Sony Exec Confirms PlayStation's Moving Away from Hardware Business Toward a Platform Business

[ThunderBoy]

Sega, if you're listening!

Sega always anticipating the future.

 

[petran79]

Is PC gaming the future for young generations? I can't imagine most youngsters first gaming device is a PC....but I suppose, nowadays, it might be a phone, or a tablet. Moving from one of those straight to a PC suddenly doesn't seem to far-fetched to me.

It just seems so far-removed from my own lived experience.

A pc for youngsters to experiment on would be ideal. Unfortunately today's PCs do not have much in common with the offline machines of the 80s-90s.

Phones and tablets are preferable because like consoles they are also easier to supervise since majority of games are on Android and Apple digital stores.

While on PC it's the wild west out there, coupled with the dangerous online landscape.

Parents have to install special monitoring software for something similar on pc

 

[qw90700]

why go to the arcade when you can play Pac-Man at home?

To break local high-scores and show your superior gaming skills of course!!

lol

Why build a PC when you can just pick up a console?

Console quality is lower than PC and console gaming feels "too limited" because you don't have much to do for fixes and modding gets harder when we had to speak in general. And now "kill switch" policy kills modding and whatnot. This topic is pretty much why people buy a Switch and its games but play on emulators for PC lolol.

why buy a whole separate machine to play Fortnite or some HoyoVerse game when your laptop or phone can do it?

This is where economic decision comes into play. Some people dislikes the idea of "IDK what PC to buy so just buying a console eases my life" instead of analyzing a list of PC parts and differences in PCs to choose from and they don't wanna bother with upgrading their PC. To them using a PC is like trying to control a military jet plane lol. In that regard consoles "became more like a PC" just in the context of what entertainment it allows like using some apps to watch videos and stuff, otherwise they are easy to use and that's why these people wouldn't agree how similar they are "for PC". Especially how PC games tend to be released in an unplayable state for a few years makes these people did "ugh" before so they just switched to console gaming especially when the issue they having is because of their PC and not because of "not good enough hardware". Tons of people don't even wanna bother updating their drivers. It means PC as the use it has big pros but same pros are big cons for some people therefore it would be nonsense to kill the idea of consoles thanks to their ease to use and users doesn't have to do anything but just wait for an update and patch.

I don't think playing on laptop is "okay" for people. Technically you can connect it to a bigger screen and use gamepad or extra keyboard and mouse for comfort but it's "too much work" and "extra stuff to buy" for people. Because people are lazy they would prefer consoles. I played a game on laptop once but it didn't stay stable enough!!! (I needed bigger and heavier laptop so it wouldn't move lolol)

But "phone" thing is "necessary laziness" for people. Instead of buying a console, desktop, laptop, TV, gamepad, speaker, mic, keyboard, mouse, et cetera people see that just buying "gamer phone" eases their life and wallet. Thus they can be easy to use like consoles but if advanced users cares it should be allowed for modification instead of enforcing kill switch policy Nintendo does. Thus basically everyone will be happy. If you want just connect your phone to a bigger screen and play the game by using the phone and extra stuff but buttons to play it. Because human-kind is lazy this is a future that cannot be inevitable. That's why they invent technologists and stuff instead of living like monkeys when a monkey would just walk without giving a fuck while most human wanna even go to a bathroom just 2 meters away with a car lolol.

If game size is a concern, it is where switchable storage devices or buying a device that has more storage space come into play.

In general your points are right which my preference is also about seperating systems for their use because when one thing is broken I would lose one thing, but when they only having a phone for their main thing once they lose phone they rewind back to caveman-era lolol. That's why I have seperate MP3 player, camera, laptop, smartphone and stuff. I would never rely on one device like joker card. However in the end I really don't care console industry dying and switching to phones as long as PC gaming is a thing.

 

[Questless Knight]

Well nothing surprising as Xbox been planing on abandon it for a while and focus to become Neftlix of gaming here rent games with commercials and wanna skip add pay more. Sony them self said they lost money on consoles and admitted they make most of their money on games.


Just pray Nintendo use their last brain cell and change and make games for PC instead becuse now matter how much I hate them I will admit they still know how to make decent games but worst part they own allot of good companies.

But that will never happen because Nintendo got way to many loyal lapdogs.

 

[qw90700]

Just pray Nintendo use their last brain cell and change and make games for PC instead becuse now matter how much I hate them I will admit they still know how to make decent games but worst part they own allot of good companies.

Soon I'll go to Japan and if I ever have the time for it I'll tell Nintendo how much they can make more money by selling PC version of their games by suing all the PC pirates and all!!! lolol

 

[RandomHajile]

Everyone always thinks that the current generation is the peak of tech when it comes to consoles and PC. Every time it's wrong too. By your logic, consoles were never needed because PCs have always been ahead of consoles. You may as well criticize every console generation then.

Nah, it was very different in the 80s and 90s. PC gaming and console gaming were drastically different from one another. I was 19 years old playing The Journeyman Project and Elder Scrolls Arena on my PC, and Chrono Trigger and Mario RPG on my SNES. Both ecosystems were walled off and while you had ports, they were unable to be ported effectively due to power differences, among other things.

Nowadays? Every console has been a small form factor PC since the PS3/X360. Every generation that wall that separates console from PC erodes even further to the point where the consoles are really just proprietary PCs.

This is why Sony will bow out of hardware, but I think Microsoft will do it first. Makes better sense, and console versions of games have been losing out to the PC versions for the past couple of years since Sony games started appearing on Steam. Not trying to be mean or say you can't buy consoles (they're still easy and fun and convenient) but the numbers don't lie.

 

[ThunderBoy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1954918860194517402

 

[fake-kun]

A pc for youngsters to experiment on would be ideal. Unfortunately today's PCs do not have much in common with the offline machines of the 80s-90s.

Phones and tablets are preferable because like consoles they are also easier to supervise since majority of games are on Android and Apple digital stores.

While on PC it's the wild west out there, coupled with the dangerous online landscape.

Parents have to install special monitoring software for something similar on pc

Or they can put on their adult pants and actually pay attention to their children.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Ive been faithful to every PS console but i dont play many PS5 titles at all im getting a gaming PC built for my next purchase.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1954918860194517402

Wasn't like that for the first few PlayStaiton consoles. Everyone wanted to be on PlayStation.

 

[Adrastia]

Man, watching home consoles dissolve and leaving Nintendo the last one standing is a bizarre and humbling experience

Nintendo's going to be the last holdout. I do wonder though, when it will end.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

AFAIK, Nintendo has also been eyeing up supporting other platforms. Chances are that even if they're the only ones left in the dedicated console business, they'll slowly start drip-feeding their IPs onto other platforms when they see how much money there is to be made.

They're companies. They will always go in the direction that seems like it's going to make them the most money because that's what they exist to do. It's likely that within our lifetimes we'll see a games industry dominated by exclusive-free gaming platforms that feature Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo games at the same time. It'll be great for the companies and their ability to make money, though I wonder how good it'll end up being for the creators and consumers of these games.

It's part of the reason that people have been searching for other experiences a lot lately IMO. More indie games, more returning to older systems you used to love.

 

[qw90700]

They're companies. They will always go in the direction that seems like it's going to make them the most money

Nintendo gamer phone that needs small cartridges to play games when? lol

 

[petran79]

AFAIK, Nintendo has also been eyeing up supporting other platforms. Chances are that even if they're the only ones left in the dedicated console business, they'll slowly start drip-feeding their IPs onto other platforms when they see how much money there is to be made.

They're companies. They will always go in the direction that seems like it's going to make them the most money because that's what they exist to do. It's likely that within our lifetimes we'll see a games industry dominated by exclusive-free gaming platforms that feature Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo games at the same time. It'll be great for the companies and their ability to make money, though I wonder how good it'll end up being for the creators and consumers of these games.

It's part of the reason that people have been searching for other experiences a lot lately IMO. More indie games, more returning to older systems you used to love.

One of the main reasons they opted for Super Mario Run on mobile, was to make up for the losses of Wii U

 

[iisoide]

how can someone become a fan of a game they never played?

Have you seen the Persona fanbase?

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

Being a Sony fan for the last 15+ years is like being in constant purgatory

 

[Don Patch]

Consoles as we know them have been on the way out for ages - at least insofar as the mainstream market is concerned

Agreed.
"Mainstream" being the key there, IMO.

Things blew-the-hell-up starting with the PS3/X360-era and are now calming the hell down.
I, for one, think it'll be great for the medium when the majority of the Fast-Food, "Free easy money forever" executives GTFO of the scene.

Here's hoping they're not replaced by the "homogenize everything, AI = Instant profit forever" tech-bro crowd....

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Yeah, computers are impossible to buy in my area, so my kids had my old school stuff (from Famicom to PS3) and then phones and tablets as gaming devises.

From what you've shared, they seem to have an absolute blast with the games you've shown them!
That's so rad!