Because some people bought their PS5's under the pretense that there would be actual exclusives, unique experiences synonymous with PlayStation and in keeping with its history and legacy.
None of this changes if people on PC get to play those games several years after they launched on console.
The industry is becoming very homogeneous and after losing all the Zenimax games and exclusivity on Yakuza, Kingdom Hearts and several other series, this is the wrong move.
Why? Because you don't like it? By all accounts its working very well.
They are making PlayStation into Xbox-lite, almost every move Jim Ryan and Hermen make is a copy of what Xbox has done.... there is no vision.
No vision? I think you mean their vision doesn't align with yours. And I disagree. Xbox and PlayStation compete in the same market and are subject to the same market forces. Hunkering down and ignoring the way the market is moving out of pride or tradition is a fast route into obsolescence. The benefit Sony has is that they're the defacto place for anyone to play by virtue of the strength of their brand globally.
The reason their pursuit of PC gaming doesn't really matter to their console business is because PC and Console are more or less divergent. Why? Cost of entry. More people are willing to spend more on gaming and buy PC's sure, but that isn't the whole of the market. Ultimately, if there are people who don't want to spend $1000+ PC's because they can't or won't, there is a market for console. And PlayStation has been the one to get for most people.
Will this strategy succeed? Who knows. But for now, they get to make extra money on older games which would otherwise no longer be generating revenue. People who were otherwise never going to buy a PlayStation will at least consider getting a PlayStation game. And who knows, if they enjoy it they might buy into the brand. Having a sealed walled garden is valid, sure, but opening it up just enough to allow others to get a taste is also a valid approach.
Resources are being put towards PC ports, when their own new platform, PS5 doesn't even have native versions of those games... Death Stranding, Horizon, Detroit and Days Gone.
Fair point, but if there is money to be made, that is always the more appealing option to a business. PlayStation was so close to not existing a dozen years ago due to how unprofitable it was for Sony. It nearly bankrupted them. Not doing this is hardly of cosmic betrayal from Sony, its just fucking common sense. In the grand scheme of things its inconsequential.
And beyond that, the increased investment Sony are putting into PlayStation as a whole should eventually mean that this is no longer a Zero Sum game. You can have PC and PS5 upgrades at the same time.
For all the price hikes, games going to PC, cross-gen games and laundry list of other stuff.... we have no more studios than before. Xbox got Zenimax and they are not paying more for basic versions of games!
Where is our Zenimax deal if we have to put up with all this shit?
Sony can't casually drop $7 Billion on a publisher. What do you want them to do? Spend money they don't have acquiring publishers?
There is nothing they can do beyond continuing to make excellent games (which they already do) that can counteract major publishers getting acquired by Microsoft and their deep pockets. Small tactical investments here and there (which they already do) is their only combative strategy. Which they already do.
And this nonsense with Cross-Gen games is the height of childish pedantry. You've just gone on this tremendous diatribe about how they must look after their ecosystem first and foremost - over anything else such as PC gaming. But you don't want them to service their existing 115 million strong PS4 user base? Nah those guys need to get with the programme and buy the latest (difficult to obtain) hardware from Sony, else they're second class citizens.
Where is the SSD expansion?
Where are the firmware updates to deal with the many crashing issues games have on PS5? Where are the UI updates to deal with how lonely it feels on it?
These are fair points. However the people who port games to PC are not the same as the people who do Sony's software/firmware. There reaches a point with these things where throwing more money and people at the problem won't necessarily make it go away faster. That is the nature of software and hardware development.
Jim and Hermen are focused on PC, mobile and cloud to the detriment of PS5 and console gaming. They are both disgraces to everything PlayStation means to gamers and fans.
How is it at the expense of the PS5 and console gaming? Let me make this absolutely clear. Sony choosing to port (so far) 2 games to PC and even daring to think about maybe porting some more, as absolutely fuck all to do with their game output. Their studios are busy making the games that evidently, plenty of people want to play. That would not change, nor would it happen any faster if Sony chose not to port games released
3+ years ago to PC.
I'm not dodging anything, you misinterpreted what I wrote....
I said 'every audience must be served' but I did not say PlayStation has to serve every audience..... they only have a duty to their customers, to their ecosystem.
If that's the case, then why are cross-gen games bad? Or do PS4 gamers who haven't the luck or finances to cough up $500 for a PS5 not count? Sony's duty is only to the fraction of their userbase that has the fortune of owning a PS5 - do I have that right?
They have no obligation at all beyond their consoles.
That isn't for you to decide.
If Sony want to expand their potential customer base they are free (and justified) to do so.
Feel free to disagree and hate (???) Herman Hulst and Jim Ryan. Such is your prerogative. But as far as I'm concerned, crying about Sony even contemplating selling a handful more old exclusives on PC is childish.