You've no doubt come across memes about how the PlayStation 5 doesn't have any games on it. It's been extremely persistent throughout the past few years despite the fact that by all metrics, the PS5 is absolutely dominating it's primary competition, the Xbox Series X/S, and also despite the fact that it, you know, actually does have games on it. People treat it as though a game getting ported to PC or to another competing platform as though they're somehow "losing" them, even though it's overall the more pro-consumer move as it allows people who invested in other platforms to have more choice in what to play, while also allowing Sony to get purchases from people who would have never bought a PS5 to begin with. Seems like a win-win situation to me. Recently, Sony seems to have pulled the plug on bringing games to PC, which naturally lead to a lot people being upset. Of course, there are plenty of people still wishing to saber rattle for the console wars and claiming it's a huge win for…
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I feel like Sony has tried to spread themselves too wide and they've not given much thought to the audience they gained from the big name titles from the PS2 and PS3 eras. @bubbles
while exclusives are objectively bad for everyone. I can kind of understand on an emotional level the feeling that, "If Sony is going to 'force' me to by a PS5 to play *insert specific game here* they at least ought to give me a few more games exclusive to the platform for the trouble"