Ezekiel
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PC players want Astro Bot. I won't buy a PS5 and want to play it on my computer as well. (Before this, Astro's Playroom was the only PS5 game that interested me.) But it should stay exclusive. They should look at the small but worthwhile success of the game and make more like it. Diversify their portfolio with smaller games that can afford to stay exclusive again, so that even if a game doesn't sell well, it adds to a variety of games that players still want to buy the useless machine with expensive online access and overpriced junk controllers for.
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/playstationstudios
Putting everything on PC is just making the console irrelevant to too many people, a problem that will become worse as the years pass. Having to push a console drives the second parties and in-house studios to make better games with the backing of the company. I enjoyed The Last Guardian for all its faults and doubt that a third party like Capcom or Konami would have supported its development for that long. They'd have rushed it out the door or cancelled it. I miss Team Ico and the rest of Japan Studio. They didn't have so many big successes. They struggled in the PS3 generation and, sadly, had been underfunded for years before the closure. But having smaller teams and lower budgets allowed them to make different kinds of games without taking on so much of the risk that the 200 million dollar slop is so averse to. Again, exclusivity can drive quality. Sega became less productive and much more boring after they went third party. I know that what I'm talking about is a pipe dream for the time being. Publishers are still far too invested in the huge projects that take eight years to make. I understand the irony of mentioning The Last Guardian, whose prolonged development hell was an outlier for Japan Studio.
"But, Ezekiel, a PC port a year or two later is fine. There's no need to forever exile games to a certain generation of console."
Let's pretend that the PS5 has a nice variety of exclusive games. If we only have to wait two years for ports, if you've made it such a sure thing by porting almost all other newer releases, we're still not gonna buy the 500 dollar console. I don't know how many people I'm speaking for, but the number will grow as more games go to PC.
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/playstationstudios
Putting everything on PC is just making the console irrelevant to too many people, a problem that will become worse as the years pass. Having to push a console drives the second parties and in-house studios to make better games with the backing of the company. I enjoyed The Last Guardian for all its faults and doubt that a third party like Capcom or Konami would have supported its development for that long. They'd have rushed it out the door or cancelled it. I miss Team Ico and the rest of Japan Studio. They didn't have so many big successes. They struggled in the PS3 generation and, sadly, had been underfunded for years before the closure. But having smaller teams and lower budgets allowed them to make different kinds of games without taking on so much of the risk that the 200 million dollar slop is so averse to. Again, exclusivity can drive quality. Sega became less productive and much more boring after they went third party. I know that what I'm talking about is a pipe dream for the time being. Publishers are still far too invested in the huge projects that take eight years to make. I understand the irony of mentioning The Last Guardian, whose prolonged development hell was an outlier for Japan Studio.
"But, Ezekiel, a PC port a year or two later is fine. There's no need to forever exile games to a certain generation of console."
Let's pretend that the PS5 has a nice variety of exclusive games. If we only have to wait two years for ports, if you've made it such a sure thing by porting almost all other newer releases, we're still not gonna buy the 500 dollar console. I don't know how many people I'm speaking for, but the number will grow as more games go to PC.
