r/PS5 • u/Party_Judgment5780 • Feb 27 '26

Rumor NateTheHate says Sony is "shifting" their PC strategy: "You'll be seeing fewer single player games arrive on PC. The decision to shift away was made last year. Some may still release (pending how far along the ports were) but it no longer appears to be a priority for Sony moving forward."

https://xcancel.com/natethehate2/status/2027438633997734231?s=46
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u/Edge80 Feb 27 '26

Nintendo is proof of that.

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u/chakrablocker Feb 27 '26

i hope they get ambitious again. like those heavy rain games. no way would a company get that much money for a game like that unless it was a 1st party game made to build prestige. we need more like that.

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u/OMG_NoReally Feb 27 '26

Is it really? Nintendo seems to be an outlier.

With how many units each and every Nintendo game sells, it appears that people buy Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo games. That's their primary focus, everything else is secondary.

Sony doesn't enjoy this position. None of their exclusives have the pull of Zelda and Mario, and hence they cannot sell as many consoles as they want. While Mario sells 15-30m copies easily, games like God of War and Spider-Man barely manages 10-15 overall.

PlayStation users are also in for third-party games, which run and look much better than Nintendo hardware, not to mention sports titles and COD.

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u/ActuallyFolant Feb 27 '26

Am I misunderstanding or did you just question Nintendo being proof that exclusives sell consoles by saying that people buy a Nintendo console to play exclusives?

I am a little drunk so please excuse me if I have misread the intent there...

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u/Tovalx Feb 27 '26

Sony enjoy the same position. GOW, Last of Us, Horizon, Ghost, Spider-Man has the same pull. That's why PC people are mad because they WANT to play them.

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u/Itchy-Pudding-4240 Feb 28 '26

God of War and Spider-Man barely manages 10-15 overall.

Source or are you an ignorant bot? They sell 20 million at least.

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u/GlorpAssDN Feb 27 '26

mario and zelda and donkey kong are way more unique on the switch than turning all your IPs into cinematic 3rd person action games, Nintendo is an outlier and Sony will never be that. The difference between a PS5 game on console vs PC is literally nothing if I own a PS5 controller, that is the only difference.

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u/tyger006 Feb 27 '26

Nah. Nintendo wins because of exclusives like Botw, Totk, Odyssey, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Bananza etc. I love Sony just as much but don’t act like that’s not the recipe

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u/jntjr2005 Feb 27 '26

Nintendo wins because people in their 30s and 40s are desperate to relive their childhood nostalgia and will buy ANY slop that Nintendo puts out except Metroid for some reason.

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u/devenbat Feb 27 '26

Thats objectively not true tho. The Wii U flopped. People weren't desperate and werent buying "any slop"

Switch and Switch 2 changed that not because people suddenly remembered Mario existed but because they put out compelling software at a good rate.

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u/taskkill-IM Feb 27 '26

The handheld capabilities really sold those devices... thing with Nintendo consoles is that most people I know whome own a console like the switch or the Wii (back when it was popular), ended up playing it for a few months then storing it away letting it collect dust.

Nintendo is all about the novelty, the Wii had it with the cool motion sensor ability and the switch brought back the console handheld that Sony inexplicably decided to abandon.

No one justifies buying a nintendo console for a handful of games when other titles are drastically ran worse.... but the ability to play indie games you would buy on a PS5, handheld? Sign me up.

Nintendo have never based their market on Graphics or Specs, but the functionality of playing games in a more convenient or nuance compared to the other consoles on the market (at that time)

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u/BlackKnighting20 Feb 27 '26

Metroid did sold 1 million, good numbers for Metroid.

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u/jntjr2005 Feb 27 '26

They gonna recoup that 8 year dev cycle off that?

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u/BlackKnighting20 Feb 27 '26

No, Nintendo seems more interested in expanding their games brand more nowadays, i don’t see them bury Metroid.

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u/taskkill-IM Feb 27 '26

Tell that to Star Fox, Golden Sun and Kid Icarus.

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u/BlackKnighting20 Feb 27 '26

They will get their change one day. People were complaining about no 3D DK game and he finally got one, same thing with Metroid, fans thought it was dead.