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Otter on 16 July 2025
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Cerebralbore101 said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

So far, there hasn't been any serious consequences from the "mistakes" you mention though. Have the Gaas and PC ports really hurt them? Did people stop buying Playstations like people did with Xbox's ? PlayStation 5 may look like a failure compared to PS4 but PS4 was a less ambitious in its design and engineered with immediate profit in mind. It was always going to be hard to compete with PS4 sales.  

GaaS has definitely hurt them. Between buying Bungie and cancelled GaaS products they've burned 6 billion with no profits outside of Destiny money. PC ports will hurt them next gen. PC ports are a "good for business in the short term, but awful for business in the long term" type of strategy. 

Ironically I think this is short term thinking. Do you think 150m people will continually keep buying new $599 Sony/Xbox hardware based off increasingly redundant power leaps that most devs can't utilise within a reasonable budget/dev cycle? Essentially there is a limit in audience and then a predicted decline in traditional console sales and revenue (per game) based off the current trajectory. 

These 2 games are 5 years apart and belonging to different generations of hardware and I legit wouldn't be confident saying which one was most recent based off these screens alone





Meanwhile In the past generational gaps of 5 years  (And they had time for another game inbetween this)





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Sony know they have hit a ceiling without introducing radical change, and that is why they're forward thinking and planning a future which is not tied exclusively to the next playstation selling 120m. In the meantime we can see from their PC software sales and PS hardware sales that the PC strategy has rarely dented the interest in playstation hardware for the majority of their audience. 

Last edited by Otter - on 16 July 2025