Kyuu said:
Yeah, poor first party production is part of it, but even last year with 4 major releases (2 of which actually released at the end FY2021, but had the bulk of their sales in FY 2022) still declined over the prior year This FY could be their weakest since like 2017, and the next year will probably be notably weaker without a Spider-Man 2 equivalent. Ragnarok and Horizon's legs are disappointing. Only GT7 is hinting strong legs relative to expectations and based on charts. I think the evidence is clear that high prices and PC ports are hurting legs. |
Literally no evidence for disappointing legs whatsoever, baseless assumptions are useless. Especially in regards to Ragnarök where we know it performed very well. Sony never gave us any sale figures for Horizon: FW or GT7 so we don't know how they're faring, Ragnarök for all we know has done the heavy lifting for Sony's 1st party sales up until Spider-Man 2 launched.
The simple answer is as already stated, no new 1st party releases since November 2022 so what did you reasonably expect? Sony's had a long dry spell, next quarter is obviously going to be a significant increase thanks to Spider-Man 2 but if Sony's poor production schedule leaves another long dry spell until the next big game you can expect to see following quarters with similar or worse results.
