The problem is mainly that playstation marketing has completely brainwashed its users, making them believe that their games are "the games". It is true that they release good games though, but within the immense catalog of games that there are on pc these are just another release.
I don’t think that’s true. There is just less hype when a game arrive late. Happens every time with timed exclusives, will happen with Ghost, GT7, FF16, Rebirth, SM2 as well, even Bloodborne. Not even GTA6 will be immune to that.
As long as their PC ports are delayed we won’t know how impactful their games could be for the PC market.
I feel like Sony is standing in a crossroad.
1. They can keep doing what they’re doing, release their games with lots of hype day 1 within the console bubble and little hype on PC years later and stay selling like they do now.
Or…
2. They can release them with lots of hype day 1 on both console and PC and increase the sales.
I 100% understand why they do what they do, and there is consequences to everything, but if they feel like they need to sell more games to keep doing their thing then option 2 wouid be a solution. They would see more people like myself who retire the console to play on PC, maybe sell more on PC than console like with Helldivers 2, but maybe it’s worth it I don’t know, wouldn’t need to start doing AA or have microtransactions.
Could start by just shorten the delay, let Nixxes step in earlier, strike when the iron is somewhat hot and see what happens.
And they should communicate how long the delay might be, like Larian did for BG3, more transparency. Square Enix has been doing that with FF16, I feel like that’s a good strategy, we know the game is coming and it seems like they want to make a good version. I’ll be there when it’s out.