We recently reported on news that Sony will all but stop releasing PC ports of its single-player games on PC, and while those previous reports were from Jason Schreier, a journalist previously shown to have reputable insider sources, another insider has corroborated these claims, adding additional c...
And the same can’t be said for consoles? I mean, not to go all nihilistic or something, but if high end hardware is being threatened then why would Nvidia or AMD or Intel even bother with custom SOCs for consoles too? All of that manufacturing, R&D, and materials can go towards AI data center products.
Putting aside the current hardware apocalypse happening…
To play devil’s advocate a bit. If I was Sony and I saw my competitor, Microsoft, shoot themselves in the feet so much that they are no longer in the console space then…why wouldn’t I capitalize on that and take advantage of being the only home console available? I can release all of my first party stuff on my console only so people have to buy my console.
Sure some Xbox gamers are going to go PC, but the majority don’t want a PC. They want a console they can plug into a TV and press Play on whatever game and it just works. If Microsoft doesn’t produce Xbox’s anymore, where are they going to go? Nintendo? Lmao. It’ll be a PlayStation.
I think this move is just Sony doubling down on their platform and titles. I for one would advise against buying a console at this point because you are locked down to their ecosystem, their services. On PC I can at least play the games I bought 20 years ago on Steam. I can emulate tens of thousands of retro games. And I can use the controller or peripherals I want to use. I prefer the Xbox controller(well Steam soon enough), and if I went PlayStation then I’d be playing with a controller I simply don’t like. On PC I can choose whichever one I want.
Hopefully Valve gives them a home with the Steam Machine. We’re still waiting to hear the price for that though…
(It is just a computer running Linux, but it’s sold as a console.)