Who could have guessed that when game companies make their games available for sale, they will make money from game sales!?
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Why does Steam generate any revenue for PlayStation?
I think they technically do, with stuff like Helldivers 2, Spiderman games, etc. I have Helldivers 2, but stopped playing it for a while in protest when they tried to make you use a PlayStation account for it, essentially cutting off a bunch of players in countries PlayStation doesn't operate in.
The wording is a little weird, but it's about Capcom finances. They make more selling games on steam than selling on the Playstation. So steam/pc is a bigger market than Playstation consoles for Capcom.
Ah got it
I hope more game companies will follow. Consoles are good. Consoles exclusives are not.
While it’s great that they’re doing well on the only truly open gaming platform, it’s a shame that they’re being rewarded for infecting their games with anti-consumer malware. Any company that uses Denuvo lacks moral fibre and deserves to fail.
Isn't it only 3rd party games with that and steam warns you about it though?
What do you mean? Pretty much every game on Steam is "third party." They do mention certain things on the store though, like kernel level anti-cheat or needing a third party account, though I don't know how many people check that.
Then maybe they should fucking optimise their PC ports.
To be fair performance was poopy on ps5 too
Still amazed how well Wilds sold after that dumpster fire of a demo.
I'd also recommend they open up the co-op more, but common sense multiplayer seems a bridge too far 🙄
I am one of the unfortunate ones for whom the demo ran perfectly, so I thought the full release would too. It did not.
The demo didn't run perfectly on any systems, it is literally not optimized in the slightest.
I also have an awesome computer
Damn, you must have a beefy rig. Even setting aside the weird texture issues, FPS was all over the place for me. Knew it was a hard pass pretty quick.
I wouldn't say it's very beefy. 3080ti and a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Ran at a pretty steady 70-80fps for me.
The demo, that is. The full game is all over the place for me too.
That's a pretty beefy rig:
- top end CPU
- nearly top-end GPU
- probably a high end mobo and RAM
You have all that and you were getting 70fps and think that is optimized? Youre insane
I agree, but they have no incentive to do so when gamers buy it anyway. People need to vote with their wallets.
Call of Duty sales suggest this isn't happening.
People need to vote with their wallets.
that's why many companies seek to optimize their ports to work for mobile gaming. call of duty mobile -vs- cod pc or console is a case of that imo
People do vote with their wallets. They say it's ok.
Fantastic, now when are we getting Steam ports of Viewtiful Joe and God Hand?
we've come a long way since the days of console exclusives with no pc ports to this. I remember feeling happy that more publishers started releasing games on PC, now it's just expected.
I mean……… yeah
Of course it does, the install base dwarfs PlayStation. Go where the money is to find money. Business is not that hard.
The install base with hardware capable of running their main releases though is probably dwarfed by PlayStation.