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The story
Sony has long championed the “Only On PS5” slogan, but on 5ch, posters are increasingly pointing out how few exclusive titles the console actually has. Only a handful of games were named — Demon’s Souls Remake, Astro Bot, Ghost of Yōtei — and with multiplayer titles increasingly getting PC ports too, many posts questioned what the point of even owning a PS5 is anymore. Partway through, the thread veered into a heated argument over digital game ownership rights.
Glad I didn’t buy a PS5.
Stop locking titles to specific hardware.
Selling PC versions only of the multiplayer games that need a big player count — doesn’t that basically admit the PS5 as a platform has already lost to gaming PCs?
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
❌ Don't own one
⭕ No need to buy one
Concord exclusive!!!
What a masterpiece lol (Concord, Sony's infamous flop shooter)
What's there to be jealous of, when the guy hyping up this hardware doesn't even own the console — let alone any of those "masterpieces"? Total armchair fan ("eapure" — talking big without ever actually playing) lol
If you can convince yourself people are jealous of THIS lineup, you're unstoppable.
Sony should just keep cranking out more Concords for the fanboys then.
Everyone who used to hype Jim up has vanished — are you people satisfied with this pathetic lineup now?
With the roughly ¥500 billion spent buying Bungie and the tens of billions poured into Concord and the like, how many great blockbuster games could they have made instead?
All that would've gotten us is more single-player-only trash like The Last of Us Part II.
Honestly, the lineup was weak to begin with.
Play them yourself and you'll see — they're mostly mediocre games that only look good.
It was still better back when SCEJ (Sony Computer Entertainment Japan) was still around.
Isn't it the other way around? Single-player games don't make much money, so they pivoted to live-service titles.
Single-player games don't even require a PSN account to begin with, so they never fit with Sony wanting to profit off PSN anyway.
Yeah, they worked hard at it for years, purely out of a drive to crush the Japan branch's influence.
Honestly, same here.
If it weren't Sony, there'd be new Toro games by now.
Xbox ("crap box") and Switch ("Buhitch," a mocking mashup of "oink" and Switch aimed at Nintendo fans) both have plenty of gaps in their own libraries to begin with.
Didn't you know these are effectively exclusives too? You guys can't even play Nioh, Rise of the Ronin, or Infinity yourselves lol
Demon's Souls Remake
Destruction AllStars (service already ended)
Astro Bot
Ghost of Yōtei
Saros
Wolverine
GOW: Laufey
Intergalactic
Way too few lol
That's about what Nintendo puts out in a year and a half.
Exclude the ones whose service has ended or that are no longer sold.
And exclude the ones that haven't even released yet, too.
This console is in its sixth year and has way too few exclusives… no wonder it's turned into one of those uniquely-Sony consoles that somehow sells well despite having nothing going for it in games.
PS5 fully exclusive titles:
Demon's Souls Remake
Astro Bot
Ghost of Yōtei
Saros
And that's after digging up titles whose service already ended or that came out way back at launch…
That's really all you've got?
And it's nothing but trash too lmaooo
There's zero reason to buy a PS5!!!!
They seriously bombed.
Since the "our fans just don't have buying power" excuse doesn't fly against Steam, that's a pretty brutal result.
Come on, that's a stretch. That's basically rejecting the whole concept of consoles.
That's about third-party titles.
Sony's tactics are just dirty.
There's no multiplayer title left that can beat Steam's numbers across the board.
Makes absolutely no sense — just a half-baked idea.
Because the real goal is mutual destruction.
Publishers are for-profit companies, so that's just not realistic.
If you wanted them to keep selling it, you should've bought more PC copies yourselves.
Same story with them dropping disc versions.
That's a totally separate issue from Sony officially telling you that you don't actually own your games lol
■ Schedule until online service ends
Announcement of online service and sales discontinuation (this notice)
May 26, 2026 (Tue), 11:00 PM
End of sales for all Destruction AllStars-related products, including "Destruction Points" (effective same time as this notice)
May 26, 2026 (Tue), 11:00 PM
*Any "Destruction Points" you currently hold can still be used in single-player mode until the online service ends.
End of Destruction AllStars online service and end of "Destruction Points" usability
November 26, 2026 (Thu), 12:00 AM
That argument again?
Do you seriously think Sony's the only one whose digital versions work differently, and that Nintendo or Steam give you full ownership with playability guaranteed forever?
No matter how many times it's explained, people just can't seem to grasp that digital licensing terms are basically the same everywhere.
Background and Key Points
Sony’s “Only On PlayStation” pitch dates back to the PS2/PS3 era, when Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ) drove a steady stream of first-party exclusives. SCEJ was folded into Sony Interactive Entertainment during a 2019-era restructuring, and under then-CEO Jim Ryan the studio slate pivoted toward live-service titles — the roughly ¥500 billion ($3.6B) Bungie acquisition (2022) and Concord, a hero shooter that shut down just two weeks after its 2024 launch, are the two projects posters cite as money sunk into that failed strategy. Since 2023, Sony has also begun porting flagship single-player games (God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man) to PC, which is the direct source of the “why even own a PS5” complaint — a console now in its sixth year with a genuinely short list of hardware-exclusive titles.
The thread doesn’t agree on where blame sits. One camp treats the thin lineup as proof PS5 has already lost to gaming PCs, and frames anyone defending the console as an “eapure” hyping hardware they don’t even own. Another camp pushes back that the lineup was mediocre even before the live-service pivot, and that single-player games were deprioritized because they don’t fit Sony’s push to monetize PSN accounts. A side argument over “you don’t really own your digital games” flares up around the Destruction AllStars shutdown notice but never gets resolved.
What the thread misses: digital licensing is not a Sony-specific quirk — Nintendo eShop and Steam licenses carry the same revocable-access terms, a point one poster raises near the end but that goes largely unanswered. It also never addresses that PS5 hardware sales have remained strong industry-wide despite the exclusives drought, so the “Sony already lost” framing is more a statement about content strategy than actual market performance.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Sad News] Only On PS5 — Harsh Criticism.”
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