Went decades without them. Didn't really play the ones that did become available.. No loss as far as I'm concerned.

As someone who played them all voraciously on PS5 then downloaded their repacks once they became available to mod the fuck out of them to give them new life to me, this hurts a lot.

I was really sad when CTR and Ratchet & Clank stayed on PlayStation. Those were some of the best reboots in ages and I don’t really want to have to keep my PS4 setup just to play those.

PS makes pretty much all my favorite PC games so that's unfortunate for me.

Don’t worry, this is not the first time they’ve done this. They’ll be back.

The only ones I was remotely interested we're Demons souls remake (which never came to PC) and Bloodborne remake (which never happened in the first place). For the rest of Sony games I gave most of them a fair shot but none of them made me think "wow, this was a must play".

Seems like a bold move with the rising cost of components.

I've found that most of their games are overpriced and take years to lose their value, as well as being more demanding of hardware then their image quality suggests. Still, a shame to lose a publisher doing AAA single player games that aren't live service slop.

Returnal is very good. Otherwise, Meh

If so, I'm buying ps5 to play ffvii rebase

That's squenix though, and they've stated FF will start prioritizing PC over console.

Darn.

Was really hoping my PC would do for playing future Horizon (not Hunters Gathering) and GoW games.

Didn't need a PS5, but I guess Sony doesn't want my money anymore.

Too bad.

Yeah, I unlike the OP don't like online games. I love story not just randomly shooting at things.

I read somewhere else that one of the suspected reasons for it was actually the rising cost of components. Microsoft and Sony are big companies, and have the swing to be able to acquire hardware way easier than the everyday consumer, so in a case of limited supply causing hardware prices to soar, they will get the parts first.

They don't need to worry about prioritizing the PC market if the only new gamers around are going console due to affordability or availability.

Being said, I already have a 5, I got it a few years back and I lowkey regret it because as a sony fan all my life... it just had nothing for it. Everything I did on the 5 could have been done on the 4 and I don't feel like the current releases are (or at this point are ever going to be) worth getting, which was likely a big reason for their push into the PC market in the first place.

With the supply and cost issues, that reason isn't present anymore.

Of course they leak that sort of information. They want people to buy PlayStation consoles which is a hard proposition, given the fact that after years on the market these consoles get more expensive instead of receiving price cuts (an outright ridiculous situation). Even more so with PS6 facing delays.

The benefit of controlled leaks is that Sony never made an official announcement. And when two years after a release on PlayStation they make a PC port, they never formally lied.

They released Lego Horizon on Nintendo Switch. Marathon will even come to Xbox.

Bloodborne remake (which never happened in the first place)

Not officially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOs2chL3NQ

Disappointing, though ultimately a small part of my PC library in the end. Enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn and loved both parts of The Last of Us. Yet they never did bring over The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, or Bluepoint's remakes (I played the original Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls).

Intergalactic is the only upcoming title I'm interested in, and that's nowhere enough for me to spend on a PS5.

I bought all of their consoles up to the PS4 but never got the use out of them that I did with my PC.

When they started releasing games on PC they (Sony) started getting money from me again because the games are great. But I guess they didn’t like that! And since I’m not buying a console, because they’re a scam, they won’t be getting my money.

Then I'm not buying ps5

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It won't last.

My read on this is that they don’t think the price of consumer components is ever going to come down, and that they’re not going to waste resources on something they think is going to become a marginalized platform.

Side note: the AI bubble cannot pop soon enough. Fuck Ai.

Too many companies try to make it feel like you should be beholden to them because they made one game you like. Nope, it’s the platform (PC) for me. If you’re not making games for it anymore, your loss. I’m gonna find something else to play, not follow you around where you want.

As much as I have enjoyed all the spider-man titles and Horizon, if I have to buy a ps to play future installments, that's going to be a no from me

Shame to know I won't be playing any more Sony games.

LOL.

I mean, oh no! What will I do now? I only have a hundred thousand other games I can play now.

Guess I'll just not play PlayStation games now and go spend my money on amazing indie titles that seem to blow everything else out of the water these days.

How hard are ports?

I still haven't gotten around to playing GTA5 or RDR2, and I own them on PC.

I expect we'll probably see emulation instead.

Okay, they will sell less games.

I hope I can get ghost of yotei.

I get why console companies want to keep exclusives but I hate it. It is only making me not engage at all.

I also got a PS5 and only played my PS4 games on it. I ended up selling it a month ago because it had been gathering dust for 2 years compared to my PC. Not a very high powered PC either. Playstation just can't compete with Steam and emulation for me

Yeah.

That’s my sad read. They think gaming PCs are going to die as a market; mind as well get out now and push PlayStation instead.

Yeah.

TBH there are too many PC games. It’s overcrowded. Sony has some great studios, but it’s not like the platform will wither because they leave.

But like someone said, I’m more worried Sony thinks PC hardware won’t be viable anymore, and is exiting a dying platform. I know that seems inconceivable now, but a few years AMD/Intel/Nvidia could easily decide higher end gaming hardware is just not worth developing.

It’s already started, seeing AMDs and Intel already cut some GPUs and Nvidia is allegedly pondering the same.

Welp. I guess they don't want my money.

These days, it's practically just a toggle switch.

Wait, is Sucker Punch owned by Sony?!?!

They were making money and that's clearly not the goal. As seen by Sony renting out systems and getting rid of disk drives.

That's difficult to quantify, but not that hard.

Modern consoles are just like modern computers.

Lots of complicated things are abstracted away or covered by something else. For example if you developed a game using an existing engine you probably can just check a box and like magic it just works.

If you built your own engine, you probably only tested it against dev kits and real console hardware. It'll probably mostly just work but might have some unexpected bugs. These too are probably also abstracted away in a lot of cases, which means it either just works or doesn't take a lot of work to make work.

I imagine Sony's logic is that it isn't worth the effort. They probably don't see the return on investment they want.

They probably look at someone like Nintendo who never port their games and often sell them for full price, it's kinda shitty for consumers but Nintendo makes bank (and to be fair they usually do make great games). Plus it looks like Microsoft is walking away from consoles so Sony has less to compete with.

Then I won't buy them I guess. I don't care enough about Sony's games to buy a PS5 just to play them.

Sony saw Xbox effectively exiting the console industry and said "excellent, now we have a monopoly on the space, we can make all our games console-exclusive." This is why, loathe as I am to admit it, it was a good thing for a competitive ecosystem for Microsoft to still be in the race. But since they decided to cap themselves...

Hey Sony, you know what's going to happen?

People are just not gonna play those games instead of buying a PS5 to play them.

Congrats on setting your money on fire.

Wikipedia: "The studio has been a part of PlayStation Studios since 2011."

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.

emulatoooor here I cooooome

Which of their games don’t run well on 8-year old mid range hardware? The last of us remakes built for ps5?

I don't know what you're referring to, but it sounds like you're saying PC games are all online and PS has the only story games. Is that right?

If that is what you're saying, you couldn't be more wrong. All the CRPGs are on PC, for example. We have more exclusives than any other platform (not saying exclusives are good, just that PC is easier to make and distribute for). The best offline games are arguably (without much debate) on PC.

Returnal came to PC. Honestly, I think it looks cool but I didn't care for it. Everything it did, except for graphics, has been done better by indies. It felt pretty bland in my opinion, but probably pretty unique if you only play AAA.

If Microsoft doesn't produce Xbox's anymore, where are they going to go?

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.)