CEOs: “I raised the price, why isn’t there more money in my bank?”
Am i out of touch? No! It’s the children who are wrong.
You see, what you should of done is raise the price even more.
-other CEO.
Don’t tell them the price. Make them call to get a quote.
-a shadowy figure from the corner
“The enshititfication will continue until profits improve!”
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Profits did not improve.
Oh so that’s why they’re rolling back the releasing games on PC thing
Lol. Lmao even
Their strategy right now is literally “Let’s charge more to sell less, and let’s also kneecap a revenue stream that could prop us up during this memory crisis.” Sony has been winning so long that they forgot how easy it is to lose. They are gonna find out.
Edit: I just want to point out that Sony could have easily shifted this into a win. “Hey, this is Tim Sony, President of Sony. Right now, things are hard for everyone in the world of consumer electronics. For 20 years we’ve tried to bring you the best value in entertainment through quality games and low prices. Unfortunately, today, we have to raise our prices to match cost. I know you don’t like it. I don’t like it, either. However, we still want to give you the best value we can. While we can’t control the cost of components, we can control the cost of our first party games. So, now when you buy a new PS5, you get your choice of any first party game you want for free. Any game, no exceptions. We’re also throwing in 6 months of PlayStation Plus as well, which gives you even more games to play immediately. While we wish we could bring you a lower priced console, we are trying our best to make it so that you don’t have to spend more to have the same amount of fun. Now, get out there, and kill, kill, kill.”
“Also, all our first party games will be released on PC at a later date. Why would we leave money on the table? That’s just stupid!”
God damn it Donut
Kinda weird at the end he called for a school shooting, but otherwise good PR.
I assumed it was because they saw handheld computers and the Steam Machine as serious competition to Sony’s own hardware.
That was my initial thought, but they don’t even have a current gen handheld do they?
(And if they do, frankly the marketing team should be fired)
Perhaps the steam machine is a legit concern for them though
No, they don’t have a handheld, and that’s kinda the problem. The ecosystem is growing without them. Steamdeck, Xbox ROG Ally, Nintendo Switch. That’s 100% of their competitors, each with handhelds that nearly came out of nowhere in the last few years. Sony is SUPER behind the curve on this, and no amount of “New PSVita5” is gonna save them. They biffed it with the mobile market, and instead of buying in and playing second fiddle, they want to take their ball and go home.
They do, but its bad.
Its just a handled device that stores from only your ps5. Can nor play anything itself.
Handheld computers are competition to the PlayStation in the sense that Sony would want everyone who owns one to buy a PS5 instead but not in the sense that those consumers having an option is hurting sales significantly. I could not find actual numbers, but analysts seem to be estimating that Valve has sold about 6 million Steam Decks in total. For comparison, Sony sold 1.5 million PS5s last quarter, which is devastating since they sold 2.8 million the year before.
Also, that sales gap is going to get worse in the short term. Instead of raising Steam Deck prices or reducing profit margins, Valve has decided to stop selling systems until RAM prices come back down.
People are buying the Switch 2?
How else would they play Switch 1 games?
Problem with Nintendo, is it’s mostly just remakes of the same games and characters. Also they screwed any customers who bought games before the switch 1, as you can’t play them on switch.
The switch 1, they never fixed the joycons… They should have recalled and redesigned every joycon… But, for some reason people seem ok with that. Nintendo imho is actually fairly anti consumer
Ps5 I ended up selling. It’s good but I figured I have hundreds of steam games, so there was no real benefit of having a ps5 too.
Use the console you want… But, I’m never buying a Nintendo again. I’m happy to be able to continue playing the same games I bought 15 years ago on the latest steam deck
It has been like this for decades now. Commend them all you want for ballsy consoles, but they were always a predatory corporation.
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I’m gonna turn my ps4 into an emulator and probably turn the ps5 into a linux gaming pc.
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Because my hobby is gaming. I don’t have time to take on the additional hobby of fiddling with a PC.
Also, PC prices have gone up too, haven’t they?
Fiddling with a PC? You buy a PC and it’s done. Install Steam, install games, let’s go.
At best, if you want to switch OSs or try out new things, you’ll spend some time learning how that works. And if you want to try to stretch out the longevity, you can get new RAM, new video card, a replacement CPU. But, all of that is your choice.
As a bonus, you get something way way more powerful than a console that has a web browser, document editor, video/music player, Jellyfin server, streaming platform, whatever you want.
Buy a PC? Ok, let me just go to the PC store and say, “One PC, please.” It’s that simple, right? I don’t have to do hours of research to understand what the components are and then even more research to understand which ones are best?
Be serious.
It is. You can absolutely buy completely configured and built PCs if you want.
If you go to a computer store and tell them you want a gaming PC to replace your console with X budget you will walk out with one.
Pc prices are way up too
Raising prices and removing future games from pc, It’s like Sony doesn’t want any more money.
RAM and NAND are up so much, they couldn’t keep the old price at this point.
Just discarding an entire market is kinda stupid, but if it helps them sell a few more consoles it might not be
They will probably have to raise it by a hundred more at least. Gaming is about to get more expensive.
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