The facts are that Sony is mismanaging their gaming business right now, they put the day 1 price up and then have to drop the price way too fast a month later, in contrast to Nintendo who kept things at 60 or close to it from launch till now and also keep all their 1st party FULLY exclusive.
I grant you, if the PS5 is profitable now thats all great news. However the PS5 hardware isn't going to have anywhere near the same profit margin as the Nintendo Switch, which is made using a 6 year old SOC made on TSMC 16nm, a 5 inch 720p LCD display and with horrible build quality. Nintendo sells the Switch for what....£280, of which I would wager £50-100 is pure profit. Meanwhile Sony sells the PS5 at £450 of which it might just about break even or have £5-10 profit per unit sold at most right now.
And what makes you think that Sony deciding to keep their software at $60 for the entirety of their lifetime like Nintendo does wouldn't at all negatively impact sales? Nintendo sells their games at their high margin $60 price tag for as long as they do, because people (read: Idiots) are willing to pay them that much money for the games irrespective of how old the game is.
That doesn't apply to Sony. They are a business that knows how to make money. Believe me if they could keep selling all their first party games at full price forever, they would, but clearly they can't. If nobody is buying and old game at full price, what do you do? You sell it cheaper so that they do buy it. Fairly simple.
Also, I literally do not give a rats ass about Sony's margins either way. If they're offering me a discount, I'm going to fucking take it. I'm not gonna sit here on a forum and cry that Sony should be charging more money for their software for longer, because it doesn't benefit me - the consumer in any way.
I wish Nintendo would drop the prices for their games. Unfortunately, people seem to be willing to pony up whatever stupid price Nintendo feel like setting - I mean £50 for Super Mario All-stars; a glorified ROM collection, is a bloody joke.
I'll tell you where they are wasting a shitload of money.... Cloud gaming, paying Microsoft for cloud services and advertising PSNow. Cloud gaming is a failure and nobody wants it. They also bought Nixxes, another waste of money if they are porting games to PC..... they should be porting PS3 games to PS5.
I don't like cloud gaming as much as the next guy, but not investing in it would be criminally stupid. You don't make business decisions like that. If by any chance Cloud gaming does become a success and Sony hasn't properly invested in cloud gaming infrastructure, they'll quickly find themselves out of the market like SEGA before them. Its called hedging your bets. That's why Sony is also investing in mobile gaming.
I agree they should be porting PS3 games to PS5. I'd rather they figure out backwards compatibility at any cost, rather than porting old games.
My ultimate point is, I don't give a fucking shit about how profitable Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft are or are not. I'm interested in myself as a consumer. Sony investing in cloud gaming and online infrastructure is of no harm to me or anyone on this forum to be honest.
Nintendo's high profits actually offends me, because it highlights to me that they could and should be spending a whole lot more money on shit like their online network infrastructure which is horrible garbage that they have the bollocks to charge actual money for, in the form of a subscription. It offends me that they're charging insane prices for ancient NES games which are little better than emulated ROMs. I'm offended that they have such massive margins on the Nintendo Switch which has pitiful hardware, horrible industrial design. I mean the audacity to charge £70 for JoyCons - the most easily breakable, useless piece of shit input devices I've ever had to witness be released for a console.
It indicates to me that they don't give a shit about their users, just their margins. They're happy to cut costs and ask you to pay a premium for it. And what's more, Nintendo fanboys are sitting on various forums across the internet gargling Nintendo's balls about how massive daddy Nintendo's
cock profit margin is. The sad thing is, I love Nintendo games. I love me my Mario Odyssey, and Mario 64 is a timeless classic for the ages. But this shit they do with pricing....
Honestly beggars belief.