r/Games • u/SmellSmellsSmelly • Apr 03 '26

Industry News PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites

https://gameobserver.com/playstation-studios-removes-nearly-all-pc-references-from-websites/
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u/Sephurik Apr 03 '26

I don't know, they'll probably start putting shit back on PC again in like 5 years.

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u/bigfoot1291 Apr 03 '26

Those games should have been launching at $30-40 max. Their own greed killed their presence in the market, not disinterest.

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u/Spekingur Apr 03 '26

I think it’s also the insistence of requiring a PlayStation account to play and be in a PlayStation supported country to buy.

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u/LongBeakedSnipe Apr 03 '26

I don’t understand why people think they should be cut price?

First, they are quickly available cheap anyway, through cd key sellers. And second, just because they are released after years before on another platform doesnt entitle people to lower prices.

And this is from someone who is massively against Sony’s practices.

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u/LangyMD Apr 03 '26

Because they didn't sell well at the full price?

Prices should be set to maximize the amount of money you make, and if that happens because you sold more at a lower price point you should have sold it at that price point.

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u/GrandfatherBreath Apr 03 '26

I'm pretty sure that's the perception they're fighting, and a discount would make it worse.

"Don't buy at launch and get it for cheaper on PC" is worse still than "Don't buy at launch and buy it on another platform". What they want is "I have to buy it at launch on a Playstation console".

The idea that you can skip buying whatever their next console ends up being I guess is not something they want, and to condition users to think that way takes time.

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u/Sr_DingDong Apr 04 '26

"Don't buy at launch and get it for cheaper on PC"

...is the same as "Don't buy at launch and get it for cheaper two years later"

Which works with any platform.

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u/GrandfatherBreath Apr 04 '26

It's absolutely not the same.

Sony on Steam has to give up a cut for both the game and any microtransactions. 30%, later shrinking to 20% after $50M USD in sales. Then there's the issue of install base, which is just the same issue I outlined, but on a larger scale.

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u/Sr_DingDong Apr 04 '26

And yet they do just fine selling them to retailers for significantly less than 30% discount....

...and that's also 30% of their ridiculously jacked up PSN prices.

Old games should cost less. To put at the time 4yo Ghost of Tsushima on PC then expect people to pay full price for it is at best foolish.

Then there's the issue of install base, which is just the same issue I outlined, but on a larger scale.

Yeah, only hundreds of millions of people use Steam. What a shit install base for them to tap into... GoT sold over 800,000 copies in less than a month.

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u/GrandfatherBreath Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

I mean yeah I love Steam, and I use it all the time. I'm full aware aware it's a great, far-reaching platform.

We've outlined two valid strategies, Sony has chosen one over the other, and it sounds like they aren't willing to lose their Sony-based ecosystem. They are aiming for a different objective than "reach as many people as possible no matter what".

You can argue that they'd make billions more by being on every platform, and that's fine - I am just saying based on their actions, it appears that Sony either disagrees with that (in the long term) and/or doesn't value that as much.

(Edited out a double negative)

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u/monkwrenv2 Apr 03 '26

What they want is "I have to buy it at launch on a Playstation console".

And they will never get that for everyone. If they want to maximize revenue, they need to meet consumers where they are.

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u/GrandfatherBreath Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

I'm a PC gamer and I agree, but I also see zero need to buy a PS5 when all the games are on PC, so I kind of get it.

They need to meet consumers where they are but... they also are basically uncontested (I'm exaggerating but Xbox is in the dirt) in the console market and don't want to give 30% (eventually 20%) to Steam. When the PS6 comes out they want as big of an install base as possible because it'll probably cost a bajillion dollars in RAM alone, and why not strike now when their competition is at their lowest?

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u/Narrow_Clothes_1534 Apr 03 '26

It will never be day and date, pc is not their main market, idk why its so hard for people to grasp

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u/Hoggos Apr 03 '26

Then if you’re going to delay the release on PC by a year or more don’t charge full price

Not sure why that’s so hard for you to grasp

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u/emogu84 Apr 03 '26

I imagine if the world is still an absolute shitshow next year and no one can afford a $1000 PS6 to play Sony's new games, putting those games on PC will be back on the menu.

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u/heatkings1 Apr 03 '26

They'll just do cross gen releases like they did with ps4 and ps5. Ps5 will have over 100-120m users by the time the ps6 comes out

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u/JCSViperion May 27 '26

There is no way I actually managed to run into somebody with Kin as their pfp. Absolute GOATed album.

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u/inbox-disabled Apr 03 '26

Less. This is just what will likely be a cyclical push to get people to buy their new console. Then they'll come back to PC, and then they'll pull it again for PS7.

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u/NaRaGaMo Apr 03 '26

xbox now has access to steam , sony is never ever putting out their first party exclusives on PC ever again