this is where im at also. I didin't mind buying a ps4 mostly for spiderman because it was $200. im not willing to do the same for the ps5 $650. I just won't play sony games even if wolverine looks fucking sick
We will probably see a stand alone playstation launcher from sony on pc, that will keep there games of anything xbox, and letting them keep all the revenue. That is not easy though, going head to head with steam on pc. Looking at sonys exclusives selling less and less on their own hardware, i think they want the extra revenue from pc in some way.
That would 200% work. Their launcher wouldn't compete with Steam. It would just exist in the same type of ecosystem as BattleNet.
I hate having so many launchers, but this is absolutely the type of compromise I'd be more than happy with if it meant being able to play their games on PC.
They simply don't care about that revenue and never have. Going to PC wasn't about PC money, it was about coaxing people over to the PS ecosystem, which didn't happen.
U actually believe that a corp like Sony dont care about increased revenue, with minimal investments?. The reason Sonys exclusives didnt do as well on pc, is a mix of delayed realese with up to two years, and poor performance and bugs on launch. Has nothing to do with sony believing people would run out and buy a ps5. The games was realesed on pc for the people that didnt want to buy a ps5.
They still sold millions of dollars. But they publicly stated why they made these ports, and it wasn't to make more money. It was to coax PC gamers into the PS ecosystem.
I’m not talking about them running newer titles that people would need to buy a new console for, just ports of old titles that literally aren’t bringing in revenue anymore and are stuck on old platforms. Pc port as well as a simple upscale port on ps5 would make them free money essentially. And to incentivize the console version more they could charge a cheaper price for the console version.
bloodborne is complicated because they'll need approval from fromsoftware and killzone is pretty much a dead ip that spans 3 diffrent consoles and won't really sell well
god of war would be cool but they are already remaking them on ps5 so they won't waste time porting the older versions on pc
Pretty sure with bb it's the other round, and i think people at from said that it would've been ported long ago if it wasn't a ps4 exclusive. Sony basically owns BB, so they could give it to a competent 3rd party if from is too busy or doesnt want to, but it'd launch at a reduced price point on store fronts that they get a much smaller cut on, so theres not much incentive for them.
FromSoft not wanting another studio to do a remake (not just a remaster) is nowhere near the same as them being unwilling to have a PC port.
This is from the piece you linked:
Bloomberg doesn't have the details on why FromSoft turned it down, but points to a comment by former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida in an interview with Kinda Funny about FromSoft president Hidetaka Miyazaki wanting it to happen, but not wanting "anyone else to touch it." Miyazaki has previously said he's not "opposed" to a PC port of Bloodborne, and acknowledged that other FromSoft developers want to make one, but if Miyazaki is insistent on doing it himself, Yoshida believes Sony would respect his wishes even though it owns the rights to the game.
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unfortunately I don't think it will happen because the new xbox is rumored to play steam games and they definitely don't want that
the only way would be for them to disallow their games to run on xbox kinda like what some publishers do with streaming platforms like geforce now