@yummylee said:
PS4 needs some damn games, man. If this was third-party then it would seem icky, but first-party (EDIT: if not first-party involvement, ala Bloodborne) should always be exclusive.
The game coming to PC wouldn't somehow take it away from PS4. It would still be console exclusive to PlayStation. Whats the big deal?
Sure it would take it away from PS4, in the sense that it takes it away from the value of owning a PS4. Because frankly if all games were mutliplat, how many people would still own consoles at all? Especially Nintendo hardware?
As a former Sony platform of choice of guy, this is the first title to make me even consider a PS4. If I knew it could come to PC, I wouldn't even consider getting a PS4, I would just wait for the PC version. This for instance is what I'm doing with Final Fantasy Type O HD (which recently got announced for PC) and for 90% of what I want to play that works.
If I were to get a PS4, then chances are I'd buy more than one game for it. Because I'm not going to drop $400 for one game. I'm not made of money, so keeping quality first party games like this purely platform exclusive increase the odds of Sony getting some of my gaming budget vs the basically none they get now.
And it matters to existing console holders like Yummylee, because if games like this succeed then it drives new hardware purchases which can fuel more Platform exclusives. If that doesn't happen, then people like him have to wonder if they made the right choice buying a closed ecosystem essentially single use system.
Selfishly I really want this to come to PC, but I can't deny it's good business for Sony to keep it exclusive unlike Microosft which has a stakehold in the PC gaming market.
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