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(Console exclusive means it's coming to Switch + PC, but not on other consoles on release)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Boo you whore.

Glad I have a PC. Again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

im pretty sure I have it on steam as early access and im waiting for the full release to finish the story....

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Great, but I'll keep playing it on my steamdeck. With your console exclusivity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just got mine a week ago. I haven't turned on my PC since lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I got my deck, my instant library of things to play due to old Humble Bundle purchases was staggering.

My backlog would take several lifetimes to complete, and I still by new games because "sale!"

I need to DL all of them before society collapses and there's no access...

"But there was time now..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

$1-10 now is preparation for the future

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Having already purchased the Steam early access version, I was ready to be pissed off until I read further in.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

I'm sure they're getting a ton of cash from Nintendo.

I'll stick to the steam deck and recommend it to anyone who asks.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Considering that 99% of other "portable consoles" on the market are actually handhelds pc, which can download it fron Steam... No. It won't be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope they're prepared to have a fraction of the success they would have if they didn't continue the absurd concept of console exclusivity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s also on steam, like already you can buy it in Early Access

I don’t think many people who aren’t to Hades are like “aw fuck I can’t play it on my PS5??”

The three Xbox users are in shambles though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Ah, didn't know that it's on Steam. Well, there's that at least. Still not a fan of console exclusivity either way, though.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I needed to check. "console exclusive" means it's coming to pc and both switches.

sauce (kotaku)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

in OP's link, scroll once, see "latest update"

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That seems like a questionable move tbh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's no different from Hades 1. It was exclusive to PC and Switch at launch, then released for other consoles 11 months later. If it worked out for that game, I don't see why it wouldn't for this one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only thing I know about Hades is its on Steam and every character it shows is chiseled as hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Every character in the first game is hot. Every character in the second game is also hot.

Then there's Dionysus.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I suspect that Nintendo is offering them more than enough money for exclusivity to make it no longer 'questionable' for Supergiant, at least from a financial perspective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd imagine the Hades IP makes good money on Steam. It must be a guap unless I am dead wrong.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hades 2 is only console exclusive to the Switch 2; it's also releasing on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Ah, yeah I didnt gleam that from reading the word console a million times in the article. Thank you. It makes sense now. Nintendo money + Steam sales.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Methinks that's why Silksong has taken forever to come out. Will likely be a console exclusive as well for a time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Silksong hasn't taken much longer than og hollow Knight. They just announced it too early

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We already know it's going to be on Switch 2 and Xbox, including Game Pass day 1. It's not going to be exclusive, but at the very least, Microsoft paid handsomely for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh meaning PlayStation will have to wait then

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Microsoft is bringing their own games to PlayStation at this point. It's possible it's kept off PlayStation, but I doubt it. Team Cherry knows what their game is worth, and that would be a massive buyout.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Does the Steam Deck count as a PC or as a console?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

PC, because console has less games than PC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Both. The future isn't in consoles, it's in console-like PCs. Just wait until Valve drops the Fremont, I believe it'll change absolutely everything.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The dictionary definition of "console" would include the deck AND gaming PCs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The line in bluring, but the Deck can run Windows if you want, it’s a PC stuffed into a controller (and that’s not a dig at it, either)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

In this case, it counts as a PC, but given that you have to ask the question, I think that speaks volumes.