Xbox only failed for a lack of true identity.Some said similar things earlier this gen about xbox.. Things like:
Xbox doesn't need the hardcore gamers, the average consumer will see the series s cheaper than the ps5 and sony will be doomed.
Xbox doesn't need exclusives, gamepass is the best deal in gaming.
I mean Christ even EA and Ubisoft allow outside keys being used on their launchers!.
Being a Nintendo fanboy is fun as hell. There's plenty of room in the hot tub for ya!I don't need them either. Sony has been trying to tell me that all gen long, but I was just being stubborn. I get it now. I'll just move over to PC and Nintendo from now on. Not a worry in the world.
Every time the conversation goes to "percentage of gamers" - of course they won't care if they just see "but its only 10% of them" - but the real measure is what is the impact of said population, thats why companies run NPS survey because even with a very vocal 10% population that really hates you (but used to love you), you could turn your company upside down.
Yep. The management has been better in the past. They have been on cruise control and only the recent adjustments have made me mildly interested. I put my money where my mouth is. My purchases have been on PC and I've actually bought more from MSFT than Sony the last 3 or 4 years just mainly on PC.
Xbox was all downhill the moment they got rid of the OGs and went to all their $MSFT suits. That brief moment of the OG was the only time they had a semblance of identity.
Yeah a $900 PS6 with less options from PS5 will do so well.
Easy.
PS6 is going to do worse than PS3.
I wonder what's currently the identity of PlayStation these days... As someone that enjoyed PlayStation since the PS1, it used to be all about a lot of 3rd party exclusives, games that I love like Final Fantasy and Metal Gear with the bonus of constant great Sony first party games like Syphon Filter and Motorstorm.
More like I bought it for the exclusives, but the exclusives suck. I also like having options since sometimes games are cheaper physically vs. digitally. Good try though, champ.So you bought Playstation just because you could install (not even play) games from a Blu-ray Disc?
Nothing dangerous about it.
It's 78% for last FY, not 90%.
They're selling 300m games per year. So 70m are discs. I could understand moving to digital when you really are at 95% or something, but not like this. By 2028 it will be at 80%, that's a generation too soon but yeah, it's obvious that they don't care. This is a pro corpo move. Publishers are gonna love it, too, no more used copies.
Cutting off 22% of software sales would be catastrophic. That's before considering the $1K price tag of the PS6 and the damage done by Sony's GAASlop push.
Not only that, if you look up the percentage of physical purchases for singleplayer games it's even worse. Sony is literally going to kill their own flagship Playstation business which is their amazing singleplayer exclusives.It's 78% for last FY, not 90%.
They're selling 300m games per year. So 70m are discs. I could understand moving to digital when you really are at 95% or something, but not like this. By 2028 it will be at 80%, that's a generation too soon but yeah, it's obvious that they don't care. This is a pro corpo move. Publishers are gonna love it, too, no more used copies.
www.thegamebusiness.com
It most likely includes digital only games. I read it as "78% of all games sold were digital".
And I'm basically out the eco system. I was already one foot out based on exclusive quality and them enshitifying their online services. Gonna format this thing and sell it for cash for an FPGA system.
There is an eventuality in the future which will also make hardware exclusivity likely impossible, at which point they'll force anyone still in their ecosystems into subscriber models.
I think they're already losing out on sales since games moved to the $70 price point.
But with the way Sony can delete anything in your digital storage like movies and games, and removing a medium on how a product is distributed, class suit is about to happen.
And there was also never a true successor to Blu-Ray in the pipeline.
Only problem is hard drive space. It's still not enough, 2TB 4TB 8TB, and now even more expensive than ever.
Nope. 90% of what?
I don't need them too.
Are you saying in terms of overall cost?
