Well here’s hoping that Gran Turismo 8 and Ghost 3 are cross-gen on PS5. Because with Final Fantasy multiplatform again those are my only reasons to get a PS6. I was assuming that at least I’d have the option of playing the next Ghost game on PC.
Sony puts in the minimal effort possible, crashes out when people don’t praise them for it.
I still maintain. PC is fine, other console not as much. In terms of general basis. That said they probably felt like they were cornered due to Steam Machine and Helix. This may cost them more than help.
Any PS6 exclusive would be completely an artificial ploy from Sony, technically there isn’t a reason their whole lineup the next decade can’t be cross-gen already, let alone when they would be designed with the handheld profile in mind. The Pro would be an immense waste too.
If the PS6 handheld is legit then the entire PS6 gen should be cross-gen with PS5.
I thought this was already confirmed, but yeah we’re evolving backwards. I’m not sure what Sony is hoping to accomplish here. The margins on their games are already unsustainable and they’ve barely put out first party games this generation. Not capitalizing on the audience they’ve started to grow on PC with same day releases is the problem. I fear for more studio problems at this rate. This also isn’t going to like boost hardware sales tenfold. We know because exclusives haven’t done that for PlayStation in the three decades they’ve existed for. Hardware sales each generation have remained relatively the same since the PS1 with the only outlier being the PS2.
Realistically, it’s also not like the average consumer on PC follows this crap and those that do aren’t buying a PS5 over it. Gamers who were buying games like Marvel’s Spider-Man on PC aren’t going to see this and feel the need to buy a Playstation. Sony didn’t even properly cultivate their PC audience with how sporadic releases were to begin with. In fact I imagine most who see this are still thinking PS single player games will port over “evntually”. For that same reason I don’t think you can actually make a distinction between what type of first party games will and won’t be on other platforms and except gamers to follow along intrinsically.
“These single player games were multiplatform, these ones won’t be multiplatform for as long as we say, these multiplatform games went to Xbox but these ones won’t, that Playstation game on Xbox was published by a different group and forced but this one was published by Playstation and their decision.”
It seems so dumb at this stage. People have to make arguments for Sony to justify why their games that are multiplatform don’t count as multiplatform. We also know they have been hiring roles to improve multiplatform releases, so they’ll likely still do multiplayer games and again that’ll keep it being messy. All this nonsensical backtracking as if most people are sitting in these internal meetings (or reading insider reports) or can just magically feel what Sony’s plans are. Even if they announced it that wouldn’t reach none Playstation gamers. Again, I really don’t even know what they’re trying to accomplish. Even if we say they’re worried about Steam or Helix, those games are already on PC and Sony has already established an inconsistent release cadence. Not launching on PC now won’t stop people from thinking they’ll do so later and most people don’t give a crap about gaming insider reports and will just see, “Hey Sony released these games on PC, so they’ll probably release games on PC later in the future.”
The few PlayStation first party games I enjoyed at all I didn’t like enough to buy the sequels for, so nothing of value lost for me.
No interest in Wolverine or anything else they’ve got coming up, and given live service games are now half their output and may still go to PC, their one single player game a year is unlikely to be worth buying a console for.
Yawn - PlayStation used to have some fire in the late PS3 and early PS4 era, even when they were twats I respected how they played their hand, now they just seem boringly corporate and are just twatty accountants…
About time MS keeps all of their games Xbox and PC exclusive then. No point in releasing on PS if Sony is going back to exclusives.
Awesome!
But Sony believes in generations. So if the PS6 generation is fully playable on PS5, does it even really exist? Does the absence of belief cause it to lose its power, like Santa’s sleigh in Elf? 
On PS6 cross gen will come back in style! Sony will make it cool again! 
On a more serious note if this is true then I will not be surprised if Sony will go 90 euros in their games. 
PC ports of what games?
I disagree.
My dream of having an all in one console is slowing dying. I’m never going to get what I have wanted since SNES/Genesis and it’s all because of this old, outdated and obsolete mentality around exclusivity. UGH. This sucks!!! 
We saw two price hikes (technically if we count Nintendo’s physical pricing) this generation and the second one came from the platform controlling dev costs and scopes the most. I think after GTA VI we’ll genuinely start to see $80 games become the norm and by mid Gen $90 and even $100 base games crop up. We’ve raised raised it $20 in six years.
This popped into my feed some time ago and just never left my head.
You just have to outlive consoles and hope that not too many games were lost to the annals of poor game preservation before then. Genuinely it’s not like this strategy is actually gaining support. The best consoles can do is sell about the same as they have for decades. It probably won’t even be that long of a wait before everything becomes financially unsustainable at the rate rising costs for game development and hardware production.
True. It’s just so disappointing that so many people care more about exclusivity than saving money and having one (or perhaps more) less console in their house. It is what it is I guess.