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Sony pulling back from PC also means it's pulling back from China (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] cristian64@reddthat.com 60 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Remember, kids, if you buy a console, you enable closed ecosystems that won't allow you to use the software you want on the hardware you bought.

If everybody quit buying consoles, from day 1 all software vendors would be forced to provide their software on more open platforms. The same software would still be available if we boycott synchronously.

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 28 points 3 months ago

Synchronicity is and has always been the issue. If everyone decided to stop going to work today, we'd have a 4 day work week with decent pay by the end of the month.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 10 points 3 months ago

Ye olde prisoner's dilemma.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago

The twentieth century has seen enormous progress in work conditions and it didn't spring forth from the bosses’ kindness. Coordinated effort is not trivial but it is possible and has bore fruit before.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 22 points 3 months ago

if everybody

Is the start to a pointless sentence.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You're preaching to PC gamer enthusiasts. The majority of normies see PC as too advanced and complicated. Most go looking for consoles. The console market isn't going down any times soon and devs can make plenty of money from this huge and very lucrative consumer.

[-] cristian64@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago

Do check your stats, because PC as gaming platform surpassed consoles about a decade ago and the distance has been increasing since then.

I'm certainly biased, though. I bought the last console of my life a very long time ago.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago

They'll come back.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 11 points 3 months ago

They think people care about their exclusives as much as Nintendo. They're wrong of course. But that perspective helps explain the thinking a bit.

[-] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

It was pretty darn obvious that hardware sales would fall if they released their exclusives on PC. I'm sure they did their math and it's more profitable to go back to console only.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I think they were planning to use their PSN account required BS to make up that difference by gathering and selling user data. But then that didn't work because it turns out you can sell computer games in markets where PSN isn't available so there was obvious backlash.

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