PlayStation games on PC is "almost like printing money", says Shuhei Yoshida

Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has admitted porting PlayStation-exclusive games to PC is "almost like printing money".

[Levii_92]

Ahh greed.. definitely my favourite sin.

Wait i feel like i’ve said this about Sony in the 2020’s multiple times hmm.

[pwnmaster3000]

What you want a cookie?
Dude thinks he discovered something.
Sony has always been greedy.
They’ve just been tolerable.

Same with MS and Nintendo.
Big companies will chose profit 9/10 times.

[Rebel_Scum]

Actually companies will choose profit 100% of the time, all of the time. :D

[NoDamage]

Yeah I know it is surprising to some but when youre running a business in which thousands of employees depend on your success to keep their jobs you kinda want to make money in order to keep them employed.

[CrimsonWing69]

So, let me get this straight, you think a business shouldn’t prioritize making money? They should just make the bare minimum to stay afloat?

They are in the business of providing a good to consumers in hopes that people give them money and as much money as they can get. Plain and simple.

Do they overstep at times? Hell yes and it’s absolutely sh*tty, but if people feed them money for those practices, we have nobody else to blame but the people that give in. Thank god the mass came together and didn’t let Concord become the future of PlayStation like they believed it would. I hope they stick together for all the GaaS stuff coming our way, so Sony learns and gets back to making the games we loved them for in the first place.

[got_dam]

Well, no shit.

[neutralgamer1992]

And some think Sony will slow down fbe releases. We will see some games launch day one on Pc along with playstation and others will come 6 or 12 months after release

[NoDamage]

Helldivers 2 ...we already are seeing simultaneous release.

[PRIMORDUS]

It would be nice if Nintendo did the same thng, but they will not budge.

[Darkegg]

This was the same case for CD disc music. The production cost is next to nothing, then business sang the tune for licensure and cost of the services and talent time to ultimately create music (I.e. the years of effort). The digital age of greed is running the same loose logic. Not that they do not deserve money for their work but unlike physical things they reproduce at the cost of practically nothing. Once they have balanced fair compensation then the rest is for profit, but they will continue the scene with how they much survive when they are more concerned with more of it. That is why, moderation is important when it comes to consumption of digitals. Support your local talents more than corporates, and support corporates who are genuine in their efforts, not bc it’s easy. Games that are ported should be ported properly with the right effort. In the last two decades doom was like one of the right port, everything else was more cash grab with bugs or frame issues.

Also, China won’t offer full support of anything not Chinese. Their government would rather study the IP then retouch it with a bit of government-centered dialogue. They don’t want too much influence from outsiders on freedom of speech or superstar. They strongly feel if it’s not about the way they run it’s not supportive of the people’s perception of them. So Japan is too western for their taste without their oversight.

[Blaze929]

I'm telling you, Sony is definitely looking at the success Microsoft is having putting their games on multiple plaftorms. Only a matter of time before Sony does the same

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

If they want their console sales to fall off a cliff like Microsoft then sure do the same as them.