I'm glad that the game did well; Kojima taking his trademark weirdness-with-something-to-say and starting a new IP, especially one with unique mechanics, was a gamble. However, despite that I'm interested enough and plan to pick it up for PC (thankfully via Steam - I'm very glad they didn't take the Faustian bargain of working with the structure fire afflicted on open gaming that is Epic Store),t its disappointing that it is coming out so late compared to the console release.
Don't get me wrong i'm glad it is arriving at all (and fully encourage Sony and Kojima to continue PC releases), but on principle I'm opposed to exclusives-by-contract, timed or otherwise. Worse, if a game takes a significant amount of time (I can see an argument made for a month or three later release at most, if needed to provide QA/testing for PC-specific settings and features) delay before it releases on PC (if it does at all), there's sometimes an accusation (especially by Japanese studios, though this is thankfully changing) that not enough people bought the title, there was too much piracy, or something else happened that made sales come in lower than expected.
However, there is rarely any self-criticism that the core reason for less interest was that the PC release came much later and therefore was out of sync with the hype, often sold for full price despite the fact that by a year post launch discounts are expected, and other aspects (ie Catherine Classic doing poorly on PC was treated as a justification for not bringing Catherine Full Body to PC, but considering that most PC players knew that Full Body was in the works they had rather intended to just wait for the "good version" - another example of a lose-lose corporate mentality to blame this on the platform.) creates issues. Treating PC players as second-class users, yet expecting them to open their wallets in gratitude is never a good idea.
I'm sure there are many who would have loved to pick up Death Stranding on PC nearly concurrent with the rest of the launch last year, but I'm still glad its coming to PC. Hopefully KojimaProductions will create a high quality PC focused port and be reasonable regarding how they define success for the PC version.
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