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spiritman Aug 28, 2024 @ 2:56am

Anyone afraid that Sony will leave PC/Steam?

After this sort of reception and poor sales, for a big budget title that was this long in development?
Maybe they'll just leave steam and stick to storefronts that don't feature user reviews and visible playercounts. On steam it's just impossible to hide poor reception, so this ended up looking really bad for Sony.

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Skeith Aug 28, 2024 @ 4:29am

Not really, no.

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More Dakka Aug 28, 2024 @ 4:38am

That's cutting off one's nose to spite the face. Sony didn't change their decades long stance of console exclusivity on a whim. On the contrary, exclusivity is no longer as profitable as it was in the 90s and PC gaming has expanded into a veritable gold mine. Not forgetting ballooning development costs so they needed more money. Hell, even their ever loyal square enix is now pivoting away from exclusivity because there's simply not enough money from that.

I think the blow to Sony from concord is overblown. Keep in mind that Concord was part of the 12 live-service games that they had intended to release by 2026. When you make that big of a gamble, there are bound to be some huge stinkers. In other words, Sony was already prepared for Concord to fail, just like they were for helldivers 2 before its release.

Of course, explaining that to their shareholders is another thing and that's going to be an uphill battle for them. No doubt that they will be using Helldivers 2 to justify the failure of their bet on concord as well other future ones for a long time to come.

Last edited by More Dakka; Aug 28, 2024 @ 4:41am

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Katitoff Aug 28, 2024 @ 4:58am

Sony literally came to Steam, because PS5 alone is no longer enough.
They will not leave, at the very worst, they will be forced to make good games in the future, oh the horror!

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Dracolisk Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:05am

No, unless they want to lose a large market. Well never mind they just did on this game so who knows! Sony is no longer a Japaneses company so as such they may want to burn down everything.

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JRS Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:10am

You can't leave steam if you want to sell anything on PC.. their games sell well when it's not trash and they know it, god of war, ghost of tsushima, days gone and so on, they did ok on steam

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P00CH Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:12am

Originally posted by niilisma:
No. money talk. and pc gaming is huge

It's not as big as console gaming

Originally posted by JRS:
You can't leave steam if you want to sell anything on PC.. their games sell well when it's not trash and they know it, god of war, ghost of tsushima, days gone and so on, they did ok on steam

No, they did not. They also had low player count. PC gamers aren't sustainable

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niilisma Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:14am

Originally posted by P00CH:
Originally posted by niilisma:
No. money talk. and pc gaming is huge
It's not as big as console gaming

Originally posted by JRS:
You can't leave steam if you want to sell anything on PC.. their games sell well when it's not trash and they know it, god of war, ghost of tsushima, days gone and so on, they did ok on steam
No, they did not. They also had low player count. PC gamers aren't sustainable

33 million of steam account is nothing to sneeze at

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Plake Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:15am

Originally posted by P00CH:
Originally posted by niilisma:
No. money talk. and pc gaming is huge
It's not as big as console gaming

Hahaha, sure... You might wanna check your sources there, champ.

Hint: 1.5 vs 1 in revenue yearly, I bet you can guess which is which... (but first: check your sources)

Edit: Don't bother, your "PC gamers aren't sustainable" automatically put the dunce cap on you...

Last edited by Plake; Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:18am

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Pudding Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:17am

go away sony, bother us only when you start making fun games again.

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JRS Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:21am

Originally posted by P00CH:
No, they did not. They also had low player count. PC gamers aren't sustainable

Nah player count was high and it was RE-release not even brand new games, console is dying and you own concord so automatically invalid opinion

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Verdeth Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:24am

if they port games like concord, its better if they stop publishing on pc, they need to port the good stuff, the flagships if they want our money

Last edited by Verdeth; Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:28am

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Cruna Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:24am

Originally posted by spiritman:
After this sort of reception and poor sales, for a big budget title that was this long in development?
Maybe they'll just leave steam and stick to storefronts that don't feature user reviews and visible playercounts. On steam it's just impossible to hide poor reception, so this ended up looking really bad for Sony.

I don't think it has anything to do with Son leaving the goldmine which is Steam.
They had a blast selling bunch of other titles, like Helldivers 2.

This particular trash isn't selling on their own platform either. So I wouldn't be worried about Sony abandoning Steam, because they know this game is trash by now, and nobody wants it anywhere.

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Plake Aug 28, 2024 @ 5:25am

Originally posted by JRS:
Originally posted by P00CH:
No, they did not. They also had low player count. PC gamers aren't sustainable
Nah player count was high and it was RE-release not even brand new games, console is dying and you own concord so automatically invalid opinion

Consoles are certainly not dying, just look at Nintendon'ts success...

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