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SvennoJ on 13 July 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Because the same empty western suit bozo types that run Xbox also run Sony. It's why they threw away billions chasing GaaS. It's why there's Sony exclusives on PC instead of focusing on more console sales. Sony takes a lot of their customers these days for granted or just flat out sees them as walking banks. If MS no longer subsidizes consoles Sony will follow suit. Just like they did with putting games on PC. Just like they did with charging for online. 

Sony made the best selling console of all time. They did it with subsidized hardware and they know that as they are not stupid and forgetful. The PS5 may not be a record breaking success in terms of sales numbers, but it knocked a major competitor out of the market and that is a huge success for them. 

PS1 - First console to sell 100M

PS2- Best selling console of all time. 

PS4- Rescued them after failure of PS3

PS5- pushed Xbox out of the market. 

Look at the success subsidized hardware has brought them. How could anyone think they'd abandon that? Your whole argument is "they've made mistakes before and they'll make one again". Well the only really consequential mistake they made was the PS3 and they haven't made one since so thinking they'll make another one is wishing thinking, for the lack of a better phrase. 

PS3 actually didn't fail. Sony had other priorities at the launch of the PS3, Blu-ray. The PS3 quickly killed the prospect of a long battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray by turning the ps3 in a 'cheap' blu-ray player compared to standalone blu-ray players ($1200 at the time)

What we got was a subsidized blu-ray player :/ Which caused the extra delay for the PS3 launch due to blue laser diode shortage at the time. 

Sony sacrificed their gaming division for their movie / blu-ray platform. Kinda like how MS is sacrificing their gaming division now for AI... (And Sony for live service games)