After failing to get their way with Helldivers 2 PC port and having to release Stellerblade on PC along with its sequel in order to curb the outrage. Sony is now trying to get you to pay for a 500 dollar piece of plastic right now so you can play Exclusives that will be on optimized and better on PC years from now. PlayStation really thought that PC players will fall for this bullshit, but now they realize that PC gamers aren’t the same as the ponies who shelve for the PS5 back in 2020.

Their first attack on this strategy is to make the sequel to the PS5 Spider Man game (which is bad) as a exclusive so that PC gamers who playing the first one have to buy a PS5. Which ended up not happening and PlayStation now is questioning how PC gamers aren’t doing that in the first place.

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Most PlayStation exclusives won’t be released on PC on launch day because the publisher thinks PC gamers will buy a PS5 for upcoming exclusive sequels after playing the originals on their personal computer, which might be underestimating that crowd’s patience a tad. 

PlayStation has been bringing several of its biggest exclusives to PC years after their initial release, with the likes of Horizon Zero Dawn, Marvel’s Spider-Man, God of War, and much more making the transition. PlayStation has now officially explained what we all expected: this strategy is a bid to court PC gamers over to PS5, using exclusive sequels like God of War Ragnarok and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 as bait. 

“Indeed, we are bringing our titles to the PC platform and we have a dual approach here,” PlayStation’s newly appointed co-CEO Hermen Hulst explained at Sony‘s Business Segment Meeting 2024. Hulst added that live service games, such as Helldivers 2, will come to both PC and PS5 at launch, but the company’s “tentpole titles” – the cinematic, singleplayer action-adventures that dominated the PS4’s exclusive output – will still see staggered releases on PC. 

“We’re finding new audiences that are potentially going to be very interested in playing sequels on the PlayStation platform,” he continued. “We have high hopes that we’re actually able to bring new players into PlayStation at large but into PlayStation platforms specifically – actually, the same goals for the work that we do with extending our great properties onto other media such as television series and film, for example, as you have seen with the Last of Us on HBO or Gran Turismo the film.”

Hulst’s thinking makes logical sense, but he’s also dealing with a crowd that largely held off on buying the Kingdom Hearts games for three whole years when they were locked behind the Epic Games Store. I’m sure some PC players will in fact drop $500 to play the inevitable Ghost of Tsushima 2 early, for instance, after enjoying the first samurai romp’s port. But expecting that en masse might be a slight miscalculation, especially since this strategy is now out in the open.

Yeah PC gamers held from buying Kingdom hearts from Epic because the Epic store is utter dogshit. Imagine thinking they would give an exception to the 500 dollar piece of plastic that needs 60 dollars a year to play online.

Sony Exclusives aren’t even these flawless masterpieces anymore since now every single PlayStation Exclusive has some bullshit added to it that no gamer wants and graphical downgrades that would be fine on any reasonable PC rig.

PC gaming is already more bigger than consoles as the generations go on and this era of buying consoles to solely play a single Exclusive game is dead. Just give gamers the port and be happy with the money.