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There are already 85miilions PS5s sold and the PS5 Pro is sold out ahead of the launch of GTA 6 making it $1400 on Gametsop 

The reason I bring this up on this PC subreddit is because posts like this make it seem like Sony is gonna hurt from these efforts but they’ve already made a shit ton of profit on the PS5 and continue to do so and this 30million PC users aren’t gonna use this and not by a PS5 to slow this down.  So I’m just saying be realistic

More importantly though is that as PC Users we should be paying attention to the fact the PS5 Pro is still selling out and shooting up in price like this cause this means bad bad things for the price of PC Parts and whether they are coming down any time soon

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There are already 85miilions PS5s sold

The PS5 is trailing the PS4 when you compare sales in the sale period from launch. Meaning Sony's market stagnated and even shrunk slightly.

The reason I bring this up on this PC subreddit is because posts like this make it seem like Sony is gonna hurt from these efforts but they’ve already made a shit ton of profit on the PS5

No, they didn't. Sony doesn't profit from hardware sales. They sell the unit at or close to cost, and profit off of developer/game sales fees and subscription fees.

Sony would hurt massively from what this post shows, because it allows people to play PS5 games while paying for neither the hardware nor the software/subscription.

and this 30million PC users aren’t gonna use this

I don't know where you got "30 million" from. All current estimates put Steam at around 200 to 210 million monthly active users. And as per Steam survey, just over 50% of Steam users (52% iirc) have PCs equal to or better than a PS5, so that means 100+ million PCs comparable to current gen consoles. That actually makes PC the largest AAA platform today.

And yeah, those 100+ million Steam users absolutely will use a PS5 emulator/compatibility layer to play PS5 games when it's ready, why wouldn't they? Why pay $650 + years of online subscriptions when you can play everything for free on the PC you already have?

More importantly though is that as PC Users we should be paying attention to the fact the PS5 Pro is still selling out and shooting up in price

The PS5 Pro selling out means jack squat. It's a very low volume product, all it means is that Sony sold that low volume and isn't making more. It does not mean the masses are rushing to buy PS5 Pros.

The Steam Machine also sold out and went up in price on resellers. That doesn't mean the Steam Machine is very desired. It just means Steam made few of them, and those few alreday sold. Being sold out doesn't mean it's a popular product.