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Norion 5 days ago
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Xbox Series is in line with my expectations but the other two significantly exceeded them which is nice to see. Both of them seem like they're gonna end the year with a bang.

killer7 said:
JRPGfan said:

There is always PC, if these consoles start getting too expensive.
The thing is, everything is getting more expensive, these days.

I'm curious if Nintendo aim for 399$ again.
Last time, with the switch they wanted good returns on BoM and selling the hardware.
If Switch 2, is as powerful as we hope, that might squeeze them into the 450$ range,
(unless they are willing to accept selling at slightly less earned pr sale of unit than the switch).

At 700$ for a PS6, that still sounds like good value, if your competition is the older PS5 and the Switch 2, in terms of bang for buck.

Nobody is interested in the PC. 

The possibility of PS6 being digital only is growing more each passing month as ~70% and growing software sales are digital. I am afraid that Nintendo will be the last man standing with physical for at least another 2 generations...

Where did you get this from? PC gaming has grown a lot in the past several years and is bigger than Playstation as a platform. If Sony overprices the PS6 then some people will absolutely switch to PC due to that.

IcaroRibeiro said:

Sony has a big infrastructure and internal resources focused in hardware development. Their increase in hardware prices are an evidence they are committed to be hardware makers, as their hardware helps them to make their software and services more popular and profitable. If you own a PC there is no point in subscribing for a PS Plus for example

That's why they are moving away from lower prices and instead are selling hardware at profit, just like Nintendo

I think with exception of Spider Man most of their single players first parties sells poorly on PCs (compared to PS5), PC sales are not necessary for Sony games to break even, or even to turn into profit. They are more advertising of Sonys brand and games, if anything. Sony is doing that because they probably already exhausted the pool of consumers on Playstation userbase.

During PS4 days Sony was almost giving away their first party games for free, anyone who was interested in Spider Man, Horizon or Uncharted could get them for dirty cheap, so Sony likely figured out if they want their IPs to keep growing there is no other way other than releasing them on PCs

Not quite. God of War 2018 and Horizon Zero Dawn have both been at least as successful as Spider-Man 2018 on PC and Ghost of Tsushima has had a strong start with it having the highest peak concurrent player count among the single player games and having good legs so far. Days Gone has also done well though there is a big gap with how much they've sold on Playstation. A lot of that will be due to them releasing there first and what you said towards the end however.

Last edited by Norion - 5 days ago