We have PS4 emulation already, thanks to Bloodborne fans. With enough patience you will be able to play it on pc

As someone who played them all voraciously on PS5 then downloaded their repacks once they became available to mod the fuck out of them to give them new life to me, this hurts a lot.

The only ones I was remotely interested we're Demons souls remake (which never came to PC) and Bloodborne remake (which never happened in the first place). For the rest of Sony games I gave most of them a fair shot but none of them made me think "wow, this was a must play".

I've found that most of their games are overpriced and take years to lose their value, as well as being more demanding of hardware then their image quality suggests. Still, a shame to lose a publisher doing AAA single player games that aren't live service slop.

PS makes pretty much all my favorite PC games so that's unfortunate for me.

Yeah, but the sad part is the games and the people who made them will get the short end of this stupid decision. The dipshit executives will see poor sales for such and such game and decide people didn't like the game, rather than that their dipshit decision drove away customers. Best case they decide to meddle harder in future releases, further enshitifying their games and hurting game developers.

Sony's strategy has been all over the place. This should have been the stance at the launch of PS5, if anything, not now.

Yeah.

TBH there are too many PC games. It’s overcrowded. Sony has some great studios, but it’s not like the platform will wither because they leave.

But like someone said, I’m more worried Sony thinks PC hardware won’t be viable anymore, and is exiting a dying platform. I know that seems inconceivable now, but a few years AMD/Intel/Nvidia could easily decide higher end gaming hardware is just not worth developing.

It’s already started, seeing AMDs and Intel already cut some GPUs and Nvidia is allegedly pondering the same.

I still haven't gotten around to playing GTA5 or RDR2, and I own them on PC.

We are the minority, most kids and ppl are still buying consoles, my friends that can afford pcs now, have good jobs, free time, like gaming, show an interest still are turned off by pcs and prefer their ps5s. Ppp that like controllers prefer not playing against mouse and keyboard players. They like all games available to be made for controllers. Steam deck has pushed steam in a better direction for that, but it really depends on how the steam console is priced if ppl swap over to pc or just stick with consoles and their exisitng digital libraries they've built over the years with backwards compatibility.

Honestly with the number of old games I have and the number of new awesome games on Steam, I am set for life. Sony, i need you not

I have been throwing money at them non stop, keep it up indie devs!

Guess I'll have to buy a Steam Machine in a few years when RAM is available again.

Yeah.

That’s my sad read. They think gaming PCs are going to die as a market; mind as well get out now and push PlayStation instead.

In this AI bubble Playstation is also a marginalized platform. Sony is also struggling under the memory shortage and rumors are the PS6 has been pushed forward another year because you can't launch a new platform in this economy. They will fare better because they can make special deals to get the hardware they want, but at what price? If PS6 starts costing something like $700 they're not going to be all that successful.

Eh, even if PC/component sales drop to zero, PC will still be the biggest platform with hundreds of millions of active users.

I read somewhere else that one of the suspected reasons for it was actually the rising cost of components. Microsoft and Sony are big companies, and have the swing to be able to acquire hardware way easier than the everyday consumer, so in a case of limited supply causing hardware prices to soar, they will get the parts first.

They don't need to worry about prioritizing the PC market if the only new gamers around are going console due to affordability or availability.

Being said, I already have a 5, I got it a few years back and I lowkey regret it because as a sony fan all my life... it just had nothing for it. Everything I did on the 5 could have been done on the 4 and I don't feel like the current releases are (or at this point are ever going to be) worth getting, which was likely a big reason for their push into the PC market in the first place.

With the supply and cost issues, that reason isn't present anymore.

That name brings back so many fond memories

I mean are we going to just pretend that God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Last of Us weren’t enormous successes?

Hype is fundamental in their marketing strategy. When they release a game port on PC after 1.5 years, all the hype has already died out.

These days, it's practically just a toggle switch.

Depends on console architecture, these days they are all x86 I believe, so very easy. In the past for example the PS3, it was basically hard because it is a different architecture this is why even emulator for PS3 are still not perfect.

I expect we'll probably see emulation instead.

That's difficult to quantify, but not that hard.

Modern consoles are just like modern computers.

Lots of complicated things are abstracted away or covered by something else. For example if you developed a game using an existing engine you probably can just check a box and like magic it just works.

If you built your own engine, you probably only tested it against dev kits and real console hardware. It'll probably mostly just work but might have some unexpected bugs. These too are probably also abstracted away in a lot of cases, which means it either just works or doesn't take a lot of work to make work.

I imagine Sony's logic is that it isn't worth the effort. They probably don't see the return on investment they want.

They probably look at someone like Nintendo who never port their games and often sell them for full price, it's kinda shitty for consumers but Nintendo makes bank (and to be fair they usually do make great games). Plus it looks like Microsoft is walking away from consoles so Sony has less to compete with.

I've had both for a while, the console is for my tv the pc is for my desk, I never want to use my pc with my tv even tho its easy enough to use steam with a controller like a console, prefer console matchmaking, if input based becomes more of a thing id maybe drop playstation, just have a fat library and 500$ every 6-8 years or whatever isnt a big deal to have a living room console

Wait, is Sucker Punch owned by Sony?!?!

To me, consoles are a giant waste. Like, you got another fully capable computer that is artificially limited to gaming. This is an e-waste nightmare, all paid from our wallets.

Could be lovely to have a sort of thin client for couch gaming.

That's squenix though, and they've stated FF will start prioritizing PC over console.