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DonFerrari on 28 October 2021
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curl-6 said:
DonFerrari said:

I would say that if they had done a pricecut the pandemic would have boosted the sales of PS4 even on the verge of death.

So yes the decision to let PS4 and X1 die was from their manufacturers, not fault of pandemic. The shortages of PS5 and Series can be partially faulted to pandemic thought.

Sony must've been making a lot of money on each PS4 sold at $300 by 2020, so they chose profits over sales numbers in the short term, then once PS5 was out the new system became their priority.

That would be my guess as well, they decided that whatever extra number they could sell with the system at 150 or 200 wouldn`t generate extra royalties from SW enough to justify it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."