-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Is the announcement of Death Stranding for PC going to affect the sales of the game on PS4?
- Thread starter lunanto
- Start date
Not in a significant way, no. But you'd think Sony would've told Kojima not to talk about it until VGAs or next year. Like, it's a very dumb move. I know Kojima was just excited and all that, but now people are gonna be upset with him when it's an Epic Games exclusive
This is so overblown. Most people expected it to come to pc at somepoint, we have more people saying ps4 fans are mad at it coming to pc rather than actually being mad at it.
Latest figures I've seen peg Steam as having 90 millions active users.
For PS4 it's 100m units sold, although we don't have figures for how many of those are active users (I would imagine most are though).
It's not accurate to say that the PC market is "peanuts". Not accurate at all.
The announcement being made like this was very likely agreed well in advance as part of contract negotiations between Kojima Productions and Sony. It won't have just been something that was announced on this particular schedule on a whim.
Makes sense to me. Sony want to have the announcement and pre-release marketing of the game generate PS4 console sales, but from Kojima Productions perspective helping to shift PS4 consoles isn't a direct benefit to them. Confirming a PC version the week before it comes out on PS4 seems like a reasonable middleground between pretending it's never coming to PC until it releases and announcing it as PC/PS4 game throughout the pre-release marketing.
nah. this is the normal "format" for timed exclusives, it's embedded in everybody's conscious/buying habits now
like would an RDR 2 PC announcement before release really change anything? not the greatest marketing strategy but you wouldn't have people cancelling pre orders en masse. they just want to play the game whether it's on ps4/xbone or even a fucking ouya if it gets the job done
like would an RDR 2 PC announcement before release really change anything? not the greatest marketing strategy but you wouldn't have people cancelling pre orders en masse. they just want to play the game whether it's on ps4/xbone or even a fucking ouya if it gets the job done
No. If anything it helps, the game is getting free publicity from the announcement today, like yes the announcement was Death Stranding is coming to PCs in 8~ months but it also reminded me people that the game is out on a different platform in less than 2 weeks.
It will affect sales, but only among people that fit the following criteria: 1) They want to play Death Stranding; 2) They own a capable computer powerful enough to run Death Stranding at a higher standard than the PS4; 3) They're happy to wait six months to play it.
Ultimately, the number of people that check all three boxes will be negligible, even if it's not non-existent.
Ultimately, the number of people that check all three boxes will be negligible, even if it's not non-existent.
I'll go with the general opinion here. Sales of the game on PS4 will be slighly impacted but nothing significant. I expect both excellent reviews and excellent sales all around next month.
Still interested to see how the game will perform on PC. And we actually might know about it, even if the game lands on Epic Games Store, because Digital Bros (the owner of 505 Games) offers comments (and even sales in dollars) about games performance in their earnings.
Still interested to see how the game will perform on PC. And we actually might know about it, even if the game lands on Epic Games Store, because Digital Bros (the owner of 505 Games) offers comments (and even sales in dollars) about games performance in their earnings.
The majority of people who are going to skip PS4 and buy Death Stranding on PC 6 months later are people who wouldn't have bought it on PS4 at launch anyway. A lot of people are burnt-out on Double-Dipping this gen and Death Stranding coming to PC was a Worst Kept Secret for years by this point.
This.
Good luck to fellow pc gamers trying to avoid spoilers for 9+ months.
A story driven game... l wouldn't risk get spoiled waiting for the PC port...
Ppl not having a PS4 i can understand... but anywat won't lose that much sales on PS4... also announcing the port for PC almost half a year later means Kojima is confident the game is great... otherwose would have wait to announcw the port amd have as muxh sales on PS4 as he could.
Ppl not having a PS4 i can understand... but anywat won't lose that much sales on PS4... also announcing the port for PC almost half a year later means Kojima is confident the game is great... otherwose would have wait to announcw the port amd have as muxh sales on PS4 as he could.
I would be surprised if it made an appreciable dent in PS sales. Some effect sure but how much??
Can confirm, wouldn't buy it day one before the confirmation anyway, even though I'm looking forward to it. I'd be waiting months anyway.
Yes. Multiple people said they will now wait for PC version.
What? You didn't ask "significantly", just flat "affect". Even if ONE person cancelled their preorder now, sales are affected. Should be more specific with yer titles.
What? You didn't ask "significantly", just flat "affect". Even if ONE person cancelled their preorder now, sales are affected. Should be more specific with yer titles.
Yes. They were supposed to trick us PC owners into double dipping like Rockstar did with Red Dead.
I mean how could it not have an effect? Will it have an effect on the game's success on Playstation? Of course not.
I can confirm it as well. I'm not willing to buy the game day one for the PS4, but I'll most likely get it on PC later.
I can't believe some ppl are really thinking it might. I mean not to the extent that some think.
Well it certainly made me not buy the ps4 version (which I would have bought with no PC version announcement)
I've got to the point now where if I feel there is any slight chance something is coming to PC in the end then I'll hold back. Not a lost sale in my case as I was already prepared to wait a while. I'm sick of double dipping later after some exclusivity smoke and mirrors turns out yet again to be just that.
Overall I don't see this making a huge difference though, it's different markets.
Overall I don't see this making a huge difference though, it's different markets.
Amongst ERA readers, yeah it'll have some effect. The other 99% of potential sales will be unaffected though.
