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Sony Should Follow Microsoft's Lead with Quantum Break

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So I woke up to the news that Quantum Break, probably my most anticipated Xbox One exclusive, is coming to PC too. What's more. You get the PC version free for preordering the digital version on Xbox One's storefront. Or you can buy it strictly for PC.

This is one of the best initiatives I've ever seen and I really would like to see Sony do something similar.

I understand that Sony doesn't own an ecosystem like Microsoft does, but I think the potential for sales and profits should offset any concerns about putting an Uncharted or Horizon on Steam, and by extension, Windows. Or perhaps they might through their hat in with Steam and Linux gaming.

I think many like myself would definitely grab a digital version of Uncharted, Horizon, The Last of Us, etc and take a PC copy as well. Sony doesn't really lose any console sales for the people who strictly own Playstations. However the PC crowd might gravitate to the companies IP if it were available on that platform. Hopefully that means more new and better games.

Sony has been rather good with their Crossbuy initiative, so I think they should make the attempt to branch that into the PC. Anything that might get Bloodborne or Hideo Kojima's next title onto PC. :p

Other than some hurt fanboy feelings I really don''t see a downside to console and PC synergy. But what do you think GAF?
 
Sony already do things like this with their Vita platform. MS should have been doing this with indie games like Ori a long long while ago.
 
This may happen for Kojima's game as it's PS4 and PC.

Beyond that? I don't see it happening for stuff coming from the likes of Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, etc. At least, not in the next five years or so.
 
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No they should not, if consoles port all their exclusives to PC then there would be no point in consoles existing. People buy these systems to play games they can't play on PC and they are also manufactured to ship hardware. There's no use port begging, just accept that this is the case and if you want these games buy the system that they're on.
 
Sony are selling PS4s with their big games, they have a huge user base that is buying their games pretty well as far as I can tell.

Microsoft have a console that isn't doing too hot outside of US/UK, they own Windows the primary PC platform and have a new OS + store they are trying to sell as well as DX12...

Now, maybe for "gamers" they should but I don't think they will, nor do they have the same motivation to do so either. Unless they want to start their own PS store on PC, I don't think the idea of giving Valve 30% of their Uncharted 4 Steam sales is all that appealing
 
I mean a certain degree of first party exclusives would still be needed to sell consoles right? Otherwise why buy a console anymore?
 
No.
Exclusives define a platform's identity for the most part. Let each platform have their exclusive games, which are like premium content for the people who decided to invest money on that platform.
 
I feel like this is kind of happening? PC is getting The Witness, Street Fighter 5, and many other games that are otherwise PS4 console exclusives.

PC is definitely the place to be if you want to play a mix of both Sony and Microsoft titles, but only want one machine.

We're never going to get stuff like TLoU or Uncharted though. There's simply no incentive. Sony doesn't have a Windows Store it wants to push.
 
"I understand that Nintendo doesn't own an ecosystem like Microsoft does, but I think the potential for sales and profits should offset any concerns about putting a Pokemon or Zelda on Steam, and by extension, Windows. Or perhaps they might through their hat in with Steam and Linux gaming.
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Argument sounds so very familiar here...
 
Can't think of any first party exclusives that are worth porting to the PC. Third party wise FFXIV is coming to PC and most third party games as well.
 
  1. If exclusives still sell consoles (and there is some indication that they don't) this would be a terrible idea.
  2. Sony did this once, with Valve. When I bought a copy of Portal 2 for the Playstation 3, I got a code that let me download the Steam version.
 
I understand that Sony doesn't own an ecosystem like Microsoft does
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I think the argument ends here.

Sony and Nintendo will never, ever put their big first party exclusives on PC.
 
Doesn't work the same way - MS has a vested interest in curating content for Windows, Sony doesn't.

Though I would love to play me some 1440p Yakuza
 
Sony makes exclusives to drive the sales of it's own platform. Why would they want to do something that could reduce Playstation sales (not to mention make less money per copy since they'd need to pay royalties to the platform owner), make development more costly (because porting is always an additional cost). And less PS sales will lead to less OTHER PS games being sold in most cases, which means even less money for Sony
 
I think people have a hard time grasping that Windows is a Microsoft platform that brings more revenue for Microsoft than Xbox. Even as a gaming platform.
 
While I don't think it would hurt the ps4 just like PC versions of Gears or Halo wouldn't hurt the xbone, Sony doesn't have a PC software platform to support so I don't see them having the incentive to do this.
 
If they created a Storefront on Windows...I don't see why not. As long as it keeps the user in their ecosystem (hence storefront) then I can see the business use. Granted, Sony's bright spot right now is the PS4 (the only one really) and I doubt that they want to take away focus from it. Will it be good for consumers? Sure, but I doubt it will happen.

MS has a better reason to do so as it affects their ecosystem (which is much larger than Sonys). They have more incentive to do such a thing whereas Sony doesn't.
 
Enter the Dragon Punch said:
the loss in sales of hardware from bringing their titles to pc would be negligible compared to revenue gained from pc software sales
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That's a ballsy statement, especially without anything to back it up with. Sony makes their biggest profit on consumers purchasing titles for their console (licensing), not on hardware or even on their own titles. Cutting down a selling point of their hardware would eventually hurt that revenue avenue. But, the truth is that this not really a discussion we can have without any data, and that data is simply impossible to come by. I will have to say that, it's highly unlikely that their exclusive software on PC would come even close to being worth even discussion.
 
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