Gaming , Games , Sony , Studios , Nintendo , Xbox , Microsoft , Next Gen , Unreal , Decima Engine , Exclusive , Dualshock , Dualsense , Dual Sense , SIE , Sony Interactive Entertainment , HBO , The Last of Us , Horizon , Spiderman , Spider-man , Spider Man , God of War , PSVR , Virtual Reality , MLB , Returnal , Death Stranding , Ratchet and Clank , Ghost of Tsushima , Demon’s Souls , Naughty Dog , Santa Monica , Housemarque , Sucker Punch , Bungie , Destiny , Insomniac , Guerilla , Bend , Asobi , San Diego

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
57
PlayStation Classic flops on Steam despite strong reviews - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Sony released ‘Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’ on Steam on July 26, peaking at less than 9 thousand PC players compared to PlayStation success.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So people desperately wanting them will pirate them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know what you mean. If Sony doesn't make money porting games they will stop doing it. They started doing it as an experiment. They don't need the PC market.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not that they don't make money. If you want a game and already have got it on the Playstation, it's not much of value to get it on the PC. If Sony releases the games simultaneously, many people who really want them, will buy for PC, too. It's the delay that decreases the value, especially when the game turns out mediocre.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd say a majority of people either have a PS5 or a gaming PC, not both. Sony's strategy is to sell games to people who aren't going to buy a PS5. They aren't doing the MS thing where they consider PC part of their ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is not what Sony is doing. They already made their mind, the experiment's results were decided by an executive years ago. This is to shut people up. Release a bad and buggy port, charge twice as much what it costs on PS5, spend absolute zero on marketing then go “Oops, guess people aren't really interested on our games on PC. See, we released it and nobody bought it!”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sony bought Nixxes Software which made them a lot of successful PC ports. They saw great success with their first ports and really only saw major issues with the Last of Us. Their ports are generally pretty good and if they have bugs they get fixed. It costs a lot of money to do this and your conspiracy theory about them doing it just to say it failed is silly. They could just be like Nintendo and give a hard no to PC ports but obviously they see potential in it.

It's sad that rachet and clank failed because now they will be less likely to port lesser known titles. I really want them to port the gravity rush games but it's looking less likely.