| KBG29 said: Best PlayStation Quarterly results thread ever. Awesome work! PlayStation is Sony, the rest of their products become more and more irrelevant every quarter. Sony is killing their TV and Phone business with Android. I have went over this every quarter for years, and it just gets worse and worse. Why they let Sony Electronics run another company's Operating System, and push other company's services over their own, while they bleed money and loose sales, will never make sense to me. Looking at SIE, things are beyond positive. Software Sales up overall, and Digital goes up another another 1%. The forecast is through the roof. Sony is doing really well with PS4, and with the addition's of Cross Play, PSN Name Changes, and Downloads/Streaming via PS Now, they are setting themselves up to continue the domination going into next gen. I just hope they remember to continue to invest, and don't get caught up in the profits for the sake of profits greedy. Passion projects go further towards long term good will than greed. Niche games, a PS Vita successor, and higher end PS Consoles for the core users should be the direction they take things. Continue to deliver the mass market hardware and software to keep a steady income, but keep on driving innovation, and give back to the industry with games that push the medium and not the profits. |
I might be a bit biased towards nintendo, but here is my two cents:
Sony has TRIED pushing thier own software in TVs and smartphones much like how Samsung did early on, but they both failed there and both are using Android now. At this point the only company that is pushing a non Android mobile device while having su cess is apple. So they can't really move away from that. Sony's original idea of a ' Sony environment' for all thier divices fell apart spectacularly in the mid 2000s when their own standards we're being pushed out of favor by things like USB SD and HDMI.
As for gaming... A Vita successor would be caught in the same trap the Vita was, a too expensive to develop for portable, exept it would be even WORSE off because the switch potentially always having a leg up on it (if it's cheaper it's less powerful than switch, if it's more powerful than it would be WAY out of the ballpark of a portable price point which would honestly be 200 dollars). Sony can't really go hybrid like ninty unless they leave the power hungry Western market soly to Xbox.
As for passion projects and niche titles... After moving to California they seem to be fucking up the relationship they have with niche Japan devs...
