Regardless this is a dumb decision. I guarantee they were raking in free cash from the ports. If this is a move to try to move more hardware, they're sorely mistaken if they think I'm just gonna go buy a PS5 or even the upcoming PS6 over this

Well, I definitely wasn't going to buy a PlayStation 5 when it was $500, but now that they've stopped putting out versions of their games on PC that run better than PlayStation versions, and now that the console costs $650, I'm definitely enticed to buy one!

Maybe if they lowered prices instead of raised them..

My PS5 is just a Warframe box for the living room when I don't feel like using my Deck, and I plan to essentially replace it with a Steam Machine down the road (sure I could just set up my own linux box there but the form factor is a huge motivator).

I think I use the thing for other games like once every few years. Death Stranding 2 is the only one I bought that comes to mind, Yotei was a gift. This isn't going to encourage me to buy more of their games because this console is going in the closet soon enough.

I don't remember, but I think KJP is independent. They just signed a contract with Sony for money for DS/DS2. I don't know, but I somewhat doubt they'd agree to total PS exclusivity. I think their games do pretty well on PC.

Yeah, I won't be buying a playstation, but I'll definitely buy the next naughty dog game if I have a device that can run it.

Damn how much Death Stranding sucks. Both games a waste of time. The second one less, but still flawed in many ways.

Except do we actually know how the Xbox/PC thing will work? Are we sure it will be able to run all games and isn't just their plan to push game streaming?

This would make sense if they hadn't increased the price of their hardware twice in one year. To me it just looks like they started behaving like a monopolistic company (because they can, as xbox is in the shitter)

I think there were rumors even before the Xbox announcement. People speculated it might be because of the Steam Machine, which could be considered a console.

But yeah, I feel that Xbox cemented the decision.

If that would be the case then they could have tried something funny like having their games running only on Linux.

Of course power users would be able to get it running on Windows, but that would likely discourage Xbox folks.

I think there must be other reasons. Death Stranding was released as PS exclusive but got an actual Xbox release some time after PC release. Also, Microsoft has also released many first party titles on PS5. Even the new Halo will be on PS5.

The controller is also D-Input and frankly - ruck that.

Xinput has existed as the standard since 2005.

I used to like their controllers but fuck that, I ain't buying a set that only works on 1 console.

I miss the days of playing Nintendo land with my college friends.

using it correctly

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, as I think a lot of games use it well. I do wish more games would though. The adaptive triggers are so fucking cool.

Sony was always the "exclusives" company

Cough cough nintendo cough cough

Yeah, I really hope these are just the death throes of a slowly crumbling market segment (walled garden consoles).

Not only has the Steam Deck already blown a small crack into the almost entirely propietary handheld market, so much so that there's now even a (niche) market with a bunch of different devices competing, but I also wonder what happens once the Steam Machine and whatever is happening with the next Xbox.

I'd usually be the last to root for Microsoft, but if their next device is really something more akin to a PC, then I wish them the best. That said, anything shipping with Linux, e.g. Steam Machines would still be my preferred choice of course.

Makes a lot of sense they'd do this in preparation for the PS6. Hopefully it's just temporary.

Honestly I don't know if it was a financially sensible move releasing exclusives to PC, but it was great for gamers while it lasted. Maybe they could go linux only in future to really take a stab at Microsoft. Ha.

It was Xbox. Their "You can play anything on the next xbox" made Sony pissed, and that's ultimately why they scaled it back.

You can emulate it tho.

Someone probably are very close to getting Bloodborne on PC, Sony just have to do everything to stop it from happening.

Also that argument isn't really as great as it was in the PS3 or PS2 era where a lot of games either didn't come out on PC, had weird versions, or ran like shit for no reason. Plus I can play a game released in 1996 one minute and then switch to a game released in 2026 since PC is basically universally backwards compatible.

Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone were quite good

too many games to care about a few 20 hour singleplayer experiences

Please consider trying Death Stranding.