General PlayStation related news.
Spider-Man was announced to release for PC in August. Miles Morales also confirmed.
Sackboy and Returnal configuration screens on PC leaked. So I guess they’re imminent too.
With a PC release, Spider-Man franchise will hit 40 million sales, easy.
I wonder what Sony's plan is gonna be for their games. Right now, they're committed to full releases. People always speculate they're gonna start to bring their games to PC day and date, but, for now, it doesn't make much sense for them to do it, because they could lose a potential PlayStation customer and they have to pay Valve a cut for every sale on Steam.
There's always the question of whether these releases would eventually make consoles redundant. Personally I think these releases won't dent the console market at all. You only have to look at Red Dead Redemption 2. The game hit 25 million sales by August 2019, which was
before it was released on PC. People knew the game was gonna come to PC, but bought it on console anyway. They're separate markets.
Also, console demand has never been higher. People want these new consoles like crazy. The Xbox is selling well, and Xbox releases simultaneously on both console and PC. Most Game Pass subs are from console users, primarily next gen buyers. Microsoft has pushed PC and cloud support for their games, because they own Windows, but they're still very committed to their console despite what they say about cloud gaming.
Finally, PC gaming at a level of quality comparable to consoles is prohibitively expensive right now. Even run of the mill GPUs like the GTX 1660 are expensive. It costs too much, it's complicated, it's just not worth the hassle. But, a PC release can attract new customers, whether they stay on PC or come to PlayStation.
I can see a world where there's Game Pass on PlayStation and PS Plus on Xbox, but I can't see a world where consoles are dead yet. Otherwise Sony wouldn't be releasing a PSVR2. I'd love to try GT7 with it if I ever get one of these.