It's actually been a year.
Even if someone at the beginning thought Sony releasing Horizon and Days Gone were rare one off games in 2020 and 2021, Sony has been focusing on PC ramp up for over a year. It's just that they didn't do it in a giant splashy promotion. Sony's way of pushing PC is as anti-climatic as you can get as they do it quietly in state of plays (a splash screen) and investor slides. Youre not going to see them do big marketing campaigns or tweets. It's always an afterthought with an announced release date close to launch.
That investors slide (I think from Spain or somewhere) showed Uncharted was coming to PC. AT the time unannounced. They bought Nixxes (porting company), they changed branding to PS for PC, they hired a mobile gaming exec, and probably some other stuff I missed.
Not surprisingly, their recent powerpoint slides have a big focus and ramp up till 2025 or 2026 with PC and mobile games.
Now, even Spiderman is coming (I think their best selling game). It cant get more obvious now. If anyone is still going to surprised LOU or GT come too at some point, I dont see how that can be given whats been done.
Sony wouldnt be doing all this if their plan was to just to keep doing random PC ports once a year as they were already doing that using tiny teams.
Yeah, they pretty much came out and told investors that they expect to go from $80 million in PC revenue last year to $300 million this year. Last year they saw Days Gone and GOW release and sell around $30 million each with the rest coming from HZD's second year. To get to $300 million, they need 10 of those releases. or 5 of those releases and 2-3 big Day one GaaS releases.
I pointed this out in that thread and was accused of trolling. Literally ten days later, the Spiderman PC collection is announced while Returnal and Sackboy PC ports are leaked.
I dont know why everything gets labeled trolling here. You cant go from $80 to $300 million without releasing a bunch of games. It's just basic math at this point.
With Uncharted set to release in June, I suspect this is what we will see on PC by March 2023
- Uncharted Collection - June - $30 million
- Spiderman Collection - August - $30 millon
- Returnal - September - $15 million
- Sackboy - October - $10 million
- Day One TLOU Factions with TLOU 1&2 remasters. <<< Their first GaaS game. - November 2022 - $50 million
- Horizon FW - February 2023 - $30 million
- GT7 - March 2023 - $50 million
- GOW/Days Gone/Horizon yearly revenue - $50 million.
That still only gets us to around $270 million but Sony might be inflating some estimates to appease shareholders. I dont see them releasing GOW2 day one and risking Bryank's wrath, but I think they are definitely going to wait just 1 year to port both HFW and GT7.
P.S Bloodborne might get priority over Horizon or GT7 depending on whether Nixxes is porting those games. I think Sony would be stupid not to cash in on the Elden Rings craze on PC where steamspy counts suggested almost 15 million players. Turns out those were mostly game shares, but there is a huge demand for souls games on PC. I wouldnt be surprised if they are forcing Bluepoint to port Demon Souls and Bloodborne to PC right now for March. now thats a $100 million game even after the 30% valve cut.