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minus-squarePatapon Enjoyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up51·6 months agoThe last two generations of consoles were just PCs but worse. Now nearly all games are coming to PC anyway, what’s even the point? Just to pay them $70/year for the privilege of playing multiplayer?
minus-squareThassodar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·6 months agoI’m assuming they’re requiring a PSN account for PC ports so they can eventually put a subscription on having a PSN account.
minus-squarePatapon Enjoyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-26 months agoI wouldn’t be surprised if they want to push their own launcher to bypass Steam’s 30% cut
minus-squarepurplemonkeymad@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoBut sony are different, they won’t end up returning to steam like the others have! Perhaps they are bolstered by that fact epic have done ok. But do they have enough free games to pull off the same plan?
minus-squareSomeGuy69@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-26 months agoTheir wet dream to bring online service costs to PC
minus-squareh0rnman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoNow to be fair, the Switch was a fancy cellphone, but worse
minus-squarePatapon Enjoyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoThe Tegra in it was fairly old at that point IIRC.
minus-squarealuminium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months ago2015 Tablet specs with 2012 CPU cores at the helm. Yay.
The last two generations of consoles were just PCs but worse. Now nearly all games are coming to PC anyway, what’s even the point? Just to pay them $70/year for the privilege of playing multiplayer?
I’m assuming they’re requiring a PSN account for PC ports so they can eventually put a subscription on having a PSN account.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they want to push their own launcher to bypass Steam’s 30% cut
But sony are different, they won’t end up returning to steam like the others have!
Perhaps they are bolstered by that fact epic have done ok. But do they have enough free games to pull off the same plan?
Their wet dream to bring online service costs to PC
Now to be fair, the Switch was a fancy cellphone, but worse
The Tegra in it was fairly old at that point IIRC.
2015 Tablet specs with 2012 CPU cores at the helm. Yay.