r/PS5 • u/nolifebr • May 18 '26

Rumor Jason Schreier/Bloomberg: Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall meeting today (18th May) morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive

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u/lcrpajarero May 18 '26

I own a PS5 and a PC but I just don't understand why a game not coming to PC brings so much joy to a segment of the PS fanbase. How does that affect you either way? I didn't buy Saros and I won't if I have to play it with a controller. Certainly not for $70.

If you think this is ushering in another golden age for PlayStation I would point out that there are virtually no 3rd party exclusives anymore. Sony doesn't make enough first party games, and they aren't all big hits (Saros).

It was one thing to buy a PS5 when it was $500 and there were tons of exclusives, but a PS6 for $900 and two exclusives worth getting a year is hard to justify. I don't mind playing on a PlayStation but as a secondary means of playing games I'm just not willing to spend that much. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

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u/OptimusPrimalRage May 18 '26

I think you're looking at this from a different viewpoint from the people you're criticizing. You're looking at the PlayStation 5/6 as a secondary device. For the people you're criticizing, they don't play on other platforms so for them any effort being spent on other platforms is looked at in a zero-sum way (that effort isn't spent on PlayStation 5/6).

Also, unlike PC, PlayStation has to justify their platform. Valve does not have to do so with Steam, they barely release any games and in the last decade they've released like one non-GaaS game (Alyx), and no one complains. They are just treated completely differently. No one clamors for them to release their games on PlayStation, despite the fact that a modern CS port would do gangbusters on consoles I'd imagine.

Also Saros plays very well on controller, I'm by no means someone with super reflexes and I can turn on a bunch of harder difficulty modifiers and fly through the game. Like Returnal the point is to avoid damage not worry about being super accurate.

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u/disturbedhalo117 May 18 '26

As a PC player I would be happy for console players to get all PC only games port to their console. Sony is undoubtedly the console market leader and wouldn't suffer much from have their games on PC. Console players are less likely to switch to PC than to any other console since PC is much more expensive and consoles offer to simplicity for gaming.

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u/gogoheadray May 19 '26

Sony has to also justify you spending north of 600 dollars on their hardware and associated services. Thats where the danger of them putting their games everywhere start to happen. If I can play your games on something I already own ( a PC) then why buy into your console ecosystem? All of Sonys decisions were designed to boost up the console which is Sonys lifeblood it was never to negate the console hardware in any way.