Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform
It's a market with a well defined celling. It always competes against raw hardware cost and you can only subsidize it for so long before you run out money or shareholder confidence.
I don't think the new high console prices will be sustainable business model going forward.
Valve's Steam Deck is produced on a small scale and is only sold directly by Valve and their global sales numbers are lower compared to even even this years sales numbers of other consoles, which is considered to be the worst year for XBOX ever.
On top of that, new Steam Machine "console" will be sold as a PC and at PC pricing without them subsidizing raw hardware cost. It's simply unsustainable.
Admittedly I wasn't buying Sony PC releases new, (Because backlog) but I still have like 5ish of them and I can see the number of reviews they get on Steam so I know they're making a good chunk of change well before my patient ass.
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the_white_wolf@social.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 166d
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 166d
Just emulate them for free if you want to play them, pretty dumb move on Sony's part.
AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 166d
I mean with MSFT abandoning Xbox as a hardware platform why wouldn't they? Especially if Valve becomes their main competition in the future.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 166d
Valve scale is negligible at least for now. They are very far from being a real competitor.
AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 166d
Sure. But I don't see any other company that could even have an interest in the console market.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 166d
It's a market with a well defined celling. It always competes against raw hardware cost and you can only subsidize it for so long before you run out money or shareholder confidence.
I don't think the new high console prices will be sustainable business model going forward.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 166d
What makes you say that?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 165d
Valve's Steam Deck is produced on a small scale and is only sold directly by Valve and their global sales numbers are lower compared to even even this years sales numbers of other consoles, which is considered to be the worst year for XBOX ever.
On top of that, new Steam Machine "console" will be sold as a PC and at PC pricing without them subsidizing raw hardware cost. It's simply unsustainable.
Stern@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 166d
Sony doesn't want my money? Okay lol.
Admittedly I wasn't buying Sony PC releases new, (Because backlog) but I still have like 5ish of them and I can see the number of reviews they get on Steam so I know they're making a good chunk of change well before my patient ass.
Buffy@libretechni.ca · 2 pts · 166d