Is Sony making the right move by going multi platform

Is Sony making the right move by going multi platform

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, next generation of consoles will be the last one. The hardware is already the same since the PS4.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Makes Sense. Microsoft is already doing that with games like Minecraft being multi and doing collabs with Nintendo by having Banjo in Smash Bros.
      Sony already has MLB The Show on the Xbox.
      Games are very expensive to make in current era. Selling your multi billion dollar games only on one system isn't profitable, no matter how many copies you sell.

      This is why Sony is now releasing shit on PC.
      Consoles will continue to be made cause you need hardware to play them, but it will no longer be about software but about specs, services and price.
      Having a Series X isn't much different from having a PC, but a series X costs 500, a pc with the same specs go above 1k

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nah. Normies don't wanna learn PCs.
      Consoles and vidya is way too big of a market to ignore, cloud gaming is hard to impliment due to poor countries(including USA) having bad unstable internet. How are you gonna sell FIFA to some poorgay Spanish/Brazilian/Italian people when their ping and connection isn't the best? Also you would need frickton of servers as well.
      Tho problemis graphics whoring and the cost of making games. Those should be fixed to keep vidya good. It takes multiple years to put out mediocre shit because majority of time went to making graphics look good. GT7 on PS5 costs $70 and has MTX shit ffs. And "live service" model where classic cars gets added rather than having a complete package

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What’s the point? Does Bungie even make mobile games?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I only bought ps for the exclusives, i porate 95% of the stuff and only only pvp and mmos.

    So yeah, good stuff sony, this will save me money and i wont feel embarassed owning a PS5 when reading snoy posts.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      All PS exclusives are on PC and the ceo admired they are moving towards going multi platform

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        not all pc's can run games on high res, consoles are specifically made for gaming at the current graphics standard and their console wont an hero when you put a game in like a shitty pc build

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >NOOOO you can't just buy game development companies! It's anti-competitive!
    >He he, just gonna buy these game devs.
    Why are sony such hypocrites?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >comparing CoD to anything other than fifa

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOOOOOO DOESN'T COUNT IT'S OKAY WHEN SONY DOES IIIIIIIT
        Why are Snoyggers like this?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    FRICK SONY

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Microsoft acquires Bethesda and Activision and Sony responds by announcing that PlayStation will be more of a multi platform basically saying frick you to all the people that bought a PS5 for their exclusives

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      True, should've seen this shit coming though.
      They started cucking stuff out before the PoS5's release.Frick Jim Ryan and may nu-PlayStation rest in piss.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty sure he means PC and Mobile for their GaaS shit but who knows with current Sony. Maybe they want all their GaaS titles to be multiplat on Xbox and the Switch too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      God of War Spiderman and Horizion are on ox and those aren’t GaaS games

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think they count PC as a competitor and see it as more of a means to tap into the Chinese market without having to waste money on censoring their games so they can be fit an official Chinese release.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, they mentioned they will move their old catalogue of games. They just drop 2+ year old games on the Steam junkyard for the few Indian, Chinese and Russian players. That was stated in their presentation last year.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >They just drop 2+ year old games on the Steam junkyard
          Explain Last of Us Demake Part I then?

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ask sega how it worked out for them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      moron.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Seeing Sony go multiplatform is funny as frick when they spent the last generation throwing tens of millions at exclusivity deals to prevent games going to other platforms.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What’s even more funny is Jim Ryan having a meltdown that cod might end up being an Xbox/PC Exclusive

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's all Jim Ryan. Short-term going multiplat will pay off massively and look good on his CV, so he can get a nice severance and frick off to a better job
      Long term it's a clusterfrick move for Sony, and when sales start dropping on consoles and games it will again pay off for Jim Ryan
      >see, we were profiting when I was boss
      It's a win win for the c**t

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What’s even more funny is Jim Ryan having a meltdown that cod might end up being an Xbox/PC Exclusive

        god of war and spider man sold like shit on PC though

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That is because they are shit games.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            better than your favorite

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >god of war and spider man sold like shit on PC though

          Do you even have a single source to back up this statement?, as far I know they sold great.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Official numbers.
            Days Gone on PS4 alone (considered a flop) outsold all these ports combined.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Days gone outsold them
              No way, seriously shoe me some data

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Days Gone director says it sold 8 million on PS4 only, but I doubt it. Still more than all that shit combined, I suppose. No numbers for Spider-Man, but I assume even that was another flop.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                these homosexuals are finished, long-term
                after they started cucking everything out, they lost their loyalist fanbase who was always there to buy these "exclusives"
                future ones will flop on both pc and playstation
                can't wait for cod to go exclusive so nu-playstation finally dies.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They were both literally best sellers on Steam and I'm pretty sure Spiderman still is

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              That doesn't mean shit. Pretty sure it doesn't take much for that.
              "No one" buys games on PC.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Have you seen Steam Bestsellers?
                Most of the time the Steam Deck or Steam Index are the bestseller, and I doubt more than… 3 million at most bought those? Probably being generous.

                In terms of game bestsellers, if it’s not Elden Ring it’s No Man’s Sky every three weeks when they have a 50% off sale, and I doubt No Man’s Sky sells gangbusters at this point.

                I am guessing if you sell 50k+ you are top 1 on Steam Bestseller. The only thing that makes PC the biggest platform behind mobile is mtx, the same reason mobile gacha games are always ported to PC but rarely to console

                it's still on there

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Have you seen Steam Bestsellers?
              Most of the time the Steam Deck or Steam Index are the bestseller, and I doubt more than… 3 million at most bought those? Probably being generous.

              In terms of game bestsellers, if it’s not Elden Ring it’s No Man’s Sky every three weeks when they have a 50% off sale, and I doubt No Man’s Sky sells gangbusters at this point.

              I am guessing if you sell 50k+ you are top 1 on Steam Bestseller. The only thing that makes PC the biggest platform behind mobile is mtx, the same reason mobile gacha games are always ported to PC but rarely to console

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they still know that bloodborne and tsushima are their only games
    imagine making a whole new console and your only worthwhile games are still last gen
    9th console generation is genuinely one of the worst in gaming

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    people buy playstations regardless of game's exclusivity
    the marketing is just too aggressive you can't watch a football game without seeing a playstation ad

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah it’ll be like that for now but once the average consumer sees that PS5 doesn’t really have any exclusives and that the series s is cheaper ps sales will dwindle

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      People buy playstation because of their exclusivity deals. They successfully aligned themselves with all the major live service players over the course of last gen with exclusive content in destiny, call of duty, fortnite, fifa, nba2k and grand theft auto. So whenever those games have advertisements the playstation logo is always next to it. The Xbox 360 had most of those deals in 7th gen (the ones which existed back then) and it successfully became the home of cod, gta etc. So it's all about the marketing. That's why Sony are b***hing to the Brazilian trade commission about MS buying cod because just simply having xbox associated with cod will make millions of hardcore cod players switch platforms. The marketing alone has that much of an impact. And Sony have been investing heavily in cod marketing for the last decade to make playstation THE console for cod, which accounts for like half a billion dollars in revenue annually for sony. So you can see why they're pissed.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty sure the whole business model of Sell consoles for a loss, make it back in services and licensing deals is no longer sustainable in an era when all these massive corporations are consolidating and buying every IP up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's more sustainable than ever more like. Sony is hitting record profits and revenue because there's more monetization in games than there's ever been. Not to mention the increased game prices by Sony and their close partners. A platform holder gets 30% of every game and addon sale from their store.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    trying to get rid of my PS5 console as soon as possible and will not buy a PS console in the future because there's no point

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >crossplay is a monthly sub for publishers wanting to use it on snoy station
    >made FF7R FF16 exclusive on snoygger station
    >bunch of other exclusives like bloodborne and spiderman(big ass IP)
    >dont you dare take the biggest FPS game
    >how dare you take pitty on us and give us an extra 3 year contract that can be extended
    >*multiplatform being PC only, no switch no xbox
    frick sony, thank god for microwiener finally opening up their wallet and playing their game

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >lose money through exclusive garbage
    >suck israelite's dick to get blackwiener ESG money
    >everyone even more disgusted after the snoy pedo exec got busted
    >people fleeing snoypedo and its pozzed forced diversity, Black fatigue
    >now crying to people to come back B-buh we love PC tooo~

    its too late

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    what sucks is they'll just port triple A games smaller titles are screwed

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    > still no MGS ports

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They're going to make a lot of money. But they are losing their solid fanbase. When tough times will come, people won't care that much about them anymore.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Apparently so

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, before they were focused on hardware but the current times are moving to software and Sony is literally bleeding money by pandering to the old ways. What they need to do is take a few steps backwards and look at the bigger picture that if they don't make good investments(aka going from a company selling consoles and game for said console to a company that sells games) they will lose in the long term. After they have a foothold in the gaming market again, assuming they release good games and regain the trust of the gamers they can attempt to make a return to form if those future times allow it.
      If they still want to go against microsoft they should just make their games run better on linux lmao.

      Congrats, they finally beat a 5 yo console after being released 2 years ago...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >they finally beat a 5 yo console
        already did with the PS4

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Apparently so

        Except they haven't, switch's still selling more units. There using some moronic cope measure

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, before they were focused on hardware but the current times are moving to software and Sony is literally bleeding money by pandering to the old ways. What they need to do is take a few steps backwards and look at the bigger picture that if they don't make good investments(aka going from a company selling consoles and game for said console to a company that sells games) they will lose in the long term. After they have a foothold in the gaming market again, assuming they release good games and regain the trust of the gamers they can attempt to make a return to form if those future times allow it.
      If they still want to go against microsoft they should just make their games run better on linux lmao.

      Congrats, they finally beat a 5 yo console after being released 2 years ago...

      [...]
      Except they haven't, switch's still selling more units. There using some moronic cope measure

      It's UK only

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't get it why do you want stuff to stay exclusive? Exclusivity doesn't benefit you or any player whatsoever it only helps to make Sony money

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you're referring to those players that vehemently would not play a non-exclusive game, those that go "How'd you like em sloppy seconds?", yet would cry if the game they wanted would get the exclusive treatment, just not for the platform they own, then the answer is simple.
      It just gives them an identity, a religion of some sorts, something to believe in. Is it just the result of years of consumerism and only consumerism as purpose? Probably.
      At the end of the day it's just a minority of casuals that would feel betrayed when a multi-billion corporation doesn't tickle their balls.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >How'd you like em sloppy seconds?
        This goes both ways though. Most console games that go to PC get the "Thanks for beta testing" homosexuals and they're no better than what you mentioned. Worse in a lot of ways, because the games they're so proud of is generally years after everyone else finished it and moved on.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >everyone else finished it and moved on.
          Holy shit literally unplayable

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine a world in which every platform had games painstakingly made only for that console, utilizing every feature that the platform has to offer and optimizing the game to hell and back. This includes PC too, imagine if PC games weren’t just console ports and Indie games, but actual games made ONLY for PC like they were before Xbox Agent Smith’d all PC Game devs.

      That’s the world we lived in in the 90s, and I think we all just want to go back to that. instead, everyone makes 3rd person games in Epic or Unity so that it’s easy (or easier) to just transfer literally the same game to every platform, and it results in everyone getting a passable version, with PCs being completely disregarded and forced to brute force every game with 3 times the specs of the equivalent console.

      It’s a shut show, and it looks like it’ll remain the standard because everybody loves the idea of having one platform that’s just the dumping ground for every game ever made, regardless of quality.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Please bring
    >Kat's game
    >inFamous
    >Jak & Daxter
    And more unknown ones like Primal, Rule of Rose and Ghosthunter

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, I have had and enjoyed every PS console, but I have no intention to buy a Piss Stain 5.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They are following Capcom example
    >switch from exclusive to full multiplat
    >focus more on PC
    >profits quadruplicate

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >They are following Capcom example

      Capcom were always multiplat

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        In the early 2010s their multiplats where just shitty console ports. Even SFIV had fricking GFWL.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Capcom made multiplayer games since the Genesis games…

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Remember when exclusive games were optimized for unique hardware?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >exclusive games were optimized for unique hardware
      for some reason I doubt you're referring to POWER OF THE CELL! when you say that

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Consoles now have the same architecture, similar hardware, dev kits with similar tools to optimize development, between them and with pc.
      This is no longer a case of completely obtuse specs that requires a specialized and a IQ above 200.
      The Saturn horrendous dev tools or the clusterfrick that was the PS3 hardware are things of the past.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The Saturn horrendous dev tools or the clusterfrick that was the PS3 hardware are things of the past.

        What were the most technically impressive Saturn and PS3 games?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          For Saturn, probably Burning Rangers, Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Virtua Fighter 2.
          Virtua Fighter 2 looked amazing ran at 60fps and it was the console with the highest resolution in the generation.

          For PS3 I would say Uncharted 3, Killzone 2 and GT6.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    And soon they will stop making consoles because selling everything on other platforms is cheaper/more profitable than investing into your own ecosystem - one which may or may not do better/worse depending on the generation. People only bought Playstations for FIFA and CoD anyway.
    Nintendo will remain the last console maker because their own games actually drive sales.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So for people who only read the headline:
    Sony Group of Japan wants to expand Playsation to mobile games. This means any type of GAAS or Freemium type game under Sony current and future will be under the PlayStation branding. They want those games on PC as well. If an IP like Returnal has no last Gen game and a movie is coming out, they’ll make a PC port to promote the movie but not a sequel.

    Tldr you still need a PlayStation for single player games that they make

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No, I don't. They don't make single player games worth playing. Haven't played a single Sony ported game on PC, not zombie cinematic game #532, not Capeshit Open World game #25243

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Tldr you still need a PlayStation for single player games that they make
      like spiderman, god of war, horizon and days gone?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And TLOU, and Uncharted
        PlayStation is as good as dead.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The first entries in single player franchises that are going to have Netflix shows or sequels on PS5? Yes. We’re you not able to read anon’s post until the end?

        Anyway, the actual problem with his post is assuming Sony will make a lot more Single Player Games. Seems like they are all in on live services, and if those fail they will lose so much money that they’ll probably go bankrupt. Jim Ryan is a shortsighted idiot.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They and microsoft both want to be netflix for games. They don't need hardware to do that, and they're clearly having financial issues. I wouldn't be surprised if they suspended production of the PS5 when their PC storefront is released.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Spend all the WiiU years readish shitpost after shitpost about Nintendo going third party
    >took them 2 years to Sony to reach that point

    poetry.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's too late. they already fricked up all their games

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine posting that image on Ganker just last gen.
    I wonder how people would have reacted then.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bungie would've been better off with Embracer than something like Sony. Sony stopped being good nor relevant since the 2000s.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You realize by multiplatform they mean have 3rd party games owned by them release games on other platforms for profit hence why Bungies still making multiplat games

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Nintendo double down on their own Ips and whatever purchase is to reinforce the company strenghts
    >Sony go full moron, nuke nearly everything they own and go full MTX gaas garbage in less than a single generation.

    Fricking morons.

    • 2 years ago
      Steelrising

      I mean isn't that what xbox did and people praised them for it? gamepass gamepass gamepass. pretty much zero exclusives since pc can play 99% of their games, every game tied to their subscription service.

      look, outside of nintendo, exclusives are dead. and IF nintendo took its ip's multiplatform, they'd sell millllionnnns of copies more, and the switch would still dominate japan. if anything nintendo are the dumb ones still. your only competition is steam deck which lol

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I know it's kinda the truth, but do you think it's kinda insulting to your first party devs to throw such a big tantrum over CoD? Like their games don't matter at all?

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Microsoft has put out all their exclusives on PC day 1 for the last while because they know enthusiasts probably will stick with PC no matter what, and normalgays will always stick with consoles no matter what. It just comes down to whether lowest common denominator consumers want an Xbox or Playstation, I don't envy Sony's position. They have to compete with a corporation worth so much more than them that have never actually made money on the Xbox brand, but still keep investing because Microsoft can just away with it. They simply do not have the funds or manpower to make a Nintendo-esque walled garden anymore, hence them not even pretending to be one anymore.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SAY
    GAH

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