Why Sony is porting games to PC: an explanation

[Keet]

Video game companies do not make much money on consoles sold, typically they actually LOSE money per console, and only recently did PS5's start returning a profit, and it's not a lot, about 30-80 dollars per console.
The REAL money, however, is in the games, they make a LOT more money per game sold than they do per console.
The reason to port is simple; the money. Once ps5 players have gotten their fill of the game they move it to pc, a ready made market where they can immediately make even more money, and now without having to spend money on creating hard copies too.
So, that's the long and the short of it: Money, they are a for-profit company and they want to maximize their profits. This is the same reason why microsoft is putting their console exclusives on the PS5; because they then can cash in on Playstation players and make more money

[potato]

Originally posted by Keet:

So, that's the long and the short of it: Money,

thank you captain obvious

[Keet]

you're right, it IS obvious, and yet there is forum post after forum post asking "why is this game on pc"

[potato]

Originally posted by Keet:

you're right, it IS obvious, and yet there is forum post after forum post asking "why is this game on pc"

they're troll/bait posts

[Keet]

then consider this catharsis for me after seeing so many posts

[SpockEndil]

Originally posted by Keet:

then consider this catharsis for me after seeing so many posts

Fair enough. However, I just block the original posters of those types of threads. After a few days on the forum for a new or upcoming game, nearly all of those posts show up with the thread title replaced by "blocked ...", and I can easily scroll to threads where people are trying to have meaningful discussions.

[Drake Ravenwolf]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Keet:

So, that's the long and the short of it: Money,

thank you captain obvious

Companies like making money? ... shocking

Tho the ones who hire DEI consultants do provide a counter example

[👽Shini]

You failed to mention why nintendo is making way more profit by keeping their customers trusting in their exclusivity.
You can be 100% sure that nintendo will never port their games to other systems and hence customers always buy nintendo games as soon as they release.
Here's the actual long short of it: sony relies too much on third party games for profit and it costs way too much to keep it forever exclusive for playstation. So they opted fot porting to pc. And that destroys the trust of exclusivity for sony customers. So now sony customers know that they dont have to buy sony exclusive games anymore because its mostly getting ported to pc after a few years. And pc is a market that stays in your library ready to be played any time with any computer. Much more versatile.
As a pc user i welcome sony's decision to port their games to pc, but i understand why sony fans are upset and why sony is closing their london studio and unable to keep up with nintendo.
Its not as simple as your post.

[Winston Enjoyer | Razec Razputin]

Originally posted by 👽Shini:

You failed to mention why nintendo is making way more profit by keeping their customers trusting in their exclusivity.
You can be 100% sure that nintendo will never port their games to other systems and hence customers always buy nintendo games as soon as they release.
Here's the actual long short of it: sony relies too much on third party games for profit and it costs way too much to keep it forever exclusive for playstation. So they opted fot porting to pc. And that destroys the trust of exclusivity for sony customers. So now sony customers know that they dont have to buy sony exclusive games anymore because its mostly getting ported to pc after a few years. And pc is a market that stays in your library ready to be played any time with any computer. Much more versatile.
As a pc user i welcome sony's decision to port their games to pc, but i understand why sony fans are upset and why sony is closing their london studio and unable to keep up with nintendo.
Its not as simple as your post.

That is exactly why I play those games on my PC too. Nothing more amazing than playing games at max hardware capabilities.

Nintendo locked their platform similar to what Apple has done. You are locked in their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ecosystem with no true benefit to it, because once it's lost, it's gone. Look at the Wii store. And they make you pay for it again if you want to use it on something else or just want to play something old.

[Keet]

Originally posted by 👽Shini:

You failed to mention why nintendo is making way more profit by keeping their customers trusting in their exclusivity.
You can be 100% sure that nintendo will never port their games to other systems and hence customers always buy nintendo games as soon as they release.
Here's the actual long short of it: sony relies too much on third party games for profit and it costs way too much to keep it forever exclusive for playstation. So they opted fot porting to pc. And that destroys the trust of exclusivity for sony customers. So now sony customers know that they dont have to buy sony exclusive games anymore because its mostly getting ported to pc after a few years. And pc is a market that stays in your library ready to be played any time with any computer. Much more versatile.
As a pc user i welcome sony's decision to port their games to pc, but i understand why sony fans are upset and why sony is closing their london studio and unable to keep up with nintendo.
Its not as simple as your post.

Nintendo has created an isolated market, true
but, the downside is that it doesn't innovate or push itself in creating games. Why? Because they functionally have no competition, there are video games, and there are nintendo games, and now we are seeing that come back to bite them in the ass fairly hard as many of their exclusive titles are starting to become fairly mediocre.
Pokemon sells well ONLY because there is nothing else really like it, that is until palworld. Wario games were unique to nintendo, until Pizza Tower, and so on. Nintendo is a company that is living off nostalgia and without proper industry competition to keep it competitive it is losing what made it such a great company in the past.
Also, Nintendo games do not make the same kind of sales that games on other multi-platforms do, and that is owing to multiple factors, such as system limitation and because their games can ONLY be sold to someone who has a nintendo gaming console, which will naturally limit the bar to entry

[schicic]

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

Originally posted by potato:

thank you captain obvious

Companies like making money? ... shocking

Tho the ones who hire DEI consultants do provide a counter example

False. It raises a companies "Diversity Score" and tells investers that they are conforming. More investors mean more money. So again, money is the reason they do it even if they lose money in the long run. The people making the big decisions are making them thinking that gamers are less important than the investors. Yes they know that the majority of gamers don't like it, but they want those investors.