• fuzzywombat@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Sony seems to be completely out of touch with the reality. During the time when the console prices have skyrocketed to the point it’s no longer an option for entire segment of the population, they decide that it’s right time to go back to console exclusive games? It also baffles me that there are fully grown men that are actually celebrating the return of console exclusives. What a bizarre tribalism at work here. I think I’m just going to slowly work through my back catalog until some semblance of sanity returns.

  • CaptainCancel@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t get it. If they want to increase PlayStation Plus subscriptions, they should limit the multiplayer games they port to PC. The last time I bought a console for a single player game was Final Fantasy 7 back in 1997.

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      Well aside, it’s surprising nothing on PS2 tempted you. Several tentpole titles did famously get PC ports, but if you’re more about Kingdom Hearts than GTA, that machine was like $150 by 2004.

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    8 hours ago

    Guess I’ll have to limit myself to the 10,000 other games to play on PC, then.

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      He is serving his function. Sony is gripping their platform with both hands, after nearly letting it slip away. The future presented by Helldivers 2 and various Spider-Mans is one where Sony’s a relatively large publisher for several important studios. The future where they deny reality and cosplay the 90s console war for another decade is one where they are the biggest fish in a small pond, and that makes more money, somehow.

      I’m unclear how that will play out if Microsoft simply declines to release another Xbox.

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    7 hours ago

    We’ll see. None of these games ever had day 1 releases on PC. The next mainline God of War and Horizon games aren’t even announced, so things may change by then.

  • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    Playstation releases games on PC, gamers say “PS5 doesn’t have any exclusives” and whine about it incessantly for 5 years. Playstation responds by saying “ok we will do some exclusives” and now gamers are whining about that. There’s just no winning.

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        8 hours ago

        Nah, the internet is a monolith. When the hive mind agrees with me then the topic is just common sense and when we disagree I’m surrounded by sheep.

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      7 hours ago

      I think the complaint has more been that the PS5 is lacking for games, period. I just looked it up, there have been 36 SIE games published on the PS5 thus far in what’s been roughly 5.5 years. It took SIE less than half that time to get to the same number published on the PS4.

      I never understood consumers begging for exclusives anyway. Someone playing Halo on a PC or PlayStation doesn’t make it any less enjoyable for me to play on my Xbox. People that simp for corporations are weird.