Darc Requiem said:
Japan has the lowest digital rate of the three major markets. You can't explain away their piss poor sales by pointing to digital. More over, Nintendo's digital sales aren't being taken into account either. Sony just isn't selling software. Sony stalwarts like Falcom wouldn't be shifting to Nintendo if the software sales were hidden by the lack of digital sales numbers. Sony's not having the rosy time you are portraying. If they were, they wouldn't be putting their games on PC. Which is going to lower the ceiling on the number Playstation consoles they can sell. And lower it with the consumers that have the most disposable income. Could be worse, they could be Microsoft. A company that lowered the ceiling of Xbox consoles sales by putting their games on PC and compounded their tomfoolery by training their remaining audience to not buy games and sign up for Gamepass. |
They are objectively having one of the rosiest time in their entire history though. They announced plans to support PC right after they achieved 3, 20million sellers on PS4 and their second best year on record at the time.
As always, Sony/Nintendo/MS' actual interests go beyond a lot of our preferences for them to just hit the highest possible unit numbers. They're looking at long term preservation & growth which looks different to each of them. For example Sony didn't ship any high selling exclusives in 2015 and still sold 16m PS4's. Nintendo on the other hand wouldn't be to able to shift notable hardware without their own exclusives first selling that hardware. For this reason something like PC support makes sense for Sony to consider but not for Nintendo.
