Sony possibly developing its own PlayStation PC game launcher
As Sony gets more and more comfortable with porting its games to PC, it seems like the company may be working on its own PC game launcher.
Following the release of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC, reports of references to a “PlayStation PC launcher” were found in the game’s files. The presence of these references have since been verified by outlets like VGC, who saw the files for themselves.
As far as what this could mean, it sounds like Sony may be working on its own PC game launcher for PlayStation. Previously, Sony games on PC have utilized Steam and the Epic Games Store, which each have their own launchers.
Furthermore, in the past references to “PSNAccountLinked” and “PSNLinkingEntitlements” were also found in the Spider-Man files. This comes despite the fact that none of Sony’s games that have been ported to PC on either Steam or the Epic Games Store currently allow players to connect to their PSN accounts.
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As of right now, Sony has yet to confirm plans to establish its own PC game launcher. That said, Sony shared the news that it had formed its own PlayStation PC label for its PC ports last year. Additionally, back in May it was projected that PlayStation would bring in $300M in first-party PC game sales in FY22. With this, one would expect Sony to continue porting games to PC, and with that, adding support in the form of a PC game launcher doesn’t seem all that unlikely.
Of course, we’re curious to hear your thoughts. Do you think Sony is working on a PC game launcher? What would you like to see from Sony’s PC game launcher? Let us know in Chatty! For more on Sony and its PlayStation PC ports, be sure to read through some of our previous coverage including Sony forming a PlayStation PC label for its PC ports, and Sony projecting $300M in sales of first-party PlayStation titles on PC in FY22.
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replyMorgan Shaver posted a new article, Sony possibly developing its own PlayStation PC game launcher
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Oh no. Please no.
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They already said that's coming.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/130784/the-last-of-us-part-1
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I was so happy to delete Bethesda's. I haven't installed Rockstar's but I imagine I'll give in when GTA 6 is launched.
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Yeah I don't even have one yet but I'm sure I'll get one eventually. I've already almost bought games I own on switch so I would have them when I got a deck.
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Hopefully they realize its a bad move and will lose them a lot of money creating yet another store. I still don't buy games on Epic given the choice, let alone bethesda, uplay, or rockstar.
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Bethesda launcher died a horrible and deserved death, and even with Microsoft’s acquisition, they still migrated all the games on there to steam and not Windows store. That should tell Sony everything they need to know about the viability of their launcher idea.
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FFS.
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If this means we get Sony fist party games sooner then that could be a good thing.
On the other hand, companies tend to fucking suck at making these platforms.
Steam has more amazing features than any of them put together, GoG does a brilliant job of bringing them all together while offering a good number of features. Nothing else comes close, and nursing else actually brings anything positive to the table, usually just frustration.
Uplay and Battle.net at least have basic functionality like letting you find games if you've moved the file location. Origin kind of has these features but they're done in a stupid way. -
steam should be forced to get rid of the price parity rule , then sony and whoever can charge extra to makeup for the royalties
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I'm just going to say, a company's launcher might not inherently be a bad thing. I think most would agree none of the main PC launchers are as user-friendly as Steam, but there's the chance someone could come out with a rather minimalist, well-performing application that could be influential in its own right.
Not saying Sony is that capable of making one, but who knows, maybe their newly owned PC porthouse Nixxes will make something good. Probably not, but you never know! -
Corsair, save us!
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Is it a given that these titles will make more money for the publisher on their own shitty platform vs eating the 30% cut to Valve and selling to their massive, massive audience?
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They certainly have enough resources to try and see!
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