Zippy6 said:
First party sales were about the same this FY so we can mainly attribute the drop in software sales to a 3rd party decline. If it wasn't for Hogwarts it would have been even larger. The major games: Resident Evil Village - May 2021 Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga - April 2022 I think last FY easily wins that battle. Battlefield 2042 while not being received well was one of the highest grossing games of the year in the USA. RE Village also counted for almost 12 months while RE4 for this year got about a week of sales. Forspoken, Deadspace, Gotham Knights and Saints Row were all sales dissapointments and MHR is unlikely to have sold that well on PS4/PS5 considering how late a release it was. So all around it was a very poor year for third party sales. |
So 1st party software performance is the lowest since 2019. And good chance this fiscal year will be their lowest since 2017. I mean these are by no means shocking results all things considered, but they are somewhat disappointing, the forecast especially. I still expect them to beat their last gen 1st party totals (due to PS4's slow start), but I don't know if they'll ever approach 50 million a year on PS5 alone.
IcaroRibeiro said:
Software prices are up, now AAA games costs 70 USD at release, when I got my PS4 except by new releases I had dozens of options for buying for like 20 USD, generally older games. |
In addition to this, Sony now fully supports PC and is expanding mainly towards live service games which some (F2P) will not be represented under 1st party sales. Also, software sales (contrary to Playstation hardware) in FY 2020 were probably inflated by COVID. Services/PS+ Extra might hurt sales as well. Still... I was expecting a little more.
