>tl;dr: PlayStations selling poorly and no first-party titles
>they spent $3.6B on bungie, making matters worse
>low chip supplies and bad logistics aren't helping either (some places are overstocked, some out of stock)
Reminder they're making a lot of first-party titles on PC, it's all downhill from here and you'll see shills blaming Game Pass.
https://www.dualshockers.com/sony-cfo-doesnt-deny-possibility-of-ps5-price-increase/
>Though there came positive news such as a total of 21.7 million total PS5 units sold, overall, the video games division [...] reported declines year-over-year. Sales overall were down 11.7% and operating income down 30.5%.
>As transcribed by VGC, when CFO Hiroki Totoki was asked if they were considering raising the PS5’s price, they stated that “at this point in time there is nothing specific I can share with you about prices.”
>The previously mentioned declines were mostly attributed to a decrease in sales of first-party and third-party titles, as well as their acquisition of Destiny developer Bungie; Bungie was sold for a reported $3.6 billion USD. Furthermore, Q1 2022 didn’t see the release of any major PlayStation exclusive. Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7, both released in the prior fiscal year, in February and March respectively.
>B-But you stupid chud, w-why would t-they raise prices?!
>This refusal to comment is raising more concerns than usual, as it comes off Meta’s recent announcement that they’d be upping the price of their Meta Quest 2 for $100 USD due to rising manufacturing costs
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PS died after 2 for me.
PS3 4 and 5 have no games.
yep
>so whatever you're holding onto right there...
>that's your old life... you gotta let that go
>I'm just giving you a chance at... rebirth!
>sales_chart_pc.jpg
>I just loved that last part.
explain this image
sony is going third party soon
After paying shills to beg ninty to do so for a whole decade, they "lost" and shitty latino homosexuals who sonygayged all day for years will be taking helium to die off
Sony after releasing Horizon on PC, got 35 dollars.
Those numbers are pretty pathetic, Baldur's Gate outsold all those titles within 1 year of it's release in 98.
fixed
You know the 3rd one is a estimate right? And looking at the previous 2 years is a very shit one done by some very shit accountants
So not only did they lose major games to microsoft, they will increase their price HAHAHAHAAHHAA
I thought companies lower their prices when consumers aren't buying?
They're still selling out instantly, raising it would be smart from a business perspective but it's fricking suicide unless they drop it back down a year later because consumers will be pissed and buy a Series X. If Nintendo is smart they release their next system at a premium price initially, let it be sold out constantly for 2 years, then drop the price or introduce a Lite.
But people are still buying the PS5. It may not reach the hands of consumers but that is of no concern to Sony as long as they can sell the unit to someone. The main problem is the bill of materials (BOM) and making back the money spent on building each PS5. They were breaking even last year but it's uncertain as to whether that has held true with the continuing chip shortage and price increases for everything.
>It may not reach the hands of consumers but that is of no concern to Sony as long as they can sell the unit to someone.
Except that's a huge fricking problem for Sony. They make money not from selling consoles but from selling digital games, microtransactions and PS+ subscriptions. It doesn't look good for them long term because on one side PC has been on a renaissance lately and directly steal market share from Playstation on one side and on the other Xbox beats them in terms of value on the console offering.
I know, but I wanted to focus mostly on the physical unit itself as that was what the original post and article pertains to. The driver of Sony's revenue going down in their own ecosystem is a problem that's separate and arguably the more pressing and important issue for Jim Ryan.
I really hope they continue with their moronic strategy. Every lost PS5 sale has a compounding effect with massive ramifications, someone getting a gaming PC because he couldn't buy a PS5 and sees that PC ports are coming = years of lost revenue for Sony.
They never made that much money on hardware anyways, PC is a viable strategy for Sony where hardware is basically a loss leader for their ecosystem for some time now since the PS3. Jim Ryan isn't a gamer but the shareholders and board of directors didn't put him in the CEO position if he didn't know how to run the business and do what is necessary to keep it running smoothly.
Short term profits vs long term success. Jim Ryan is your classic shitty CEO that knows nothing about what his company sells and runs the company like a glorified accountant.
Lmao, thats not true, they have production issues due shortages for once, and they needed to sell software too which flopped because the few sales stuck to scalpers
Something like the switch is selling high lately, PS5 was a Giga flop, was as much as a flop as the FLOPPING wiener from the niggurd that fricks Dunkey's wife every night
>that's not true, they have production issues
Are you questioning what Sony published in their financial statements which have to be legally true where they were increasing supply for the holiday and on track with their target production numbers? You will need some extrodinary strong proof which you most certainly don't have to disprove that.
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/22q1_sonyspeech.pdf
I was not implying that was the case, but I also should've worded it better where I meant that not every PS5 unit reaches a consumer. And 15% is extraordinarily high for a product and a big loss for Sony where 15% of their PS5 owners aren't generating money for the company.
>It may not reach the hands of consumers
There is still no proof that the majority of console sales come from scalpers. Even at peak scalper frenzy, nothing credible shows the percentage of scalpers being over 15%. While even 15% is still high, it doesn't pain the same picture.
Probably because the PS5 digital isn't making a profit and is actually more likely making massive losses for sony. The ps5 disk is making a profit though but if they increase the price of the digital to decrease their losses it'll make it look like shit value if there's only like $50 between disk and digital so they'd have to increase the disk price too. They should have just gone the xbox route with 2 different consoles with different specs because if you followed the build up of these consoles there was a leaked investors video from xbox where they said they purposely went with 2 different hardware configurations because there is no sign that prices will decrease like they did in previous gens where big node shrinks were available and other stuff.
Doesn't always work out if they're not getting enough systems produced to get an economy of scale going.
That's what really killed the Wii U, the hardware was custom, had no other applications, and couldn't be produced in significant quantities to allow the price to be brought down.
With custom hardware the larger the batch size and the more frequent the orders the cheaper the bulk orders can be. I think Sony and Microsoft both fricked themselves over this gen by aiming too high.
Sony and MS going forward needs to adopt the nintendo strategy by using an already offered hardware choice(obviously not ARM based). This could cut down costs but obviously you can't tout which is stronger anymore.
PS5 is sold out everywhere you fricking moron
Stop huffing Ganker's farts
we can see your samegayging shill
All the normal reseteratard fangirls who defend snoy here are already pretending they were always pc gays and are lying they pirate the competition now as a cope
Only the shills remain, snoy flopped and sold no games, they are dying and going under after appealing to twitter types like you, deal with it
Scalpers aren't consumers. Sony tried this shit and now they're fricked as the games sales prove no one has a PS5
You raise the price when you sell less.
Scalpers are buying them in mass, so it would be wise for Sony to increase the price of the PS5 to make money off hardware sales instead of selling them at a near loss because Sony isn't making much money from PS5 game sales. By doing this scalpers get a taste of their own dirty tactics.
>Hey, i need you to publish an article with this title specifically. This will make tons of idiots go out and buy our system in fear that the price will go up
lmao why would anyone buy this shit? it has no games
>fails anyway because the shops cant get enough, not to mention the rampant scalping
hurrr durrr they didn't say they weren't doing it so that means they are doing it.
>redditgayging
post your meat curtain so we can see if youre rapeable material, pig
seething
>be sony
>raise prices of everything except PlayStation
>Ganker gays will defend Sony when they're forced to raise PSN evem higher to offset the high costs of manufacturing
>"hurr durr I only understand why X shit game is kino and Y popular game is le bad"
>selling poorly
>sold out everywhere
Fricking pick one. Holy shit. I still can’t buy these anywhere.
that's funny because I must have flipped over a hundred of them
>sold out
>when it has no stock beforehand and sales showed its a lie
>still lies and samegays anyway
HAHAHAHAHA
COPE AND KYS, PAID SNOY SHILL
SNOYDOOMED LMFAO
Sony didn't announce the price of the PS5 until Microsoft announced the price of the Series X. Sony has been bleeding money since.
only the digital edition loses money. Most likely if they were raising any prices it would just be putting a 2TB version of the digital edition. They can charge extra for more storage by using Sony official branded ssd. Just like Nintendo raised the price of the Switch to $350 by selling an OLED version.
HOW is Bungo worth 3.8b
>PS1 - Absolute metric frick tonne of games
>PS2 - Fricking lots of games
>PS3 - Hardly any games
>PS4 - Almost no games
>PS5 - Literally no games
wtf happened???????????????????????
Every 3rd party developer went multiplat.
cost of making video games rising
morons fixating on muh realismz
Video game developers realized that making exclusives is moronic and they get more money by being multiplat
And Sony doesn't have enough money to keep bribing devs into being on their platform. I'm unsure how Sony will convince GoW studio Santa Monica to make GoW 3 a PS exclusive, Sony simply lacks the money to make it worthwhile to them after having the engine ported to PC...
I wonder if this is what it was that made the third-party industry averse to PS5, since SOMETHING seemingly tipped them off against Sony this generation before COVID and supply chain issues could even be factors.
Steam opened up the Chinese market for them. That's why all the devs are rushing to release titles on PC. It's incredibly hard to get foreign games approved for the Chinese market but the loophole of releasing them on Steam with Chinese language support and having the Chinese use a VPN to buy them allows them to not have to worry about getting their game through all the regulations typically imposed on Chinese releases. The other loophole is the Chinese buying consoles from other regions that aren't region locked and then importing Taiwanese copies of games(or buying digitally) but the Chinese are mostly PCgays so Steam is more lucrative.
That's why everything 3rd party gets released on PC, the Chinese market is too big to ignore.
PC won.
can't wait for consoles to die off
games like xenobale 3 would be so much better on PC
It will never happen and Nintendo will never be a PC publisher. Cope with that how you will.
they don't have to be when current emulators can run any switch game tbh
Which is a result of Nintendo's shitty security leaving a day 1 vulnerability on day 1 Switches. Emulation only progresses rapidly when CFW does. This also applies to the Wii U. Without that, you'll be looking at longer and longer emulator dev times for any Nintendo console after the Switch.
will you say the same for the next nintendo console? especially if the launch doesn't frick up like the switch did
doesn't matter because I'm emulating XBC3 right now
I wouldn't rule Nintendo eventually having a Game Pass of their own for modern titles, maybe with the launch of their next system for people to catch up on the Switch titles they might have missed out on, as a way to hype up sequels released on the new system. When that happens I can see them eventually having a PC client to stream those games, the future of gaming is going to be subscription services from all 3 companies and Nintendo is already no stranger to cloud versions of games.
So far they've been acting like Disney of old. Nintendo has been very protective of their IPs and believes that the key to long term success is to maintain and exclusive and premium brand image. If they abandon their traditional philosophy I expect them to become mega israelites and prostitute their games everywhere until nobody cares anymore and they become just another 3rd party publisher.
They're really going all in on all these theme park locations too, there was at least 5 confirmed the last time I checked and they're going to have movies releasing soon. It would make sense for them to prostitute their franchises out to get more people to want to go to Super Nintendo World and their movies.
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>triggred samegay trying to gloat over having no money but still being such a cukkboy she still tries to play the game she whines and shits on for consolewargayging
Holy pathetic coping, to think you shilled for so long, begging and offering your pusssy to people to stop buying Mario and now Switch sells massively, nobody pirates outside of some third world countries since everyone enjoys the games and snoy died instead
And now you went from fellation to a shitty ps4 to pretending you even own a pc, lmao
Go feature in a gore video, shitskin, if your only coping is to spite whine about something you wanna play anyway, and its a sjw troony game no less may as well suicide
>capital T
>can't into samegays
gb2reddit
>It will never happen
Traditional consoles already ended, the current crop are basically all commodity hardware running custom OSes to make them walled garden devices. Don't be surprised if Microsoft goes to a streaming-only 'virtual console', Sony exits, and only Nintendo is left along with Valve to push gaming on local devices.
>Nintendo will never be a PC publisher
Nintendo will never be a Windows publisher, there is a difference.
>Traditional consoles already ended, the current crop are basically all commodity hardware running custom OSes to make them walled garden devices.
Which only aids the argument that they're here to stay, consoles have only gotten easier to develop for and multiplats are easier than ever to make. There will always be a market for a "stupid PC" whose entire custom OS is completely operable with only a controller.
>Don't be surprised if Microsoft goes to a streaming-only 'virtual console'
I would be extremely surprised considering all the Dolby licenses they put effort and money towards specifically for Xbox, all the BC efforts specifically for Xbox, and for how their streaming solution is done via a stripped-down Series X server blade. Not to mention the US' dogshit access to internet, ISP caps, etc, it's going to take a long time for a "streaming-only" future to be possible which is a hard lesson Stadiagays have also learned.
>Nintendo will never be a Windows publisher, there is a difference.
Nintendo will always strive to make their own hardware that they have the final say on and are in charge of, be it handheld or hybrid console.
>There will always be a market for a "stupid PC"
That market only exists because Microsoft cripples Windows to prevent it from functioning that way. With Microsoft losing control of the personal computing device market, Windows is now under 30%, it seems unlikely they'll be able to preserve that. This is in fact why Microsoft is buying up publishers so they can side step no longer owning the hardware platform to own the streaming platform and guarantee themselves reliably monthly subscription revenue.
>how their streaming solution is done via a stripped-down Series X server blade
Because that's still the best way to implement this kind of service, Stadia also uses a AMD sourced uniform server board. Doesn't mean they'd release the hardware to end users.
>a hard lesson Stadiagays have also learned.
Stadia's only issue was Google didn't money hat the publishers to force them into an ala carte subscription service. Microsoft is obviously not making that mistake.
>Not to mention the US' dogshit access to internet
Online games are already largely designed around the limitations of shitty internet, and as in the past mass market consumers will accept a lower quality of game for increased convenience.
>Nintendo will always strive to make their own hardware
Probably, but that doesn't mean that they won't release games on other platforms, which they have in fact done, or that they won't partner with other companies for that hardware, Switch is basically an Nvidia shield device after all.
It seems doubtful Nintendo will ever make the mistake of competing with themselves by having multiple systems on the market, but they have in fact published software on other platforms that served market segments that they don't have access to with their in-house hardware.
Just don't expect Nintendo to ever do business with Sony or Microsoft.
>With Microsoft losing control of the personal computing device market, Windows is now under 30%
Is that including phones and shit like handheld android computers used in business?
>Is that including phones
Yes. Do you really think if Microsoft had been successful at capturing the phone market they wouldn't be counting phones?
>android computers used in business?
You realize the vast majority of Windows PCs are dedicated office machines?
Windows is also trending down when you just look at desktops. From over 95% 20 years ago to under 66% today in the US.
Worse, from a business perspective nobody in the enthusiast gaming community pays for Windows.
That means Microsoft has no incentive to improve Windows as a gaming platform.
Calm the frick down gaylord I was just clarifying I understood what you were saying
you're missing the fact that Microsoft has infinite money to burn. Losing money on hardware doesn't bother them, and they are smart enough to realize gamers like hardware.
They wouldn't have made the XSX backwards compatible with 360 discs otherwise. They understand a streaming only future will alienate all their gamers - a lesson learned from the Xbone.
Also is windows really losing the personal competing market? to who? apple drones or linux trannies are really the majority?
>you're missing the fact that Microsoft has infinite money to burn.
They don't, they operated on that mind set for a long time, and throwing money at the problem hasn't solved it. Microsoft has to continually generate increased shareholder value, and burning money to always be third-place in the end user market isn't contributing to that goal like cloud services is.
Even Microsoft has their limits when it comes to money pits as seen with their dropping the Trident web rendering engine. I know nobody wants to admit it, but IBM was once in the position Microsoft is in today, seemingly an unstoppable juggernaut who has dominated the market for decades, but they could easily see the same thing IBM did and realize that they'd be more profitable dropping out of the end user market.
>Also is windows really losing the personal competing market?
Yes, not sure why this is surprising. They really had nowhere to go but down after completely dominating the industry.
It doesnt matter their consoles are laughable emulable
see
okay and?
And Nintendo will never be a PC publisher, as my prior post said. And emulation will only get tougher for anything after the Switch.
Sure thing, whatever helps you cope.
Likewise.
I own a Switch though. PC/Swtich is the mot popular combo on Ganker. Your posts basically boil down to "next time you'll see", bullshit people have been spouting since the Wii.
No one worth a damn has ever said a Nintendo console won't be hard to crack open because the security has never been any good until the Switch revisions. Console companies only get better at refining their security over time, even PS4 CFW leaves a lot to be desired compared to how simple and permanent it is on a PS3.
>Cope with that how you will
okay I will buy playing new releases at higher res and higher fps
they can dish it out but can't take it
It would be kino if Nintendo teamed up with Valve to do something.
Sadly it doesn't seem very likely now that the deck exists.
>tfw Nintendo Steamdeck
Doesn't have to be an entire console, just some kind of partnership.
It teamed up with Nvidia so there's that. They're aleniating the fanbase to sell RTX remasters.
Never say never
>Waaaa waaah nintendo evul cause I say so diediedie go third party waaaaa *eats cat meat*
>Nintendo: sell billions, still around
>b-b-b-b-ut I ... I will pilate uuuuu that will show you *gets raped by evangelic sheppards*
>Nintendo: still does billion and even gays who hate it find ways to play their games
Lmfao, you shoving pencil up your pussy in rage but still play them
No wonder youll die a virgin, girl, you lactate against BASED KINO MARIO
you have to be above the age to 18 to post here
Snoy failing Japan has broken you.
>coping sony fanboy is faking to shill pc solely to deal with the anal rape of going under, even tho you shat on it for years before
>so triggered she diverts subject like a shill and tries to whine as if nintendoomed instead even though they still sell like water and only snoy is dying
Lmao no, Ninty is still doing massively and not close to changing, and their games are better than any multiplat, graphicgayging like yours doesnt matter to real people, only tards like you who dont play games and use them as sports team since youre to gay to like football like a real Man.
Nintendo consoles arent going anywhere due the niches they cover and xbone has funds to keep their consoles too, cope and dillate
post your breasts instead if youre this triggered lol
>make small game
>put it onPc
>frickton of sales
>make AAA game
>put it on PC
>frickton of sales
>make failed abortion of an exclusive
>pathetic sales
>put it up on PC a few months later
>frickton of sales
Third party will NEVER be exclusive again. You can thank sony themselves for that
They got wienery and made moronic decisions that only square enix are with them because they pay their development of games
I want to give keeley hawes some pusy lickings!
cor
>PS3
>any games
Uncharted and TLoU unironically.
sony shills as raped as pokebarneygays who hate rpgs but fake like MH clones to poser up as nerd gays lmao
I think I could probably list almost 100 PS1 games I'd want to play of the top of my head and probably about 50 PS2 games but only maybe 10 PS3 games and no more than 5 PS4 games and Zero PS5 games. Maybe my taste just doesnt align with modern gaming.
Returnal is actually pretty good, you should play it when it comes to PC.
No it isn't. I played it at a friend's place for a few hours, and it gets old fast. It's a rougelike for people who have never played one.
>Maybe my taste just doesnt align with modern gaming
No shit it doesn't. I wonder who does modern gaming even appeal to? Who the fricks looks at the current state of the industry and gets excited? Even the Playstation brand is entirely carried by Spider Man and Nu God of War, nobody liked TLoU2 and nobody bought Horizon Forbidden West.
It's not about taste, nostalgia or age.
Modern games are simply nothing more than a pure garbage. Don't let shills convince you otherwise.
ps3 had nogaems and yet in the first 3 years I could actually name a handful of titles I'd wanna play. Yet PS5 is nearing that same point and there is NOTHING. Since PS4 sony is selling consoles on AAA multiplats alone now, since they won over the US audience and became the go-to for cowwadoody and divegrass/handegg. Yet they also made Xbox the underdog and they literally drilled through over the course the years leading up to the nextbox/series X launch. Gamepass for them was the piercing point. Now they're gonna keep going up while Sony got way too wienery.
>Maybe my taste just doesnt align with modern gaming.
Modern gaming is shit don't let anyone tell you otherwise, take it from a 7th gen zoomer, while i don't agree with your comment about the ps3 but i can overall understand why people don't like the 7th gen, i would argue that it's way better than the 8th gen.
It's over, Nvidia is gonna have to drop out of the GPU market.
oh no PC is fricking dead.
Will Sony and Microsoft delete my accounts if I dont log in for ages? I havent logged into my xbox account since 2016 and my PSN account since last year
If you spent money on either of them they won't delete it. I just logged in to my PSN that used for PSP for playing on need for speed take the city or whatever it was, and hadn't logged into my PSN account for PSP since early 2007.
Ah ok thanks. For some reason I thought I read they delete inactive accounts
Why would a CFO have any involvement in pricing on the PS5? CFOs are usually basement dwelling accountant ~~*nerds*~~ that just stare at spreadsheets all day and everyone else makes the decisions
>writing like a c**t
I bet you came here to market the femcel games they do too
breasts or GTFO, astroturfer
Show how useless being a CFO is to actual operations. I am a CFO sadly so I know this.
i dare them
i fricking double dare them
Are consoles seriously going to die this generation lol. It seems like even normal average people buy gaming pc now. Like all my brothers have gaming pcs now and these were normal people who only played on playstation or xbox until this gen
normies getting on to PC gaming is almost entirely thanks to people on youtube now. It's just another trend to follow for them, instead of back then when PC gaming by itself had enough merit to convince people to try it.
It's been downhill for a while. Steam sales have been shit for at least around 6 or 7 years now. They used to be waaaaay cheaper than console sales but now console games go on sale quicker and cheaper thanks to physical copies still being a thing.
>They used to be waaaaay cheaper than console sales
It took years even back then for them to reach physical console sales levels. I could buy even AA games at $40 within a month or two when Steam wouldn't hit $40 until a summer sale or a winter sale if that.
they would be basically kneeling to the SeXbox if they did that
Cfo?
Chief frickingup officer?
Odds on Sony and Microsoft quitting the console business after this gen?
0%. Operating your own walled garden is extremely lucrative, especially when it's for already established brands with sizable fanbases.
Sony? 30%
Microsoft? 5% maybe, probably 0%
>sjw trannies went from promoting the Last of Femcels, to Horizon Femcel with Downs to even troony femcel games from ninty when they submited to Fink
>it was so bad they killed the PS and now they wanna pretend they play on pc
kek, how femcels kill everything they touch
Why ever buy a playstation? everything is on pc anyway
and if you really want to consolegay then you just get an xbox for gamepass, which also lets you play on pc anyway
>already having tough as shit time getting PS5s out onto shelves
>increase the price to make sales even less likely
??????????
the nintodlerz are crying again
they do this every time you mention the ability to emulate switch games the moment they come out
They should increase the games instead
>laugh at sony thread turns into cry over nintendo thread
they're mad because they paid for a game you can play for free on better hardware
simple as
The only reason to touch Snoy shit was the PS4 for Bloodbourne. Bought a PS4 from Walmart and rented Bloodbourne then beat it and returned the PS4 for a full refund in like 8 days.
People are too harsh on PS4. It had a good run, especially earlier when Japanese were still hesitant about porting their games to PC. It's only in the recent years that Playstation went to shit, every game got ported, 1st party became shit, company started promoting pozz and enforcing censorship.
>CFO
>>they spent $3.6B on bungie, making matters worse
I will literally never understand the moronation they willingly choose to follow to make this purchase. Did they think they were getting halo out of it or something?
If the Microsoft deal to buy Activsion goes through can I pester Phil Spencer on twitter to buy the rights to Marvel Ultimate Alliance again?
I was a huge PlayStation fan from the PS through PS4 but I am unsure if I will even throw my hat into this generation. I feel like the only reason to buy a PS4 at this point, is to play your PS4 games on a better console. In my honest opinion, the PS1 and PS2 generations were by far the best eras
Babbage's was my first vidya store.
I can still smell that mall popcorn wafting in the door.
Consoles now are a joke. The Switch wouldn't be shit without it's portability.
I'd laugh if they start get scalped for 2000+, Sony deserves to go bankrupt.
>PS5 is too expensive
>Wait for price to decrease
>Sony increases PS5's price
Sony you are going the wrong way. You will get less sales not more.
The only people buying from Sony are scalpers. By increasing their price to match the scalpers resale price there won't be any problem, since people that want to own a PS5 are already willing to pay that increased price.
Then the scalpers will just buy all the stock at the increased price and scalp the console even more.
This. What Sony needs to do is adopt the system Valve has for the Steam Deck.
Sell only through their own site.
You get a single reservation at a time for an address.
Everybody has their place in line.
You get your system for MSRP when your number is called.
Sure there will still be people scalping the system, but it will be more difficult and they'll have less ability to walk into a store and buy out all of the stock.
The main issue is that they have to keep relations with retailers, physical and digital, which is the thing that throws a wrench into the whole system Valve has. Retail relations are difficult to manage and you can't control what they do with your product once they order it in bulk from you. I do agree that for the consoles you can buy directly from Sony themselves, they have screwed up spectacularly and should be adopting a system like Valve.
>Reminder they're making a lot of first-party titles on PC
This is the logical conclusion for expensive consoles which sell at a loss or razor thing margins at best. If selling the hardware isn't really profitable, why sell hardware when there's a huge customer base out there interested in your software but also willing to get hardware on their own so you don't need to deal with that shit? Selling games on PC just brings in extra money for not a lot of extra effort.
Rea talk, what were they thinking with the PS5's design?
They were thinking
>Damn, I should have tried Aderall and Vodka a LONG time ago.
Their earnings report was pretty shocking
Learning from Netflix, I see.
>Did not go the moron route of muh realism games costing 200 million to make
>Second best way to play indie games behind PC
The witch would be perfect if it did not have 2013 hardware for CPU.
>People aren’t buying software and are just playing their old PS4 games
>Let’s just raise the price of the console
How about actually making GAMES and not pricing them $20 dollars higher than before just because the 4 games you already have are first party garbage? Horizon is on sale at 25% off and is still higher than most games at release.
So... what's the sales figures for the X-Box equivalent? I hear a lot of talk about PS5 this, PS5 that, never in stock, hard to get, etc. but I... hear oddly little about the direct competitor this generation. What's going on with it?
It's in stock now so people who want it have it. That and Microsoft is banking off PC now so it's hard to tell where they really stand.
Sounds like MS made huge mistake then. PS5 is quite vulnerable right now, but instead of MS presenting an alternative, the views seem to be that PS5 is basically a monopoly right now despite it trickling to the customer base so slowly. MS fricked up the previous generation too with that whole "the alternative to XBOX1 is the XBOX360" fiasco, but this generation seems even worse.
Their alternative is the Series S from the low end. I wouldn't call that a mistake or failure, it's just addressing a different part of the market. Microsoft's biggest problem is lack or first party games but it's been doing well on the GamePass front and everything else from third party games to features.
>PS5 Price Increase
FOR WHAT? YOU'RE NOT SELLING SHIT!
You will pay $700 for a console and $70 for games
I already got mine at msrp I hope they do raise the price for everyone else
>Xbox trannies back on this week old clickbait
>Sony also crying to Brazil that they'll be fricked if Microsoft buys CoD and take it off of Playstation
If Sony's willing to start begging and crying in public like this, how bad has it been behind closed doors at Sony? And for how much longer? They can't even manipulate wording enough to claim to their shareholders that shit's 100% good with Playstation anymore either (at least not without dipping their toes into shareholder fraud).
maybe they should make them available for purchase first before raising the price on them
There is no way in hell the price wont be going up
EVERYTHING is gonna go up, inflation is out of control
It's just how the timing worked out that it coincided with every game regardless of platform getting years of delays. That provided them with enough time for the data to come in and realize the transition won't go so well, so providing versions for legacy systems would be a very good idea.
>i-i-it's all according to keikaku!!!
I bet Microsoft is cheering right now, seeing how the Xbox Series X and S are everywhere, and is not going up in price at all.
Sony's CFO needs to find a new job if he thinks this news is even remotely smart.
Microsoft is buying up studios left and right. Sony already fears the Activision acquisition, and the Skyrim 6 false marketing hasn't even begun yet. If they deny Sony the game, it's over for dudebros...which is actually excellent, get rid of them all! Sadly, Japan isn't in charge of Sony anymore, so it's not even a real secret strategy.
It's funny that scalpers are literally killing Sony. They buy up all the stock and let it sit in their garage until someone buys it off them. In the meantime, nobody is buying games for those shelved consoles. So when sales figures are reported back, the 3rd parties (Sony's bread & butter) see that they aren't performing like the previous generation, and now those parties now have to start looking elsewhere for their revenue. And with the loss of exclusives and games in general, now Sony has nothing to fall back into.
>debating a price hike on PS5s when they're already hard enough to find as it is for a lot people during some of the worst economic times the US has ever seen.
Great strategy you fricking morons.
>they spent $3.6B on bungie
I still can't believe they did this and they aren't even bound to only releasing on playstation
Everything being shit has made me go back and play PS1 and PS2 games I missed out on growing up. Antiquated controls dont bother me at all as I was used to that on the PS1 and N64 as a kid anyways.
Same (and vintage PC games), shit's been a blast.
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Another Xbox cuck cope thread.