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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
What's the motivation for people to buy a PS5 Pro or a PS 5 Handheld and then a PS 6 if they go day and date on PC? There's a lot of people who have computers, but buy playstation consoles for the exclusives.
That's the self canabilization of their own market that will hurt their hardware sales
Live services will go day and date for sure. First party triple A games will always be Sony Console exclusives - that window might shrink to a year, but I don't think triple A games will go date and date unless they were franchises that were previously multiplat like a Destiny...
In the end, we'll just have to wait and see what they do in the next few years.
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The main reason this is feasible is consoles are able to deliver performance that PC's for the same price cannot. The main player base has always been non PC, players that can't justify spending double the price on a PC.
Even if you end up losing some console sales, you make up so much in opening those games up to a larger audience. It would be interesting to see the numbers for sales for PS5 vs PC on HellDivers 2.
All I can see is that at the minimum, around 405k copies were sold on steam based on peak concurrent player count. So actual sales is somewhere much higher than that. Even if half the players that bought it on PC had PS5's. Sony gains at least 200k additional sales on a game.
That's a ton of money the studio and Sony would never see if not released on PC day and date.
Like you said, we will have to wait and see. My bet is on Sony releasing day and date to PC sooner rather than later.