I’m not surprised but I am disappointed. No idea what’s going to happen with the CMA but it looks like they’re ready to roll over and die in exchange for minor concessions.
Guess I’ll look for a silver lining… Hopefully Blizzard’s games will come to Steam after? That’s not worth such an enormous amount of consolidation, but if the consolidation is going to happen, hopefully we at least get that out of it.
My guess is about two years, give or take. By then they should have worked their way through most/all of their porting backlog and can settle on a cadence they want instead of a cadence they are stuck with due to resource constraints. And two years has sounded like the ballpark of what they want based on their statements and general behavior with games.
Leak / rumor is sourced off MLID. He’s absolutely garbage as a source. Worse than a pure guess.
It could very well be correct, but there’s absolutely zero credence to it based off the source.
Going to let things gel in my head a bit, but I’m pretty sure I will get:
I generally don’t bite on games until they hit $35 or so. Waiting for Spiderman and Returnal to go lower. There’s a bunch of smaller games I’ve been contemplating for a while that I will pick through when I get around to buying stuff, might get one or two extras.
Sony’s big action games have done great on PC. It’s the lower profile games that have launched with little to modest success. Also the lack of marketing didn’t hurt the first few games as the novelty of a port at all basically created publicity. It’s becoming more and more expected now though, so they’ll need to do some marketing if they want big numbers at launch. Doesn’t need to be a big campaign but just find an excuse to generate extra discussion online.
Spider-man, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn all did amazingly. Even Days Gone did great. Uncharted and The Last of Us both had port issues at launch; Uncharted is in good shape now but TLoU still needs some work (and likely a bit of marketing to let people know that). Returnal is niche and I expect it will do well in the long run, but was never going to do gangbusters at launch. Sackboy and Ratchet & Clank aren’t generally the types of games I’d expect to do particularly well on PC.