This wouldn’t be bad if we were getting deals like we were in 2008/9 with like a PS3 + 3 games and 2 controllers for £350.
Now is £550 for the console alone + £70 per year to play online + £70 for one game + £60 for a new controller + £100 for disc drive? Get all the way fucked.
Welp, guess it’s back to playing Brazilian ports of PS titles again, cause I’m not spending $400 on a 6-year-old console. It should be less than $150 used by now.
PlayStation/Sony still proving they would rather screw players to rip off PlayStation owners. Guess God of War Ragnarok will be my last PS game for a while 🤷♂️
Lol, sure. Voluntarily alienate an ever-growing chunk of your customers. See how that goes for ya.
Did I enjoy the Insomniac Spider-Man games on Steam? Yes
Will I buy a playstation to play future installments? No, I’ll just go watch a letsplay or story summary on youtube if you dont want my money
Oh no…
Please. Please don’t make me address my 300 game backlog on Steam.
I’m a PC gamer so I don’t have to deal with console bullshit. Been working out great for me since 1998.
Pff, backlog… I’m rotating between the same 10-15 games for years now.
Only 300?
Some of the games in my backlog came out in 1998.
A $670 buy-in for one single player game? No thanks.
Oh well, still not buying a PS.
Sony: but line go up
(line turns out to be steam deck sales numbers)
Sony: not like that
I’m just starting to play Subnautica. That’s how bad my backlog is. I think I will be fine.
Don’t buy second one, it has slavery EULA
I was actually going to, pls give a rundown of the eula
You can’t lawsuit them, everything you record in game their property, you can’t use vpn, you can’t share “bad” game content, can’t mod it… And etc
Thank you for the explanation!
Isn’t that from the publisher that asked AI how to about paying the developers a bonus?
I literally just started playing Subnautica for the first time last night as well after owning it for about 4 years.
Uh, hard pill to swallow. So all my favorite Playstation games require a Playstation in the future? Like… Eeeeehm, let me check my steam account with almost 700 games… Eeeeehm… Never mind, I found none.
Yeah. I’m just so beyond good without playing games that are locked to console. I kinda thought we were over this tbh, it’s unfortunate that Sony is moving backwards.
I will say that I’m making an exception for GTA6 because, well, it’s GTA, and I’ll be able to sell the phycial copy and console when it releases on PC, it shouldn’t cost too much extra to be able to play at launch.
With GTA5 online they have continuesly been adding more content without asking money for it (or at least, it was that, way back in the day, don’t know for sure about now, but I don’t think it changed). They only have the purchase of ingame currency. So I don’t feel ripped off with an empty bug simulator which requires a shit load of extra payments to get what I expected in the base game. So yeah, I’m buying that as well. That studio has been consistent with proper story lines and well made games, they deserve my money. Same with Larian Studio. Same as many indie game devs. If I get value for money, I’m happy to pay for it. If I pirate a game and I spend enough time playing it, I’ll buy it. Unless it consists mostly of DLC’s. If a company tries to rip me off, I’ll pirate their shit without guilt.
With GTA5 online they have continuesly been adding more content without asking money for it (or at least, it was that, way back in the day, don’t know for sure about now, but I don’t think it changed). They only have the purchase of ingame currency. So I don’t feel ripped off with an empty bug simulator which requires a shit load of extra payments to get what I expected in the base game. So yeah, I’m buying that as well. That studio has been consistent with proper story lines and well made games, they deserve my money. Same with Larian Studio. Same as many indie game devs. If I get value for money, I’m happy to pay for it. If I pirate a game and I spend enough time playing it, I’ll buy it. Unless it consists mostly of DLC’s. If a company tries to rip me off, I’ll pirate their shit without guilt.
I can almost guarantee you that dude has a board or shareholders or whatever, breathing down his neck, and his yearly bonus is depending on the number of units sold. So he will canibalize the whole system with a complete disregard for the long term effects, so long as the magic number goes up in the short term and he can cash in his bonus.
You just described all business in the modern day.
Exactly why Valve doesnt want any shareholders
This is exactly the reason the saying “they don’t make them like they used to” is a thing for everything.
PC players arent starving for games. We’re drowning in them
I could buy no new games for the rest of my life and still not get around to completing everything in my library (and I’m excluding bundled games I have no intention of playing).
And in 10 years time, all of these exclusives will be available via emulation even if they never officially leave the console.
Dude, the last 10 games I bought haven’t even been installed yet. Kiddo and I are still trying to wrap up other stuff.
plus you can choose to play 1 game until you get bored of it. not so for console where you have to keep chasing the next new thing that comes along.
Oh no, I’m so sad I won’t be able to play their diverse library of third person action adventure games with linear narrative and light stealth and RPG elements!
I thought they were making complete bank by getting rid of their exclusives and going the open platform route (which everyone complained about)?
They did so well that Xbox became an irrelevant choice between PC and Playstation.
Plus they were doing delayed PC releases, so I don’t really see how that would affect PS sales since the port would come out much later.
It’s Sony. The various divisions never know what each other is doing and the moment a new executive comes in, they charge everything to make it seem like they’re important.
That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.
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Valve has made the console model irrelevant. This is Sony officially giving up on the gaming market.
Valve still hasn’t figured out physical copies and reselling.
But then, maybe they eventually will, or Sony and Nintendo give up on physicals (as they seem to want to)
Both companies are leaning hard on digital only sales. Between the standard PS5 shipping without a disc drive and Switch 2 cartridges being little more than download keys the physical retail market is in its last dying gasps. Steam handily has both companies beat in terms of game catalog availability and affordability. A few console exclusives might be enough to maintain steady sales, but it’s an obvious trend that PC gaming is gaining dominance with third party publishers.
Also they want you to buy physical games then to activate them for your account, making them useless for resale (like with steam games, whether bought digital of physical). Sony and Nintendo are eyeballing it for a while now, it’s just something causing insane resistance from their player base when hinting the idea. Same with single-player games requiring your device being online.
All they want is taking away your rights. Like digital games, making them the same price as physical but you’re not actually buying the game, just the right to play their game for as long as they want to support it.
Back in the days you missed nice features when pirating software or movies (like the DVD extras) but these days the pirated version is better and with less restrictions than the purchased licence.
For example, I am leeching YouTube premium from a friend. But using the grayjay app gives me more rights and features than the premium version of YouTube, with sponsor block implemented, offline downloads don’t require a connection to watch and you’re not constantly fed with shorts slop. And you can categorize channel subscriptions and video recommendations are better.
Same with games. Want to play hitman? Sure, 60 bucks for a few missions, plus 140 for all DLC content so you actually have some decent amount of content and playtime. Or pirate it with all DLC content included. I’m fine with paying full price for a proper game, but if most content is locked behind a paywall, I’ll just pirate it instead. Fuck them.
that was largerly due to the fact that consoles were getting more expensive and that it was getting to the point you could build a computer, that would look better than console, for the same or cheaper than console.
but the whole AI bullshit kinda blew that ship out of the water… so Consoles may start gaining ground again as the affordable gaming option (compared to paying a console price for ram, a console price for storage, and 2 console prices for a GPU)
Console makers have to pay more for those parts too. Next gen is going to shock people I think.
yeah, but they still get the advantage of bulk buying and economies of scale.
While we don’t. So their costs don’t increase nearly as much as ours do.
nintendo is so reliant on pokemon, People are still buying the slop game freak is producing.
or Sony and Nintendo give up on physicals (as they seem to want to)
Sony was already very clearly migrating in that direction since the PS4, but didn’t go all in thanks to microslop shooting itself in the foot with the Xbox 1 reveal
