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Soundwave on 29 July 2025
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xboxgreen said:
Soundwave said:

Consoles have a future, but Sony is under pressure to keep growing revenue/profit/margins. 

They can sell 100-120 million Playstation home consoles in their sleep at this point, the problem is game development costs are way higher (lower margins) and not only that there's fewer games per generation they can release. Days of being able to make a sizable game in 2-3 years are largely over, nowadays it takes 4-10 years in many cases for a game to complete, that means they have less content to pull profit from on top of those games requiring larger budgets. 

Why would anyone buy their new console when the previous consoles is sufficient? Not to mention the tariff situation and high costs for computer parts are getting out of hand. PS6 and the next xbox series consoles are going to do worse. People will just stick with what they have and perhaps switch to Cloud gaming.

You could say the same thing about the PS5 as is, there's not been a ton of exclusives and many games just look like PS4 era games on steroids. 

People will still upgrade, PS5 is selling about the same as the PS4 without much fuss and at a higher price. 

There's no real choice for a lot of those gamers. If you want to play on a TV and don't want the hassle that sometimes comes with PCs, Playstation is basically a bit of a monopoly on the stationary home console market. Most people also have their friends group locked in on the Playstation side (COD, Madden, FIFA, NBA 2K, Fortnite, GTA Online, etc. players). 

Sure maybe they sell 110 million PS6s instead of 120 million PS4s or whatever, but I think they're ok with a little LTD erosion if it means higher software sales revenue. 4-5 million copies of a port like Spider-Man: Miles Morales between PC, XBox, Switch 2 as an example, you could be looking at over $100 million in revenue likely (assuming profit margin in the range of $25/copy or so). 

They will make sure the PS home consoles still get likely a 1 year window of exclusivity for 1st party games minimum probably. So people who are big fans of those IP will likely suck it up and buy a Playstation anyway. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 29 July 2025