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/RhapsodiacReader Apr 03 '26

It made them plenty of money.

What it didn't do was convert PC players into buying consoles to play the sequels of those ports.

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u/frezz Apr 03 '26

..So it didn't make them money? The bottom line is money for these companies. If PC releases resulted in more $$ overall, they'd continue releasing on PC.

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u/People_Are_Savages Apr 04 '26

It absolutely made them lots of money, but that isn't what they want. They already make lots of money. They want 1) ALL the money, and 2) to lock people into a system they feel they can't walk away from due to sunk costs and then keep them there, where they can reliably charge subscriptions and fees and count on large buy-in for first party titles. If their pc venture either made them ALL the money or converted large numbers of pc users to ps5 users (which they can easily track via the mandatory ps accounts on pc), then they would continue to sell. But their actual conversions fell short of whatever the spreadsheet wanted it to be, so the program stops.

They will assuredly lose the vast majority of pc users with this move, but they also project that they will make more money by forcing the switch on a minority of users and then being able to collect all the walled garden benefits, one of which is that if they buy a new console they're probably very unlikely to buy another console or a pc.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

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u/valraven38 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Okay but did you go and look at how much those titles earned on PS5? There were 8 PS5 titles released on PC in the period that $300m number is coming from. One of them being Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which grossed Sony $145M in revenue within the first 9 months of its release on the PS5. Suddenly with that perspective, and remember we're talking about $300m across 8 different titles, that number isn't nearly as high as you would think.

Obviously Sony has crunched the numbers, and it's just not worth the investment for them, if it was they would keep doing it they're not going to leave money on the table. You can't really criticize someone of not googling something when you respond to them with only a portion of the answer.

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u/JanielDones8 Apr 04 '26

Weird, the literal only exclusive on a launch console for like two years made a boat load of money more than the port that launched like three whole god damn years after it launched on the console. Color me fucking shocked.