Do online game streaming services mark the end of Exclusive Games as we know them? Are consumers okay with the direction the industry is going?
As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.
I mean, it's a business based on hardware market. Do we expect them to not even try? It's not like Nintendo doesn't do the same by not putting any games on PC and Microsoft until recently did the same. I don't care what they attempt, as long as they don't abuse the community or lie about their goals/requirements.
Will it work? Not likely. Should we care? No. Let them waste their time, it doesn't affect anything.
I wish them the best of luck.
But PC players are often a patient bunch, many will even wait for Epic launcher exclusivity to end until a game comes to Steam.
If they didnt buy the console when its games were exclusive, why would they do it now theyre not?
PC gamers are just too patient and loyal to their gaming set ups, something they've spent a lot of money on to perfect. They have backlogs of games which many never get round to finishing or get round to at all and will always have other multiplatform releases to keep them going.
Over the many years Sony has published so many awesome titles such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Infamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams, Puppeteer, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo, Motor Storm, God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Bloodborne
If none of those games BEFORE all these PC ports convinced a hardcore PC gamer to get a PS5 console then why on Earth would porting them them to PC now make any difference? All PC gamers now know 100% is that they just have to be patient, which they are good at anyway to get a PS5 game 2 years later.
I get GaaS games or multiplayer focused titles but if people really want to play these games they'd have gotten a PS console years ago.
Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.
I mean if there's any single player Sony games that I actually want that aren't on PC then I would buy said console to play them on. But the ones that I like that aren't on PC are few and far between anyway so no loss for me.
If I game, it's usually multiplayer titles, otherwise I like playing around with some other software.
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Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.
You ask that in a time when we're frequently getting exclusives on every platform every few weeks?
Huh? Have you seen the PS4 lineup?
If you think you'll be playing PS4 exclusives using PS Now on PC, as they release, slap yourself lol. There's so many reasons that that isn't likely, but business is the most obvious reason.
PC gamers still have way more incentive to buy a PS4 than they do an Xbox One due to the fact that
1. The PS4 exclusives won't be on PS NOW the day they release and you'll probably have to wait a year or two to play them.
2. Since the games will be streamed and won't be running natively on PC hardware the games won't be able to take advantage of the hardware on PC and with game streaming comes lower resolutions, input lag, compression, etc so unlike Microsoft's exclusives, the definitive version of all of Sony's games will still be on the PS4.
What Sony is doing is a lot different from what Microsoft is doing. I think people are over exaggerating (i'll admit that even I did when I first heard this news). Now that I put more thought into this I don't think this will hurt PS4 console sales as much as people think now. A lot of PC gamers will still buy a PS4. It won't hurt PS4 sales that much imo..
I just think it's interesting that all this time you have had people like kribwalker that have been crapping on this service, saying it sucks and mention all the issues I mentioned in my 2nd paragraph yet as soon as PS4 games get announced for it they do a complete 180 and act as if the service is great and they can't wait to get on the service. Ya'll wasn't with it before and wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole but now it's 1 of the greatest things since sliced bred nd you can't wait to use it, am I right? Lol it's pretty amusing to see how quickly people are willing to change their tune on something when it suits their agenda.