Most of the article is on AAA development as a whole but I found it interesting the comments about consoles in general.

  • deegeese
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    1 day ago

    Can someone make this make sense?

    You know the Sony fanbase gets really upset whenever a game comes out on PC

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      There is a mythical “Sony fan” customer who pays extra for their video game consoles, and justified that by believing it comes with a right to be special and awesome and play games no one else is allowed to.

      It’s a pantomine of a Nintendo fan, who pays for an underpowered console for first-party games that use unique controllers. None of whom would ever complain if their games were sold on PC so long as they could bring the controller over.

      AFAIK, the only real people who want exclusives on PlayStation are Sony employees and shareholders.

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        23 hours ago

        I know there WERE Sony fans who would get upset that their exclusives would come out on other platforms. Back in the very early 2000s, fanboys would get irate at the smallest perceived slight to their preferred platform. But that hasn’t been more than a very niche thing for a decade. Almost nobody cares now.

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      Im just not seeing it honestly. Most people just dont care, they only have enough $$ for one major console. And then they go with that console for a while. Its only the diehards that care and that may be who is “complaining”.