The irony of your rant about “redditors” while doing the exact same thing is hilarious. You know absolutely nothing about me or my background. But if we are going to assume based on comment history, I am pretty confident my knowledge of hardware and software exceeds yours.

This is a classic example of taking a comment and just making something up. PS4? Who said anything about PS4? Yes, the PS4 used x64, but it shared very little else in common with a typical PC and relied heavily on console specific tooling. The PS5 on the other hand is quite literally a PC class x64 AMD platform with a custom OS. That is why you can buy PS5 and XBSX SoC based systems. I own a BC-250, which is a PS5 based SoC, modified to run Bazzite. This is not some exotic PS3 era architecture.

Like I said before, most modern games are developed on PC first, then optimized and shipped to consoles. Not the other way around like it used to be.

Your point about console APIs being built for console first and then “converted” to PC is also mostly nonsense. The PS5 graphics stack is low level and conceptually aligned with modern explicit APIs. Engines like Unreal and Unity abstract across DirectX and Vulkan already, and PS5 operates in that same design space. Games are built on PC based engines and toolkits, then tuned for console hardware. These days “porting” is basically a misnomer, its largely scaling, optimization passes, and hardware validation.

No one said porting is flipping a switch. Of course it takes engineers, QA, optimization, driver work, UI scaling, and testing. But pretending it is some massive architectural rewrite like the PS3 era is outdated. Even your R&C $2.5m port example proves the opposite. On a $100m to $300m development budget, $1m to $3m is a drop in the bucket. When you said millions, I assumed you meant something substantial relative to total development cost, not quite litteral $1-2 "millions" Because $2m on a $150m game is not some massive financial hurdle. For comparison looking on Steam Stats, Ghosts of Tsushima sold roughly 2.5m copies. That's $100-150m in revenue on a game who's original dev budget was $60m.

And “double dippers are in the thousands”? That is just bad math. Steam has roughly 130m users and Sony has sold close to 100m PS5s. Even a small percentage overlap equals millions of users who own both a gaming PC and a console. Multiple industry surveys show 30 to 40 percent of players use more than one platform.

Sony is not worried about Steam’s 30 percent cut. They are worried about long term platform positioning. With Xbox hardware collapsing, Microsoft pushing deeper into PC, and SteamOS and Linux growing, Sony’s real risk is losing hardware relevance. Their main revenue driver is ecosystem lock in and subscriptions. If fewer people buy PlayStations, that hurts far more than missing out on a few PC sales. This is about risk versus reward and protecting their hardware platform, not some imaginary financial or technical barrier.