@UltimateOtaku91 @Flaming_Kaiser with the increasing cost of game development, and current volatility in the gaming market, I would assume they are thinking long and hard about their exclusivity strategy moving forward, as none of their games have hit the numbers required, only being on PlayStation.
This was true of FF16, Forspoken and now FF7 Rebirth. With the way the industry is going, something has to change. You have been able to pick up FF16 from Amazon for a little over £20 for months, its where I purchased it.
Maybe they have a different strategy, but they need to do something as their financial results have been on the decline for a while.
Looks like Square will be along soon with their standard press release of "game did not meet our expectations" just like they did for Forspoken and FF16.
They really seem to make terrible decision after terrible decision the last few years judging on their declining financial results
The uncapped framerate averaging 31fps is a deal breaker for me, and I own a VRR TV. That sort of no man's land framerate is awful to play and looks horrific
Consistency is king and they need to offer a properly frame paced 30fps cap or I won't bother wasting my time on such a technical mess and I loved the original and the Dark Arisen dlc.
I am not rewarding them for their incompetence and would prefer to send the dev and publisher a clear message that this kind of framerate is unacceptable.
Some of us have been beating the drum about games costing too much for years, but everytime we have spoke, we got screamed at by the die hards. Shawn Layden was right all those years ago but nobody wanted to listen
Sony need to find their old self again and start releasing a wide variety of games with different, size, scope, genres, perspectives and cost like everyone else does.
This obsession with production values over everything has destroyed their own market and made their games boring and too similar.
I used to buy every Sony game day 1, but now I wait for deep sales most of the time, as they are way to safe and similar for my tastes, its like you have already played it before you switch it on, you know exactly what you are going to get.
And ontop of that their cookie cutter sequeals this gen do not do enough to freshen up the gameplay. Games like Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Spiderman 2 etc are good games that i have enjoyed but are not as good as what came before in my opinion after playing them. That's why the hype has not been the same.
I hope they learn from this and we get some of the old Sony back so we can fall in love with their games again.
Input lag is just as important as everything else when playing a video game
140ms is borderline unplayable for any slightly faster paced game
Both Sony and Microsoft need to improve their streaming services if they actually want people to use it and for it be a viable alternative to playing a game natively
@TrickyDicky99 people are actually spending more with Sony as a company, not less, that's why they reported record revenue.
That is not the problem. The problem is their business model is unsustainable without changes, as explained by Hiroki Totoki the other week at their earnings call.
@TrickyDicky99 yes I know that, but even with all those sales from Fortnite, COD etc they are still making very little money, less than 6%. Hardly any industries around the world operate under those margins.
Sonys market is not increasing in size at all, but their costs have ballooned. This is why they increased the prices of their games and subscription, but it has not helped.
Selling more consoles at a loss due to an increase in manufacturing costs and the heavy emphasis on discounting the console price (which they have had to do the last 12months) means they are struggling.
It's not sustainable, something has to change. The CEO of Sony explained all this at their last earnings call
@TrickyDicky99 well yes but again what's the point to any of it if they are making such little money even after selling all those consoles?
Bank accounts have close to 6% interest these days, exactly the same margin as Sony is operating under. Its unsuastainable. Something has to change and fast, which Sonys CEO acknowledged during their last earnings call.
@TrickyDicky99 when they are making very luttle money and have alot of debt as a company? A very difficult sell to shareholders and investors. It's why their share price has dropped because its not a good look for the market.
Shareholders expect a return on investment and less than 6% profit from hundred of billions is very poor and hardly any industries around the world operate under such razor margins, its unsustainable.
We've had one "double AA" game so far with Skull and Bones. Look how that turned out.
@ZhuckelDror Skull and Bones was the first AAAA quadruple AA according to Ubisoft. Literally the opposite of double A. The game had a massive budget and a protracted development, in no way is it double AA
A double AA game would be Palworld or helldivers 2, both of which are hugely popular
@TrickyDicky99 not really. With sonys profit margins being less than 6%, and investor would almost be better off putting their money in a bank than investing it with Sonys, less risk and the same reward.
This was all explained in their latest earnings call and Push just did an article about it aswell mate
With the cost of making the hardware not falling, and Sonys aggressive marketing and sales for 12months, being number 2 (behind the switch) in console sales is not enough, its a loss leader, even more so than in the past. It was mentioned by their CEO that part of their problem was that they missed their target by atleast 4million despite aggressive sales and discounts, something I mentioned about 4months ago on here and got shot down by alot of people.
With Sonys big high production value games barely being viable anymore, with their budgets going crazy, I think part of their answer is to start to make double AA games like Nintendo, MS and all 3rd party's make.
Some of us have been beating this drum for a few years, and we knew this was comming, but everytime it is mentioned we get shot down by the diehards who never criticize.
Sony used to have variety in the software line up and it was one of the things that made them special to us. They lost their way after the ps3 and its really starting to catch up with them.
A business of record breaking revenue of hundreds of billions but less than 6% profit is absolutely pathetic and very few industries in the world operate under those extreme margins, it is unsustainable.
Investors would almost get the same return if they put their money in a bank instead of Sony. That is very worrying and is is a huge problem
We have recently learned from Sonys latest financial results that their single player exclusives are not viable and cost too much money, so why does everyone think that they are now going to double down on those games, that we know are too expensive and risky. It makes no sense.
I really hope Sony start releasing some double AA games like Nintendo and Microsoft already do, it seems the most sensible approach from a business perspective
I hope everyone effected lands on their feet quickly. This is the second round of lay offs effecting Sony after the ones late last year.
The industry is in the bin right now and this was always comming after their latest financial results were so poor. They are in bad shape right now, along with alot of others.
Please don't ruin this game by making it casual friendly. Stick to your principles Team Ninja, you are the masters of combat and your biggest fans enjoy the difficulty.
On Playstation i just finished Death Stranding, loved the story and the ending was really interesting. Enjoyed it alot more than I thought I would. Now playing Kena from ps extra after recently resubscribing due to a 59% discount offered by Sony.
On Xbox I am playing Tomb Raider Remastered. Just finished tomb of khamoon in TR1, up to Opera House in TR2 and finished the jungle first level in TR3. Really enjoying the nostalgia trip and the games still hold up today
Ignoring Nintendo and its library of culturally iconic intellectual property, PlayStation dominates the video games industry around the world. PS5, despite missing its lofty forecast, is by far the biggest home console on the planet – and its home to some of the most popular game franchises
Why would you just ignore the largest console on the planet, to try and pretend the ps5 is?
The switch is at 132.5million sales, a number the ps5 is very unlikely to get close to in its lifetime. To try and pretend otherwise wise is pretty disingenuous.
And yes the switch is a home console, it literally switches between being a home console and a handheld. It's the whole reason for the name
With all the rumours stating that it will be using the same cpu cores. It's not going to be a 60fps on everything machine, much like the ps4 pro was not.
After Sony CEO said they can't really lower the price of the ps5, the ps5 Pro is going to be a very expensive bit of hardware that is not needed at all. The ps5 hardly has hardly got started.
If Sony really are going to release a pro console every gen, even when its not needed, I won't buy a ps6 at launch and will wait for the pro next gen.
Sony need to increase their profits, and releasing even more hardware
(Which you generally lose money on) is not the play they should be making at all. Infact it's quite literally the opposite releasing more niche hardware after psvr2.
Death Stranding Directors Cut. Made it to edge knot city and just defeated the big BT. Think its act 10 or possibly 9? The story is very interesting and I have even found the gameplay fun. It may be a walking sim kind of, but I have enjoyed it none the less. Especially the firing range its been fun getting the S rank on them all.
@Titntin that's a relief, I thought we came away with the same conclusions but I got confused there for a moment mate! Some of the reactions to last night have been funny to read!
After some of their comments last night and reading between the lines a little, gamepass on other hardware seems little more than pipe dream and very unlikely to happen anytime soon. I just don't think Sony or Nintendo have any interest in it, at all. Consoles may even be obsolete by then, but that's all just guesswork on my part and reading between the lines. Who knows what the future will bring!
@Titntin I mean there has been countless more rumours than that, but if you would like to pretend otherwise then that's ok. That's what my original comment was about.
I have said what I think will happen moving forward, a mixture of exclusives and multiplatform day and date, not sure what more I can say. I am not disagreeing with you, I don't think?
@Titntin I didnt actually state my opinion/conclusion. For the record i think that no doubt there will be a mixture of exclusives, timed exclusives and day 1 multiplatform releases for xbox in the future.
But almost all of the rumours turned out false and alot of websites and insiders have lost all their credibility in the space of 25minutes, let's not pretend otherwise. That's what I was commenting on
The only people still running with rumours are all the insiders and websites who just got found out for knowing very little. Almost all of the rumours ended up being completely fabricated and now everyone is desperately running around trying to save a tiny bit of credibility, hence articles like this. It's pretty funny to be honest.
After reading all of the countless rumours, that was about as underwhelming as it could have been. I wonder what the 4 games are, did they say 2 live service and 2 single player? I was playing Death Stranding at the time and missed a few minutes of the podcast
Sony doesn't need to expand to other devices but microsoft sure seems to
According to Sonys CEO, they do need to expand their strategy on other devices like PC, due to their razor thin profit margins. It was widely reported yesterday
The solution, it seems, is taking Sony's first-part titles "multi-platform", by which Totoki appears to mean PC specifically. He explains: "In the past, we wanted to popularise consoles, and a first-party title's main purpose was to make the console popular". Times are changing, however, which the PlayStation chairman acknowledges, and it appears that Sony is prepared to change with them, elaborating:
"This is true, but there's a synergy to it, so if you have strong first-party content – not only on our console but also other platforms, like computers – a first-party [game] can be grown with multi-platform, and that can help operating profit to improve, so that's another one we want to work on proactively. I personally think there are opportunities out there for improvement of margin, so I would like to go aggressive on improving our margin performance."
After everything some users have said on here this last week about team green, the mental gymnastics over this is going to be hilarious.
It's the way the industry is headed, their earnings report told you everything you need to know, their current business plan is unsustainable and changes need to be made and fast.
They need to find a way to make some actual decent profit margins. No point selling 100million consoles if they are barely breaking even due to increasing costs.
Its something I mentioned at their last earnings call, which a few of the diehards took offence to, but was right on the money, as explained by their CEO. Like I said then, the devil is in the detail always, you need to read beyond the headlines as they are always sunshine and rainbows
Even if they reach 21million and not 25million, they have had to heavily discount the console worldwide for almost a full calendar year. This is a far from ideal situation and leaves them with very little room to manoeuvre.
This is a problem that needs addressing sharp by the bigwigs as they have already increased the price of games, the console and the subscription and its still nowhere near enough to move the neeedle
Improving the business side of things due to razor thin margins was exactly what I said was their issue at the last earnings call, which I got some kick back about from people on here, that do not understand the business, because all you ever see is headlines of Sony selling consoles and celebration on push. But to do that over the last year they have had to heavily discount the system, and they still missed their target by several millions.
The gaming industry is in a difficult position right now and its something Sony needs to get on top of fast. No point being one of the top selling consoles if you are making hardly any money from it, even after increasing game prices, console price and subscription price very recently.
I am not sure what the answer is, as Sonys business is so reliant on selling consoles, which as a market is not growing and has not been for years. With their costs ballooning, this is a very bad place to be in.
I am sure some brainiac at Sony will be beavering away at a solution and I wish them the best of luck
They have been on a mission since announcing the target
Feels like the PS5 has been on sale one way or another since Easter last year. (That was when I started seeing the reduced prices here in the UK anyway)
After all the rumours the past week I hope we hear about something interesting and its not just a couple of smaller titles. It would be such an anti climax
I think the chances are slim but it would be kind of funny if after all the rumours the past week, only a handful of smaller titles like Hi-Fi Rush made the jump and it ended up being a bit of a nothing burger.
It would be nice if Sunset Overdrive got a PS release. I really enjoyed it, felt it went a bit underrated and now that Insomniac are one of PS top studios, it just seems right to me for it to hit PS.
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Re: Japan Sales Charts: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Tops, But Doesn't Even Come Close to Remake
@UltimateOtaku91 @Flaming_Kaiser with the increasing cost of game development, and current volatility in the gaming market, I would assume they are thinking long and hard about their exclusivity strategy moving forward, as none of their games have hit the numbers required, only being on PlayStation.
This was true of FF16, Forspoken and now FF7 Rebirth. With the way the industry is going, something has to change. You have been able to pick up FF16 from Amazon for a little over £20 for months, its where I purchased it.
Maybe they have a different strategy, but they need to do something as their financial results have been on the decline for a while.
Re: Japan Sales Charts: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Tops, But Doesn't Even Come Close to Remake
Looks like Square will be along soon with their standard press release of "game did not meet our expectations" just like they did for Forspoken and FF16.
They really seem to make terrible decision after terrible decision the last few years judging on their declining financial results
Re: Capcom's PS5 Action Game Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Continues to Show Promise
This looks really interesting. I played my first tactics game 2 years ago and ended up really enjoying it,, so I think I will like this
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Frame Rate Controversy Rumbles on as Previews Give Conflicting Reports
The uncapped framerate averaging 31fps is a deal breaker for me, and I own a VRR TV. That sort of no man's land framerate is awful to play and looks horrific
Consistency is king and they need to offer a properly frame paced 30fps cap or I won't bother wasting my time on such a technical mess and I loved the original and the Dark Arisen dlc.
I am not rewarding them for their incompetence and would prefer to send the dev and publisher a clear message that this kind of framerate is unacceptable.
Re: Reaction: What Is Happening to the Video Games Industry and Why Are There So Many Layoffs?
Some of us have been beating the drum about games costing too much for years, but everytime we have spoke, we got screamed at by the die hards. Shawn Layden was right all those years ago but nobody wanted to listen
Sony need to find their old self again and start releasing a wide variety of games with different, size, scope, genres, perspectives and cost like everyone else does.
This obsession with production values over everything has destroyed their own market and made their games boring and too similar.
I used to buy every Sony game day 1, but now I wait for deep sales most of the time, as they are way to safe and similar for my tastes, its like you have already played it before you switch it on, you know exactly what you are going to get.
And ontop of that their cookie cutter sequeals this gen do not do enough to freshen up the gameplay. Games like Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Spiderman 2 etc are good games that i have enjoyed but are not as good as what came before in my opinion after playing them. That's why the hype has not been the same.
I hope they learn from this and we get some of the old Sony back so we can fall in love with their games again.
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Red Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Valhalla
So just the usual Ubisoft garbage, its a hard pass from me
Re: PS Plus Premium's Cloud Streaming Is Much, Much Better Than You Think
Both systems are not good enough
Input lag is just as important as everything else when playing a video game
140ms is borderline unplayable for any slightly faster paced game
Both Sony and Microsoft need to improve their streaming services if they actually want people to use it and for it be a viable alternative to playing a game natively
Re: Unannounced Games from PlayStation Studios Have Been Cancelled
@TrickyDicky99 people are actually spending more with Sony as a company, not less, that's why they reported record revenue.
That is not the problem. The problem is their business model is unsustainable without changes, as explained by Hiroki Totoki the other week at their earnings call.
Re: Unannounced Games from PlayStation Studios Have Been Cancelled
@TrickyDicky99 yes I know that, but even with all those sales from Fortnite, COD etc they are still making very little money, less than 6%. Hardly any industries around the world operate under those margins.
Sonys market is not increasing in size at all, but their costs have ballooned. This is why they increased the prices of their games and subscription, but it has not helped.
Selling more consoles at a loss due to an increase in manufacturing costs and the heavy emphasis on discounting the console price (which they have had to do the last 12months) means they are struggling.
It's not sustainable, something has to change. The CEO of Sony explained all this at their last earnings call
Re: Unannounced Games from PlayStation Studios Have Been Cancelled
@TrickyDicky99 well yes but again what's the point to any of it if they are making such little money even after selling all those consoles?
Bank accounts have close to 6% interest these days, exactly the same margin as Sony is operating under. Its unsuastainable. Something has to change and fast, which Sonys CEO acknowledged during their last earnings call.
Re: Unannounced Games from PlayStation Studios Have Been Cancelled
@TrickyDicky99 when they are making very luttle money and have alot of debt as a company? A very difficult sell to shareholders and investors. It's why their share price has dropped because its not a good look for the market.
Shareholders expect a return on investment and less than 6% profit from hundred of billions is very poor and hardly any industries around the world operate under such razor margins, its unsustainable.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
@ZhuckelDror Skull and Bones was the first AAAA quadruple AA according to Ubisoft. Literally the opposite of double A. The game had a massive budget and a protracted development, in no way is it double AA
A double AA game would be Palworld or helldivers 2, both of which are hugely popular
Re: Unannounced Games from PlayStation Studios Have Been Cancelled
@TrickyDicky99 not really. With sonys profit margins being less than 6%, and investor would almost be better off putting their money in a bank than investing it with Sonys, less risk and the same reward.
This was all explained in their latest earnings call and Push just did an article about it aswell mate
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
With the cost of making the hardware not falling, and Sonys aggressive marketing and sales for 12months, being number 2 (behind the switch) in console sales is not enough, its a loss leader, even more so than in the past. It was mentioned by their CEO that part of their problem was that they missed their target by atleast 4million despite aggressive sales and discounts, something I mentioned about 4months ago on here and got shot down by alot of people.
With Sonys big high production value games barely being viable anymore, with their budgets going crazy, I think part of their answer is to start to make double AA games like Nintendo, MS and all 3rd party's make.
Some of us have been beating this drum for a few years, and we knew this was comming, but everytime it is mentioned we get shot down by the diehards who never criticize.
Sony used to have variety in the software line up and it was one of the things that made them special to us. They lost their way after the ps3 and its really starting to catch up with them.
A business of record breaking revenue of hundreds of billions but less than 6% profit is absolutely pathetic and very few industries in the world operate under those extreme margins, it is unsustainable.
Investors would almost get the same return if they put their money in a bank instead of Sony. That is very worrying and is is a huge problem
Re: Unannounced Games from PlayStation Studios Have Been Cancelled
We have recently learned from Sonys latest financial results that their single player exclusives are not viable and cost too much money, so why does everyone think that they are now going to double down on those games, that we know are too expensive and risky. It makes no sense.
I really hope Sony start releasing some double AA games like Nintendo and Microsoft already do, it seems the most sensible approach from a business perspective
Re: 900 PlayStation Employees Laid Off, London Studio Closed
I hope everyone effected lands on their feet quickly. This is the second round of lay offs effecting Sony after the ones late last year.
The industry is in the bin right now and this was always comming after their latest financial results were so poor. They are in bad shape right now, along with alot of others.
Re: Rise of the Ronin Confirms Character Creator, Four Player Co-Op for Main Missions
Please don't ruin this game by making it casual friendly. Stick to your principles Team Ninja, you are the masters of combat and your biggest fans enjoy the difficulty.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 517
On Playstation i just finished Death Stranding, loved the story and the ending was really interesting. Enjoyed it alot more than I thought I would. Now playing Kena from ps extra after recently resubscribing due to a 59% discount offered by Sony.
On Xbox I am playing Tomb Raider Remastered. Just finished tomb of khamoon in TR1, up to Opera House in TR2 and finished the jungle first level in TR3. Really enjoying the nostalgia trip and the games still hold up today
Re: PS5, PS4 Is Losing the SEO War Against Its Rivals
Why would you just ignore the largest console on the planet, to try and pretend the ps5 is?
The switch is at 132.5million sales, a number the ps5 is very unlikely to get close to in its lifetime. To try and pretend otherwise wise is pretty disingenuous.
And yes the switch is a home console, it literally switches between being a home console and a handheld. It's the whole reason for the name
Re: Upgraded PS5 Pro Planning to Be the Best Place to Play GTA 6
With all the rumours stating that it will be using the same cpu cores. It's not going to be a 60fps on everything machine, much like the ps4 pro was not.
After Sony CEO said they can't really lower the price of the ps5, the ps5 Pro is going to be a very expensive bit of hardware that is not needed at all. The ps5 hardly has hardly got started.
If Sony really are going to release a pro console every gen, even when its not needed, I won't buy a ps6 at launch and will wait for the pro next gen.
Sony need to increase their profits, and releasing even more hardware
(Which you generally lose money on) is not the play they should be making at all. Infact it's quite literally the opposite releasing more niche hardware after psvr2.
Re: Helldivers 2 Hype Continues, More Concurrents Than Every PlayStation PC Port Combined
I guess day and date pc releases really do work. Well done on your sucess Arrowhead
Re: Silent Hill: The Short Message (PS5) - There's a Reason It's Free
@Arnna in every possible way, that's why the reaction online has been bad
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 516
Death Stranding Directors Cut. Made it to edge knot city and just defeated the big BT. Think its act 10 or possibly 9? The story is very interesting and I have even found the gameplay fun. It may be a walking sim kind of, but I have enjoyed it none the less. Especially the firing range its been fun getting the S rank on them all.
Re: Sony May Have Made the Right Call Not Copying Xbox Game Pass with PS Plus
Should we not be championing the consumer and not the corporation? Sometimes I wonder how we got in this mess, it's crazy.
@KundaliniRising333 @Godot25 well said
Re: Reaction: Xbox Is Bringing Some Great Games to PS5, But Rumours Will Remain Rampant About What's Next
@Titntin that's a relief, I thought we came away with the same conclusions but I got confused there for a moment mate! Some of the reactions to last night have been funny to read!
After some of their comments last night and reading between the lines a little, gamepass on other hardware seems little more than pipe dream and very unlikely to happen anytime soon. I just don't think Sony or Nintendo have any interest in it, at all. Consoles may even be obsolete by then, but that's all just guesswork on my part and reading between the lines. Who knows what the future will bring!
Re: Reaction: Xbox Is Bringing Some Great Games to PS5, But Rumours Will Remain Rampant About What's Next
@Titntin I mean there has been countless more rumours than that, but if you would like to pretend otherwise then that's ok. That's what my original comment was about.
I have said what I think will happen moving forward, a mixture of exclusives and multiplatform day and date, not sure what more I can say. I am not disagreeing with you, I don't think?
Re: Reaction: Xbox Is Bringing Some Great Games to PS5, But Rumours Will Remain Rampant About What's Next
@Titntin I didnt actually state my opinion/conclusion. For the record i think that no doubt there will be a mixture of exclusives, timed exclusives and day 1 multiplatform releases for xbox in the future.
But almost all of the rumours turned out false and alot of websites and insiders have lost all their credibility in the space of 25minutes, let's not pretend otherwise. That's what I was commenting on
Re: Reaction: Xbox Is Bringing Some Great Games to PS5, But Rumours Will Remain Rampant About What's Next
The only people still running with rumours are all the insiders and websites who just got found out for knowing very little. Almost all of the rumours ended up being completely fabricated and now everyone is desperately running around trying to save a tiny bit of credibility, hence articles like this. It's pretty funny to be honest.
Re: Rumour: Xbox Has Considered Microsoft Flight Simulator, Gears of War, and DOOM for PS5
Come on this is barrel scraping we literally just had the podcast an hour ago
Re: Starfield, Indiana Jones Aren't Coming to PS5 Just Yet
After reading all of the countless rumours, that was about as underwhelming as it could have been. I wonder what the 4 games are, did they say 2 live service and 2 single player? I was playing Death Stranding at the time and missed a few minutes of the podcast
Re: Microsoft Allegedly Told Employees 'Every Screen Is an Xbox' Ahead of PS5 Port Speculation
@Jamesblob
According to Sonys CEO, they do need to expand their strategy on other devices like PC, due to their razor thin profit margins. It was widely reported yesterday
Re: Microsoft Allegedly Told Employees 'Every Screen Is an Xbox' Ahead of PS5 Port Speculation
@TheCollector316 touché.
But it does just confuse things a great deal over what is real and what is rumour
Re: Microsoft Allegedly Told Employees 'Every Screen Is an Xbox' Ahead of PS5 Port Speculation
Not sure why we are still getting rumour articles when in a matter of a few hours we will be hearing directly from them, seems kind of pointless
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Will Have an Uncapped Frame Rate on PS5
A locked 30fps is better than a framerate somewhere between 30 and 50. Digital.Foundry said the frame rate is in no man's land and it plays horrible
Re: Sony Plans to Improve Profit Margins with 'Aggressive' PC Release Strategy
After everything some users have said on here this last week about team green, the mental gymnastics over this is going to be hilarious.
It's the way the industry is headed, their earnings report told you everything you need to know, their current business plan is unsustainable and changes need to be made and fast.
Re: 13 More Games Coming to PS Plus Extra, Premium This Month
I actually resubscribed to extra last week as Sony offered me a year for £46, less than half price.
@Grumblevolcano The Outer Worlds Spacers choice is published by Private Division, and nothing to do with MS, who are publishing the sequel.
But it is possible, maybe we will learn more tomorrow
Re: PS5 Sales Touch 55 Million As Sony Breaks Revenue Records
They need to find a way to make some actual decent profit margins. No point selling 100million consoles if they are barely breaking even due to increasing costs.
Its something I mentioned at their last earnings call, which a few of the diehards took offence to, but was right on the money, as explained by their CEO. Like I said then, the devil is in the detail always, you need to read beyond the headlines as they are always sunshine and rainbows
Even if they reach 21million and not 25million, they have had to heavily discount the console worldwide for almost a full calendar year. This is a far from ideal situation and leaves them with very little room to manoeuvre.
This is a problem that needs addressing sharp by the bigwigs as they have already increased the price of games, the console and the subscription and its still nowhere near enough to move the neeedle
Re: PlayStation Chairman: There's Room for Improvement When It Comes to Business
Improving the business side of things due to razor thin margins was exactly what I said was their issue at the last earnings call, which I got some kick back about from people on here, that do not understand the business, because all you ever see is headlines of Sony selling consoles and celebration on push. But to do that over the last year they have had to heavily discount the system, and they still missed their target by several millions.
The gaming industry is in a difficult position right now and its something Sony needs to get on top of fast. No point being one of the top selling consoles if you are making hardly any money from it, even after increasing game prices, console price and subscription price very recently.
I am not sure what the answer is, as Sonys business is so reliant on selling consoles, which as a market is not growing and has not been for years. With their costs ballooning, this is a very bad place to be in.
I am sure some brainiac at Sony will be beavering away at a solution and I wish them the best of luck
Re: Helldivers 2 (PS5) - The Best Co-Op Shooter on PS5
Well done Arrowhead. Not my kind of game, but sounds like they did a good job for those interested
Re: PS5 Goes for the Kill with New Discounts in Europe
They have been on a mission since announcing the target
Feels like the PS5 has been on sale one way or another since Easter last year. (That was when I started seeing the reduced prices here in the UK anyway)
Re: Pentiment Pegged for PS5 Amid Ongoing Xbox Strategy Shift Rumours
@Pranwell I've played both already and didn't enjoy Pentiment, found it very boring, but your mileage may differ
Re: Pentiment Pegged for PS5 Amid Ongoing Xbox Strategy Shift Rumours
After all the rumours if its just a couple of smaller AA games it's going to me such an anticlimax.
NatetheHate was backtracking his Starfield rumours yesterday and said he doesn't expect it on PS now (I read an article yesterday about it)
Let's see Thurdsay
Re: Xbox's Multiplatform Plans to Be Revealed on Thursday
After all the rumours the past week I hope we hear about something interesting and its not just a couple of smaller titles. It would be such an anti climax
Re: Xbox Has Allegedly Insisted It Won't Stop Making Consoles, As PS5 Port Rumours Mount
@Jimmer-jammer Gaming has now overtook Windows to become microsofts 3rd biggest business only behind AI and Azure
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1752452485116018704
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 515
Death Stranding Directors Cut. Enjoying it and find the story really interesting
Re: Xbox Has Allegedly Insisted It Won't Stop Making Consoles, As PS5 Port Rumours Mount
I think the chances are slim but it would be kind of funny if after all the rumours the past week, only a handful of smaller titles like Hi-Fi Rush made the jump and it ended up being a bit of a nothing burger.
Re: Readers Vote Gears of War Above Halo as Their Most Wanted Xbox Series on PlayStation
Sunset Overdrive in 17th is criminal. Just feels right to hit PS after Insomniac were purchased by Sony
Re: The Last of Us 2 Remastered Europe's Best-Selling New Game of January, PS5 Sales Up
@pharos_haven it's actually number 2 behind EA FC 24
Re: Poll: Which Xbox Franchises Would You Buy on PS5?
It would be nice if Sunset Overdrive got a PS release. I really enjoyed it, felt it went a bit underrated and now that Insomniac are one of PS top studios, it just seems right to me for it to hit PS.
Re: Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Games Dominate as Persona 3 Reload, Granblue Fantasy: Relink Arrive
Makes you wonder if we will even see Switch 2 this year, with the current console still going gangbusters.
I honestly find it crazy its still topping the charts after all this time and has sold over 139million units.
Its also good to see some PS software in the charts like the article mentions, competition is king