| Doctor_MG said: Revenue increased as a function of microtransactions I would imagine. People don't buy games and consoles in an addictive way, but they do with microtransactions. In fact, Sony makes more in microtransactions than they do physical and digital game sales combined. |
Do you have a breakdown of how much Sony makes with games, services and digital content?
Services can be a great value proposition, one of the reasons why Xbox software sells so much worse compared to Sony in market where their hardware sales are close (UK) is because Xbox userbase is mostly using digital and services. A change in the focus from sales to subscription can lead gamers to spend more on hardware while less on software. So far PS5 has been really really supply constrained, but when the sales have a spike we don't see a decrease in Xbox sales. So either this generation will be significantly more frontloaded or people are indeed buying more consoles.
