With the overwhelming success of Sony’s efforts to port PlayStation exclusive games to PC over the last few years, I fully expected to see another PC port revealed during last week’s PlayStation Showcase. My money was on Ghost of Tsushima, which has been rumored for a good while now, with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart also a possibility. When neither showed up, I was left scratching my head. Surely after the success of Returnal and The Last of Us Part 1 (at least financially) earlier this year, there’s more PC ports to come, right? Almost a week later, the PlayStation Twitter account that Rift Apart is indeed coming to PC, and soon, on July 26. Why that announcement wasn’t part of the big PlayStation Showcase confused me even more, until I saw the backlash to the news. Some PlayStation fans are so mad about PC ports that maybe Sony decided sharing the news during the presentation would actually do more harm than good.I’ve been hearing about the controversy for a while now, but I still don’t really understand it. The most common complaint I keep seeing on social media is something along the lines of ‘What’s the point of having a PS5 when exclusives stop being exclusive after a couple of years?’ which baffles me, because the question seems to answer itself. Surely everyone can recognize the difference between playing a game today and playing a game two years from now. If I knew for a fact that every PlayStation game was going to end up on PC exactly 730 days later, I’d still want to play them on my PlayStation as soon as they came out. I could be dead in two years, I’m going to play Final Fantasy 16 this month. I see a lot of frustrated people saying that they’re just going to stop buying PlayStation games and wait until they come to PC. First of all, that’s a totally valid thing to do. Every PC port I’ve played (except TLOU) of a PlayStation game has been vastly superior to the original PlayStation version. The ultrawide support and unlocked frame rate adds so much to the worlds of Spider-Man and Horizon, and makes Uncharted and God of War even more cinematic. The cost, maintenance, and space requirements balance out the fact that PC games will almost always look and play better than their console counterparts. If you have a monster machine and you don’t mind waiting to play, that’s your choice.That’s not indicative of what most PlayStation players will do though. These games could release day and date with the console version, and the PS5 would still dominate the market. Plenty of people prefer the reliability and simplicity of console gaming and don’t value the technical advantages of the PC as highly. If anything, we should be mad that we have to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:wait so long for the PC option.
What are people really upset about here? I’m trying to follow the logic of their frustration and I can’t quite grasp it. It could be that they are worried the PC ports will be so overwhelmingly successful that Sony will decide it doesn’t need to continue releasing new consoles and it can just publish games for the PC market, at which point the console-only players will be disenfranchised. This is obviously not going to happen. Selling hardware and publishing games for that hardware is at the core of Sony’s business. There’s no chance that the PC market swallows the console market. If that 🐬was possible it would have happened when PC parts were twice as affordable as they are now. If Sony stops making consoles it will be because streaming has taken over, not because everyone suddenly prefers PC.
At the end of the day, the controversy really𓃲 just boils down to console war brain rot. When Xbox made its motto Play Anywhere and started publishing games on cꦦonsole, PC, and cloud simultaneously, Sony fanboys convinced themselves that, actually, console exclusivity is a good thing. Now that Sony is branching out, the cognitive dissonance is forcing the fanboys to lash out at their own team. They only want people that are as devoted as they are to PlayStation to enjoy PlayStation games. If you’re not a true believer, you don’t deserve to play Sackboy: A Big Adventure.
If you love these games, you should want as many people to enjoy them as possible. I have to beg people to play Returnal every chance I get, and I was thrilled when it launched on PC this year because it meant a new group of people had access to it. I’m a PlayStation fan because I love PlayStation games, not because I love a weird white obelisk that sit🐭s awkwardly on a shelf in my living room being loud as shit all day. If you care more about the machine the game is played on than the game itself, you need to get your priorities straightened out. PC ports are not a threat to you and they don’t make the PS5 any less valuable. Even if they did, why would you care?