I mean fairgame and concord are announced. if those also miss the next year PS5 is going to implode. you can't go a year with nothing.
also it just screams that Sony needs to reign in studios ambitions. you should want to push things forward but need to respect your budget/constraints. a games budget should never be so large that it takes 25 million units to break even.
For you personally, or for the market in general?
Personally, I will still buy a console in that case and I think most console players probably still will.
Consoles are just easier...
both?
definitely for myself.1. i don't really replay old games. i'd be a bit sad to walk away from my games libary but i wouldn't sell my ps5. i could still play them if i wanted to.
2. PC has a lot of game that don't come to console. i like indie games and puzzle games. a lot of these games only comes to PC.
3. i could drop the sub to play multiplayer. this is becoming a BIG thing for me as my kids are 10 and 8 this year. my 10 year old is starting to want to play games that cannot be played mp on 1 piece of hardware (he's really into foamstars for example). not only would i need to buy games twice i would need to have 2 online subscriptions. that is looking like a really, really expensive way to move forward.
4. i'm tech savvy enough to do it.
5. i don't really have a communicty on ps5 to care about. i only have 1 friend (my soo often times mentioned co-op buddy). he has a ps5 and a PC already.
probably for the entire market1. this is pretty much summed up with my previous point 5. a crud load of console gamers have PCs too. i remember a survey of hardware ownership that was making the round a good 10 years back. sure things could change but the highlights are:
- like 2/3 of PC gamers only have PC. So yes,.. putting games out on PC can reach gamers that don't buy consoles. i do think it's worth pointing out, however, that if they aren't buying consoles now it may just be they are not interested in the games coming to consoles....
- ...but like 1/2 of console gamers also have a PC. So putting games on PC means hardware redundancy for ~50% of the current console market. whose going to buy 2 hardware that are 100% redundant??
you can see it on era. there are dozens of posts that are summarized as "good, i can finally just play on PC".
i'm not saying there won't be anyone that would prefer to be on a console given the choice. ...but investment in hardware (by sony) requires a return. the fewer customers that buy the system the harder it is to justify that investment. if ~120million is the number of consoles ps5 can sell in the current market consitions.... i think 60 million is the ceiling for a world in which day-1 PC is a customer commitment. so fudge it,.. i'm not going to wait around for their ecosystem to collapse in slow motion. i'll move to PC right away if i can get all of sony's games (and MSs games) day-1 anyways.
