Jason Schreier: Sony's Horizon coming to PC later this year

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Started by the-pi-guy, Jan 16, 2020, 07:04 PM

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Xbox makes some sense to merge with Windows. Microsoft makes both and Xbox One has had its fair share of struggles this gen. Their new approach probably sits better with investors and is forward thinking for when both consoles and PCs become streaming boxes.

Sony however is in the opposite situation. PlayStation is one of their most important divisions and they gain essentially nothing from selling games on Windows. If people move out of the PlayStation ecosystem they lose PSN and PS+ money. It is literally just them transitioning to a 3rd party publisher with what is currently leaked.

I can really only make sense of this news if Sony is either doing this for select titles that make sense on a case by case basis (Horizon might be easy to port thanks to Death Stranding and Horizon 2 is coming soon for PS5, Dreams has greater potential on everything, MLB The Show was pushed for licensing reasons, etc.), or if they will shortly announce a major PC initiative that expands the PlayStation ecosystem to Windows. Something like PS Now can stream every single PS5 game.
Yeah, people will throw around accusations of fanboyism for saying things like that, but if Sony is really looking to undermine their own ecosystem just to make a couple bucks on their old first party games a couple years down the line, then I'd legitimately consider that a stupid move.

And also I feel that people who keep celebrating the "platform agnostic future" are being short sighted and are ignoring the difference in design philosophies that apply to games that are primarily trying to sell a platforms/bring someone into an ecosystem as opposed to games looking to make as much money as possible by themselves. Sorry but I don't want Sony's games to be designed with the same principles as most EA/Activision/Ubisoft games are.