@Spartan_418: Everything else I said still applies. You really think Sony would care to sell you some adapter, whatever the point of it would be, for a handful of bucks? In exchange for losing out on all the extra profits from having exclusive games and the seemingly best VR headset also being exclusive to their platform?

@illegal_peanut: And what developers should they spend that money on? Most developers are already owned by big publishers like Activions and MS. Independant developers don't really exist anymore. Even From Software, as a shining example for a company that still seems to get full freedom to work on anything it wants, is still owned by another company. And while From might be open to such deals, as most developers are owned by big publishers MS would probably have to deal with them. And what does that mean? Yeah, there's another middleman.

By buying up companies MS is getting rid of the middleman. In a time where all companies are owned by bigger ones it's pretty much the only way to do so.

It sure is a dark day for humanity when a giant corporation making billions of $ per year is prevented from growing even further.

I just saw the latest numbers today. Activision made over $700 million in profit just in the first quarter of this year. But take a guess how much MS has made in the same time: More than $18 billion. Also profit. Even Activision's ridiculous numbers seem like a drop in the ocean in comparison. And it's surprising really that MS hasn't bought up every other company yet. Since any big, successful company they buy only further increases their profits, allowing them to make even more purchases.

I'm currently playing Cyberpunk again and so get to see the dystopian future that it depicts. That is probably pretty similar to what we're moving towards. One big difference is that the companies in that games are making trillions in profit (and in a fantasy currency). But seeing MS' profit numbers it doesn't seem that far off. Crazy, if you think about it, how any one corporation could make over $60 billion in profit each year. More than many or most smaller countries. And yet people think nothing of it. Surely everything will be fine if we allow such companies to keep on growing and buying up anything they want. Why not let them buy up some countries as well?

We're already living in this pseudo democracy where they tell you that you, the people, are in control. When all you can do is to go to the vote every few years, then spend the next few years watching how the policiations do whatever they want. But with corporations, they don't even need to pretend that they're not all powerful, greasing palms as much as they can to ensure that they get their way. But people don't see it as an issue because their whole life they've been told this fairy tale about how a strong economy, symbolized by endlessly growing corporations, is good for everyone. Of course you don't get much out of it if those companies fire you so they can be leaner and more efficient and make even more profit. But somehow people still seem to think that it's a good thing. MS should certainly buy Activision, that other very big company because what could possibly go wrong? Do you benefit from it? Eh, maybe? But let them do it anyway because why not?

@Spartan_418: Do you know how much profit they're actually making from each sold headset? If they're making any at all. Maybe game sales are the only reason why it's worth selling the headset.

Also the same obvious reason as always comes to mind as for why they haven't made it pc compatible: PSVR2 relies on the PS5's hardware and it needs to be pretty powerful. Even more so when you're trying to run it on pc where you can't optimize at all for the millions of different hardware setups.

So looking at how much money Sony is making from VR games sold exclusively through their store and how much effort it might require to have the PSVR2 run properly on most pc setups, I can see why they might not consider it worth it. Just as there's not much point in them releasing all their exclusives on pc. Sure, if they can port the games with little effort it would bring in a few extra bucks. But any game they offer on pc as well takes sales away from the PS5, consoles and games overall as someone who buys a PS5 for a specific game is likely to buy others as well.

Multiplatform releases are something that only benefits game publishers. Console manufacturers don't stand anything to gain from it, at least not when it comes to doing full ports of exclusive games. Nintendo was smarter about it, releasing some shitty mobile games using their brands. Stuff that you wouldn't normally find on their handhelds as it's why too crappy even for their playerbase.

Hm, now I wonder how much of an impact this strategy of selling the headset only through their own website has had on the low sales. If it's not being sold anywhere else, then there's no ads for it to be found on Amazon, etc. Which probably makes a big difference.

Not sure why Sony has decided on this strategy at all. They've never offered anything exclusively through their site before. Even when it would have made it a lot of sense for the first 1-2 years or so of the PS5's lifetime to deal with scalpers. Or is that why they've decided to release PSVR2 in such a manner? Thinking that it would be just as popular as the PS5.

@DarkLord: Well, if they removed or censored everything that people today might find offensive, then there'd be nothing left. You'd just get generic modern media.

So he's acting against his personal interests. Well, that's his job I guess. But most games nowadays already have "live service" elements in them. Pretty much all bigger single player titles are constantly releasing updates and often even adding frequent time limited events. And Sony seems to only want to further contribute to this development with their latest acquisitions.

@cayrel: Not to mention that this happened in the US, the "home of the free" or whatever. You'd expect someone to blast your head off if you just invade their property and threaten them. But I guess folks in states that prohibit gun ownership are out of luck.

@majikayo666: Nah, Nintendo is making more than enough because they keep all their titles exclusive. And they have already released some garbage mobile games and that's fine for them as those are no competition for what's available on their handhelds.

Those exclusives are the only thing Nintendo has. If you only take Zelda and Mario away and make them multiplat, or just available on PC, it would cripple them. Nintendo wants to sell their hardware and games for that hardware and from what I always keep hearing their games barely go down in price over time and rarely ever go on sale. All of that is only possible because of the position they're in, having those big exclusives that many people really want to play. If they weren't exclusive to their platforms, then most people would rather play them on PC or elsewhere because Nintendo's hardware is generally the shittiest option for playing anything.

Why would MS be surprised? They're paying for every game they put on Gamepass and every developer that takes up their offer should know not to expect much from game sales. After all you can play their latest game for a handful of bucks on MS's service.

So MS certainly doesn't expect to make any money with Gamepass. And I don't know how anyone else could expect to from a service that costs $10 per month and divides those few bucks among dozens if not hundreds of developers. At a time when big titles cost $70 at launch.