Days Gone was a reasonably fun game, but it lacked the polish and hook that has become associated with Sony’s first-party exclusives for the PS4. Interestingly, the game did have bigger launch weeks than both God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn in Japan and was the best-selling physical game in the United Kingdom when it launched.
It could also be the strongest clue yet about Sony’s intentions with regard to the PC platform in the future. Death Stranding moving to PC seems to be due to the simple fact that Hideo Kojima was simply too big a star to need to agree to a true exclusivity deal, and Horizon Zero Dawn becomes an obvious choice to try on PC as it shares the Decima engine with Death Stranding, so there is a degree of overlapping expertise.
Days Gone could be a strong indicator that Sony is testing the profitability of their games on the PC platform in a serious fashion as it attempts to figure out exactly what its plan of attack will be for the next generation. With Microsoft taking huge steps to improve the Xbox brand’s presence on PC, it means a much larger potential player base, and profits, for games that end up tied to Microsoft through exclusivity deals.
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