Hold your horses! It's just exploring, not a confirmation. They even changed the thread title.Oh the sweet, sweet meltdowns.
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This is a great post from EatChildren that explains everything, and the thread should just stop there.
There is no evidence to suggest the PC and console ecosystems are cross compatible and it is this fallacious thinking that leads to confusion over why Sony or Microsoft or anyone would ever want to port to PC. People who are happy to pay literally thousands of dollars for high end gaming system are not now, or ever, abandoning this as their primary ecosystem for a $600 box that cant do a fraction of the functionality their PC can.
The evidence currently does not suggest there is market cannibalism between PC and console ecosystems. There will always be a small percentage of crossover but the bulk is evidently significantly greater. Console gamers are not interested in the significantly higher upfront costs of PC and the lesser accessibility. PC gamers are not interested in a cheaper, simpler, closed hardware ecosystem. They are also not buying wholesale into that ecosystem; they are less likely to subscribe to PSN as it has no value to them, and while they may buy digitally they are only doing so for the small handful of exclusives that interest them, while taking the bulk of software purchases to their primary ecosystem on PC.
Sony isnt going to suddenly jump ship and day and date PS5 games on PC. Nobody is expecting that. What they are expecting is Sony to continue following the train of logic, evidently backed by data, that total rejection of the PC ecosystem is money left on the table for no good reason, and will shape their business strategy accordingly.
We're not going to wake up tomorrow and see the Microsoft approach, but Sony will continue porting titles while the PS5 flies off shelves and they'll report increased earnings to shareholders and cite the advantage of leveraging two markets and I'll still be here trying to explain this to people.