Sony drops “PC”, adds “AI” to official PlayStation business strategy summary
4 days ago by sanitation to c/pcmasterrace
Good luck with that.
I have good news for you! You just did(n't).
I got a switch1 so I could play Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, after putting hundreds of hours into MHGen on the DS. I really wish I could have just played MHXX on the DS instead of having to go to a Switch, but alas. I tried some other games on the Switch, but I just can’t do it. My friend lent me BotW and I got until the part where I led the cave and the framerate dipped to like 15. I snagged it on the computer and played through the whole thing at 1440p/144FPS. Every Switch game is so much better on the computer, and the online capabilities (or lack thereof) are horrid. Since then, Nintendo has quadrupled down on anti-consumer stuff. No good.
Last Sony console I got was a PS3, because the PS4 was horrid with its performance and nightmare load times. I stopped getting consoles after that, even though the PS5 and latest XBox have good performance and much smaller load times. I’m just done with them, and my decisions are reinforced every time news like this comes out!
I still fuck with old consoles, though. I need to invest in an upscaler or any device that’ll let me play them on my modern screens, since I don’t have room in most of our comfy places for my CRT at the moment.
Good news, it's not just the switch. Pretty much every other console game is also better on PC, even just because of the existence of pause/save state functionality. That's not even getting into romhacks or retro achievements or any of the other major benefits to emulation.
Customers: we want Bloodborne on PC!
Sony: people don't want PC games. They want AI!
If it? What's the market for new games on PC?
Steam's records show that an overwhelming majority of playing time is going to older games. The market may not be large enough for Sony to care.
Ah. I was wondering exactly what you meant. Yup. There definitely is a market for good games, new or old. I wouldn't make the mistake of trying to correlate that to any trend in taste for indie or corporate, other than who is giving better value and a more fun experience.. try not to think like corporate execs who don't have a fucking clue what fun is and seeing gamers as consumers.
The thing is, they could release on Steam, and continue doing so for years, and they'd continuously build up a catalogue of older games that still sell. Sure, the first year probably isn't going to do as well on PC as they expect from consoles. Later years will probably do better though.
Oh well though. Sony doesn't really make anything I want to play anyway. I'm not that bothered by them making bad decisions. I'd rather them be smart about it, but honestly I don't really care.
If the new games were any good, people would play new games. Enshittification + survivorship bias = people play old games.
There's good news though. Sony has PLENTY of old good games that aren't on steam. They could just release them. Making a PC port of a great game is much easier and cheaper than making a great game
Out of curiosity, do we have access to new vs old game data on other platforms? Probably makes sense to compare these things rather than assume it is different with only one side of the data
This truly is the dumbest timeline.
Nobody's asking for AI, it's being forced upon us. It's only going to get less accurate and helpful as time goes on and all the wasted money and resources to make it run will not be recovered. But it will not go away, people will just deal with it or stop using it.
Only the children that can’t separate the fascinating technology from the techbros feel that way. The adults and people who understand nuance can clearly draw the line between what’s harmful to society and a new interesting technology with many applications.
Sony has ALWAYS done stupid shit that no one wants.
CD rootkits anyone?
Nobody wants this. No one.
I have immensely enjoyed a handful of the Sony PC releases, like Horizon and Spider-man titles, even bought some of them at full price. But locking them away from me behind a playstation hardware requirement just means you don't get any money from me Sony
Looks like it is time to build a platform for the people. A commoners console if you will. It is clear we have to move beyond these corporations for gaming now. They bought up all the studious and now they are killing them all so they can deliver us AI slop instead.
This close to inventing computers. 🤏
No, honestly in my mind it would me more like investing in a community platform that would use open standards. Think Risc-V Vortex.
Obviously, we are not quite there yet with the hardware. It would be pretty awesome to have a proprietary free setup though.
This is literally just building your own computer and putting Linux on it
It could be as simple as that. But I was thinking a nonprofit with standardized hardware and a team to integrate it with Linux properly. All the games can be open source and community supported.
We could call it the Playtendobox.
You mean Steam... the monopolistic company that is using price fixing on the entire PC game industry?
Not exactly what I was thinking to be honest. It is certainly standard hardware on Linux that is supported by a community though, so it isn't all bad.
So Kazeta?
There is absolutely nothing worse than marketing.
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