I'd still break Xbox out on its own simply for the fact that there are distinct differences in gaming on console vs gaming on PC. PC gaming isn't typically very conducive to gaming in the living room where consoles usually live and PC gaming adds elements in hardware that many console gamers don't want to bother with. So while PC has Xbox games we are still talking about different types of gamers.

PS, Xbox, and PC have much more overlap in games. That much is true. But there are certainly enough differences that break them up and make them unique. The author is trying to equate all three as the same exact experience and that is simply false. The games that stand out on PlayStation and define what it is cannot be played on Xbox. The games that stand out on Xbox and define what is is cannot be played on PlayStation. And then there are a massive number of games on PC that are not available on console at all. Describing PlayStation, Xbox, and PC as a single platform is simply not true. And the fact that Nintendo doesn't overlap nearly as much and has many games not found on any of the others doesn't change that.

@Razzer - sure, I can agree that sometimes it's nice to lounge on the sofa and lay back and play your games. However, in this day and age it isn't impossible to out from your PC to your TV as well.

Playing a game like TLOU2 was nice to be able to just sit on my sofa and soak in the experience. A game like Destiny 2 or MP games i don't mind sitting at my computer desk. So that's a fair point and I can agree with it.

I just mean that if you own a PC you already get access to the Xbox library, so it would be money better spent picking up one of the other two boxes. But that's just my personal opinion there.

There's only one platform and that's the screen I look at.

Everything else is the middleman.

Disagree. I and plenty of others still prefer keyboard and mouse over controller for first person shooters. Not even close to being as good, imo. And to say the experience on PC is the same as consoles is just not true. There are tons of really good games on Steam that never even find their way to consoles. If you are a strategy fan, for example, you are not going to find the breadth of games on consoles at all.

Well said.

Sure, but then again everyone is branching out, xbox with gamepass/pc/xcloud, nintendo with mobile and outside of gaming.

Its not necessarily difficult to imagine that Sony will eventually port many of their games to PC, maybe not day 1, but still, its clear its an untapped market.

And even with how successful the ps4 has been, its not exactly like it the console market has expanded massively for Sony, they have already reached 100+ million consoles sold before, the games themselves while certainly selling more than before still have a really low attach rate when you compare it with how many consoles are actually out there.

Its not like the ps5 is suddenly going to sell 300 million consoles this gen, there is a limit to how much revenue can be made just focusing on hardware sales (and software on just 1 platform)

So yeah, I honestly wouldnt be surprised at all if many more Sony games start seeing PC releases a year or two after they come out on PS5

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP