The new God of War game is real, it looks impressive, and if you only game on PC, you will probably be waiting a long time, or indefinitely.
Sony Santa Monica revealed God of War Laufey at PlayStation’s State of Play last night, showcasing 20 minutes of gameplay and confirming that Kratos is sitting this entry out entirely. The protagonist is Faye, Kratos’ late wife, who awakens in the Everywhen, described as the afterlife of the gods, after her burial in the 2018 God of War. Her mission is to protect Kratos and Atreus against a threat emerging in this mythological afterlife realm populated by gods from multiple pantheons competing for power. Game director Ariel Lawrence and Sony Santa Monica creative director Cory Barlog explained to IGN that Faye has been a planned future protagonist since 2018, and that her combat style emphasizes speed and precision in contrast to Kratos’s blunt power approach. She’s accompanied by a talking gelatin cube named Phranque (voiced by The Boys’ Jack Quaid, who also did the motion capture) and a ribbon attached to her sword named Rue. The cube, improbably, stole the show. No release date has been announced; Sony says the game is “coming soon to PlayStation 5.”
The previous three God of War entries, the 2018 reboot, Ragnarok, and Valhalla, all eventually came to PC, representing a significant shift in Sony’s philosophy toward its flagship single-player franchises. That shift has reversed. internal Sony communications indicate the company is pulling back from PC releases for its major single-player exclusives, repositioning them as system sellers for the PS5 platform. Sony will continue releasing multiplayer titles on PC, where the Helldivers 2 result made the economics undeniable, but narrative single-player games appear to be back behind the PlayStation wall.
Laufey is the first major announcement to land squarely within the new anti-PC policy. The console exclusivity play is a direct response to declining console hardware interest, with Sony (and for that matter, Xbox on its side of the fence) leaning back into the argument that platform-defining games require platform-specific ownership. For now, the answer for PC players is: no, you cannot have this one.
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →I haven't played Ragnarok yet, but I'll be so f*cking pissed if this and other Sony games from here on out don't appear on PC.
That's their strategy. Piss off players into grudgingly getting the PS5 Pro or PS6!
I don't think I'll be missing much given the current state of the Sony story games. Now if they made the game about Frank the gelatinous cube and zany adventures, that might worth a try. On PC of course. Who would buy a PS6 or 5 for that weak lineup?
That doesn't work though. It's not gonna convince me to get a PS5. The most it will do is cause me to borrow both a PS5 and the game from a friend. And if I couldn't, then I just wouldn't play the game. Either way Sony isn't getting my money. The only way they will is if I can buy the game for PC.
I've had consoles every generation since the Atari 2600. I'm done. I don't wanna get any more. I just wanna play all those games on PC.
With consoles I had a rule: there must be at least 5 must-have exclusives on the system for me to even start thinking about buying the system. PS5 already lost there. Even if Sony keeps their games on PS5 from here on out, all the games I want to play on PS5 so far are already on PC (except one). So yeah a PS5 definitely isn't getting bought.
I don't see people that spent $2-3K on a gaming PC wanting to rush out and buy a $600 console just to play a couple games. If anything it'll create resentment towards Sony for pulling this nonsense.
Saw this last weekend and never got around to posting in our funniest pic thread, seems more relevant now.
Oh, how in the world will I cope with missing out on yet another "a woman did it all along" retcon?
If a company pisses me off, then I make a point of not buying their products. I never heard of anyone running to buy the company's product that they just got backstabbed by.
People may do it different ways to make sure the company suffers. They may buy it cheaper second hand. Or they may wait for a bundle deal with more value. What they won't do is pay launch price.
You'd think that but id be wrong I think. People buy from scalpers and crap like that, are boycotts even possible I want to say ' anymore' but have they ever? I dont mean fear of a minor easily substituted product, like I can see if some brand of ham caused like a bunch of deaths, like even children... and in turn that info needs to spread tremendously and be like brand X the plague ham or something, then yeah, I can see a ' boycott' working there, and woulnd even be a boycott per se, more like a backlash... But people reacting and mass change over something like what sony did, nah, no way, many will buy the console if they love the game.
Can you ask AI to make that make more sense please... because wow..
But how would you know its not ai.
I'm still waiting for Sony to make God of War worth my time on PC. There is only so much im willing to pay for a 20-30hr play it once type experience and I'll say it's a lot less than what Sony is offering.
I paid $10 for brand-new physical copy of GoW4 on PS4. I only bought it on PS4 cuz this was before we found out that Sony was actually gonna start putting their IPs on PC. But yeah not grabbing a 2nd copy on PC for more than what I paid for it on PS4. I'm still waiting for a good sale price for GoW5: Ragnarok on PC, as I've seen the PS5 version get pretty low ($20 and less) multiple times, and that was a few years ago.
No, boycotts never worked. It's just trying to get other people to not buy a product because of your grievances. Backlash however works, because everyone involved is invested in the grievance.
Scalpers are a symptom of scarcity, not the problem itself. If scalpers didn't exist you'd still not be able to buy the product in high demand as it would just be out of stock all the time.