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Not really kept up to speed with Gamepass but do you lose access to games when your sub ends?

Good point. My last home console was the X360 and I don't feel like I'm missing anything by becoming PC only. I've had a whole world of other possibilities open up and no restrictions on the experience I want. I don't spend hours tinkering with settings only one time occasion on a new game. Granted Ive had a few odd problems arise but it's usually fixed swiftly. I love that I have access to games going back generations and have gone back to the beginnings on many game series to see how it started.

Anecdotal but I think there's been a general resurgence of console owners looking to get a gaming PC or enquire about one. Partly due to AAA games releasing mostly the same time on PC, Japanese devs and publishers releasing current or re-releasing older games onto the PC, Xbox games releasing on PC simultaneously, PC VR and generally wanting more control on performance and options that comes with PC gaming. Recent news of Sony porting exclusives will add to the interest in PC gaming.

isn’t porting to hardware easier to do these days? Console manufacturers are not opting to design complicated hardware like the famous PS3 cell architecture. Also with games using common engines... not saying it can be done at a flick of as switch however

Don't think I said this but sorry if it sounded like that. Anyway I'm glad console manufacturers are starting share exclusives outside of their hardware platforms

Don't know if you are being purposely argumentative but I think I was reasonably clear about what I was getting at in the context of this thread. Having a specifically high cost piece of hardware tied to an exclusive piece of content only seems to happen in gaming. Yes exclusives in streaming services still occur as it does in VR gaming (see oculus). In the streaming tv services you mention I don't have to buy a high cost set top box to watch exclusive content, I can pay a months subscription (£10 or less) watch the content and cancel or even use a free trial.

Id prefer if Sony sold through one of the existing game stores but if the price of getting Sony exclusives on PC is another store then so be it. Initiatives like GOG Galaxy is uniting PC game stores into one client anyway.

Sony have probably looked at the numbers MS have done so far with Halo and want some of that.

Yes this is true but I cannot see this happening in large numbers.

Possibly but I can dream

Bloodborn, Wipeout VR and Astrobot would be my picks for the PC port treatment. The VR game in particular would make sense as they would be greatly received by the PC Vr market. VR games inparticular need more market exposure because of the smaller percentage of users.

Not sure what it is you don't understand, If I want to play a particular exclusive I have to pay hundreds of pounds on a piece of equipment to play it even though I potentially have existing adequate hardware. Exclusives tied to expensive hardware needs to go and I think console manufacturers are realising this. R&D, marketing and selling hardware is expensive for them.

You don’t need an expensive piece of hardware to get access to those services. You can just pay one month or use a free trial to watch an exclusive.

Video game industry is old fashioned in some ways compared to other media. The days of exclusivity maybe numbered. Timed exclusives may still continue

Also trend towards software playing off of multiple devices