No one recognizes SONY Interactive Entertainment today compared to a few years ago. To criticize the launch of PC games from its competitor, the Xbox, to the bet of doing the same as a source of additional profit to finance future projects. PlayStation’s idea? Encourage communication between your PlayStation and Steam through a series of incentives. Let’s see what they are.
It’s no secret that console makers make next to no money selling consoles because they have to do it on very low margins and it forces them to recover elsewhere. Either via royalties on games made by third parties on the platform, peripherals and even subscription services like PSN Plus. This is why the PC versions of games have become a capital plus for a SONY where, despite the prestige of its exclusives, they are not the most played on its own console. However, one of the clear objectives is to promote these titles on PC as long as they are known by more people and encourage sales of their console.
Additional content to link your PlayStation and Steam accounts
At this time, SONY has not confirmed what type of content this is, but everything indicates that it could be things like exclusive cosmetics and items for games from PlayStation Studios on PC.
Specifically, and about linking PlayStation and Steam accounts together. On the company’s US PC gaming site, the following can be read:
Link your Steam account to PlayStation Network to unlock extras in this game and other PlayStation Studios games. Plus, you’ll also get the latest news, updates, and game offers from PlayStation Studios for PC. All this by signing up with a SONY account for PlayStation Network or using an existing account. You can disable email and console messaging when you create your new account. For existing messages, you can disable messages via “notifications” in your account settings tab.
At the moment it is available in the version of Spider-Man Remastered with patch v1.1006.0.0, but upcoming game updates like Days Gone, God of War, Uncharted and all other games should get their corresponding update. We also don’t know if SONY requires PSN Plus to link the two accounts, since we don’t forget that it is possible to have an account on their network without having to pay the monthly subscription. In any case, it is still a marketing maneuver to promote their PC games. And it is that the exclusive PlayStation franchises, although they are very popular with the most loyal fans of the console, do not yet have the popularity that corresponds to their prestige.
