God of War: Ragnarok Reportedly the Next PlayStation Exclusive to Hit PC - IGN
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God of War: Ragnarok is the next PlayStation game to launch on PC, according to a fresh report.
  • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Wishing for a god of War collection or something of the sort worth the older games

    • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I hope not too. The first one didn’t, so hopefully this one won’t.

      Who fuckin knows though.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yes it’s dumb but it’s not like Sony is forcing some bullshit like origin/uplay stand alone clients.

      Having to link a free account to play PS exclusives is a small price (less than 5 mins of your time once) to pay.

      Sony has been moving exclusives to PC to essentially hook people on franchises to encourage them to buy PlayStation shit, this is just another step along those lines and if that’s what it takes to get amazing PS exclusive games like horizon, spiderman, god of war, etc. on PC, yeah I think that’s a pill we can all swallow.

      Or do you prefer exclusives to die on their given platform?

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The pill that needs to be swallowed is large companies losing money if they ask for data too.

        Sure, those who want can hand over their data. Those that don’t can decode not to and sail the seas instead of paying.

        I certainly won’t pay for games on of that force a PlayStation account despite having a PlayStation.

      • Skates@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Sony has been moving exclusives to PC to essentially hook people on franchises to encourage them to buy PlayStation shit

        There are ~120 million active Playstation gamers globally. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272639/number-of-registered-accounts-of-playstation-network/

        “Of that amount, ¥479.3 billion ($3.2 billion) came from game and content sales. Revenue from console sales totaled ¥287.5 billion ($1.9 billion), and revenue from game services was ¥133.9 billion ($887 million).”

        Source: https://hc.games/sony-gaming-division-revenue-6-billion-consoles-sold/

        So - Sony makes most money selling games, not consoles. They made 2 billion from selling consoles, and 4 billion selling games. All this for 120 million players worldwide.

        There are about 1.8 billion pc gamers worldwide. Literally 15 times as many as Playstation gamers. Sony is selling games on the PC to reach this market and hopefully turn that 4 billion from game sales to 40 billion from game sales. Hooking people on franchises might be an added bonus, but that’s not why they’re doing it. They’re doing it because if they manage to sell a 5 dollar game to every single pc gamer, that’s more than their entire business is worth today, consoles and franchises and everything.