GTA5 broke records before online was even out but online became popular also

A company focusing on the most popular part of their business is essentially what they have to do, it wasn’t just that whales spent money it just became far more popular than any single player dlc would be

GTA6 hasn’t taken much longer than similar games, it just takes that much time to achieve these days

I am sure GTA will buck the trend

Happy to help you through it

No need to pay me, I am in UK Timezone if that matters

The main thing is that even if you shift to a more exclusive business model and charge more people will just borrow to get your new thing because it is more expensive

Nobody will be talking about any of this in a year anyway and it will be accepted as what is normal

Nintendo already did it and nobody cares anymore

If everyone keeps bragging about piracy devs will gravitate to consoles where it’s harder

There is steam decks everywhere at work

Incorrect, I have used it, still jank like most PC gaming

It’s not a better decision for me, my PC sits unused as the experience is better on console

You telling me that PC ports are always as polished and performant as console releases?

I don’t want a PC to play games, get over it and stop trying to rope everyone in to your crusade

I don’t get how that makes sense, the price of everything is going up

It’s not like ps5 is going up while PCs are staying the same price

No they are not, Ghost of Yotei and Saros aren’t

Also the ports are hit or miss, why wouldn’t I just play them on the platform the developers targeted?

Can’t get the games I am interested in playing these days on PC

Most PS5 first party games are not available on PC at launch, none will be going forward

I can’t be bothered turning my gaming pc these days, ps5 and switch2 have games I am more interested in playing and can just play on the couch

There is something I can’t explain about the experience on console which is better than dealing with PC even if they are also hooked up to the TV

For me we have already reached the point where graphics improvements no longer matter, I just prefer the polished experience and quality standards of exclusives

Considering digital games are the same price as physical currently they could do it as a free service

I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it

They don’t license out their operating system to other companies or ever claimed it was open

They may be guilty of similar things, but not quite the same

Well offer PlayStation money for the studio and see if they say yes

No point telling us until you are in a position to do something

I haven’t had an optical drive in any computer or console or other device for many years at this point

I can understand the reasoning why people think this is a bad thing but it seems this is just where things were going anyway, vote with your wallet I guess

Well it is, but the writing is also on the wall, computer hardware increases will have more of an impact than consoles which are subsidised

I don’t think it out of the question that to play the newest game on PC your only option will be to stream it from PlayStation or xbox as that will work on cheaper hardware that more people have

At that point the piracy backup goes out the window

Personally I enjoyed the fact that for the casual consumer cheap windows laptops I would need to run malware scanners on for everyone I know were effectively replaced by iPads and iPhones

The moment other stores are introduced we will go back to the same nonsense, the older open options are still available, why isn’t that enough choice?