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Should Sony Release PS4 Exclusives on the PC 3 to 4 Years After Release?
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InquisitorAles
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Yes, they should, this whole exclusive thing is ridiculous and anticonsumer. People who didn't bought console on release date of those game will not buy it 3 or 4 years later. Personally i won't buy any console only because of exclusive games, there is no game that can justify console purchase if you are PC gamer. If their games like Uncharted or Bloodborne will be available on PC, i'll probably buy them day one, but Sony don't want to get my money so i don't care about them too.
orthodoxy1095
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PS Now is the future ecosystem they'll build around. They need to wait for people's tech to catch up to the streaming capabilities needed first.
You have to consider that releasing their games on PC would also just open their games up to pirating big time.
NoMoreTrolls
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I'd appreciate it as a consumer, but I'm not sure it would be a good business move.
And they're consumers will agree with them. Some strange Stockholm Syndrome.
I didn't actually think about what PS Now could turn into in a few years time so that is very true. We could see older PS exclusives coming out on there, I suppose whenever the eventual real PS5 releases. I just figured that the general masses are buying consoles because they don't want to bother with a PC even if for arbitrary reasons and that a lot of the hardcore PC player base who are often big spenders would love access to these games that they would never get.
I know they are trying to sell PS4's as well, I just figured there was an eventual shelf life for exclusives. After a while they've been on the shelf years as used copies that only benefit the gamestores themselves. Perhaps I should have made it a longer time after release, 5 or 6 years?
I know they are trying to sell PS4's as well, I just figured there was an eventual shelf life for exclusives. After a while they've been on the shelf years as used copies that only benefit the gamestores themselves. Perhaps I should have made it a longer time after release, 5 or 6 years?
Hippopuncher12
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I hate exclusives to some extent but 1st party should stay on the platform they were made for or I should say companies platform.
Is this an inside joke?
InquisitorAles
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This is not 00s, stop this "big piracy" nonsense. Steam proved that PC can be profitable in terms of sales and people willing to buy good games.
biglittleps
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Exclusives are the one of the major thing that helps to sell their hardware which allows them to have their own platform. Also sony earns a lot from royalties from 3rd party games than income from their exclusives, and its stupid to kill their platform by chasing after earning some money from their exclusives in other platforms.
Nothing more to say.
PsihoPerihelion
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So people can say "I don't need a PS4" like they are doing with the XB-ONE now? Sony wants to sell hardware first, software second. They won't do it and have no good reason to do so, imo.
TheAdmiester
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No, they should release them on launch.
Fredrik
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It will once multiplats are better elsewhere.
get2sammyb
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Why the hell would they do that?
Yes. It will bring them more money and unit sales. Face it, if the PS4 exclusive is 4 years then it did the most it can to draw PC gamers to buy the console. If there still exists a portion of players that didn't buy the console then they aren't going to buy it for that game already in the market for 4 years. So you're sitting on money by not then bringing it to PC.
Just like i've been seen saying for years MS should put all their 1st party titles on PC the same goes for Sony. Whatever small overlapping users foregoing buying a PS4 they'll make much more from PC players buying their games.
However, in the past it seemed like if Sony were to offer their AAA exclusives on PC it would be via cloud gaming streaming subscription.
Just like i've been seen saying for years MS should put all their 1st party titles on PC the same goes for Sony. Whatever small overlapping users foregoing buying a PS4 they'll make much more from PC players buying their games.
However, in the past it seemed like if Sony were to offer their AAA exclusives on PC it would be via cloud gaming streaming subscription.
The only value a game should ever have is its quality, not exclusivity
Baroquemantic
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I can't think of any reason why they would from a business standpoint, especially if releasing them that much later on PC.
Jonneh3003
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When you look at Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U how do you choose one? It simply comes down to Halo or Uncharted or Zelda. Specs and controller are little more than a perk, games mean everything.
Yes.
Here's a few reasons why:
1) Sony don't have to explicitly say they're doing PC versions of their exclusives when they release. Have, say, 4/5 year gap between PS4 and PC release, and they'll have made most of the revenue that they were ever going to on the PS4. The initial PS4 consumer won't feel bummed, because a 5 year gap is a decent amount of time. Certain games would even be last-generation (I'm looking at you, Demon's Souls!), if the gap was longer.
2) Not every buy the consumer makes has money going to Sony. Buy a second-hand PS4 and second-hand Bloodborne. What money has Sony seen? Oh, sure, I might buy other games in the PS ecosystem, but why wouldn't I just buy second-hand games? PC sales (tied to, say, Steam) are money every-step of the way (excluding bundled-with-graphics-cards codes). No second-hand sales lost - it's extra revenue all the way through.
3) As I said in the XBox exclusivity thread, not every exclusive game is a System-Seller. Some games, the consumer will just not buy, rather spend money buying a console just to play it. As I said in a different thread:
4) At least one game that people thought was a Sony exclusive is already on Steam. Has it hurt anyone?
Here's a few reasons why:
1) Sony don't have to explicitly say they're doing PC versions of their exclusives when they release. Have, say, 4/5 year gap between PS4 and PC release, and they'll have made most of the revenue that they were ever going to on the PS4. The initial PS4 consumer won't feel bummed, because a 5 year gap is a decent amount of time. Certain games would even be last-generation (I'm looking at you, Demon's Souls!), if the gap was longer.
2) Not every buy the consumer makes has money going to Sony. Buy a second-hand PS4 and second-hand Bloodborne. What money has Sony seen? Oh, sure, I might buy other games in the PS ecosystem, but why wouldn't I just buy second-hand games? PC sales (tied to, say, Steam) are money every-step of the way (excluding bundled-with-graphics-cards codes). No second-hand sales lost - it's extra revenue all the way through.
3) As I said in the XBox exclusivity thread, not every exclusive game is a System-Seller. Some games, the consumer will just not buy, rather spend money buying a console just to play it. As I said in a different thread:
4) At least one game that people thought was a Sony exclusive is already on Steam. Has it hurt anyone?
Majmun
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Multiplatform games performed better on Xbox and Gamecube as well.
ShutterMunster
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People on NeoGaf seem to think the PC market is bigger than it is for the kind of experiences that Sony and MS create. The desktop computing market isn't growing in popularity either.
Dick Justice
Banned
I do like it when zealous fanboys argue against the interests of themselves and their fellow consumers.
MAX PAYMENT
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I seriously doubt if ps4 exclusives went to pc that it would kill the platform.
WouldYouKindly
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Legit only response i can think of
Mr.Marston
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Sony must be doing something right with all this port begging going on.
Chobel
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Yeah. Saw plenty tantrums about the spiderman exclusives in the thread so i guess it's getting the attention they want.
On steam? And get a cut taken from their bottom line to the tune of 30%? Yeah, better off getting a PS4 in that case.
Sony seem to love their own ecosystem and their hardware. So i doubt this will happen anytime soon, if ever.
MS may have decided their hardware was meaningless in their journey to make Xbox a software platform, but Sony generally doesn't have that option.
Sony seem to love their own ecosystem and their hardware. So i doubt this will happen anytime soon, if ever.
MS may have decided their hardware was meaningless in their journey to make Xbox a software platform, but Sony generally doesn't have that option.
TimeEffect
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Why do that when they can touch them up for the PS4.5?
Jonneh3003
Banned
I disagree, PS4 and Xbox One are similar enough as it is, take away the exclusives and how do you choose a box? Most people don't care about slightly higher resolutions. Exclusives make a platform.
NoctisVsStar
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No, just get a ps4... Thread sounds like a low-key port begging thread. Mad suspect..
MAX PAYMENT
Member
I don't think it's that simple anymore.
Multi platform games are enormous.
Networks
Where your friends are.
Media features
Price
Etc are far more important than 1 exclusive game or series.
I think exclusives sell consoles is an school way of thinking.
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