| UnderwaterFunktown said: I really can't see a world where the PS5 price increase in Japan will pay off. Sales are less than half what they were before and the software has always been where the profit is at anyways. I'm sure they're hoping it will stabilize back to what it was before when there's a little more distance to the price hike but I'm having a hard time seeing it. |
Yes agreed. Sony shot the PS5 in the foot by raising the price. Considering it's always had weak software sales in the country, all they did with the price raise was add weak hardware sales to the weak software sales.
In gaming you make the vast majority of money on the games. It's better to lose a little bit on the system and sell more games by having more people buy the system. Ya gotta think Sony execs are questioning right now whether they should drop the price back down. This price raising strategy clearly did not go as planned for them. Consumers are straight up rejecting the higher price, which also doesn't bode well for the PS5 Pro at its eye-watering price.
